{"id":3330,"date":"2010-11-30T09:57:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T17:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3330"},"modified":"2010-11-30T11:13:37","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T19:13:37","slug":"unhinged-glenn-beck-thinks-government-wants-to-starve-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3330","title":{"rendered":"UNHINGED: Glenn Beck Thinks Government Wants To Starve You"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GlennIn a rant that raises Glenn Beck’s delusional factor<\/a> to unprecedented heights, he is now accusing the United States government of seeking to control the people via food safety programs with an ultimate goal of deliberate starvation. If you think that is hyperbole, here are his exact words: “This is about control and, in the end, starvation.”<\/em><\/p>\n

This hallucinatory screed<\/a> was spurred by a Senate bill (S.510) that would give the FDA additional authority to address food safety matters. The bill has received bipartisan support in response to the numerous cases of food recalls the past year (peanut butter, spinach, cookie dough, etc.) due to pathogens like E.coli and salmonella that have sickened thousands of Americans and led to dozens of deaths. Beck shrugs this off by asking “Is there a big problem that I don’t know of?”<\/em><\/p>\n

No Glenn, there isn’t. You DO know, you’re just lying about it. [FYI (pdf)<\/a>: Each year, about 76 million people contract a food-borne illness in the United States; about 325,000 require hospitalization; and about 5,000 die, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]<\/em> And that’s not all you’re lying about.<\/p>\n

Beck:<\/strong> Do you know where the FDA’s Deputy commissioner for foods used to work? Just a wild coincidence. The Monsanto company. And guess who the second largest holder was, you know, last quarter, the shares of the Monsanto corporation…George Soros.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not true. George Soros is not now, and has never been, the second largest holder of Monsanto stock. He has never even been in the top ten. His fund does own approximately $312 million worth of Monsanto stock, which is less than 7% of the $5 billion fund.<\/p>\n

As for the FDA official whom Beck didn’t bother to name, it is Michael Taylor<\/a>, who did indeed work for Monsanto for three years – ten years ago! For the 35 years before and after that he worked for either the FDA or Department of Agriculture. He was also a professor at George Washington University. It appears he took a short break from government service to cash in as a lobbyist. I won’t defend that but, the bottom line is that, whatever his association with Monsanto, it wasn’t recent enough to reasonably assert that he is still lobbying on their behalf.<\/p>\n

On a side note, it’s interesting that Beck should take such an antagonistic tone toward Monsanto when his employer engaged in a notorious and unusual defense<\/a> of the company a while back. In 1997, a couple of local Fox reporters, Steve Wilson and Jane Akre, produced a story on rBGH, a synthetic growth hormone developed by Monsanto that boosts milk production and is associated with an increased risk of cancer. After a letter writing campaign by Monsanto to Roger Ailes, the head of Fox News, disputing the story and hinting at a lawsuit, the story was shelved and the reporters were fired, despite all the evidence that the story was accurate.<\/p>\n

In subsequent litigation Fox argued that under the First Amendment broadcasters have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves. Fox has since taken full advantage of that right by lying and distorting the news every single day. And their lead distorter is, of course, Glenn Beck.<\/p>\n

[This Just In<\/a>:]<\/strong> Despite Beck’s urging that his viewers call Congress and protest, the Senate overwhelmingly passed the Food Safety Act 73-25, including 15 Republican votes. That still means that a majority of the GOP voted against the bill, but it is more bipartisanship than has been seen in the past two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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