They left out a group of idiots in this article.   
   Those still stupid enough to be a Glenn Beck fan.   
      
      
   Professional Idiot Glenn Beck Equates Veterans with Communists   
   by Bill Bradley November 17, 2010, 5:28 PM   
      
   Yesterday, an Iraq veteran named Denise called in to The Glenn Beck   
   Program to complain about the fun she had on Veterans Day. Denise, who   
   returned from Iraq two years ago, walked with Iraq and Afghanistan   
   Veterans for America (I.A.V.A.) in last Thursday's parade in New York   
   City and then attended a soiree at The Providence, in Midtown Manhattan,   
   where she encountered "a spread like you wouldn't believe."   
      
   Personally, I think all our veterans deserve this treatment (in addition   
   to the free Bloomin' Onion and pint they're offered at Outback   
   Steakhouse). But Denise found herself questioning I.A.V.A.'s motives.   
   "Where did they get the money for all this? It was unbelievable how they   
   treated us that day," she said. So she took to the Internet, where she   
   claims she found out that the I.A.V.A.--America's largest nonprofit,   
   nonpartisan organization for veterans of the wars of the past decade--is   
   supported by George Soros and MoveOn.org. "George Soros has his hand in   
   the military," Denise told Beck, who was only too happy for the   
   opportunity to take a few whacks at one of his favorite punching bags.   
      
   "What [liberal donors such as Soros are] doing is, they're creating the   
   misery, and they're coming out and organizing all these people--under the   
   guise of labor unions or something as innocuous sounding as, you know,   
   Iraqi [sic] and Afghanistan Veterans Foundation [sic]--but it is Soros   
   and Communist and radical money and they are tying and duping people in   
   as much as they can," Beck said, referring to an organization whose   
   activities include lobbying for veterans policy on Capitol Hill, giving   
   away N.F.L. and concert tickets to veterans, and working to improve   
   mental health.   
      
   I called up I.A.V.A.'s executive director and founder, Paul   
   Rieckhoff--who served as a first lieutenant in Iraq from 2003-2004--to see   
   if the supporters of I.A.V.A. are really as Communist as Glenn Beck says   
   they are. "The I.A.V.A. receives no money from MoveOn.org," he told me.   
   "We're happy to take MoveOn's money if they'll send it, and we're happy   
   to take Fox News's money if they'll send it, too. Veterans affairs   
   shouldn't be a partisan issue. It's all about Americans uniting behind   
   our veterans." As for the "spread like you wouldn't believe" after the   
   parade? Rieckhoff explained that it had been sponsored by Microsoft and   
   Health Net.   
      
   http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/11/professional-idiot-glenn-   
   beck-equates-veterans-with-communists.html   
      
   --- Xnews/5.04.25   
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