Posted on 05/22/2016 2:47:07 PM PDT by Helicondelta
Ben Domenech, publisher of The Federalist, calls Glenn Beck and Erick Erickson “useful idiots” regarding their defense of Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
From The Federalist:
Glenn Beck and Erick Erickson have both written pieces in response to this week’s meeting with Facebook – Beck as someone who attended, Erick as someone who didn’t. Both suggest the same thing about the conservative relationship with Facebook: that criticizing the corporate entity for its obvious bias in its news curation is an act of hypocrisy and nothing more than a Jesse Jackson-style shakedown.
These are the complaints of useful idiots. They are stupid and both men should be ashamed at their dull-witted retromingency in making them.
Facebook is not being shaken down in any capacity. It is being criticized not as a corporation, but in its chosen role as a media entity. Facebook curates the news; it is a news source for the vast majority of Americans. It put its trending algorithm forward as a source of news, with the false impression given that it accurately represented the trending topics of the Facebook community. Instead, it warped these results according to their ideological framework and their biases to falsely represent the top stories of the day. This is a serious accusation and one Facebook has admitted to as a problem.
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My guess, like the politicians that do an about-face on their morality, bribed or blackmailed.
Glenn Beck went off the reservation YEARS ago. Mark Levin is the one who surprises mr.
You ‘n me both. Hint: Not good for use at parties!
If Beck is really pressed over this controversy, will he able to cry without his pre-performance dressing room props ??
Erickson is a fat faced fraud.
Beck, well he is just a loon.
Don’t forget Ben Domenech, once fired for plagiarism, is himself a “useful NeverTrump idiot” who has spent months spewing hate.
News has ceased to be serious, but has become entertainment. A troupe of men forever biting dogs to create spectacles.
This is one reason why Donald Trump has been able to ride high; he capitalizes on the entertainment bias of the media. This is all tempests in teapots. Don’t complain too much when fools get foolishness delivered to them.
Been using it at FR for a while.
Erick Ericson is a comic character.
Erickson was the person who popularized the word “beclowned.”
Beclown: Verb. To make a complete idiot of oneself in public. To behave or speak in such a way, or to make a comment or express an opinion that is so profoundly witless, senseless and obtuse, that you have forever after defined yourself as a person of comical value only. Never to be taken seriously again. Of worth only as an object of ridicule and derision.
Erickson has become the poster boy for his favorite word. He has literally beclowned himself.
It’s not easy being cheesy.
While I understand and appreciate the historical context, I prefer the term “useless idiots.”
Lol, Left Loon trying to pretend he’s any different...like people weren’t paying attention all this time.
Right!?! What a great word. Where has “retromingency” been all my life?
No foolin’!
Yep, the same “conservatives” that are angry with temerity of conservatives picking Trump as the Republican candidate.
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