Glenn Beck Smears Ron Paul With Half-Truths About Paul's Earmarks.

11/30/2011 | PhilipFreneau

[PhilipFreneau]

Glenn Beck Smears Ron Paul With Half-Truths About Paul's Earmarks.

Today on his radio show Glenn Beck and his staff declared that Ron Paul is the "earmark king", and labeled Paul a hypocrit. Beck correctly stated that Paul adds many earmarks to spending bills, and then votes against the spending bills. What Beck left out (either by deceit or by ignorance) is that earmarks do not increase the size of a budget. The money allocated for a budget is set by the Appropriations Committee prior to any allocation or earmark. All money not allocated or earmarked is not deleted from the budget, but rather is turned over the the executive branch to spend as it sees fit.

According to Wikipedia [re. Earmark], "Scott Frisch and Sean Kelly point out that directing money to particular purposes is a core constitutional function of Congress. If Congress does not make a specific allocation, the task falls to the executive branch; there is no guarantee that the allocation made by executive agencies will be superior to Congress's. Presidents and executive officials can use the allocation of spending to reward friends and punish enemies." They also warned the "Tea Party's Anti-Earmark Crusade Gives More Power to President Obama".

Those are important points. Unallocated money has no transparency, and therefore can be used by the President to reward friends and punish enemies, without public scrutiny. Therefore, by earmarking as much as he can, Ron Paul is increasing the transparency of government spending. Until the Congress passes a law that requires all unallocated money to be deleted from the budget and returned to the Treasury, Congressman Paul is doing all he can do to increase the transparency of federal expenditures.

Glenn Beck is constantly preaching to us about the importance of (honorable) character. Maybe Beck should practice what he preaches.

[SaxxonWoods]

Yes, Gingrich is using half-truths.

Just yesterday he said, “That Ron Paul is half-crazy.”

*ba-dump-bump*

[bushpilot1]

NuBLAC Inc & Texas Southwest
Gulf Coast Regional Chapter of NAN Executives attend
 National Action Network
Summer Conference at Hyatt Hotel in
Atlanta, Georgia August 13th-15th 2009

Thanks to Ron Paul...they can stay at the Hyatt

[bushpilot1]

NAN Executives and NuBlac executives stay at the Hyatt in Atlanta.

Thanks Ron Paul..how much taxpayer is he funneling to NuBlac???

NAN is Al Sharpton.

[bushpilot1]

NAN Executives and NuBlac executives stay at the Hyatt in Atlanta.

Thanks Ron Paul..how much taxpayer funds is he funneling to NuBlac???

NAN is Al Sharpton.

[Kirkwood]

A troll is someone who stirs up trouble on a forum, which is what you’re trying to do. Trolling has nothing to do with how long you’ve been here.

[bushpilot1]

hey were are u going..is Ron Paul payin ur fishin trip with taxpayers money??

[bushpilot1]

Who is that racist black guy with the beard..supposed to be a college professor..he’s on tv sometimes spouting his racist views.

He’s affiliated with NuBlac....the organization Ron Paul has earmarked.

[buccaneer81]

I think that’s Cornel West.

[Optimist]

So, after a hundred posts we are left with:

RP sets earmarks to have better control over the budget,
RP sets aside a significant number of earmarks compared to others in Congress,
RP votes against the budgets that he gets his earmarks from,
and RP claims superiority in fiscal issues by waving his refusal to sign onto the budget he makes sure he will benefit from.
I missed that part in the constitution that advocated Congressional earmarking.

So, how did you put it?
Oh yeah ...
“A half-truth is a lie.”
I guess that makes RP a liar

[bushpilot1]

yeah the pics match..

[bushpilot1]

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/05/prweb2438344.htm

[AlmaKing]

Beck smeared Cain today and yesterday over unproven allegations. Beck believes Cain is entirely guilty based only on allegations. I see that as a smear.

[rbmillerjr]

For all of you Ron Paul fans...

If he runs as a Third Party candidate ....will you hand the election to Obama?

[VA Voter]

The problem with Ron Paul is that some of what he says sounds really good and the rest about fiat money and the Fed is loony tunes.

[John D]

Paul is a true conservative.

Cut and Run a conservative? LOL!!! Conservatives do not blame America for every problem in the world. They do not endorse OWS. They do not think appeasing our enemies should be the backbone of our foreign policy. Conservatives do not go on and on about the problems of earmarks, but then stuff every bill with as many as possible. Conservatives are more honest than that.

[John D]

Beck is a liar when he points out that the surrender monkey is the earmark king, but Cut and run is honest when he stuffs as many bills with as many earmarks as possible and says he voted against them anyway???

Only in a paulbots programmed mind.
If Paul was honest and was actually against earmarks he would not put them in bills he did not want passed. He would fight against the bill. But in all the time he has been in Washington he has NEVER accomplished a thing, except acquiring earmarks.

[Erik Latranyi]

Ron Paul’s foreign policy position towards Iran mirrors Europe’s foreign policy position towards Hitler.

[tacticalogic]

If he runs as a Third Party candidate ....will you hand the election to Obama?

If the Republicans nominate Romney, will he get your vote?

[humblegunner]

The Perrybots get a pass,
even after directly
disrespecting Jim.

This place is going downhill fast.
It needs to stop. Why?
After 11 years here I want to know why.