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Ärende: Glenn Beck's stupidity
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Once again, Glenn Beck makes an ass of himself, and his audience.

Glenn Beck doesn't know how to use Google

May 06, 2010 2:39 pm ET by Ben Dimiero

For a man who frequently boasts about how much he reads and lauds his
research staff as "some of the biggest minds in America," Glenn Beck
apparently has a serious problem doing the most basic research on the
subjects he talks about.

Today, in the middle of a long rant about the IMF "bailout" of Greece,
Beck returned to his fear mongering about the supposedly very mysterious
IMF:

Among the questions Beck asks in this rant are, "can you name any board
members?" and "can you tell me how any board member is placed on the
board of the IMF?"

Off the top of my head? No. But let me clue you in to a little trick of
the trade, Glenn.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=IMF+Board

That was taxing. If you Google "IMF Board," the first result helpfully
leads to a page listing all of the IMF board members as well as an
explanation that they are placed on the board by their member country
and are "usually the minister of finance or the governor of the central
bank." You'd think that in three weeks since he last fear mongered about
this, Beck might have found the five seconds of time it took me to find
that information and sleuthed it out himself. (However, to be fair to
Beck, the result doesn't come up if you search for "Evil Secret IMF
Socialist Plot.")

My point is the same as it was the last time Glenn Beck fear mongered
about the supposedly secretive IMF: it's impossible to have a reasonable
policy discussion with someone who relies so heavily on conspiracy
theories,  fear mongering, and outrageous falsehoods.

But don't forget, Beck hates the "politics of fear."

http://tinyurl.com/2dkuaen

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