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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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To: GunsAndBibles

You’re welcome.

>>they need to be posted often.

And thanks.


281 posted on 08/30/2010 9:10:50 PM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: kristinn
EXCELLENT WORK! :)

FYI: It's still up on his Twitter page:


282 posted on 08/30/2010 9:15:20 PM PDT by StarCMC (Sometimes you need a Jimmy Carter to get a Ronald Reagan.)
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To: kristinn

Way to go Freepers. Thank you! You look out for “the folks” better than Ted Baxtor’s alter ego at Fox News!


283 posted on 08/30/2010 9:19:54 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: kristinn

What a new low they reach. I remember Glenn Beck talking about drinking problems before he sobered up. At least he admitted to his problems and is now sober.


284 posted on 08/30/2010 9:43:10 PM PDT by Ptarmigan (Bunnies Are Worthy Of Death!)
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To: Lazamataz

LOL and you do it so well.


285 posted on 08/30/2010 9:44:27 PM PDT by swheats (America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law!)
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To: avacado
I see that as a contract for murder.

Which would not bother Mizzz Huffinpuff or any of her lefty friends one bit.

286 posted on 08/30/2010 10:18:50 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: avacado
I see that as a contract for murder.

Which would not bother Mizzz Huffinpuff or any of her lefty friends one bit.

287 posted on 08/30/2010 10:18:54 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: verga

Ten years at hard labor if I was the judge.


288 posted on 08/30/2010 10:29:31 PM PDT by upsdriver (ret.)
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To: kristinn
As quoted in this NY Observer article, Friedlander sent a copy of it to the New York Observer: http://www.observer.com/2010/100000-glenn-becks-sex-tape.
289 posted on 08/30/2010 11:35:42 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (In 2012: The Rookie and The Wookie get booted from the White House.)
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To: kristinn

You so totally rock, kristinn! Thank you!

EAGLES UP !!!


290 posted on 08/31/2010 12:38:05 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Remember November...I can see it from my house!)
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To: kristinn

Definitely ROCKING there, friend!


291 posted on 08/31/2010 2:50:03 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (The period from Election Day 2010--to the new Congress sworn in--will be one of extreme tyranny)
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To: manc

Glenn Beck:

First they ignore you.

Then they try to destroy you.

Then you win!


292 posted on 08/31/2010 5:18:12 AM PDT by Ronbo1948
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
The thing is, he's not the only one saying them or that can say them -- the fact of the matter is at the moment he has a public forum and is providing a useful service. This does not mean he is the only one in the whole of America who has the talent, ability and means to do so; people are getting too caught up in populism, it happens all the time. It's how dingy celebrities achieve serious office and then make a mockery of it, ie. Franken, to name but one.

John the Baptist was not the one to bring the people to God ... he was the voice in the wilderness announcing the coming of The One who would.

293 posted on 08/31/2010 5:55:17 AM PDT by MozarkDawg
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To: kristinn
Way to go! Keep the unAmerican scumbags at bay.

I'm not surprised, and yet I am... This "freedom of speech is only for Liberals" crap infuriates me.

294 posted on 08/31/2010 7:44:28 AM PDT by I'm ALL Right! (I love the Bill of Rights. Is that extremist?)
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To: kristinn

Glen Beck has highlighted this article on his new website.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/huffpo-pulls-glenn-beck-sex-tape-article/


295 posted on 08/31/2010 8:04:10 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: Jewbacca
"So, he was offering someone else’s money? Who?"

Soros' money, I'm sure.

296 posted on 08/31/2010 8:52:09 AM PDT by ronnyquest (There's a communist living in the White House! Now, what are you going to do about it?)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

10 hours later since you posted that link, and that article is STILL linked there at the NY Observer!


297 posted on 08/31/2010 9:16:02 AM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: BigSkyFreeper

That’s the lil’ problem Friedlander et al have. Articles like this tend to live on forever on the internet. It should come back to really bite them HARD in a court of law!


298 posted on 08/31/2010 9:19:45 AM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: randog
Is this a liberal thing, i.e. you have no street cred unless you have a “sex tape”...?

Mega LOLs!!

299 posted on 08/31/2010 10:05:04 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Government does nothing as economically as the private sector. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: kristinn

Thanks, Kristinn!

More and more the leftists getting more evil....what a horrid piece to put on the internet.

Those that does that every where, the internet, radio, and, TV Are vulgar group


300 posted on 08/31/2010 2:18:19 PM PDT by joyce11111
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