The Glenn Beck rape and murder allegations

Sometimes.. just sometimes, I think that schadenfreude is justified. Case in point: Glenn Beck. For those who don't know, Glenn Beck is a presenter on Fox News. He treats evidence and logic as equally inconvenient, and he doesn't seem to bother much with either. Instead, he makes impassioned rants which don't make a lot of sense, and which are filled with vitriol and rhetoric.

Mr Beck recently claimed that President Obama is racist. Which is slightly ironic, since (by his own definition of racism), Glenn Beck is racist himself.

Not content with this, Mr Beck recently asked a Muslim Congressman to prove that he's not working with the enemies of the USA. This is typical of Beck's style: he abandons logic and uses the obvious logical fallacy of asking somebody to prove that a baseless claim (made by Beck himself) is wrong.

But of course this will be lost on many of Mr Beck's viewers, who probably aren't au fait with the finer details of logical arguments. What they may hear is that the Muslim guy cannot disprove that he's not their enemy and assume that there may be something to the (utterly unfounded) allegation.

Thus I found it nicely ironic when I heard of the meme which is asking Glenn Beck to prove that he did not rape and murder a young girl in 1990.

Naturally Mr Beck cannot disprove the ludicrous accusations, because he cannot prove a negative. This minor point of logic is, however, likely to be missed by many of Glenn Beck's viewers, who are not au fait with the finer details of logical arguments.

So that's not the story which many people will hear. Now people who don't know the source of the meme are starting to ask if Mr Beck has anything to hide.

To see somebody who abuses logic to the degree that Mr Beck abuses logic being hoist with his very own logical petard is irresistibly delicious.

Update: This blog has been sighted by didglennbeckrapeandmurderayounggirlin1990.com :)

UPDATE: further links.

A blog following the Glenn Beck allegations

The lawyer acting for the website owner gets interviewed

Funny pictures:

quiz show

Einstein

Glenn Beck Rape Graph

Glenn Beck police report for rape

Einstein again

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