Debunk
Date Lie
Van Jones went to prison for Rodney
King riots (Went in in April, got out in
7/23/2009 August)
Winter Olympics cost city of Vancouver
9/30/2009 $1 billion
Chicago has had to close government
9/29/2009 for several days due to fiscal crunch
If you go to the "Cash for Clunkers"
website the government will take over
your computer, own it, and all files on it
may be monitored and intercepted by
several law enforcement agencies
7/31/2009 foreign and domestic
45% of doctors will quit the practice if
10/12/2009 health care reform passes
You don't know if this (the H1N1
vaccine) is gonna cause neurological
10/8/2009 damage like it did in the 1970s
Date Debunk
Eva Patterson, via FAIR. Van Jones plus attorney were sent out to monitor
peaceful march on 5/8/92. Police stopped march, arrested hundreds, including
Jones & attorney. Jones and attorney released in a few hours, City of San
8/28/2009 Francisco paid them restitution
9/30/2009 White House via Raw Story… winter olympics haven't even taken place yet
White House via Raw Story "Chicago has had one reduced service day in 2009
9/30/2009 and will have 2 more; Friday after Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve.
As an EE with a concentration in CS, I can assure you that this is technologically
impossible. But you would have to be paranoid to even think that it was possible.
How would the government monitor your files through your firewall, ISP port
monitoring, anti-virus software, and browser software? Why would anyone think
the government wants to monitor computers of people who use Cash for
Clunkers? Read the Consumer Bill of Rights on the website:
8/1/2008 http://www.cars.gov/files/official-information/consumer-bill-of-rights.pdf
Outright lie. Based on Investors Business Daily poll where 45% of doctors said
they will consider quitting, not actually quit. Further, the poll had a very low
response rate, only 1376 out of 25,600 asked. So it's like one of those AOL snap
10/28/2009 polls… meaniingless PLUS misquoted. http://tinyurl.com/yjma4bl
Barely true, and out of context. This was based on a swine flu vaccine effort in
1976 that involved 45 million doses of flu vaccine. There were approximately
500 cases of Guillain-Barre that year, but there was no direct proof that the
vaccine caused the disease. However, even if it were true, it has been proven
that since then there is no link between vaccine and Guillain-Barre. So in context
with known facts, it's a lie. It's like saying "You don't know if you go to some
remote Pacific island you won't be shot by a Japanese soldier who hasn't heard
10/28/2009 that WWII ended." Yeah, right. http://tinyurl.com/ykts8jv

Van Jones "is an avowed, self-avowed
9/1/2009 radical revolutionary communist."
9/3/2009 Van Jones is a "Truther"
John Holdren, director of the White
House Office of Science and
Technology Policy, "has proposed
forcing abortions and putting sterilants
in the drinking water to control
7/22/2009 population."
Van Jones was a member of STORM, which dissolved in spring 2002. Their
history of the organization is a fascinating look inside the organizational structure
of a communist revolutionary group. But Jones has left that line of thinking and
now believes that the only hope for survival comes from "eco-entrepreneurs" and
the thriving of their investment enterprises. Only the business community has the
[resources] to save us during this era where our very survival is on the line.
Glenn didn't read Van Jones' book "The Green Collar Economy", which he
clearly states that capitalism is the only system that can save us. No communism
there, Glenn. http://tinyurl.com/yklxq5r BTW, does Glenn believe that people
never change? That would make him a coke-snorting, drunken, wife-abusing
10/28/2009 fool, wouldn't it?
No way of knowing, so that makes it at best speculation and at worst an outright
lie. Van Jones signed a petition in September 2004 that demanded a new
investigation into 9/11 to look at questions which are unanswered. Some say that
there are STILL unanaswered questions. I might have signed that petition,
especially in light of the fact that Bush/Cheney are known liars and they are not
afraid to take actions that cost human lives by the thousands. I don't think that
Jones is a "Truther" but like many of us who were on to Bush's lies early in the
10/28/2009 game, I'm guessing that he still has a healthy skepticism about it. I do.
Holdren is co-author of a 1000 page book written in 1978 named Ecoscience:
Population, Resources, Environment. As an aside, if you go to Amazon the
capitalists are at it again, trying to get $400 for USED copies of it. What's
interesting is the anti-Obama, conspiracy theory screeds that "customers who
bought this item also bought". LOL. OK, the book cites overpopulation to be a
grave crisis. The book discusses various means to reduce fertility, including
putting sterilants in the drinking water. However, it NEVER advocates that
approach, and it NEVER advocates mandatory abortions. It just discusses those
ideas in the context of public policy, society, and laws. Again, Glenn Beck and
10/28/2009 his cadre of liars are full of it. http://tinyurl.com/lcr22l

Net neutrality is the Obama
Administration's attempt to control the
10/26/2009 internet and give away free televisions
In fact, "net neutrality" is an attempt to make sure that private businesses don't
gain the power to control what is currently a public internet system. The
corporations and corporate Astroturfer organizations and lobbyists are trying to
pass the "Internet Freedom Act" which does exactly the opposite of what its
name implies (John McCain is the sponsor, so no surprise about the Orwellian
"doublespeak" title of the bill). There is a lot of information about Net Neutrality
available. If you listen to the crap from the lobbyists, they make it sound as if
they are going to "innovate" the internet. Far from it... they simply want to
CHARGE for high speed traffic by SLOWING DOWN traffic from people who
don't pay fees. This is very dangerous, as it could lead to supression of news
unfriendly to those who pull the strings. That's why they are trying to pull them
now. As far as the "free TVs" thing, Glenn never explains it but I think it's
obvious that nobody has suggested that the government should give away free
10/27/2009 TVs, radios, computers, or anything else.

Manufacturing "Czar" Ron Bloom called
10/23/2009 a "Maoist"
Glenn likes to quote people out of context, as he did with Anita Dunn (discussed
elsewhere). In this case Bloom is speaking to a group of union activists and he
says "we kind of agree with Mao that political power comes from the barrel of a
gun". This is a statement of political reality, in a figurative sense, and the context
of the statement clearly shows that Bloom was not suggesting that if you want
political power you have to get a gun, or become a Maoist. This is an outright
FAIL of Beck that can be debunked by anyone who can Google the speech.
(Another reason why we need net neutrality). You can read the context of the
10/23/2009 speech at Media Matters HERE... http://tinyurl.com/yjo9ccb

Obama engaged in a "coverup" of
Treasury Department documents from
March that show that the cost of cap-
and-trade on carbon would cost $1726
per household despite Obama saying it
will cost the price of a postage stamp
9/19/2009 per day.
The $1726 figure is not from the Treasury Department, it's a number pulled from
the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act and twisted into a
pretzel by the overactive imagination of Drudge Report blogger Declan
McCullagh. Congress did not adopt Obama's plan as proposed in the State of
the Union speech, which would have cut taxes for working class families. (I love
the term "working class families". It's so PC. Shouldn't it be "working poor"?)
Obama's plan would have taxed polluters and given tax cuts to families. The EPA
estimates that the ACES Act will result in a net cost of about $100/day per
household which will be fully offset for low income families. The CBO numbers:
net cost of about $20 billion per year in 2020 and that results in $160 per
9/20/2009 household. http://tinyurl.com/kn9y46

Animal gasses produce more C02 than
cars or coal-fired power plants
7/11/2007 http://tinyurl.com/ygloedb
Glenn complains about "hard line of
questioning" (sarcastically, actually
meaning softball questions) asked of
Sotomayor by Senate panel.
7/14/2009 http://tinyurl.com/yghzlyq
Glenn Beck lies about Obama’s
swearing in by saying, “I checked. We
have never had a president sworn into
1/22/2009 office without a Bible.”
Glenn claims that the Teabaggers
march on Washington was estimated to
be 1.7 million strong by the University
9/15/2009 of "Don't Remember"
US Department of Energy's Greenhouse Gases page says Glenn Beck is full of
BS. The facts: 84% of C02 comes from coal and petroleum
http://tinyurl.com/yg2ftmf Electricity generation accounts for 41% of US
greenhouse gas production and 79% of this is from coal. (I happen to know quite
a bit about this topic because I did maintenance training at one of the dirtiest
generation systems in the US, 16 antiquated plants that are failing regularly and
7/11/2007 working loopholes in the EPA regulations of the 1970s.)
The only problem is, Glenn, that the day you're complaining about was the day of
nothing but opening statements of the hearing. There wasn't a single question
1/14/2009 asked. WOW.
Oops. Plenty of Presidents have been sworn in without a Bible. Teddy Roosevelt,
Lnndon Johnson, John Quincy Adams. And what is Beck complaining about?
The do-over swearing in which was done because of an error made by Bush
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts because he screwed up the public
one, in which Obama used Abraham Lincoln's Bible. http://tinyurl.com/6uka9l
Side note: If Glenn Beck had his way, the Mormon President would be running
the show, not the US President. In that case, the swearing in would be on the
1/22/2009 Book of Mormon.
Well, Glenn might have been wishfully thinking or he might have been duped by
the false photographs circulated by conservative bloggers. The photo they had
was taken prior to 2004, as the Air and Space Museum would be there. So why
would they try to fake it? Because they are trying to make it seem more
"mainstream" by saying there were more people there than actually were. So
here's a number that is commonly used by rational people... 60,000. If you
subtract the people who were bussed in on Astroturf busses, it's probably about
50,000. Here's a comparison of demonstration sizes... Beck's 9/12 project ranks
9/15/2009 down with the KKK march. http://tinyurl.com/mm8r7y
 It's tempting for me to delve into this one because I went to a beautiful junior high
school that was built during the art deco era. I believe it may have been a WPA
project, although I'm not sure about that. Our little town got several buildings
during that era, and according to Glenn my whole town of redneck, hippie- and
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provide fair solutions to global problems. Among its standing committees are the
Committee on Economic Policy, Labor and National Resources; the Committee
on Social Cohesion, Poverty and HIV/AIDS; the Committee on Disarmament; the
Committee on Local Authorities; the Committee on Migration; and the Committee
on Peace. The organization's Congress meets every 3 to 4 years, the Council
meets twice a year. The US does not have representation in the Congress at
present, but many of our allies do including the UK, Australia, Belgium, Canada,
Chile, Costa Rica, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Iraq, Ireland, Israel,
Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Peru,
Portugal, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, and Zimbabwe. I
left out quite a few because most Americans know so little about the world that
they can't find the US capitol on a map of the US (seriously). So why does Glenn
"Carol Browner is a member of Socialist Beck lie about Socialist International, Carol Browner, communism, and world
International, a group for global government? He lies about it because he is a crackpot Mormon millenialist, a
governments... [shows picture of snake-oil salesman, and because a certain element of America will eat this crap
9/25/2009 hammer and sickle] 10/30/2009 up. It supports their cognitive dissonance that America has a black President.

Progressives used to be slave owners.
"We call them 'progressives' now but
back in Samuel Adams day they used
to call them 'tyrants', a little later I think
they were also called 'slave owners',
people that encourage you to become
10/20/2009 more dependent on them."
Glenn says he hates the 9/11 families
"because they're always complaining
and we did our best for them. And
again, it's only about 10." This was the
same radio show where he called
survivors of Katrina trapped in the
SuperDome "scumbags". Glenn says
"They're EXACTLY like the 9/11
9/9/2008 families... there's about 10 of them".
Of all the lies I've debunked so far, this one is probably the most ludicrous and
ironic. It's ludicrous for reasons I will explain shortly, it's ironic because Beck's
Mormon Church is a racist cult that believes black people have the "curse of
Cain". According to the Mormons, black people were created inferior by God and
therefore meant to serve white people, which is why they didn't support abolition
of slavery. Mormons used to believe that black people turn white when they are
"saved". Black people were not allowed into the "Priesthood" of the Mormon
Church until 1978, when they faced civil rights litigation. Now onto the
"progressive slaveholder" crap. The progressive movement began AFTER the
Civil War, long after slavery was abolished. Even so, progressive values include
creation of professional social workers, day care centers, child labor laws,
organized labor, conservation, populism, muckraking journalists, eradicating
social injustice, and so on. In fact, one of the EARLIEST progressive writers, Ray
Stannard Baker, wrote a scathing account of white hatred towards blacks called
"Following the Color Line", in 1908. So Glenn, when you read this, consider
10/30/2009 yourself DEBUNKED and INFORMED.
I don't think we'll ever know exactly what inspired Glenn Beck to make his
inaccurate, anti-social attacks on families and survivors of 9/11 attacks and
Katrina. Neither of his claims are true, however. Glenn may have thought that
the Family Steering Committee was just whining about money, but a quick
perusal of their site shows otherwise. See it HERE.http://tinyurl.com/ycsp2mq. If
you look at their mission statement and click their "unanswered questions" link
you know that it had nothing to do with that. Regarding Katrina, it's obvious that
the families in the SuperDome were "EXACTLY (his emphasis) like the 9/11
families." In fact the two situations have nothing in common. The families have
nothing in common except that they have lost love ones and the US
Governement has failed them. The "scumbags" came from all walks of life, and I
guess Glenn thinks that most of them were too stupid or too poor to get out of
11/6/2009 NOLA so that makes them "scumbags". LIE.

Glenn Beck includes "Truthers" in the
same group as Al Qaeda, Nazis, white
supremacists as "groups who want to
destroy America".
"They'll take away guns, they'll take
away our sovereignty, they'll take away
our currency, our money, they're
already starting to put all the global
framework in with this bullcrap called
global warming."
Glenn accuses Little Green Footballs of
accusing HIM of killing a frog.
(Remember when he "play-acted" that
he was throwing a frog into a pan of
boiling water to "prove" some
9/24/2009 crackhead theory of his?)
The Truther movement has NO LINK WHATSOEVER to the other groups and
does not want to "destroy America". The premise of the "Truthers" is that the
official government explanation of what happened on 9/11 does not match up
with what actually happened. From there you go into different degrees of
"truther-iness" ranging from disagreeing with the physics of how the buildings fell
to full-blown conspiracy theories. But the aim of Truthers is to strengthen
government by laying the facts bare and making sure all future governments tell
us the truth. Given the lies that Bush and his bandits told us on just about every
topic concerning Iraq, it's not hard to understand why the Truther movement
11/6/2009 started and why they don't trust the Bush government's explanation of it.
The global warming bill (H.R. 2454) that Glenn says creates a "global framework"
does not have the words "gun", "ammunition", "weapons", "firearms", "bomb",
"currency", "warplane", "battleship", "handgun", or any reference to "sovereignty".
There is no "global framework" in the bill, but there is cooperation between
nations in sharing data on their emissions and atmospheric data. This is a BILL,
not a TREATY. Therefore it has no reality connection with Beck's demented
11/15/2009 conspiracy theory of a "global framework".
On 9/23, the website put this statement up regarding Beck's actions: "This might
have been another Glenn Beck stunt, designed to deliberately provoke outrage.
He might come on his show tomorrow and say, “Hah! Fooled all you liberal
commies! Had you going!” Or he might not. How sad is it that we even have to
ask the question? But even if it was a stunt, and no frog was killed ... this is still
amazingly sick. This show airs at a time in the early afternoon when children are
watching." Later, that day, the site posted this: " I don’t watch Glenn Beck, but
readers inform me that after this segment Beck revealed he was using a rubber
frog. My point about the irresponsibility of this kind of stunt still stands." You can
read the full story at the LGF website at this link:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/34746_Glenn_Beck_Lies_About_LGF (On a
side note, I also suspected that this was a stunt and did a frame-by-frame
analysis of the video I obtained from YouTube. I concluded that you couldn't tell
from the video whether ir was real or not, also stating that whether it was real it
was still an outrage.)
9/24/2009
 Several assertions about Iowa's
Supreme Court ruling that struck down
the ban on same-sex marriage. "…
yeah, you gotta have same sex
marriage". "This is where trans-
nationalism comes in." "Evolving
standards of decency advocate gay
marriage" (by guest expert). "Marriage,
however, is different [than civil unions],
because I believe this case is actually
about going into churches and going in
and attacking churches and saying
'You can't teach anything else.' When
you say 'Marriage...' , civil unions is
different, 'Marriage is defined as this'
then you also have to go into the
4/14/2009 schools.
"I mean, you don’t have to be a
socialist, I guess, to believe in global
warming. It’s just that almost everyone
who does believe in global warming is a
socialist. I mean, believes in manmade
global warming that now can be fixed
1/12/2009 and reversed or whatever."
Refer to MediaMatters http://mediamatters.org/research/200904140002 The first
assertion is absurd by inspection. You don't HAVE to have a gay marriage, you
can have an "opposite" marriage or no marriage at all. Standards of decency
have nothing to do with this decision. This was clearly a case of equal
constitutional rights in the eyes of the court, and civil unions are not equal to
marriage. Glenn should have done his research a bit better, because the Iowa
SC ruling CLEARLY states that churches maintain the right to decide who gets
married on their property. This has nothing to do with the educational system,
period. I am beginning to think that Glenn Beck's lie spreadsheet needs to
include a lie for all the times that Glenn Beck asserts that he "does his own
research." The Iowa SC decision is only 69 pages long. It is available online
in .pdf form at
http://www.iowacourts.gov/Supreme_Court/Recent_Opinions/20090403/07-
1499.pdf so GLENN, GET BUSY AND START READING instead of shooting
4/14/2009 your stupid mouth off without knowing anything about the subject matter.
Again, Glenn, DO YOUR RESEARCH. A couple of Google clicks led me to a
wealth of information about conservatives who support global warming science
and GOP members who have made environmental concerns a high priority. I
know Glenn Beck thinks that the Republicans are now colluding with the
Democrats to turn the US into the center for World Communism, but seriously,
there are plenty of GOPERs who see global warming as a scientific problem
rather than a political football. Check out this link, Republicans for Environmental
Protection, http://www.rep.org/2008_scorecard.pdf. Glenn should read this
article, http://www.rep.org/news/GEvol5/ge5.1_globalwarming.html. As usual he's
full of BS. You don't have to be a socialist to believe in global warming, just
11/16/2009 someone who can look at data and understand it. BUSTED.
 Claim that the government spent $1.4
million to "repair a door" on building
5112. "They're peeing your money
away. That's a lot of repairing, you
know.Can we buy a new one, a
cheaper one? I don't know what
building 5112 is, but it better fly, drop
7/20/2009 bombs, or have 1.4 million doors."
Glenn Beck, "quoting" the Drudge
Report, stated that the government
"spent $1.1 million on 2-pound frozen
ham," and "more than $1.5 million ... for
some mozzarella cheese." Beck further
stated that "they checked" and you can
buy sliced ham at the grocery store for
7/20/2009 80 cents a pound.
Glenn Beck RT (retweets, meaning he
spreads or disseminates to Twitter
users) the lie that Nancy Pelosi says
she's about to bring a vote to ban Fox
10/25/2009 News from covering Congress.
Media Matters points out HERE http://tinyurl.com/yb9gfrh that Beck is lifting from
a Matt Drudge story. That's NOT research, Glenn. The doors were hanger doors
and they cost $246,000 to repair. $1.2 million was spent to replace the gas
mains on the base. The repairs were at Dyess AFB and the information was
7/21/2009 available at the link provided in the Drudge story. LIAR.
Media Matters points out HERE http://tinyurl.com/yb9gfrh that Beck is lying
again. Sec. of Agriculture Vilsack says that 2 pounds is the size of the package.
The government bought 760,000 pounds of ham in 2 pound packages for $1.191
million which is roughly $1.50/lb. As far as the "80 cents a pound claim", I
Googled for "price of sara lee sliced ham" and found the following link:
http://www.thefind.com/food/info-cooked-ham. 22 ounces of Black Forest
sliced deli ham: $8.95 ($6.39/lb). DAK premium cooked sliced ham, 2.5 lb in
2 packs, $8.59 ($3.44/lb) Case of Oscar Mayer cooked slice ham, 15 six
ounce packages $42.05 ($7.48/lb). These are food service prices; I
challenge Glenn Beck or any of the Beckerheads to send me a link to 80 cent
7/21/2009 ham. Beck LIES.
Jamison Foser picked up this Tweet from Beck and it's posted at MediaMatters at
http://mediamatters.org/blog/200910260011. This is so preposterous that it's just
stupid, but it's also a lie. You'd have to be stupid to believe it, but having rubbed
elbows with Glenn Beck followers there's no doubt they are stupid enough to
10/26/2009 believe it.

Glenn claims the "Overton Window" (a
concept which totally escapes him as
he demonstratest that he clearly has no
idea what it means) has been moved
"to the left" by health care reform
advocates and now "those who choose
not to pay for any kind of health care,
those who choose not to have a job,
we're going to fund abortions, we have
extra money from the rich, we can
include illegals here, we can give illegal
iimgrants health care, that's crazy talk"
11/20/2009 (More on the Overton Window below). 11/22/2009 Fund. http://tinyurl.com/yebozw8
Glenn chalkboards up the "Overton
11/20/2009 Window."
"America already has the best health
care in the world. We DO take care of
6/4/2008 our sick."
"You're about to lose the best health
5/12/2008 care system in the world"
money. Glenn says there are "those who choose not to have a job." Make up
your mind, Glenn, you bash Obama for high unemployment rates. We KNOW
that the country is in a recession. There are 5 times as many people looking for
work than there are vacant jobs. Underemployment is rampant. Glenn is lying
when he implies that those who are not working "choose" not to have a job.
Does he think they "choose" to lose their homes, cars, purchasing power, credit
ratings and every other part of the "American dream", too? LIAR. Another myth
touched on here is "those who choose not to pay for any kind of health care."
The US Census Bureau is the source of the data that says that 47 million
Americans do not have health insurance. This is not because they CHOOSE it.
It's because they can't AFFORD it. Health insurance costs as much or more than
a mortgage payment. The loss of living-wage jobs is the primary cause of the
high number of uninsured. The result is that people are going without health care
when they need it or facing crushing medical bills. This is not idle speculation.
This is the result of an analysis of Census Bureau data by The Commonwealth
Glenn's use of the "Overton Window" is fully bastardized and a lie in its own right.
The Overton Window postulates that the range of political possibility based on
the range of public reactions to ideas in public discourse. In fact, this idea was
developed to explain how American policy has become radicalized to the right so
that even the middle is right wing. Glenn lies AND misunderstands. He says that
health care reform moves the Overton Window to a place where choosing not to
work, choosing not to buy insurance, paying for abortions with public money, and
buying insurance for illegal aliens are all MAINSTREAM ideas. That's not only
untrue, it's absurd. Any politician who stood up and defended any single one of
those ideas in public would be voted out of office and be ostracized by their
party. The health care reform proposals do none of those things, and nobody in
Congress defends any of those ideas. Glenn LIES again. For an explanation of
the "Overton Window", visit this link:
11/22/2009 http://www.correntewire.com/the_overton_window_illustrated
OK, Glenn, why is our health care system ranked 37th in the world by the World
Health Organization? Why is the US worst in preventable death ranking? Why
are 47 million Americans stuck in a system where private employer based
insurance is key to seeing a MD yet they don't have insurance? And most of all,
if it's so great, Glenn, why did you make this VIDEO, you lying sad sack of dung?
LOL enjoy, everybody, if you can stand to watch Glenn Beck feeling sorry for his
millionare self, oh, the pain, the suicidal thoughts... if only... well, a person can
DREAM, can't they?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX1rLv_hNeI&feature=player_embedded
You should always be careful about speaking from the heart, Glenn, especially
1/4/2008 when you're high as a kite and a camera is rolling!

"What does it mean for the rest of the
world if we lose our position as the
innovator, as having the best health
4/29/2008 care in the country, in the world".
Glenn tells Bill O'Reilly that anyone who
refuses to buy health insurance will go
11/13/2009 to jail. For the first time in history.
Glenn agrees (on his radio show) with
Sarah Palin's claim on Facebook that
8/10/2009 health reform will create "death panels".
OK, Glenn, why is our health care system ranked 37th in the world by the World
Health Organization? Why is the US worst in preventable death ranking? Why
are 47 million Americans stuck in a system where private employer based
insurance is key to seeing a MD yet they don't have insurance? And most of all,
if it's so great, Glenn, why did you make this VIDEO, you lying sad sack of dung?
LOL enjoy, everybody, if you can stand to watch Glenn Beck feeling sorry for his
millionare self, oh, the pain, the suicidal thoughts... if only... well, a person can
DREAM, can't they?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX1rLv_hNeI&feature=player_embedded
You should always be careful about speaking from the heart, Glenn, especially
1/4/2008 when you're high as a kite and a camera is rolling!
Not true. No one has ever proposed that and it is not in either the House or
Senate bills. The proposal is that refusing to buy insurance will result in a tax
penalty. This idea is not new, it's just a different enforcement mechanism. Every
state in the union has mandatory auto insurance, which started in Massachusetts
in 1927. This system protects the general public by forcing individuals to buy
insurance to cover costs of misfortune. The option is having everyone else pay
for it in cases where the cost of a mishap is well in excess of the resources of the
individual. In many people's opinions (including mine), health insurance
companies should be abolished and replaced with a single payer system.
Mandatory insurance is a compromise and it should be accompanied by
mandatory payout ratios. However, NOBODY is going to jail for refusing to buy
11/14/2009 insurance. That's as stupid as "death panels".
Here Glenn is promulgating and reinforcing a direct lie. There is no "death panel"
provision in either bill. There never has been one and this lie has been
debunked thoroughly. The notion was a deliberate distortion of a provision in the
House bill that includes a benefit for "end of life counseling", which allows people
to choose what steps they want to have done should they become incapacitated
and unable to state what they want done. This is also called a "living will".
Everyone should have one out of fairness to their family. A very, VERY far cry
from a "Death Panel", which Sarah claimed “bureaucrats can decide, based on a
subjective judgment of [people's] ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they
8/10/2009 are worthy of health care.” Lies, dirty, damned lies.
 Beck: (about his protestors, and
anyone who disagrees with him) Now
they're worried about bombings taking
place. Well, let me show you some new
footage. A bombing did take place
this past week in a town just north of
Seattle called Everett. The only
reason why I know this story is 'cause I
was there. Radio station KRKO, their
towers were blown up. When freedom
of speech is being squelched, the left
usually says, "That's fascist!" But in this
case the left doesn't even call them
9/30/2009 anything!
Glenn claims that WH Press Secretary
Gibbs never calls on Fox News
correspondent Major Garrett: "I know
Major Garrett doesn’t ask the questions
at the White House, because he’s
8/12/2009 never called on. Hmmm. I wonder why."
Glenn showed footage of two radio towers that were knocked down in Everett
Washington and claimed that they were bombed by people trying to suppress
free speech. Not so. They were knocked down by a piece of stolen construction
equipment. They were not the object of terrorists trying to supress free speech.
They were knocked down by vandals who were venting frustration in a long-
brewing controversy over whether the towers should be allowed to be in a
residential area because of alleged dangers of living in close proximity to high-
energy radio transmissions. There was a note left at the scene claiming
responsibility; the Earth Liberation Front did it. Freedom of speech? BS. KRKO
9/30/2009 is a SPORTS station. Glenn LIES again.
Yes, Glenn must be wondering about a lot of things. However, if he really DID
HIS OWN RESEARCH like he claims he does, he'd know that Gibss called on
Major Garrett in nearly EVERY press briefing to date including the day that Beck
made this lying claim. 5 times in August, and also Feb. 9, March 24, April 4, and
June 23. NEVER is a long time, Glenn, you LIAR.
8/13/2009 http://mediamatters.org/research/200908130040