Originally Posted by djplong

Tells the truth? Ok, I'm sure he *does* tell the truth a lot on his show - but I certainly wouldn't take his word as gospel. For example:

Beck has said or implied that White House special adviser Van Jones went to prison for taking part in the Rodney King riots. Van has never served time in any prison. He has never been convicted of any crime. Van was not even in Los Angeles during the riots.

During the February 12, 2009 edition of his Fox News program, Glenn Beck aired an on-screen graphic with the headline, "THEN ... WAGNER ACT," which falsely asserted that if 30 percent of employees want a union, "it gets established." The "30 percent" is from the TAFT-HARTLEY Act that says if 30% want a union, it means an ELECTION must be held. Is this more of Glenn Beck's not knowing what his staff is putting on the screen? (Like his recent 9/12 video faux-pas)

How about 6 days later? From Fox's transcript:


Try $55/hr in wages and benefits, Glenn. When questioned about it, Beck later said that he saw it "come across my desk the other day."

On April 13th he claimed that the Iowa Supreme Court ruling that struck down a stat ban on same-sex marriage "is actually about going into churches and going in and attacking churches and saying you can't teach anything else." Of course, the fact that the Court explicitly stated that constitutional principles "require that the state recognize both opposite-sex and same-sex civil marriage. Religious doctrine and views contrary to this principle of law are unaffected." doesn't seem to have made it to his desk.

On July 20th, he said the Air Force spent $1.4M to "repair a door". The fact that it was a HANGAR door and that the $1.4M was for more than just that ($1.2M to replace gas mains and $246,100 for the hangar door) didn't seem to matter.

On August 14th, he reiterated that Sarah Palin was "right" about the "deather part of this bill" - regardless of how much the "death panels" rhetoric had already been disproven.

On August 26th he said that OMB director Pete Orszag was a 'czar' who didn't go through any confirmation process when, in fact, he did. On 1/13/09 he testified befor ethe Senat Budget Committe and on 1/20 he was confirmed by UNANIMOUS consent.

January 30th of this year, he mocks "BARF" - a government acronym for "Bad Asset relief Fund". Trouble is, it doesn't exist. I'll give him a bit of a slide because he may have gotten it from Neil Cavuto.

He's MediaMatters.Org 2009 Misinformer of the Year.

Heck, just yesterday (2/3) he said Obama's 2011 budget proposal has 'magic money' coming from cap-and-trade when, according to people who've seen it, it does not.

Now here's the kicker - at heart, there are a lot of areas where I agree with the SOURCE of Beck's opinions - things like runaway government spending, decreasing personal responsibility in a "blame someone else" society. But I would NEVER want someone carrying my banner who was so EASILY picked apart.

He's just not careful. He seems to jump the gun in the eagerness to "get" someone. It really harms his credibility. Sure, he sounds great when he's preaching to the choir, but to others, he sounds like a moonbat!

He's an entertainer. He's certainly not a journalist. I mean, if I can find those examples in ONE SINGLE Google search...