Did Glenn Beck rape & murder a girl in 1990? I'm just asking questions [new meme]

Oh gosh...don't suggest that. That just opens up questions regarding whether or not the aliens that dropped them off had a valid visa or not.

 

I have heard similar rumors, and despite my careful research reading things distant relatives forward me in emails, I too cannot confirm or deny them. Thus, the question must bear asking.

However, is it true that Glenn Beck still wears a Hitler mustache, to this very day? That he's always worn one, and feels naked without it? Only, because of the morals clauses in his Fox contract, I must ask, does he indeed prefer to wear it in a place on his body traditionally uncovered by the liberal media? I'm not saying this is true. There's no proof to any of it. But, is it not a fact that only he and his agent (and, for purposes of this anecdote, his chubby-chasing pedophiliac gay lover / bikini waxer) know for sure?

Dunning-Kruger put out a paper a few years ago on the pervasive nature of ignorance, summarized by Wikipedia here, which I believe can be applied to wider aspects of knowledge/belief:

We are a nation of 12-percenters, who think that instead of putting in the work actually reading US histories or even the daily newspaper, we can instead have 62-percent knowledge of the world around us by pulling up the la-z-boy and listening to Glenn Beck draw the obvious parallels between healthcare for the uninsured and Mengele's experiments on Jewish twins. I mean, duh, that ---- is a no-brainer.

Which reminds me of one of my favorite lines, excerpted from Yeats' "The Second Coming":

 

How would you react to dreaming about guys like this walking all over the country, getting on the media, drawing attention, making a nuisance of themselves, weeping on Fox News, and distracting the country from the important issues of the day? It's a cross I must bear, a relic of my past. Electric sheep are the least of my worries.




Someone has to think about these things!

 

I have yet to see any evidence exonerating Beck of these allegations, nor has he categorically denied them.

TELLING

 

I'm hearing a lot about this on the internet, and this rape/murder scenario sounds convincing. Some say it's true, and some people say it's false. That's usually how papers report the news. So, given that, why hasn't the mainstream media covered this issue?

I think it's because internet reports of Glenn Beck's rape/murder are too fragmented. They appear to conflict with one another: some say the rape-murder victim was an intern, some say an airline stewardess, some even say it was his own mother, during the time he spent as a rundown motel manager.

Spoiler

(This apparent contradiciton only bolsters the notion that the rumors are true. Everyone knows police detectives never believe eyewitnesses who tell stories that are exactly the same. That's always evidence of a cover-up.)

We still haven't gotten any mainstream coverage, I think, because we have no spokesman to explain it to everyone else.

Where is our leadership on this issue? Where, in short, is our own Glenn Beck-style investigate reporter to report on the tv about this very important issue, the potential rape/murder committed by the actual Glenn Beck?

Where is the person who will speak for us, who will get on the tv and get down to the bottom of this? Where is our Orly Taitz?

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Update; hope it hasn't been posted. (nothing below this is mine; i just had some issues with formatting) p.s. I love the lawyer

http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2009/10/beck_tries_to_kill_parody_webs.php

Beck Tries to Kill Parody Website

I don't know if you've ever seen the Did Glenn Beck Rape and Murder a Young Girl in 1990 website, but it's fairly amusing. It's a political satire of the style of argument Glenn Beck likes to engage in, which involves requiring that someone prove a negative ("prove you didn't do X") and making claims in the form of an interrogative ("Hey, I'm just asking questions here. I'm not saying he did this. What's wrong with asking questions?").

Well now Beck is trying to kill the site by making a formal complaint (PDF) to an international internet governing body, the World Intellectual Property Organization. He wants the domain name taken away from the person who registered it.

Why would he do that rather than file, say, a libel suit? Because he knows he would lose a libel suit. He is a public figure and the site is clearly satirical. Under precedents like Falwell v Flynt, it is virtually impossible to win such a suit. The attorney for the site owner, Marc Randazza, has filed a response brief (PDF) that is hilarious in its attack on Beck's thin-skinned and legally dubious argument. For instance, on the notion that someone might think the site was serious or that it was affiliated with Beck himself, he responds:

There is no indication that the Respondent has intentionally attempted to confuse anyone searching for Mr. Beck's own website, nor that anyone was unintentionally confused - even initially. Only an abject imbecile could believe that the domain name would have any connection to the Complainant. We are not here because the domain name could cause confusion. We do not have a declaration from the president of the international association of imbeciles that his members are blankly staring at the Respondent's website wondering "where did all the race baiting content go?" We are here because Mr. Beck wants Respondent's website shut down. He wants it shut down because Respondent's website makes a poignant and accurate satirical critique of Mr. Beck by parodying Beck's very rhetorical style. Beck's skin is too thin to take the criticism, so he wants the site down. Beck is represented by a learned and respected legal team. Accordingly, it is beyond doubt that his counsel advised him that under the First Amendment to the United States' Constitution, no action in a U.S. Court would be successful. Accordingly, Beck is attempting to use this transnational body to circumvent and subvert the Respondent's constitutional rights.

That's brilliant. I like this lawyer. He also includes examples of Beck using exactly the same rhetorical techniques. For example, in questioning Muslim legislator Keith Ellison, Beck said:

"No offense and I know Muslims, I like Muslims, I've been to mosques, I really don't think Islam is a religion of evil. I think it's being hijacked, quite frankly. With that being said, you are a Democrat. You are saying let's cut and run. And I have to tell you, I have been nervous about this interview because what I feel like saying is, sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies. And I know you're not. I'm not accusing you of being an enemy. But that's the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way."

And an analog from the website in question:

"Why won't Glenn Beck deny these allegations? We're not accusing Glenn Beck of raping and murdering a young girl in 1990 -- in fact, we think he didn't! But we can't help but wonder, since he has failed to deny these horrible allegations. Why won't he deny that he raped and killed a young girl in 1990?"

Randazzo says that the owner of the website "has merely presented Mr. Beck with a mirror. If Beck does not like what he sees, the Respondent is not to blame." Seems reasonable to me.