A Question for Glenn Beck on Global Warming and Conspiracy

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glenn-beckGlenn:

I’m under the impression that you consider the science behind global warming to be inaccurate, and that the efforts to promote it include hiding truth. A grand conspiracy, of sorts. On your TV show in November, 2009, you said:

Count them. There’s Jones, Mike, Keith, Gene and Caspar, whoever they are. Potentially deleting emails supposedly about supposed science. So why all the secrecy?

You went on:

“Deleting emails. Hiding declines. Incorrect Data. Inadequate systems. Redefining scientific peer reviews for their own uses. This is what appears to be going on behind the scenes. And literally trillions of dollars of policy decisions are being based on what these guys are telling us. If your gut said “wait a minute, this global warming thing, it sounds like a scam” – well, I think you’re seeing it now”

The whole story sounds like a massive conspiracy to give the government an excuse to pass cap and trade, to impose restrictions on business and individual choice, to aggrandize themselves with more money and power. It wouldn’t really surprise me.

That is what government does in the United States. In fact, it’s things like this that made me realize that neither Democrats or Republicans in D.C. had any respect for your freedom or for the Constitution. That was a driving force behind launching the Tenth Amendment Center, which I founded in mid-2006.

But, you know what? I’m not a detective, and I don’t have time to study the science, the clues, the mystery behind global warming or the global warming swindle as many people call it. So, if you had me on your TV show (sorry I wasn’t available when your producers asked last year, but I think my recommendation for a substitute worked out great!), and asked me:

“Michael – do you believe in this global warming scam, do you believe what the mainstream scientists are telling us about global warming – yes or no!?”

I’d have to answer this way:

“I’ve heard a lot of reports from reputable people on both sides of that issue. There are some very good arguments, and I think the American people have not seen all of the evidence there, so I have not taken a position on that. What I do know is this, I don’t trust the government to tell me the truth.”

In response, would you then say that you’re “writing me off” and “writing the Tenth Amendment Center off” because I haven’t taken a position on this – and that a better source for state sovereignty information is now the Huffington Post?”

Well, that’s basically what you did with Debra Medina on your program this week. The one person in the Texas campaign who’s had the courage to speak out about the Constitution, about nullification and interposition, about the founders, about the principles of liberty that this country was founded upon. That one person is “written off” by you because she hasn’t “taken a position on” a conspiracy theory that may or may not be of interest to her or her campaign?

Wow. Obviously the Constitution isn’t very important to you. A person’s stance on a conspiracy theory is. Or maybe this is just your way of trying to marginalize one of the few candidates in the entire country running their whole campaign on the original view of the Constitution.

Is that it, Glenn? Because it sure seems that way.

Maybe the real conspiracy isn’t 9-11 or Global Warming or anything of the sort. Maybe it’s all about the establishment media, and people like yourself – is this your way of letting the hardcore constitutionalists out here know that you really prefer the establishment candidates?

What should be more important is a person’s stance on the Constitution. In fact, that’s ALL that voters should care about. Not their race, their background, their religious views, their positions on conspiracies or anything else. People are elected to follow the constitution – and nothing more.

What’s more important to you, Glenn – a person’s stance on the Constitution or their view of a conspiracy theory?

Don’t bother answering. You already have.

Michael Boldin [send him email] is the founder of the Tenth Amendment Center. He was raised in Milwaukee, WI, and currently resides in Los Angeles, CA. Follow him on twitter - @michaelboldin, on LinkedIn, and on Facebook.

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98 comments
Lois Wells
Lois Wells

Glenn! This is the second solution I have in stopping the OIL FLOW and CAPPING/CLOSING The other solution that I have for stopping the OIL FLOW and CAPPING/CLOSING those enormous pipes is:
So far BP has tried putting mud and cement down into the pipes to stop the Oil Flow. They say it is not working. My thought is, "Why not mix mud and GRASSES together, and shoot the mixture into the pipes? If this works, and slows the Oil Flow down, then shoot Cement into the pipes on top of the mud and grasses?
Through the experiments of the two farmers, I was convinced that by using HAY and GRASSES this could be the answer to solving America's massive Oil Leak problem. What say you?

I have one more problem. I need Glenn Beck's e-mail address. In the past I have sent e-mails out to other commentators, and my e-mail would never get through. My comments were always returned to me. This is very frustrating, especially for someone who wants to speak her mind. (LOL)

Lois Wells
Lois Wells

Glenn! I'm writing you because I think I have a solution in stopping and controlling the enormous leak of the oil pipes and the oil slicks. Recently, I saw on U-2 videos, how these two farmers came up with a solution on how to stop the oil slicks. I was amazed at what I saw. The farmers used two huge bowls (vats), and filled them with WATER. They poured CRUDE OIL into the two bowls. Then the farmers took two large handfuls of "HAY" and sprinkled it into the first bowl that had the Crude Oil. They proceeded, and took all types of GRASSES and sprinkled the grasses into the second bowl. At this point, I was amazed. Within a few seconds the HAY and the GRASSES had soaked up every bit of the CRUDE OIL in both bowls. Amazing, the WATER was crystal clear. There was not one bit of oil left in those bowls. I thought to myself, "Why isn't the government using this technique to clean up the OIL SPILLS? By using this method, our shorelines would be protected and free of Crude Oil. It would just then be a matter of using fishing nets, or whatever resource the government may have to pick up the GRASSES.

Rich Matarese
Rich Matarese like.author.displayName 1 Like

A bit late to the scene, but once it goes up on the Internet - of course - it never comes down.

From a later perspective I have to say precisely what I would've said in February, I have had "...to study the science, the clues, the mystery behind global warming [and] the global warming swindle" - some thirty years of sensibility to the arguments on both sides of the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis - and both undergraduate and graduate education in the scientific method. I'm not a meteorologist, atmospheric physicist, geologist, limnologist, or "climatologist," but I'm well enough versed in the physical sciences to have looked upon the AGW contentions back in '79 and muttered: "These bloody fools are overestimating the carbon dioxide greenhouse effect by at least three orders of magnitude."

Turns out my horseback assessment at that time way way to hellangone too charitable. Turns out (courtesy of ERBE satellite data analyses published last year, not to mention a bunch of other verified observational evidence) to be even less of a potential problem than that.

Pressing for adherence to the principles of the document that emerged from Hamilton's connivance - a Constitution deliberately riddled with loopholes through which the statists have been driving their engines of aggrandizement and pillage since day one - is all well and good. The problem is that majority opinion to the effect that "the Constitution is whatever the Supreme Court says it is" ruins the ardent constitutionalist.

Always will. On the issue of anthropogenic global warming, however, it has been the position of the fraudsters - the politicians, the private sector rent-seekers, and the Cargo Cult Science charlatans who were de-pantsed in the Climategate revelations last November - that they have the facts on their side.

And as opposed to dependence on the Constitution, when ex-law school students in robes can screw you to death (and have done so), it is far more likely that the tide can be turned against the thieving statists in the debate over the "global warming" fraud because - surprise! - those of us who are condemned as "skeptics" have factual reality (which is not susceptible to more than tentative confounding by way of legalistic bafflegab) on our side.
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Lloyd Miller
Lloyd Miller

No, no, no! If you can't make your mind up on the GLOBAL WARMING scam, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM. Acceptance of Global Warming propaganda means throwing the Constitution in the waste basket PERMANENTLY! Yes, I am 100% in favor of restoring the 10th Amendment to operational status! So is Glenn Beck!

bee bee
bee bee

Michael Boldin's article is the most scattered, immature, meandering article (vignette?) I've ever read - and that takes a lot. What is his premise? what is the point he's trying to make? None, he's angry Glenn Beck doesn't support his candidate, but instead of addressing that point, Boldin wanders around making a few hits here and there. It sounds like what he doesn't like is Glenn Beck not supporting D Medina because, yes, someone who waffles on an outlandish theory might be questionable. Question, have you not done the same thing, you have thrown Glenn Beck out because he didn't like D. Medina? Boldin's assertion seems to be everything about Glenn must be fake because he doesbn't suport Boldin's candidate. And where does Boldin come up with this facile link between - what's more important - the constitution or a conspiracy theory - Boldin's setting up a false choice. If he's angry about Beck not supporting his babe candidate, explore that, but this circuitous Alice in Wonderland meandering - it is disappointing and I must now pause and wonder about the quality of this site.

Keith B.
Keith B.

I live in liberal MD. One reason I am not a Perry fan is the controversial HPV Vaccine. Remember the Executive Order? Most girls/women get this by sex. It can happen by rape, but that percentage is very small compared to consensual sex. If I had a daughter in TX I would have said NO. This is the reason I would have voted for Medina along with her other views. I would not agree with them all, but enough to say yes to Medina. Link to Perry's Executive order

http://cbs11tv.com/local/rick.perry.hpv.2.499776....

Freedom
Freedom

Glenn Beck works for the establishment media outlet and is a nobody.

Will people never learn that mainstream media is as corrupt as the federal system that we struggle against.

Propaganda is a powerful tool of a tyrant.

djt
djt

Glenn
Wow, Global Warming is Real? How much did the left pay you to say that? There is overwhelming evidence that Global Warming is a hoax power grab by the UN. I just can’t understand why that the great Glenn Beck is a turn-coat.

Ciel
Ciel

Excellent, Michael! Beautiful piece.

Mark Boyle
Mark Boyle

I ask Judge Andrew P. Napolitano on his site this question, hope he ansures

I'm curious how you feel about Glenn Beck marginalizing Debra Medina over a 9/11 truther whisper campaign. She is a great hope for Texas and her victory would have been as great as Scott Browns. His ADD moment most likely cost her the campaign. I've been a Beck fan for years, since I saw him on CNN but this really shocked me. When did the Right wing Media start to eat there young?

Let's barrage his friends at Fox and see if he gives her a second chance, but this is what he did to Ron Paul too.
I'm torn, I like his show because he let's everyone know screwed we are, but it looks as tough that he wont actually be any help.

Captainshays
Captainshays

After the attack on me personally as a Ron Paul supporter who gave a painful (to my personal financial status) amount on the Guy Fawks Day money bomb by labeling me a "terrorist" ( and my wife too), I was done with him. But then I tuned in again and started to give him the benefit of the doubt when I heard him mention the founding fathers and the Constitution so much. Then he regained some of the lost respect by treating Ron Paul with more respect. I even bought someone his book for Christmas.

I have lived my life as a patriotic American son who has it in his blood to question my government. Our entire country was founded on suspicion of government. We fought and won our Revolution against our own government and now, he railroads a good and decent candidate who is dedicated to Constitutional principles simply because she is suspicious of the government's official story about the events of 911?

It's not just a yes or no answer. The vast majority of Americans still have many questions about the events of that day and for good reason. They have not been answered to our satisfaction. It doesn't mean that we believe people in our own government engineered and executed a conspiracy to fly planes into buildings and murder 3,000 people. Maybe some people do believe that but not all who question those events. There are still some very complicated dynamics that patriotic engineers and scientists have questioned and others who have attempted to answer those questions and counter them with all their heart. I am still not convinced either way nor am I convinced either way about global climate change. Right now, I am no longer convinced that Glen Beck really supports candidates who will uphold the Constitution, that he's a lover of the Constitution and US sovereignty or really respects the intent of the founding fathers.
I hope Comcast keeps a record of who watches his show because there will be one less viewer starting yesterday.

Hawkeyes43
Hawkeyes43

Glenn Beck is a neo-con leading the republicans down the government rabbit hole. At first I refused to believe this about Beck; however, as Alex Jones suggested, Beck will show his true colors. When he attacked a state politician on a federal issue, I beleive that crosses the line. I heard a Texan on the radio today ask if Beck would ask Rick "I Wanna Be A Bilderberger" Perry about his recent trip to a Bilderberger meeting, and I thin we all know the answer to that. Beck subsequently expressed his desire to “french kiss” Rick Perry and the fix was in." Beck has shown his colors and no longer deserves his status among those who truly support Libertarian principles and the Constitution. So long Glenn Beck you will be one of the rats underground hiding from the wrath that is to come.

theophobe
theophobe

I think you've picked up on what's really up w/ GB here. He was bristling from some spot on criticism that he'd received from Alex Jones recently, who just happens to be a very outspoken and influential 9/11 'truther' and who just happens to also support Debra Medina's candidacy. GB showed his true colors when he merely used Debra Medina and this interview in a very ugly way to vicariously spit in Alex Jones' face and prove to his own bosses that he has cast out 9/11 truthers from his following.

sommers
sommers

Beck has lost me here. I watch him regularly but, I'm beginning to wonder......is he bought ? Has AIPAC taken control of him ?
We've got real bad problems folks.

Pauline
Pauline

We owe Glen Beck a lot for making us aware of the things being done to destroy our constitution. I don't think he used good judgement in condemning Debra Madena for not answering his question, however I do not believe there is any conspiracy re: the destruction of the World Trade Center. I believe it was done by people who hate us and not by our own people. She seems to have certain people shaking in their boots so lets see if she can take the governor seat.

Steve
Steve

Glenn Beck is nothing more than a Judas Goat to lead the Tea Partiers and marginal Libertarians back to the Neocon wing of the Republicat Party. Palin is just an attention whore and the Neocon version of Obama.

Jack Mackenzie
Jack Mackenzie

My two cents - It's clear to me that Representatives and Senators are elected to go to Washington to protect the Constitution from the other Representatives and Senators and to protect their State from the other Representatives and Senators.

It's clear to me they are NOT sent to Washington to tax us, to demean us, to get one over on us, to enable massive global corporations in Fascism, and to undertake all the criminal activity we regularly associate with federalized political power.

Not one member of Congress meets this critical life and death definition.

Paul T
Paul T

Well Done Michael, Bravo!

It was obvious that Beck was quick in pulling the trigger in the Medina interview. It's as if he had the gun pointed at her just waiting, wait for it.....AH there it is....attack, write her off. She said there were questions that people have raised, but in trying to keep an OPEN mind instead she gets written off by a self proclaimed do-gooder that has 'drank the Kook-Aid' and enjoys jumping to conclusions. His inflamatory 'entertainment' provides just enough credability for the sheeple to believe him. Anyone outside his viewpoint is deemed 'crazy'....even if they want to have an open mind.

Here is Texas I like what Medina is saying, what she stands for. And for stating openly there are unanswered questions regarding 911. Now after this I am surely voting for her. The establishment is gunning for her, so she is my candidate now :)

Keep going Michael, thanks for all you do.

Merry Colin
Merry Colin

Mr. Boldin, I completely agree with your article. I didn't hear the radio show but read the transcript. (The same way I READ everything Oblahblah says so I actually don't miss the sublime behind the spoken words) I was extremely disappointed in Beck's interview and subsequent dismissal of this candidate. Beck really blew it on this one! He speaks of finding "refounders" who understand the Constitution and who are dedicated to acting in accordance with it. and then decides whether they are "worthy" by a standard that has nothing to do with the issue at hand. He may say he does not endorse anyone however, he certainly wrote this one off. I think this is a reflection of his pairing up with O'Reilly, something I believe is truly unwise. I won't condemn him however. We all make bad judgment calls at one time or another. I fear that the left will have all sorts of fun with your chastising Beck; they will blow your single point out of proportion in an effort to destroy him. I would hate to see them get away with this as overall, Beck's program is chock full of information that the American people need to learn about. It's a lousy situation---damned if you do and damned if you don't. All I would ask is this: If the left-media goes crazy with this that you make it clear that you were criticizing ONE aspect of Beck's thinking and not his entire show/message, which is what I thought you did very well here.

scott Ligon
scott Ligon

The govt is to blame- Who is responsible for expired visas? Who is in control of airport security?? And the borders, and the ports?? And the govt is NOT to blame????

Lynn
Lynn

Oh please, Beck did not set up or attack Medina. It was a yes or no answer that anyone could have answered truthfully were they inclined to do so. It took Medina hours to formulate a coherant answer which should tell us something. And serioulsy, does anyone think Beck really wants to kiss Perry on the lips? Seriously? It was his way of saying that next to Medina, Perry is looking pretty good. Personally, I have to agree. I still don't like Perry but at least he's not a nut as near as I can tell. Medina didn't have to do a "professional politician" job in the interview yesterday but she should have at least been capable. She couldn't answer a simple yes or no question but more than that, she couldn't even tell the audience who she was, which was the first thing Beck asked. If you can't even start out of the gate wiith telling the listeners who you are and what you stand for, then you've got problems.

Maryann
Maryann

I felt Beck had a hidden agenda and was may be doing someone a "good ol' boy favor". Nobody has any Medina dirt to dig up as is usual in elections. Think about it. We have a TON of relevant important issues that face us today, and what is Beck dredging up? An old 911 conspiracy theory that Medina professes to now know enough about? And Beck slays her for that? Apparantly he is also the only one that can question the government. I would have respected him more if he would have disagreed in a logical and professinal manner. Instead he sigs off with a completely inappropriate response after hanging up, shouting that he now wants to "french kiss Perry"?? I personally do not know a single conservative Christian who would have ended the interview that way, even if they did not agree with Medina. It made me question his true personality and ethics.

Doug Holdridge
Doug Holdridge

Hmmmmm - was this a quid pro quo for Gov. Perry?

Peter James
Peter James

Something Glenn said earlier this week sticks in my mind: "You can tell who the left is most afraid of because that's who they spend the most time attacking." Well, I guess Constitutional fundamentalists are who Beck is *really* afraid of, because after criticizing Gov. Perry for several of his corrupt actions, he then proceeded to announce that he would like to "kiss him on the mouth" he was so in love with him. To spend two full hours (one yesterday, another today) of a national show trashing Medina, one (Republican!) candidate in one local race, tells me that *somebody's* really afraid of her!

dan
dan

It isnt that anyone is afraid of him. Its the fact that we are sick of him. I will admit he is good at gitting ratings though thats for sure. How does this headliner sound to you. (Tonight on FOX news, O?BAMA! a racsist???) Well accorse your going to watch. You are going to feel inclined to what nonsense they have to say. This man is feeding on the (angrey) emotions bottled up in the back of your head that say what if? I learned a long time ago to just discredit him because 1. he was a drug addict. 2.he tried to kill himself. and 3. he claims to be always right about everything yet he has been proved wrong numerous

Mr. Dickie Pope
Mr. Dickie Pope

At least Glenn and Rush are.....................RICH

Isn't that more important then either CONSPIRACIES(global warming notwithstanding)
or
CONSTITUTIONS

?

mark1972
mark1972

I normally like what Beck has to say, but his reaction to those who question 9-11 or the birth certificate issue disturb me greatly. His whole schtick is, "question with boldness" ..unless of course it is something he does not wish to question! Who is HE to decide what questions are appropriate?!?
All Medina said is that there are unanswered questions regarding the events of 911!
Are we not supposed to ask questions? Or just the ones that Beck wants us to?
Sadly I now believe he is a puppet. I wonder who is holding his strings? His arrogance is astounding!

Lynn D.
Lynn D.

Global warming is definately another government scam wherein they are attempting to blame "overpopulation" for the weather anomilies that THEY are producing via HAARP, Project Bluebeam and other evil inventions being used in a covert weather warfare by the U.S. and Russian military. Think the Indian tsunami was a natural occurence? Think again. Think Hurrican Katrina and Rita were natural? Think again. Think the Haitian earthquake was natural? Think again. Global warming is a farce however changes in the weather and environment are real. Many things have changed since I was a child. For example, the clouds were normal looking, now they area hodge podge of "chemsprayed" strips all over more often than not. The honey bees and frogs are dying off. I used to catch baby toad frogs by the jar fulls as a child. Now you hardly ever see one. Flowers, trees and shrubs are blooming at the wrong time of year. So yes, they are manipulating the weather and calling it "global warming" or "climate change" and their plan is to blame it on US so they can have an excuse for their underlying agenda EUGENICS (mass reduction of population). As far as Glen Beck goes, he is nothing but a shill for the right wing conservative group who have not risen above the phony left/right paradigm in order to see the BIG PICTURE. Lenin once said "The best way to control the opposition is to LEAD IT." Well there you have it. That's what Beck's job is. The Libertarian view comes closest to the Truth but it still wouldn't save us even if we had nothing but Libertarians running the nation. No, the "heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Who can know it?" Eventually, we'd be in the same mess because men apart from Jesus Christ are wretched sinners. The true Jesus Christ (the Word of God) is the only One who can save anyone, not the government, not a political party and not the religious phony "Christ" of organized churchianty, which is run from the top, just like the government, by Freemasonry (aka Luciferianism).

Dave
Dave

Michael,
Please don't be too hard on Beck. He himself claims to be only an entertainer. He does what he does for ratings. You, are on a higher level. What you are doing (TAC) is hugely more important. Don't wrestle with pigs. Beck is reaching people who are so far away from understanding your message, but at least he may be bringing them a step closer. I don't see him as an enemy.

Mark
Mark

Beck is a dupe for the establishment by playing the role of a provocateur. His hypocrisy, duplicity and inconsistancy are hallmarks of shills. He isn't a shill for the Republican Party, he is a shill for the military-industrial complex. Of course there is a lot of overlap between these two (just as there is with the Democratic Party), but his priorities are obvious. And the Constitution is not at the top of that list; killing little brown people (infidels) in countries that have oil is.

Lonnie Buchanon
Lonnie Buchanon

Hey Beck, I don't think I will be hurrying home to catch your TV show again. You have self-certified yourself to be a judge. Maybe your ego needs a "realignment" which I think you will get.

GaryWood
GaryWood

Yesterday in my comments I said I liked Glenn Beck. I am still glad he raised awareness of the Constitution and encouraged people to read the 5000 Year Leap but on the way home from work yesterday I was able to hear the entire interview segment, including the ridiculous rants after he hung up the phone. We all are able to change our minds and Mr. Beck has changed mine, I don't like Beck. Also, with all the common sense Debra Medina was making regarding transitioning Texas from an over taxed state on property to a state run on consumption taxes purely I want to know about her so we can talk to our family in Texas. She sounds like she really gets it and Beck sounds like he really misses it all.

Doug Holdridge
Doug Holdridge

My immediate reaction was the same as the author - hatchet job. It's not as though it were an impromptu phone call - Beck was hell bent on doing a hatchet job based on HIS 911 beliefs and she was hell bent on getting her message out on a bigger stage than she could have ever dreamed of. If she had just listened and answered the questions as asked I think she could have blunted his 911 assault. But she was so determined to take full advantage of the opportunity to get her total campaign message out her answers sounded like they had been prerecorded by an automaton.

apparently Beck didn't warn her ahead of time that he was going to do a smack-down

It was as though she didn't have ears

@dalecaruso
@dalecaruso

Just finished reading an EXCELLENT piece on the notion of conspiracies .... that speaks well to all this..
http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2010/02/rid...
DO read the growing flow of comments -
One commenter "Tucci " put it well in his opening paragraph - "Conspiracy is a tool of both the powerful and the weak. It is merely covert combination so as to cohere resources and action toward a purpose, which purpose would meet resistance if its nature (and the methods of its supporters) became widely known."

Cheryl Fallon
Cheryl Fallon

Beck may care about the Constitution but he also shows his hand by this interview...it was unprofessional and too biased and it didn't compare to the kiss up interview he did with Palin which was nauseating. They just sat there for an hour and basically agreed with everything each other said.

I have listened to Beck for quite a while now and though I don't agree with him on all things I think many times he raises good points about many of the issues but for some time now I have noticed he is capable of flip flopping on something and maybe he will see the light with Medina.

I am not from Texas but really like her and will send in financial support for her. No one is going to be the PERFECT candidate for any given office but just think of what our country might be like if many in office were like her?

Beck needs to stop thinking so highly of himself and come down off his high horse...how he supports Perry I will never know but he I think has made a serious error with his "group" that follows him.

OldDog
OldDog

Look at this list of people wasting their intellect by commenting on this putrid pundit; whose real job is to create distractions in the minds of fools who watch and listen to him. Ignore him, and the people who have placed him in the spot-light will replace him with another jerk in the same clothes.
Keep your minds focused on building a new government, one way or another, until we have restored freedom to this country, and using the existing system to implement that objective is a waste of time. Michael is playing Becks game when he responds to Becks verbal legerdemain.
OldDog said that!

dakealo
dakealo

I heard that rebuke of Medina on the radio and was appalled by how GB just dimissed her like she was irrevelent because she would not take a position on the 911 issue. Sometimes you just want to grab the mike from him and scream: WAKE THE F%*K UP!

Monorprise
Monorprise

Debra Medina's fumble on the Beck program was crushing and while the Global warming comparison is rather interesting (particularly seeing as how the left has been activity working to write off anyone as a nut-case that dares question it).

To my knowledge there is substantially better evidence that 9/11 was carried out by terrorist then that it may have been a government ploy.

Debra Medina may not personalty have been aware of all that evidence, and her limited information set on the matter may indeed demand she keeps an open-mind (which is a virtue not a vice). Not everyone has been tackling National Security issues for the last 9 years.

Indeed I seem to remember a large chuck of our population giving credence to the so called "truther" conspiracy, not so long ago.

All that being said it is rather clear that Debra Medina is not NOW a 9/11 "truther."
http://www.medinafortexas.com/getPost?p=272

To be quite honest I was a bit dismayed by Glenn's handling of the situation and quick write off, seemed a bit unfair.

Huladeb
Huladeb

Get a grip people. When you are so sold on your candidate that no negative info can sway you, you sound like Obama supporters.

And to say Beck doesn't care about the Constitution is just incredible.

Don't you folks understand that 9/11 truthers were Progressives concocting theories to discredit Bush? They were so deranged in hatred of him that they would do anything. That conservatives would sign on to this shows poor judgement at the very least.

Be careful. I think the conspiracy theorists on the right, and those who enable them, may bring down the tea party movement.

Seriously?
Seriously?

So it was Progressives that started the whole 9/11 truth movement? Sounds like quite a conspiracy.

It's funny though, pretty much all the people I know who believe the government was somehow involved on 9/11 are not involved in politics at all. I think many of them are too apathetic to even vote.

I look forward to more conspiracy theories about how the Progressive [Liberals] are behind all the evils in the world.

MichaelBoldin
MichaelBoldin

Discredit Bush? you have got to be kidding me. Virtually everything that thug did while in office was a violation of the Constitution. And he paved the way quite nicely for even greater violations of your rights for the next thug, Obama.

The point of the article is simple - Beck put belief or not belief about a conspiracy theory as more important than the Constitution.

That should be the only issue when considering a candidate. Otherwise you end up with people thinking the Bushes and Clintons and Obamas and the rest of the criminals actually follow the document from time to time.

DerekSheriff
DerekSheriff

I'm someone who has been a persuadable skeptic about Beck, but he seems to have gradually moved in the right direction and has brought positive attention to the 10th Amendment movement. He claims to be a libertarian, but still says things that irk me from time to time. I've tried to be patient and wait and see. But what he did to Debra Medina today seemed like a malicious pre-meditated ambush! I couldn't believe it. Why would he set her up like that and try to discredit someone who is so clearly a dedicated strict constitutionalist and champion of state sovereignty? It made me sick and I'm totally confused as to what his motive could have possibly been.

Lynn
Lynn

Sorry but Debra came off as a nut. She was asked the question about 9/11 because of e-mails Beck had gotten speaking negatively about her on that point and he wanted to clear it up. It was a yes or no answer. That it took her hours to formulate her lengthy response to post online speaks volumes. It wasn't just the 9/11 thing that was wrong though. She gave a terrible interview from the start when he asked her to tell about who she is. She couldn't do it, she went into a diatribe about Perry and had to be asked again about who she is. She fumbled her tax answers. I would personally love to vote for someone other than Perry and Hutchison will never get my vote for any office. I had hoped to be impressed by Medina. Now, I'm back to the drawing board and wondering if one of the Democrats or Libertarian candidates might be worth looking at. I have a feeling though that Perry is going to win the day and likely always was but Medina certainly didn't help herself. It comes down to "yes" or "no" and she fumbled and danced rather inelegantly.

James
James

Lynn
Debra had never mentioned 9-11 truth even among her family. Where did all these e-mails Beck claimed to have come from? I have a feeling that if she would have answered the question "no" Beck would have a list to go thru to finaly trip her up with something. If she comes off as a nut I guess 86% of Americans are nuts because thats the number that has questions about 9-11. I am sorry you trust your goverment that completely.By the way, Debra Medina IS the libertarian canidate

Zorg From Org
Zorg From Org

There is documented proof (it's called history) which shows that gov'ts have murdered
nearly 200 million of their own people in the 20th century. In order to do that and get
away with it, you need: Power, propaganda, control of the press, minions to follow orders
without question, control of the courts, control of information, etc. In other words, you need
to be able to control and deceive people broadly. You need to act in concert with others
without exposing yourself openly.

By its very nature the state is a conspiracy. All "conspiracy"
means is that more than one person agree tacitly or expressly to pursue a certain agenda -
and we mostly apply it to criminal activity. And for the state, we say that they are acting outside
the bounds of their power. That's what "tyranny" means. It's illegitimate power. If those in power
act illegitimately without legal authority, if they bend the rules, hide information, issue false
information, arrange for cover ups or are complicit in cover ups, etc., they are engaged in
conspiracy.

Strangely enough we find that state power is usually quite sufficient to do all of these things.
In fact, their power far exceeds any other criminal organization since they are believed to
be endowed with special powers to do things that no other individual or group can do. They
can drop bombs on people in foreign lands and call it defense. They can kill innocents and
call it collateral damage. They can steal trillions or create it out of nothing and give it to favored
constituents like large banking interests. They can claim they need to keep information secret
for "national security". They can spy on you. They can make you fill out forms about how you
spent every dollar you made. They can take your property. On and on and on.

Therefore the state is the most dangerous and the most lethal organization of all. To put the claims
of the state on any particular event or issue to the test is one of the most sane and normal things that
the average person can do. It isn't the powerless who move trillions of dollars and have power to shut
people up, put them in jail, invade other countries, write thousand-page laws, counterfeit money at
will, nullify human rights, etc. Why would any sane person blindly trust the gov't? Why would any sane
person ridicule those who seek the very "transparency" and "integrity" that people like Beck talk about
repeatedly? Why can't we get a real independent investigation? Why get we get all the information?
Why can't we have subpoena power? Why can't Bush and Cheney be put under oath - and countless
others? Why can't we catch them in their numerous lies by putting them under the same pressure
that we are always under? Doesn't Beck claim to stand against elitism and secrecy and unjust power
and lies?

I don't think the criticism of Beck goes far enough if people still accept his premise that it's nutty to
question the gov't or to keep an open mind on ANY official story that comes out of DC. He should be
called a "truther" on climate change, a truther on the progressive conspiracy, a truther on the fall
of the American Republic, a truther on the national debt, a truther on communists in gov't. Let's see
how he likes it. He must be purged immediately for doubting politicians and scientists, right? And
he must purge his staff of anyone who believes in any conspiracies of his, right?

timothy.reeves
timothy.reeves

OK first the bad, I think if you had posted a link to the article, you'd have had less people writing about global warming. That being said you make a valid point on Glenn Beck. That interview was an ambush, and it is poor form for Glenn to give so little time to her quality as a candidate, and ask such an off topic question, without sufficient elaboration time. I don't like to think of beck as an establishment broadcaster, after all he got on board with the Paul campaign after some clarification. Maybe we need to send him our reasons for supporting her. After all, I had to spend about 18 hours digging thru the facts, and rumors of 9/11 before I finally felt confident in my understanding of the events. Not everyone has that kind of time that has that level of (justified) skepticism. For what it's worth from Oregon.

Ruben
Ruben

Agreed. But lets not just whine and moan about it! Email Glenn Beck and politely tell him how disapointed you are with how he behaved and screwed up and misrepresented Medina.

me@glennbeck.com

Go write him and tell everyone you know to do it too!

Herman Lee
Herman Lee

What beck did was out right disgusting. We need to expose this fraud from coast to coast, before he can dig his teeth and claws any deeper into the tea party movement.

If anyone has any ideas on how to discredit this fool, e-mail me. warheadz_2000@juno.com

Maryann
Maryann

email your friends and get a campaign going to send back any of your Glenn Beck books (Common Sense would be a good one). Go to his website and send him an email. Flood him with comments to let him know we dissaprove of his unprofessional interview. I heard that within 1 hour of the show, literature was being dropped in the DFW metroplex? It takes time to organize and print those. Obviously a planned sneak attack!

Cathy
Cathy

Uh, oh. This sounds like the beginning of a conspiracy...

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