August 3rd: Beck compares Tea Party activists to black people being persecuted. He blames the holocaust on progressive thought. He calls Theodore Roosevelt the first progressive. He also talked about sterilants in drinking water and implied that our leaders have consistently had no ethical opposition to secretly sterilizing people. That's really stupid.
He constantly calls Obama a Marxist, which is clearly not true. He called the health care bill socialist, which is stupid since it had no public option.
In the same year, Beck said both: "no matter how hard the health care system tries to keep you down, I'm back," and later said "America has the best health care system in the world."
He accuses the Obama administration of systematically stripping free speech when he was talking about some garbage political group in 2008 who were attacking Obama. It's just absurd.
7/11/2007: Beck says that animal gas produces more co2 than cars or coal power plants. That's not a half-truth, that's just a lie.
10/26/2009: Beck says that net neutrality is the code name the liberals give to allowing Obama to take over the control of information. I'm assuming that I don't have to explain how stupid that claim is.
9/9/2008: Beck says that the truthers want to destroy America. Do you believe that?
1/12/2009: Beck says that "almost everyone who believes in global warming is a socialist." Uh.... ok....
Ok, I'll stop there but just finish this up with a few examples and an explanation of what I'm saying. Beck tells us that Democrats are all socialists. He says Obama is trying to destroy America. He says that global warming doesn't exist. He says that people who don't buy health insurance will go to jail. He told Fox News viewers that secret internment camps might exist in America... he can't
disprove it. He says that there are fewer poor people in the United States than there were 30 years ago... but then he says that we have the worst problem with unemployment since the Great Depression. Whatever he says isn't said as a journalist -- it's simply to take the facts and skew them in order to make a point.
Like when Beck got
called out for lying on the View. He said that seats on a train were improperly set aside for Barbara Walters and Whoopi Goldberg. It was a complete lie that he made up because it illustrated a point. That's just what he does.
I think my criticism of Beck has been very fair and I think I've done more than an adequate job backing up my opinion. And if you think that being fair and specific equates with faux-intellectualism, that speaks volumes about why you would excuse Beck's liberal standard of factual reporting.
