This is one of the most popular videos now on Youtube where Glenn Beck dons his tinfoil hat and claims a conspiracy theory about the government taking over your PC for participating in the ‘cash for clunkers’ program. Here’s my response:
Actually, I looked into this and it is known that Glenn Beck is not the most credible source on a lot of stuff, and it turns out this is no exception: https://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/clunkers.asp
For the real wacky Glenn Beck, check these out: He goes on an insane rant against one of his callers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA7-BvVDV10 He tries to defend his insane rant above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if3wVXSMw4M He’s a global warming denier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft8LfE7AI2w Glenn agrees that what the US needs is another attack from Al Qaeda; that ’the only hope for the country was for Osama Bin Laden to “deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States.” ‘: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auQJVhNH99c Glenn calls Obama a racist (sounds like Rush Limbaugh): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzKFYcHKbnk Which sparked a campaign to get advertisers to pull out from his program. Many have, including GEICO, Men’s Wearhouse and others: https://colorofchange.org/beck/message.html Just bizarre full-on crying on air: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HWKzobeya4 Glenn jokes about putting poison in Nancy Pelosi’s wine: https://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/glenn-beck-jokes-about-putting-poiso Glenn boasts about how he brought a gun to a movie: https://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/22/beck-gun-movies/
He’s also part of a vocal extremist minority of “birthers” and “deathers” who are spouting insane conspiracy theories and stirring unrest against the president that may well lead to violence by the crazy factions of our society.
-Jason
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From: Brian Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 4:06 PM To: REDACTED Subject: Fw: Fwd: EXTREMELY IMPORTANT MESSAGE!!
This is very interesting Scarey stuff. A friend told me about this earlier but I hadn’t seen it on the air.
DO NOT EVER, EVER, EVER, ! ! ! ! ! go to <https://cars.gov/> cars.gov until you watch this video from FOX news. This is the scariest takeover of our lives the government has ever tried. The Obama “Car Czar” is at work.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAOBlqUqUZ8
Be sure to let everyone on your email list know about this ASAP