Who Needs Facts? Glenn Beck's Dishonorable "Lie of the Year" Award
Besides Sarah ("Facts, what facts?") Palin, PolitiFact has selected Glenn Beck as runner-up in its first Lie of the Year contest, a dishonor Beck richly deserves.
Beck can barely open his mouth without distorting the truth or, even worse, making up "facts" from whole cloth. So it was no surprise that Beck's imaginary (and inflammatory) charges against a White House science advisor didn't pass the "common sense" test.
When it comes to Beck and the other Fox News blowhards, the best advice is to turn on your B.S. detector—you'll need it.
Read the PolitiFact smackdown of Beck's lies here.
http://fwix.com/tulsa/share/14e1aff61e/who_needs_facts_glenn_becks_dishonorable_lie_of_the_year_awardGlenn Beck claims science czar John Holdren proposed forced abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population
As evidence that the country is closer to socialist than capitalist these days, radio and talk show host Glenn Beck recently made this claim about John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy:
"I mean, we've got czars now," Beck said during his July 22, 2009, program. "Czars like John Holdren, who has proposed forcing abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population."
Political figures like Holdren, who are little-known by most Americans, make easy targets. And Beck's biting quick hit on Holdren provides a healthy enough dose of outrage on which to hang his argument.
http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/jul/29/glenn-beck/glenn-beck-claims-science-czar-john-holdren-propos/