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Glenn Beck: Is Google Just A Shill For The United States Government?

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Last week, I accused Glenn Beck of pandering to older viewers in his attacks on social media and Google. It now appears that there was more going on and that Google has found their way amongst the show’s Rogues Gallery, nestled amongst the Weather Underground and the Muslim Brotherhood. On today’s show, Beck advised his audience, as he always does, to do their own homework. However, tonight he told them they probably shouldn’t use Google.

This all stems from Jared Cohen, a man who works for Google after a stint with the State Department. Cohen co-founded the Alliance of Youth Movements which held summits helping groups use social networking and other modern techniques to inspire the youth to get involved in activism around the world. This follows the aforementioned expose Beck did last Friday on Google’s Wael Ghonim. Beck wasn’t happy with anyone involved in the AYM summits (including a number of television networks) but especially didn’t seem happy with Google. He instructed his audience to begin keeping a watchful eye on everyone involved.

“I would look into all the people the State Department are working with; MSNBC, CBS, gosh, MTV. Maybe we should start watching those networks a little bit and seeing what their news coverage is like. Who are these groups? Who are they? Are they right, are they left, are they clean, are they dirty, are they front groups? I don’t know. May I recommend, if you’re doing your own homework, don’t do a Google search. Seems to me that Google is pretty deeply in bed with the government. Maybe this is explaining why Google is being kicked out of all the other countries? Are they just a shill now for the United States government? Who is Jared Cohen? Is he private citizen or government operative? And isn’t this the second Google guy we’ve found? This is the second Google executive now being exposed as an instigator of a revolution. Are you comfortable with the government partnering covertly with media organizations, search engines, and social networking so they can bring change that the Washington elites have designed?”

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  • Garth

    Yes, they are Glenn. You go girl.

  • nice_thought

    I don’t remember anything about google in Mormon books. What’s Glenna’s problem now?

  • Hawk11

    Is Glenn Beck just a shill for Goldline?

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    The inevitable next step is the creation of a conservative search engine, where only conservative horseshit propaganda appears as a result, and the dumbing down of our society continues as we whine about the symptoms of the problem.

  • im_lovin_it

    Ok, so all sources of media besides Fox News and and talk radio are out. Now Google is out too. Are there any leftists working for Encyclopedia Britannica? What about Merriam-Webster? What about textbook publishing companies? Surely they cannot be trusted as well?

  • CosmosDan

    I small a new sponsor for Glenn.

  • Gasket

    Chicken Little Becky at it again. Now he’s after Google?

  • grafxmail7

    HOORAY FOR CHICKEN LITTLE BECK!!!!

    More for his Brainwashed Zombies to be afraid of!!!!

    When they’re doing their ‘homework’ on his facts they won’t be able to know what’s the ‘truth’ so they’ll just have to take Chicken Little Beck’s word on everything!

    Now that Google is the enemy their heads are going to spin in confusion when they hold an initiation ceremony:
    “Gooble Gobble, Gooble Gobble, One Of Us”

    Be Afraid, Chicken Little Beck Cult, Be very afraid….they are watching you….Really….They Are Watching You!

  • Mr B
  • lazzzlo

    Mr B said:
    Bada http://www.bing.com

    Thumbs up for comment of the day!

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    Mr B said:
    Bada http://www.bing.com

    Bada-BOOM!

    GOOGLE CATCHES BING COPYING ITS SEARCH RESULTS
    http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses-google-search.html

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    Mr B said:
    Bada http://www.bing.com

    But Bing just steals Google’s results. So that’s out too. Excite? Lycos? Netscape? Alta Vista?

  • BFD

    LOL…Idiot Fox hosts sure do have a lot of questions sometimes…..

    “Who are these groups? Who are they? Are they right, are they left, are they clean, are they dirty, are they front groups? I don’t know.”

    “Okay, how’d the moon get there? How’d the sun get there? How’d it get there? Can you explain that to me? How come we have that and Mars doesn’t have it?”

    ____________________________________________
    Day 6 since Glenn Beck was struck by an overwhelming feeling that Egypt is the beginning of a growing evil that is going to spread a global Muslim caliphate and with the help of the communists and progressives create a New World Order ending our way of life as we know it.

  • juan

    BECK is Spot-On, as usual.

    Thanks, Beck and FOX News for helping us SAVE America!

  • lazzzlo

    Publius219 said:
    So that’s out too. Excite? Lycos? Netscape? Alta Vista?

    How about DogPile? I think that might be Ask Jeeves, if that still exists.

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    juan said:
    BECK is Spot-On, as usual.

    Thanks, Beck and FOX News for helping us SAVE America!

    Well, Mediaite funnels all it’s SEO (Search Engine Optimization) through google and also probably uses google adsense for advertising revenue.

    So really …WE ARE ALREADY LOGGED INTO THE GOOGLE.

  • BFD

    “Maybe this is explaining why Google is being kicked out of all the other countries?”

    Ummm….I’m pretty sure this is because other countries like keeping it’s citizens in the dark.

    Sort of like Fox News, only with porn.

  • lazzzlo

    Ha! http://www.dogpile.com/

    It’s still there; my 1st search engine.

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    BFD said:
    “Maybe this is explaining why Google is being kicked out of all the other countries?”

    Ummm….I’m pretty sure this is because other countries like keeping it’s citizens in the dark.

    Sort of like Fox News, only with porn.

    and no mentions Tiananmen Square :D

  • Garth

    Glenn is confusing Google for Marxist, Socialist, Communist, Presbyterian, and Cesarian Pizza Hut; either that or Amazon.com. Anyone could make that mistake.

  • lazzzlo

    Just for kicks, I did a whosis on dogpile…1996.

  • http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

    Garth said:
    Glenn is confusing Google for Marxist, Socialist, Communist, Presbyterian, and Cesarian Pizza Hut; either that or Amazon.com. Anyone could make that mistake.

    everytime I go to pizza hut… filled with cesarians, countries being overrun with them.

  • im_lovin_it

    Dear Glenn,

    I recently discovered that the owner of my power company is a registered Democrat who supports Planned Parenthood and listens to NPR. LEFTIST!!! Naturally, I immediately cut my power. Whew! That was close. Now I’m in a bit of a pickle. Although I now have more money to send to GoldIine, I have no power so I can’t see your show. How will I know what’s coming next in The Coming Insurrection? Please advise.

  • Garth

    Snowspot said:
    everytime I go to pizza hut… filled with cesarians, countries being overrun with them.

    Connect the dots man!! Evil is coming and we are screwed!!!

    Buy gold.

  • Pablo

    im_lovin_it said:
    Dear Glenn,

    I recently discovered that the owner of my power company is a registered Democrat who supports Planned Parenthood and listens to NPR. LEFTIST!!! Naturally, I immediately cut my power. Whew! That was close. Now I’m in a bit of a pickle. Although I now have more money to send to GoldIine, I have no power so I can’t see your show. How will I know what’s coming next in The Coming Insurrection? Please advise.

    Get a windmill, silly. Or a nice carbon belching generator.

  • Big Eddie

    Not one of the boobs above with the insults watched the show .

  • milynily

    Where does Glen get all the info for his show? He uses “THE GOOGLE” of course.

  • kvon

    I’ve never seen anyone so desperate for the apocalypse…

  • grafxmail7

    Big Eddie said:
    Not one of the boobs above with the insults watched the show .

    Only Boobs watch the show.

    HAHA! Clowns and Fools!!!!

  • OxyCon

    I’m sure we’d all be amazed if we knew the full reach of the CIA, and I don’t mean that in a negative way. I’m not being a kook and finding CIA plots in everything, it’s just that I was wired to be analytical and I can see so many ways in which things we take for granted could be exploited to promote an agenda. The Internet, through search engines and social media being just one. Energy companies being used to finance covert activities, ala Enron being another.

  • Garth

    Big Eddie said:
    Not one of the boobs above with the insults watched the show .

    You are the biggest boob on this thread.

  • kvon

    Big Eddie said:
    Not one of the boobs above with the insults watched the show .

    At a certain point you stop watching shit being thrown at a wall.

  • Paleoconservatarian

    - article posted at 6:49pm w/ 5 minute 18 second video

    - first anti-beck post registered by Garth at 6:50pm

    aaaaaaand… let the chuckle heads loose.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    This is simply Beck’s way of saying, “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! The Great Oz has spoken!” Beck is threatened by google and he’s trying to neutralize that threat. Facts to counter the stupid he markets are a threat to Beck.

  • Grammie

    OxyCon said:
    I’m sure we’d all be amazed if we knew the full reach of the CIA, and I don’t mean that in a negative way. I’m not being a kook and finding CIA plots in everything, it’s just that I was wired to be analytical and I can see so many ways in which things we take for granted could be exploited to promote an agenda. The Internet, through search engines and social media being just one. Energy companies being used to finance covert activities, ala Enron being another.

    .
    A little healthy cynicism is a very good thing I think.

    As for the internet and how it all works I really don’t have a clue in any technical sense. I suspect that that is true for a substantial majority of us. Can it be co-opted? How difficult would it be? Can we place absolute trust in those responsible to keep it safe? Is there anyone who could keep it safe? Who is that anyone? Can we trust them?

    I find it a bit strange that we conservatives, with our tendency to trust authority, find ourselves now being ridiculed for moving closer to the Libs, with their tendency to mistrust and rebel against authority.

    Strange bedfellows indeed.

  • jo hoochie

    Big Eddie said:
    Not one of the boobs above with the insults watched the show .

    I guess blind liberals can’t hear either. They could just listen but I think they are deaf too!

  • wasjustsayin2

    Big Eddie said:
    Not one of the boobs above with the insults watched the show .

    So since you clearly DID watch the show, do you believe what Glenn Beck said regarding Google today?

    And BTW, I don’t know why we’d have to watch Glenn’s entire show. The unedited clip is right here for our viewing pleasure.

  • ProgLib

    For someone who says “I don’t know” so much, he sure does offer a lot of opinions on stuff.

  • kvon

    Paleoconservatarian said:
    - article posted at 6:49pm w/ 5 minute 18 second video

    - first anti-beck post registered by Garth at 6:50pm

    aaaaaaand… let the chuckle heads loose.

    How long till a Conservative mentions George Soros ya think?

  • BFD

    “why Google is being kicked out of all the other countries? Are they just a shill now for the United States government? Who is Jared Cohen? Is he private citizen or government operative?”

    So when are you Beckerheads gonna “do your homework” and report your findings back here? Please give me some answers to Becks questions and provide non-Google sources.

    Thanks!!!

    ____________________________________________
    Day 6 since Henny Glenny was struck by an overwhelming feeling that Egypt is the beginning of a growing evil that is going to spread a global Muslim caliphate and with the help of the communists and progressives create a New World Order ending our way of life as we know it.

  • Paleoconservatarian

    kvon said:
    How long till a Conservative mentions George Soros ya think?

    As soon as I quote your post. Name dropper.

  • CosmosDan

    I Use google daily. Believe me , the majority of sites that pop up when I do a,little research are right wing blogs and news sites.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    So now Glenn is waging war on the most trafficked website on the internet. The more he goes on the more he seems less like a conspiracy theorist and more like a crotchety old man with an even older George Soros in a fitted cap and nikes doing donuts on his front lawn.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    CosmosDan said:
    I Use google daily. Believe me , the majority of sites that pop up when I do a,little research are right wing blogs and news sites.

    I think I’m one of the few who still use yahoo predominately

  • Paleoconservatarian

    CosmosDan said:
    I Use google daily. Believe me , the majority of sites that pop up when I do a,little research are right wing blogs and news sites.

    I don’t believe Beck is arguing that Google is optimizing it’s search engine to deliver liberal sites. I believe he’s pointing out the hand several high level Google employees with government ties had in organizing the revolution in alliance with activist groups and other elements of the media. Right now they’re open questions.

  • Paleoconservatarian

    kvon said:
    George Soros

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    George Soros

    libs:2 conservatives:0

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Paleoconservatarian said:
    libs:2 conservatives:0

    Perhaps your point will be valid when a liberal donates multiple hours of showtime to George Soros

  • catfishjuggling

    There was a period out there where Glenn was kind of funny.

    That time is gone now. Ailes has to shut this guy up. You can’t allow this guy on your air if you want to be an actual news network.

  • felixw

    Go ahead, pretend that Beck views Google as comparable to the Weather Underground — but how about sharing a quote from Beck to substantiate that zinger? And get real: Google is very much in the Obama camp, and the donations and connections are all a matter of public record. Not that Mediate dares mention those inconvenient details in this article. Then again, this is the same web site that refused to report on MSNBC’s parents $15 billion in secret bailout money from the Fed, so people should be forewarned that only some of the media news is covered on Mediaite, with the biggest stories often completely ignored.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    As a corporation Google is a progressive organization that supports a variety of causes like preventing pandemics, DNA research, renewable energy, cloud computing, internet access, publishing, organizing, information technology and blimps. It could be possible to separate their various corporate interests from their search engine and if one were a stockholder, it’d certainly be legitimate to question all of these outside endeavors that have nothing to do with ad sales, but by conflating the actual search engine with these other interests, Beck has tread some very dangerous ground.

    What he’s done is provide an opening for governments to justify censoring the free flow of information. Google has sworn by the algorithm and all outside observers declare it agnostic, but by mixing the politics and societal beliefs of Google as a corporation with the internet utility using a throwaway line, he’s (perhaps) unwittingly given ammunition to anyone opposed to the freedom of information because according to a popular political pundit, the agent of that information could be a plant by the United States government.

    Hopefully Ailes or Murdoch will get wind of this last stunt. I usually find Beck entertaining, but it seems with his failure to separate, he’s stepped over a pretty big line.

  • kvon

    Paleoconservatarian said:
    libs:2 conservatives:0

    Your god is on television railing against Google right now, and you are honestly defending him?

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    felixw said:
    Google is very much in the Obama camp, and the donations and connections are all a matter of public record. Not that Mediate dares mention those inconvenient details in this article.

    The monetary support provided by Google executives to the Obama campaign is a matter of public record and well known to all but the most uninformed person, but as I said in my previous comment, there’s a possible danger to freedom by confusing the execs with the algorithm and political support for Obama is different than a search engine being the agent of the government.

  • Newsjunky

    Oh goody!!! More to add to the ever-growing list of Beck crazy talk!!! LMAO… I think he needs to head into rehab… he might be using again.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Paleoconservatarian said:
    I don’t believe Beck is arguing that Google is optimizing it’s search engine to deliver liberal sites. I believe he’s pointing out the hand several high level Google employees with government ties had in organizing the revolution in alliance with activist groups and other elements of the media. Right now they’re open questions.

    Remember how Progressive Democrats tried to ridicule those questioning Obama’s connection to Immelt, Goldman Sachs and Soros?

    That’s a deliberate and duplicitous political strategy, and it’s dutifully carried out by THEIR Media.

    EXPOSE THEM ON IT wherever it rears its ugly head!

  • BOMBSHELL

    BFD said:
    only with porn.

    My daddy likes porn. Do you like porn?

  • Yoda002

    Garth said:
    Glenn is confusing Google for Marxist, Socialist, Communist, Presbyterian, and Cesarian Pizza Hut; either that or Amazon.com. Anyone could make that mistake.

    Pizza Hut is in on it too? Next he will say SuperCuts is a front group for some uncover government conspiracy

  • Who is Salacious Crumb
  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    Yoda002 said:
    Pizza Hut is in on it too? Next he will say SuperCuts is a front group for some uncover government conspiracy

    Well, we do have to keep in mind that Andrew Carnegie preached the responsibility of distributing wealth for the public good and using stats from Wikipedia, he funded between 2500 and 3000 libraries worldwide with the majority in the US. It was also his belief that libraries should be free.

    So, if those who follow Beck can’t use Google and I assume any site that uses Google ads, such as this one, if he were to turn on libraries, they’d really be stuck.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    Who is Salacious Crumb said:
    For what it’s worth:

    http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/45941-the-googlization-of-books.html

    So you know, I’m not a Google fanboy and I’ve often commented or have otherwise questioned the wisdom of giving any one company monopoly access to so much information, but Google search is a representation of the internet and though it may be proper to question the corporation, I feel it could be stifling to the free flow of information to disparage the independence of its search.

  • Who is Salacious Crumb

    Magister said:

    Hey, there’s always Bing!

    In all seriousness, thank you for approaching the third party non poly link I posted neutrally and not dismissing it out of hand as partisan for either side of the divide. I appreciate your feedback.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    Who is Salacious Crumb said:
    Hey, there’s always Bing!

    Like Yahoo!, Bing censors its search results in China, while Google largely pulled out of the Chinese mainland and moved the bulk of their Chinese operation to Hong Kong to remove themselves from their restrictive firewall.

    And while not Bing-specific and a bit off-topic for this post, but after reports surfaced that Russia has been using the ruse of looking for pirated Microsoft software to seize, search, copy and often brick computers used by NGO’s, journalists and media outlets not seen as friendly to the Putin regime, Microsoft issued a free, blanket, retroactive license to all qualifying organizations operating outside of the US.

    Previously, despite proper licensing and original packaging, Russian law enforcement would declare that pirated Microsoft software had been found after conducting raids that were often based upon reports by persons who had never seen the computers or been inside the organization’s offices.

    Reportedly, it may have partially been a payback for the Microsoft move that Putin announced that the Russian government would transition to using just open source software by 2015.

    Of course another reason for the move is that open source is perceived to be less likely to contain back doors for intelligence-gathering, a threat that some may believe more real after the FBI Director asked several software manufacturers to consider leaving a doorway for domestic access. Not to mention that similar concerns have also prompted China, Iran and other countries to seek a larger, more home-grown software industry.

    (It should be noted and I don’t want to risk putting this comment into moderation for including too many links, but if you search for Microsoft’s Government Security Program, Russia, China and every other country not subject to a US embargo have been granted access to the source code to most of their products So, if there were a backdoor — something that’s not currently available — they would theoretically be able to close it)

    IOW: There’s a big can of worms balanced on a house of cards and a throwaway line from an opinion host could possibly throw a monkey wrench into the works)

  • ag2twins

    On this same logic we could say to stop using computers. Microsoft holds multiple defense contracts and works with the “government” all the time. You could say to stop buying food because almost all major food brands supply the federal government and feed activists like this. So according to Glen Beck we are suppose to only watch his show by creating our own electricity, nourished by food we grow on a TV that we created with our own hands. All in a cave in some remote island that is not taxed by our federal government… FOX NEWS = Yellow Press

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    BTW: Just for fun, I’m going to add that in addition to some of the extraneous investments that I noted in my initial comment, a Google subsidiary also reportedly invests in Tesla Motors (electric cars, not the self-driving ones they are developing in-house) and they also sponsor the Lunar X-Prize which is a competition seeking the first private company to send a robot to the moon, drive 500 feet and send back pics.

    So, maybe they’re going to colonize the moon, while we become accustomed to complacency.

  • Some_Dude

    Yes Glenn. Google are also Masonic communist radical muslims that were responsible for 9/11 and forging Obama’s birth certificate too.

  • The Real Royal King

    Grammie said:
    .
    A little healthy cynicism is a very good thing I think.

    As for the internet and how it all works I really don’t have a clue in any technical sense. I suspect that that is true for a substantial majority of us. Can it be co-opted? How difficult would it be? Can we place absolute trust in those responsible to keep it safe? Is there anyone who could keep it safe? Who is that anyone? Can we trust them?

    I find it a bit strange that we conservatives, with our tendency to trust authority, find ourselves now being ridiculed for moving closer to the Libs, with their tendency to mistrust and rebel against authority.

    Strange bedfellows indeed.

    I have to say, there is no clearer example of the kind of damage an O’Beckerheadesque figure can bring about. Exciting the easily excitable is not difficult, to be sure, but it is a tragic waste.

  • The Real Royal King

    Some_Dude said:
    Yes Glenn. Google are also Masonic communist radical muslims that were responsible for 9/11 and forging Obama’s birth certificate too.

    That’s good to know. I’ve long suspected one of by neighbors is a Maronic Commanist Rascal Muslin’

  • The Real Royal King

    I realize that O’Beckerhead has to get progressively nuttier to try to hold onto his audience, but I think someone ought to tell him it is not necessary to become a full-fledged Payday bar overnight. I have to say, this entire homage to every nutty idea to surface in Amerika Dolly Madison burned her bra is breathtaking and entertaining. I never thought the breakdown would be so quick and so complete.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    you’d think the first thing they would do would be to remove him from their search but i googled ‘the blaze’ and it still brought me to his shitty web site.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ben-Pratt/713857896 Ben Pratt

    OH NO AND NOW THE REVOLUTION HAS SPREAD TO GREAT DEMOCRACIES, LIKE IRAN! http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/02/15/iran.protests/index.html?hpt=T2

  • Nacho

    When Glenn Beck says don’t strust him, do you own research…

    He now means check, theblaze.com, glennbeck.com or any David Horowitz publication.

    You can’t trust search engines. Soros controls those.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ben-Pratt/713857896 Ben Pratt

    Nacho said:
    When Glenn Beck says don’t strust him, do you own research…

    He now means check, theblaze.com, glennbeck.com or any David Horowitz publication.

    You can’t trust search engines. Soros controls those.

    yup hahahaha

  • paulmdoro

    George Soros controls all search engines?

  • CosmosDan

    paulmdoro said:
    George Soros controls all search engines?

    Didn’t you know?

    I got this in the “New Arrivals” off sale at Conspiracies R Us.

    They several 9/11 variations, some nice birther specials, A big display of New World Order just in. Great place to shop.
    I also picked up an Area 51 item from the clearance bin.

  • valkyrie101

    Glenn begs people to get off the bus. He’s like Reverend Moon. People are supposed to finally say, hey, that sounds too far out. But amazingly, many do not. Those who do not, will become marginalized, and Glenn will have them out there voting for a third party candidate, and otherwise sinking the Republican boat.

  • valkyrie101

    On the other hand, Glenn is the best entertainment on TV right now.

  • CosmosDan

    valkyrie101 said:
    On the other hand, Glenn is the best entertainment on TV right now.

    Proving entertainment is subjective

  • ManFromNowhere

    Google has already been caught conspiring with the government on Net Neutrality, and now 2 of their executives admit to slanting the Egyptian protest news. When will you sheeple on the left get it into your heads that there is something funny going on with Google? Do No Evil indeed.

  • CosmosDan

    Paleoconservatarian said:
    I don’t believe Beck is arguing that Google is optimizing it’s search engine to deliver liberal sites. I believe he’s pointing out the hand several high level Google employees with government ties had in organizing the revolution in alliance with activist groups and other elements of the media. Right now they’re open questions.

    He didn’t say that directly but what exactly does shill mean?

    If Google is promoting Obama and some New World Order, they don’t seem to be using their search engine to do it. Kicked out of other countries? China? The country where the government controls the media.

    Glenn phrases it as questions as part of the act but his questions are closer to suggestions as he selects which details to present and which ones to leave out.

  • CosmosDan

    ManFromNowhere said:
    Google has already been caught conspiring with the government on Net Neutrality, and now 2 of their executives admit to slanting the Egyptian protest news. When will you sheeple on the left get it into your heads that there is something funny going on with Google? Do No Evil indeed.

    There’s something funny going on with almost any business with billions of dollars and government agencies involved. There’s plenty of corruption and back room deals going on in both parties , and maybe we should be paying more attention to corruption itself, beyond partisan lines.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Jones/1384303476 Chris Jones

    You don’t find it at least mildly concerning that Google appears to be in the business of helping to topple governments now? How ironic that the most intrusive Big Brother corporation in America is in bed with the left. The same left that decries evil corporations and rails against Big Business.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    ManFromNowhere said:
    Google has already been caught conspiring with the government on Net Neutrality, and now 2 of their executives admit to slanting the Egyptian protest news. When will you sheeple on the left get it into your heads that there is something funny going on with Google? Do No Evil indeed.

    Ghonim was an engineer on leave which he took under the pretext of a family emergency, who did something which helped his native land. Cohen served in Condoleezza Rice’s State Department and stayed on through the beginning of Secretary Clinton’s term.

    The ‘net says that he’s head of a Google think tank to apply technology solutions to problems in the developing world. As a State Department employee, he coordinated with Twitter to keep their service running during the 2009 Iranian uprising and though Beck doesn’t say it, I assume Cohen may have played a part in getting the Google-owned voice-to-tweet technology into place, so that the protesters in Egypt could bypass their government’s shutdown of the internet.

    Perhaps you consider that “slanting the news” and apparently Beck has decided that freedom is bad, while dictators and tyrants are preferred, but the speak-to-tweet technology isn’t new. Livejournal has had a similar capability for most of a decade, but any other entity less than Google may not have been able to get the technology functional behind the Egyptian wall and I doubt many people would consider that a bad thing.

    Now, there may be a larger question that we’re just beginning to have to face and that’s whether the internet may actually be approaching nation status, whether Google is a form of government by itself and how far we’d (NATO & the UN) would go to protect the ‘net, but that’s a huge question that Beck doesn’t address. Rather in the clip, he simplistically maligns Google as a servant of Obama and strongly implies that it may be a front for black hat/black ops-type, intelligence operations carried out on behalf of the United States.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    BTW: I’m only familiar with AYM in passing, but it’s unclear from their sponsorship page whether it’s MSNBC television or MSNBC.com that is involved with the group. MSNBC-TV is a under the control of NBCUniversal, while MSNBC.com is part of Microsoft and though somewhat related, the two aren’t the same.

  • valkyrie101

    CosmosDan said:
    Proving entertainment is subjective

    I think you are right on that. One man’s world wide wrestling federation event is a laugh, for another it is a vital release of bent up rage.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    Chris Jones said:
    You don’t find it at least mildly concerning that Google appears to be in the business of helping to topple governments now?

    Again, I feel that it’s one thing to debate or question Google and its employee’s role in this or any other matter, but it’s quite another to “ask” if they’re doing it on behalf of the US.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Westover/1496648721 Tony Westover

    I dunno, but Google sure as hell is walking like a duck and quacking like a duck.

    I don’t trust the bastards anyway, long before their concrete connections to the Egyptian riots. Google is a champion for internet censorship and invasion of privacy. Plus they’re also proud political activists.

    Plus they really suck at management, they waste more talent than Microsoft. I’m glad I never applied to work there.

  • bealzebubba

    Magister said:
    while MSNBC.com is part of Microsoft and though somewhat related, the two aren’t the same.

    Not to mention that Microsoft is directly competing with Google in more than one way – Mobile, Search, RIAs.

    The other thing to consider with regards to the net neutrality thing – provided we know what Glenn’s position is on the issue, but let’s assume he’s against it – is that it’s very difficult to point the finger at Google and accuse it of optimizing content of one kind or anther when a) Google’s a proponent of net neutrality b) the simple idea of a large entity like that controlling content goes against one of the major principles of net neutrality as it is.

    I base this on IF he’s an opponent of net neutrality. But, to me, it does sound like he’s implying that Google is attempting to control the flow of data…which should make Net Neutrality advocates pretty angry and, if Glenn’s worried about this, advocates may have a new ally in the fight for Net Neutrality.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Westover/1496648721 Tony Westover

    bealzebubba said:
    The other thing to consider with regards to the net neutrality thing – provided we know what Glenn’s position is on the issue, but let’s assume he’s against it – is that it’s very difficult to point the finger at Google and accuse it of optimizing content of one kind or anther when a) Google’s a proponent of net neutrality b) the simple idea of a large entity like that controlling content goes against one of the major principles of net neutrality as it is.

    Content providers tend to be for net neutrality and content transporters tend to be against “net neutrality” — well, them and people who actually respect property rights. So Glenn Beck is correctly against “net neutrality”.

    Of course, content providers are more than happy to go against “net neutrality” if they can negotiate a sweetheart deal for expedited content delivery like Google has with Verizon Wireless.

  • my dogs gone

    What’s the difference in “community organizing” and the Tea Party or a 8.28 Beck Rally?
    Seems like it’s all bringing like minded folks together………………..

  • Grammie

    Magister said:
    Now, there may be a larger question that we’re just beginning to have to face and that’s whether the internet may actually be approaching nation status, whether Google is a form of government by itself and how far we’d (NATO & the UN) would go to protect the ‘net, but that’s a huge question that Beck doesn’t address. Rather in the clip, he simplistically maligns Google as a servant of Obama and strongly implies that it may be a front for black hat/black ops-type, intelligence operations carried out on behalf of the United States.

    .
    Perhaps he didn’t address the question as you have summarized it (very well I might note) but the conversation did reach this point only b/c of the impetus from Beck.

    Let’s see where he goes from here. As a huge Tom Clancy devotee his Net Force novels have awakened my curiosity and interest in this aspect of the Internet Age. History has proven to us since time immemorial that every advance can be used just as effectively, and sometimes even more so, for evil and tyarnny

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    For shits and grins I searched Glenn Beck Review on Bing and Yahoo. It gets top rating on one and second on the other. On Google, The Glenn Beck Review gets the first three in the list, probably because The Glenn Beck Review is a Google owned site.

    If Beck keeps making enemies out of more and more people, pretty soon no one will be following Glenn Beck.

    Hmmmmm, maybe I’m wasting my time exposing him as a liar and a hypocrite. His followers don’t care about honesty and principles. Why not? Because Glenn Beck manipulated them!

    Whether you watch Beck or not, that is an understanding everyone needs to have about his skill as a propagandist.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Jared Cohen leaves his job at the State Dept. and goes to work for Google. That makes Google a tool of the gov’t in Beck’s mind.

    I hope Google takes notice of this and buries Glenn Beck dot com in their searches. There has to be a price to pay for spouting nonsense, ignorant, fear-mongering nonsense.

    This is about Cohen: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/09/07/jared_cohen

    (I found it using …. wait for it … Google!)

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview


    The real reason that Beck is attacking Google has nothing to do with Egypt and everything to do with where he works and who he works for.

    With Glenn Beck, it is safe to bet that he’s trying to deceive, not inform. Beck is the primary reason that people, who talk about political matters, say things that sound and are absurd, say things that makes them sound retarded. That is what Beck is doing to political discourse in the United States.

    Who follows a rodeo clown? Very gullible, very ignorant people.

    I actually had one of his followers insist that he was more educated than I because he has a FCC license. You can’t make this crap up. http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/02/17/msnbc-host-tells-congressman-where-he-should-sleep/#comment-153565244

  • Armageddon T Thunderbird

    Glenn Beck is the personal front man for stupidity on a national scale in The United States of America. He is and always was a complete idiot. His personal form of patriotism is false and you’d have to be a brainless, half educated, red necked idiot to believe anything this fool says. But that pretty well describes the tea party and the GOP. This closet homosexual never went to college and he knows nothing about World History, American History, World Religions or the US Constitution. He is simply a mocking bird for the twisted views of the John Birch Society and people need to wake up to the fact that Glenn Beck is just another uneducated charlatan who does not possess a single ounce of journalistic integrity. He is definitely not a conservative. In short, he is just another opinion pusher which is why he blends in so well with the bigots on Fox News Network. This self important racist climbed in bed with Satan a very long time ago as lies, half truths, fear and hate are his only products that he has for sale and he is making big money off of impressionable fools who love being told what to think. Glenn Beck is simply a product of mormon cult theology that he mixes with cherry picked parts of Catholicism, New Age Religions and his personal core as a washed up, dry alcoholic. Those really are his only qualifications for anything in this world. This makes Glenn Beck one very screwed up moron who sold his soul to the lowest common denominator of personal stupidity. And for the record…the religion of Islam has far more in common with Christianity than the mormon cult. Beck consistently demonstrates all the unstable behaviors of a dry alcoholic which include grandiosity, judgmentalism, intolerance, impulsivity, ADD, indecisiveness and blindness to truth. In short, Beck, Limbaugh, O Reilly, Hannity, Palin, O Donnell, Coulter and others like them who think they are conservative are all guilty of perverting truth, history, facts, religion and the US Constitution when they open their big mouths. They are all idiots who live in and speak to some alternate universe of stupid red necks that feed off of fear & hate mongering and love being fed a steady dose of extreme right wing lies. It is a breath of fresh air to finally see studies proving that Fox news viewers really are the most gullible and misinformed people on the planet.

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