Glennn Beck thinks treating the left fairly is the answer

Treat people fairly when they want your complete and total destruction to the point where history is rewritten??

This always happens when Republicans take over, they have no will to win, and just set themselves up for a quick defeat, which makes you thing they like being the minority, so they can talk tough, get the campaign cash, and actually do nothing when they win…..

What set me off is Glenn stating inanely that “ the Right does it too!”. Where??? Outside of Alex Jones, who’s proven far more correct than otherwise, despite Sandyhook, where is that massive Far Right wing disinformation ring?? No one has eve been able to show it because it doesn’t exist.

Yet Glenn is bowing & scraping for apologies as if he’s ashamed of …. what, I can’t say.

Just sick of this appeasement attitude.

I have no interest in backing the Beck comments, but I certainly believe the right has engaged in spreading falsehoods in pretty reckless fashion.

Even if we agree that "conspiracies become facts" which is vastly overstated but tinged with quite a bit of truth, the reality is that plenty of our folks are spewing information they have no way of verifying and they're doing it only because it opposes the mainstream narrative. Which is less than ideal even if you think we're managing to get it mostly right.

And I think some would say this is a war and you're going to get into gray areas in a war - and I agree. But the instinct to compromise and say "well we do it too" is valuable only in the confines of a thread like this. My comments about the right spewing misinformation are intended to encourage correction on the right, not to find common ground with the left that hates us. If Beck is doing it for the latter, I think it's a waste of time and energy.

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Glennn Beck thinks treating the left fairly is the answer

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Ask Neville Chamberlin how a policy of appeasement worked out.

I think you are oversimplfying and mischaracterizing Beck's views. He's been one trying to wake people up to fight back for a very very long time.

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Can you provide some specific examples of how the right is recklessly spreading falsehoods?

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Sure, specific to this place - this board jumps into action every time someone has a blood clot to proclaim that it's from the vaccine. Actually, this happened recently even when the death was from suicide. It's reckless and stupid and not something that has to happen to rebut the mainstream presumption that the vaccines are infallible (which probably isn't the presumption anymore anyway).

That would apply to the conspiracy theme as well. As mentioned, there is plenty of truth in the idea that the type of stuff this board talks about meets initial, specific resistance from mainstream media (the vaccine is entirely safe, etc.) and then such things have to be walked back, making the original "conspiracy" look quite a bit more accurate. But for every large theme like that there are scores of very specific claims that are never verified and are sometimes completely repudiated (like the suicide above).

But as mentioned, I think the bigger problem isn't necessarily getting it wrong, it's spewing information we can't verify because it comes from a source we're inclined to believe. Like "the vaccines alter your DNA." Someone on here sees a YouTube video by a doctor they've never heard of try and explain this. Perhaps there is merit to it, perhaps not. Nonetheless, it gets undying fealty from elements of this board well before the refutations and counterarguments supporting the idea can develop.

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I certainly believe the right has engaged in spreading falsehoods in pretty reckless fashion.

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Where?

Never trust a man who cries on TV like a baby. All over politics. GB is a clown.