Posted on 09/09/2009 10:51:26 AM PDT by nickcarraway
"Glenn Beck 1990" is an exercise in the politics of retribution - a spoof of Glenn Beck's outrageous assertions and obfuscations - an Internet meme engineered by those seeking justice - a theater of the absurd.
"Glenn Beck 1990" is short for "Glenn Beck raped and murdered a girl in 1990", a web site dedicated to tracking the meme questioning Glenn Beck's guilt in 1990. Glenn Beck is not pleased, and is taking legal action against the website tracking the meme.
tech dirt reports:
It turns out that Glenn Beck isn't happy about this either. He's filed a domain name dispute over the domain name, claiming that it violates his trademark.
The Internet meme apparently began with a question on Fark: "Why haven't we had an official response to the rumor that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a girl in 1990?" The idea, which seems plain to many involved, is not to actually suggest that Glenn Beck did such a thing -- but to highlight this tactic of making a totally bogus rumor into "news" by stating it, and wondering why there hasn't been a denial. A bunch of folks have picked up on this claim and run with it (apparently greatly upsetting some loyal Beck fans), turning it into one of those Internet memes with legs.
Associated Content reports:
But lately, Glenn Beck's brand of rabble-rousing rhetoric and baseless inflammatory theories have begun to be aggressively met and countered. Like when Color of Change went after him for labeling President Obama a racist on the Fox News show "Fox and Friends."
Last week this Examiner was one of the first reporting on the story:
In a fast moving, developing story, shocking allegations have come to light that Glenn Beck is responsible for the rape and murder of a girl in 1990. Are these allegations true? Is Beck guilty? Various websites are offering conflicting points of view. Some claim it is a hoax. Many are suspicious because Beck has remained silent on the matter.
The topic is setting the blogosphere on fire, and threatens to go viral.
Questions remain. While Beck has issued no formal response, he is apparently taking legal action against the web site. Beck is not claiming defamation, nor libel, but a trademark violation. It looks like the story is not ending.
Indeed, perhaps it is just the end of the beginning, as we go down the strange rabbit hole that is Glenn Beck, in search of the politics of retribution.
Lower than scum.
Maybe this is the people who are going to go to jail he was talking about. I hope they do.
It won’t work. :)
Prayers for Glenn.
Glenn Beck 1, GB Haters 0.
Van Jones is gone, gone, gone and there was plenty of evidence - besides, Barack Obama threw Van Jones under the bus.
This is what Sarah Palin has taken to doing too. Don’t get into a “did!” “didn’t!” fest on the MSM’s own ground, just quietly go to court with facts.
“Lower than scum.”
Is it true Arianna Huffington turned her first husband gay? I never saw a denial.
to be expected....one by one the czars will go down and these kind of people are experts at what they do. I expect it will get worse before it gets better. Like Glenn said, Van Jones (and the others) will be more dangerous AFTER they go into the shadows.
When you’re as desperate as the Democrats have become, you can choose one of two options:
1) Accept responsibility, learn from you mistakes, and not repeat them.
2) Close your eyes, stick your fingers in your ears, and repeat “I can’t hear you.”
I think they’re mistaking him for one of the Kennedys.
I thought Barack Obama was supposed to be putting an END to the politics of personal destruction.
Why doesn’t he decry these actions where the Left is Acting Stupidly?
WTF?
Destroy the internet by deliberately injecting dirt. You will snag a few conservatives this way too who will start demanding that “someone do something” about these grotesque lies.
Actually obama treated van jones like a fly and dispensed of him.........Publicly.
In reality van jones will continue his work and be payed through John Podestas foundation. van jones is more dangerous behind the scenes than in the spotlight, so we will have to try and trail him and his work.
The media calls those following Birth Certificate conspiracy theories Birthers but ignored the entire 911 Truther movement, the national guard memo hoax, and will not come up with a smear term for those pushing the GlennBeck1990 meme.
He only means the GOP and conservatives should neuter themselves. Rats? Oh that’s a different story.
Sue the crap out of them, Glenn. And then sue them some more.
When did the entire Democrat Party (with the exception of Barney Frank) stop beating their wives? I haven’t seen any denials.
Beckers?
I stand with Glenn Beck. You commies can take your descriptions of Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy and stuff them straight up your asses.
After what they did to Sarah Palin and family we should not expect this sort of activity from them?
The Leftists that comprise the Democrat Party of today are the lot Father and Mother always told us to stay away from. They are the ones the Defense Attorneys claim as “bad influence” that victimized their clients for lesser sentences. They are the Leftist/Democrat Politicians that campaign with Conservative promises only to break into Socialist cadence once elected.
They are the very people we DON’T need across the aisle to reach out to, but the very people we need to ensure never see the lights of the inside of a government office anymore than we would let them see the inside of our homes for fear of what they would steal.
As the Left is pointing out, it is “dirty politics” to quote liberals when they are speaking to their base.
To count in Barney Frank, make it “wives or same sex live-ins.” For some it may be “wives AND same sex live-ins.”
I don’t care how much I get slammed for saying this, I am saying it anyway...some of the lowlife people that are in politics and on the fringe of politics now, do not deserve to live on this earth and try to destroy innocent people to farther their insane liberal views! They are evil, they are heartless and they are without a conscience!
Sick are the comments made here:
http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4608536&IDComment=54042337#c54042337
And while I’d like to see this entire situation go ignored, I also hope that these people are who Beck was referring to when he said folks are going to jail.
Wow, these idiots deserve what’s coming to them. NO QUARTER GIVEN, GLENN!
I followed a link to another board and found that a guy did a lot of research on this website, and it’s being apparently run by just one dude out of his parents’ house in FLA. So, the effect is that this guy has nothing to lose to civil action. He’s already, apparently, a known loser in life. If he’s a true believer, what a perfect tool the left has found, promote libelous, untrue rumors with little or no risk to anyone.
The Portland Progressive Examiner? Seriously? How does anyone even find this sh*t? Another tenth-rate urbanite freebie sponsored by porn shops and strip clubs, no doubt.
Michael Huffington divorced Arianna and is now gay. I doubt she did that.
He was a candidate for the senate in CA several years ago and Arrianna was responsible for a lot of negative publicity that hurt him. Looking back, it could have been intentional.
I had friends who knew him and thought he was a jerk but nowhere near as bad as she is.
His father, Roy Huffington, was a John Wayne in looks and thought...a conservative. I had the pleasure of meeting him...was a nice man. He was worth a couple of billion $$...oil and gas. At the age of 90+, he died last year in Venice...on vacation.
These “Rapers” are pretty twisted people. Glen must be hitting the right buttons to get the lefty’s upset enough to start lies about him. I hope Glen is taking the Rapers to court.
Media whores. May the bleeding piles torment them and bunions go on their feet.
YAAAAAWN!
Is this the best revenge Van Jones can do?Palpably laughable bad fiction about raping and murdering non existent children?
Sucker's even more stupid than I thought.
Didn’t Barney pimp his “wives” out of his apartment?
We need a central place where the names and home addresses of these scum can be posted.
If anyone brings this up to me I am going to tell them that they got it all wrong, the year was 1969 and the man was Teddy Kennedy and yes, I am angry that he got away with it too.
Leftists/collectivists are RUTHLESS.
We should understand that if we try to play by Queensbury rules,
we’re going to get a faceful of dirt.
I don’t care how much I get slammed for saying this, I am saying it anyway...some of the lowlife people that are in politics and on the fringe of politics now, do not deserve to live on this earth and try to destroy innocent people to farther their insane liberal views! They are evil, they are heartless and they are without a conscience!
It's not a rumor, as they state flat out, they made it up as a supposed comparison that will not fly. This falls under the defamation/libel side of the page, and may well be categorized as an attempt to quash Glenn's First Amendment rights. He stands on solid ground; they do not.
That website offers a disclaimer at the very bottom, in tiny little print. Evidently, having lawyers after them forced them to admit this is all a pathetic joke. “Notice: This site is parody/satire. We assume Glenn Beck did not rape and murder a young girl in 1990, although we haven’t yet seen proof that he didn’t. But we think Glenn Beck definitely uses tactics like this to spread lies and misinformation.
Read the last sentence again. That’s the point. Read it a third time and ignore the name of the site itself, because anyone who believes that we’re trying to actually get people to believe Glenn Beck raped and/or murdered is *whoosh* missing the entire point. So don’t be dumb like a lot of people are. I greatly expanded this text because so many people *read* it, and *still* didn’t understand.”
This monstrosity is hosted by eNom hosting services (http://www.enom.com). In the event that you or anyone you know does business with them, I would terminate my business relationship with them, and let them know why.
That website offers a disclaimer at the very bottom, in tiny little print. Evidently, having lawyers after them forced them to admit this is all a pathetic joke. “Notice: This site is parody/satire. We assume Glenn Beck did not rape and murder a young girl in 1990, although we haven’t yet seen proof that he didn’t. But we think Glenn Beck definitely uses tactics like this to spread lies and misinformation.
Read the last sentence again. That’s the point. Read it a third time and ignore the name of the site itself, because anyone who believes that we’re trying to actually get people to believe Glenn Beck raped and/or murdered is *whoosh* missing the entire point. So don’t be dumb like a lot of people are. I greatly expanded this text because so many people *read* it, and *still* didn’t understand.”
Is it true Arianna Huffington turned her first husband gay? I never saw a denial.
well that’s because in this case it’s true ......
laughing.
It’s not true; but what is true is their own President Bill Clinton actually raped a woman; possibly more. Where is his punishment. Their very own Ted Kennedy left a woman to drown to save his worthless hide. He was never punished during his lifetime.
What screwed up people.
:Didn’t Barney pimp his “wives” out of his apartment?”
Well, yes, they were his boyfriends actually.
I'm not a lawyer, but I believe anyone complicit in promoting defamation/libel is also liable for suit. If an actual lawyer/attorney/judge can post opinion here, that would be appreciated.
just for fun, some one should go to one of those sites and all full of righteous indignation yell “beck did not rape and murder my daughter, he saved her from being raped and murdered by a maniacal pedophile. get the facts straight. you people should be ashamed of yourselves.”
Perhaps if he was using an internet connection in his mom’s basement, and she was paying for it,
she and he could lose the house to a libel action?
Hate to get that vicious, but the leftists are requiring it.
I think any man would turn gay after being married to Arianna.
Read the last sentence again. That’s the point. Read it a third time and ignore the name of the site itself, because anyone who believes that we’re trying to actually get people to believe Glenn Beck raped and/or murdered is *whoosh* missing the entire point. So don’t be dumb like a lot of people are. I greatly expanded this text because so many people *read* it, and *still* didn’t understand.”
I was typing as you posted, just read this -- I do not think this is enough to allow them an out, regardless the size of the font used. This shows intent, knowledge aforethought, as I just wrote, I'm not a lawyer but as a layperson, this looks to me more like an admission rather than a disclaimer. If so, if this actually does hang 'em, how stupid is that, eh?
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