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ERIC CARTMAN, SOUTH PARK CHARACTER: Lunch today is going to be pizza, again. Friends, our school is dying and you know it. You feel it. You are like me. You want to change it. But oh, no, Wendy Testaburger's not going to let that happen. This is not the school we grew up in, and I don't know if we can get it back. Just take a look at exactly what our school president wants. You know, what is she trying to achieve? Let's just take a look at these key words here. Wendy's made it clear she wants our school to be a more integrated leftist and liberal place. But you see, when that happens, what we get is a socialist, modern utopian reformed farce of a school. So when you look closely, it becomes very obvious what Wendy wants: K i l l s m u r f s. Our school president wants to kill Smurfs. I don't know if we're turning into a Smurf hating school or what we're turning into. But unless you ask why, we're going to transform into something.
On his show Thursday, Beck light-heartedly discussed the episode with executive producer Steve (Stu) Burguiere:
GLENN BECK, Host: So then last night apparently and I find this hard to believe. Like the majority of the episode?
STU BURGUIERE, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Oh, yeah.
BECK: Was about me.
BURGUIERE Yeah. The vast majority, yes.
BECK: Set this up. This is South Park.
BURGUIERE: Yes. South Park, Eric Cartman, the fattest member of the children. Just thought I'd point that out, represents you as he gets the job of the school announcement guy and where she's supposed to say stuff like what's going on for lunch or, you know, what meeting is happening in the musical.
BECK: All right.
BURGUIERE: He expands on that role quite a bit and he accuses the school president of many things.
BECK: Okay. So here you go. And you'll see the rapid progression here. Now, what happens happening besides this? Are they making comments about me outside of this? Is it only these three pieces that are
BURGUIERE: No, this is can't find the whole episode.
BECK: Yeah, yeah.
BURGUIERE: I mean, the whole thing is basically you know, and this is Cartman's character on this show is always kind of the loud mouth making accusations at everybody. You know, that's sort of his Schick.
BECK: Right.
BURGUIERE: He's got your hair in the episode which is sort of the gray on the side, not gray on the top.
BECK: That's funny.
BURGUIERE: Some other mysterious color on the top.
PAT: They use the logo.
BURGUIERE: They use the logo. They go through, you'll hear kind of the music that sounds like the Glenn Beck TV open in which they show the same imagery, they have the same logo except it says EC instead of GB. You know, and these guys, again, these guys skewer everybody and they are always very good at it.
BECK: You know what's amazing to me is I'm a libertarian.
BURGUIERE:: And they are, too.
BECK: And they are, too.
Nice to see someone so graciously accept being lampooned.
On the other hand, wouldn't it be interesting to see CNN fact check this sketch?
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.
In late September, President Barack Obama conducted a series of
five one-on-one White House interviews with reporters from CBS,
NBC, ABC, CNN, and Univision. For some reason—perhaps he’s
housing a secret civilian security force in the Roosevelt Room
and doesn’t want any fair and balanced reporters snooping
around—the president didn’t invite Fox to participate. For Glenn
Beck, the host of the hottest show on cable news, this Oval
Office slight offered an opportunity to provide some trenchant
perspective. “Does the president consider Fox some sort of
enemy?” he exclaimed, chortling with amiable resentment. “I mean,
no, it can’t be that, because, no, he’ll sit down with our
enemies. He’s even offered to sit down with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
And that guy, I mean, you call me nuts?”
The bit was Beck at his best: shrewdly self-marginalizing,
bitingly funny, and executed with perfect timing. A radio veteran
who got his first job in the business at the age of 13, Beck, it
turns out, is also a TV showman on par with Jon Stewart and
Stephen Colbert. But while America’s favorite fake newsmen have
clear-cut identities as comedians, the question of how to
categorize Beck is more perplexing.
When Beck was 8 years old, his mother gave him a record of old
radio programs that included Orson Welles’ famous performance of
War of the Worlds. Apparently the fictionalized news
report of an alien invasion became a foundational text for him,
an archetypal example of how you could create crazy, vivid,
apocalyptic drama out of mere words. To pay tribute to Welles’
work, Beck starred in a live version of War of the
Worlds that aired on his syndicated radio show on Halloween
night in 2002. Shortly thereafter, an heir of the radio play’s
author sued Beck and his producers for copyright infringement and
won an injunction that prevents Beck from ever performing the
play again.
The injunction, however, doesn’t prevent Beck from spinning his
own doomsday visions every day. In January he jumped from CNN
Headline News to the Fox News Channel and began experimenting in
earnest. Comedy Central’s The Daily Show had paved the
way by showing you didn’t have to stick to the same old
tried-and-true conventions when presenting the news. Anchormen
could be more expressive. You could use music and graphics and
video clips more creatively. And if you could do so in pursuit of
comedy, why not also in pursuit of melodrama?
In February, while discussing what it’s like to be angry and
enfranchised in America, legislated to the edge of Armageddon,
Beck introduced a new visual technique: His image appeared
simultaneously in two windows on the screen, one a typical
headshot, the other a close-up of his eyes, the better to
showcase his distressed but strong sincerity. On April Fool’s
Day, as Beck kicked off a segment on America’s drift toward
fascism, his image started shrinking until he was just a tiny
torso at the bottom of the screen, looking over his shoulder at
World War II footage of marching Nazis. “Enough!” Mini-Beck
shouted. Then the screen went black behind him, dramatically
framing his shrunken head and body as he continued his soliloquy.
It was news commentary as expressionist theater.
Beck’s subjects became equally avant garde. On one show, experts
tutored the host on how to survive the kind of financial meltdown
in which shopping centers were ghost malls and streets were
crawling with functionally illiterate meth-heads. A week later,
he started investigating the rumor that the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) was building concentration camps around
the country. When that didn’t pan out, he set about exposing the
secret communist artwork adorning Rockefeller Plaza and other
buildings in New York.
Whatever the subject of any given episode, a common theme always
unites it with every other installment of the show: Something
isn’t right with America. The country is changing somehow,
subtly but surely, right under our very noses, and hardly anyone
else is noticing.
In August, Beck turned his attention to the mysterious
entities—alien invaders, you might say—who had infiltrated the
White House with barely any scrutiny at all: Obama’s czars. Van
Jones, Obama’s adviser on green business initiatives, was a
former member of a communist group and a self-described
revolutionary, Beck reported. Next, he aired video footage of
Mark Lloyd, diversity officer at the Federal Communications
Commission, praising Hugo Chavez’s “incredible revolution” in
Venezuela. The Van Jones episode garnered Beck’s highest rating
in weeks, attracting nearly 800,000 more viewers than his
previous show had. The Mark Lloyd episode, boosted by an
endorsement from Sarah Palin to her Facebook followers, did even
better, attracting slightly more than 3 million viewers,
according to the Nielsen Company.
It was the first time Beck’s program had broken the 3 million
barrier, an incredible achievement for a cable news show airing
at 5 p.m. After Beck unveiled more information about Jones,
including the fact that the adviser had signed a petition that
suggested high-level Bush administration officials may have
deliberately allowed the 9/11 attacks to occur, Jones resigned
from his position at the White House. Beck followed up with
revelations about a National Endowment for the Arts conference
call in which artists were encouraged to create works promoting
President Obama’s political agenda, and suddenly it seemed as if
the crusading New Canaan populist might single-handedly save
America from the attacking hordes of progressive pod people armed
to the teeth with stimulus dollars.
Not everyone gives Beck’s efforts positive reviews, even on the
right. New York Times columnist David Brooks accused him
of “race-baiting” after Beck said Obama is “racist” toward white
people. Former Bush speechwriter David Frum called one of Beck’s
many vettings of a White House appointee (Cass Sunstein in this
case) “beyond sloppy, beyond ignorant, proceeding straight toward
the deceptive.” “How on earth did this crackpot get a national TV
show?” asked Dallas Morning News columnist Rod Dreher.
In Dreher’s question we have what is perhaps the most concise
history yet of media in the Internet era. With every new
technological breakthrough, it gets easier and easier to push
unregulated information into the national discourse, potentially
exposing millions to misinformation masquerading as news. As
President Obama exclaimed in a September interview with the
Toledo Blade, it sometimes seems as if we’re moving
toward a future where there’s “no serious fact checking” and “no
serious attempts to put stories in context.”
In theory, a charismatic paranoiac like Beck is the poster boy
for this dystopian future. He’s got a very loud megaphone. His
communication skills are world-class. He’s ideologically driven
(even if no one can quite figure out what that ideology is). And
he’s willing to entertain some pretty dubious notions. But look
at his track record so far. He couldn’t sell FEMA death camps
because the facts weren’t there to back the story up. His exposé
of communist art at Rockefeller Plaza went nowhere because even
Beck’s viewers realize an old relief of a naked farmer holding
some wheat isn’t much of a threat. The Van Jones story had legs,
by contrast, because most of its facts were solid. With a change
in background music and a few minor edits, in fact, Beck’s first
long piece on Jones could have served as an advertisement for the
activist’s achievements—in part because its script closely
followed a 2005 newspaper article that was written as a positive
portrait of Jones.
Context, meanwhile, is Beck’s forte. He is constantly urging his
viewers to connect the dots and look at the big picture, even
when the picture exists only in his head. He is forever advising
them to consider stories not as transient, random, isolated
phenomena, as most newscasts do, but as parts of a larger,
ongoing narrative that grows more and more meaningful (and
menacing) the longer you study it. In a fractured, distracting
mediascape, where thousands of outlets vie for our attention,
it’s a smart approach that others are sure to copy. Legally
barred from re-enacting Orson Welles, Beck may have to settle for
being the 21st century’s answer to Edward R. Murrow.
Contributing Editor Greg
Beato (gbeato@soundbitten.com) writes from San
Francisco.
Want to know how the left really feels about free speech? Look no further than Huffington Post editor and co-founder Arianna Huffington. Huffington appeared on MSNBC's Nov. 19 “Countdown” to discuss a report by the Anti-Defamation League that alleges Fox News host Glenn Beck is “the most important mainstream media figure who has repeatedly helped to stoke fires of anti-government anger” and therefore endangering society. “It would be nice to think of Glenn Beck just as a joke, as fodder for this show and the “Daily Show” and others that point out how stupid some of this stuff is,” “Countdown” host Keith Olbermann said. “But this report, you know, suggests something else, this is – fear-monger-in-chief term is frightening.” Huffington agreed with Olbermann's assertion, but she took it a step further and suggested Beck's alleged fear-mongering warrants an exemption from the First Amendment, otherwise known as the “shouting fire in a crowded theater” precedent. “It is frightening,” Huffington replied. “Well, I would say the fear-monger-in-chief title should still be reserved for Dick Cheney, even in retirement. But barring that, there is something that we need to really pay attention to with Glenn Beck. We cannot just dismiss him. Because the truth of the matter is that there is a good reason why we have an exemption to the free speech protection by the First Amendment when we say you cannot shout 'fire' in a crowded theater.” Huffington declared that likening Obama's policies to ideologies prominent in Europe during the 20th Century, or anything else with an “-ism” attached to it is “irresponsible.” “And he's doing that every night. He's basically using images of violence to bring together with all that he's accusing the Obama administration of, which varies from racism to communism, Nazism and everything else in between. So, all that has definitely an impact. I believe words matter, language matters and he's using it in incredibly irresponsible ways night after night.”
According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration news release, 88 doctors have been charged in connection with false passing scores in the Puerto Rico medical bar test.
The indictment of 91 people who are allegedly accused of issuing medical licenses to people who had not passed the medical examination that is required by the Puerto Rico Board of Medical Examiners, was announced by the United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, Rosa Emilia Rodriguez- Velez.
Those who want to practice medicine in Puerto Rico must receive passing grades on all three sections of the exams that are offered by the Puerto Rico Board of Medical Examiners. The first two parts of the exam are multiple choice questions. If you do not pass the first two parts, you cannot move onto the third part which is basically a just a practical section with no multiple choice questions.
Yolanda Rodriguez-Torres who was an employee of the Board of Medical Examiners of Puerto Rico is accused of allegedly creating false passing result sheets for the first two written parts of the examination for the candidates who failed parts one and two of the exam. Rodriguez-Torres and 80 plus others were charged and accused of false statement relating to health care matter, mail fraud, honest service fraud, mail fraud conspiracy, witness tampering and forfeiture allegations.
Nine others were also charged and accused of providing false statements in connection with health care fraud and forfeiture provisions.
The special agent that is in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration Caribbean Division stated in the news release that “as a result of these 13 indictments against the 88 fraudulent physicians, the DEA has identified over 57 physicians who have obtained a DEA registration to prescribe controlled substances. The DEA Caribbean Division's Diversion Group is seeking the revocation of their registrations administratively.”
If convicted of the crimes listed above, the alleged offenders could face anywhere between five to twenty years in prison, as well as up to $250,000 in fines. All parties mentioned in the article are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
SOURCE : Drug enforcement Administration news release – 88 Doctors Charged in Connection with False Passing Scores in Puerto Rico medical Bar Test -
Nedy Carrillo – Deputy Press Officer
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/states/newsrel/carib080107.html
SEO is the main principle or guiding method that rules the world of online business-search engines use certain type of algorithm to list the websites on particular keywords. Internet users have certain psychology to click on links that are organic and list higher up the search results. Let's have a look at some statistics as to why you need SEO done for your website:
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• Around 85% of searchers ignore paid listings.
• 63% of the top organic listings get clicks.
• Organic search results convert 30% higher than PPC.
It is clear from the abovementioned statistics that SEO is more powerful that PPC, though PPC has its own advantages. However, SEO Vs. PPC is like a having your own fruit-tree Vs. having some fruits from the market-of course, your own tree would serve you better.
Let's now venture into the benefits of SEO web design:
Web design is quintessential for good SEO campaign. It is the main building or so to say-content is (was) the king and web design was its palace. Though content is severely challenged by community for its seat, web designing has no threats and no alternative. Web design is the main ground where all the players involved in the match of SEO play.
Technically, SEO web design is a concept, which actually emphasizes the required architectural design principles of your website (your online shop or business site). These required architectural design principles are based on how the search engines determine relevance and site information against any keyword search by an internet user. Different search engines have different algorithms to list the websites; however, every website design should be convenient enough for the bots to provide information that the user is seeking and at the same time be easily navigable. Navigational qualities of the website are one of the most important parts of SEO web design. Basically, the SEO web design should satisfy the needs of crawlers and spiders that the search engines send to your website when you submit your site to them.
SEO Web Design and Site Optimization
Though bots and spiders crawling over your website are not human, but they do have their own likings and preferences, and this is where the work of SEO web design starts. These crawlers do not bother what your site looks like or whether it is at all aesthetic; what they need is information. The ways and methods that you deploy to provide information is the crucial part where a good SEO web designing company can help you.
Navigational qualities of your web-pages are essential for both robots and also for humans. This can be incorporated by making the pages having easy to understand button or labels to click on. The SEO of graphics part is a complementary step that assures a good web design-you can't overlook its value. The time that your site takes to upload these graphics is very crucial for retaining bots and human users to your site-human psychology does not permit too much of wait for loading of these graphics. So, you need to make sure that the graphics are of right size and properly placed.
There are some issues of web designing that search engines do not like and they keep updating their policies from time to time. Black-hat techniques are not good for SEO as you can get banned from the search engines. It is always a good choice to hire a professional SEO company for your web designing, which will allow your site to do its own efforts and rise to the challenge, thereby having the ability to sustain change of policies and strategies.
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