Glenn Beck- Use Military to Stop Domestic Opposition

Glenn Beck in action.

Complaints and demands for a retraction and an apology are flooding CNN today after Neo-Con host Glenn Beck and ex-Marxist David Horowitz smeared Ron Paul supporters, libertarians and the anti-war left as terrorist sympathizers and inferred that the U.S. military should be used to silence them, parroting a talking point that traces back to a September 2006 White House directive.

This is part of an ongoing propaganda assault which has also been mimicked by other anti-American Neo-Con talking heads like Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh.

Beck opened up his show segment by inferring that the U.S. military should be used to silence domestic dissent against the war, claiming that those he would later identify as Ron Paul supporters, libertarians and the anti-war left and link with terrorists, were a "physical threat."

"When you enlist in the U.S. military, you have take an oath that says you're gonna support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies - foreign and domestic - we talk a lot on this program about the foreign threats - maybe we should spend some time tonight on the domestic one....the physical threat may be developing domestically as well," said Beck.

Beck then goes on to make the absurd insinuation that Ron Paul supporters are a terrorist threat because they are causing disenfranchisement with the government. His evidence? The November 5th donation drive coincided with a 400-year-old piece of British history and Guy Fawkes plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament.

Beck then introduces his guests, the great grandson of Winston Churchill, and admitted former Marxist and now Neo-Con ideologue David Horowitz.

We are forced to digest the bizarre and abhorrent spectacle of a British elitist, "former" Marxist Horowitz and anti-American Neo-Con Glenn Beck infer that 1776, the founding fathers and the very birth of freedom in America is somehow evil and affiliated with terrorism and extremism.

Glenn Beck, so called 'libertarian', is nothing more than another neocon in disguise.

Cable News Ratings- Fox and CNN Down

I have often read about the decline of the 'traditional media' and get the sense that people who are searching for real news content (i.e. not fluff), have been migrating away from these sources for quite some time. This was reinforced this morning when I came across this article from Broadcasting Cable which shows that both CNN and Fox News showed a decline in viewers for the 3rd quarter this year. They report:

In total viewers CNN was down 9% (501,000 versus 549,000) and Fox News was down 10% (805,000 compared with 896,000). In primetime, CNN was down 6% (901,000 compared with 960,000) and Fox News was also down 6% in total viewers (1.601 million versus 1.711 million).

There was a bright spot in the ratings news, however.

At 8 p.m., MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann is up 73% in viewers and 56% in the demo while CNN has dropped 11% in total viewers (649,000 versus 728,000) compared with the third quarter of 2006.

I suppose that people have wised up and realized that the latest Geraldo Rivera nonsense or Greta Van Susteren mystery really doesn't impact their lives as much as what is happening in the real economy or in the wars being waged abroad.

While reading up on this topic, I thought that it might be interesting to see what the top 'stories' were on CNN. Take a look above and weep...

Michael Moore Takes Down Wolf Blitzer

As I have mentioned before, I worked in the health care field for many years and can attest to the fact that the health care system is broken. Take a look at this video when CNN attempts the tired 'hit piece' that proceeds the interview with Michael Moore. Not taking this lying down, Moore turns the tables and shows the true face of the so-called mainstream media.