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Meet kinder, gentler Glenn Beck: New 'global warming' believer
WorldNetDaily ^ | 2/23/10 | MediaMatters

Posted on 02/23/2010 7:15:43 AM PST by OneVike



While polls show more people drifting away from acceptance of "global warming," the newest superstar among conservatives – Glenn Beck – is embracing it.

"You'd be an idiot not to notice the temperature change," he says.

He also thinks it could be caused partly by man's activity.

At home, he's going green by using energy-saving products.

"I'm willing to do anything but use the CFLs," he says of compact fluorescent light bulbs. "I put them in once and couldn't stand the way they lit up the room."

The kinder, gentler, greener and warmer side of Beck, known as a firebrand conservative, came to light in an interview in USA Weekend.

Beck also has lots of friends on the other side of the political spectrum, he reveals. He calls George Clooney "a good, honest man." Beck says the two of them had an extended conversation about the genocide in Darfur.

"We came to an immediate, completely wholehearted agreement about the situation," Beck says. "That is, to put aside the politics and give troops what they need to protect people over there. He's a good, honest man who believes passionately about doing something about it."

Beck's personal publicist, Matt Hiltzik, is a Democratic power player who helped get Hillary Rodham Clinton elected to the U.S. Senate, says the magazine report.

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KEYWORDS: duplicate; georgeclooney; glennbeck; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; liberalism; matthiltzik; usefulidiot; wolfinsheepsclothing
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To: editor-surveyor

I was simply trying to get a few facts out about GoreBull Warming, given that there is so much BS and misinformation out there about it. Besides the info was more intended for later reference, not to necessarily read on the spot. The article at the top clearly refers to Beck’s view on the subject.

Thanks for the nice words on the compilation. I’ll try to shrink the graphics so not to cause unnecessarily long download times for dial-ups.


121 posted on 02/23/2010 8:55:38 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Americanexpat

I’m convinced it’s the Mormon thing. Islamists are treated better around here.


122 posted on 02/23/2010 8:55:52 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: Las Vegas Ron
I don't doubt his sincerity, I've shed a few tears for our Country lately too, in fact I hope that we can survive.

I hear you. :),

or should I say :(

123 posted on 02/23/2010 8:57:16 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL
"And which other prominent conservative talk show host comes close to his ability to get the facts out about the revolutionary communists now running our country?"

But he really doesn't do that. And comparing him to Hannity and BOR is surely faint praise!

124 posted on 02/23/2010 8:58:17 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Democracy, the vilest form of government, pits the greed of an angry mob vs. the rights of a man)
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To: Dead Corpse

Which may be where you fail.


125 posted on 02/23/2010 8:58:56 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Democracy, the vilest form of government, pits the greed of an angry mob vs. the rights of a man)
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To: editor-surveyor
I have never heard Glenn Beck even once proclaim that he favored a third party in the United States or that he believed in global warming and wanted the government involved with climate change. I'd be appreciative if anyone here might supply a direct quote to either effect. I'll wager you cannot.
126 posted on 02/23/2010 8:58:57 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: capt. norm

I believe George Bush has gotten a little teary eyed in public a couple of times as well.


127 posted on 02/23/2010 8:59:33 AM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin!)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

Here’s the one topic I cited, in fact:

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/01/atlas-exclusive-obama-organizing-for-communism-and-youth-corps-in-the-public-school-1.html

Now, go back and look at what he presented on TV the following week....WITHOUT ATTRIBUTION.

There are names and anything else you want to know, right there. And there is an additional update a day or so later, if I remember correctly.

Glenn Beck blatantly stole her story. Period. This is the reason that NO bloggers stick up for him. He steals their hard work. It’s no accident that GB has no friends in the blogosphere. His “fans” want to believe they don’t mention him because they are jealous of him. No, it’s because he takes the independent research and “scoops” of others and presents them as his own. The only reason they aren’t going after him now is because he is BIG and serving their purpose; he’s providing entertainment.

GB is not a traditional conservative. That is the point here....he is not self-reliant. Most days, he is a common thief, stealing the intellectual property of others. That’s what I am saying. That said, the one thing his staff did research, which was the whole Mao, Lenin, Marx etc thing, was well done. He’s entitled to take credit for that and should.

But when I see his show each day, most stuff I already knew. Because he’s grabbed it from others.

Sorry, hon.


128 posted on 02/23/2010 8:59:35 AM PST by Daisyjane69 (Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
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To: ETL

Thanks. It underlines the poor dopeness of it all. Things have been warming up since the mini ice age (recently) and since the last glacial period in the more distant past, but even the peak warmth of this interglacial is the coolest of the past five interglacials including the one we’re in.


129 posted on 02/23/2010 8:59:37 AM PST by aruanan
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To: editor-surveyor
Beck is a loon, and a true Useful Idiot.

In the meantime, he's getting a ton of critical facts out about the revolutionary communists now running our country.

130 posted on 02/23/2010 9:00:43 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: editor-surveyor
"This was debunked twice yesterday."

Uhh, no, not to the intelligent.

And, in your case, people who will only accept as truth, the things they happen to agree with, facts be damned.

"not to the intelligent"

I see you belong to the "learned elite" who are above all this, like the liberals and Rockefeller Republicans.

Your views are so stiff and hardened that no amount of information to the contrary can change your mind.

I sure hope I never get that way.

131 posted on 02/23/2010 9:02:22 AM PST by capt. norm (Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.)
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To: editor-surveyor

It’s no hit piece, don’t be a useful idiot!

My, my, such a well thought out, constructive comment...back at you...with a question, whose useful idiot are you?


132 posted on 02/23/2010 9:03:07 AM PST by cva41
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To: OneVike
Hey glen, we are having a lot of gore bull warming piling up in central Texas today!
133 posted on 02/23/2010 9:03:48 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (Hey zero, It is NOT Bush's fault anymore.)
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To: editor-surveyor
Re: "And which other prominent conservative talk show host comes close to his ability to get the facts out about the revolutionary communists now running our country?"

But he really doesn't do that.

Are you serious? OF COURSE he does! He names names, puts up straight-from-the-horses-ass quotes, makes connections left and right, on and on...

134 posted on 02/23/2010 9:04:35 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: OneVike
" I know that WND can stretch the facts to fit their purpose at times."

Usually an opinion expressed by non-Christians, and statists.

" So if Farah is a supporter of Romney as some have said and Farah is hitting back for Becks criticism of Romney..."

Surely you know that's nonsense! The only time Joe has said anything in any way positive about Romney was during the 2008 election when all the acceptable candidates had dropped out, and he was the best remaining choice to beat Obama.

135 posted on 02/23/2010 9:05:16 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Democracy, the vilest form of government, pits the greed of an angry mob vs. the rights of a man)
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To: editor-surveyor
Beck is a loon, and a true Useful Idiot.

That's your opinion and your entitled to it, I disagree.

Useful idiots was a term coined by Lenin for those who were fooled by his lies, I've yet to hear Glenn lie.

Outing communists and maoist from this administration is hardly being a useful idiot or a loon.

You cannot deny his theories are backed by a lot of facts and history, it's up to you if you choose not to listen.

Patton was considered loony when he wanted to invade Russia and so was Churchill in his time, history show they were right.

136 posted on 02/23/2010 9:06:18 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Because without America, there is no free world" - Canada Free Press - MSM where are you?)
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To: editor-surveyor
I'm not the one running around claiming that someone who has done several tv and radio shows debunking global warming is now an adherent.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. One heavily parsed and edited interview 2-3 times removed is not in any way "extraordinary".

137 posted on 02/23/2010 9:08:28 AM PST by Dead Corpse (III, Oathkeeper)
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To: ETL

Unfortunately the Alex Jones, Rev Manning listening crowd aren’t rational people and frankly don’t really care about telling the truth.

Just last night one of them said they didn’t really care if it was the truth or not because Beck had it coming to him for ridiculing the birthers.


138 posted on 02/23/2010 9:08:38 AM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin!)
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To: editor-surveyor
Beck is the “Divide and Conquer” star!

No, he's the "wake the other half up" star! :)

139 posted on 02/23/2010 9:08:51 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: andy58-in-nh
"I have never heard Glenn Beck even once proclaim that he favored a third party in the United States"

How many hundred times have you heard him say that the Republican party is an unacceptable choice, and is that not the same thing?

140 posted on 02/23/2010 9:11:36 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Democracy, the vilest form of government, pits the greed of an angry mob vs. the rights of a man)
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