Comedy | February 25, 2011 | 48 comments

The Real Reason Glenn Beck Hates Google

source: http://www.alternet.org/story/149949/the_real_reason_glenn_beck_hates_google?

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It's getting harder and harder to keep up with Glenn Beck's conspiracy delusions. If it isn't health care reform being a backdoor to reparations for slavery, it's Cash-for-Clunkers being a plot to let the government take control of your computer. Or food safety regulations being an excuse to raise prices so that people starve. Or that chemical trails from airplanes are actually missiles from a Chinese submarine off the coast of Santa Monica.
Lately Beck has taken to accusing Google of somehow being in cahoots with the federal government to foment unrest around the world or recruit our youth into socialist conclaves or ... who knows what. He is certain that whatever it is, it is evil. On Monday's program Beck gave this ominous warning to his legion of disciples:
"May I recommend, if you're doing your own homework, don't do a Google search. Seems to me that Google is pretty deeply in bed with the government. Maybe this is explaining why Google is being kicked out of all the other countries? Are they just a shill now for the United States government?"
Beck continued his assault on Google today, accusing it of being a hard-left enterprise with ties to many of his favorite enemies. These include FreePress.net, the Tides Foundation, MoveOn.org, Van Jones, and (gasp) George Soros

So what got Beck's panties in a bunch over Google? Is he really disturbed by its size and lack of respect for privacy? He never really cared that much about those issues if it were Koch Industries or Microsoft. In fact he ordinarily celebrates large, successful, intrusive business like banks or insurance companies as representative of America's opportunity. Is it his innate distrust of technology and youth culture? He clearly has an
animosity toward young people

and an affinity for an analog past that favors blackboards over digital displays.
These things may tell a part of the story, but there is something more fundamental that may explain Beck's Google bashing. His boss, Rupert Murdoch, has had it in for Google for about a year now. Murdoch believes that Google is appropriating his content and failing to compensate him for it, and he has
taken this battle to extremes asking,

"Should we be allowing Google to steal all our copyrights?"

Of course, Google is doing no such thing. They are simply aggregating news from many sites across the web. They are providing links to Murdoch's web sites, and others, that actually increase traffic and revenue. And this is something he could stop easily at any time with one line of code that would block Google from including his sites. What's more, Murdoch does the very same sort of news aggregation on many of his own sites like Fox Nation. But the issue is that Murdoch wants to force Google to pay him for the extra business they send his way and Google had the audacity to decline.

Another wrinkle involves Murdoch's brand new iPad-only application, The Daily. Murdoch has high hopes for this fee-based news product. He has said that it is the future of news and that it will be the cornerstone of his news empire going forward. He launched it in conjunction with Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who will also share in the earnings. Apple also announced that it is offering a new service that will provide access to other news and magazine publications on a subscription basis. That service will be competing with a similar service recently announced by Google.
Google is also competing with Apple on cell phones and cell phone operating systems, Internet browsers, advertising, and even computer tablets. So Murdoch's partner and publisher, Apple, will be going up against Google in numerous businesses, including his cherished iPad app
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48 comments // The Real Reason Glenn Beck Hates Google

  • BenjaminDover
  • theknopfknows
    • 0
      theknopfknows  

    • WHAT THE HECK IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO DEFEND BECK. Try defending the Mormon Religion. Try to enlighten an addict, Unfortunately I have seen many with great potential yet controlled by MURDOCH, that is how Tony Blair became PM of England, FOX is MURDOCH, sly, fast and lethal. Society made fox= to sexy-foxy, WE used to have word for happiness "GAY" now it too is about sex. Are you getting the point!

    • 1 year ago
  • Camille_Jackson
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      Camille_Jackson  

    • Beck is only mad because his ego was hurt. And with google already having so many more violations they can't, and won't afford to be associated with glenn beck. Pssh I would he is an SOB!

    • 1 year ago
  • GENERALNATTY
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      GENERALNATTY  

    • Patriot act has been renewed and google is out there stockpiling information it does not need for its business about you. What's the purpose of google trucks driving around saving wireless data packets ?

      Big stories have been in papers about google violating privacy laws around the world , germany even went as far as issue a warning to its people not to use google chrome because of the way it collects data.

      Just because glenn beck said it does not mean there is not any truth to it. Maybe you should not be frightened about using google but you should always be aware of how. your privacy rights are being eroded so you at least have a choice to control the flow of your information and not just think its safe because you clicked the private option on your facebook account.

    • 1 year ago
  • Milieu
  • Persecuted
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      Persecuted  

    • google sucks for a lot of reasons... but they're the best search engine out there... its free... i realize that they will be gathering information on me at times, but i figure its for the advertising... i hate that the ads on my pages are all custom to what i've been looking at on the internet... but its the risk i take for getting the best and most relevant information on the internet...
      i'm not doing anything anybody would care about anyways... if i was building a bomb or something, i'd be worry about what i do on the internet.
      i hate the way that its headed with google opposing net neutrality. im disappointed about that but i know that people will figure out a way to get around google when the time comes. i hope anonymous will come to our rescue.

    • 1 year ago
  • Persecuted
  • theknopfknows
    • +1
      theknopfknows  

    • Some people love to do a TEXAS TWO STEP, Glen one N, is busy with the 12 steps. Addiction there is no cure just transfer to something safe and legal, drinking first, smoking whatever, then pills, so Addiction to attention, a teacher want to be, what do you think Glens student grades were like. Mormons gave him another addiction, Christianity, worshiping the Rabbi on the cross addiction, wake up Jesus never knew his dead body would be the center of something He knew nothing of. And So Glen/n has needs and wants another version of Micheal Jackson -Obsessive compulsive disorder,Anxiety Hysteria, Poor Impulse control,Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, all childhood inflictions. Products of Addiction.

    • 1 year ago
  • twinite
  • reddjoiowa
    • 0
      reddjoiowa  

    • Sorry...never heard Beck on XM radio, and I guess while he was on CNN, I saw a very different person than what he has "morphed" in to now that he is on Fox, please forgive my take on what he used to be......you may be right, maybe he always was a nutjob....

    • 1 year ago
  • theknopfknows
    • +1
      theknopfknows  

    • JUST BECAUSE BECK GLEN IS PARANOID, Does not mean we are not watching him. Efforts for One world Gov. Like Communist China Model, Police State Control Corporations lead the way to slavery. Look in Libya, Arms and Money, USA idea! 86 Billion to Gadaffi over 42 years "I lead you or I kill You", Hitler complex.

    • 1 year ago
  • wolfess
    • -1
      wolfess  
    • theknopfknows:

      Uh, maybe I would actually consider what you have to say if you could write it in a coherent manner --- BECK GLEN (you turned his name around, and misspelled his given name: Glenn); Police State Control Corporations lead the way to slavery --- what does this even mean?
      Until you put some real effort into writing in a way that reasonably intelligent people can understand don't waste your last 2 remaining brain cells posting mush on this website.

    • 1 year ago
  • theknopfknows
    • 0
      theknopfknows  
    • wolfess:

      YOU KNOW WITH YOUR COMMENT ON SPELLING, GRAMMAR; I AM NOT WRITING A MASTERS THESIS, think outside the language box and free yourself, do not confine yourself, as for Corporate dictatorship sometimes lack of understanding is resistance and so some comments are not for YOU, little too difficult all others seem to know, why you don´t know resistance. READ Empire of Illusion--Chris Hedges Failed State---Noam Chomsky Super Power --Jack F. Matlock and one more, A people´s History of the United States -- Howard Zinn. Let me know when you finish those got a few more for you. Sometimes when I make fun of Moron Mormon BECKSTER, spelling sometimes is done with humor Glen only deserves one N like one O in Bob! GET IT!

    • 1 year ago
  • wolfess
    • -1
      wolfess  
    • theknopfknows:

      With your less-than-coherent response (see above) I have no choice but to conclude you have so little respect for yourself/comments that you continue to rail against being understood when in your heart of hearts all you REALLY want is for others to pick up the gauntlet and carry your belief to the finish line. Ain't gonna happen if you can't state your argument coherently.

    • 1 year ago
  • theknopfknows
    • 0
      theknopfknows  
    • wolfess:

      WolfLess
      nothing personal if it was, or is, I would send you a drone. HA! all that write is not always for you, but this one is. To assume, is to expect, keep it to yourself, don´t fool yourself into thinking you know me, keep it light, AND REMEMBER "WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK OF YOU; IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, and, an, after thought, none of us are as dumb as all of us!

    • 1 year ago
  • theknopfknows
    • 0
      theknopfknows  
    • wolfess:

      WOLFLESS
      INSISTENT LITTLE CUB, not everything I write is for your taste,
      Personal comments are like thin toilet paper,
      you always dirty your hands.
      Perfect diction, spelling, grammar etc,
      is all for serious papers which I have written far too many,
      so my writing is casual and if you do not get it,
      you will survive, your the only one bitching,
      think about that Wolf bitch,
      so now were fun? right. If you don´t get message its OK, don´t kill the message and the mess-anger!

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
    • 0
      freecrack  

    • ooooo is it cuz he just simpluy ran out of material to scare people with communism,socialism,liberalism,muslims,gays,jews,democrats,and arabs?

    • 1 year ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  

    • Listening 3 hours to Glenn Beck crying on the radio is to die for. I didn't drink beer in the morning til after Glenn Beck came on the air. We're already prepped and crying before he comes on though. Our station WFIR960.com they repeat the weather and the News over & over til your brain screams I WANT GLENN BECK RIGHT NOW.

    • 1 year ago
  • Persecuted
  • Gravity_Man
  • wolfess
  • ReMarker
  • theknopfknows
    • -3
      theknopfknows  

    • ALTER NET, THIS SITE, STUCK ON STUPID,
      GLEN HATES GOOGLE SAME REASON YOU SHOULD!
      54 million dollar investment to google from CIA,
      google said a year ago they store monitor
      everything to figure out trends,
      so they can, predict and market YOU- money,
      people before profits, same with facebook, you-tube,tweeter.... all monitored by NSA, homeland security, CIA etc. Spooks everywhere!
      these young Geeks sold the public to the police State,
      AND MADE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS!
      Modern form of SLAVE SALES,
      I hate Google more than I hate Glen Beck,
      but there are times GLEN is right!
      TECHNO GEEKS ARE NOT HUMAN BEINGS THEY ARE HUMAN DOINGS WITH NO HEART THEY HATE THE PUBLIC THAT THEY MAKE THEIR MONEY FROM. VERY COMMON PROBLEM! WHEN 1% owns 90% of everything. Never let a disaster go to waste Google executive with CIA help sparked the Egypt revolution, take note of that, Google earth owned by military, the rest a veil to hide true face of AMERICA!

    • 1 year ago
  • FoosMaster
  • freecrack
  • theknopfknows
    • 0
      theknopfknows  
    • freecrack:

      LET ME TELL YOU ITS NOT A MATTER OF USE OR NOT TO USE ITS HOW AND KNOWING! THE TECHNOLOGY IS NOT A PRIVATE EFFORT; the collective consciousness spits out products through people that have attracted it, Type writer invented more than one place at same time, now global information age speeds up this process of manifestations. Notice, printing press, cell phone, net, google much of this is created by one particular culture, who wins most of the Nobel prize for sciences. USE FACE BOOK BUT KNOW THAT YOU ARE NOT ALONE, like in Cuba, someone is always watching YOU!

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
    • 0
      freecrack  
    • theknopfknows:

      maybe im a savant of sorts but i get it.
      i see mysapce and i thought that is absurdly bad
      facebook fuck that
      literaly the only internet site that has any persoanl info at all is current.
      no banking.never buy anything online.
      isnt that just common sense?

    • 1 year ago
  • samthesixth
  • FoosMaster
  • tommic
  • remanns
  • figgdimension
  • sageohio
  • OrchidBlack
  • ThirdSection
  • COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM
    • +2
      COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM  

    • There was never doubt that Beck is fueled be commercial interests. Apple definitely made a "deal with the devil" when it allied with Murdoch. In fact, even though I own a relatively new 17" MacBook Pro, I'm considering boycotting all things Apple. At least until a time when Apple's IPad does feature news sites with open and balanced reporting. I believe that I should also email Apple to this fact. It's the bottom line, they always respond to. At this point, we could consider Apple as much of an enemy of the people as Murdoch is.

    • 1 year ago
  • hurricanediasy
    • 0
      hurricanediasy  

    • "Patients with paranoid personalities use projection as a primary defense because it allows them to disavow unpleasant feelings and attribute them to others."

    • 1 year ago
  • littlwarrior
    • +2
      littlwarrior  

    • Beck is crazy, how and why people still listen to him I really dont know, but im just riding it out till he has a breakdown and gets himself locked up in mental institute.

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
  • reddjoiowa
    • +4
      reddjoiowa  

    • We used to watch beck on CNN, befroe he lost his mind and went to FOX. It is/was so weird, prior to his move to Fox, he was mellow, had decent guests, no rantng and raving, talked about family life, just generally "Watchable stuff". Really think he needs a psyche evaluation.....even talks about the Republican's trying to kill him...HELLO!!!! How and why does he stay on Fox, when over twenty of his advertising sponsors have dropped him??!!! Guess Murdoch is as nutty as Beck, because anything goes on that channel. It horrifies me to know I have blood relatives, who are intelligent in every other way, but they LOVE Glenn Beck???!!! I beleive even a 12 year old that might watch his show, would run screaming from the room??!!!

    • 1 year ago
  • Milieu
  • figgdimension
    • +2
      figgdimension  

    • My question who is gonna buy their stupid murdoch app!? The daily Murdoch "ops i shot some beverage out my nose " too funny and the Fox Nation hilarious is that a reference to China!?

    • 1 year ago
  • Arizona_Huey
    • +5
      Arizona_Huey  

    • The reason Glenn Beck hates Google is because every single time he Google's himself - he gets nothing back but 2 billion articles calling him and idiot, insane, lunatic, stupid, funny looking, moron, jerk, smelly, ugly, retarded, etc!!!!

    • 1 year ago
  • samthesixth
  • arigg
    • +2
      arigg  

    • oh i will say this every time i read anything about any of these ... WHATEVER THEY ARE ~
      Glenn Beck = NON-ENTITY
      Ruper Murdoch = NON-ENTITY
      thus shall it be ;)

    • 1 year ago
  • figgdimension
  • TheAmbivalante
  • Mayeffie
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