Click here to view this media BREAKING NEWS: Glenn Beck is certifiably insane!!! Oh. You knew that. Yeah, we could run that lede just about every day, actually. But this week, Beck has been whipping it to another level of Bats–t Crazy. Now he’s predicting IMMINENT VIOLENT REVOLUTION led by those evil progressive radicals who hate the Republic inside the Obama administration. In case he didn’t notice, the actual dynamic in Washington these days is actually just a wee bit different, since it’s become manifestly clear that President Obama is anything BUT a radical revolutionary. But hey, nothing ever deters the intrepid Beck in the pursuit of his apocalyptic conspiracy theories. Well, let’s be clear: Beck has been warning about this dire imminent threat for quite awhile now. You’ll recall he predicted last spring that eeevil progressives were planning a ‘summer of rage’ filled with violence, death and chaos . Yeah, that really panned out, eh? Instead we got Byron Williams . Hmmmm. This theory really is just a warmed-over version of the IMMINENT DIRE THREAT Beck has been shouting at us about since he signed onto Fox. It’s become repetitive but more intensified, a manifestation of Beck’s steadily creeping paranoia. After all, he’s been theorizing that Obama’s band of administration radicals are planning a “global redistribution of the wealth” for a long time — often flavored with black-helicopter militia theories about a “New World Order” . He’s been predicting George Soros would try to kill him, and warning that the eeeevil Left is plotting to frame the Tea Partiers for an act of domestic terrorist violence , adding that if right-wing violence does break out, it will have been provoked by Obama and the liberals. More recently, there have been such similarly credible theories that the European Union Parliament building was intended to resemble the Tower of Babel , and that the evil Holocaust survivor George Soros is plotting to take over the world . That provoked this rant, earlier this week, when he demanded an apology from Forbes for correctly calling him out for his vicious, classically anti-Semitic smear of Soros: Click here to view this media As you can see, it was a pretty complete meltdown. We could’ve run today’s lede then, too. This can only end badly for Fox. And they will richly deserve it. As Byron Williams put it : “Beck is gonna deny everything about violent approach and deny everything about conspiracies, but he’ll give you every reason to believe it.”
Continue reading …We do our best to keep you on your toes, but it appears as if you’re onto us: we’re doing a podcast today, at 7:30PM. It might be a little late as we wrap some of our end-of-week projects (we’re trying to build a really tall tower of paper cups in the Engadget HQ den, but Nilay keeps knocking it over), but we promise you it will happen. Today. Approximately. Check out the stream and chat after the break. P.S. And don’t forget that Ustream has Android and iPhone clients as well, if you’re out and about and you can’t join in on the Flash-based fun below. Continue reading The Engadget Podcast, live at 7:30PM EST! The Engadget Podcast, live at 7:30PM EST! originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …About 30 million Americans admit to driving while drunk each year, and another 10 million say they get behind the wheel of motor vehicles when under the influence of illicit drugs, according to new federal research.
Continue reading …It’s all coming together, folks. It doesn’t take much of a gander at the Chrome Web Store to notice a trend: some of the flashiest, most mature “apps” are actually just in-browser versions of iPad apps. And you know what else? Most of these “apps” actually run fine in Safari on the iPad. We’re not sure how long Google gave developers to port their experiences over, but it seems like most of the best work had already been done in the form of HTML5 apps that were merely wrapped in app form for App Store delivery. Google’s just taking things to the next logical step. Continue after the break as we expand this thesis paragraph into a number of supporting blocks of text, a few jazzy pictorial examples, and a stunning closer. Continue reading Chrome Web Store, HTML5 and the iPad: symbiosis at its best Chrome Web Store, HTML5 and the iPad: symbiosis at its best originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Click here to view this media Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert joined Ed Schultz to discuss the leaked email that David posted about earlier here today, and the launch of their new email address where Fox employees can contact them anonymously. Fox exec directs staff to slant news reporting : Media Matters releases internal Fox emails obtained from network source, encourages more to come forward Washington, DC — Today, Media Matters for America released emails, obtained from a Fox News source, showing Washington managing editor Bill Sammon directing staff not to use the phrase “public option” when discussing health care reform legislation. The emails, which were sent during the height of the health care debate, echoed Republican pollster Frank Luntz’s appearance on Hannity where he encouraged host Sean Hannity not to use “public option,” but instead use the term “government option” because “if you call it the ‘government option,’ the public is overwhelmingly against it.” “Fox News’ overt political activism — as evidenced in this instance by Sammon’s email — has gotten so bad that network insiders are coming to us to help expose it,” said Ari Rabin-Havt, Executive Vice President at Media Matters . “Fox can expect much more.” Rabin-Havt added: “We’re also launching whistleblower@mediamatters.org , an email address where conscientious Fox News employees can anonymously send examples of their employer’s complete disregard for journalism.” Hopefully they’ll get some more tips like this one soon.
Continue reading …Former President Bill Clinton says the tax cut deal President Barack Obama negotiated with Republicans is the best bipartisan deal possible. Clinton and Obama made a surprise appearance together in the White House briefing room Friday. (Dec. 10)
Continue reading …The mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says her son has been betrayed by Australia, his native country, under pressure after he leaked scores of secret US government documents. (Dec. 10)
Continue reading …Vatican diplomats also lobbied against Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and wanted ‘Christian roots’ enshrined in EU constitution A WikiLeaks cable reports that Pope Benedict XVI, seen here being received by Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara in 2006, ‘might prefer to see Turkey develop a special relationship short of EU membership’. Photograph: Dylan Martinez/AFP/Getty Images The pope is responsible for the Vatican’s growing hostility towards Turkey joining the EU, previously secret cables sent from the US embassy to the Holy See in Rome claim. In 2004 Cardinal Ratzinger, the future pope, spoke out against letting a Muslim state join, although at the time the Vatican was formally…
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