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Glenn Beck loses domain dispute, still ends up with domain
Talk show host and one-man media empire Glenn Beck has lost his bid to shut down the glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com domain name. We’ve covered the strange circumstances of the case before : a Gilbert Gottfried comedy routine (NSFW) about Bob Saget raping and murdering a teenaged girl made its way to the Fark forums, where commenters quickly adapted it for use with Glenn Beck. The idea is to force someone to explain away completely baseless charges made by insinuation alone; since Beck already has a reputation for doing this, the joke was supposed to give Beck a taste of his own medicine.
Continue reading »Memes strike back: Gerbils, gay blood elves, and Glenn Beck
Conservative yakker Glenn Beck hasn’t (yet) been rounded up and sent to a secret FEMA prison camp, which has given him time instead to send his lawyers after the owner of the satirical glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com . Beck has reached deep inside to find a hitherto hidden well of respect and affection for foreign international organizations, and he has taken his case to the domain name dispute center at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva. The site, he says, is defamation, and it violated his trademarked name.
Continue reading »Glenn Beck and the Boiled Green Frog
American radio and TV guy Glenn Beck apparently thought it’d be kind of interesting to explore the old wives’ tale that if you throw a frog into boiling water, it’ll immediately jump right out. But, the tale goes, if you gently place the frog in warm water and gradually raise the temperature, it’ll sit there happily — until it’s boiled alive. He used it to illustrate an attack on Obama saying he [Obama] has tossed Americans into boiling water, at the same time dropping what appeared to be a tiny, green (Pacific Chorus?) frog into a steaming, bubbling pot.
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