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Exposure by Free Republic Forces Huffington Post to Pull Article Threatening Glenn Beck
Monday, August 30, 2010 | Kristinn

Posted on 08/30/2010 9:12:45 AM PDT by kristinn

The Huffington Post has pulled an article published this morning targeting Glenn Beck with a $100,000 bounty after news of the threat was broken on Free Republic.

The article, titled $100,000 For Glenn Beck's Sex Tapes has been replaced with the following message:

Editor's Note: This piece was published directly to the Huffington Post by its author. It didn't meet our editorial standards and has been removed from the site.

The URL for the pulled article reflects the title: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/beau-friedlander/100000-for-glenn-becks-se_b_698724.html

The author of the threat, Beau Friedlander, is the former editor-in-chief of Air America.

Here is the text of Friedlander's call for information to destroy Beck:

It is time to pop the tea baggers' favorite balloon (so what if it will be replaced by another?), and with that in mind I hereby offer to negotiate a $100,000 payday to the person who will come forward with a sex tape or phone records or anything else that succeeds in removing Glenn Beck from the public eye forever. I am not offering the cash myself, but I will broker the deal and/or raise the money for what you bring to the table. (And it better be good.)

If you have the goods, or if you want to contribute to a slush fund to buy more takedowns (probably not tax deductible), please contact me at: glennbecksextape@gmail.com.

The Free Republic article was posted at 9:19 a.m. EDT, and was immediately picked up by several Tweeters and bloggers who used the Free Republic headline without attribution or just plain stole the article from FR.

The news about the Huffington Post threat reached critical mass when it was reported by Newsbusters.

Free Republic has proven yet again that its value in the conservative blogosphere even as FR enters its 14th year online next month.


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EAGLES UP !!!
1 posted on 08/30/2010 9:12:50 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn
" I hereby offer to negotiate a $100,000 payday to the person who will come forward with a sex tape or phone records or anything else that succeeds in removing Glenn Beck from the public eye forever."

I see that as a contract for murder. Beck should call the FBI, pronto!

2 posted on 08/30/2010 9:14:47 AM PDT by avacado
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To: kristinn

Great job kristinn.


3 posted on 08/30/2010 9:15:12 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, Call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: kristinn

Excellent! Congratulations! Job well done!


4 posted on 08/30/2010 9:15:24 AM PDT by mlizzy (Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee ...)
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To: kristinn

Good job kristinn!


5 posted on 08/30/2010 9:15:28 AM PDT by McGavin999 (I'm sorry, your race card is overdrawn and no further charges can be accepted)
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To: kristinn

Showing once again the value of information distribution and control. The other side does not control information flow any more.


6 posted on 08/30/2010 9:15:28 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: kristinn
As others have pointed out, the part where Beau Friedlander said:

"It is time to pop the tea baggers' favorite balloon (so what if it will be replaced by another?), and with that in mind I hereby offer to negotiate a $100,000 payday to the person who will come forward with a sex tape or phone records or anything else that succeeds in removing Glenn Beck from the public eye forever."

may be construed as a solicitation to assassination...

7 posted on 08/30/2010 9:15:34 AM PDT by an amused spectator (Islamic law upholds that children born to a Muslim father are automatically Muslim)
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It didn't meet our editorial standards

Poppycock! It was right up their alley.

8 posted on 08/30/2010 9:15:45 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: kristinn

His task wopuld be easier if he targeted Al Franken, IMO.


9 posted on 08/30/2010 9:15:57 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: kristinn

Is this kind of solicitation even legal?

Looks like an invitation to manufacture “evidence”.


10 posted on 08/30/2010 9:16:26 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: kristinn

Puffpost has lost its marbles.


11 posted on 08/30/2010 9:16:32 AM PDT by eleni121 (Thank you J-LO for canceling your Turk gig - decent human beings don't sing for rapist Muslim Turks)
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To: kristinn

hope Beck saved this and shows it tonight.

They the far left really are disgusting with their hate and lack of free speech, intolerance etc.

To them hatred and intolerance comes so easy but the way they cover it up is be calling others names what they are and then go on places like huff post and tell each other how they are so great and so right


12 posted on 08/30/2010 9:16:39 AM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: kristinn

I love how the writer makes it explicit to mention that he’s not putting up the money himself but he’ll facilitate getting the money collected. Typical leftist, he can’t even put out a bounty on someone’s head with his own money. He has to get someone else’s money to do it...


13 posted on 08/30/2010 9:16:39 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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WOOT!! Stick it to the little fascist bastards!


14 posted on 08/30/2010 9:17:08 AM PDT by Free Vulcan (No prisoners, no mercy. 2010 is here...)
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To: kristinn

Am I so out of the loop that it’s generally understood in certain circles that a person has a “sex tape” like he has a driver’s license? Is this a liberal thing, i.e. you have no street cred unless you have a “sex tape”...?


15 posted on 08/30/2010 9:17:40 AM PDT by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: manc

I hope he shows it too.


16 posted on 08/30/2010 9:17:50 AM PDT by netmilsmom (I am inyenzi on the Religion Forum)
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To: avacado

” I hereby offer to negotiate a $100,000 payday to the person “

So, he was offering someone else’s money? Who?

Or does the liberal think money just magically appears?

Either is equally likely.


17 posted on 08/30/2010 9:18:00 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: kristinn

Conservatives don’t need Beck or anyone else to hold our same values.

Do what you will commies!


18 posted on 08/30/2010 9:18:40 AM PDT by roses of sharon (I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13)
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To: kristinn

I will gladly contribute to a fund with a goal of $1M to the first person who produces a REAL birth certificate for the Dung Beetle in Chief.


19 posted on 08/30/2010 9:19:02 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: kristinn
So what's next for the loonie-lib-left-losers...a Wanted Dead or Alive Poster for Glenn Beck?
20 posted on 08/30/2010 9:19:17 AM PDT by moovova
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