Apparently CNN came to their senses that is why Glenn Beck is now regurgitating his made up news for the home of made up news–FOX.
But stupidity can only go so far and in this case he may well be on his way to an “Assie” award.
During the January 30 broadcast of his Fox News program, Glenn Beck falsely suggested that the Obama administration has named a program it is reportedly planning to establish to purchase toxic assets from private banks the “Bad Asset Repository Fund — BARF.” Beck later stated: “When you got a group of people that can’t figure out the acronym bill would be BARF, I think maybe we should change the name. Don’t you think that, really, we should stop listening to these people?” Beck offered no source for his statement, but on-screen text accompanying that segment read: “FORBES: ‘BAD BANK’ = BARF; BAD ASSET REPOSITORY FUND.” But the January 29 Forbes.com article that referenced the acronym BARF did not attribute it to the Obama administration, as Beck suggested. In fact, in the article — titled “Here Comes the BARF” — reporter Liz Moyer specifically noted that “[t]hey haven’t named it yet” before going on to write that it “would be truth in advertising” to call “a federal ‘bad bank’ to soak up toxic assets the Bad Asset Repository Fund.”
But Beck went on and on about how the guys in the Obama Admin should “get it”.
Maybe these guys should try to remember that this is the decade of “gotcha” media, that whatever they say can and will come back and bite a big chunk out of their collective asses.