Glenn Beck Goes After Google (VIDEO)

Glenn Beck found a new target this week: Google. On his Wednesday show, Beck continued a multi-day focus on the search engine, saying that "something is wrong" with it, and that it is involved in overthrowing governments and supporting "hardcore leftists" such as George Soros and Van Jones.

Beck's interest in Google was prompted by Wael Ghonim, the Google employee who became a leading face of the Egyptian revolution.

"I'm really not sure that I want my search engine involved in government overthrows, good or bad," he said. "I'm not afraid that Google is reading my email, or tapping your phone lines, or stealing Grandma's recipes...what I'm starting to look at is Google and Google as a whole."

And that look into Google, he said, had led him to conclude that "I'm just not sure...that I want to use their products anymore unless I have to." Beck stressed that he wasn't "leading any boycotts," but that he was not "feeling real comfortable about the current direction of Google the more I find out."

His reasons for this? He said Google was becoming too intertwined with the U.S. government, including law enforcement agencies and the NSA. He also criticized them for advocating for net neutrality.

He also said top Google officials such as former CEO Eric Schmidt were working with "hardcore leftists" such as Van Jones, and pointed out that Google gave $1 million to MoveOn.org in 2006. ("Oh! George Soros is doing that too," Beck added.)

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Comments

[Manny Smith]

07:50 PM on 03/04/2011

I fought for privacy rights through the 90's and I have no love for Google so for once I find myself siding with Beck even if it's not for his reasons. Google is trying to become the Microsoft of the 2010's with it controlling all aspects of our computing life from our cell phone (Android), to our videos (YouTube), home computer (Microsoft wins on the OS here) but Chrome browser where we spend most our time. The have GMail, Maps, deals with Verizon on the internet backbone, most our searches go through Google.
When a company tries to control so many diverse areas of business it's entering antitrust law area.
I didn't mind Google so much till I had to deal with their Google Update program that is acting like malware in that it's nearly impossible to remove and keep off my clients business computer workstations. It's monitoring all software products that are installed and just try and get rid of it.
Then I got a shiver down my spine when I found the hidden google account for my home IP address with information they had been collecting about internet activities. Try and start a private browsing session with Chrome...

Google will be in court, like Microsoft was for it's actions against Netscape, for anti trust violations this decade. Most likely Apple will be the other party in the suit.

[TheCommons]

11:51 AM on 02/22/2011

Beck has a lot of airtime to fill. Hardly surprising that much of it seems to get filled with garbage. Beck is part of the circus sideshow wing of the American right where he shares space there with Michelle Bachmann, Rush Limbaugh, and Sarah Palin.

[Old Sarge]

04:07 AM on 02/24/2011

I don't mean to quibble with you, but I would argue that all of his air time is filled with garbage :)

[RepugsHateFreedom]

11:46 AM on 02/22/2011

Adolf piles on more lies and fantasies for his fans, the proud-to-know-nothings that watch Fox "news" 24x7.

[Epiphany2b]

08:52 AM on 02/22/2011

So the next time an employee of any of the Koch brothers industries become involved in a political demonstration, or goes postal, we can safely assume it is a wide-spread conspiracy of the employer? How about if it were an employee of Rupert Murdock? He's setting a great precedent for blaming the employer -- probably why NPR didn't want any reporters at the Rally/Sanity.

[SirCoolBreeze]

02:25 AM on 02/22/2011

Net Neutrality "scares" Glenn. Yeah.

[gallimaufry03]

12:31 AM on 02/22/2011

Man that guy seriously needs more fiber in his diet.

[Old Sarge]

04:08 AM on 02/24/2011

Are you suggesting that he's full of... oh never mind :)

[Vetinari]

10:26 PM on 02/21/2011

Yes Beck would be opposed to a free flow of information.

[PuSencer]

08:54 PM on 02/21/2011

hahaha, he had me going for a bit. I don't know how he holds a straight face for that long while blowing at the camera lens, ginning up inane conspiracy to woo susceptible types who lap it up

[Greg Rohloff]

06:35 PM on 02/21/2011

And after Beck takes down Google, he will go after Google's partner in crime -- even though they professed a deep distaste for federal "revenooers" -- Snuffy Smith.

[OleLadySquawking]

04:18 PM on 02/21/2011

The fool can't wrap his brain around the simple fact that the Egyptian people were so sick and tired of the way they were being treated by their government, that they decided to hold a revolution. And their revolution didn't involve guns. And they won it in only 18 days. He's too used to glorifying years long bloody ones.

[PaulDonaldson]

01:07 PM on 02/21/2011

You know "the moment of zen" on the Daily Show?

Well, Glenn Beck is like a living, breathing moment of zen. He lives a life of zen.

[mamacat]

06:23 AM on 02/21/2011

Google helps people find out the truth, and the truth is the enemy of Fox News, so it makes sense that Beck would attack Google.

I have gotten e-mails from TPers attacking snopes.com as well. So pathetic; these people don't have a clue.

[ElBruce]

02:50 AM on 02/21/2011

Glenn Beck opposes democracy. That's the gist of it.

[sidnee]

12:00 AM on 02/21/2011

He is a one trick pony. He is basically just a fill in the blanks kind of guy. __________ is doing something Anti-American. ______________ is in cahoots with the govt. to control you. It was fresh the first time he did it--now it's just monotonous at #1000. This guy needs a new act.

[ThinkCreeps]

06:12 AM on 02/21/2011

Why change when the old act's still paying great.

[ValdaDeDieu]

10:03 PM on 02/20/2011

Glenn Beck: "And while we're at it, I'm not too happy with Apple, either. Never forget, that was the forbidden fruit that Eve tempted Adam with... What would you want to bet that a company using that symbol was involved with all kinds of forbidden things? Hmmm. Apple and women named Eve...in fact, all women since they're all Eve's daughters, tempting men to do forbidden stuff...Remember, the word is FORBIDDEN. If it was something good, it would not be forbidden. Let's go over that one more time. APPLE. EVE. WOMAN. FORBIDDEN. IT'S ALL CONNECTED!"

[hoagie76]

02:25 PM on 02/21/2011

i thought it was verboten? oh well......

[ValdaDeDieu]

04:50 PM on 02/21/2011

Verboten too...But how do you say verboten in a language (German) that is verboten? Ah, the endless dilemmas faced by Glenn Beck. Should keep his nightmares entertained for eons to come...

[Roadrun]

05:55 PM on 02/21/2011

Say what you want but the true evil is Post-Its. Just wait, they will bring about the end of the world.

[ValdaDeDieu]

07:10 PM on 02/21/2011

Those and sharpened pencils. What's up with that, anyway?