Beck tells listeners the 1st-ever test of the EAS is a way for the govt to take over radio/TV

[The Straight Story]

THE OLDER you are, the more nostalgic you will feel Wednesday at 2 p.m., when radio and TV stations halt regular programs to conduct an approximately 60-second test of the national Emergency Alert System (EAS).

The government and stations have been working hard to let everyone know it’s coming, hoping to minimize the number of people who will think it’s a fire when it’s really just a fire drill.

National emergency alert broadcasts go back to 1951, when Conelrad (“Control of Electromagnetic Radiation”) was established at 640 and 1240 AM. In 1963 Conelrad gave way to the Emergency Broadcast System, whose Cold War mission was the same: to let us know when the Russkies launched their nukes.

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Because that’s pretty dry stuff, Glenn Beck and others have livened it up by warning that the government will use these tests as a back-door way to take control of radio and TV stations. There goes your freedom, kids!

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/beeping-radio-tv-2-p-m-wednesday-continues-a-long-tradition-emergency-alert-systems-article-1.973812

[mrs_p]

1. nutcase

and a harmful idiot too

[RKP5637]

2. Yep, just like GOP-TV AKA FOX is trying to do. n/t

[livetohike]

3. When will Beck just STFU and go back into his strait jacket?

I can't believe he has an audience.

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. He is responsible for most of the face palm shortage.

[Javaman]

4. beck and jones need to get together to have a "can you top this" conspiracy-athon.

two morons of the same ilk.

[RKP5637]

12. I've watched jones a couple of times recently and it seems he's really coming unhinged IMO. n/t

[Xithras]

5. I sometimes wonder whether Beck has a genuine mental illness.

It's easy to say that he's crazy as a joke, but some of his statements are so far out there that it's hard to comprehend how any rational, sane person could reach his conclusions.

"'Paranoia; is a thought process believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs, or beliefs of conspiracy concerning a perceived threat towards oneself. False accusations and the distrust of others also frequently accompany paranoia."

[RKP5637]

10. Yep, I too think he has some serious difficulties. n/t

[HopeHoops]

6. Oh, no, man, like they're using it to like, you know, make your brain waves do shit and all.

It's like some book I read, but I don't remember when or where, mostly because of the brainwave shit the gummit's doing. And, and, and, they like put something on the apples that makes 'em shiny but it really like fucks with you, man. Watch out for that brainwave shit.

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Damn I'm glad I don't watch FOX or listen to asswipes like BecKKK and Limbaugh.

[arcane1]

7. Wow, I had completely forgotten about this loon!

I have not heard his name in months! That has to be good news!! :bounce:

[Davis_X_Machina]

8. The two-minute silence on Armistice Day....

...was all Labour needed to take over the UK.

Over and over again. Annually. For more than 90 years.

[liberal N proud]

9. Must have inturupted his show

[formercia]

11. The latest News from Beckistan

Bubbatollah Beck pulls another one out of his Ass.

[JHB]

13. Of course he did.

:crazy: :tinfoilhat: :nopity:

You know what we need? A "chalkboard" smilie.

[Capitalocracy]

14. But I thought that was from back when the government was good/fighting the Commies

and now they're bad/trying to install Communism?

I'm confused, Glenn. Somehow I think you are, too.

[JaneQPublic]

15. I wish!

Then maybe we would get NPR that's actually as leftist as the GOPers say... only without the pledge drives!

Beck takes the tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory game to a whole new leve.

[sakabatou]

17. Nuttier than a bag of Planters.

[Fire Walk With Me]

18. I'd watch his show if he had Bullwinkle's voice

and if they dubbed in circus music.

[KharmaTrain]

19. If So...They Failed Miserably...

The test was a joke...many stations missed the feed and others had a garbled one. EAS has been a joke since it was proposed in the 90s...our broadcast stations are clueless and unprepared for any emergency...many are run by satellites and computers with no human around.

In the 50s and 60s the DOD established "Conalrad"...a system that did have the abilities to take control of every radio station and was tested and upgraded regularly.

As usual more right wing paranoia to keep their sheeple amused...

[ProdigalJunkMail]

20. no nuttier than some of the conspiracy theories I see around here

that fortunately get whisked away to the nether-regions of DU...

sP

[Initech]

21. Glenn needs to turn off the tin foil hat and join the real world.