Glenn Beck 1990: Waging War Against Irresponsible Punditry

Web Site Suggests Glenn Beck Disproves a Negative, but it Just Might Be a Bit Offensive

Has everyone seen Glenn Beck 1990? Haven't heard of Glenn Beck 1990? Well, Glenn Beck 1990 is a website set up, according to TheStranger.com, as a spoof of Glenn Beck's outrageous assertions and obfuscations. Some think it goes a bit too far, because Glenn Beck 1990 is an abbreviation for glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com. The site was set up to supposedly get Glenn Beck to step up and admit that he did not rape and murder a young girl in 1990. The creator of the site uses the same tactics as Glenn Beck and others of his ilk: Toss out a negative premise about an individual, policy, piece of legislation, etc., and bet the viewer, user, or audience that they cannot prove the contrary, thereby suggesting that the premise is true and irrefutable.

Only it isn't. But you cannot disprove a negative. Logic dictates that proof could always turn up somewhere, sometime. Glenn Beck 1990 is that negative for Glenn Beck.

Glenn Beck has been taking some heat lately, and deservedly so. When one fires from the hip without pause for control or accuracy, there sometimes occurs some unintended consequences. And sometimes those unintended consequences occur to the person who set everything in motion to begin with. Like Glenn Beck. Glenn Beck has been shooting off his mouth about President Barack Obama being a racist, a socialist, and an un-American (whatever that is, but he tip-toes around the "birther" issue, insinuating). He's talked about secession. And he's constantly talking about President Obama destroying America.

And he has that right. The First Amendment of the Constitution gives him the right to say anything he likes as long as it does no injury to another. And listening to Glenn Beck is optional as well. One does not have to agree with the emotional pundit to watch or listen to his various programs and his conspiracy theories, just the same as one does not have to disagree with the hyperbolic histrionics to watch or listen to him. One can be informed and entertained both negatively and positively by what Glenn Beck offers in written, visual, and aural formats.