Glenn Beck: "There is a Strange Thing Going on" with Google and the U.S. Government
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QuoteFox News host Glenn Beck continued his anti-Google campaign on Wednesday, arguing that "there is a strange thing going on with this search engine and our government" and urging viewers to "do your own homework on Google" - and not by Googling it.
So he's got that going for him.
Glenn Beck is about two Xanax away from playing with his own poop.
Quote from: Ed W on February 17, 2011, 03:33:53 PM
Glenn Beck is about two Xanax away from playing with his own poop.
You're being pretty vague there Ed.
Good one Ed. He's starting to make Olbermann look entirely sane.
Noting that Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said he was "very, very proud" of Wael Ghonim, the Google executive who helped organize the Egyptian protests that ultimately led to the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, Beck argued that the company was guilty of "bizarrely inserting Google into the story of the Egyptian revolution."
"I'm really not sure I want my search engine involved in government overthrows, good or bad," he said. "What I want from a search engine is good search results."
I better start using Ask Jeeves
Quote from: YoungTulsan on February 17, 2011, 03:58:41 PM
I better start using Ask Jeeves
Think I'll try Lougle first.
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Awesome!
I used to like to listen to Beck, he seemed really common sense. Even his CNN show was somewhat based in reality. He's gone full moonbat mode now.
And since he is the anti-reality, that means HE is actually the one doing evil. While google must be doing the Lord's work!
Well, I don't know about that, but google certainly has at least a few notches of scruples above Beck. Not many, but a few.
Quote from: Conan71 on February 17, 2011, 09:29:36 PM
Awesome!
I used to like to listen to Beck, he seemed really common sense. Even his CNN show was somewhat based in reality. He's gone full moonbat mode now.
Total agreement. I didn't agree with most of his ideology back in his CNNHL show days, but he always made a pretty good argument and sounded sane. Like to know what happened to him. But not so much. I like watching Jon Stewart mock and ridicule him.
Quote from: Hoss on February 17, 2011, 10:05:10 PM
Total agreement. I didn't agree with most of his ideology back in his CNNHL show days, but he always made a pretty good argument and sounded sane. Like to know what happened to him. But not so much. I like watching Jon Stewart mock and ridicule him.
I know exactly what happened. He's an entertainer, not a purveyor of news. His schtick appeals to the more paranoid right in this country which would apparently be enough to attract significant advertising money, except from those companies who object to him calling our President a racist.
Now I'm not going to take Glenn Beck's side, but Schmidt has been kicked out of the Chief's seat, partially for being creepy. Not to mention they give away things for "free" while collecting statistics about everything you talk about in email, chat, who you call, etc.
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This revolution was brought to you buy Google.
Really. . .look it up!
Does anyone actually listen to Beck? Isn't he on TV during the day when only unemployed people can watch?
Quote from: Gaspar on February 18, 2011, 10:11:39 AM
Isn't he on TV during the day when only unemployed people can watch?
That's when the "tk r jbs" people are watching and learning for whom to vote.
Quote from: Gaspar on February 18, 2011, 10:11:39 AM
Isn't he on TV during the day when only unemployed people can watch?
You never had to work nights or graveyard shifts?
Quote from: Red Arrow on February 18, 2011, 12:00:16 PM
You never had to work nights or graveyard shifts?
Yeah, but moved out of that quickly. You couldn't pay me enough to stay up after 10pm. ;D
I agree with my friend Glenn Beck.
Google is doing evil.
I used to be really smart at trivia and had a good memory for facts. Now since I discovered "The Google", I have turned stupid. My mind knows that I could look up any fact so it has closed the process of transfer of knowledge to memory.
Another friend Albert Einstein could not remember phone numbers. He said he didn't need to remember anything he could so easily look up.
The Google is doing this "making us not learn facts" thing to America's children as well. I bet that soon Jeopardy will be played with nothing but computers someday.
Quote from: Gaspar on February 18, 2011, 12:16:10 PM
You couldn't pay me enough to stay up after 10pm. ;D
How old are you?
The "entertainer" cover works pretty good for the Murdochians. Lets them spew whatever and then stand back from responsibility by disassociation.
"We're not serious...we're entertainers..."
How cool is that?
And there's this.... Beck is "Leading Purveyor of Anti-Semitic Memes in Mass Media"
"Dan Milbank wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post pleading with Senator Joe Lieberman to skip Glenn Beck's August 24 "Restoring Courage" rally in Jerusalem. Milbank warned that if Lieberman "shares a stage with this creature, he will surrender the decency that defined his public life" and described Beck as the "leading purveyor of anti-Semitic memes in mass media." Personally, I would reserve that title for Pastor John Hagee, but Hagee's anti-Semitic memes are couched in religious narratives and jargon that have remained indecipherable to the mainstream press. Not surprisingly, David Brog, a director of Hagee's Christians United for Israel (CUFI), has already fired back at Dana Milbank and defended Beck."
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/6/20/104258/051/Front_Page/Dana_Milbank_Beck_is_quot_Leading_Purveyor_of_Anti_Semitic_Memes_in_Mass_Media_quot_
Hide your kids.
He didn't quite turn enought soft minded adults. Now he's going after the children.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/09/30/140953985/glenn-beck-to-launch-children-s-tv-show?sc=fb&cc=fp (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/09/30/140953985/glenn-beck-to-launch-children-s-tv-show?sc=fb&cc=fp)
QuoteIt's not Nick News, The Electric Company or even the Magic Treehouse. Starting next Monday, talk show host Glenn Beck hopes to educate a young audience with his new children's program, Liberty Treehouse. As he told Politico, his kids' show "will not only entertain children and young adults, but it will respect them and their knowledge and passion for history, art, science and current events."
In a recent interview with Newsmax, Beck said the one-hour program is intended to teach children aged eight through 14; and it's supposed to help parents share values "that go with the United States government in an entertaining sort of fashion." It's available on his subscription web channel, GBTV.
Beck's foray into children's programming is the latest vehicle from GBTV, which boldly proclaims "The Truth Lives Here". Last June, his company Mercury Radio Arts formed the streaming media channel, where Beck moved his eponymously named radio show after parting ways with Fox News.
As NPR's David Folkenflik explained on Talk of the Nation, Beck's departure came after he and Fox faced increasing anger over several comments described as racist and anti-Semitic. Although he doesn't have the same sizable cable audience, he's quickly grown popular with online subscribers, according to the Wall Street Journal. GBTV started with about 80,000 paying viewers, but the Journal reports in a few months, that number swelled to more than 230,000.
Little is known about Liberty Treehouse, other than its focus is history and will produce original content, such as science features. There'll be clips from old TV shows like Ozzie and Harriet and Superman cartoons. There's no trailer or web page yet, but the show's host, Raj Nair, has tweeted a few lines revealing his excitement about the upcoming show and a fondness for quotations by Christian writers
Glenn Beck thinks everything is evil.
Well, not everything...
Glenn Beck wants you in his jeans.
Glenn Beck, Red State Hero, Has New Blue Jeans Linehttp://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/10/glenn-beck-red-state-hero-has-new-blue-jeans-line/ (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/10/glenn-beck-red-state-hero-has-new-blue-jeans-line/)
Quoteadio host Glenn Beck's boycott of his once-beloved Levi's jeans brand, which began last year when he took exception to the "Palestinian kind of march" shown in one of their television commercials, has inspired a new boutique denim line, "cut and sewn in Kentucky in a factory that has been operating since the late 1920s."
Beck, who signed a new 5-year, $100 million radio deal with Premiere Networks last month, is said by his 1791 Supply & Co. to have played an intimate role in the crafting of the new designs, one "classic-fit," another "straight leg," both listed at $129.99.
The former Fox News host turned his back on Levi's when they opened their new advertising campaign — "Go Forth" — with Charles Bukowski's rebellious poetry, video Beck described as "European socialists' marching," and other images that he said brought to mind Occupy Wall Street. Levi's has since dropped Bukowski for something more in the mold of a heavily-edited Def Poetry Jam, but the company continues to outsource many of its brands to foreign manufacturers.