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Glenn Beck Lies, Misinformation & Misleading Statements

Date	Misinformer	Type	Source	Location	About	Severity

11/30/10		Minor Lie	Spoken		Health & Welfare
	"Beck distorts CBO report to claim legislation means higher taxes for you , when the bill would actually authorize collection of fees from food manufacturers (not higher taxes for you)."
11/30/10		Misinformation	Spoken	Fox News
	"Glenn Beck falsely suggested that tax dollars were being used to pay for a Smithsonian art exhibit that included an image of what Beck described as Jesus with ants on him. In fact, donations from companies, foundations, and individuals paid for the exhibit, not tax dollars.In reality, the Smithsonian lists contributions from private individuals and institutions."
11/29/10		Minor Lie	Spoken		2010 Health Care Reform Act & Health & Welfare
	"Beck falsely claims deem and pass was used to pass health care reform.House Democratic leaders dropped a controversial plan that would have 'deemed' Senate-approved health care legislation passed in March."
11/29/10		Misleading	Spoken		Barack Obama & Religion
	"Beck says that Obama is religiously, an enigma , when Obama is in fact a Christian."
11/22/10		Minor Lie	Spoken		Business & Economy
	"Beck claims government is hiding inflation by removing food and energy prices from its estimate. In fact, BLS provides inflation figures that do include food and energy."
11/17/10		Major Lie	Spoken	Fox News	Business & Economy
	"Glenn Beck promoted a lie throughout his Fox News show tonight that involved George Soros owning stock in a company that makes full-body scanners. Beck said that Soros had sold off the stock two days ago because someone in the media -- presumably Glenn Beck -- was on to his plan to quietly profit off the scanners.The Blaze, the news, information and opinion site that Beck created to find out the truth and tell the truth, had debunked this one before Beck's show even started.Accor"
11/17/10		Misinformation	Speech	Fox News	2010 Health Care Reform Act & Taxes
	"Beck falsely claimed starting next year in the health care bill for some unknown reason, if you sell anything worth more than $600, you need to send out a 1099 . In fact, provision requires businesses to file a 1099 for purchases of more than $600. The Wall Street Journal reported on July 29:In reality, starting in 2012, businesses will be required to file a 1099 to the Internal Revenue Service for each supplier or service provider to which payments exceed $600 in a single year."
11/17/10		Misinformation	Speech	Fox News	2010 Health Care Reform Act & Health & Welfare
	"Beck falsely claimed that at least 111 companies have been declared exempt from having to use Obamacare. . According to the website of the Health and Human Services Department, HHS has approved 111 applications for waivers from annual limit requirements for one year. As Bloomberg reported, the waivers allow companies with so-called mini-med or limited benefit plans that employers use for low-wage or part-time workers to avoid raising the minimum amount of insurance coverage to $750,000"
11/15/10		Minor Lie	Spoken	Fox News	Jobs
	"Glenn Beck claimed on his Fox News show tonight that the government changed the seasonal adjustment formula to inflate the October job numbers.But over at Tapped, Tim Fernholz already debunked this claim, which was previously pushed by Henry Blodget. Fernholz wrote: When the BLS collects data from businesses -- the establishment survey -- to track the number of jobs, it wants to capture meaningful economic trends. That means the number most people focus on is seasonally adjusted,"
11/04/10		Misleading	Spoken	Fox News	Obama Administration & Business & Economy
	"On his radio and Fox News shows, Glenn Beck promoted the false claim that the Obama administration plans to spend $2 billion on a ten-day presidential trip to Asia, before eventually acknowledging that he doesn't know if that figure is accurate. The White House says the reported figure is wildly inflated and the Secret Service says it is significantly exaggerated."
11/02/10		Minor Lie	Speech	Fox News	Civil & Human Rights
	"Beck suggests Google intentionally directing voters to wrong polling places because it's in bed with Obama, China.However, there was no evidence that suggests this or shows it to be true."
09/27/10		Exaggeration	Speech	Glenn Beck Radio Program	Laws & Crime
	"Beck warns that government is using fear tactics and that in the end the dangerous killers show up"
09/21/10		Minor Lie	Spoken	Fox News
	"Glenn Beck says that Progressives are using regulation to seize control"
09/21/10		Minor Lie	Spoken	Glenn Beck Radio Program	Barack Obama & Business & Economy
	"Beck claims that Obama's ideology is global redistribution of wealth. When in fact Obama wants to get the economy working again."
09/20/10		Minor Lie	Speech	Glenn Beck Radio Program
	"Glenn Beck suggested on his program today that Obama's church attendance may have been motivated by the 8/28 rally, though normally his spirituality is nurtured by his fine stable of Marxist spiritual advisors."
09/20/10		Minor Lie	Spoken	Fox News	Civil & Human Rights
	"Glenn Beck says that progressives are trying to end capitalism"
08/24/10		Misleading	Spoken	Fox & Friends	Racism
	"Glenn Beck falsely claimed that Daisy Khan, the wife of the imam who is spearheading the Park51 project, said that all Americans hate Muslims. In fact, while discussing the strident opposition to the center, Khan said that hatred for Muslims in America is a cause for concern."
08/23/10		Coverup	Spoken	Glenn Beck TV Program	Religion
	"Beck purports to show (and then dismisses) the damning, gotcha evidence from the 2006 interview, but he actually excises a key moment from the video.In addition to appearing to endorse Sawyer's characterization of the distinction between Rauf and extremists, Beck later appeared to gesture to Rauf when Beck invoked the idea of good Muslims. Beck left this part of the exchange out of the video he aired tonight and didn't mention it during his televised response."
08/17/10		Minor Lie	Speech	Fox & Friends
	"Glenn Beck falsely claimed that President Obama wants to rescind a Bush-era regulation so that doctors can't refuse to perform abortions. In fact, even without the regulation -- which was approved in December 2008 -- federal law prohibits public officials from requiring recipients of public funds to perform abortions."
08/16/10		Misleading	Spoken	Fox News	Freedom of Religion
	"There is no constitutional argument over whether Muslims have the right to practice their religion. On the August 16 edition of his Fox News show, Beck criticized President Obama's statement in favor of the right that people have to build a mosque where they choose, claiming that there is no constitutional argument over whether Muslims have the right to practice their religion. Beck continued: That's ridiculous. It's America. We all have a right to follow God and build our houses"
08/11/10		Minor Lie	Spoken	Fox & Friends
	"Glenn Beck falsely claimed that Feisal Abdul Rauf, who is heading efforts to build a community center in New York, currently employs an imam who blamed the Jews for 9-11; in fact, the imam resigned in 2001 prior to making those comments. Beck also absurdly claimed Rauf was connected to Hamas and attacked Rauf for making comments about the 9-11 attacks that are strikingly similar to comments Beck himself made in April."
08/10/10		Major Lie	Spoken	Fox & Friends
	"Beck repeats falsehood that Ground Zero mosque is scheduled to be dedicated on September 11.It is not going to be open for many more months."
08/10/10		Exaggeration	Spoken	Fox & Friends	Business & Economy
	"Glenn Beck said that it takes 19 firefighters [to] pay for the one guy getting the pension, and that when those 19 retire, it takes 352 firemen to pay for the 19 that are paying for the one. Public pension experts, including economist Dean Baker, say Beck is using math that is more than a bit contrived and a bit nutty to distort the issue."
08/10/10		Minor Lie	Spoken	Fox & Friends	Business & Economy
	"Glenn Beck falsely suggested that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are changing their lending rules so that they may lower the mortgage so you don't have to worry about being upside-down, which Beck claimed represents the intentional destruction of our country. In fact, Beck's suggestion is based on rumors that the Obama administration is considering allowing Fannie and Freddie to make this change, and the Treasury Department has flatly denied these rumors."
08/10/10		Major Lie	Spoken		Religion
	"Glenn Beck says that mosque will be opening at ground zero on September 11th.Imam Rauf reportedly said the mosque will not open on the anniversary of 9/11. On May 26, Newsday reported that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Imam involved in the project, said the mosque will not open on the anniversary of 9/11, and that it will take between 18 months and three years before the money is raised to open the center at the old Burlington Coat Factory building on Park Place, which was damaged on 9/11."
08/09/10		Major Lie	Spoken	Fox & Friends	Business & Economy
	"Beck and crew baselessly claim Michelle Obama's vacation is costing you $75,000 a day"
07/28/10		Misleading	Spoken	Glenn Beck TV Program
	"Beck's is cropping quotes and misrepresenting them. He showed a clip of Barack Obama saying this: I think that whether you are a white executive living out in the suburbs who doesn't want to pay taxes to inner-city children to -- for them to go to school. That's not even a complete sentence. How could anyone possibly think this is a fair representation of what Obama said?"
07/16/10		Minor Lie	Commentary	Glenn Beck Radio Program	2010 Health Care Reform Act
	Repeated Lie: Obamacare abortion funds Despite already being discredited, Beck repeats the false claim that Obama's new health care bill will start funding elective abortions "It [Health Care Bill] is abortion on demand."
07/15/10		Minor Lie	Video Ad		2010 Health Care Reform Act
	Repeated Lie: Obamacare abortion funds "Glenn Beck claimed that Health Care Reform funds abortion with taxpayer dollars in state high-risk pools. Truth: HHS clearly stated that the high risk pools would not cover elective abortion except in cases of rape and incest."
06/29/10		Major Lie	Spoken	Fox News	Barack Obama
	"Glenn Beck said that Obama harbors a secret hatred for the British because his paternal grandfather was tortured by British soldiers during the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya in the 1950s.First of all, Obama never met his paternal grandfather, and met his father only once, when the president was ten. The idea that Obama's grandfather's torture 60 years ago would have triggered a deep-seated hatred of the British just doesn't make a lot of sense.Second, Beck's evidence that Obama hates Britain"
06/29/10		Insinuation	Spoken	Glenn Beck TV Program
	"On his June 29 Fox News show, Glenn Beck cited the return of a bust of Winston Churchill to the British government as a sign that Obama harbored resentment for the torture of his paternal grandfather by British soldiers during Kenya's Mau Mau Uprising in the 1950s. In fact, Obama never met his paternal grandfather, the bust was scheduled for return to the British prior to Obama's presidency, and other British-based artifacts and gifts remain in the Oval Office. Beck rehashed this theory on Augu"
06/28/10		Minor Lie	Spoken	Glenn Beck Radio Program
	"Glenn Beck falsely claimed that as the dean of Harvard Law School Elena Kagan dropped a constitutional law requirement from the curriculum because she apparently decided that international law was more important than constitutional law. The reality is, the curriculum changes Kagan instituted as dean, which were unanimously approved by the Harvard Law School faculty, added new first-year courses and condensed the traditional first-year curriculum (contracts, torts, civil procedure, crim"
06/28/10		Minor Lie	Spoken	Glenn Beck Radio Program
	"Beck falsely claims that Kagan believed international law was more important than constitutional law The reality is, the curriculum changes Kagan instituted as dean, which were unanimously approved by the Harvard Law School faculty, added new first-year courses and condensed the traditional first-year curriculum (contracts, torts, civil procedure, criminal law, and property). Kagan didn't drop or replace con-law -- it wasn't required in the first place."
05/06/09					ACORN Controversy is Politically Manufactured & Com...
	"Beck echoes tired falsehood that ACORN received stimulus funds"
08/23/80		Minor Lie	Spoken	Fox & Friends	Religion
	"Beck: It's important to catch up on your homework because of the whole end of time thing"

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