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Glenn Beck Loses Dispute Over Parody Domain
CuteSteveJobs writes "Glenn Beck fought the law and the law won. Parody website DidGlennBeckRapeAndMurderAYoungGirlIn1990.com attacked Beck using the same straw man arguments Beck himself is famous for: 'We're not accusing Glenn Beck of raping and murdering a young girl in 1990 — in fact, we think he didn't! But we can't help but wonder ... Why won't he deny that he raped and killed a young girl in 1990?'
Beck didn't see the humour and tried to have the site shut down. He sued the creator on the grounds the site 'violated his name as a trademark.' But in a sudden outbreak of common sense, WIPO rejected Beck's complaint finding the site 'can be said to be making a political statement,' which is a 'legitimate non-commercial use' of Beck's name. But after winning, the owner voluntarily handed Beck the domain anyway. Still, it's comforting to know that satire — the only weapon politicians and talking heads fear — is still safely in the hands of the public where it belongs."
do you mean conservative or contraditoryative...he is a racist, extremist coward, he's a horrible representative of what America is all about and he is just a f*cking c*nt and should be taking off the air.
No matter what you may think of Glen Beck, baseless rumor created by misleading posts on the web could have serious consequences for any public figure. Beck has good reason to believe that his financial success could be directly impacted by heinous and untrue implied accusations, as does any other public figure. I'm not sure how a public figure can defend themselves against this sort of thing, regardless of the source and target. The price of the First Amendment may be that we also have the responsibility to take care with the sources of our information and not give credence to rumor and slander. Unfortunately, that sort of responsibility seems not to be in vogue, and places the only defense of 's reputation in the hands of John Q. Public.
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You sir, are a typical liberal bigot
It's not exactly unreasonable to call a program for the government to have the means to produce a thing (good or service) a socialist program.
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So you admit you're an idiot!
Go ahead then. If you want to make yourself stupider, Beck will certainly do the trick. No one on the left even comes close to his level of sleaze, lies, and viciousness. On the right, though, there is a whole stable full of such creatures.
Find me one liberal commentator who pitches frothing, raging hatred like Beck does, and I'll eat my words.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Glenn Beck calls President Barack Obama a 'racist'.
Being a racist, while repugnant to me (and, I surmise, you) personally, is still a matter of personal opinion to which every American has a right. Obama's clearly no more a racist than the rest of us are, but even if he were, it wouldn't rise to the level of something truly heinous.
A more apt analogy would be if Glenn Beck said, "Did Barack Obama kill white people as a member of the Black Panthers?"
Did Glenn Beck ever say anything on that level?
And, nobody is accusing Glenn Beck of having raped and murdered a young girl in 1990.
Suppose somebody around your workplace starts going around asking whether there's any truth to rumors that your boss is into child porn. Now, before this person said anything, there were no rumors, no supposition at all that this might be true. But eventually, the newly-created rumor spreads, people start shunning the boss and shooting him dirty looks all the time, and after a mental breakdown, the boss is forced to resign by his superiors.
Nobody actually ever accused him of being into child porn. Nevertheless, the initial rumormonger managed to assassinate the boss's character and get him fired. By your logic, that's perfectly 100% okay, because nobody actually made the accusation.
Why does Glenn Beck deserve less protection from this sort of character-assassinating rumormongering than the rest of us? Because he's a public figure? Or just because you disagree with everything he says?
Yes. He made the grave error of not simply reporting what the Obama administration is feeding the media as fact. It's sad that a guy who claims he's a better alcoholic than a journalist is the one actually asking questions.
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Jones joined the communist party, and perhaps now he's dropped out to join the Democrats, but that doesn't mean his core views have changed.
Except in the link which you apparently didn't read where he explains how his views changed.
I'm no longer a Libertarian Party member, having realized the LP has little hope of winning
Yeah, hard to run crackpot candidates.
You are a liar. Obama has shown plenty of documentation. Every time he does, people like you lie and claim he hasn't. Doesn't change the truth, or what 99.999% of Americans believe.
But let me ask you something, seriously, do you believe Obama was not born in America?
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
They've discovered that the majority of their voters respond best to brain-dead, cackling circus buffoons. Take that how you must.
The land shall stone them with the bread of his son.
I think this calls for a website...
www.areallglenbeckfansdroolingidiots.com
Yes, he's asking questions based on what Obama himself has said. "Look at the people I surround myself with to determine my beliefs" is what Obama said during the campaign. He then named off a bunch of liberal, moderate, and conservative people. Now, as President, he has surrounded himself with people that either call themselves communists or look to communists for their political philosophy (Anita Dunn anyone?). That doesn't sound so safe any more. So now, taking the word of the President, he's asking "Do you really believe these things?" Even during the campaign "I think that if you spread the wealth around, it's better for everybody".
If you really think that Beck is some extreme guy, then you aren't watching him, you're just watching the clips of him on YouTube. He may not be the smartest guy around (which he freely admits), but he talks to a lot of very smart people.
Nobody is saying he's a rapist and a murderer, they're just pointing out that he's never denied.it. He attacked an Arab-American senator, saying that they've never gone on record stating they aren't a terrorist, and never really presented any solid proof they aren't working for Al Quaida, so basically the website is operating under the assumption that if he can give it, he can take it.
I think you're full of shit. I've been watching Beck for nearly a year and I can't recall a single time when he accused a senator of what you're saying he did. Got a source to back that up?