Glenn Beck Reports CIA Plot Between Embassy Killing and Something Awful

An anonymous reader writes "Here's one that even The Onion would reject as too blatantly ridiculous: American right-wing radio and TV clown Glenn Beck believes that Sean Smith aka Vile Rat, the EVE Online diplomat who was killed earlier this month during the attack on the US embassy in Benghazi, was actually a CIA agent, relaying communications to his fellow undercover agents at Something Awful."

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Re:Full Audio or it didn't happen...

[FriendlyStatistician]

Here is the official summary of the episode from Glenn Beck's website:
http://www.glennbeck.com/2012/09/17/is-the-obama-administration-covering-up-scandalous-details-in-libya-attack/

Note particularly this part at the end:

So what does Glenn think really happened?

- The U.S. government is indeed looking for missiles to recover, so that no one finds out that we supplied them to terrorists
- They find a weapons cache of surface to air missles
- Same missiles we supplied during the revolution to take out aircraft.
- The CIA agents were forced to call in Stevens, our CIA weapons dealer.
- He flies in on short notice and takes an unmarked car to avoid suspicion to meet them
- The meeting goes south, he is taken to the closest safe house, which is why he ends up at the poorly secured consulate building.
- The message Sean Smith sent to the gaming community was really a message to the CIA telling them they needed help.

Audio from the relevant portion of the episode is posted on Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/nivdes/glenn-beck-goonswarm-is

"Goonswarm" is the name of the in-game organization affiliated with Something Awful.

TL;DR: It really did happen.

Re:Full Audio or it didn't happen...

[tomhath]

Glenn Beck has been known to use this device known as "sarcasm"

Good point. There's a talk show host named Rush who does the same thing; basically says ridiculous stuff to get people's attention. But the foaming at the mouth crowd takes them both seriously.

Re:Ad Hominem is called for in this case

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

Move along, no news here

Actually, I did learn something new today: Fanboys of Glenn Beck actually do exist!

Re:Glenn Beck Actually Working Deep Undercover

[egamma]

I'm not sure I get the joke here. The job of the deceased was "foreign service information management officer." I'm trying to imagine how somebody in that position could not work with intelligence services?

Perhaps he was the Exchange/Sharepoint/SAN administrator? "Foreign service" is pretty much any State Department employee stationed overseas. "Information Management Officer" sounds like he could be anything from the IT Admin to the filing clerk (if they still have paper files, that is).

Re:Glenn Beck is a fucking moron.

[flyneye]

But,even with no Glenn Beck, there IS a conspiracy.
http://www.subgenius.com/ts/hos_logs/Hour_of_Slack_1233.html
A little retro smile for my slash buddies.

Re:Full Audio or it didn't happen...

[Mashiki]

Right, now it's time to grow up. So, remember Iran-contra? And how the democrats blamed Regan for everything. No? Okay. So remember the last 8 years and oh let's go with the housing crisis. That was obviously all Bush's fault right. Despite the fact that in 2002 and 2003, that the republicans tried to change the rules but were blocked by the democrats. Wait, he was the only person in the government. Now that your little temper tantrum is done, you'd better get your head out of the sand.

Under Obama they were not tracked, the documents received showed that. The real problem that comes back on this is that the democrats themselves are stonewalling and it has become a civil case because the DoJ itself is blocking further investigations into the issue. Now, if you're finished lying to yourself perhaps, just perhaps you learned something today.

Re:Old.

[hovelander]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/magazine/job-creation-campaign-promises.html?pagewanted=all

Good zinger, really! I chuckled.

But the Prez can do very little to create jobs, realistically. Obama may have an easier time creating the Unicorn we all seem to want. Add in a obstructionist, insane House, and the Euro wanting to implode the European Union?

Good zinger though, really...

Re:Glenn Beck Actually Working Deep Undercover

[DMUTPeregrine]

He was one of the IT admins.

He was an enemy in game, and a friend out of game. I miss talking shop with him.

Re:Old.

[hovelander]

http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/18/news/economy/obama-bush-jobs/?source=cnn_bin

And what is Dubya's excuse during his orgy of spending? Where was the outcry then?

Come to think of it, even as an independent, Dubya made me cry a lot...

Re:Glenn Beck is a fucking moron.

[drkim]

The great thing about the Onion story is that Iran's Top News Agency (Fars) actually believed it!

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/10/01/irans-top-news-agency-reposts-onion-article-as-fact/

Re:Full Audio or it didn't happen...

[Gearoid_Murphy]

In 2003, Republicans controlled the house and the senate, I cannot find evidence for your claim that Democrats blocked regulatory legislation which would have prevented the US housing crash. http://uspolitics.about.com/b/2008/09/18/republican-congress-talked-about-financial-reform-but-did-nothing.htm In fact, given the disdain Republicans have for any form of governmental regulation, I find your claim doubtful