Anyone who actually watched the presentation from Sheriff Joe Arpiao’s all-volunteer Cold Case Posse knows the truth about how much of a fraud Barack Obama is.
If we had an honest media, news as important as what Arpiao and his people presented would have demanded that ALL media– TV and radio included-cover his press conference live from start to finish. Those who watched the presentation also understand that if it had been nationally broadcast and the American people heard and saw the actual evidence, Obama would be gone by May.
Nevertheless, instead of reporting what Arpiao presented, the AP and others took the opportunity to attack Arpiao personally. Not surprisingly, the now toothless, feckless Glenn Beck pandered to the Left and joined the AP. He gave himself away by using their stock lie “Theories that the president’s birth certificate is fake have been widely discredited.”
Mr. Beck, isn’t it true that you didn’t have the nerve to simply report what Arpiao presented for fear that the media would label you (gulp) “a birther?” Do you actually think pandering to the Left will keep them from rolling you over the coals any chance they get?
By the way, when DID someone–anyone-rip apart the charges that Obama’s birth certificate is a fake? When DID that happen Mr. Beck? When did anyone make a point by point presentation supporting the authenticity of that obviously fake document? Who explained away the numerous problems in the document while we weren’t looking? That video must have escaped our view.
Furthermore, when did anyone stop laughing at the “silly birthers” long enough to refute the “obviously false assertion” that the Post Office only used four digit year stamps in 1980 when it stamped Obama’s Selective Service card? Please tell us so we can get the truth.
It’s not that I expected much more from you, Mr. Beck, because fear is a strong motivator, but a hero of mine once said something that fits well into your cowardly coverage on the Arpiao presentation. Abraham Lincoln said, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
Mr. Beck, you should have not even reported on the presentation rather than reminded people of the kind of coward you are and why so many fans have abandoned you.
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Amen!! I was posting all over yesterday. Beck’s followers Hammered him. 100% were outraged that he would take such an attitude. He proved himself a fool. So much for his “speak boldly”–he can take his “Restoring Love” and stick it where the sun don’t shine. He is a fraud. And this is coming from someone who bought his books, traveled to D.C. and subscribes to GBTV…..Goodby Glenn!!
Soooooooo,……………. Glenn is wrong big time on this …. That’s very bad, but give the guy a break…. He’s right most of the time…… … You guys ever been wrong about anything??…..He’s trying to right the “Big Wrong” that is this administration……….Very good video on FHU.com on People Pleasers, Friends of our Enemies…. check it out if you can…
I went to his site and was amazed. HIs supporters were 1000% negative to his comments. Beck is an entertainer only out for himself. It is important to remember that. But he really steped into it with his true followers. He is after the main stream now and is going to let all his loyal viewers go. WHY? I can’t truly understand unless it is simply fear of the obamanation.
But for me…the DNC fraud is way worse then the BC issue. Cheak this out: http://theobamafile.com/_opinion/DNCFraud.htm
I’ve talked to my brothers, sisters, relatives, whoever will listen, that this Obama farce is a grand conspiracy. And nobody listens or cares. No wonder we’re losing our country. Our own citizens across this once great nation don’t even give a shit!
Well, I’ll keep talking up a storm, I’ll keep telling people that the Democratic Party may as well be called the Unites States Socialist Party of America, the RINOs in the Republican Party are just as bad. Pelosi and Reid are felons, as is Barack Hussein Obama and Vice President Biden! This whole govt is illegal! This is why BHO can stick his middle finger at any judge in the land and ignore any subpoenas handed down. Just like AG Eric Holder is doing with Fast & Furious and the Issa Investigative Committee! Is everybody in govt on the take, in on it, or just flat out don’t care? Who knows.
Thank you Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Cold Case Posse for looking into this Obama fraud and telling the truth. If ever Obama is removed from office, I hope to hell that they go after the rest of the cockroaches in our govt. The only way to get our country back is to indict and hold accountable all the crooks and the aiders and abettors of this illegal administration. And that includes the MSM. Of all the people in our govt that are aiding and abetting Obama in his crimes, I hold special CONTEMPT for the MSM. They have committed treason on our country!
Thanks RichardM. If you haven’t done so yet, look up “The Battle of Athens – Tennessee” on Youtube. Patriots nationwide are quickly approaching the limits of their patience with this corrupt Administration. It seems that nothing we try to do legally has a chance of success. It may take a repeat of this little-known exercise in Patriotism to begin taking our country back and restoring it to “the Republic for which we stand”. Being willing to pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor is just as important now as it was over two centuries ago. Semper Fi.
Here’s several reports that have been verified and checked by myself and three other friends. One is from a Liberal site, but unfortunately because either side has the balls to report on their own people, we are left with what the other side might say, if it is checked…Give this to your family and friends, it helps..
This is from almost a years research, collecting a compilation of reports about Glenn, these come from very reputable authors from both the Moderate to fiscal Conservative.
08/01/2011
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Glenn Beck’s story is the fiction of a pathological liar
Previously on this Review, it has been pointed out that Glenn Beck makes many false claims. Many may be due to his ignorance of the facts, a characteristic that renders less talented individuals unqualified for a radio talk show, much less a program on a major “news” channel like Fox. Some of Beck’s false claims are provably lies, and some of those have been documented here, here and here. The following is being republished with permission of the author, Roger Fallihee, who spent time looking into Glenn Beck’s past; and it was originally published on Beck’s last day on Fox under the title “Glenn Beck’s legacy as a mean-spirited, pathological liar.” Fallihee is a screenwriter, project manager, blogger, peddler, father and husband.
Roger Fallihee
Fallihee
As Glenn Beck winds down his stormy and ultimately failed tenure as a FOX News gadfly, it’s important to understand his true legacy: Beck is a cruel and mean-spirited pathological liar who doesn’t hesitate to denigrate his own family in his insatiable quest for fame and fortune. [Emphasis added.]
Beck lied (and continues to lie) about the circumstances surrounding the death of his mother, the suicide of his brother-in-law, his alleged substance abuse problems, and his early days in radio. Why? Because Beck thrives on sharing the dark periods of his life, and if he has to embellish or fabricate the events in order to make his story more redemptive, then so be it. The bleak picture that Beck paints in his personal tale presents a narrative that owes infinitely more to the marketing and branding of “Glenn Beck Inc.” than it does to the truth.
Glenn Beck, on an almost daily basis, implores his audience to “tell the truth,” and the fact that his own bio is filled with exaggerations, half-truths, and outright lies doesn’t faze him. After all, this is a “man” who labeled his devout Catholic mother’s accidental drowning death a suicide, thereby accusing her of committing an unforgivable sin in the eyes of her beloved Church. Glenn Beck’s false account of the tragedy would seem to be the actual unforgivable sin, but in his fame-driven world, the end always justifies the means. If the memory of Mary Beck has to be destroyed so that her only son can sell more books, it’s a small price for Beck to pay.
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Mary Beck drowned on May 15, 1979 in the cold waters of Puget Sound, Washington. Beck (who was 15 at the time even though he continues to lie and say that he was 13) has said on countless occasions that she committed suicide. The Tacoma Police Department and U.S. Coast Guard investigations concluded that the drowning was accidental. This discrepancy has been widely reported in the past but since both of the witnesses to the drowning are dead, the veracity of Beck’s weepy claim of maternal suicide and abandonment have been largely unchallenged. But piecing together Beck’s own contradictory statements regarding his mother’s death, reveal solid evidence that he simply fabricated the story.
Lied about his mother’s death!
Addressing a separate family tragedy, Beck told a reporter from the Salt Lake City Deseret News that the suicide death of his brother (whom he referred to earlier and correctly as his brother-in-law and later as a stepbrother), in conjunction with the death of his mother, was a lethal double whammy that pushed the 15 year old future media icon over the edge and into a downward spiral of drug and alcohol abuse. The only problem with this story is that while based on a kernel of truth, it’s filled with cruel lies.
So when Glenn Beck tells his viewers that Woodrow Wilson was more evil than Josef Stalin and that Cass Sunstein is the most dangerous man in America should anyone believe him?
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For the 99.5% of Americans that wisely avoided The Glenn Beck Show, the Reader’s Digest version of his bio goes something like this:
Beck’s mother and brother-in-law took their own lives, sending the future media icon into a downward spiral of drug and alcohol abuse that would last for seventeen years. When he was a mere 15, the talented kid landed his first gig at a major radio station, KUBE in Seattle. But since he was too young to drive he would take the Greyhound Bus 90 miles one-way from Bellingham.
After high school he embarked on a vagabond journey that took him through the world of “Morning Zoo” radio in markets as small as Walla Walla, Washington and as large as Phoenix and Washington DC. According to Beck he was fired from nearly every job. All of this changed though when he found AA, the love of a good woman, and the Mormon Church. The rest, they say, is history.
This would indeed be a compelling story… if it was true..
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“Among other common lies, we have the silent lie — the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all”. Mark Twain, from his essay, “On the Decay of the Art of Lying.”
Glenn Beck is a master of the art of the “silent lie”… the lie of omission. On numerous occasions Beck has been given the opportunity to correct the record when it comes to the many fabrications that populate his biography, but he always chooses to let the lies stand.
In Beck’s mind, the actual story of the gifted young man from Mt. Vernon, Washington, lacks the pizzazz and drama of your classic tale of redemption.
Glenn Beck reveals that he’s a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, with the nonchalance of someone who told you that he just ate an orange.
Beck shares the most intimate and dark details of his past. He emotes. He chokes up. He weeps. He makes visceral connections with his devoted listeners. He presents himself as an “everyman,” (albeit an everyman who earns $32 million a year). He looks people in the eye and says, “I’m one of you.” But Beck’s not “one of you” unless you happen to be a pathological liar, who is perfectly willing to dishonor the memories of your own family in order to increase TV ratings and sell books.
By Beck’s own account he’s a man who suffered great tragedy as a kid, grew up living the life of a “hopeless alcoholic and drug addict” and now calls himself a “recovering scumbag.”
From the CNN program “Nancy Grace,” May 5, 2006:
GRACE: … But a lot of people don`t realize where you`re coming from with your life history, and I`m referring specifically to your mom and brother.
BECK: I mean, I`ve grown up — I`ve had a lot of experiences in my life. My mom committed suicide when I was 13; my brother has committed suicide. I`m an alcoholic in recovery, did drugs every day of my life for many, many years. I like to say I`m a work in progress, a recovering scumbag.
If he continues to tell this story Beck should consider dropping the word “recovering.”
The Death of Mary Beck
The facts behind Beck’s claim that his mother’s death was a suicide were first called into question by Alexander Zaitchik’s in an article that was published by Salon.com, on September 21, 2009. (Even though Beck continues to assert that he was 13 at the time of his mother’s death, he was 15).
Early one morning in May 1979, a 41-year-old divorcee named Mary Beck went boating in Washington’s Puget Sound. Her companions on the expedition were a retired papermaker named Orean Carrol, whose boat she helped launch near the Tacoma suburb of Puyallup, and Carrol’s pet dog. What happened next remains shrouded in morning mist, but among the crew, only the dog would survive the day.
The boat was recovered late that afternoon adrift near Vashon Island, just north of Tacoma. It was empty but for two wallets and the frightened animal. Mary Beck’s body was discovered floating fully clothed nearby. Carrol’s corpse washed ashore at the Vashon ferry terminal the following morning.
The county coroner found no evidence of violence on either body. Police investigators told Tacoma’s News Tribune that the double drowning appeared to be a classic man-overboard mishap — a failed rescue attempt in which both parties perished.
In a New York Times interview dated September 29, 2010, writer Mark Leibovich asked Beck how he knew that his mother’s death was a suicide. The slam-dunk answer that Beck should have given Leibovich is the same one that he told Rick Farrant of the Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette seven years earlier: “My mother left a suicide note next to the family’s Crock Pot.” A handwritten note is prima facie evidence of suicide. No other explanation is needed. Nothing he could say would be more persuasive than “my mother left a suicide note.”
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But Beck didn’t mention the existence of the suicide note to Leibovich. Instead he laid out a rambling, nonsensical, and unconvincing scenario that raised more questions than it answered.
“The man who drowned with her was that same abusive boyfriend, he said. Either the two of them jumped overboard at the same time, or Mary fell in and the Navy man jumped in to save her — and that was unlikely. Why? Beck said he been out on a boat with the boyfriend before, and the man preached to him never to jump in and save somebody who is drowning. It only endangers the would-be rescuer. Throw in a life preserver instead. Plus, the Navy man’s clothes were found neatly folded, along with his wallet and watch.”
How could Beck possibly know the sequence of events? He ignores the very real possibility that Mr. Carroll, when faced with the reality of his friend Mary Beck struggling in the cold waters of Puget Sound, ignored his own advice and dove in to save her. He also doesn’t consider the possibility that it was Carroll who fell into the water and Mary Beck dove in to save him. Beck’s claim that Carrol’s clothes were neatly folded and his wallet and watch were still in the boat, are puzzling non sequiturs.
The joint investigation, conducted by the Tacoma Police Department and the Coast Guard makes no mention of the suicide note. The note is not in the police file. On the day of Mary Beck’s death, the then 15 year old Glenn Beck told police officers that his “mother left to go fishing and never came home.” If a suicide note was subsequently discovered, Beck’s family never notified authorities. And if Beck knew of the note in 2003 why didn’t he mention it to the New York Times in 2010? It wasn’t true and he forgot his 2003 lie. If Mary Beck had written a suicide note, Glenn Beck would have remembered.
From GlennBeck.com, June 13, 2008.
“And I’m going to be real honest with you. My mom wasn’t mother of the year. My mother, my mother had real deep, deep problems. She was doing her best, but she left the family to deal with suicide when I was 13 years old.”
For Beck to say that “she left the family to deal with suicide” is another lie. Mary Beck didn’t leave her family. She left her husband. Big difference. She sought and was awarded custody of her two underage children, Michelle and Glenn, and moved with them to Puyallup, Washington after the divorce was final. She didn’t leave Glenn… in fact she went to court to keep him.
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“Tonight, I want to talk to you a little bit about the truth. It’s actually a pretty simple concept.”
Glenn Beck, August 10, 2010
In the interview with Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette, Beck revealed to journalist Rick Farrant that he had a brother-in-law who committed suicide during the same time period as Mary Beck’s death. However, in subsequent interviews and comments, Beck referred to the male suicide victim as his brother instead of his brother-in-law. To further confuse matters, the most widely reported versions of the event claim that the person was Beck’s stepbrother.
The process of determining exactly who the “male relative” was that took his own life severely challenged Beck’s assertion that “the truth is a pretty simple concept.”
The following version of events appears dozens of times in pieces written about Beck, including his “official” Wikipedia article and there is no evidence that Beck or his PR people have ever attempted to correct or clarify the conflicting record.
“After their mother’s death, Beck and his older sister moved to their father’s home in Bellingham, Washington, where Beck graduated from Sehome High School in June 1982. In the aftermath of his mother’s death and subsequent suicide of his stepbrother, Beck has said he used “Dr. Jack Daniel’s” to cope.”
In the Journal Gazette piece, Mr. Farrant wrote:
“But the same year he started in radio, his alcoholic mother, Mary, left a suicide note by the family’s crock pot and drowned herself in a bay near Tacoma.
Later, one brother-in-law would commit suicide in Wyoming and another would have a fatal heart attack in the same bay where Beck’s mother perished.
Beck, like his mother, became an alcoholic (and a drug user), burying his insecurities and anger over his mother’s death in copious amounts of Jack Daniels.”
Beck had discussed the death of his mother as far back as March 17, 2000 but the Journal Gazette interview may have been his first public reference to the suicide of his brother-in-law. Farrant’s article implies but does not explicitly state that the two events happened within a short time span.
On November 25, 2006, Glenn Beck spoke to Lynn Arave of the Deseret News (Salt Lake City). Arave wrote:
He (Beck) is a self-described reformed alcoholic and drug addict. And there’s more darkness in his past — his mother committed suicide when Beck was 13, and his brother also committed suicide.
In the aftermath of those two family tragedies, Beck said he used “Dr. Jack Daniels” to cope. That led to his alcoholism and drug use and also his divorce from his first wife.
In this piece, written three years after Farrant’s article, Beck identified the victim of the second suicide as his brother, rather than his brother-in-law. Arave’s article makes a clear point that both suicides contributed to Beck’s substance abuse problems.
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To resolve the discrepancy between “brother-in-law” and “brother,” I contacted both Mr. Farrant and Mr. Arave. In both a phone conversation and email exchange Mr. Farrant told me:
“Had I acquired the information by some other means, I would have attributed it to the source, especially since it is so sensitive. Then I would have asked Glenn about it. Another piece of supporting evidence: Glenn told me he read the article and liked it. He did not dispute a single thing in the article”.
In an email response to my query, Mr. Arave stated:
“I interviewed Beck for 45 minutes on the phone to put that story together. Beck really scrutinized the article, because he was headed to Salt Lake the following week to meet with some LDS General Authorities.
The only thing he changed (and the article includes this change) was a single word.
I had originally written that Beck had said he was God’s most IMPORTANT child, when he really said most IMPERTINENT child.
Even my notes have most “impertinent” child written down, I had just mistyped “important” for the word. That’s quite a mistake I originally made. Other than that, Beck approved everything else, so I’d say you can trust the article as much or more than anything that’s out there on him.”
From a November 24, 2008 article that Beck himself posted on GlennBeck.com:
“This note could have been written by me in 1995. It could have been written for me in 1984. I had two serious bouts with Depression that went, and my mother committed suicide, my brother I lost to suicide. I understand it. I get it. If I would have gone then, I convinced myself, ‘Gee, I’m not good for anything; I just keep hurting people, everybody I meet, everything I touch.’”
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Brother, stepbrother or brother-in-law?
Glenn Beck never had a brother. According to public documents, William and Mary Beck were married in 1956 in Everett, Washington, 30 miles north of Seattle. They had three children; Coletta, Michelle, and Glenn. This was the first marriage for both. According to one of Glenn Beck’s relatives, who requested anonymity, neither Mary nor Bill brought any children into the marriage.
In 1977 they divorced, citing that the marriage was irretrievably broken. Mary Beck was awarded custody of Michelle and Glenn. Coletta, who was of legal age at the time, was not a party to the child support or custody issues.
During this same time period William Beck moved north to Bellingham, Washington and on September 30, 1978 he married Dee (last name withheld). Dee had a 14-year old son named Jeff from her prior marriage. Dee and her first husband divorced in 1975 and divorce records indicate that Jeff, 10 at the time, was their only child.
In 1979, immediately after the death of Mary Beck, Michelle and Glenn moved to Bellingham to live with William, his new wife Dee, and her son Jeff. Jeff is Glenn Beck’s only stepbrother and he is very much alive and living in the Bellingham area.
Sadly, it turns out that Glenn Beck did have a brother-in-law (name withheld) who took his own life. So was this the tragic event, along with the suicide of his mother that propelled the teenaged Beck into his long, dark period of drug and alcohol abuse?
No it wasn’t.
The death of Glenn Beck’s brother-in-law took place on June 15, 2003… 24 years after the death of Mary Beck. Beck was 15 when his mother drowned and 39 when his brother-in-law died.
The death of his brother-in-law occurred eight years after Beck took his last drink, smoked his last joint, and snorted his last line of coke. By 2003 Beck had published his first bestseller, “The Real America,” his nationally syndicated radio program was growing by leaps and bounds, and he was married to Tania, the love of his life. He also had embraced the Mormon faith, which culminated with his baptism into the church.
The death was no doubt a devastating loss for Beck, but for him to falsely link it to his own alleged substance abuse problems, displays a heartless disregard for both the truth and the dignity of his own family. But apparently Beck sees nothing wrong with co-opting a family crisis in order burnish his phony credentials as a man who has seen the depths of hell, and found his way to a 5:00 pm time slot on Fox News.
Tim Hattrick, Beck’s colleague at KOY-FM in Phoenix, told me, “You could never talk about anything, and I mean anything with Beck without him trying to figure out how to somehow work it into the show.”
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The Lies Surrounding Beck’s First Paid Gig
Glenn Beck has often shared the story of when he sent his audition tape to KUBE Radio in Seattle, at the ripe young age of 15. KUBE management, not aware of Beck’s youth and inexperience, were impressed enough with the tape to give the kid a shot. He worked weekend shifts and because he was too young to drive, he had to take the Greyhound Bus to Seattle and sleep on KUBE’s conference room floor. In later interviews Beck would state that his father drove him the ninety miles to Seattle. It doesn’t matter which way Beck tells the story; both versions are false.
According to Beck’s Sehome High School friend and classmate Pat Wolken, Beck was 17, not 15, when KUBE hired him. Wolken said, “Glenn got that job in the summer between our junior and senior years. When I read that he said that he took the Greyhound Bus I laughed my head off. Glenn had a car and he drove to Seattle. Also, when he went down to Seattle he stayed at one of his relatives.” The fact that Beck drove to KUBE’s studios is corroborated by Beck classmate Marcus Purnell.
Proving Wolken’s claim that Beck was 17 and not 15 when he began the job is the fact that KUBE Radio didn’t exist until March 17, 1981, just weeks before the summer between Beck’s junior and senior year and a month after Beck’s 17th birthday. Before that the station was known as KBLE-FM, and presented a Christian format.
On the surface this seems like a harmless lie but it goes to Beck’s inability to accept the events of his life as is without trying to make them seem more compelling.
August 2, 2011 at 12:43am ·
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Glenn Beck’s phony teenaged drinking problem.
Paula Zahn began a March 15, 2007 segment of her CNN show “Paula Zahn Now” with the following:
“We’re devoting a whole hour to addiction and one of my colleagues has a remarkable story of his own to tell. Headline Prime’s Glenn Beck started drinking and doing drugs when he was just about 13, just after his mother, an addict herself, committed suicide. He smoked pot every day between the ages of 13 and 30. And then his life started to unravel. His doctor told him he would die within six months if he didn’t change. I recently spoke with him about his struggle in a very raw and emotional interview.”
This is another of many times that Beck has been given the opportunity to correct the record on his age at the time of his mother’s death, but declined to do so. In his latest book, “The 7” which was published in January, 2011, he not only sticks with the lie but repeats it four times.
While Beck almost certainly developed substance abuse problems later in life, they didn’t exist when he was a kid or young adult, according to high school classmates and a colleague at Y95 radio in Phoenix.
Sehome High School classmate and former Beck roommate Marcus Purnell said that Beck was a very occasional user of marijuana. Purnell said, “He talks about how he was so addicted to pot and drinking. The reality is that isn’t true. He used pot occasionally on weekends, in moderation… it was the seventies and eighties. Glenn did not by any means have a problem. He was very straight-laced compared to the other students at Sehome and he took great pride in that.”
Purnell continued, “So again here’s another situation where [Beck] took something and used it to his advantage by playing the victim and aligning himself with people, which he does very well. He makes them feel comfortable with him, while he’s feeling victimized, so they can put him on a pedestal as someone who knows how to solve the problems of the world. He’s always played the victim role. Nothing has changed.”
Andy Somers was another one of Glenn Beck’s high school friends. “Glenn’s focus was always on excellence and how he presented himself and in the way that he sold himself… how others perceived him,” Somers said. “In high school he bought a small two-seater sports car. He wanted to be perceived as this dashing kind of guy”.
When asked about Beck’s alleged substance abuse problems Somers said, “I never knew him to drink. He was a “Biff”… preppie… very much into projecting that image. I’d be very surprised if he was ever an alcoholic. As far as drugs, in high school he didn’t do much of anything and I would have known because I did pretty much everything. There may have been a time when he got high in my presence but I don’t remember it. He always came across as pretty straight-laced. He never hung out with the stoners.”
Somers lost a girlfriend to a drug overdose. “I’ve dealt with people with serious drug and alcohol problems all my life. I know what those people are like. Glenn isn’t one of them. If he ended up with a drug problem it certainly wasn’t happening in high school.”
In 1988, when Beck was 24 and supposedly up to his neck in drinking and drug problems, he went to work for Y95 radio in Phoenix. His partner was a local man named Tim Hattrick. I asked Hattrick about Beck’s substance abuse problems. “I never saw any evidence of drug or alcohol use,” Hattrick said. “Beck wouldn’t let anything get in the way of his focus, his drive, his ambition. I spent a lot of time with him both at the studio and away from the studio. My wife and I used to get together with him and Claire (Beck’s first wife)… go to dinner. He never even had a glass of wine because he never wanted to wake up with a hangover.”
Alcoholics and drug addicts are very adept and masking or hiding their disease but they don’t live in a vacuum. It would have been impossible for a 15 year old Glenn Beck to be high and drunk every day without the knowledge of his friends and colleagues.
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Glenn Beck sells the sizzle not the steak and somewhere along the way he came to the conclusion that his life story just didn’t have enough sizzle. “My brother-in-law took his own life eight years after I got clean and sober,” isn’t nearly as theatrical as Beck’s version of the story.
“I drove my own sports car to my gig in Seattle when I was 17,” doesn’t pack the same punch as “I got hired when I was 15 and had to take the Greyhound Bus 90 miles one-way to work.”
When you’re selling the public stories of faith and redemption, the number one rule is, “Ordinary doesn’t sell.”
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Glenn Beck, like nearly every other person on the planet, has suffered misfortune in his life, but unlike the vast majority of his fellow Americans, he has also experienced phenomenal success. While he no doubt possesses more than his share of inner-demons, by all accounts he’s living the life that he always dreamed of.
According to Purnell, Beck’s “lifelong goal was to make it big in radio and become rich and famous.” Mission accomplished.
Beck (or his ghostwriter) wrote in, “The 7”:
When I turned eight she [Mary Beck] gave me a collection of comedy and drama productions from the 1930’s and ‘40’s called “The Golden Age of Radio.” I became mesmerized by how the words on those albums created pictures in my mind.”
According to various biographies, Beck listened to those records constantly. During long afternoons and late evenings the gifted kid from the Skagit Valley holed up in his bedroom and honed his craft. He studied the masters. He developed a flare for the dramatic. He listened. He learned how to be creative. He idolized Orson Welles and wanted to be just like him when he grew up. He developed his own voice. He learned how to become Glenn Beck.
August 2, 2011 at 12:48am ·
Jeffrey Ray Hardin 08/01/2011
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Glenn Beck’s phony teenaged drinking problem.
Paula Zahn began a March 15, 2007 segment of her CNN show “Paula Zahn Now” with the following:
“We’re devoting a whole hour to addiction and one of my colleagues has a remarkable story of his own to tell. Headline Prime’s Glenn Beck started drinking and doing drugs when he was just about 13, just after his mother, an addict herself, committed suicide. He smoked pot every day between the ages of 13 and 30. And then his life started to unravel. His doctor told him he would die within six months if he didn’t change. I recently spoke with him about his struggle in a very raw and emotional interview.”
This is another of many times that Beck has been given the opportunity to correct the record on his age at the time of his mother’s death, but declined to do so. In his latest book, “The 7” which was published in January, 2011, he not only sticks with the lie but repeats it four times.
While Beck almost certainly developed substance abuse problems later in life, they didn’t exist when he was a kid or young adult, according to high school classmates and a colleague at Y95 radio in Phoenix.
Sehome High School classmate and former Beck roommate Marcus Purnell said that Beck was a very occasional user of marijuana. Purnell said, “He talks about how he was so addicted to pot and drinking. The reality is that isn’t true. He used pot occasionally on weekends, in moderation… it was the seventies and eighties. Glenn did not by any means have a problem. He was very straight-laced compared to the other students at Sehome and he took great pride in that.”
Purnell continued, “So again here’s another situation where [Beck] took something and used it to his advantage by playing the victim and aligning himself with people, which he does very well. He makes them feel comfortable with him, while he’s feeling victimized, so they can put him on a pedestal as someone who knows how to solve the problems of the world. He’s always played the victim role. Nothing has changed.”
Andy Somers was another one of Glenn Beck’s high school friends. “Glenn’s focus was always on excellence and how he presented himself and in the way that he sold himself… how others perceived him,” Somers said. “In high school he bought a small two-seater sports car. He wanted to be perceived as this dashing kind of guy”.
When asked about Beck’s alleged substance abuse problems Somers said, “I never knew him to drink. He was a “Biff”… preppie… very much into projecting that image. I’d be very surprised if he was ever an alcoholic. As far as drugs, in high school he didn’t do much of anything and I would have known because I did pretty much everything. There may have been a time when he got high in my presence but I don’t remember it. He always came across as pretty straight-laced. He never hung out with the stoners.”
Somers lost a girlfriend to a drug overdose. “I’ve dealt with people with serious drug and alcohol problems all my life. I know what those people are like. Glenn isn’t one of them. If he ended up with a drug problem it certainly wasn’t happening in high school.”
In 1988, when Beck was 24 and supposedly up to his neck in drinking and drug problems, he went to work for Y95 radio in Phoenix. His partner was a local man named Tim Hattrick. I asked Hattrick about Beck’s substance abuse problems. “I never saw any evidence of drug or alcohol use,” Hattrick said. “Beck wouldn’t let anything get in the way of his focus, his drive, his ambition. I spent a lot of time with him both at the studio and away from the studio. My wife and I used to get together with him and Claire (Beck’s first wife)… go to dinner. He never even had a glass of wine because he never wanted to wake up with a hangover.”
Alcoholics and drug addicts are very adept and masking or hiding their disease but they don’t live in a vacuum. It would have been impossible for a 15 year old Glenn Beck to be high and drunk every day without the knowledge of his friends and colleagues.
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Glenn Beck sells the sizzle not the steak and somewhere along the way he came to the conclusion that his life story just didn’t have enough sizzle. “My brother-in-law took his own life eight years after I got clean and sober,” isn’t nearly as theatrical as Beck’s version of the story.
“I drove my own sports car to my gig in Seattle when I was 17,” doesn’t pack the same punch as “I got hired when I was 15 and had to take the Greyhound Bus 90 miles one-way to work.”
When you’re selling the public stories of faith and redemption, the number one rule is, “Ordinary doesn’t sell.”
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Glenn Beck, like nearly every other person on the planet, has suffered misfortune in his life, but unlike the vast majority of his fellow Americans, he has also experienced phenomenal success. While he no doubt possesses more than his share of inner-demons, by all accounts he’s living the life that he always dreamed of.
According to Purnell, Beck’s “lifelong goal was to make it big in radio and become rich and famous.” Mission accomplished.
Beck (or his ghostwriter) wrote in, “The 7”:
When I turned eight she [Mary Beck] gave me a collection of comedy and drama productions from the 1930’s and ‘40’s called “The Golden Age of Radio.” I became mesmerized by how the words on those albums created pictures in my mind.”
According to various biographies, Beck listened to those records constantly. During long afternoons and late evenings the gifted kid from the Skagit Valley holed up in his bedroom and honed his craft. He studied the masters. He developed a flare for the dramatic. He listened. He learned how to be creative. He idolized Orson Welles and wanted to be just like him when he grew up. He developed his own voice. He learned how to become Glenn Beck.
Or maybe that’s all B/S too. I didn’t fact-check it.
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“We have to question with boldness and we have to stop taking listening and taking things at face value… even on this program. CHALLENGE YOURSELF DAMN IT! Read. Question what I tell you.” Glenn Beck, “The Glenn Beck Show,” January 24, 2011
“Question what I tell you.” Now that’s some damn good advice.
Update, 7/15/2011: Two days ago, Beck made a big deal on his radio show that President Obama supposedly “lied” about his mother’s death. From “Obama caught in a massive lie” is this from Beck’s mouth:
September 1995 [Obama's mother] traveled to New York for an evaluation at renowned Memorial Sloan‑Kettering. She returned to Hawaii, began a new course of treatment. She died in November. A dozen years later her son turned ordeal into a campaign pitch for national healthcare. But the story Obama told Scott Wright was abbreviated. The abbreviation was to leave out the fact that she had health insurance and it paid for her treatment. Though he often suggested that she was denied health coverage because of a preexisting condition. It appears from her correspondence in her own writing that she was only denied disability coverage. That’s a different story altogether but one that nobody in the press seems to care.
Beck’s hypocrisy has been documented extensively here. This is the 25th example of hypocrisy on Beck’s behalf in a little over a year. One would think that anyone demonstrating hypocrisy as often as Glenn Beck does would have few if any followers, but one would be wrong. Beck has a cult following, and they believe what Beck wants them to believe. Beck tells them that he’s a “principles and values guy;” that is what his gullible followers choose to hear. The many examples of his hypocrisy are ignored by people who choose to hate and oppose those who Beck hates. Such is political life on Planet Beck. Because Beck is now off television, nobody in the press needs to care.
Update, 7/24/2011: The liberal media watchdogs, Media Matters for America has done research to debunk Beck’s false claim that Obama “lied” about his mother’s struggle with insurance companies. See, “Right wing media make false claims about Obama’s mother and her insurance fight.” So Beck is demonstrating hypocrisy and deceiving his listeners with his claims at the same time. That’s not the first time that has happened.
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God, the Gospel, and Glenn Beck
A Mormon television star stands in front of the Lincoln Memorial and calls American Christians to revival. He assembles some evangelical celebrities to give testimonies, and then preaches a God and country revivalism that leaves the evangelicals cheering that they’ve heard the gospel, right there in the nation’s capital.
The news media pronounces him the new leader of America’s Christian conservative movement, and a flock of America’s Christian conservatives have no problem with that.
If you’d told me that ten years ago, I would have assumed it was from the pages of an evangelical apocalyptic novel about the end-times. But it’s not. It’s from this week’s headlines. And it is a scandal.
Fox News commentator Glenn Beck, of course, is that Mormon at the center of all this. Beck isn’t the problem. He’s an entrepreneur, he’s brilliant, and, hats off to him, he knows his market. Latter-day Saints have every right to speak, with full religious liberty, in the public square. I’m quite willing to work with Mormons on various issues, as citizens working for the common good. What concerns me here is not what this says about Beck or the “Tea Party” or any other entertainment or political figure. What concerns me is about what this says about the Christian churches in the United States.
It’s taken us a long time to get here, in this plummet from Francis Schaeffer to Glenn Beck. In order to be this gullible, American Christians have had to endure years of vacuous talk about undefined “revival” and “turning America back to God” that was less about anything uniquely Christian than about, at best, a generically theistic civil religion and, at worst, some partisan political movement.
Rather than cultivating a Christian vision of justice and the common good (which would have, by necessity, been nuanced enough to put us sometimes at odds with our political allies), we’ve relied on populist God-and-country sloganeering and outrage-generating talking heads. We’ve tolerated heresy and buffoonery in our leadership as long as with it there is sufficient political “conservatism” and a sufficient commercial venue to sell our books and products.
Too often, and for too long, American “Christianity” has been a political agenda in search of a gospel useful enough to accommodate it. There is a liberation theology of the Left, and there is also a liberation theology of the Right, and both are at heart mammon worship. The liberation theology of the Left often wants a Barabbas, to fight off the oppressors as though our ultimate problem were the reign of Rome and not the reign of death. The liberation theology of the Right wants a golden calf, to represent religion and to remind us of all the economic security we had in Egypt. Both want a Caesar or a Pharaoh, not a Messiah.
Leaders will always be tempted to bypass the problem behind the problems: captivity to sin, bondage to the accusations of the demonic powers, the sentence of death. That’s why so many of our Christian superstars smile at crowds of thousands, reassuring them that they don’t like to talk about sin. That’s why other Christian celebrities are seen to be courageous for fighting their culture wars, while they carefully leave out the sins most likely to be endemic to the people paying the bills in their movements.
Where there is no gospel, something else will fill the void: therapy, consumerism, racial or class resentment, utopian politics, crazy conspiracy theories of the left, crazy conspiracy theories of the right; anything will do. The prophet Isaiah warned us of such conspiracies replacing the Word of God centuries ago (Is. 8:12–20). As long as the Serpent’s voice is heard, “You shall not surely die,” the powers are comfortable.
This is, of course, not new. Our Lord Jesus faced this test when Satan took him to a high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the earth, and their glory. Satan did not mind surrendering his authority to Jesus. He didn’t mind a universe without pornography or Islam or abortion or nuclear weaponry. Satan did not mind Judeo-Christian values. He wasn’t worried about “revival” or “getting back to God.” What he opposes was the gospel of Christ crucified and resurrected for the sins of the world.
We used to sing that old gospel song, “I will cling to an old rugged cross, and exchange it some day for a crown.” The scandalous scene at the Lincoln Memorial indicates that many of us want to exchange it in too soon. To Jesus, Satan offered power and glory. To us, all he needs offer is celebrity and attention.
Mormonism and Mammonism are contrary to the gospel of Jesus Christ. They offer another Lord Jesus than the One offered in the Scriptures and Christian tradition, and another way to approach him. An embrace of these tragic new vehicles for the old Gnostic heresy is unloving to our Mormon friends and secularist neighbors, and to the rest of the watching world. Any “revival” that is possible without the Lord Jesus Christ is a “revival” of a different kind of spirit than the Spirit of Christ (1 Jn. 4:1-3).
The answer to this scandal isn’t a retreat, as some would have it, to an allegedly apolitical isolation. Such attempts lead us right back here, in spades, to a hyper-political wasteland. If the churches are not forming consciences, consciences will be formed by the status quo, including whatever demagogues can yell the loudest or cry the hardest. The answer isn’t a narrowing sectarianism, retreating further and further into our enclaves. The answer includes local churches that preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, and disciple their congregations to know the difference between the kingdom of God and the latest political whim.
It’s sad to see so many Christians confusing Mormon politics or American nationalism with the gospel of Jesus Christ. But, don’t get me wrong, I’m not pessimistic. Jesus will build his church, and he will build it on the gospel. He doesn’t need American Christianity to do it. Vibrant, loving, orthodox Christianity will flourish, perhaps among the poor of Haiti or the persecuted of Sudan or the outlawed of China, but it will flourish.
And there will be a new generation, in America and elsewhere, who will be ready for a gospel that is more than just Fox News at prayer.
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The American Conservative
Mark Nugent
What Happened to Glenn Beck?
As mediabistro.com reported, Glenn Beck’s February ratings show a year-over-year audience decline of 26 percent after a 38 percent fall in January.
The New Republic’s James Downie muses that the fault for Beck’s audience shrinkage could be pegged to his increasingly cockamamie commentary—in order to maintain his followers’ interest, Beck had to keep amping up the levels of crazy, finally leading to conspiracy fatigue among his fans.
Also note that Beck’s ratings fade, perhaps not coincidentally, began around the time of his “Restoring Honor Rally” in August, which saw hundreds of thousands of fired-up protestors flock across the country to see their hero speak at the Lincoln Memorial, only to be bored to tears by hours of pointless sermonizing and vacuous, sentimental history lessons.
To be sure, the GOP takeover of the House in November may have more to do with Beck’s sinking numbers. Sending a few Republican hacks to help preside over the Leviathan state has a way of cooling the passions of erstwhile right-wing revolutionaries.
But could Beck’s decline also signal that disaffected Tea Partiers, economically insecure and alarmed at mounting government debt, are increasingly frustrated at the irrelevance of his weepy religiosity, conspiracy theories, and ego-stroking identity politics?
Glenn Beck isn’t the only public figure proselytizing to the Tea Party. In the wake of his father’s second consecutive win in the CPAC straw poll comes the release of Rand Paul’s book “The Tea Party Comes to Washington,” which both reflects and prescribes a different kind of Tea Party by advocating a rollback of spending, the reestablishment of federalism and limited government, and a noninterventionist foreign policy.
Any kind of restoration of the nation’s constitutional moorings will be not be easy. In the short term, mad-as-hell heartlanders may find it more satisfying to project their anger and fears onto the Muslim Brotherhood, the international Communist conspiracy, martians, or the Antichrist. But by fixating on Glenn Beck’s obsessions, the Tea Party would only have succeeded in neutering itself. Hopefully, Beck’s fade in the ratings indicates that the right-wing masses are more receptive to the Pauls’ reality-based radicalism.
Filed under: Conservatism, Politics, Tea Party
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The American Conservative
Mark Nugent
What Happened to Glenn Beck?
As mediabistro.com reported, Glenn Beck’s February ratings show a year-over-year audience decline of 26 percent after a 38 percent fall in January.
The New Republic’s James Downie muses that the fault for Beck’s audience shrinkage could be pegged to his increasingly cockamamie commentary—in order to maintain his followers’ interest, Beck had to keep amping up the levels of crazy, finally leading to conspiracy fatigue among his fans.
Also note that Beck’s ratings fade, perhaps not coincidentally, began around the time of his “Restoring Honor Rally” in August, which saw hundreds of thousands of fired-up protestors flock across the country to see their hero speak at the Lincoln Memorial, only to be bored to tears by hours of pointless sermonizing and vacuous, sentimental history lessons.
To be sure, the GOP takeover of the House in November may have more to do with Beck’s sinking numbers. Sending a few Republican hacks to help preside over the Leviathan state has a way of cooling the passions of erstwhile right-wing revolutionaries.
But could Beck’s decline also signal that disaffected Tea Partiers, economically insecure and alarmed at mounting government debt, are increasingly frustrated at the irrelevance of his weepy religiosity, conspiracy theories, and ego-stroking identity politics?
Glenn Beck isn’t the only public figure proselytizing to the Tea Party. In the wake of his father’s second consecutive win in the CPAC straw poll comes the release of Rand Paul’s book “The Tea Party Comes to Washington,” which both reflects and prescribes a different kind of Tea Party by advocating a rollback of spending, the reestablishment of federalism and limited government, and a noninterventionist foreign policy.
Any kind of restoration of the nation’s constitutional moorings will be not be easy. In the short term, mad-as-hell heartlanders may find it more satisfying to project their anger and fears onto the Muslim Brotherhood, the international Communist conspiracy, martians, or the Antichrist. But by fixating on Glenn Beck’s obsessions, the Tea Party would only have succeeded in neutering itself. Hopefully, Beck’s fade in the ratings indicates that the right-wing masses are more receptive to the Pauls’ reality-based radicalism.
Filed under: Conservatism, Politics, Tea Party
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Glenn Beck’s New Book Reveals He Embraces New Age Theology, Is a Knowledgeable Mormon, and a Universalist
By Brannon S. Howse
In August of 2010, I predicted on my national radio program that it was only a matter of time before Glenn Beck would release a distinctively religious book that would promote his New Age Mormonism and universalism. I sensed that Glenn was setting himself up to be the politically conservative alternative to Oprah. His new book, “7 Wonders That Will Change Your Life”, could have been written by Oprah for sure.
Many self-professing Christians cannot see what Beck is up to but there are those in the unsaved world that seem to be exhibiting more worldview understanding than some in the Christian community. The Business Insider published an article on January 4, 2011 entitled, Glenn Beck’s New Year’s Plan Sounds A Lot Like Oprah’s New Network.
Last week (second week of January 2011) Beck released his latest book entitled The Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life. The book is co-authored by psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow.
Beck’s new book is nothing less than the promotion of universalism, postmodernism, and pagan spirituality, also known as the New Age Movement.
I tried to warn America’s pastors and Christian leaders in early August of 2010, not to unite with Glenn Beck in his spiritual rally that sought to unite all faiths and look to one God. I gave these Christian leaders plenty of evidence that Glenn Beck was a practicing Mormon that was also embracing New Age paganism.
Some of these Christian leaders said that Beck was a “new Christian”, “a baby Christian”, “new brother”, a “little lamb”, or “very close to becoming a Christian.” If they think Glenn Beck meets the Biblical descriptions of a Christian then they have no clue what the book of I John says are the Biblical hallmarks of a true follower of Jesus Christ.
A friend of mine even e-mailed a mega pastor that was publically supporting Glenn Beck’s 8-28 rally to ask him to be careful about embracing Beck and his black robe regiment because of some of the false theology Glenn was espousing. The pastor replied:
Glenn Beck is a new brother and he is learning and growing and coming to the light day by day as he is being discipled by [name of Christian leader removed]. There was once a day when you and I were in the same place he is now. Be careful that you don’t place a yoke on a little lamb rather than an ox.
Would this pastor say Oprah Winfrey is a Christian?
According to Christian Post, another Mega Church pastor said:
I have interviewed persons who have talked specifically with Glenn about his personal salvation – persons extremely well known in Christianity – and they have affirmed (using language evangelicals understand), ‘Glenn is saved’…He understands receiving Christ as savior.
How confusing to the unsaved world and to baby Christians it must be to have Christian leaders make this claim about being a Christian in light of Beck’s latest book. Many now believe what Beck is promoting in his book is Christianity because Pastors and Christian leaders have announced that “Glenn is saved.” I have had teenagers e-mail me and come up to me at our conferences and express how confused they are by what Christian leaders have said about Beck being saved when they have heard Beck promote New Age heresy.
In light of Beck’s religious and spiritual proclamations in his new book, this would be the week for the Christian leaders and pastors that embraced Beck on the national stage, and proclaimed Beck’s salvation, to release a press release and post a statement on their website that they disagree with Beck’s pagan spirituality and that indeed Beck is not demonstrating theology and doctrine consist with what the Bible says are the hallmarks of a Christian. These Christian leaders need to apologize for leading people to believe that Beck was a Christian or to believe that Beck held and promoted religious views that were compatible with Biblical Christianity. Dr. Erwin Lutzer, of the historic Moody Church in Chicago, correctly declared in August of 2010 on my radio program that any pastor or Christian leader involved in Beck’s rally would be involved in heresy. I agree 100% with that statement.
In his new book Beck and Dr. Ablow promote psychologist Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, New Age authors Robert Pirsig and James Redfied, Buddha, Buddhist teacher Sogyal Rinpoche, Gandhi, The Bible and the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas. Sadly, Glenn is confused and all Christians should pray that he will come to salvation in the Jesus of the Bible through faith and repentance.
On page 56 Beck says he read A Course in Miracles by Helen Schucman which is the Bible of the New Age Movement. I wrote and entire chapter in my book Grave Influence on Helen Schucman and the demon she channeled that helped her write the book.
I have several friends who were Mormons for many years before accepting the Jesus Christ of the Bible as their Lord and Savior through faith and repentance. Tracy was a Mormon for 26 years and e-mailed me to explain why many Mormons are open to New Age Spirituality:
It’s not surprising how easy it is for many LDS to get involved in occult practices based on the “power of the priesthood.” For example, energy healing (chakras), cloud-busting, and other mind-power things. My LDS friends and I were always interested in books like The Magic of Believing, Embraced by the Light, and other New Agey kinds of books. I remember seeing Star Wars when I was Mormon and how many of us in the ward (LDS congregation) were comparing The Force to the priesthood power.
Since we believed we were on the godhood track, using the phrase “I AM” in the context Glenn uses it, fits in neatly with the power of the priesthood
through which worlds are created (according to Mormon doctrine). In fact, Mormonism teaches that God did NOT create the universe exnihlo, because God can only manipulate and arrange existing matter; he cannot
create it. Thus we see, from the LDS perspective, we too can become I AM, through the divine nature within us.
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Glenn Beck’s New Book Reveals He Embraces New Age Theology, Is a Knowledgeable Mormon, and a Universalist
By Brannon S. Howse
In August of 2010, I predicted on my national radio program that it was only a matter of time before Glenn Beck would release a distinctively religious book that would promote his New Age Mormonism and universalism. I sensed that Glenn was setting himself up to be the politically conservative alternative to Oprah. His new book, “7 Wonders That Will Change Your Life”, could have been written by Oprah for sure.
Many self-professing Christians cannot see what Beck is up to but there are those in the unsaved world that seem to be exhibiting more worldview understanding than some in the Christian community. The Business Insider published an article on January 4, 2011 entitled, Glenn Beck’s New Year’s Plan Sounds A Lot Like Oprah’s New Network.
Last week (second week of January 2011) Beck released his latest book entitled The Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life. The book is co-authored by psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow.
Beck’s new book is nothing less than the promotion of universalism, postmodernism, and pagan spirituality, also known as the New Age Movement.
I tried to warn America’s pastors and Christian leaders in early August of 2010, not to unite with Glenn Beck in his spiritual rally that sought to unite all faiths and look to one God. I gave these Christian leaders plenty of evidence that Glenn Beck was a practicing Mormon that was also embracing New Age paganism.
Some of these Christian leaders said that Beck was a “new Christian”, “a baby Christian”, “new brother”, a “little lamb”, or “very close to becoming a Christian.” If they think Glenn Beck meets the Biblical descriptions of a Christian then they have no clue what the book of I John says are the Biblical hallmarks of a true follower of Jesus Christ.
A friend of mine even e-mailed a mega pastor that was publically supporting Glenn Beck’s 8-28 rally to ask him to be careful about embracing Beck and his black robe regiment because of some of the false theology Glenn was espousing. The pastor replied:
Glenn Beck is a new brother and he is learning and growing and coming to the light day by day as he is being discipled by [name of Christian leader removed]. There was once a day when you and I were in the same place he is now. Be careful that you don’t place a yoke on a little lamb rather than an ox.
Would this pastor say Oprah Winfrey is a Christian?
According to Christian Post, another Mega Church pastor said:
I have interviewed persons who have talked specifically with Glenn about his personal salvation – persons extremely well known in Christianity – and they have affirmed (using language evangelicals understand), ‘Glenn is saved’…He understands receiving Christ as savior.
How confusing to the unsaved world and to baby Christians it must be to have Christian leaders make this claim about being a Christian in light of Beck’s latest book. Many now believe what Beck is promoting in his book is Christianity because Pastors and Christian leaders have announced that “Glenn is saved.” I have had teenagers e-mail me and come up to me at our conferences and express how confused they are by what Christian leaders have said about Beck being saved when they have heard Beck promote New Age heresy.
In light of Beck’s religious and spiritual proclamations in his new book, this would be the week for the Christian leaders and pastors that embraced Beck on the national stage, and proclaimed Beck’s salvation, to release a press release and post a statement on their website that they disagree with Beck’s pagan spirituality and that indeed Beck is not demonstrating theology and doctrine consist with what the Bible says are the hallmarks of a Christian. These Christian leaders need to apologize for leading people to believe that Beck was a Christian or to believe that Beck held and promoted religious views that were compatible with Biblical Christianity. Dr. Erwin Lutzer, of the historic Moody Church in Chicago, correctly declared in August of 2010 on my radio program that any pastor or Christian leader involved in Beck’s rally would be involved in heresy. I agree 100% with that statement.
In his new book Beck and Dr. Ablow promote psychologist Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, New Age authors Robert Pirsig and James Redfied, Buddha, Buddhist teacher Sogyal Rinpoche, Gandhi, The Bible and the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas. Sadly, Glenn is confused and all Christians should pray that he will come to salvation in the Jesus of the Bible through faith and repentance.
On page 56 Beck says he read A Course in Miracles by Helen Schucman which is the Bible of the New Age Movement. I wrote and entire chapter in my book Grave Influence on Helen Schucman and the demon she channeled that helped her write the book.
I have several friends who were Mormons for many years before accepting the Jesus Christ of the Bible as their Lord and Savior through faith and repentance. Tracy was a Mormon for 26 years and e-mailed me to explain why many Mormons are open to New Age Spirituality:
It’s not surprising how easy it is for many LDS to get involved in occult practices based on the “power of the priesthood.” For example, energy healing (chakras), cloud-busting, and other mind-power things. My LDS friends and I were always interested in books like The Magic of Believing, Embraced by the Light, and other New Agey kinds of books. I remember seeing Star Wars when I was Mormon and how many of us in the ward (LDS congregation) were comparing The Force to the priesthood power.
Since we believed we were on the godhood track, using the phrase “I AM” in the context Glenn uses it, fits in neatly with the power of the priesthood
through which worlds are created (according to Mormon doctrine). In fact, Mormonism teaches that God did NOT create the universe exnihlo, because God can only manipulate and arrange existing matter; he cannot
create it. Thus we see, from the LDS perspective, we too can become I AM, through the divine nature within us.
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On page 79 Beck and Dr. Ablow promote transcendental meditation and Eastern Mysticism. On 85 we read, “As you commit to unlocking and bringing forth the truth inside you, don’t be afraid to pray for help. Don’t be reticent to sit with yourself in silence and meditate. Connect with the miracle of spirit, of God, that has lived inside you from long before you were born.”
Christian mediation is not about “bringing forth the truth inside of you” nor is it about contacting God that has “lived inside you from long before you were born.” This is not Biblical and any Christian that thinks otherwise is either a false convert or is Biblically illiterate. Click here to hear a short video clip by Dr. Ron Carlson on the dangers of New Age meditation.
On page 132 Beck and Ablow proclaim, “Pray to whatever higher power you believe in…Praying that God or Nature or the Cosmos or your own internal, immeasurable reservoir of spirit allows you the courage and faith to find and then face the truth…”
In several places readers are told it really does not matter what religion or religious leader they follow. On page 157 Beck writes, “Finding what worked for me made all the difference. Finding what works for you will do the same.”
On page 74 the reader is instructed “Just be sure you visit with a minister or therapist from a religion or healing discipline you actually have affinity for, or suspect you might.”
On page 236, reincarnation is promoted through the writings of Robert Pirsig’s book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, “…the ‘spirit’ of Chris or the ‘ghost’ of Chris, then you can say without further translation that the spirit or ghost of Chris is looking for a new body to enter.”
Beck is a very committed and knowledgeable Mormon:
I have had several Christians tell me that Beck does not really know much about the Mormon faith. That is not what Beck writes in his new book.
“I questioned everything I could think to question about the faith. I went over my doubts again and again with the church bishop. I read everything there was to read on their website and every word of Mormon Doctrine…I went to anti-Mormon literature for hints, but I found most of it to be unfair or just plain wrong. I tried every trick I could think of to find a contradiction. The problem was that I couldn’t. Mormonism seemed to explain the world and my place in it better than any other faith I had looked at.” (Page 149-150)
Beck does not believe in Hell, original sin or that Jesus in the only way:
“Latter-day Saints do not believe that your chances ever cease, even with death. They end only with the full understanding and denial of truth by your own exercise of real free will. And even then there is no ‘lake of fire.’ (Page 149)
“As Keith likes to say, ‘There’s no original sin left in the world. Everyone’s just recycling pain now.’ “(Page 154.)
“There is no infant delivered evil, out of the womb. There never has been. Not even one…Charles Manson was not born evil. Ted Bundy wasn’t. The BTK killer wasn’t. Hitler wasn’t.” (Page 162)
The Bible says that all have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God. (Romans 3:23) The Bible says that even babies are born with a sin nature and that we are all conceived in sin. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. (Psalm 51:5)
“People are inherently good.” (Page 165).
The Bible says in Jeremiah 17:9, The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Beck’s book uses the phrase “Your truth” or “your true path” or “my truth” at least 23 times. Here are a few examples:
“It is never too late to embrace your truth.” (Page 124)
“What is your truth whispering?” (Page 130)
“Use compassion to stay on the path to your own truth… (Page 161)
“…determination to unearth and embrace my truth.” (Page 215)
“The fact that I am always attempting to honor my truth… (Page 216)
“There is only your truth.” (Page 220)
“You must use courage and faith to empty the hard drive of your soul and then fill it with your truth.” (Page 288)
Beck’s book promotes the New Age that God dwells within all:
“The third chapter of Exodus helped me start to understand how crucial it was that my focus be on finding God not just in the seas or the cosmos, but in myself.” (Page 57)
If God is everything and everywhere and inside everyone, then I figured He had to be inside me, too… (Page 58)
This is the promotion of pantheism and panentheism.
“Divine power is still inside you.” (Page 71)
“Reach out to people to steady them and enrich them and reflect back to them the light that comes from God inside them. (Page 283)
“You won’t doubt your ability to a
I apologize. I dressed this up for another friend and gave you one that I removed 4 unrelated stories from…But it is in order and should be easy to follow and dress up…God’s Speed… My Pa Boot Camped and Retired Paris Island SC Marine Corps Base.
Liaison, funny how we had never heard of the Battle of Athens before now. We have fraud and corruption in this administration with voter fraud as well….Maybe it is time we pulled an “Athens” on this administration and cleaned it up…. There are many of them that need to face a stiff jail term for the treason they have committed against the people. Pelosi committed fraud and perjury when she signed to have this imposter placed on the ballot in Hawaii…
Hang in there. Some patriot will arise!
…. thought I posted an open letter to Congress asking for an American Hero.
So far ….. NO takers.
You should ask your Senators and Congressman directly.
Their response ( or lack of) will guide your vote this Nov.
RIchardM—–My sentiments exactly except you didn’t say what should be done with these traitors and criminals of the highest order. For me, hanging is even too lenient !
Nothing comes of any of this stuff. Everyone steers clear of it. It really is like the children’s bood, “The Emporor Wears No Clothes.”
We must all remember that Glenn Beck came from the left. Clinton News Network (CNN). So, what else is new? And for that matter the GOP is pandering also. Is there anyone out there that can speak their own mind?? And I am not talking about the commenters on this site.
I’ve noticed how these entertainers will dupe and drop their fans and start insulting them as soon as they have made their wealth. In every single case I have watched this time and again and Oprah, was the biggest scheme to date in the sense that it was emotions she played with, and purchased from those who sold their souls to her. Beck was/is the same! I never liked him and was told a long time ago, if they talk loud, and throw around the blame, call you liars and sensationalize their outspokenness, beware, they are biting wildly and will sooner than later, bite you as well, and grin as they do. Glen is of the same fabric as Obama…
I agree. He has begun to look very transparent. I think he is over extending himself and trying to do to much, and does nothing well. He has surrounded himself with young people that don’t know anything, which does not help.
I haven’t heard what beck has had to say for a long time now but I agree with the Coach. I just believe that beck refuses to say anything because he has been threathened by the NWO crowd and I don’t understand how he gets by with the stuff he does, exposing some of them. I know he insults birthers and refuses to say anything logical about the eligibility fraud. What Coach is saying doesn’t surprise me at all, plus most of the famous talk show hosts do the same as beck. We are a nation of cowards espescially in the msn. Manipulation of America is the order of the day and it’s only get worse and worse. One blogger writes with their bloggun, “Right now, we need to stay informed and prepare for whatever may come our way,” and I shot back with my bloggun with, “PREPARE? To do what, write another blog threat? The NWO crowd is pushing as hard as they can to get Americans into a fight but no one does nothing but use their bloggun. Almost ALL persons (congress and SCOTUS included and people like sheriff Joe is not included) in authority are the enemy, they HAVE taken over control of the USA. There is nothing that can be done about it. Another HUGE event will take place in America and then our dictator will enforce Martial Law. Checkmate!” Pastor Mike Hoggard of Bethal Church in Festus, MO ( http://visitbethelchurch.com/ ) has a lot of information on what is happening to America and to the world. His research into the last days his astounding and intense. He proves patterns of symbolism, of numerology and of the occult which explains why evil is abounding so rapidly, why America is systematically being destroyed and who is behind it.
coolboarder, you are right. America is very close to a hostile takeover by the New World Order elites. The only thing that stands in their way is the consitution and armed citizens. If anyone doesn’t believe this, they need to get informed ASAP! Two good books about how this is happening is “The Hope of the Wicked” by Ted Flynn and “Unseen Hand” by Ralph Epperson.
Close???? In view how can you not see that the NWO aleady has us?
I have to admit, I didn’t want to believe it and really thought it far fetched..Just as the 9/11 truthers who blamed Bush, I felt that if you don’t Obama , just don’t vote for him..Personally; I can’t stand his entire administration or him , Yet, This was too much…. And then I watched the entire conference and now I believe !
Glenn has been right on with everything he has told us and everyone is entitled to their own opinion. This time I disagree with Glenn but I’d follow him to the end of the earth.
My bigger question is ; When Andrew said : ” Wait a see what happens on March 1st ” , Is this what he meant before he died or possibly murdered ??
A full investigation ought to be required to include an autopsy as is customarily done anytime someone dies of unknown causes like this. After the comments on record made by Breitbart in recent months, it would not surprise me in the least to hear that there had been foul play,. I think it was Mike Savage who had urged Andrew to get security to cover him whenever he decided to go out walking in the night like that, but he would not make those protective adjustments. Obama had the most to lose from the evidence that was to have been revealed. As some have already suggested, we will soon know whether or not his voice in the matter has indeed been silenced. If that evidence is not produced within the next few weeks as promised, it will be clear that the left attained their objective in keeping the matter silent. Thankfully, Sheriff Arpaio is simultaneously getting at some of the same data by a different means and he may produce enough to stop Obama all by himself. I hope that HE is being well covered by security! Remember how many people ended up mysteriously dead during the Clinton regime. Pray for the safety of the good sheriff.
It is my considered opinion that anyone involved in the coverup and/or commission of any of the un-American activities (and understand that I mean “activities that are in violation of the law or obstruction of justice”, not just a “moral guideline” that is not enforceable) that have been perpetrated by anyone should face stiff fines, long jail times and forever barred from holding office in the USA.
We are a REPUBLIC, are we not?
We are already in debt over our ears.
WHERE will we get the $$$$ to build all those prisons.
Isn’t the penalty for treason death?
I hated to see Beck leave Fox News but now that he is gone I really don’t miss him…. So he thinks that anyone that believes the rabid mad dog is not eligibly is a birther? Get with it Beck.. Mad dog is a fraud and a phony and I wold sure like to see him removed from office….
Beck is just another stoolie fo the elitists attempting to discredit anybody who questions Obama’s legitimacy, it is too bad that Beck has been baught and paid for by the media elitists instead of actually having the courage to stand up to them and as he always claimed he does “Question with Boldness” except it appears today that Glen Beck is all talk and no action and that Glen Beck like many media mouthpieces has no Boldness or Backbone. Beck is just another paid stooge.
Words are strange….. stool is more appropriate than I could ever imagine.
2 more c ….
Where is the rebuttal of fakery evidence?
Not so fast – Glenn has consistently been pointing out all the failings our the current administration on his GBTV.com channel.
I for one am thoroughly disgusted with the entire system. Our candidates tear each other apart until I want to see them all gone. Our news media are totally corrupt so that I don’t believe anything that they say; neither in print or on the air. I once believed in Beck now I’m not sure I even believe him. If this is part of the plan to destroy America, “they” are winning. When will a real LEADER show up? If we don’t get one by November. I believe Obama will win and our Country simply will not survive that!
drftrapani
Glenn Beck panders to the left and acquiesces to the elites who are so handsomely profiting from the Hussein administration who has handed out trillions at the expense of the American people. We simply are faced with a 21st Century Bolshevik coup who rather than storming the Winter Palace have taken it over by “democratic” means and then simply stripped the country of its resources and assets to maintain its power. It will soon all come to an end. The infrastructure, the morale and the economy has been destroyed in a few short years and, most probably, will continue for the next four years or longer. Today, too many voters be they eligible or ineligible, alive or dead will reelect Hussein. We have been demographically destroyed. Unless the rules are quickly changed there will be no return. Beck and Bill O’Silly are simply puppets of the left, pablum for the right wing, practiced and well paid deceivers, pied pipers of the right mocking and disparaging us at every turn. It appears to me that Andrew Breitbart refused to take the proffered bribes and his death is a warning to all others who expose the evil that is not only among us but leading the nation to evil.
LIKE THEY SAY FEAR IS A GREAT MOTIVATOR, THEY THREATEN NOT ONLY HIM, BUT THEY THREATENED TO KILL HIS FAMILY AND HE LOST HIS NERVE, There is so many ways to kill in this day and age makes it impossible to come up with murder and especially if law enforcement don’t give a damn or they are in someones pockets too……….this is just another way to take this country and WE CANNOT AND WILL NOT LET IT HAPPEN!!
My wife and I watch him when was on Fox and he was getting bad it the end, and I will pay to see him on the internet. He is not worth that much monry to start with.
As to Mr. Beck,
I have listened and or watched GB for many years. Beck is a recovered Alcoholic and can/t be trusted to follow any lead he himself starts. I thought years ago he could be one of the leaders against the tyranny that the far left progressives are pushing. However it soon came apparent he does not do anything that makes him a target personally. He skirts that by saying hey its just me, do your own homework. I felt he was possibly a new much needed Moses and carved him a staff and sent it to him. It was only a short time after that he left Fox TV and now has GBTV on the web. GB is a clown a comic and will not fight the good fight.
So–anyone who is looking for a leader, look elsewhere. He does however consider himself a profit. ie; coins in the pocket.
Soooooooo,……………. Glenn is wrong big time on this …. That’s very bad, but give the guy a break…. He’s right most of the time…… … You guys ever been wrong about anything??…..He’s trying to right the “Big Wrong” that is this administration……….Very good video on FHU.com on People Pleasers, Friends of our Enemies…. check it out if you can….
I think we all need to ask ourselves…What are we prepared to do? I do not believe he will give up power. I also will present a resolution at our convention. I am sure they are much too PC to adopt it but I will introduce it nonetheless. I propose that individuals who have been on welfare for 2 years have their voting “privileges” suspended. Once they have been Off welfare and gainfully employed for 6 months, their voting “Privileges” will be restored. Should they again become unemployed and on welfare…voting privileges will be suspended immediately. People who are not paying the bills and have no skin in the game, should not be allowed to vote themselves raises with other peoples money. Also, lifetime caps on welfare benefits. No more money after 1st out-of-wedlock child.
If Obamacare considers a 26 year old a “child” for purposes of remaining on their parent’s health insurance, then they should receive no foodstamps, aid to dependent children, or public assistance of any type. The parents can take care of their 26 year old child and all that comes with it including out-of-wedlock children.
This would eliminate most of the Democratic base.
You are far too extreme for a Christian nation. I have had to be on public assistance and now Sovial Security throughout the past 26 years due to a disability, before which I had run and supported myself through the operation of my own family day care home while raising 6 children of my own. The cerebral hemorrhage happened a the age of 29 quite unexpectedly and by a miracle did not take my life. My husband died at age 48 back in October of 2000, never having gotten to collect a singtle penny of the Social Security that would have been his so I see it as my getting to collect and live on what would have been his along with what was to have been my own…and that should carry me through the last three or so decades of life, even if it is at the poverty level. You do not see people on Social Security dining in Europe or taking the 16 or so vacations that the Obamas have taken under full security protection subsidized by the taxpayers. Some of us are barely keeping food on the table. I deseeve to be able to continue voting as much as any other citizen who has never been guilty of a felony. My 6 children and now 9 grandchildren were my most precious contribution to this great country, even as they were gifts to me from the Lord. BTW, all 6 of my children were born in wedlock. It is sad to see the nation passing by the blessing of marriage so often today. Anyone voting DeathocaRAT today is in my opinion guilty of treason against this great country, given how much is at stake and how far down the tubes the current dictatorship has taken us already. Pray for the change we CAN believe in…and be sure to vote Republican this coming November!
Unfortunately, the welfare society has expanded to the point where it cannot be reigned in by customary means. It will simply expand until the bubble finally bursts or a “great” leader emerges with sufficient charisma and brutality to force the necessary changes.
I’m sorry, Glenn, but this time you’re wrong!!! We have watched your programming for a long time. There is nothing credible about a person who hides his past and refuses to release documents on his schooling, college apps, and any other written documents to prove his citizenship. I think when the truth finally comes out, many people (lots of MSM people) will be shocked. Something’s not right!!!!!
Right on, lizaz. Further, it is indicative of guilt that Obama spent millions of dollars to keep all of his early records sealed from the public. Only someone with something serious to be hidden spends money like that. Check out the video by Dr. Manning at you tube entitled something along the lines of “Just Produce the Doggone Birth Certificate” – he really made the case that this is inexcusable on the part of Obama and nobody dares to call HIM a racist because, like Allan Keyes who asked some of the same questions, he is black and the pastor of a black church. Now Andew Breitbart, who threatened to publish information from Obama’s background, turned up mysteriously dead at age 43 while as far as anyone knew he was definitely in excellent health and not at all suicidal. Remember how many people turned up mysteriously dead during the administration of Bill Clinton and it doesn’t take much to realize the sometimes fatal consequences of being deemed a threat by those in power. Pray for Andrew’s grieving family – a wife and 4 children left behind. He was a true patriot who could not be bought out and for that his memory should be respected.
Lets hope that WikiLeaks does America a really big service
Read this. I found it yesterday posted in a comment section. The poster lives in Louisiana. He challenges the newspaper editor who actually responds. The source is an African newspaper from April, 2011.
http://africanpress.me/2011/04/13/revealed-president-obama-is-a-lucky-man-%E2%80%93-the-kenyan-born-ruler-of-the-american-people/
Yep, the MSM, FOX and all their talking heads as well as those like Beck, refuse to come out and push for a investigation into all the fact based allegations that have now been revealed by a elected law official and other reliable practioners of the law to be more truth in fact than any of these so-called reliable news sources will not make even a coughing noise.
Oreilly has made himself into a less than credible source since he simply accepted the statement from SPLC’s claim they had a valid copy of the Mysery Man’s BC and could verify all these allegations but never has brought the SPLC back to make good on their boast. He and Beck both act like the plague will come forth should they make a credible issue of this lack credibility, failure to oblige the Constitution and the rule of law, they like the left are hoping the American people will grow tired of asking for a truthfull finalization to put the matter to rest….we do have loud mouths on the right also and they are causing damage to this nation.
ONTIME, you lost me there on loud mouths from the right causing damage to this nation. What, should they just say nothing. I don’t think so. O’reilly is no longer relevant and it looks like Beck has joined him in the dust bin of history.
Today’s comments by Beck were the last straw for me. I have written him off as just another soap salesman, telling us what we want to hear so that he can become richer. Enough is enough. So long Glenn, it was nice knowing ya.
Glenn who?
Listen Up People! Didn’t it ever occur to any of you that Mr. Beck is afraid not only for his life but his family as well. It should be evident that this is the case & even the politicians that oppose Obama are also afraid! He is the most powerful man in America & will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Even by posting these blogs, we are all taking a chance of being subject to any number of things he can have done to us. It all depends on who is the biggest threat to him. His Chicago style politics go deeper than you can imagine akin to the mobster days of old when a contract is put out & you will never see it coming. I can assure you this has already happened in several cases including some most recent. He owns the Justice Department for Christ sake! He can make you disappear in a heartbeat. Be careful! They are watching everything we do!
Everything you say is true………..THE WHITEHOUSE KNOWS HOW I FEEL, MY SENATOR AND REP!!! I dispise this filthy pos jackal, and don’t give a damn who knows it or watchs or see what I say or don’t say, this filthy nasty vicious piece of garbage NEEDS TO BE RUN OUT OF TOWN, TARRED AND FEATHERED…………you are also correct, THE ENTIRE CONGRESS IS AFRAID OF THIS PR%%K, AND IT SHOWS, yes the maggot can make anyone disappear, and die, just like his gay friend the choir boy!!!!!, I understand the pos used to visit a gay bar in Chicago I SAY BRING IT ON YOU PIECE OF FILTH!!!!
I read somewhere…………..
Give me liberty or give me death………..
and
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants……….
Glenn Beck very mistakenly thinks he’s protecting us from ourselves by hiding the truth. I believe he is willingly cooperating with a government operation to hide the truth from the American people about the fraud Obama.
Bush issued orders via the Homeland Security Department after Obama won the election to squash and cover up any attempt to dig into and discuss openly the fraud that Obama is. They did this on the basis that they believed that cities would burn after Obama won the popular vote and if he subsequently was disqualified. And of course the Dept of Homeland Security has been continuing to squelch any attempt to get to the truth with extra relish since Obama took over the reins of government and in particular, the DOJ with Eric Holder in charge there.
Our own government has been the enemy of the truth, with Glenn Beck thinking he’s a secret agent operative working to help them and protect cities from burning, ever since McCain and the RNC made the deal with Obama and the DNC to not talk about McCain’s natural born Citizenship flaws if he would not bring up Obama’s during the campaign. Meanwhile, while they are protecting us from the truth, the Constitution and every institution of our government and the rule of law is being corrupted to protect the fraud Obama, the Emperor who now clearly is wearing no clothing.
beck has been on my BS list for years, I’m glad this one is too big for him to escape.
I never could stand the guy, I was already pulling dozens of reports that were highly critical of Beck before airing on Fox. But when his little weasel a-s criticized my buddy Bill Christal of the Weekly Standard, it cemented my belief that Beck was the biggest farce since Jimmy Carter…Glenn Beck came out when there was allot of shattering about the Birth issue and then one day having coffee at Poppas, watching Glenn “out of amusement” He suddenly screamed out, shut up you idiots, shut up already about Obama’s birth Certificate. My Poppa said in a twinkling of an eye, Fox will let him go now, and then his ratings started to tank, more, more and within 7 months Glenn was off the air. And not until he shot off again and said I hate you Republicans! Hahahahahaha, something how he hated those who supported his vent tube of a show? Glen Beck, Shut up already! OH, that’s right, he has?
About the author of this article….Have you ever heard how he speaks about Ron Paul or his followers?
The Coach is NOT always right!
He can be very abusive!
But I do agree that Glenn Beck is wrong on this one!
I sent the following info to Glenn Beck, but I never get a response.
Would the Founding Fathers have allowed a Natural born American
(BORN ON US SOIL WITH TWO AMERICAN CITIZEN PARENTS) to go to
a foreign country (let’s say Russia) and become a Russian citizen
(SWEARING AN OATH OF LOYALTY) and then change his/her mind and
return to America; regain his/her citizenship and then run for president?
Of course they wouldn’t. Their intent of “THE NATURAL BORN CITIZEN”
clause was to protect the American government from being infiltrated by
anyone with a DUAL-loyalty or DUAL citizenship!
When Lee Harvey Oswald returned from the USSR did he automatically
regain his NATURAL BORN CITiZEN status or did he have to go through the
NATURALIZATION process and become a NATURALIZED American thus
losing his (original) NATURAL BORN CITIZENSHIP? Was he still a Soviet
Citizen (at the time he shot Kennedy) or was he a NATURALIZED
American citizen? Lee Harvey Oswald’s actions by defecting and
becoming a Soviet Citizen clearly showed his DUAL loyalty!
The answer is he was either a Soviet Citizen or a Naturalized American
and neither could legally run for or legally be elected President of these
United States of America!
Obama was born in America but only one of his parents was a citizen
(and she was under age). His father was never a citizen. Thus Obama is
a Native BORN citizen (ONE OR BOTH PARENTS NOT CITIZENS AT THE TIME
OF HIS BIRTH) not a NATURAL BORN American citizen. And thus, Obama
can not legally hold the office of the President of the U.S.A..
Obama was adopted by Lolo Soetoro, (AN INDONESIAN MUSLIM)
automatically becoming an Indonesian citizen. Obama’s grade school
records from Jakarta, Indonesia reveal that he was an Indonesian citizen
and that his religion was Islam, and that his name was Barry Soetoro. I
can send you a copy of the records if you wish. When Stanley Ann
Dunham divorced Lolo Soetoro, young Barry Soetoro was sent live with
his (White Folks – his description) grand parents.
Recently, someone released Barry Soetoro’s 1981 Columbia University
student ID. It is quite shocking to see that Barack Hussein Obama didn’t
exist until 1982. The very real fact is that our resident in the white house
is not Barack Hussein Obama, but is in fact Barry Soetoro, an Indonesian
Citizen! If Barry Soetoro went through the NATURALIZATION process to
regain his American citizenship, then he is not eligible to legally hold the
highest office as our president; because he is a NATURALIZED citizen. If
Barry didn’t go through the process to regain his American citizenship
then he is a complete and utter FRAUD and should be removed from
office and jailed for life!
YES THIS 22 YEAR OLD BARRY SOETORO’S REAL STUDENT ID.
I tried to post a picture of Barry’s (Obama’s) 1981 Columbia student
ID, but it doesn’t show in this post.
IF STU REALLY DID HIS RESEARCH, THEN HOW DID HE MISS THE
FACT THAT OBAMA LIVED HIS LIFE FROM 5 UNTIL 14, AS A
FOREIGN (INDONESIA) CITIZEN? ONCE YOU’VE BEEN A FOREIGN
CITIZEN, YOU CAN NEVER BE POTUS, BECAUSE OF THE FOUNDING
FATHERS BAN ON DUAL LOYALTY!
DOES THE TRUTH
REALLY LIVE ON
GBTV?
I haven’t heard about his Columbia ID.
Is it published anywhere on the net? …. Facebook?
Do you have a URL?
…or will the left declare it a manufactured fake?
I don’t consider myself a, so called “Birther”, but I do believe that Obama falsified alot of things in order to become President, so if believing tthat Obama’s BC is a fake, make’s me to be a “Birther”, then I must say, I will wear it with Pride, and Thank Sheriff Arpiao, and his posse for the great investigative work, and I look forward to the finish of the posse’s work, when one day we can all watch as Obama, and everyone else that knew of his fraud, is handcuffed and headed off to prison where I believe he should be right at this time.
We don’t have enough prisons
. Unfortunately Glenn & friends have decided it is easier to make fun of people bringing the truth. I find his radio talk show is more nonsense about Star Wars than our daily lives. GET REAL, We have real problems and making fun does not help ease the pain. He has the power to make a difference, just too afraid to try. I use GBTV on roku for $4.95 a month. Most shows are excellent. Too many are becoming about his trips. If they were fact finding trips I would like it, not just show n tell. As for his stand on Obama, he is running scared. If he would take a stand for all that is right he would have thousands of supporters stand with him. 24/7. He really ought to give it a try. ‘We the People’ need just one person to help lead the stand against the corruption in DC.
ABs untimely death; Rush’s unwarranted apoligy; and Glenn Beck’s bowing down to political correctness on bho’s b/c. Are we doomed? They seemed to have gotten to every one except Arpaio. I don’t know what it is they are using but death and imprisonment seems eminant to all who say or do ANYTHING to opose this communist takeover of our country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IT WOULD APPEAR SO!!!!!! THEY ARE ALL BOWING DOWN TO THIS POS!!!! NOT ME!!!!
Remember Becks claim “Question wth Boldness”. I have contacted Glenn Beck numeous times in an effort to Question him wth boldness only to met with silence. I know he has received the e-mails because I have sent them via their e-mails for advertisers and you know they read those.
Question with boldness – Hey Glenn what about those concentration camps you said didn’t exist?
Question with boldness – Hey Glenn Why did you scream at your audience that Obama was legal when you knew full well that he wasn’t.
Question with boldness – Where is your patriotism? All this talk about what the founding Fathers would do then you get weak kneed ad cowardly.
Lets face it Glenn your in it for one reason and one reason only MONEY. You are exploiting the problems we the people are having to mae money off your books and programs. Your every bit as bad as a Civil War Carpet Bagger. People are waking up to you Beck and your hypocropicy.
His Mormonism is first before all else. And so will the Mormon god Rohm…We will be placed on the back burner. Good read Larry, Touche’
Thanks Larry. Yours is one of the best comments yet. Several of my Tea Party patriot friends are begging me to “give Glenn another chance. He’s done too much good to just write him off”. Glenn has used up his “nine lives” of mistakes. I long ago wrote off Bill O’Reilly for the same reasons. They are both making so much money off of Conservatives who long for a political “Savior” to show them the way. This is one Conservative who has no intention of becoming a Beck or O’Reilly “Insider”
The ultimate goal of Obama and his communist minions is to reduce world population to less than one billion people.
Sebelius, Jarrett and Moochelle want to get there via birth control and abortion (The murder of little, defenseless babies in the womb); John Holdren wants to poison the water; Cass Sunstein wants to get there via regulation; Samantha Powers wants to get there via military-intervention; Rosa Brooks wants to gut our military: Carol Browner wants to close down our energy industries; David Axelrod wants us to become a Communist country; A.G. Holder arms the Mexican Drug Cartels so that they can kill at random; DOE head Chu pushes for $9.00 gasoline so we all can starve; Timmy the Tax cheat sends the IRS after all naysayers; Arnie Duncan has lowered the government school system to the bottom rung; DHS head Napolitano makes sure that all terrorists can cross our borders; DOL head Solis wants all companies to be unionized so that all manufacturing will move overseas; Bill Ayers wants to blow up the government as we know it. These are Obama’s associates that he looks to for guidance!
Birth control medicine increases the potential of blood clots. Abortion doubles the chance of getting breast cancer later. So is this really about women’s health or is it a further attempt by these communists to whittle down the population?
geezzz, when you put it that way, sounds just like a dandy way to live……………NOT
I used to respect Glenn Beck who purported that he showed us the TRUTH. I no longer do… I now call him the False Profiteer ( A false prophet who profits from his lies)
African Press International said
August 18, 2011 at 16:44 24
http://africanpress.me/2011/04…
REVEALED: President Obama is a lucky man –
By Chief editor Korir.
Now, President Obama has announced his intention to run for a second term despite a questionable citizenship.
The man born in Mombasa has managed to run the White House well and
wants another term. Obama has decided not to reveal his citizenship
because if he does, he will be taken to court for having ruled a country
against the constitution which states that a president must be a
citizen by birth.Sources disclose to API that President Obama will write a very
interesting biography revealing his birthplace, but only when he is no
longer the President. One thing he should not forget, however, is the
fact that he can still be prosecuted after leaving office.
The former Mombasa Imam who gave Obama’s mother the birth certificate
after the birth of Barack Hussein Obama is now living in the UK after
seeking for asylum in 2008 when the subject of Obama’s citizenship was
in top gear. The Imam fled Mombasa to Britain where he decided to remain
for his own safety. The former Imam tells API that he will soon hold a
press conference on the issue.
African Press International said
August 18, 2011 at 16:44 24
African Press International said
August 18, 2011 at 16:44 24
It is important for us to give accurate information to the readers. As concerns the questions that you have raised, we wish to let you know that we stand by what we write. The story is accurate. After Obama’s presidency, more true facts will come out.
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Lois said
August 18, 2011 at 23:33 48
Chief Korir,
I certainly appreciate your response. I will continue to visit your site as sadly the media in the US is corrupt and apparently doesn’t have the same regard for honesty and integrity in reporting as you do. It is also sad that we will have to endure another year and a half of Obama’s ineligible presidency before the truth comes out. Even so, justice will prevail and he will one day be held accountable for his crimes against our country. His web of lies will one day unravel. We have a saying here “oh what a tangled web we weave, when at first we practice to deceive”. Thank you ever so much. I guess our hands our tied which is probably as much a frustration for you as it is for me.
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Wow! Great post and read…It’s why I find myself sleepless these days. I’m not wanting to miss out on all the breaking news. and this is new to me…I have said myself, that if he loses the election here, he’ll most surely have built up his kingdom in the Mideast, seriously, he will too? Thanks for the post and link, good job…