Huffington Argues Glenn Beck Should Be Excluded from Constitutionally Protected Freedom of Speech

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Want to know how the left really feels about free speech?  Look no further than Huffington Post editor and co-founder Arianna Huffington.

Huffington appeared on MSNBC's Nov. 19 "Countdown" to discuss a report by the Anti-Defamation League that alleges Fox News host Glenn Beck is "the most important mainstream media figure who has repeatedly helped to stoke fires of anti-government anger" and therefore endangering society.

"It would be nice to think of Glenn Beck just as a joke, as fodder for this show and the "Daily Show" and others that point out how stupid some of this stuff is," "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann said. "But this report, you know, suggests something else, this is - fear-monger-in-chief term is frightening."

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Huffington agreed with Olbermann's assertion, but she took it a step further and suggested Beck's alleged fear-mongering warrants an exemption from the First Amendment, otherwise known as the "shouting fire in a crowded theater" precedent.

"It is frightening," Huffington replied. "Well, I would say the fear-monger-in-chief title should still be reserved for Dick Cheney, even in retirement. But barring that, there is something that we need to really pay attention to with Glenn Beck. We cannot just dismiss him. Because the truth of the matter is that there is a good reason why we have an exemption to the free speech protection by the First Amendment when we say you cannot shout 'fire' in a crowded theater."

Huffington declared that likening Obama's policies to ideologies prominent in Europe during the 20th Century, or anything else with an "-ism" attached to it is "irresponsible."

"And he's doing that every night. He's basically using images of violence to bring together with all that he's accusing the Obama administration of, which varies from racism to communism, Nazism and everything else in between. So, all that has definitely an impact. I believe words matter, language matters and he's using it in incredibly irresponsible ways night after night."


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I'd rather start the

I'd rather start the curtailment on free speech with the Jihadist 'Kill Americans' rhetoric. I feel a little more threatened by that than by Glenn. Maybe that's just me. Does Olberman know that he is considered to be an apostate and deserves death?

Hey, Huffington Post, read what happened to the last...

people that tried to take on Fox News, aka the Whitehouse.  Click here to see the UFC Style fight card between The Whitehouse & Fox News.  Watch what happens when the his Mao Tse Tung praising, dead fish wielding, combover adorning, Whitehouse cabinet takes on FOX NEWS.  You've got to see this.  Click here: http://thedailyzing.com/130/enemy-of-the-state/

Let me ask you something, dizy.

When you find a commercial extremely irritating, do you rush out to find their product or do you swear to never even look at their product, let alone buy it? You simply can't be this dense. Can you? Can you? Can you?
Can you? Can you? Can you? Can you? Can you? Can you? Can you? Can you? Can you?

 

Hi. My name is John Q. Public, but some just call me racist.

And I thought I hated the 'freecreditreport.com' commercials

And I thought I hated the 'freecreditreport.com' commercials

Getting my credit on

The one with the guy getting a giant cell phone bigger than his head was quite funny!  Sorry, I guess that makes me a sheeple.

I used to hate them, but repition had made them seem quite charming. Who says advertising doesn't work?

The state controlled leftist media are just a bunch of DOUCHE BAGGERS (D-BAGGERS)

Jack:

Here's my beef:

1) the company itself is a ripoff on par with Enzyte. I got a 'free' credit report from these scam artists years ago, and getting them to quit banging your credit card monthly is an occupation in itself.

2) the jingles are monumentally annoying, at least to me

3) the frontman, even after dozens of commercials over 3 or 4 years or so, refuses to even mimic playing that beautiful Tele.

Call me Mr. Shallow! 

Edit: no, I'm not a former Enzyte user like Kengie. I've just read about the scam.

SoL -- ha. Oh I have no

SoL -- ha. Oh I have no idea about the efficacy of the service.

But I am shocked that the curly haired dork is doing a Milli Vannili!!  Now that's unacceptable.

The state controlled leftist media are just a bunch of DOUCHE BAGGERS (D-BAGGERS)

Let me ask a question, too

Who are you talking to? If it was me, I understood the very first "Can you?" So obviously, I'm not that dense, even if I'm not very smart either. If you were talking to somebody else named 'dizy', never mind.

Want to have fun? Do what I

Want to have fun? Do what I do - go to the Huffington Post and pick any article. Go to the comments section, register. Then go back and post any one of these:

 Glenn Beck's ratings are incredible! 

FoxNews has the highest ratings of all!

 Fox News is fair and Balanced.

OR the worst one...

 Palin is selling books like crazy! It's all Palin, all the time! She's great! 

Watch what happens. It's like poking a hornet's nest of pure RAGE. 

Thats brilliant! but how

Thats brilliant! but how many times have you been banned? or your posts deleted, they are super sensitive over there, bunch of thin skined cry babies, but thats a demoncrat 4 ya. 

 Hey that theory would work for all lib sites, "big grin"

Double Brilliant

What are they afraid

What are they afraid of...oh I know... TRUTH to Power!

Two peas in a pod.

Hypocrisy/bias is all over their faces...they prove it when opening mouths and inserting both feet.

'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart

This is serious

You all can dismiss this if you want, but the evidence proves otherwise. With liberal elitists being snuffed out in sniper attacks, homicidal break-ins, and ritual killings every day...

...nevermind.

Serious

Well, we can hope. Si, se puede, etc!

This is Serious Fun...

useful idiots become martyrs in death,

better they keep their idiot status and supply amusement:

Public "Pie"-ing.

Hit them in their pie holes with cream pies. 

Of course it's somewhat juvenile, but considering the targets, appropriate, and who doesn't appreciate a little slapstick?

 

Of Course It Is!

It would be nice to think of Glenn Beck just as a joke, as fodder for this show and the "Daily Show" and others that point out how stupid some of this stuff is," "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann said. "But this report, you know, suggests something else, this is - fear-monger-in-chief term is frightening."

Of course its frightening! The truth is always frightening to the left, especially Bath Tub Boy!

Hypocrite

"I believe words matter, language matters and he's using it in incredibly irresponsible ways night after night."

 

As opposed to the sanitary napkin known as the Huffington Post. 

  Maybe it's just my memory

  Maybe it's just my memory but wasn't the Huffington Post,Daily Kos, the networks, most of cable news, most newspapers, the wire services, anti-war groups, Hollywood, the democrat party and Cindy Sheehan doing a lot of anti-government speech and actions during the Bush administration?

Mid America you are so

Mid America you are so right but heck, to libs, yesterday was too long ago to have any memory..

 

insanity is such a problem in this country.. glad the libs have the problem..

 

I know let's instituionallize them.. 

LOL

insanity is such a problem in this country

Bigger than obesity!

...i don't think

...i don't think they forget these things - its just that they never really give a sh*t in the first place - its whatever works at the time - ANYTHING that works is fair game - the MSM can easily cover up any criticism of the hypocracy

Congratulations Jimmy Carter!

I love seeing libs fearing

I love seeing libs fearing for their lives..

 

if she really knew how many people hated her and her ilk, she'd  need pampers.. 

This proves only one

This proves only one thing...Glen Beck is doing great work. He is in the head of the libs and they can't get him out.

Glenn is not only in the heads of the libs...

Glenn is not only in the heads of the libs...but he's in great company:

Stoking anger against the government, he's in the company of people like Thomas Paine, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and others....

 

Glenn is not only in the heads of the libs...

Glenn is not only in the heads of the libs...but he's in great company:

stoke[ing] fires of anti-government anger,  he's in the company of people like Thomas Paine, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and others....

 

Gee

Glenn never suggested you be muzzled, Zsa Zsa.

Whoa!!!!!

Wait one second here...it's not Glenn Beck, he's just an entertainer trying to make a buck. It is the people who actually BELIEVE his antic's. Remember the old lady at McCains rally "he's a muslim" before an embarrased John pulled away..it's all those types,  you find them at these crazy teabaggers rally and at Palin's book signing. Scary ditto heads.  

Ooops

No apostrophe in antics.

You're kidding, right?

You're kidding, right?

Teabaggers?

...classy.

It's baaaack

Meh

scary dittoheads?

You mean like these people?

Sorry for all that chaos and destruction we left behind on 9/12. We'll try to be more peaceful next time.

Hmmmm...  now, I don't

Hmmmm...  now, I don't suppose that armed New Black Panther Party thugs 'guarding' polling places with the full complicity and support of the President and Attorney General of the United States are at all scary?

Ignorance knows no bounds

Beck  has only put out the truth.  Everything he has talked about and shown can be proven.  In fact, those in this administration admit as much.  They just don't like the exposure and the fact that Beck is helping folks connect the dots.

 Our country is in peril...yes, from those in power now, but evern MORE SO from ignorance--like that shown by those who say Beck is wrong or the people who believe him are nuts.  Do a little research into this with an open mind (and read different sources--NOT just HuffPo, DailyKos and DemocratUnderground!)...you would be surprised to find out what is REALLY happening.

Undesirables

Yes, let's get rid of the undesirables, like Germany did during WW2.

' - "It is frightening,"

' - "It is frightening," WLJ replied. "Well, I would say the
fear-monger-in-chief title should still be reserved for Keefie Olbermann,
even in retardment.

But barring that, there is something that we need
to really pay attention to with Chrissie Matthews.

We cannot just dismiss him.

Because the truth of the matter is that there is a good reason why we
have an exemption to the free speech protection by the First Amendment
when we say you cannot shout 'fire' in a crowded theater." And he's doing that every night. He's basically using images of
violence to bring together with all that he's accusing the Bush
administration of, which varies from racism to communism, Nazism and
everything else in between.

So, all that has definitely an impact. I
believe words matter, language matters and he's using it in incredibly
irresponsible ways night after night."
- "

Obama, the first "alleged" president

http://gjresult.com

 

"Endangered

"Endangered society"???

No one has to listen to Glenn, The only danger from my perspective is the constant abuse of the Constitution from the left to further their Marxist causes. THAT's dangerous.

ONLY ONE QUSTION-

is anything glenn beck has said on his radio or TV programs not truthful?

Is Glenn Wrong-Prove him wrong or shut up-liberal,Marxist anti American scum bag.

BHO-  THE PROGRESSIVE PIRATE

 

 

 

So Arianna admits that

So Arianna admits that liberal"ism" can't compete in the market place of ideas so they have to resort to dictatorial powers, the suspension of the Constitution, to silence all opposition. 

Connect the dots folks, the liberals are ginning themselves up for rationalizing Holder and Obama suspending everyone's civil liberties under the guise of domestic tranquility.   It starts with the jujitsu move using KSM's terrorism trial in a civilian court to suspend legal rights in a trial setting.  Obama and Holder have promised a show trial where the verdict is a foregone conclusion.  As much as everyone believes KSM is guilty of mass murder, any trial in a civilian court will require the suspension of Constitutional rights to overcome his taking by the military since he was denied legal representation because under the rules of WAR no such rights are relevant.  Holder has admitted KSM can NEVER be allowed to go free, thus detention without trial OR charges will be introduced into the civilian legal system using the "terrorism" label.  Now we have Arianna saying political dissent, questioning those in government should not be allowed.  

Notice how she claims forcing those in government to explain themselves is formenting "anti-government anger" and a danger to society.  Never mind for 8 years the libs have been on their soap boxes formenting anti-government anger at Bush.  Tell us Arianna, when Beck unearths these inconvenient facts like Van Jones, etc. why shouldn't government officials explain the facts?  Is it because Beck got it right and you don't want to explain yourselves since you know the public WILL NOT ACCEPT your kind in power?

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, starving the poor one gallon of ethanol at a time. Fill your tank with E85 and cull a village.

The Constitution Stupid!

I had hoped that Arianna's husband, the famous judge Oliver Wendell Holmes might have taught her a bit about the Constitution. No such luck.

Keep complaining, Arianna. It's great for the ratings.

Keep complaining, Arianna .  The more you complain, the higher his ratings climb.  Try to silence him and he'll achieve Martyr status and his "underground" audience will number in the tens of millions.  

Have the liberals forgotten that American's LOVE the underdog and will support them over the "mainstream" every single time? Trying  to silence someone will guarantee their voice will be heard for centuries!  "Give Me Liberty," comes to mind.

The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
The US Constitution

Unless you're a fetus.
The US Supreme Court

Get this:   Huffington

Get this:

 

Huffington was a republican.  She was involved in a fake marriage to a gay (secret) man who ran as a republican for senator or governor (can't recall).  She employed Laura Ingram and Brietbart.  She received millions from the rich republican for the charade.

 

Now she makes money from silly liberals on the "Huffington Post" where the hollywood elite and wanabe famous can use their junior high school degrees to pontificate on the issues of our time and make Huffington more money.

 

Now, who here really gives a $hit what Huffington says or thinks?

The Media cares

The HuffPo was created to fill a niche market.

Drudge invented the aggregate website where conservatives could go to get stories from all over the web that the MSM would not report.

Having to report on BC's nefarious activities because of Drudge incensed the liberal media and they had to find a way to get around him.

HuffPo was created so that liberals could get their jollies out and the MSM could report on it like it was real news and then could pretend to ignore Drudge.

 Media Matters is essentially the same thing except that it relies on the pre-school premise of "I'm rubber, your glue..."

 

Who? Her sychophants. Her

Who? Her sychophants. Her toadys. Her fearful flunkies. Her mindless minions.

 buddyc... Yep...All of

 buddyc...

Yep...All of that is right on the $$$ ...I've followed her dealings from day one of her being on the scene...

Now she has Soros and ilk that have helped her get the HuffnPuff started...nothing new there, he has his claws everywhere with the left.

She sold her soul long ago.

'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart

Arianna Huffington

Five minutes of listening to her and it is easy to understand why her husband turned gay.

Immigration

Arianna is proof of the danger of allowing citizenship by marriage. 

As I see it, either she

As I see it, either she married that guy to leech off his fortune and stay in the country or she married him for love and was so repulsive that she turned him gay.  Either way, she should be deported.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

Or In Other Words - "I ONLY WISHED THAT I HAD THAT KIND OF PULL"

Another case of Liberal professional jealousy.

I would say that Oberman and

I would say that Oberman and Huffington are the ones that need to be censored but after looking at their ratings I think it would be redundant.

Fear mongering

Didn't Maobama say that people would die if we didn't do something about health care?  

Semper suprene nitens 

There is no point dwelling on all the foolish mistakes we have made in our lives. For one thing, it can be very time-consuming. Dr. Thomas Sowell

 

Zsa Zsa Huffington is guilty of everything she

...accuses others of doing. Probably even more so.

If only she was isolated

If only she was isolated at Green Acres.

Glenn really must be winning in his argument with idiots...

Sigh!

Huffington

We've got two words for you, **** it.

Now, now...Michaels &

Now, now...Michaels & Helmsley want their catchphrase back. Their legal team of Hickenbottom & Levesque, PA will contact you shortly.

The Worstest Person In The World!

I'd love nothing better than to see "progressives" go after Beck in a legal way. I'd love to see a constitutional "scholar" explain how Glenn Beck is falsely calling fire in a theater. Ariana Huffington is a flake and a poser, and is perfectly stupid. The left is desperate, because Beck hurts them bad (legitimately) and they've got to say something on record against him. Huffington fills the bill as their wacko spokeswoman, as she has no credibility in the arena of legitimate discourse. That way, Katie Couric and the bunch can stay at least a little clean.

If Huffington didn't have

If Huffington didn't have the $$$ to keep her in the public eye and have her own little empire she'd be just another Cindy Sheehan...a little off-the-wall nobody libs would callously use until the libs felt she had served their purpose then they'd throw her under the bus. But Huff's $$$ buys her influence in lib circles so no matter how wacky she speaks, none of the libs dare toss her under the bus out of fear she'd use her money against them. Sheehan never had that luxury.

HuffnPuff wouldn't know

HuffnPuff wouldn't know free speech if it hit them in the face. Case in point; I've posted the odd post there and despite never being obscene, vulgar or slanderous (I am a christian so no vulgarity here!) 2 out of 3 of my posts are censored and never printed BECAUSE of my strong opposition.

Yesterday I wrote "Can thehuffpo perhaps focus on something other than article after article bashing Sarah Palin? With everything going on in the world, you call these endless articles and blogs NEWS..."

 ...and for THAT I was banned from posting! Interesting how the conservative sites don't use 24 hour comment censors....what is the very yellow jornalistic gossip huffnpuff so afraid of?

The truth, obviously.

 I believe the longer o is in power the more you will see free speech censored esp. under the guise of political correctness. Something MUST BE DONE BY THE MIDDLE AMERICA folks  elitist leftists refuse to acknowledge.

"Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty."

The Theatre/Country IS on fire

Leftists want free speech ONLY if it supports their agenda.  If someone speaks out against them, they want to shut them up.  The country IS on "fire" so to speak.  Our country is being systematically dismantled and destroyed by the people in office.  This is NOT business as usual.   We are not dealing with mere Democrat vs. Republican issues.  The people who have literally usurped the power base of the Democrat party are NOT regular Americans who happen to have a "D" after their name--these people are RADICALS who want to fundamentally change this country and redistrubute our wealth to the rest of the world.  They admitted it and have continued to admit it.  Glenn Beck has only exposed the truth of what they are doing.  He has not made up anything.  Everything he has exhibited has been already said or done by the people in power.  He is just bringing it to light where most of the rest of the media do not!

God gave us our RIGHTS--only God can take them away!

Huffington's suggestion is a

Huffington's suggestion is a textbook example of a non sequitur.

I have LOST

ANY respect I retained for Ariana Huffington! She's either a doofus or disingenuous.

Ariana, who is going to get trampled if Glenn Beck says that Obama is "Fear-monger-in-chief"?

Look who uses the word "frightening" in that clip--why it's The Olberman! In fact I've heard so much about "scary" and "frightening" people on the right in the past view months, I can't believe that it is just a total lack of introspection that allows the left to claim that only the right "scares" people. Obama wants to caution you about foot-lopping doctors. That must be a good thing, otherwise it sounds "scary". 

They think it's sooo "frightening" that they will use an example of extemporaneous chain of events, to argue against political speech. That has to be a dire event! So if you warn against dire consequences, what is that? If you warn with words like "frightening". What are they saying but that many people can or should be frightened by it?

What is that?! My Lord! What an incredible load of sophistry or crap depending on Huffington's intellectual capacity--which I'm no longer that trusting of. 

They are clearly differentiable circumstances. A person who shouts "fire" in a crowded theater knowing that there is no fire, has only one likely intention--of causing chaos (probably for amusement), and that can result in a stampede of people endangering life and limb. And if you're somehow ignorant of this effect, it doesn't matter. 

Political commentary on a cable talk show has a more delayed effect, and a more ambiguous outcome. If we can say that certain political speech has no intention but to get the President shot--speech that does not directly advocate for the assassination of the President of the US--can be silenced, by the interpretation of advocates--then we are eliminating the speech that the founders intended to protect--not pornography, not flag-burning, but civil political speech. 

All we know is that we have Olby and Ariana agreeing that some political speech might be permissable to silence, with some flimsy rationale, with a partisan (partisan does not necessarily have to do with political parties) interpretation, inference and argument. 

I don't want Ariana silenced though. I hope that she keeps showing how much an enemy of the first amendment she is. I hope she keeps showing what a politicized shill she is.

Think of the method of substitution that liberals have used for years: "What if that were somebody besides Glenn Beck, about whom they were saying 'Hey, we can silence him for the good and safety of the country.'" I think they have exposed the truly "frightening" speakers, and I hope that they do not silence themselves in exposing it.

This is atrocious logic and atrocious sentiment, but even more atrocious understanding of the theory of self-governance. If you argue that alarmist speech can only ever lead to calamitous results, then you misunderstand the type of revolutionary speech that that founders meant when they talked about the "right of the people" to throw off a government if it suppresses their rights--I don't think that they thought that in an overthrow the worst was that somebody would slip and skin their knee. They spoke of overthrowing government, yet they did not suspect that an a violent revolution would be the result of discussing "overthrow". They did not view Man as a natural cascade to predetermined outcomes, and so need to be managed by the people in the know. 

"Vapid" used to be the word I described for the mainstream liberals' intellect. Intellectually vacant is the only word now.

Let's get this straight.

Glenn Beck calling Obama a racist is an opinion. He advocated nothing. Huffington is advocating, or advertising that she's be supportive of suppressive actions, and Olbermann offers no opposition, either.

Beck's interpretation does not inhibit Obama from doing anything. He doesn't advise, or advocate, or approve of anything, he just offers an interpretation. The only effect Beck can have is if a good number of people buy it, and vote out Obama and anything that smacks of Obama in 2010-2012. Through the agency of consensus, and is only ever inferrable from the statement. However, following Huffington's council means that courts and/or politicians decide which speech is "frightening", and what is "like" yelling"fire" in a crowded theater, and what they can, by extension, censor or silence. 

How is quoting Mao any "safer" as speech? Can we be sure that Dunn had no intention of instilling Maoist philosophy--an example of Mao? We don't need to, because the clear interpretation only suggests that for some reason Mao is one of her two favorite philosophers, and that him not taking another persons' view that the war was lost was emulatabe--Glenn Beck made his point only reflecting the hypersensitivy of the left and those established facts. 

And Beck, who has made me cringe at times, made a much more disciplined point than I believe a vast majority on the left are capable of making.  

What about HufPo?

If Glenn Beck is to be taken off the air, should the HuffPo be taken off the air as well? As Glenn Beck would say: "I'm just saying...".

Nope that is against the

Nope that is against the rules. their rules, they can say, do, whatever they please, and it is AOK, they dish it but can't take it, None of  these rules apply to conservatives, cause we are bad, wrong, full of it, liars, etc and smart smart smart and smarter,  just sayin

Roo...

Fair dinkums girl! You said it right. Their rules are so bass-akwards! Jus' sayin'. : )

Gary

 

Old media species: Moonbat-a-saurus-rex. Getting more endangered by the day.

The Theater is Burning

"there is a good reason why we have an exemption to the free speech protection by the First Amendment when we say you cannot shout 'fire' in a crowded theater."

Said exemption only applies when the theater in question is not on fire. When the theater is actually burning and someone yells 'fire,' we call that person a hero.

HuffPooP

I think it's funny. We call them freedom busting totalitarians and they ALWAYS make us proud!

 

 - Proud to have been banned from HuffPooP 

 

 

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