I found out that just earlier today Glenn Beck made a certain criticism of Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America when a listener of his radio show stated they received funding from the political action group MoveOn.Org. Glenn Beck stated that IAVA a nonprofit, nonpartisan veterans group is secretly a front for a socialist agenda. While I do not believe that veterans groups are above reproach or criticism, I do believe in the criticism being founded on something more substantial than a phone call, or that the group receives funding from a political action group. I am certain that there are many veterans nonprofit organizations that receive funding from groups with opposing ideals. But that a IAVA is secretly a socialist/communist front group? SERIOUSLY? It is veterans who allow for Beck to make these cowardly, panic induced, deluded accusations. I suppose that Beck achieves his goal of getting more media attention by saying such baseless appalling and grotesque accusations that a veterans group basically started on the grounds of picking up the slack where the government was not doing what it could as a "socialist" front. When he completes a tour of duty with the marines or the army, gets deployed overseas for Operation New Dawn, or Operation Enduring Freedom, and has an honorable discharge... I might let him slide for saying something like that.
And like Rachel Maddow stated in her show this evening. the saddest part is now thousands of listeners will now believe that IAVA is a socialist group.
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