Anti-Beck Backlash Hits Nauseating Extreme with “Murder and Rape” Meme (UPDATED THRICE)
The viral posters that compared Obama to the Joker and to Hitler feel tame compared to the latest nasty meme to hit the Internet: insinuating that Glenn Beck raped and killed a young girl in 1990. And the meme may not go away anytime soon: preliminary evidence suggests that Anonymous, the powerful, collective behind such massive, coordinated stunts as attacking the Church of Scientology and flooding YouTube with porn, may be behind it.
Update #3, 4:30pm: “Glenn Beck murder” and “Glenn Beck rapist” are now top suggestions when you do a Google search for Glenn Beck.
Reddit readers may have noticed a storm of recent posts getting a massive number of up votes (like this one) with some variant of the question “Did Glenn Beck Murder and Rape a Young Girl in 1990″? According to this site, which has emerged as a hub for the meme, the whole thing started a mere 4 days ago on a Fark thread. They’ve since Jokerized Beck and flooded sites like Yahoo! Answers, YouTube, and Twitter with the question.
People will ask the question and not answer it, insisting that Beck “prove that he didn’t;” supposedly, this parallels Beck’s argumentative style. The bottom of glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com reads, “Notice: This site is parody/satire. We assume Glenn Beck did not rape and murder a young girl in 1990, although we haven’t yet seen proof that he didn’t. But we think Glenn Beck definitely uses tactics like this to spread lies and misinformation.” Really, though? It all comes across as a malicious, masterfully executed prank whose pranksters were grasping for a higher political justification.
Still, expect to see more of it. This image from Beck’s Encyclopedia Dramatica page, featuring the Anonymous suit in front of an American flag with the words “The 19/90 Project” in front of it (below), suggests that the libelous Beck meme may just be getting started. The YouTube video also has an Anonymous icon, and the poster complains that YouTube has frozen his view count, which could mean coordinated blasts of traffic.
Anonymous has an outsized presence on the Internet, thanks to sheer numbers, dedication, and l33t hacking skills. When they set themselves upon going after a target, like Scientology, they’ll swarm like piranhas until they get bored and move on to something else. This time, Glenn Beck may have found himself in their crosshairs.
Update 12:30pm: A few more images associated with the campaign. Note the dates: all of these were created just a few days ago and have an astonishing number of responses.
Above: A dubious-looking poll on Twiigs.com.
Below: the anti-Beck site is the #4 topic on Reddit this week — and it was just posted yesterday.
Update 2, 2:30 pm: a commenter who seems familiar with the matter writes that while a fringe of Anonymous may be involved, the majority of the group isn’t behind it. I’ve also removed a reference to 4chan which didn’t say that 4chan was behind the campaign, but in retrospect was somewhat misleading.
Update 3, 4:30pm: “Glenn Beck murder” and “Glenn Beck rapist” are now top Google suggestions when you search Glenn Beck. 
Finally, as Mediaite commenter m points out, there’s also a faked mugshot of Beck and a faked Durham police report from 1990.
(h/t The Stranger’s Slog)
54 comments
m says: Interesting that Glenn Beck generated so much heat because of his antics that it turned into a massive semi-organized (internet) backlash. Rape and murder are extremely cruel things to spread falsehoods about, but I guess since it’s “the internet”/anonymous all gloves are off in this form of extreme satire. Even saw a masterfully faked police report and a mugshot on this.
Remains to be seen how Beck himself will respond to this and how others will react.
Cecelia says: My lord!
Nowadays, the term “racist” is thrown around like it’s a spit ball in a junior-high classroom EVERY DAY.
I don’t think there is a group of dissenters from White House policy whose motives have not been characterized as “really” stemming from a dislike of the president’s melanin level, by some anchor person on MSNBC.
The past president and Republicans in general are routinely characterized as racists in the context of discussions as remote from the topic of race as the White House china pattern.
I heartily disapprove of Beck calling our president a racist, but what has made his voicing of this sentiment so extraordinarily egregious in a political culture where the term is consistently used so vapidly?
What sort of insult hurled at politician could justify being slandered with a false accusation of raping and murdering a child?
If these freaks at Anonymous wanted to make Beck look sympathetic, they could not have done a better job of it in this action.
They could not have done a better job at exhibiting that they are far more ruthless, authoritarian, and threatening, than anyone they have targeted.
ryebread says: I’m not sure where you got the idea that 4chan is behind this. That is simply not true. There may be a few member of “Anonymous” involved, but they are nowhere near the majority, and this rumor is not prominently mentioned on any site of theirs that I can find. The Fark thread you linked is where this originated. It caught fire there, and spread, because so many people are frustrated because the mainstream media is failing to fulfill it’s roll as a non-biased reported of facts. Opinion and discord get higher ratings, and that’s a shame.
The simple fact of the matter is this: Glenn Beck, and many others in the media like him, spread vicious rumors without facts to back them up. They do it with innuendo. They ask leading questions. They move the goalposts. And in doing so, they cheapen and diminish the level of discourse that we, as a nation, have. He’s not the only one, people do it on both sides of the isle, but he is one of the most egregious examples of opinion-as-news.
There are some very important issues facing us today, and the media is failing us. We want facts, not opinions. We want a true debate, not lies and deceit. It’s that simple.
ConcernedCitizen says: Unlike most internet memes, this one DID NOT originate on 4chan.
The first appearance of the allegations that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a girl in 1990 was from the Fark thread listed in the article – http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4608536&IDComment=54042337#c54042337. 4chan doesn’t have anything to do with http://glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com/.
Cecelia says: “There are some very important issues facing us today, and the media is failing us. We want facts, not opinions. We want a true debate, not lies and deceit. It’s that simple.”
Well, perhaps the ability to tell the difference between pundits and reporters might be of help to you.
David Gregory– journalist.
Glenn Beck– pundit.
As would the ability to detect the difference between fact and analysis and even analysis vs pure opinion.
Fact– Pres. Obama’s poll numbers have dropped.
Analysis — The drop has to do with the brouhaha over health care. If any sort of health care bill manages to pass, the president’s numbers are likely to rise.
Pure opinion– Pres Obama is a racist. He has issues with white folks.
Yer welcome.
Now repeat all that ten times and quit saying you want “real debate” in the context of excusing a psychotically hateful and vile lie that a innocent guy committed a capital crime.
Truthbeknown says: I love how anytyhing done by anonymous users on an anonymous site becomes this Legion of Doom style shadow organization called Anonymous. I was there for the very first Fark thread that did this, and was an active participant and contributor to this. Good times, good times. Glad to see it made the big time.
And Concerned Citizen, I agree; most memes seem to start on 4chan or Something Awful and Fark picks up on them. This was a rare case of a Fark-born and bred meme. We were even told by the Moderators to stop spamming other Fark threads. Awesome.
When Glenn Beck shuts up about Kenya and Death Panels, we’ll stop.
Cecelia says: “When Glenn Beck shuts up about Kenya and Death Panels, we’ll stop.”
No you won’t.
If you are capable of justifying a false accusation of rape and murder against ANYONE, there’s little you won’t do for utter control.
Cecelia says: “Truthbeknown”
How’s THAT for irony…
ryebread says: “No you won’t.
If you are capable of justifying a false accusation of rape and murder against ANYONE, there’s little you won’t do for utter control.”
Okay, so maybe we’ll just move the goal posts. “Show us your birth certificate!” turned into “Show us your long form birth certificate!”
Why shouldn’t this follow the same trajectory? Arrive at a conclusion, and warp and twist the facts as needed to reach it. That’s what is being done by far too many in the media, and that needs to be countered.
feraldive says: What sort of insult hurled at politician could justify being slandered with a false accusation of raping and murdering a child?
I dunno–maybe comparing him to Hitler and accusing him of convening dealth panels.
Jim Treacher says: Always nice to hear from our moral, ethical, and intellectual superiors.
JimW says: America seems to be watching and listening to Glenn Beck. I see interviews with Town Hall participants and they are all talking the Glenn Beck talking points. The Obama polls are crashing. I don’t give Van Jones too much longer in the white house. Mr. Beck is a success in any definition of the word. I honestly don’t know why more investigative reporters in the media are not following his discoveries. It doesn’t say too much for the Press.
TfT says: This whole story is so despicable — but unfortunately, typical of the politics of personal destruction. I’m glad to see people actually saying this stuff has gone too far.
Beck is clearly hitting hard for this level of attack to be undertaken. I hope he has some legal recourse.
Stay strong Glen.
I agree with JimW — the press is NOT doing their job; Beck is doing what they are too scared to do. This attack on Beck is a message to others — bring this up, and we’ll attack you too.
David Combs says: “When Glenn Beck shuts up about Kenya and Death Panels, we’ll stop.”
Glenn Beck is not a ‘birther’ (http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/08/05/beck_birthers/) and the portions of the Health Care bill that dealt with the Death Panel were removed. But something tells me this isn’t about all that. Beck’s been stirring the pot and the fans of our Dear Leader have typically resorted to acting like children.
It’s the Saul Alinsky Rules For Radicals #12 says: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” You can read my thoughts on it here.
Why are most here (it seems) against Beck’s attack on Obama? Obama spent 20 years in the pews of a church lead by a racist pastor to seek out “black centric christianity”- (whatever that is). If ANY white candidate had been a member of a “white-centric” church with a pastor that constantly spewed racism, he would have been villified to a point he’d never run for any office on earth, let alone the highest office in the land. Obama got a pass by the media and the voters for some very disturbing racial issues, including some disconcerting statements about his attitude toward whites in his own books.
Sitting in Wright’s church is enough evidence to label a man or woman racist to some degree….Beck did nothing wrong there.
Oh, and Truthbeknown, don’t you have better things to do like play video games and hit on girls in study hall? Don’t you need to study which zit cream works the best in preparation for this school year’s prom? I mean really.
Cecelia says: “Why shouldn’t this follow the same trajectory? Arrive at a conclusion, and warp and twist the facts as needed to reach it. That’s what is being done by far too many in the media, and that needs to be countered.”
It doesn’t occur to you that “arriving at a conclusion” [that the president may be hiding something by not showing his birth certificate], whether that conclusion is logical or illogical, is QUITE a different action from intentionally making up a story that a man has committed a capital crime?!
Cecelia says: “What sort of insult hurled at politician could justify being slandered with a false accusation of raping and murdering a child?
I dunno–maybe comparing him to Hitler and accusing him of convening dealth panels.”
No comparing anyone in public life to Hitler (whether it be George Bush by the left or Robert Bork by Ted Kennedy) maybe specious, insulting, and generally ridiculous, but it is NOT the equivalent of intentionally spreading a rumor that a man is guilty of rape and murder.
As for “death panels” Obama, himself mentioned such a panel that would assist families in deciding the treatment for chronically ill and terminally ill patients in an interview in the New York Times.
http://tinyurl.com/dy5oxg
(page 5)
The president’s own statement that such care constitutes 80% of the money spent on health care and that it is something to reckon with, naturally causes questions as to whether such care would have to be rationed in a taxpayer funded program bigger than our current Medicaid and Medicare.
THAT speculation (based in part on the president’s own words) is different from intentionally falsely accusing someone of murder!
If you can’t discern THAT, then you are very dangerous person, indeed!
Cecelia says: This is what the president said in that link I posted above.
————————————————————————
THE PRESIDENT: So that’s where I think you just get into some very difficult moral issues. But that’s also a huge driver of cost, right?
I mean, the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health care bill out here.
So how do you — how do we deal with it?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I think that there is going to have to be a conversation that is guided by doctors, scientists, ethicists. And then there is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. It is very difficult to imagine the country making those decisions just through the normal political channels. And that’s part of why you have to have some independent group that can give you guidance. It’s not determinative, but I think has to be able to give you some guidance. And that’s part of what I suspect you’ll see emerging out of the various health care conversations that are taking place on the Hill right now.”
———————————————-
“Death panel” may be a hyperbolic term, but questions as to how such care (80% of expenditures) will be rationed by politicians who don’t wish to raise taxes while running for office, ARE/WERE pertinent to any discussion of a public option.
NOW compare THAT speculation, at its most hyperbolic, to lying about a man committing rape and murder.
When Glenn Beck shuts up about Kenya and Death Panels, we’ll stop.
I have three words to say to you: Bring. It. On.
libra blue says: Wow I only occasionally watch Beck, but after this I will definitely tune in more often! He must be telling the truth if the left is this frightened of him. I think this will make people look more closely at what he is saying and as a result his ratings will skyrocket even higher.
Beck should be thanking these imbeciles!
JimW says: Well said (as always) and thank you libra blue!
TfT says: Watch for Van Jones to be gone within days — he’s a 9/11 truther. LOL President Obama has a 9/11 truther as one of his key advisors.
Why in the world did it take a political pundit to uncover this news? Beck puts the rest of the media to shame.
A pundit doing the investigative work that today’s so-called journalists refuse to do.
Stay strong Beck.
Libra: Glad to hear you will be tuning into Beck more now. He has the left scared to death because he is telling the truth through their own words. And yet, the liberal left want to call Beck the liar, and much worse.
libra blue says: @TfT, You can no longer trust the MSM. If people would stop being sheep and use their heads to carefully scrutinize the info out there the truth will reveal itself eventually. It goes all the way back to the MSM’s resistance to investigate Obama’s Chicago thug roots. They do not want to investigate his cronies for the same reason they did not want to investigate Obama’s background, they know what they will find and they are unwilling to report it to the American people.
I don’t completely agree with everything anyone says, including Beck, but he brings up many troubling things that the MSM is unwilling to investigate or discuss. Strangely enough some of Beck’s topics end up being covered by the MSM because of public pressure.
The Obama administration is counting on the ignorance and indifference of the American people to get their “programs” passed and their appointments approved. So far they have been successful. Obama may have slipped Van Jones in under the radar of the American people, but the MSM will be forced to look into Jones’ background sooner or later.
Let’s just add Jones to Obama’s list of race baiter family and friends…Michelle Obama, Wright, Pfleger, Holder, Gates, the list goes on and on. I wonder how many more will surface in the days ahead? What more do the American people need to convince them that electing Obama was a huge mistake?
Maybe Obama’s “indoctrination” speech to the kiddies next week will open their eyes.
@Jim W, Thanks. I am an Independent who has voted for both parties so I don’t take sides, I just tell it the way I see it.
This is pahetically sick, and to the internet raliban what says,
“When Glenn Beck shuts up about Kenya and Death Panels, we’ll stop.”
Who apppointed you God high inquister of what is allowed to be spoken? They put those coupons in cereal boxes or did ya get it with a dose of the web clap at daily kos? The truth is, you Obots have been lying straight through, and it’s the exposure of your thuggery that gets the lynching treatment.
and the crying meme tht Obama has been treated badly by the MSM, and they haven’t been policing the lies continues without a hint of the kind of mouthbreather you hve to be, to believe it.
The MSM ahs been failing to police the lies, and has spread quit a few… true.
They did a bang up job, dipping Governor Palin in slime. They ran protestors comparing Bush to Hitler on all outlets, and at MSNBC, Olberfreak ran that line nearly nightly,.. but truthbeunknown forgets that,.. or ignores it. They ran the MSM arm of the Obama campaign with no shame at all, destroying any claim to credibility with it.
and now that Obama meets real grassroots opposition to his hard left plans,,,
His sycophants whine, the press hasn’t groveled sufficiently to pass muster?
Lord, you Obots are THICK aren’t you?
it’s called democracy, you get opposed by people who hve a vested interest in what you plan to do to them if they think,… you are clueless, and have ill intent.. an ill intent, stated implicitly by the very same folks, that TBU claims are being lied about… so,… playing audio by people in their own words,..
is lying now?
Welcome to O-Land,.. where reality is what Obots say it is,.. or else.
Apologies for the typo’s
Kedyboard sticks, and I’m typing fast,. should have checked it before posting but,..
I’m awestruck by the utter hubris of the lynch mob, because we say so?
What planet do these freaks hail from? Accusing a guy of child rape and murder is ok, because we didn’t like him, or his opinion?
I liked Beck before, but this proves his point. I suppose these yahoos also blame Beck and O’reilly for any violence as they dd when the babylille was shot.
These freaks better pray Beck lives a long life, else,..
I will blame every Beck hater personally and hold them responsible, and so will many others. The blood will be on their hands, and I’m sure, they hope it will be. They will also continue claiming that opposing Obama is equal to hoping something bad happens to him.
My question is, when the bullying fails, when the incitment to violence continues andreaps what they hope. When the hypocrisy and lies continue from them unabated…
are they TRYING to start a civil war?
or are the that sure, they can bully and bash their way unopposed?
The backlash has begun, and you folks have just added another fan to Beck, when I was largely neutral before about him. I found him likable, but wasn’t sure he was on the right track, now,..
I am.
how many others read the tuth here and see the real nazi’s and fascists, see who is the censor, who is the hater, see who is the one trying despartely to destroy anyone who dares speak real truth to power truthbeunknown?
It’s really quite obvious that GB is really starting to get under the skin of our would be progressive overlords. If he was simply a kook spreading lies there would be no need to use these tactics to attempt to destroy the man. However, if the only answer the left has, rather than answering the questions GB has raised, is to attempt to destroy the man by spreading a malicious lie, the logical conclusion is that he is spot on the mark.
Anybody who was actually paying attention last year knew all about the radical ties of the POTUS. Now thanks to GB, more and more Americans are starting to awaken and even beginning to rise from their couches. 2010 is starting to look pretty good. For such a “smart” guys, BHO sure didn’t learn a damn thing from Clinton’s overreach during his first term. Thank goodness he has revealed his true radical self, the false mask of a moderate has been removed, and more and more people are beginning to notice. Unlike Clinton, who is very smart, BHO will surely be a one term president who accomplishes virtually nothing. Thank God.
Modern Patriot says: Beck’s audience will only get larger than it is now because of this. Beck doesn’t claim to be a journalist. He calls himself a commentator. That said he provides the facts about his stories and constantly encourages his audience to check it out for themselves.
If he responds to this at all it will be with facts and the way that you can prove it for yourself.
Like him or not the MSM doesn’t offer that. It’s assumed you believe them because they wouldn’t lie to you, stretch the truth, or withhold facts would they? They wouldn’t give you just the administrations side and not the view of those that challenge him would they? Please look directly at the screen. Your getting sleepy, sleepy, very sleepy……
What Fark is doing isn’t that different from what Stalin were do if he were still around.
But since everyone knows it’s phony, what’s the point? So they get some phony crap to the top of Google about Beck, what does that prove? Is that supposed to make Van Jones not a Communist? Does that Make Barack Obama not surrounded by radicals? Does that make America want Obama’s health care plan? No, it’s just a bunch of silliness.
m says: When it comes down to it, there’s not really that much of a difference between Glenn Beck and Alex Jones. They talk about the same things and use exactly the same arguments. One of them just happens to have a TV show.
Ted says: I don’t know, in situations like this the truth is almost always somewhere in the middle. I tend to think that Glenn probably did not do both of the things he’s alleged to have done. I think it more likely he did one but not the other. The question that keeps nagging at me is, which one?
Glenn Beck makes baseless accusations about people all the time, i have seen him call Obama a communist and an Oligarch (even though he spelled it wrong) he said to my congressman Kieth Ellison “Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.” I don’t care how he prefaced it, he accused Kieth the first Muslim in the house of representatives of working with terrorists. You reap what you sow.
Cecelia says: So let me get this right, Eli Cizewski-Robinson…
If YOU happened to believe and to express aloud, that Republicans are a bunch of racist fascists and then accuse Pres Bush of allowing American soldiers to DIE in Iraq, solely in order to enrich his friends and/or to get Saddam for his daddy, if I don’t agree with your summation, it’s okay to falsely accuse you of committing crime?
Disdaining your opinion entitles and justifies me in inventing and broadcasting the lie that you have sexually molested and then killed little boys that you have stalked in public bathrooms?
Intentionally spreading a libelous slander/outright lie that you have committed such a heinous and evil capital crime, is the suitable retribution for your own action of harboring and expressing what I feel to be an erroneous, illogical, innately partisan opinion about the Republican psyche and Bush’s motives for going into Iraq?
Eli Cizewski-Robinson is THIS psychotically illogical argument really the depth of your intellect and your conscience?
im an individual, he is on a nationally broadcast “news” channel, he has a responsibility to not spread rumors that have no basis in reality. The website that is the hub of this rumor labels itself as satire Glenn Becks show has no such label.
MikeTheMouth says: Glen Beck reminds me of melted butter. Certainly not up to Fox News standards. Get back to you’re radio show Glenn. You are totally out of you’re league!
If Glenn Beck didn’t rape and murder a girl in 1990, wouldn’t it be the prudent thing for him to simply release his legal records proving that he didn’t rape and murder a girl in 1990. It is very interesting that he has not taken this simple step. Instead he hides it behind an army of lawyers. WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO HIDE, GLENN?
Cecelia says: Eli Cizewski-Robinson,
Glenn Beck is an individual too.
You can’t justify lying about rape and murder simply because your target has a different opinion than yours, whether that target is a 9/11 Truther OR a Birther.
Neither can you excuse that intentional slander by saying that this person is different because he has a tv show!
Cecelia says: raepymcgee says, “If Glenn Beck didn’t rape and murder a girl in 1990, wouldn’t it be the prudent thing for him to simply release his legal records…”
Just putting aside the heinously sick game that you’re playing here, did it ever occur to you that Glenn Beck is NOT an elected president of the United States, who must meet certain federal criteria concerning country of birth in order to be an elected president of the United States…
I think Birthers are dead wrong and utterly unreasonable, but to suggest that anyone is justified in intentionally falsely accusing them of rape and murder because of their opinion is nothing short of insane.
But then that’s you morons are. You’re nothing short of insane.
“Notice: This site is parody/satire. We assume Glenn Beck did not rape and murder a young girl in 1990, although we haven’t yet seen proof that he didn’t. But we think Glenn Beck definitely uses tactics like this to spread lies and misinformation. ” Thats the difference
jake montero says: left left has lost all it’s high ground.
Lots of folks here can’t read. There is a difference between accusing Beck of something and asking a question. Glenn Beck himself taught us that. If it isn’t true, why can’t he simply deny it publicly?
hoser says: I just gotta hope Beck is innocent and I think coming out and proving it would be the best thing for all concerned. After that, let’s move on!
Twirlip says: “What sort of insult hurled at politician could justify being slandered with a false accusation of raping and murdering a child?
I dunno–maybe comparing him to Hitler”
By that definitition, we can falsely accuse the entire Democratic part of child rape for subjecting us to eight years of “Chimpy McHitler” nonsense.
Twirlip says: “I just gotta hope Beck is innocent and I think coming out and proving it would be the best thing for all concerned.”
I just hope that hoser is innocent of child rape and I hope he comes forward and proves it soon.
Until then, of course, I have to assume he’s a kiddie rapist.
Twirlip says: “he is on a nationally broadcast “news” channel, he has a responsibility to not spread rumors that have no basis in reality.”
Uh huh.
Any chance that the lunatics here wll ever try to document for the viewing public all these “false rumors” that Beck has supposedly spread?
No, I didn’t think so.
Twirlip says: “There is a difference between accusing Beck of something and asking a question. Glenn Beck himself taught us that.”
Which queston that Glenn asked has you so troubled, my emo young friend?
Because it’s a cast-in-iron fact that Van Jones is a racist, bigoted, communist nutcase. No question about it.
Twirlip says: “we think Glenn Beck definitely uses tactics like this to spread lies and misinformation. ”
I’m not holding my breath waiting for you come up with any lies and misinformation.spread by Glenn Beck.
harry bosch says: FACT: Young girls were raped and murdered in 1990.
FACT: Glenn Beck was around in 1990.
FACT: Glenn Beck has never acknowledged or denied that he raped and murdered a young girl in 1990.
FACT: Glenn Beck has not released a long form police report that says he didn’t rape and murder a young girl in 1990.
Mr. Beck’s silence on this matter is deafening.
jhy says: When they tried to boycott Beck, his audience doubled overnight. Now they will try this bs and it may well double again. Keep it comin fools. Pwnage.
ra-ra-raw says: Nice reporting, your accuracy and updates on this matter are appreciated.
This story needs to be looked into, and stories like this will help.
Hopefully that young girls family, if there is one, can get some closure one day.
Something else you may be interested in Glenn Mr. Constitution Himself’ Beck has initiated
legal proceedings to stifle free speech. The documents have been sent to http://chillingeffects.org
and can be found here if anyone else is interested.
RSKaz says: This is only a meme until Beck proves he’s innocent. Until then, it’s fact. At least, according to the Beck playbook.
GinGin920 says: If someone accused me of murdering someone in 1990 and I knew it to be completely and outrageously false, I would not even justify it by responding in any way. That would be like someone saying to me, prove to me that you weren’t involved in the murder of theKennedy’s and we will believe you. I’d look at them like they were crazy and walk away. I would be just as insane to take the bait and say No, of course I didn’t, it would be ridiculous even to answer such a thing. It is obviously made up and without evidence concerning the slander against Glenn Beck. The logic of most of the folks that I have read and talked to who are in the far left is so loony. so silly and so opposite to what they paint themselves to be; Intelligent, accepting, superior in every way. But after a while you find out that they are more interested in correcting a typo than answering a logical question based on real evidence than answering the question. Lies are hard to defend when there is so much evidence to the contrary.
JGoldberg says: The author states that the vicious attacks calling Glen Beck a racist are worse than calling the President, Hitler, an absurd claim. Hitler was the impetus for millions of murders and multiple rapes. It’s sensible for Beck to ignore the claims that he raped and murdered a young girl, of course. But what the website was trying to highlight is that Beck himself implies things that lacks evidence, or you can dispute infinitely – such as if there was a conspiracy about Obama’s birth, despite him having shown his birth certificate. I think the point of the website is to point out that making an outrageous, unprovable claim backed up by zero evidence is preposterous, and that people in the media should not make such baseless claims.
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