Glenn Beck Fact Checking Part I

As if my posts don't show it, for the most part, I have liberal views. In a perfect world, politics wouldn't be grouped into two parties and there wouldn't be labels on elections. In a perfect world, you would base every election on the issues and wouldn't base your campaign around delegitimizing your opponent. But, of course that's not how it works, and you have your "liberal" media (New York Times?) and "conservative" media (Fox News). I really don't care what people's views are, and try not to get in any arguments, but I also try to get a glimpse of both sides.

I tried to watch a full episode of Glenn Beck, but it's really hard. I can't understand if he wants to preach about religion or politics. Since nowadays, Christianity and Conservatives go hand-in-hand, it makes sense. Recently, liberal comedian Bill Maher bashed Beck for being a sell out and claimed that he just decided to get religious with his rants because it's easier to sway an audience and make a dollar taking that route. And I tend to be on that wave length that if you paid him enough money, he'd be preaching liberal views. What many people don't know is Beck used to be (and I think he still has some sort of tour) a stand-up comedian....a bad one. If he had a show set up like the Daily Show or Colbert Report, it would be much easier to listen to him since it would have comedic undertones. Dennis Miller is a conservative, and I find his act funny and sharp. He shares his views, makes jokes but doesn't press his views on others.

Beck claims that the government uses scare tactics and is trying to control our lives like Nazi Germany....Yet to get his points across he uses....scare tactics. Aside from comedians, nobody seems to speak out against some of the "historical" bullshit that Beck claims as facts, until today. CNN's Fareed Zakaria heard Beck's radio show and had a response to one of Becks "stats". He claimed that the number of Muslims who are terrorists is 10 percent...which would equal approximately 157 million Muslim terrorists. Zakaria had a calm, factual response to Beck...they even put it on a virtual chalk board so Beck can process it. Story and video here: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/cnn-host-slams-beck-claim-10-percent-muslims-terrorists/

For anybody that watches and respects Beck...I really don't care. But when they start taking his show like it's some sort of factual journalism....Just remember, there is a reason you don't see any big chain stores advertising on Beck's show anymore. Zakaria stated it plain and simple when referring to Beck's "claims"....total nonsense.

And just so you don't think I'm making up the part about him being a stand-up...Here is a trailer for one of his DVDs called "Unelectable" from 2008...I vote to change the title of the DVD to "Unwatchable."



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