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Re: Glen Beck Truth
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2009, 02:28:19 PM »
And yet he gets 4 times the rating of ANY show on MSNBC.Can you imagine that?Dyke Maddow and no talent Olbermann getting bent over and ass raped night after night by a "little bitch"  who is on at 5pm in the afternoon.What an amazing failure MSNBC is that a goof like Beck bitch slaps them everyday.

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Re: Glen Beck Truth
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2009, 02:34:58 PM »
if beck is so wrong then how come when he begs white house officials to call and straiten his stories out on national tv the white house never does? and you cant say oh because it they dont have time to mess with that. the white house has already shown they have the time and have tried and are still trying to limit radio and news outlets.

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Re: Glen Beck Truth
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2009, 02:39:18 PM »
why do you allways bring up ratings. all that shows is that their are a lot of idiots in this country, fuck I'll agree with that

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Re: Glen Beck Truth
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2009, 02:44:46 PM »
why do you allways bring up ratings. all that shows is that their are a lot of idiots in this country, fuck I'll agree with that

Name one thing Beck has gotten factually wrong about Obama. 

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Re: Glen Beck Truth
« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2009, 02:49:14 PM »
why doesnt the white house call when he invites them to , he tells them on national t.v that if he is incorrect that he would love to have it explained how by the white house ,

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Re: Glen Beck Truth
« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2009, 02:51:05 PM »
And yet he gets 4 times the rating of ANY show on MSNBC.Can you imagine that?Dyke Maddow and no talent Olbermann getting bent over and ass raped night after night by a "little bitch"  who is on at 5pm in the afternoon.What an amazing failure MSNBC is that a goof like Beck bitch slaps them everyday.

I don't really watch much msnbc so your little 'rant' here is falling on deaf ears. 
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Re: Glen Beck Truth
« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2009, 02:57:19 PM »
do you watch glen beck kc?

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Re: Glen Beck Truth
« Reply #8 on: December 16, 2009, 02:59:42 PM »
Name one thing Beck has gotten factually wrong about Obama.
this is easy


Beck says less than 10 percent of Obama Cabinet has worked in private sector
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Buzz up!Fox News talk show host Glenn Beck has seized on a claim circulating on the Internet to argue that the Obama administration has little understanding of American business and is too focused on expanding government.
  
"History has proven over and over again — and so has the post office, for that matter — that government is not the answer," Beck said on his Nov. 30, 2009, show. "You need to unleash the people. The entrepreneurs. And if you are wondering how it is that the government can't see that — how they can be pondering even bigger stimulus packages as they stare the failure of the first one right in the face — I'll show you. Here are the past presidents and the number of appointees in their Cabinets with private sector experience — folks that have done more than write on the chalkboard; they've been out there, in the real world. Let's compare President Nixon — he's over 50 percent — with President Obama: Under 10 percent of his appointees have any experience in the private sector."
  
We did a little digging and found that the claim is based on a study by Michael Cembalest, the chief investment officer for J.P. Morgan Private Bank. In a Nov. 24, 2009, column titled "Obama's Business Blind Spot" and published on Forbes.com, Cembalest wrote, "In a quest to see what frame of reference the administration might have on this issue, I looked back at the history of the presidential Cabinet. Starting with the creation of the secretary of commerce back in 1900, I compiled the prior private-sector experience of all 432 Cabinet members, focusing on those positions one would expect to participate in this discussion: secretaries of State; Commerce; Treasury; Agriculture; Interior; Labor; Transportation; Energy; and Housing & Urban Development."
  
He continued, "Many of these individuals started a company or ran one, with first-hand experience in hiring and firing, domestic and international competition, red tape, recessions, wars and technological change. Their industries included agribusiness, chemicals, finance, construction, communications, energy, insurance, mining, publishing, pharmaceuticals, railroads and steel; a cross-section of the American experience. (I even gave [one-third] credit to attorneys focused on private-sector issues, although one could argue this is a completely different kettle of fish.) One thing is clear: The current administration, compared with past Democratic and Republican ones, marks a departure from the traditional reliance on a balance of public- and private-sector experiences."
  
In an accompanying chart, Cembalest reported that in the Obama administration, fewer than 10 percent of the Cabinet appointees counted under those rules had private sector experience. According to the chart, all other administrations going back to Theodore Roosevelt's had rates in at least the high 20s, with the Eisenhower and Reagan administrations approaching 60 percent. (He wrote in a footnote that the data came from a number of sources, including capsule biographies of Cabinet members posted on the Web site of the University of Virginia's Miller Center for Public Affairs.)
  
The chart — typically reprinted by itself, without Cembalest's accompanying narrative — circulated in the conservative blogosphere for a couple of days before eventually being picked up by Beck.
  
We wondered if the claim was right, so we did some math of our own.
  
In Obama's Cabinet, at least three of the nine posts that Cembalest and Beck cite — a full one-third — are occupied by appointees who, by our reading of their bios, had significant corporate or business experience. Shaun Donovan, Obama's secretary of Housing and Urban Development, served as managing director of Prudential Mortgage Capital Co., where he oversaw its investments in affordable housing loans.  
 
Energy Secretary Steven Chu headed the electronics research lab at one of America's storied corporate research-and-development facilities, AT&T Bell Laboratories, where his work won a Nobel Prize for physics. And Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, in addition to serving as Colorado attorney general and a U.S. senator, has been a partner in his family's farm for decades and, with his wife, owned and operated a Dairy Queen and radio stations in his home state of Colorado.

Three other Obama appointees had legal experience in the private sector.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke spent part of their careers working as lawyers in private practice. Clinton and Vilsack worked as private-sector lawyers at the beginning of their careers, while Locke joined an international law firm, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, after serving as governor of Washington state. At the firm, Locke "co-chaired the firm's China practice" and "helped U.S. companies break into international markets," according to his official biography. That sounds like real private sector experience to us.

Finally, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner worked for Kissinger Associates, a consulting firm that advises international corporations on political and economic conditions overseas.

The occupants of the two remaining Cabinet posts cited in the chart do not appear to have had significant private-sector experience: Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

Obama's Cabinet has even more private-sector experience if you go beyond the nine. Two of the Obama appointees could be considered entrepreneurs — the very people Beck would "unleash." Vice President Joe Biden, officially a Cabinet member, founded his own law firm, Biden and Walsh, early in his career, and it still exists in a later incarnation, Monzack Mersky McLaughlin and Browder, P.A. (The future vice president also supplemented his income by managing properties, including a neighborhood swimming pool.) And Office of Management and Budget director Peter Orszag founded an economic consulting firm called Sebago Associates that was later bought out by a larger firm.

It's also worth noting that if you examine a larger group of senior Obama administration appointees, you'll find that more than one in four have experience as business executives, according to a June study by National Journal. That compared with the 38 percent the magazine found eight years earlier at the start of George W. Bush's administration. That's at least three times higher than the level claimed by Beck.

We tracked down Cembalest to ask about his methodology. He said any effort to address the topic is heavily subjective, and he expressed regret that his work had been used for political ends, saying that it was not his intention to provide fodder for bloggers and talk show hosts.

Cembalest said that he did discount the corporate experience of the three lawyers we identified — Clinton, Vilsack and Locke — and added that he awarded nothing for Donovan, Chu or Salazar, even though we found they had a fair amount private sector experience. Cembalest acknowledged fault in missing Salazar's business background, saying he would have given him a full point if he had it to do over again. But he added that the kind of private-sector experiences Chu and Donovan had (managing scientific research and handling community development lending, respectively) did not represent the kind of private-sector business experience he was looking for when doing his study.

"What I was really trying to get at was some kind of completely, 100 percent subjective assessment of whether or not a person had had enough control of payroll, dealing with shareholders, hiring, firing and risk-taking that they'd be in a position to have had a meaningful seat at the table when the issue being discussed is job creation," Cembalest said.
 
Cembalest said he has "written 250,000 words in research over the last decade, and every single thing I've ever done — except this one chart — was empirically based on data from the Federal Reserve" or another official source. "This is the one time I stepped out into making judgment calls, and I assure you I won't do it again. ... The frightening thing about the Internet is that people copy one chart from what you write and then it goes viral. So I've learned a lesson here that these kinds of issues are best left addressed by the people who practice them day in and day out."

Which brings us back to how Beck used Cembalest's data. We'll acknowledge that rating someone's degree of private-sector experience is an inexact science, and it's true that Beck accurately relayed the information contained in Cembalest's chart. But at PolitiFact we hold people accountable for their own words. So we rate Beck's claim False.

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Re: Glen Beck Truth
« Reply #9 on: December 16, 2009, 03:04:09 PM »
Name one thing Beck has gotten factually wrong about Obama.
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Beck says less than 10 percent of Obama Cabinet has worked in private sector
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Buzz up!Fox News talk show host Glenn Beck has seized on a claim circulating on the Internet to argue that the Obama administration has little understanding of American business and is too focused on expanding government.
  
"History has proven over and over again — and so has the post office, for that matter — that government is not the answer," Beck said on his Nov. 30, 2009, show. "You need to unleash the people. The entrepreneurs. And if you are wondering how it is that the government can't see that — how they can be pondering even bigger stimulus packages as they stare the failure of the first one right in the face — I'll show you. Here are the past presidents and the number of appointees in their Cabinets with private sector experience — folks that have done more than write on the chalkboard; they've been out there, in the real world. Let's compare President Nixon — he's over 50 percent — with President Obama: Under 10 percent of his appointees have any experience in the private sector."
  
We did a little digging and found that the claim is based on a study by Michael Cembalest, the chief investment officer for J.P. Morgan Private Bank. In a Nov. 24, 2009, column titled "Obama's Business Blind Spot" and published on Forbes.com, Cembalest wrote, "In a quest to see what frame of reference the administration might have on this issue, I looked back at the history of the presidential Cabinet. Starting with the creation of the secretary of commerce back in 1900, I compiled the prior private-sector experience of all 432 Cabinet members, focusing on those positions one would expect to participate in this discussion: secretaries of State; Commerce; Treasury; Agriculture; Interior; Labor; Transportation; Energy; and Housing & Urban Development."
  
He continued, "Many of these individuals started a company or ran one, with first-hand experience in hiring and firing, domestic and international competition, red tape, recessions, wars and technological change. Their industries included agribusiness, chemicals, finance, construction, communications, energy, insurance, mining, publishing, pharmaceuticals, railroads and steel; a cross-section of the American experience. (I even gave [one-third] credit to attorneys focused on private-sector issues, although one could argue this is a completely different kettle of fish.) One thing is clear: The current administration, compared with past Democratic and Republican ones, marks a departure from the traditional reliance on a balance of public- and private-sector experiences."
  
In an accompanying chart, Cembalest reported that in the Obama administration, fewer than 10 percent of the Cabinet appointees counted under those rules had private sector experience. According to the chart, all other administrations going back to Theodore Roosevelt's had rates in at least the high 20s, with the Eisenhower and Reagan administrations approaching 60 percent. (He wrote in a footnote that the data came from a number of sources, including capsule biographies of Cabinet members posted on the Web site of the University of Virginia's Miller Center for Public Affairs.)
  
The chart — typically reprinted by itself, without Cembalest's accompanying narrative — circulated in the conservative blogosphere for a couple of days before eventually being picked up by Beck.
  
We wondered if the claim was right, so we did some math of our own.
  
In Obama's Cabinet, at least three of the nine posts that Cembalest and Beck cite — a full one-third — are occupied by appointees who, by our reading of their bios, had significant corporate or business experience. Shaun Donovan, Obama's secretary of Housing and Urban Development, served as managing director of Prudential Mortgage Capital Co., where he oversaw its investments in affordable housing loans.  
 
Energy Secretary Steven Chu headed the electronics research lab at one of America's storied corporate research-and-development facilities, AT&T Bell Laboratories, where his work won a Nobel Prize for physics. And Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, in addition to serving as Colorado attorney general and a U.S. senator, has been a partner in his family's farm for decades and, with his wife, owned and operated a Dairy Queen and radio stations in his home state of Colorado.

Three other Obama appointees had legal experience in the private sector.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke spent part of their careers working as lawyers in private practice. Clinton and Vilsack worked as private-sector lawyers at the beginning of their careers, while Locke joined an international law firm, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, after serving as governor of Washington state. At the firm, Locke "co-chaired the firm's China practice" and "helped U.S. companies break into international markets," according to his official biography. That sounds like real private sector experience to us.

Finally, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner worked for Kissinger Associates, a consulting firm that advises international corporations on political and economic conditions overseas.

The occupants of the two remaining Cabinet posts cited in the chart do not appear to have had significant private-sector experience: Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

Obama's Cabinet has even more private-sector experience if you go beyond the nine. Two of the Obama appointees could be considered entrepreneurs — the very people Beck would "unleash." Vice President Joe Biden, officially a Cabinet member, founded his own law firm, Biden and Walsh, early in his career, and it still exists in a later incarnation, Monzack Mersky McLaughlin and Browder, P.A. (The future vice president also supplemented his income by managing properties, including a neighborhood swimming pool.) And Office of Management and Budget director Peter Orszag founded an economic consulting firm called Sebago Associates that was later bought out by a larger firm.

It's also worth noting that if you examine a larger group of senior Obama administration appointees, you'll find that more than one in four have experience as business executives, according to a June study by National Journal. That compared with the 38 percent the magazine found eight years earlier at the start of George W. Bush's administration. That's at least three times higher than the level claimed by Beck.

We tracked down Cembalest to ask about his methodology. He said any effort to address the topic is heavily subjective, and he expressed regret that his work had been used for political ends, saying that it was not his intention to provide fodder for bloggers and talk show hosts.

Cembalest said that he did discount the corporate experience of the three lawyers we identified — Clinton, Vilsack and Locke — and added that he awarded nothing for Donovan, Chu or Salazar, even though we found they had a fair amount private sector experience. Cembalest acknowledged fault in missing Salazar's business background, saying he would have given him a full point if he had it to do over again. But he added that the kind of private-sector experiences Chu and Donovan had (managing scientific research and handling community development lending, respectively) did not represent the kind of private-sector business experience he was looking for when doing his study.

"What I was really trying to get at was some kind of completely, 100 percent subjective assessment of whether or not a person had had enough control of payroll, dealing with shareholders, hiring, firing and risk-taking that they'd be in a position to have had a meaningful seat at the table when the issue being discussed is job creation," Cembalest said.
 
Cembalest said he has "written 250,000 words in research over the last decade, and every single thing I've ever done — except this one chart — was empirically based on data from the Federal Reserve" or another official source. "This is the one time I stepped out into making judgment calls, and I assure you I won't do it again. ... The frightening thing about the Internet is that people copy one chart from what you write and then it goes viral. So I've learned a lesson here that these kinds of issues are best left addressed by the people who practice them day in and day out."

Which brings us back to how Beck used Cembalest's data. We'll acknowledge that rating someone's degree of private-sector experience is an inexact science, and it's true that Beck accurately relayed the information contained in Cembalest's chart. But at PolitiFact we hold people accountable for their own words. So we rate Beck's claim False.


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Re: Glen Beck Truth
« Reply #10 on: December 16, 2009, 03:12:06 PM »
do you watch glen beck kc?


Nope.  Just came across this on cracked.com and thought it was funny.
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Re: Glen Beck Truth
« Reply #11 on: December 17, 2009, 06:19:17 AM »
i add to his ratings; its like a preview to Colber Repor.  Both are great comedies. Take neither seriously.
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Re: Glen Beck Truth
« Reply #12 on: December 17, 2009, 06:48:14 AM »
why do you allways bring up ratings. all that shows is that their are a lot of idiots in this country, fuck I'll agree with that

Because ratings is the mark of how successful a show is.Typical lib,you discount all those who watch Beck as stupid.Do you know that those who watch him think your stupid as well.Id be willing to bet ANY amount of money that those who watch Beck produce more for this country then those who watch MSNBC.

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Re: Glen Beck Truth
« Reply #13 on: December 17, 2009, 07:01:16 AM »
Because ratings is the mark of how ....
is?   plural noun and singular verb agreement?  Home Schooling?
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Re: Glen Beck Truth
« Reply #14 on: December 17, 2009, 09:33:08 AM »
is?   plural noun and singular verb agreement?  Home Schooling?

You are still an idiot. Please begin your sentences with a capital letter.

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Re: Glen Beck Truth
« Reply #15 on: December 17, 2009, 09:34:36 AM »
Nope.  Just came across this on cracked.com and thought it was funny.

Then you are just a troll. I figured that by all your other uninformed posts.

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Re: Glen Beck Truth
« Reply #16 on: December 17, 2009, 10:14:37 AM »
You are still an idiot. Please begin your sentences with a capital letter.
good one, nice try; but thanks for playing along.  e e cummings would not be happy
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Re: Glen Beck Truth
« Reply #17 on: December 17, 2009, 10:23:54 AM »
all that shows is that their are a lot of idiots in this country,

Kind of like your posts.
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Re: Glen Beck Truth
« Reply #18 on: December 17, 2009, 10:40:01 AM »
Then you are just a troll. I figured that by all your other uninformed posts.

Haha yes i am a 'troll' and i am so uninformed because i have a differing opinion.  Go back to blowing Beck and maybe come out of the closet already with a name like dario you must be down with the dick.   
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Re: Glen Beck Truth
« Reply #19 on: December 17, 2009, 11:18:14 AM »
good one, nice try; but thanks for playing along.  e e cummings would not be happy

English please. ENGLISH!!!!

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Re: Glen Beck Truth
« Reply #20 on: December 17, 2009, 01:11:01 PM »
is?   plural noun and singular verb agreement?  Home Schooling?

Wow,another teacher on a weight training site.Perhaps you might want to put your energy towards educating the youth in Obamas community.I already have a good job and guess what?Spelling doesn't make a dam bit of difference here.

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Re: Glen Beck Truth
« Reply #21 on: December 17, 2009, 02:51:22 PM »
Wow,another teacher on a weight training site.Perhaps you might want to put your energy towards educating the youth in Obamas community.I already have a good job and guess what?Spelling doesn't make a dam bit of difference here.
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Re: Glen Beck Truth
« Reply #22 on: December 17, 2009, 02:52:13 PM »
English please. ENGLISH!!!!
sorry; you are joining in the middle of some pander with one of the kids here.  he'll make another silly statement and you can catch up.
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