Who Needs Facts? Glenn Beck's Dishonorable "Lie of the Year" Award

[The Straight Story]

Who Needs Facts? Glenn Beck's Dishonorable "Lie of the Year" Award

Besides Sarah ("Facts, what facts?") Palin, PolitiFact has selected Glenn Beck as runner-up in its first Lie of the Year contest, a dishonor Beck richly deserves.

Beck can barely open his mouth without distorting the truth or, even worse, making up "facts" from whole cloth. So it was no surprise that Beck's imaginary (and inflammatory) charges against a White House science advisor didn't pass the "common sense" test.

When it comes to Beck and the other Fox News blowhards, the best advice is to turn on your B.S. detector—you'll need it.

Read the PolitiFact smackdown of Beck's lies here.

http://fwix.com/tulsa/share/14e1aff61e/who_needs_facts_glenn_becks_dishonorable_lie_of_the_year_award

Glenn Beck claims science czar John Holdren proposed forced abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population

As evidence that the country is closer to socialist than capitalist these days, radio and talk show host Glenn Beck recently made this claim about John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy:

"I mean, we've got czars now," Beck said during his July 22, 2009, program. "Czars like John Holdren, who has proposed forcing abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population."

Political figures like Holdren, who are little-known by most Americans, make easy targets. And Beck's biting quick hit on Holdren provides a healthy enough dose of outrage on which to hang his argument.

http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/jul/29/glenn-beck/glenn-beck-claims-science-czar-john-holdren-propos/

[gratuitous]

1. They were able to decide on just one?

And I thought the Office of the Holder of the Royal Piss Bucket had a demeaning job. Can you imagine sorting through any volume of Glenn Beck's rantings to suss out the one lie above all the others that takes the prize? Shoot me now.

[chemp]

3. Don't you mean "Piss Bucket Czar"?

[gratuitous]

4. That might work, too

But I was thinking along the lines of History of the World Part 1.

[BOSSHOG]

2. And decent human beings wonder why

Lunatics come to downhall meetings armed with only one goal in mind, to disrupt the proceedings and civil discourse.

glen beck and his ilk are domestic enemies of the constitution who have never done anything for our country and could not possibly make a living any other way.

[lpbk2713]

5. Assholes like Beck have never let the truth of the matter get in their way.

That is what their listeners like about them.


They are so full of shit.