Glenn:
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 is the founder of the Tenth Amendment Center. He was raised in Milwaukee, WI, and currently resides in Los Angeles, CA.
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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.
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.
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.
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).
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!
At least Glenn and Rush are…………………RICH
Isn't that more important then either CONSPIRACIES(global warming notwithstanding)
or
CONSTITUTIONS
?
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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!
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
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.
Hmmmmm – was this a quid pro quo for Gov. Perry?
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.
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????
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
Excellent, Michael! Beautiful piece.
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.
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.
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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….
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.
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!
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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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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.
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)