On 11/19/2010 05:59 PM, Ross Sauer -> All wrote:   
    RS> They left out a group of idiots in this article.   
    RS> Those still stupid enough to be a Glenn Beck fan.   
      
   Smarmy one liner followed by someone else's words.   
      
   You never disappoint.   
      
    RS> Professional Idiot Glenn Beck Equates Veterans with Communists   
    RS> by Bill Bradley November 17, 2010, 5:28 PM   
      
   When the article starts with a personal attack, it's obvious the author has no   
   real facts to offer.   
      
    RS> Yesterday, an Iraq veteran named Denise called in to The Glenn Beck   
    RS> Program to complain about the fun she had on Veterans Day. Denise, who   
    RS> returned from Iraq two years ago, walked with Iraq and Afghanistan   
    RS> Veterans for America (I.A.V.A.) in last Thursday's parade in New York   
    RS> City and then attended a soiree at The Providence, in Midtown Manhattan,   
    RS> where she encountered "a spread like you wouldn't believe."   
      
    RS> Personally, I think all our veterans deserve this treatment (in addition   
    RS> to the free Bloomin' Onion and pint they're offered at Outback   
    RS> Steakhouse). But Denise found herself questioning I.A.V.A.'s motives.   
    RS> "Where did they get the money for all this? It was unbelievable how they   
    RS> treated us that day," she said. So she took to the Internet, where she   
    RS> claims she found out that the I.A.V.A.--America's largest nonprofit,   
    RS> nonpartisan organization for veterans of the wars of the past decade--is   
    RS> supported by George Soros and MoveOn.org. "George Soros has his hand in   
    RS> the military," Denise told Beck, who was only too happy for the   
    RS> opportunity to take a few whacks at one of his favorite punching bags.   
      
    RS> "What [liberal donors such as Soros are] doing is, they're creating the   
    RS> misery, and they're coming out and organizing all these people--under the   
    RS> guise of labor unions or something as innocuous sounding as, you know,   
    RS> Iraqi [sic] and Afghanistan Veterans Foundation [sic]--but it is Soros   
    RS> and Communist and radical money and they are tying and duping people in   
    RS> as much as they can," Beck said, referring to an organization whose   
    RS> activities include lobbying for veterans policy on Capitol Hill, giving   
    RS> away N.F.L. and concert tickets to veterans, and working to improve   
    RS> mental health.   
      
    RS> I called up I.A.V.A.'s executive director and founder, Paul   
    RS> Rieckhoff--who served as a first lieutenant in Iraq from 2003-2004--to see   
    RS> if the supporters of I.A.V.A. are really as Communist as Glenn Beck says   
    RS> they are. "The I.A.V.A. receives no money from MoveOn.org," he told me.   
    RS> "We're happy to take MoveOn's money if they'll send it, and we're happy   
    RS> to take Fox News's money if they'll send it, too. Veterans affairs   
    RS> shouldn't be a partisan issue. It's all about Americans uniting behind   
    RS> our veterans." As for the "spread like you wouldn't believe" after the   
    RS> parade? Rieckhoff explained that it had been sponsored by Microsoft and   
    RS> Health Net.   
      
    RS> http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/11/professional-idiot-glenn-   
    RS> beck-equates-veterans-with-communists.html   
      
   Interestingly, there is no evidence shown in this entire article where Beck   
   equated IAVA or any veterans with communists. If you listen to the entire   
   exchange between Glenn and his caller, neither she or he made any comments   
   about IAVA or any veterans being communists. Beck's entire point was how   
   people like Soros and MO.o will donate to otherwise well-meaning organizations   
   in an attempt to influence them to their own ends. Whether IAVA is influenced   
   by their donors is yet to be investigated.   
      
   It's hilarious how you will watch some idiot like Maddow or Olbermann and/or   
   read some nonsense on MMfA or PuffHo and then repeat it as if it were the   
   absolute truth. Your silly claim that these morons use "real facts" to back up   
   their claims is laughable when all the facts are shown.   
      
   Ed   
      
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