I call b.s. on Fox becoming scary since Beck came on board. According this PIPA study, 67% of Fox viewers believed that Sadaam was "working closely with al Qaeda"

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/pdf/oct03/IraqMedia_Oct03_rpt.pdf

Here are examples of what they did to do that:
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1577

I'm sure most of you remember the important role this disinformation played leading up to the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Beck is a trifle relative to Dick Cheney and the other architects of the Iraq war whose disinformational talking points were, and still are being pushed on FNC all day long.

Beck is a sideshow and, sure, he is as an embarassment, but the more serious problem is that the NEWS shows on FOX are as bad or worse Tools like Kurtz and Jane Hall can't/won't say that.

"Tuwaitha and an adjacent research facility were well known for decades as the centerpiece of Saddam's nuclear efforts.

Israeli warplanes bombed a reactor project at the site in 1981. Later, U.N. inspectors documented and safeguarded the yellowcake, which had been stored in aging drums and containers since before the 1991 Gulf War. There was no evidence of any yellowcake dating from after 1991, the official said."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25546334/

This yellowcake was "discovered" in the '90s by UN weapons inspectors. Cheney and his pals were talking about "mushroom clouds" which requires highly enriched uranium (and metal tubes and yellowcake from Niger and mobile bio-weapons labs, and bunch of other b.s.).

It boggles the mind that folks still want to argue the WMD thing. Scarborough did it just last week; he trotted out the excuse "everyone thought Saddam had WMDs". No Joe, not everyone thought that Saddam had WMDs; you, most FNC viewers, and rbeats were played by the neocons and are (still) being played.

The only reason Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and their cast of fellow liars exist is because Ronald Reagan killed the Fairness Doctrine. This was a practice of being required to tell the truth when making the public air waves your media. It is really as simple as that. Reinstate the Fairness Doctrine and this whole bunch gets dumped with tomorrow’s trash by the curb. Right now they can turn fantasy into reality via 24/7 cycle on cable.

A little background: The Fairness Doctrine began in 1949 to help prevent quite frankly the propaganda of misinformation and mind control that helped befall the world into W.W.II. Dr. Joseph Goebbles and the real Nazis were masters of turning humanity against itself for economic gain and power. The wisdom that came out of that hell’s experience finally found its way into monitoring the new technology of public’s free access to the airwaves of radio and television. It worked for the most part!

Then for political advantage in 1985 Ronald Reagan’s FCC Chairman Mark S. Fowler began to repeal parts of the Fairness Doctrine. A little later President G.H.W. Bush stopped an effort to get the Fairness Doctrine back when he threatened a veto. That’s really the cause of our troubles in a nutshell. Most of the devastation to our political culture, our economic troubles and the nation’s moral decline has precisely because of the loss of the Fairness Doctrine.

One specific point: In 1984, Limbaugh returned to radio as a talk show host at KFBK in Sacramento, California, where he replaced Morton Downey, Jr. The repeal of the Fairness Doctrine — which had required that stations provide free air time for responses to any controversial opinions that were broadcast — by the FCC in 1987 meant stations could broadcast editorial commentary without having to present opposing views. Daniel Henninger wrote, in a Wall Street Journal editorial, "Ronald Reagan tore down this wall (the Fairness Doctrine) in 1987 ... and Rush Limbaugh was the first man to proclaim himself liberated from the East Germany of liberal media domination."

Look into the Fairness Doctrine, and you decide how fair and balanced we are?

Glenn Beck is a foil for the rest of the Fox propagandists. He makes them, by comparison, look sane. (hence Bill O'Reilly calling him out) In a similar way, MSNBC uses Pat Buchanan to spread (perhaps) lesser lies for their (GE's) purposes.

I agree with the earlier poster who said only a return to the FAIRNESS DOCTRINE will restore balance (sanity) to the national discourse. For now, I've stopped listening to any of them. They're all just PAID PROGRAMMING infomercials.

It saddens me to admit that I've tuned it all out, because I know that is one of their objectives:

"The only thing better than brainwashed... is brain dead."