Glenn Beck: Media Matters' 2009 Misinformer of the Year

[TomCADem]

Source: Media Matters

Glenn Beck's well of ridiculous was deep and poisonous before he launched his Fox News show, but the inauguration of the 44th president of the United States -- and the permissive cheerleading of his Fox News honchos -- uncorked the former Morning Zoo shock jock's unique brand of vitriol, stage theatrics, and hyperbolic fright, making him an easy choice for Media Matters' 2009 Misinformer of the Year.

When he wasn't calling the president a racist, portraying progressive leaders as vampires who can only be stopped by "driv a stake through the heart of the bloodsuckers," or pushing the legitimacy of seceding from the country, Beck obsessively compared Democrats in Washington to Nazis and fascists and "the early days of Adolf Hitler." He wondered, "Is this where we're headed," while showing images of Hitler, Stalin, and Lenin; decoded the secret language of Marxists; and compared the government to "heroin pushers" who were "using smiley-faced fascism to grow the nanny state."

Like his predecessor, Beck spat on scruples, frequently announcing his goal to get administration officials fired. He increasingly acted not as a media figure, but as the head of a political movement, while helping to bring fringe conspiracies of a one-world government into the national discourse.

And he all too frequently helped to set the mainstream media's agenda.


Read more: http://mediamatters.org/research/200912210015

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I particularly agree with the last part about how Beck was allowed to set the mainstream media's agenda as they repeated his insane rants and opinions as legitimate news.

[pfitz59]

1. not surprised

beck is a nut job..

[Turborama]

2. That is a very very well detailed list that any BecKKK droid will find hard to refute. However...

...I think the title is too generous to him.

He is disinformer of the year, not misinformer. The difference between the two is that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misinformation">misinformation is accidental and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation">disinformation is on purpose.

:kick: & R

[davidpdx]

3. This breaking news....

Glenn Beck also wins Ass Clown of the Year award.

[SpiralHawk]

5. ...And Republicon Chickenhawk of the Year

Which is tough to capture, since there is so much competition.

[Blandocyte]

4. Kanye might have some input

on who else could be Misinformer of the Year. Heh heh.

But, congrats, Glenn! Well-deserved!

[No Elephants]

6. Part of me hates to see the pig-faced boy win ANYthing.

[CJCRANE]

7. Beck should give credit to the fringe bloggers

whose Bush era conspiracy theories he copied.

[Doctor_J]

8. I read the headline backward - that King Glenn had named MM

the misinformer of the year. As it is, consider this a k/r

[existentialist]

9. and in related news

Sarah Palin has won the Polifact "Pants on Fire" award for 2009 for her statement that the Democratic Health Care bill would institute "death panels."

[fascisthunter]

10. Imagine that... an extremist fascist idiot setting the Media's agenda

don't blame him, its what they wanted, and no they aren't just following this man's agenda, they are helping to promote it.

[white_wolf]

11. Gah I hate this guy.

My best friend is a conservative and listens to him but at least my friend is smart enough to dismiss some of what this nutjob is saying as the BS that it is.

[mstinamotorcity]

12. Who cares about an

award that is about nothing Glen Beck spreading disinformation with every breath that he takes is hardly news.And damn sure doesn't merit award.I put this one right up there with picking boogars out of a nose.