Beck tries to shut down parody site

[Ddrak]

http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2009 ... y_webs.php

I don't know if you've ever seen the Did Glenn Beck Rape and Murder a Young Girl in 1990 website, but it's fairly amusing. It's a political satire of the style of argument Glenn Beck likes to engage in, which involves requiring that someone prove a negative ("prove you didn't do X") and making claims in the form of an interrogative ("Hey, I'm just asking questions here. I'm not saying he did this. What's wrong with asking questions?").

Well now Beck is trying to kill the site by making a formal complaint (PDF) to an international internet governing body, the World Intellectual Property Organization. He wants the domain name taken away from the person who registered it.

That web site made me laugh.

Dd

[Fallakin Kuvari]

Interesting. The anonymous person running the website was at least smart enough to get someone to put their name on the whois. (I'm getting that straight from the guy's blog entry on Sept. 15th, here.)

Either way, they've got another domain pointing at the website: GB1990.com that doesn't infringe on his "claimed copyright".

Apparently theres a quote from Glenn on his show from March 30, 2009 included in the stipulation letter:

Let me tell you something. When you can't win with the people, you bump it up to the courts. When you can't win with the courts, you bump it up to the international level.

Very hypocritical from someone who champions the Bill of Rights so much, though. This would've been laughed out of court in the U.S.

Hell, even that statement is hypocritical if he did infact say it.

[Partha]

Why is Glenn Beck trying to shut down this site? It would be irresponsible not to speculate (As Peggy Noonan would say.)