Glenn Beck Donates $10,000 To The Chamber Of Commerce (AUDIO)

Glenn Beck entered the controversy surrounding the alleged foreign donations to the powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce by sending some domestic money to the group -- specifically, his own.

In the past two weeks, liberal blog Think Progress has written several articles documenting the money the Chamber receives from foreign donors. Based on one of the reports, the Democratic National Committee took out an ad targeting the business lobby and charging it with "stealing" American democracy by potentially using that money on domestic political campaigns. The Chamber hit back, saying that the DNC and the Obama administration had no proof for their charges.

On his radio show Thursday, Beck said that, while he didn't agree with everything the Chamber advocates, he considered the group to be an honorable one promoting businesses. He also mentioned that his father was a member.

But it was the Obama administration's criticisms of the Chamber that led Beck not only to tell his listeners to make Thursday "the biggest fundraising day in the Chamber's history" by donating to the group, but also to put a considerable amount of money where his mouth was.

While on the air, Beck went to the Chamber's website and announced to listeners, "I am donating $10,000 to the Chamber of Commerce now."

He also joked that the Obama administration hates the Chamber as much as he hates Woodrow Wilson.

Listen (via Media Matters):

Comments

[Whatchutalkinabout]

02:35 PM on 10/18/2010

Buy the way, FactCheck has looked into the foreign money issue...

http://www.factcheck.org/2010/10/foreign-money-really/

[Sassys]

05:56 AM on 10/18/2010

Beck will miss that money when he gets booted off the Faux network...he did it to spite Liberals and it just helps prove their point...he is a fool.

[dzadzey]

05:55 AM on 10/18/2010

Ummm...Glenn is "one of them". He makes $30 million a year, and is a willing mouthpiece for the Chamber and it's cronies. "They" are not "Us".

[Tom Sito]

11:17 PM on 10/17/2010

Millionaires donating to Millonaires to elect Billionaires. Modern American Democracy in Action!

[vgirl1]

09:02 PM on 10/17/2010

Becky tells Teabaggers to buy gold.

Teabaggers buy gold.

Gold company pays Becky a profit.

Becky donates back to Starchamber of Commerce who represents Gold Company.

Quite a GIG if you can get it.

Only ones left in the cold, the original Teabagger buyer who will more than likely never break even on their gold purchase, let alone make a profit.

[AddyGmom]

06:22 PM on 10/17/2010

The beck is selling their jobs down the river and he's encouraging them to contribute to their own demise.......

BaaaBaaaaaaBaaaaaa

[CynAnne]

01:02 PM on 10/17/2010

Beckles = Shameless Shill for the Chamber of (Foreign) Commerce.

[MayaE]

07:30 AM on 10/17/2010

How much more gullible can Beckerheads get? Of course, they'll do exactly what their multi-millionaire leader tells them. Like good little Beckford wives they ask no questions. They never consider why someone who made 32 million dollars last year, as a "small"business owner might have an ulterior motive behind his support for the Chamber of Commerce. The US Chamber is not your home town Chamber filled with mom and pop business owners. these are powerful corporations, who don't give a $$$ about anything but increasing their profits year after year. They must be high-fiven each other while they laugh at all the Beckerheads who don't have to be coaxed into the getting in to the bag. They not only get in willingly; they are now "paying" to get in! Unbelievable.

[realmystical]

11:27 PM on 10/16/2010

If giving money to the US Chamber, which does not support a tax incentive for those companies who keep jobs in America and does take money from those countries where former American jobs are outsourced, does not tell the Baggers they are voting against their best interests, they have entered the stratosphere of cluelessness. I would say they deserve what they're going to get, but unfortunately their lack of understanding will hurt our country.

[VeritasVincit2]

09:07 PM on 10/16/2010

If this were the left being accused he would be man up on the chalkboard with all of the demons coming to get America. He is a mentally ill tool of the Corporate Crime Syndicate GOP.

[VeritasVincit2]

09:06 PM on 10/16/2010

So they gave him $10,000 extra in his check so he could make a statement donating on air. This is credible why? Didn't Koch Brothers pay for him and Queen of the Iquitarod to do there rally and bussed everyone in to boot. Please................................

[Sassys]

06:01 AM on 10/18/2010

F/F #122...love the Queen of Iquitarod! Brilliant!! Lmao!!

[Howard Scott Pearlman]

06:57 PM on 10/16/2010

Help Glen Beck Save America’s Billionaires and Millionaires !

Help The Republican Party Save Those Poor Billionaires

Yes, Billionaires are Suffering Today -

Their poor kids can’t afford that 5th Lambergini,

They can’t buy their eleventh Vacation Home,

Or that 40th $10,000 suit

and the 30th $50,000 gown is now much too expensive.

Please Help a starving Billionaire Today by voting Republican

Remember Caviar ain’t cheap.

* * Please send this message all over the internet !

Howard Scott Pearlman

[tangolas]

05:29 PM on 10/16/2010

Power of television, that a know nothing huckster like this guy can be relevant at all.

[amaboss52]

02:17 PM on 10/16/2010

The C of C lobbies against taking tax breaks away from companies that ship jobs overseas, lobbies against giving tax breaks to companies who don't, lobbies for shipping jobs overseas then complains and blames Dems because there are no jobs. Catch-22 in action. If the baggery really did stand for something they would be screaming about this, as it is they don't stand for anything different than what the republi-Cons stand for. Skruing America.

[REDSTATEREFUGEE]

09:20 PM on 10/16/2010

Agreed, AB52......I think the present state of American politics might be an enormous example of cognitive dissonance, where vast numbers of the electorate simply cannot make the connection between what the pugs and the Tea Partiers actually believe and what occurs to them in their daily lives.

It took George W. Bush screwing up two overseas wars, allowing financial institutions to practice laissez faire business on a grand scale, and offshoring our valuable jobs of all types for Obama to win in 2008. In other words, the American public, as a whole, is so uninformed and politically naive that it takes major fault lines to open up before they recognize there is even a problem.

I wish that I could say that it is a generational problem, where, at most, ten percent of my classes are aware of significant political, economic, historical, and social concepts, but, then, those folks of my own generation ( 55+ ), who allegedly are the sole survivors of the reading public, seem to embrace the Tea Party with a fanaticism we have not witnessed since the last gasps of the Weimar Republic in the 1930's. God help America....

[wicked0ne]

10:56 AM on 10/16/2010

If the organization was not donating exclusively to the GOP side, Beck would be wearing out chalkboards trying to link it back to Musolinni.

[maslin]

01:23 PM on 10/17/2010

I'd be willing to bet, he has a Mussolini bath toy.

Rubber 'Duce', you're the one
You make bath-time so much fun...

[Sassys]

06:06 AM on 10/18/2010

LMAOOOOOOOO!!!! Definitely F/F!