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Glenn Beck Tries to Muckrake on Climate Bill, Fails

3 by Timothy Hurst on September 18, 2009

Glenn Beck officially has no idea what he is talking about (again). The confidential Treasury memos Beck refers to in the following video — memos that say the Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill (American Clean Energy and Security Act) would have allegedly cost $1,761 per household annually — do not address the current House climate change bill, but rather, a proposal that would have auctioned 100 percent of the emissions allowances. The bill under consideration actually spends revenue created by the program to offset costs to households and businesses. In other words, that estimate is based on bill language that never made it into the bill

I love how this guy thinks he is breaking stories and doing some serious journalistic muckraking. [Editor's note: He's not]

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  • Bryant

    But it doesn’t matter. He can make up complete lies out of thin air and belly button lint, and the people who watch his show will still believe it. Progressives have to learn, again and again it seems, that to the Teabaggers and Town Hall Criers and all the other right-wing extremists, facts and logic are completely irrelevant to the process. Simply saying, “That’s not true” will do nothing to convince them. They listen to Beck. They will not listen to us.

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    It’s part of the general effort to teabag Waxman-Markey. The Center for American Progress has been busy growing astroturf organizations in Appalachia and the oil patch. Expect more of the same insanity we’ve seen with health care reform.

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    This guy makes me sick to my stomach – I just don’t understand this sort of attitude.

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