{"id":11623,"date":"2009-12-22T10:34:56","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T17:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=11623"},"modified":"2009-12-22T11:12:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T18:12:07","slug":"glenn-beck-named-misinformer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/12\/22\/glenn-beck-named-misinformer-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Beck Named Misinformer of the Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-122209\/2009_12_22_boehlert.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-122209\/2009_12_22_uprising.MP3\"> the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Media Matters for America is a Washington, DC based progressive research and information center dedicated to monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the media. And yesterday they named their 2009 Misinformer of the Year: Glenn Beck.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ETxEcWFMU1s&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ETxEcWFMU1s&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Media Matters made their announcement to give Glenn Beck the presitigious Misinformer of the Year award after analyzing more than 11,000 research items, blog posts, and audio and video clips. Eric Burns, president of Media Matters said, &#8220;Each year, Media Matters has the difficult task of determining which media figure has been the most prolific and influential purveyor of conservative misinformation&#8230; But this year, our choice was easy. Glenn Beck&#8217;s paranoid conspiracy theories, disturbing use of race and race-baiting, and tea party cheerleading made him a shoo-in for Misinformer of the Year for 2009.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Eric Bolhert, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\">www.mediamatters.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program Media Matters for America is a Washington, DC based progressive research and information center dedicated to monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the media. And yesterday they named their 2009 Misinformer of the Year: Glenn Beck. Media Matters made their announcement to give Glenn Beck the presitigious Misinformer of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}