{"id":1499,"date":"2009-12-21T13:19:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T21:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2009-12-21T13:19:04","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T21:19:04","slug":"glenn-beck-2009-misinformer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1499","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Beck: 2009 Misinformer Of The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of the announcement that Sarah Palin had edged out Glenn Beck for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1497\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Lie of the Year,&#8221;<\/a> Beck has bounced back to nab the Media Matters honor of 2009 Misinformer of the Year.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ETxEcWFMU1s&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This award caps a year of distinguished prevarication by an acknowledged master of the art. Beck has broken records for dishonesty with creative use of insinuation, hyperbole, conspiracy, insults, exaggeration, and paranoia induced hallucination.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Glenn. You earned it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2449\/3948444296_83aec7c254.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of the announcement that Sarah Palin had edged out Glenn Beck for &#8220;Lie of the Year,&#8221; Beck has bounced back to nab the Media Matters honor of 2009 Misinformer of the Year. This award caps a year of distinguished prevarication by an acknowledged master of the art. Beck has broken records for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[33,44,509],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-humor","tag-fox-news","tag-glenn-beck","tag-media-matters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-ob","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1631,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1631","url_meta":{"origin":1499,"position":0},"title":"Sarah Palin And Glenn Beck Tarnish The Time 100","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/29\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Time Magazine once again brings us their list of the 100 most influential people of the year. 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