{"id":1495,"date":"2009-12-17T17:37:55","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T01:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2010-07-12T12:18:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T19:18:03","slug":"is-glenn-beck-guilty-of-treason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1495","title":{"rendered":"Is Glenn Beck Guilty Of Treason?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rupert Murdoch’s pet paranoidal pea-brain, Glenn Beck, has been a persistent purveyor of fear<\/a> for years. He has predicted the most dire catastrophes for America, its economy, its values, and its people. The stench of doom that surrounds him is debilitating even in small doses.<\/p>\n

On his program yesterday, Beck leveled an accusation<\/a> that President Obama, or someone on his staff, had threatened Sen. Ben Nelson with the closing of a military base in Benson’s state, Nebraska. The only evidence of such a threat was a posting by a former McCain spokesman with an anonymous source on the conservative Weekly Standard web site. But Beck has blown this unreliable, unverified, rumor up into a serious allegation that crossed over into territory into which even he can’t believe he is going:<\/p>\n

“The Obama administration is possibly – and I can’t bring myself to say these words because it is abhorrent if it is true but it sure fits the pattern. They’re playing politics with the national security of the United States.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite insisting that he couldn’t say the abhorrent words, he managed to summon up the resolve to say them in the very next sentence. And with those words he came within a hair’s breadth of declaring President Obama a traitor – several times.<\/p>\n

“There’s a story at the bottom of the hour that if it is true, and we have three sources on it now, if it is true. I mean how much closer do you get to treason?<\/strong>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“But his party reportedly very angry and allegedly making threats. This one borders treason<\/strong>, I believe.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Threatening to weaken our national security defenses to fulfill your Utopian social justice agenda. To me that borders on treason.<\/strong>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Beck has a lot of nerve accusing other people of treason. There are numerous examples of him making statements that are hard to interpret as anything less than treasonous. He agreed with his guest<\/a> Michael Scheuer, that…<\/p>\n

“… the only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon<\/strong> in the United States.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And he declared his own enmity of America<\/a> in a discussion that speculated about civil war:<\/p>\n

“And don’t get me wrong. I am against the government<\/strong>, and I think that they have just been horrible, and I do think they are betraying the principles<\/strong> of our founders every day they’re in office.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

During yesterday’s program, Beck dispensed his usual legal disclaimer that he may not have all the information necessary to draw a conclusion. He conceded that all parties involved, the White House and Sen. Nelson, have denied the allegation, which they did emphatically. Yet, just as he did with his floating of the FEMA prison camp nonsense, Beck went just far enough to introduce the heinous charges, then allowed them to simmer while his conspiracy-addled audience sucked in the fumes of malicious hearsay. But even that wasn’t enough as Beck explicitly characterized these rumors as fact:<\/p>\n

“It doesn’t matter if it’s credible or not that they could do it. The fact that they threatened it<\/strong> – it is our national security.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The truth is that the whole scenario is not credible and they couldn’t do it. The procedure for base closings takes years and was designed specifically to disallow political influence. Both the White House and Sen. Nelson would be aware of this. Therefore, the only purpose for advancing a vile and improbable lie like this one is to slander the President. Beck is deliberately seeking to cast the nation’s leader as a traitor, which could lead to removing him from office and imprisoning or even executing him. And since these charges are wholly unsupported, Beck’s intentions would be tantamount to assassination. This, if true, would make Beck a traitor. Is Glenn Beck guilty of treason? Well, to paraphrase him…<\/p>\n

“No one wants to believe that the president of the United States<\/s> host of a TV program or any of his advisors would stoop to these kinds of tactics. But what are we supposed to believe here?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Exactly! What are we supposed to believe? I’m not accusing Beck of anything. I’m just asking questions. Beck knows that he can reach me here at this web site to respond to or correct any misinformation. To date he has not done so. That leads me to conclude that all of this is true. Why else wouldn’t he contact me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rupert Murdoch’s pet paranoidal pea-brain, Glenn Beck, has been a persistent purveyor of fear for years. He has predicted the most dire catastrophes for America, its economy, its values, and its people. The stench of doom that surrounds him is debilitating even in small doses. 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