Don’t Use Google Glenn Beck

Yesterday Glenn Beck told his viewers “Don’t do a google search.” because, as Beck continues “Google is pretty deeply embedded with the government”. Now I imagine Beck is most likely referring to the fact that Google did send, and create some tactical support during the revolution in Egypt. This isn’t completely made up. I was personally impressed with a service they created which allowed people to call a phone number and record a voice mail that would be converted into text and then posted as a tweet.

Beck continues “maybe this is why Google is being kicked out of so many countries”. Here Beck is referring to the fact that Google has been kicked out of a few countries, but in every single instance, they’ve been kicked out by authoritarian regimes that don’t want a free internet. The idea that the people are rising up in opposition of Google is clearly preposterous

The he asks “Who is Jared Cohen”. Well, I wouldn’t want to use Google so I “Binged” it and found this Wikipedia article.
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Jared Cohen (born November 24, 1981 in Weston, Connecticut) is the Director of Google Ideas, an Adjunct Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a non-fiction author.[1] Previously he served as a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff and a close advisor to both Condoleezza Rice and later Hillary Clinton.[2][3] Initially brought in by Condoleezza Rice as the youngest member in history, he was one of the few people kept on under Hillary Clinton.[4] In this capacity, he focused on counter-terrorism, counter-radicalization, Middle East/South Asia, Youth, and Technology.[5] According to New York Times Magazine, Cohen was one of the principal architects of what became known as “21st century statecraft.”[6] Prior to his work at the State Department, Cohen received his BA from Stanford University and his M.Phil in International Relations from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.[7] In September 2010, Cohen was named by the Huffington Post as one of the 100 game changers of the year and by Devex as one of the top 40 people under 40.[8]
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* 1 Iran
* 2 State Department, 2006-2010
* 3 Books
* 4 Google
* 5 References

[edit] Iran

In the midst of the June 2009 post-election protests in Iran, Cohen reached out to Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and urged the company to reschedule its planned maintenance of the website so that Iranians could keep tweeting. Given that all other forms of communication had been blocked or shut down, Twitter was one of the only ways for people inside of Iran to get information to the outside world. It also became an important way for people around the world to join the protests by disseminating proxy and circumvention tools. When the New York Times broke the story, it came at a time when the Obama administration declared that there would be no meddling in Iran. Cohen’s involvement drew international interest not just because at the time it was the most robust action taken by the U.S. government in response to the protests, but also because Cohen had spent time in Iran and written about the possibility of technology being used for social upheaval in his book Children of Jihad.
[edit] State Department, 2006-2010

Cohen served as a Member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff from 2006-2010. He was brought in at the age of 24 years old, making him the youngest person to ever serve in this capacity. He was one of the few members of Policy Planning kept on by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and helped develop what became known as “21st century statecraft.” Beginning in April 2009, Cohen led technology delegations, which focused on connecting technology executives with local stakeholders in Iraq, Russia, Mexico, Congo, and Syria with the aim of developing new and innovative initiatives. Cohen had the third largest number of Twitter followers in the U.S. government behind Barack Obama and John McCain.[9]
[edit] Books

Cohen is author of several books. His first, One Hundred Days of Silence: America and the Rwanda Genocide, was published in 2006 by Rowman & Littlefield and chronicles U.S. policy toward Rwanda during the 1994 Genocide. His second book, Children of Jihad: A Young American’s Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East, was published by Penguin Books (Gotham) in October 2007 and has also been published as an audio book and translated into Dutch and Italian. Cohen’s work on Children of Jihad was selected as one of the “Best Books of 2007.” He is also author of “Iran’s Passive Revolution: Is Political Resistance Dead or Alive in Iran? (Hoover Digest), “Iran’s Young Opposition: Youth in Post-Revolutionary Iran (SAIS Review), and “Diverting the Radicalization Track” (Policy Review).
[edit] Google

Jared Cohen is the Head of Google Ideas. “Ideas” is a global initiatives ‘think tank’ office inside of Google and is run out of New York. Cohen spearheads initiatives to apply technology solutions to problems faced by the developing world. He was in Egypt during the recent January 25th protests.
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So. That’s Jared Cohen. A crazy smart young guy who works for Google, advised both Condi and Hillary and who writes books about politics.

And then Beck get’s into the hardcore bullshit and shows that there is no such thing as irony on Fox with this whopper of a question. “Are you comfortable with a government partnering with media organisations”? ummmmmm. we’re watching Fox, a channel that actually employs 3 of the Republican frontrunners for 2012. Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, and Mike Huckabee. The same channel that had Britt Hume as their main anchor on Sundays who left his job at Fox to become the Press Secretary for George Bush II. The same channel that had one squirrely liberal (Alan Colmes) and then promply let him go after Obama was elected. A channel whose president is Roger Ailes (former Bush I speechwriter) and who’s owner is well known conservative and friend of Ronald Reagan (Rupert Murdoch). And here we have Beck, Fox’s poster boy for everything wrong with “journalism” today saying that Google is engaging in “propaganda” because Jared Cohen talked to the Twitter execs and said “hey guys there’s a revolution going on, so can you hold up on that maintenance you were planning. Also if you need some server space it’s no problem. I work at Google soo..:)” and by Beck’s own assertions this is clearly “propaganda”

Many times people will ask “what is the genius of Karl Rove”. Karl Rove was the man that even neocons will admit orchestrated the Bush II regime’s media campaign and press relations. Both democrats and republicans admire him for his ability to control a message and spin anything. But what were some of the skills that Rove employed that were so genius? Well, one of the strongest tactics that Rove invented (and which is still constantly used by Republicans to this day) is to attack your opponent for your own shortcomings. A prime example would be Bush and Kerry’s war records. Kerry actually fought in Vietnam, while Bush was deployed to fly planes around Texas and protect the state from any intercontinental ballistic missiles the Vietcong were using. So it was clear that Bush’s war record was weak, and Kerry could use this to his advantage. But before Kerry even had a chance to speak he became the victim of a smear campaign about his war record. So now Kerry had to take the defense on an issue where he clearly had the upper hand. Instead of the Republican Veterans and Military families believing that Bush II was a big pussy for using his daddy’s money to get a nice deployment to Texas, they now believed that Kerry was a big pussy because a formerly unknown group called “Swift Veterans for Truth” said so. In the clip above we see the same tactic being employed. Fox News knows that they are a mouthpiece for the Republican party. So they need to say that others are engaged in propaganda.