Small Fish, Big Pond

I think Glenn Beck and people like him are what are destroying our nation (USA).

Terrorists may kill a few people and temporarily scare everybody but it’s fear mongers like him who allow the “Terrorists to win” by keeping that fear and hatred alive and strong far longer than it would normally exist. Now our great country is a laughing stock where people coming from dictatorships are shocked at how many stupid ineffective hoops we have to jump through in the name of “national security”. I mean we can’t even bring nail clippers with us on vacation because they’re afraid we’ll use them to hijack a plane. You know what you do when somebody with nail clippers attacks you?
Anything.
Anything will do more damage that nail clippers. Punch, kick, even screaming is a better attack.

That’s why as a decorated war veteran and proud citizen of the United States I’m happy to see somebody hoist Beck on his own petard, making obviously baseless claims to put somebody on the defensive against something that doesn’t exist. If only it would teach him to shut the hell up about how we can never trust another living human being (it won’t).

Ars has a nice writeup of the Glenn Beck issue that Glenn Beck hasn’t denied that he raped and murdered a young girl in 1990. Currently he’s trying to get the domain to the above site shuttered to try to eliminate the issue because it makes him look bad worse.

I agree with most people that regardless of the truth or satire, bullying domain registrars into shutting down websites that compete with you for making the most idiotic baseless claims on the net is the wrong way to deal with everybody’s opinion that you’re an asshat.

The bad news is that pundits like Beck love this attention, especially when it’s negative, because it makes them finally feel like the victim they always pretend to be. It’s likely that now they’ll just sue the owner of the website or drag him through enough court cases that even winning will leave him penniless.