MMFA Pres Burns discusses Misinformer of the Year Beck with Scarborough

[democracy1st]

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http://mediamatters.org


Glenn Beck's well of ridiculous was deep and poisonous before he launched his Fox News show, but the inauguration of the 44th president of the United States -- and the permissive cheerleading of his Fox News honchos -- uncorked the former Morning Zoo shock jock's unique brand of vitriol, stage theatrics, and hyperbolic fright, making him an easy choice for Media Matters' 2009 Misinformer of the Year.

When he wasn't calling the president a racist, portraying progressive leaders as vampires who can only be stopped by "driv a stake through the heart of the bloodsuckers," or pushing the legitimacy of seceding from the country, Beck obsessively compared Democrats in Washington to Nazis and fascists and "the early days of Adolf Hitler." He wondered, "Is this where we're headed," while showing images of Hitler, Stalin, and Lenin; decoded the secret language of Marxists; and compared the government to "heroin pushers" who were "using smiley-faced fascism to grow the nanny state."

Like his predecessor, Beck spat on scruples, frequently announcing his goal to get administration officials fired. He increasingly acted not as a media figure, but as the head of a political movement, while helping to bring fringe conspiracies of a one-world government into the national discourse.

And he all too frequently helped to set the mainstream media's agenda.

http://mediamatters.org/research/200912210015

[BOSSHOG]

1. And to think

there are "patriots" in America who have to look at the radio every day and wait for glen the alcoholic who has never done anything for our country to tell them what to think and who to shout at. Meanwhile people are dying in Haiti and the "patriots" want us to keep our government out of their medicare.

I'm not sure but I think ignorance is probably the number one conservative value. Or is it hate?

[ProfessorPlum]

2. So, someone decided that what the world really needed was more

exposure to Joe "Dead Intern" Scarborough and Meeka? Hmm.