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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

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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

45% of doctors will quit the practice if 10/12/2009 health care reform passes

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

You don't know if this (the H1N1 vaccine) is gonna cause neurological 10/8/2009 damage like it did in the 1970s

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."

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?

9/3/2009 Van Jones is a "Truther"

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.

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."

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.

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

Obama engaged in a "coverup" of Treasury Department documents from March that show that the cost of capand-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

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.)

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

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.

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.”

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.

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"

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 Carol Browner was not amust member Socialist International at the timeI Beck commie-hating mill rats haveof actually been SOCIALISTS! LOL! am going made thetostatement, so it is a lie. She a member in capacity of serving on Rockefeller Center is decorated by to defer Leanne Haase Goebel, who was came up with the top Google hit on this its Commission foraagreat Sustainable World Society. purpose of Socialist Communist/socialist art, which is search. She does job of explaining the lie The at http://tinyurl.com/yfl48lu. International has nothing to sarcastic do with "world government" is opposed to is propaganda somehow but most people Keith Olbermann did a nice deconstruction of it,and too,it but MS Goebel communism, a totalitarian system, lies again. is to provide "have no idea what they're even looking writing as an art critic so she knowsasartBeck history. Glenn, Its justpurpose STFU when you get a for social socialist, andSTFU. labor parties to work together to 9/2/2009 at". 9/2/2009 mechanism an idea like this. Takedemocratic, an asprin, sit down, and 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".

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" "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".

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?)

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 transnationalism 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.

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/20090403/071499.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 "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 socialist. I mean, believes in manmade article, http://www.rep.org/news/GEvol5/ge5.1_globalwarming.html. As usual he's global warming that now can be fixed full of BS. You don't have to be a socialist to believe in global warming, just 1/12/2009 and reversed or whatever." 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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Glenn claims the "Overton Window" (a work than there are vacant jobs. Underemployment is rampant. Glenn is lying concept which totally escapes him as when he implies that those who are not working "choose" not to have a job. he demonstratest that he clearly has no Does he think they "choose" to lose their homes, cars, purchasing power, credit idea what it means) has been moved ratings and every other part of the "American dream", too? LIAR. Another myth "to the left" by health care reform touched on here is "those who choose not to pay for any kind of health care." advocates and now "those who choose The US Census Bureau is the source of the data that says that 47 million not to pay for any kind of health care, Americans do not have health insurance. This is not because they CHOOSE it. those who choose not to have a job, It's because they can't AFFORD it. Health insurance costs as much or more than we're going to fund abortions, we have a mortgage payment. The loss of living-wage jobs is the primary cause of the extra money from the rich, we can high number of uninsured. The result is that people are going without health care include illegals here, we can give illegal when they need it or facing crushing medical bills. This is not idle speculation. iimgrants health care, that's crazy talk" This is the result of an analysis of Census Bureau data by The Commonwealth 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"

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".

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. 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".

Glenn agrees (on his radio show) with Sarah Palin's claim on Facebook that 8/10/2009 health reform will create "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 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 longbrewing controversy over whether the towers should be allowed to be in a residential area because of alleged dangers of living in close proximity to highenergy 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.

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."

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