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Glenn Beck Suing for Defamation ???
« on: September 10, 2009, 07:23:02 PM »

"Hugely popular conservative talker Glenn Beck has sicced his lawyers on a satirical website that's been up for a week, but the attorneys may have a point on this one. The site, called glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com, toes the line on defamation—and may have stepped across it.
When someone registers a domain like glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com, they probably expect to hear from Glenn Beck's lawyers. In this case, it took two days. The site's anonymous operator tells Ars that the whole thing is satire—but that may not be enough to avoid charges of defamation.

Gilbert Gottfried, what have you started?
The controversy started a week ago in the Fark forums, where someone picked up on an old Gilbert Gottfried roast of the "comedian" (scare quotes fully intended) Bob Saget. During the roast, Gottfried repeatedly said (watch the video) that Saget had "not raped and killed a girl in 1990." The Fark forums took the joke about the power of insinuation and applied it to right-wing talk show host Glenn "Obama is a racist" Beck.

One of the Fark readers then took the forum meme to the next level, registering a domain name and launching a web site in order to make a point about talking head TV demagoguery. "Why won't Glenn Beck deny these allegations?" asks the site. "We're not accusing Glenn Beck of raping and murdering a young girl in 1990—in fact, we think he didn't! But we can't help but wonder, since he has failed to deny these horrible allegations. Why won't he deny that he raped and killed a young girl in 1990?" At the very bottom of the page was a small text disclaimer saying that the site was satirical.

I spoke to the anonymous owner of the site, who tells Ars that launching it "just felt right"—it flipped the "birther" non-falsifiable conspiracy theories about Obama's birth and citizenship around and applied the same tactics to one of the biggest talking heads (no pun intended?) on cable news. It's just "using Beck's tactics against him" and is a small way of "directing all this frustration" with Beck and others into action. "  arstechnica

ETA: After reading the whole thing, a suit hasn't been filed, YET.
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Re: Glenn Beck Suing for Defamation !!!
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2009, 07:28:23 PM »
Stupidity should hurt, and in this nimrod's case, it should hurt A LOT!   :hammer:

Borderline fatal, even....

SIC 'EM, GLENN!!!!
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Re: Glenn Beck Suing for Defamation !!!
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2009, 07:30:07 PM »
I hope he sues them into oblivion. There's satire and then there's this P.O.S.
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Re: Glenn Beck Suing for Defamation ???
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2009, 07:31:41 PM »
I hope $kimmer choked on his dinner when he heard about this.
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Re: Glenn Beck Suing for Defamation ???
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2009, 07:32:33 PM »
What's his DU name?
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Re: Glenn Beck Suing for Defamation ???
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2009, 09:43:37 PM »
Good for you Beck don't stop the fight and I hope you win!
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Re: Glenn Beck Suing for Defamation ???
« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2009, 11:29:10 PM »
Skimmer, I think your evenin's going to be ruined for you.
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Re: Glenn Beck Suing for Defamation ???
« Reply #7 on: September 10, 2009, 11:41:12 PM »
wow.....

words just fail regarding something this low....
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Re: Glenn Beck Suing for Defamation ???
« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2009, 12:33:10 AM »
I hope they nail his ass to the wall.  There's free speech, and then there's this.
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Re: Glenn Beck Suing for Defamation ???
« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2009, 02:44:36 AM »
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Re: Glenn Beck Suing for Defamation ???
« Reply #10 on: September 11, 2009, 02:47:13 AM »
and.. here is his facebook page.

http://www.facebook.com/eilandhall
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Re: Glenn Beck Suing for Defamation ???
« Reply #11 on: September 11, 2009, 02:57:21 AM »
And yes, I have sent this info off to Glenn Beck.

*scratches a notch next to Jeb Eddy's*
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Re: Glenn Beck Suing for Defamation ???
« Reply #12 on: September 11, 2009, 04:17:30 AM »
With rusty nails! :evillaugh:
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Re: Glenn Beck Suing for Defamation ???
« Reply #13 on: September 11, 2009, 06:02:37 AM »
Quote from: crockspot on September 11, 2009, 02:57:21 AM
And yes, I have sent this info off to Glenn Beck.

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Re: Glenn Beck Suing for Defamation ???
« Reply #14 on: September 11, 2009, 06:20:03 AM »
What would we do without the DUmp? The site keeps some bat shit crazy people off the street.
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Re: Glenn Beck Suing for Defamation ???
« Reply #15 on: September 11, 2009, 06:39:04 AM »
Fark?  I thought they jumped the shark years ago.
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Re: Glenn Beck Suing for Defamation ???
« Reply #16 on: September 11, 2009, 06:45:23 AM »
What are the odds that the dipsh*t that set this up did so from Mom's basement with Mom's credit card to pay for it, and hasn't got two nickels to rub together?
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Re: Glenn Beck Suing for Defamation ???
« Reply #17 on: September 11, 2009, 07:22:31 AM »
Good.  I hope the little cretins are hung out to dry. 

$kins has yet to flush the defamation from his site. 
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Re: Glenn Beck Suing for Defamation ???
« Reply #18 on: September 11, 2009, 08:35:46 AM »
Quote from: Airwolf on September 10, 2009, 11:29:10 PM
Skimmer, I think your evenin's going to be ruined for you.

What's that sound?  Is it the shredder at the bottom of the DU memory hole spinning up?

 :popcorn:
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Re: Glenn Beck Suing for Defamation ???
« Reply #19 on: September 11, 2009, 09:29:18 AM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on September 11, 2009, 08:35:46 AM
What's that sound?  Is it the shredder at the bottom of the DU memory hole spinning up?

 :popcorn:

Doesn't matter.  I've got screen capture copies of the DUmp's willing participation in this slander, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

I'm looking forward to watching $kimmer's primitives squirm.
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Re: Glenn Beck Suing for Defamation ???
« Reply #20 on: September 11, 2009, 11:11:07 PM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on September 11, 2009, 09:29:18 AM
Doesn't matter.  I've got screen capture copies of the DUmp's willing participation in this slander, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

I'm looking forward to watching $kimmer's primitives squirm.

I hope the entire island of misfits chokes on it.
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