Comments on: The Fabulously Unsurprising Lies of Glenn Beck http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/08/31/the-fabulously-unsurprising-lies-of-glenn-beck/ The national media watch group Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:19:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Glenn Beck Needs to Devote More Time to His Strange Obsessions - Fox News Watchdog http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/08/31/the-fabulously-unsurprising-lies-of-glenn-beck/comment-page-1/#comment-13530 Glenn Beck Needs to Devote More Time to His Strange Obsessions - Fox News Watchdog Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:02:37 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=12521#comment-13530 [...] don’t know why it should surprise me that Glenn Beck doesn’t know what he’s talking about, but you’d think that if you had a furious [...] [...] don't know why it should surprise me that Glenn Beck doesn't know what he's talking about, but you'd think that if you had a furious [...]

]]> By: FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Glenn Beck Needs to Devote More Time to His Strange Obsessions http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/08/31/the-fabulously-unsurprising-lies-of-glenn-beck/comment-page-1/#comment-13497 FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Glenn Beck Needs to Devote More Time to His Strange Obsessions Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:56:39 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=12521#comment-13497 [...] don't know why it should surprise me that Glenn Beck doesn't know what he's talking about, but you'd think that if you had a furious grudge against [...] [...] don't know why it should surprise me that Glenn Beck doesn't know what he's talking about, but you'd think that if you had a furious grudge against [...]

]]> By: Brenda http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/08/31/the-fabulously-unsurprising-lies-of-glenn-beck/comment-page-1/#comment-11290 Brenda Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:49:10 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=12521#comment-11290 There's a big difference between getting arrested and being convicted and getting incarcerated. It's so easy to twist facts into lies. There's a big difference between getting arrested and being convicted and getting incarcerated. It's so easy to twist facts into lies.

]]> By: J Lozano http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/08/31/the-fabulously-unsurprising-lies-of-glenn-beck/comment-page-1/#comment-9712 J Lozano Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:07:35 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=12521#comment-9712 According to the article by Gabriel Voiles "Beck has said or implied that Van went to prison for taking part in the Rodney King riots...." Now, according to the Broward County, Florida website: Jails are most often run by sheriffs and/or local governments and are designed to hold individuals awaiting trial or a serving short sentences (in Florida, inmates serving 364 days or less serve their time in jail). Prisons are operated by state governments and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and are designed to hold individuals convicted of crimes. So, Van Jones being arrested in San Francisco (not Los Angeles) he was held for a short time in a jail, he was not sent to prison. You are sent to a prison after being convicted of a crime. Beck's assertion about Van Jones was a lie, pure and simple. Anyone who believes a comment like this from Beck is not only being duped, but gullible. Beck is an "entertainer to the clueless", who would rather believe the malicious drivel he spouts than find out what the truth is. According to the article by Gabriel Voiles "Beck has said or implied that Van went to prison for taking part in the Rodney King riots…."

Now, according to the Broward County, Florida website: Jails are most often run by sheriffs and/or local governments and are designed to hold individuals awaiting trial or a serving short sentences (in Florida, inmates serving 364 days or less serve their time in jail).

Prisons are operated by state governments and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and are designed to hold individuals convicted of crimes.

So, Van Jones being arrested in San Francisco (not Los Angeles) he was held for a short time in a jail, he was not sent to prison. You are sent to a prison after being convicted of a crime.

Beck's assertion about Van Jones was a lie, pure and simple. Anyone who believes a comment like this from Beck is not only being duped, but gullible. Beck is an "entertainer to the clueless", who would rather believe the malicious drivel he spouts than find out what the truth is.

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