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Eva Patterson, via FAIR. Van Jones plus attorney were sent out to monitor
Van Jones went to prison for Rodney peaceful march on 5/8/92. Police stopped march, arrested hundreds, including
King riots (Went in in April, got out in Jones & attorney. Jones and attorney released in a few hours, City of San
7/23/2009 August) 8/28/2009 Francisco paid them restitution
Winter Olympics cost city of Vancouver
9/30/2009 $1 billion 9/30/2009 White House via Raw Story… winter olympics haven't even taken place yet

Chicago has had to close government White House via Raw Story "Chicago has had one reduced service day in 2009
9/29/2009 for several days due to fiscal crunch 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


If you go to the "Cash for Clunkers" impossible. But you would have to be paranoid to even think that it was possible.
website the government will take over How would the government monitor your files through your firewall, ISP port
your computer, own it, and all files on it monitoring, anti-virus software, and browser software? Why would anyone think
may be monitored and intercepted by the government wants to monitor computers of people who use Cash for
several law enforcement agencies Clunkers? Read the Consumer Bill of Rights on the website:
7/31/2009 foreign and domestic 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
45% of doctors will quit the practice if response rate, only 1376 out of 25,600 asked. So it's like one of those AOL snap
10/12/2009 health care reform passes 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
You don't know if this (the H1N1 known facts, it's a lie. It's like saying "You don't know if you go to some remote
vaccine) is gonna cause neurological Pacific island you won't be shot by a Japanese soldier who hasn't heard that
10/8/2009 damage like it did in the 1970s 10/28/2009 WWII ended." Yeah, right. http://tinyurl.com/ykts8jv
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.
Van Jones "is an avowed, self-avowed http://tinyurl.com/yklxq5r BTW, does Glenn believe that people never change?
9/1/2009 radical revolutionary communist." 10/28/2009 That would make him a coke-snorting, drunken, wife-abusing 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
9/3/2009 Van Jones is a "Truther" 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
John Holdren, director of the White bought this item also bought". LOL. OK, the book cites overpopulation to be a
House Office of Science and grave crisis. The book discusses various means to reduce fertility, including
Technology Policy, "has proposed putting sterilants in the drinking water. However, it NEVER advocates that
forcing abortions and putting sterilants approach, and it NEVER advocates mandatory abortions. It just discusses those
in the drinking water to control ideas in the context of public policy, society, and laws. Again, Glenn Beck and
7/22/2009 population." 10/28/2009 his cadre of liars are full of it. http://tinyurl.com/lcr22l
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
Net neutrality is the Obama now. As far as the "free TVs" thing, Glenn never explains it but I think it's obvious
Administration's attempt to control the that nobody has suggested that the government should give away free TVs,
10/26/2009 internet and give away free televisions 10/27/2009 radios, computers, or anything else.

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.
Manufacturing "Czar" Ron Bloom called (Another reason why we need net neutrality). You can read the context of the
10/23/2009 a "Maoist" 10/23/2009 speech at Media Matters HERE... http://tinyurl.com/yjo9ccb

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
Obama engaged in a "coverup" of the Union speech, which would have cut taxes for working class families. (I love
Treasury Department documents from the term "working class families". It's so PC. Shouldn't it be "working poor"?)
March that show that the cost of cap- Obama's plan would have taxed polluters and given tax cuts to families. The EPA
and-trade on carbon would cost $1726 estimates that the ACES Act will result in a net cost of about $100/day per
per household despite Obama saying it household which will be fully offset for low income families. The CBO numbers:
will cost the price of a postage stamp net cost of about $20 billion per year in 2020 and that results in $160 per
9/19/2009 per day. 9/20/2009 household. http://tinyurl.com/kn9y46
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
Animal gasses produce more C02 than a bit about this topic because I did maintenance training at one of the dirtiest
cars or coal-fired power plants generation systems in the US, 16 antiquated plants that are failing regularly and
7/11/2007 http://tinyurl.com/ygloedb 7/11/2007 working loopholes in the EPA regulations of the 1970s.)
Glenn complains about "hard line of
questioning" (sarcastically, actually
meaning softball questions) asked of The only problem is, Glenn, that the day you're complaining about was the day of
Sotomayor by Senate panel. nothing but opening statements of the hearing. There wasn't a single question
7/14/2009 http://tinyurl.com/yghzlyq 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
Glenn Beck lies about Obama‟s one, in which Obama used Abraham Lincoln's Bible. http://tinyurl.com/6uka9l
swearing in by saying, “I checked. We Side note: If Glenn Beck had his way, the Mormon President would be running
have never had a president sworn into the show, not the US President. In that case, the swearing in would be on the
1/22/2009 office without a Bible.” 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
Glenn claims that the Teabaggers here's a number that is commonly used by rational people... 60,000. If you
march on Washington was estimated to subtract the people who were bussed in on Astroturf busses, it's probably about
be 1.7 million strong by the University 50,000. Here's a comparison of demonstration sizes... Beck's 9/12 project ranks
9/15/2009 of "Don't Remember" 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
commie-hating mill rats must have actually been SOCIALISTS! LOL! I am going
Rockefeller Center is decorated by to defer to Leanne Haase Goebel, who came up with the top Google hit on this
Communist/socialist art, which is search. She does a great job of explaining the lie at http://tinyurl.com/yfl48lu.
propaganda somehow but most people Keith Olbermann did a nice sarcastic deconstruction of it, too, but MS Goebel is
"have no idea what they're even looking writing as an art critic so she knows art history. Glenn, just STFU when you get
9/2/2009 at". 9/2/2009 an idea like this. Take an asprin, sit down, and STFU.
Carol Browner was not a member of Socialist International at the time Beck made
the statement, so it is a lie. She was a member in capacity of serving on its
Commission for a Sustainable World Society. The purpose of Socialist
International has nothing to do with "world government" and it is opposed to
communism, a totalitarian system, as Beck lies again. Its purpose is to provide a
mechanism for social democratic, socialist, and labor parties to work together to
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
"Carol Browner is a member of on Peace. The organization's Congress meets every 3 to 4 years, the Council
Socialist International, a group for meets twice a year. The US does not have representation in the Congress at
global governments... [shows picture of present, but many of our allies do including the UK, Australia, Belgium, Canada,
9/25/2009 hammer and sickle] 10/30/2009 Chile, Costa Rica, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy,
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
Progressives used to be slave owners. "progressive slaveholder" crap. The progressive movement began AFTER the
"We call them 'progressives' now but Civil War, long after slavery was abolished. Even so, progressive values include
back in Samuel Adams day they used creation of professional social workers, day care centers, child labor laws,
to call them 'tyrants', a little later I think organized labor, conservation, populism, muckraking journalists, eradicating
they were also called 'slave owners', social injustice, and so on. In fact, one of the EARLIEST progressive writers, Ray
people that encourage you to become Stannard Baker, wrote a scathing account of white hatred towards blacks called
10/20/2009 more dependent on them." 10/30/2009 "Following the Color Line", in 1908. So Glenn, when you read this, consider

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
Glenn says he hates the 9/11 families their site shows otherwise. See it HERE.http://tinyurl.com/ycsp2mq. If you look at
"because they're always complaining their mission statement and click their "unanswered questions" link you know that
and we did our best for them. And it had nothing to do with that. Regarding Katrina, it's obvious that the families in
again, it's only about 10." This was the the SuperDome were "EXACTLY (his emphasis) like the 9/11 families." In fact
same radio show where he called the two situations have nothing in common. The families have nothing in common
survivors of Katrina trapped in the except that they have lost love ones and the US Governement has failed them.
SuperDome "scumbags". Glenn says The "scumbags" came from all walks of life, and I guess Glenn thinks that most
"They're EXACTLY like the 9/11 of them were too stupid or too poor to get out of NOLA so that makes them
9/9/2008 families... there's about 10 of them". 11/6/2009 "scumbags". LIE.
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
Glenn Beck includes "Truthers" in the by laying the facts bare and making sure all future governments tell us the truth.
same group as Al Qaeda, Nazis, white Given the lies that Bush and his bandits told us on just about every topic
supremacists as "groups who want to concerning Iraq, it's not hard to understand why the Truther movement started
destroy America". 11/6/2009 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"
"They'll take away guns, they'll take does not have the words "gun", "ammunition", "weapons", "firearms", "bomb",
away our sovereignty, they'll take away "currency", "warplane", "battleship", "handgun", or any reference to "sovereignty".
our currency, our money, they're There is no "global framework" in the bill, but there is cooperation between
already starting to put all the global nations in sharing data on their emissions and atmospheric data. This is a BILL,
framework in with this bullcrap called not a TREATY. Therefore it has no reality connection with Beck's demented
global warming." 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:
Glenn accuses Little Green Footballs of http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/34746_Glenn_Beck_Lies_About_LGF (On a
accusing HIM of killing a frog. side note, I also suspected that this was a stunt and did a frame-by-frame
(Remember when he "play-acted" that analysis of the video I obtained from YouTube. I concluded that you couldn't tell
he was throwing a frog into a pan of from the video whether ir was real or not, also stating that whether it was real it
boiling water to "prove" some was still an outrage.)
9/24/2009 crackhead theory of his?) 9/24/2009
Several assertions about Iowa's
Supreme Court ruling that struck down
the ban on same-sex marriage. Refer to MediaMatters http://mediamatters.org/research/200904140002 The first
"…yeah, you gotta have same sex assertion is absurd by inspection. You don't HAVE to have a gay marriage, you
marriage". "This is where trans- can have an "opposite" marriage or no marriage at all. Standards of decency
nationalism comes in." "Evolving have nothing to do with this decision. This was clearly a case of equal
standards of decency advocate gay constitutional rights in the eyes of the court, and civil unions are not equal to
marriage" (by guest expert). "Marriage, marriage. Glenn should have done his research a bit better, because the Iowa
however, is different [than civil unions], SC ruling CLEARLY states that churches maintain the right to decide who gets
because I believe this case is actually married on their property. This has nothing to do with the educational system,
about going into churches and going in period. I am beginning to think that Glenn Beck's lie spreadsheet needs to
and attacking churches and saying 'You include a lie for all the times that Glenn Beck asserts that he "does his own
can't teach anything else.' When you research." The Iowa SC decision is only 69 pages long. It is available online in
say 'Marriage...' , civil unions is .pdf form at
different, 'Marriage is defined as this' http://www.iowacourts.gov/Supreme_Court/Recent_Opinions/20090403/07-
then you also have to go into the 1499.pdf so GLENN, GET BUSY AND START READING instead of shooting
4/14/2009 schools. 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
"I mean, you don‟t have to be a Democrats to turn the US into the center for World Communism, but seriously,
socialist, I guess, to believe in global there are plenty of GOPERs who see global warming as a scientific problem
warming. It‟s just that almost everyone rather than a political football. Check out this link, Republicans for Environmental
who does believe in global warming is a Protection, http://www.rep.org/2008_scorecard.pdf. Glenn should read this article,
socialist. I mean, believes in manmade http://www.rep.org/news/GEvol5/ge5.1_globalwarming.html. As usual he's full of
global warming that now can be fixed BS. You don't have to be a socialist to believe in global warming, just someone
1/12/2009 and reversed or whatever." 11/16/2009 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 Media Matters points out HERE http://tinyurl.com/yb9gfrh that Beck is lifting from
know.Can we buy a new one, a a Matt Drudge story. That's NOT research, Glenn. The doors were hanger doors
cheaper one? I don't know what and they cost $246,000 to repair. $1.2 million was spent to replace the gas
building 5112 is, but it better fly, drop mains on the base. The repairs were at Dyess AFB and the information was
7/20/2009 bombs, or have 1.4 million doors." 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
Glenn Beck, "quoting" the Drudge million which is roughly $1.50/lb. As far as the "80 cents a pound claim", I
Report, stated that the government Googled for "price of sara lee sliced ham" and found the following link:
"spent $1.1 million on 2-pound frozen http://www.thefind.com/food/info-cooked-ham. 22 ounces of Black Forest
ham," and "more than $1.5 million ... for sliced deli ham: $8.95 ($6.39/lb). DAK premium cooked sliced ham, 2.5 lb in
some mozzarella cheese." Beck 2 packs, $8.59 ($3.44/lb) Case of Oscar Mayer cooked slice ham, 15 six
further stated that "they checked" and ounce packages $42.05 ($7.48/lb). These are food service prices; I challenge
you can buy sliced ham at the grocery Glenn Beck or any of the Beckerheads to send me a link to 80 cent ham. Beck
7/20/2009 store for 80 cents a pound. 7/21/2009 LIES.

Glenn Beck RT (retweets, meaning he Jamison Foser picked up this Tweet from Beck and it's posted at MediaMatters at
spreads or disseminates to Twitter http://mediamatters.org/blog/200910260011. This is so preposterous that it's just
users) the lie that Nancy Pelosi says stupid, but it's also a lie. You'd have to be stupid to believe it, but having rubbed
she's about to bring a vote to ban Fox elbows with Glenn Beck followers there's no doubt they are stupid enough to
10/25/2009 News from covering Congress. 10/26/2009 believe it.
Glen is lying about so many things in a single collection of phrases that he is
completely out to lunch. Painfully so. This is why you shouldn't get your
information from Glenn; he is a serial liar. First off, the HCR bill passed by the
House contains ths "Stupak Amendment" which specifically prohibits any federal
funding for abortions. Unfortunately, it goes too far and says any plan that gets a
federal subsidy can't fund abortions. This will be worked out in conference. The
point is, taxpayer dollars will not be used for this purpose, even though many of
us believe that abortion is legal, it is a medical procedure, it is a decision made by
a woman after private counsel with her physician, and if that's what she wants to
do she should do it even if she has to take federal dollars. But it's NOT in the bill,
Glenn. The House bill specifically states that only American citizens will be
covered, in fact, illegals can't even join if they WANT to pay with their own 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
Glenn claims the "Overton Window" (a than there are vacant jobs. Underemployment is rampant. Glenn is lying when he
concept which totally escapes him as implies that those who are not working "choose" not to have a job. Does he think
he demonstratest that he clearly has no they "choose" to lose their homes, cars, purchasing power, credit ratings and
idea what it means) has been moved every other part of the "American dream", too? LIAR. Another myth touched on
"to the left" by health care reform here is "those who choose not to pay for any kind of health care." The US Census
advocates and now "those who choose Bureau is the source of the data that says that 47 million Americans do not have
not to pay for any kind of health care, health insurance. This is not because they CHOOSE it. It's because they can't
those who choose not to have a job, AFFORD it. Health insurance costs as much or more than a mortgage payment.
we're going to fund abortions, we have The loss of living-wage jobs is the primary cause of the high number of
extra money from the rich, we can uninsured. The result is that people are going without health care when they need
include illegals here, we can give illegal it or facing crushing medical bills. This is not idle speculation. This is the result of
iimgrants health care, that's crazy talk" an analysis of Census Bureau data by The Commonwealth Fund.
11/20/2009 (More on the Overton Window below). 11/22/2009 http://tinyurl.com/yebozw8
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
Glenn chalkboards up the "Overton the "Overton Window", visit this link:
11/20/2009 Window." 11/22/2009 http://www.correntewire.com/the_overton_window_illustrated
"America already has the best health OK, Glenn, why is our health care system ranked 37th in the world by the World
care in the world. We DO take care of Health Organization? Why is the US worst in preventable death ranking? Why
6/4/2008 our sick." are 47 million Americans stuck in a system where private employer based
"You're about to lose the best health insurance is key to seeing a MD yet they don't have insurance? And most of all,
5/12/2008 care system in the world" 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
"What does it mean for the rest of the millionare self, oh, the pain, the suicidal thoughts... if only... well, a person can
world if we lose our position as the DREAM, can't they?
innovator, as having the best health http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX1rLv_hNeI&feature=player_embedded
4/29/2008 care in the country, in the world". 1/4/2008 You should always be careful about speaking from the heart, Glenn, especially
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.
Glenn tells Bill O'Reilly that anyone who Mandatory insurance is a compromise and it should be accompanied by
refuses to buy health insurance will go mandatory payout ratios. However, NOBODY is going to jail for refusing to buy
11/13/2009 to jail. For the first time in history. 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
Glenn agrees (on his radio show) with Panel", which Sarah claimed “bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective
Sarah Palin's claim on Facebook that judgment of [people's] „level of productivity in society,‟ whether they are worthy of
8/10/2009 health reform will create "death panels". 8/10/2009 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 Glenn showed footage of two radio towers that were knocked down in Everett
this past week in a town just north Washington and claimed that they were bombed by people trying to suppress
of Seattle called Everett. The only free speech. Not so. They were knocked down by a piece of stolen construction
reason why I know this story is 'cause I equipment. They were not the object of terrorists trying to supress free speech.
was there. Radio station KRKO, their They were knocked down by vandals who were venting frustration in a long-
towers were blown up. When brewing controversy over whether the towers should be allowed to be in a
freedom of speech is being squelched, residential area because of alleged dangers of living in close proximity to high-
the left usually says, "That's fascist!" energy radio transmissions. There was a note left at the scene claiming
But in this case the left doesn't even responsibility; the Earth Liberation Front did it. Freedom of speech? BS. KRKO is
9/30/2009 call them anything! 9/30/2009 a SPORTS station. Glenn LIES again.

Glenn claims that WH Press Secretary Yes, Glenn must be wondering about a lot of things. However, if he really DID
Gibbs never calls on Fox News HIS OWN RESEARCH like he claims he does, he'd know that Gibss called on
correspondent Major Garrett: "I know Major Garrett in nearly EVERY press briefing to date including the day that Beck
Major Garrett doesn‟t ask the questions made this lying claim. 5 times in August, and also Feb. 9, March 24, April 4, and
at the White House, because he‟s June 23. NEVER is a long time, Glenn, you LIAR.
8/12/2009 never called on. Hmmm. I wonder why." 8/13/2009 http://mediamatters.org/research/200908130040

Glenn, YOU LIE. On November 3, 2009, Glenn Beck insanely ranted the
Beck claims that he had never warned following: "I told you yesterday, buckle up your seatbelt, America. Find the exit --
people that they were in danger of there's one here, here, and here. Find the exit closest to you and prepare for a
being "slaughtered" by the Obama crash landing. Because this plane is coming down, because the pilot is
administration and its friends. Says he intentionally steering it into the trees! Most likely, it'll happen sometime after
never used the word "slaughtered" and Christmas. You're gonna see this economy come up -- we're already seeing it,
if he did, it was in the context of Mao, and now it's gonna start coming back down again. And when you see the effects
Stalin, Hitler, or the context of the of what they're doing to the economy, remember these words: We will survive.
Obama Administration "slaughtering" No -- we'll do better than survive, we will thrive. As long as these people are
2/1/2010 the truth." 2/1/2010 not in control. They are taking you to a place to be slaughtered!"
According to the CBO's full cost estimate of the bill, 11.2 percent of the $816
billion bill would be spent in the first seven-and-a-half months after the bill is
enacted, and, when including the bill's tax cut provisions, $169 billion -- or 20.7
Only 3 percent of the stimulus plan will percent of the bill's total cost -- would take effect in the first seven-and-a-half
1/27/2009 be spent in the next 12 months 1/28/2009 months.
Beck says that under the Wagner Act,
Unions only need 30% support from Section 9 Paragraph 159 (b) states the conditions under which the NLRB will
2/12/2009 employees to be established 2/13/2009 recognize a union. The union must have MAJORITY support, meaning over 50%.
Barclays Capital (international investment bank) analysis reportedly found that
The average UAW worker makes $154 U.S. automakers "pay an average of $55 an hour in wages and benefits to hourly
2/18/2009 per hour 2/19/2009 workers".
Department of Homeland Security does take fingerprints from "aliens seeking
admission to the United States" at U.S. entry points, and according to the
The US does not fingerprint foreign National Conference of State Legislatures, "All 50 states require that convicted
3/16/2009 visitors or collect rapists' DNA 3/17/2009 sex offenders provide a DNA sample."

ACORN is inelegible for funds in the "stimulus" (American Recovery and


5/6/2009 ACORN received stimulus funds 5/6/2009 Reinvestment Act). It has not applied for them, and is not mentioned in the bill.

Obama was referring to "folks on the other side of the aisle", not the public
protestors. "So, we've got some work to do. I don't mind, by the way, being
responsible; I expect to be held responsible for these issues because I'm the
president. But I don't want the folks who created the mess -- I don't want the folks
who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them just to get out of the way
Obama said that he doesn't want health so we can clean up the mess. I don't mind cleaning up after them, but don't do a
8/10/2009 protestors to "do a lot of talking" 8/11/2009 lot of talking." [Obama remarks in Tysons Corner, Virginia, 8/6/09]
The story was fake. The ACORN staffer, Tresa Kaelke, realized that she was
being set up by amateur wannabe James O'Keefe (currently awaiting charges for
attempting to tap Senator Mary Landreiu's phone). She spun a wild tale about
Glenn Beck reports fake murder story murdering her husband. Beck and Fox didn't fact check, they just went off and
8/15/2009 from ACORN as fact 8/16/2009 reported this as an "EXPLOSIVE" revelation. LOL

Beck claims that IPCC's Mojib Latif, a In fact, Latif asserted that contrary to common "media" misperceptions of global
prominent climate modeler has "pulled warming as a "monotonic process" in which "each year is warmer than the
the rug out" from under climate change preceding year," there are significant natural climate variations within the decadal
9/24/2009 consensus. 9/24/2009 timescale that do not change the "long-term warming trend."
Beck claims that support for the public Polls have consistently shown that a majority of Americans want the so-called
option is "35 per cent of the population" "public option". WaPo, 57% (10/15-10/18) CNN 61% (10/16-10/18) CBS News
and accuses Harry Reid of lying when 62% (10/5-10/8) Kaiser Family Foundation 57% (10/8-10/15) USA Today 50%
10/27/2009 he said the public wants it. 10/27/2009 (10/16-10/19).
FALSE. Here are benefits that would take effect immediately under Senate bill: 1)
Eliminating lifetime limits, and cap annual limits, on health-care benefits. In other
words, if you get an aggressive cancer and your treatment costs an extraordinary
amount, your insurer can't suddenly remind you that subparagraph 15 limited
your yearly expenses to $30,000, and they're not responsible for anything above
that.

2) No more rescissions.

3) Some interim help for people who have preexisting conditions, though the bill
does not instantly ban discrimination on preexisting conditions.

4) Requiring insurers to cover preventive care and immunizations.

5) Allowing young adults to stay on their parent's insurance plan until age 26.

6) Developing uniform coverage documents so people can compare different


insurance policies in an apples-to-apples fashion.

7) Forcing insurers to spend 80 Epercent of all premium dollars on medical care


(75 percent in the individual market), thus capping the money that can go toward
administration, profits, etc.

8) Creating an appeals process and consumer advocate for insurance


customers.

9) Developing a temporary re-insurance program to help early retirees (folks over


55) afford coverage.

10) Creating an internet portal to help people shop for and compare coverage.
Beck claims that under the Senate
health care bill, "You don't get a single 11) Miscellaneous administrative simplification stuff.
11/19/2009 benefit until 2014". 11/19/2009
Fact: Obama opposed an unnecessary Illinois abortion law amendment because
Beck claims that Obama suggested it's Illinois criminal code unequivocally prohibited killing children. This amendment
11/25/2009 OK to "put a spike in the baby's head" 11/25/2009 was an attempt by abortion opponents to open the door to limiting legal abortions.
In fact, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently estimated that the
Beck claims that "no jobs are being American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009, which was heavily promoted
12/2/2009 saved or created" 12/2/2009 by President Obama, created 1.6 million jobs

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