Pulkit Wrote: Reference: http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200912090042I was appalled by this clip. Here, on mainstream TV, Glenn Beck maligns the entire Indian culture by stating that India does not have "flush toilets", that doctors in India are uneducated, and that the most sacred river in India, the Ganges River, sounds like a disease. It's times like these that you just have to step back for a second, just dumbfounded. He is not just up to his usual bag of idiocies, but he is actually blatantly offending a sixth of the world's population in a matter of minutes. How can we allow clowns like this to still be on the air after a fiasco like this. Suprisingly, this has not led to any significant PR damage either. There was scarcely a mention of this clip, except on fringe liberal websites.And by the way Beck, get your facts straight, the Ganges River is pronounced "Ganga", not "Gaaanjeees" you moron.
Schmidt Wrote: Selling hate is like selling pornography. It is very profitable. According to this Business Insider article, Glenn Beck's Cash Machine, of April 2009, Glenn Beck is on track to make $18 million a year. That's why Rupert Murdoch keeps him. That's why Rupert Murdoch sells hate.But the king of "hate pornography" is Rush Limbaugh. From M&C News, Rush Limbaugh signed a $400 million deal with Clear Channel in 2008:"According to the New York Times the deal pays Limbaugh 38 million dollars for eight years, plus a 100 million dollar signing bonus. The Rush Limbaugh show commands a weekly audience of nearly 20 million listeners on 600 stations, according to Premiere, which markets his program to stations and advertisers." Of course, like Beck, Rush Limbaugh has other income from speaking engagments, book deals, etc.With these guys and other hate mongers on TV and radio, it's no wonder that the right wing populace is so ignorant and biased. They have been continually brain washed.
Beck is INDEED a very scary man but also a very dangerous man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In his show several times Glenn Beck said that Christians should leave churches that preach "social justice." Mr. Beck equated the desire for a just society with--wait for it--Nazism and Communism Glenn Beck is saying something else: "Leave Christianity." Again and again in the Gospels, Jesus mentions our responsibility to care for the poor, to work on their behalf, to stand with them. In fact, when asked how his followers would be judged he doesn't say that it will be based on where you worship, or how you pray, or how often you go to church, or even what political party you believe in. He says something quite different: It depends on how you treat the poor. On the contrary Beck defends individual salvation and ignoring the poor.... his entire thrust is to promote the idea that somehow is evil for the Government to care for the least powerful and that the least powerful should be forgotten as irresponsible beings....Glenn is Anti Christian.
The term "social justice" originated way back in the 1800s (and probably predates even that), and has been underlined by the Magisterium and popes since Leo XIII, who began the modern tradition of Catholic social teaching with his encyclical on capital and labor, Rerum Novarum in 1891. Subsequent popes have built on Leo's work, continuing the church's meditation on a variety of issues of social justice in such landmark documents as Pope Pius XI's encyclical on "the reconstruction of the social order," Quadregismo Anno (1931), Paul VI's encyclical "on the development of peoples," Populorum Progressio (1967) and John Paul II's encyclical "on the social concerns of the church" Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (1987).
The Compendium of the Social Teaching of the Church, published by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, says this:
The Church's social Magisterium constantly calls for the most classical forms of justice to be respected: commutative, distributive and legal justice.
Sadly, we just can't remove Glenn Beck from the air. As long as there is a demand for his inflammatory rhetoric, Glenn Beck will fill that demand. Some kind of organized boycotting of his sponsors would likely be the quickest way to get him off the air, but he would likely try and spin that boycott as some kind of conspiracy against the right as whole. So right now, we should just try and educate people and hope they realize how poisonous his speech is.