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?
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