Beck loses WIPO claim against ‘raped and murdered’ website owner

Published on November 9th, 2009

Glenn Beck loses ‘raped and murdered’ arbitration – thresq.com — Having proved his point, Eiland-Hall handed the domain back to Beck. The WIPO decision here.

Fox News’ Glenn Beck has lost a claim that a website called glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com was registered in bad faith and in violation of his trademark rights.

The website was founded by Isaac Eiland-Hall earlier this year in response to a joke on odd-news site Fark about Beck’s lack of denial for a non-existent murder/rape. Eiland-Hall argued to WIPO that he registered the website as a satirical critique of Beck’s conspiratorial politics.

WIPO’s arbitration panel agreed that the website appeared “to be engaged in a parody of the style or methodology that (Eiland-Hall) appears genuinely to believe is employed by (Beck) in the provision of political commentary, and for that reason (Eiland-Hall) can be said to be making a political statement.”

The domain name dispute resolution body added Eiland-Hall’s speech was “strongly protected” under the First Amendment.

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# 1 qb said, on November 9th, 2009 at 3:46 pm

You know who else launched a WIPO and lost? Hitler, that’s who.

# 2 Phydeau said, on November 9th, 2009 at 3:57 pm

You know who else lost lawsuits? Hitler, that’s who.

# 3 The Aberrant said, on November 9th, 2009 at 3:57 pm

Man, fuck that guy.

http://theonion.com/content/video/victim_in_fatal_car_accident

# 4 Phydeau said, on November 9th, 2009 at 3:58 pm

You know who else was a pathetic little demogogue getting people riled up with lies and hate? Hitler, that’s who.

# 5 Phydeau said, on November 9th, 2009 at 4:02 pm

And you know, I heard he raped and murdered a little girl in 1990. That’s so awful. I mean, I don’t necessarily believe it… but why hasn’t he denied it?

# 6 sargasso said, on November 9th, 2009 at 4:16 pm

You guys.

# 7 Improbus said, on November 9th, 2009 at 4:17 pm

Would you guys stop giving this guy press. Jeez.

# 8 Dick Dawkins said, on November 9th, 2009 at 4:23 pm

You know who is an attention seeking whore?
That douche with the hyphenated last name that’s who (…and Hitler).

HAR!

# 9 Phydeau said, on November 9th, 2009 at 4:24 pm

We just kill ourselve sometimes, we’re so funny.

# 10 Rick Cain said, on November 9th, 2009 at 4:57 pm

Beck still hasn’t been up front with the public on this rape and murder. He needs to come clean. America deserves an answer.

# 11 jescott418 said, on November 9th, 2009 at 5:14 pm

I would think coming clean is the best thing beck could do. I cannot imagine their is much too it or the Liberal’s would be having a field day with it already.

# 12 Troublemaker said, on November 9th, 2009 at 5:14 pm

# 13 Mr. Fusion said, on November 9th, 2009 at 5:38 pm

All Beck has to do is produce the police report so everyone can see it for themself. Why does he refuse to produce the police report? Would it be because he raped a Muslim and killed a Jew?

# 14 StoopidFlanders said, on November 9th, 2009 at 5:40 pm

I heard Barack Hussein Obama was a natural born American citizen. Of course, I have no proof whatsoever to back up my claim, but if I keep repeating it and belittle the naysayers, maybe it’ll come true.

# 15 StoopidFlanders said, on November 9th, 2009 at 5:42 pm

13. All Barack Hussein Obama has to do is show us the proper paperwork. Why does he refuse to produce the birth certificate? Would it be because he isn’t an American?

# 16 Mr. Fusion said, on November 9th, 2009 at 5:50 pm

The site is still available at

http://didglennbeckrapeandmurderayounggirlin1990.com/aboutus.php

# 17 Troublemaker said, on November 9th, 2009 at 5:55 pm

http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/7/74/Glennbeckraep.jpg

# 18 Jägermeister said, on November 9th, 2009 at 6:16 pm

Glen’s birth certificate.

# 19 amodedoma said, on November 9th, 2009 at 6:33 pm

Pathetic little man, now he’ll use FUX news to cry out against internet anarchy. Might be entertaining to see him frothing at the mouth again. I hate to see the net getting more bad press, politicians are just itching to legislate away our virtual freedoms.

# 20 brm said, on November 9th, 2009 at 6:47 pm

How is this protected speech? It appears to be libel.

# 21 Jägermeister said, on November 9th, 2009 at 7:29 pm

#20 – brm

And the rants about Obama’s birth certificate was protected speech or libel?

# 22 The0ne said, on November 9th, 2009 at 8:04 pm

He’s not coming clean on this issue because y’know he thinks we all have a deep hatred of the country and we should be purge…rape or murder *shruf*, either way it’s his idea.

# 23 Greg Allen said, on November 9th, 2009 at 8:49 pm

Who was the girl Glenn Beck raped and murdered in 1990, as many people are claiming?

… I’m just asking!!! I’m not accusing him of anything. Glenn Beck is only an alleged rapist and murderer. All rapists and murderers deserve their day in court.

(Fox News has taught us that as long as you pose it as a question, no one will hold you accountable for spreading a rumor.

# 24 brm said, on November 9th, 2009 at 8:54 pm

#21:

Accusing Obama of not being a citizen isn’t even close to the same thing as accusing someone of committing rape and murder. One is a heinous crime, and the other isn’t.

If the sitch were reversed with Obama being accused of rape and murder, I’d consider that libel.

And I like Glenn and hate Obama.

# 25 Greg Allen said, on November 9th, 2009 at 9:36 pm

brm,

I agree. The two are not the same at all.

“Accusing” Beck of rape and murder is a clear parody of Beck’s reckless, horrible commentary.

The “birthers” accusing Obama of not being American, is a an un-patriotic attempt to de-legetimize a war time president based on sameless lies and race baiting.

# 26 Greg Allen said, on November 9th, 2009 at 9:49 pm

Mr. Fusion,

I agree. If Beck is innocent, why won’t he produce the court documents acquitting him of murder and rape?

I mean, why won’t Beck just produce the documents?

I’m not accusing him of anything but, you have to admit, he does seem guilty.

I think Fox should hire one of those body language experts to tell us what Beck may be hiding about these very serious charges.

# 27 Chris Mac said, on November 9th, 2009 at 10:55 pm

It’s official.. I need to buy me a good quality GB mask and start committing some crimes against the right to.. uhm.

# 28 mr. show said, on November 9th, 2009 at 11:09 pm

OK so he’s yet another blowhard…since when is rape and murder FUNNY? I guess this level of humor is too “sophisticated” for me.

# 29 amodedoma said, on November 10th, 2009 at 12:27 am

#26 Mr.S

WPIO get’s it and you don’t?

“to be engaged in a parody of the style or methodology that (Eiland-Hall) appears genuinely to believe is employed by (Beck) in the provision of political commentary, and for that reason (Eiland-Hall) can be said to be making a political statement.”

What they’re saying is they’re making fun of Mr. Beck’s methods by imitating his method of making unsubstantiated accusations. That means it’s not really a false accusation, but a parody.
The difference between the two is Mr. Beck is truly trying to convince people of his unsubstantiated accusations, while the content of this web page is quite obviously distorted, and makes no effort whatsoever to convince the reader.
Problem is this is just the kind of trap that get’s worse the more you struggle. It appears that Mr. Beck lacks the intelligence to realize this. Not surprisingly, nobody at FUX has enough humility to admit when they’re wrong, and

# 30 amodedoma said, on November 10th, 2009 at 12:29 am

blah, blah, blah, ….

# 31 Chris Mac said, on November 10th, 2009 at 1:01 am

The unwriten battle..

Yes Folks. I’m afrain that the internet is a morally inept free zone. for liars

# 32 Chris Mac said, on November 10th, 2009 at 1:09 am

Darn good thing, that what I think, has no bearing on anything..

Jon Bon Jovi thinks that every morning when he wakes up

# 33 brm said, on November 10th, 2009 at 1:14 am

#25:

“an un-patriotic attempt to de-legetimize a war time president”

Oh, brother. Are you serious?

# 34 Chris Mac said, on November 10th, 2009 at 1:19 am

Clearly the use of the term “birthers” is an direct attempt to do away the the term

# 35 Chris Mac said, on November 10th, 2009 at 1:23 am

you god damn unpatriotic prick

# 36 Chris Mac said, on November 10th, 2009 at 1:25 am

prince charles is here.. hell if I know what to do

# 37 Politi-Crap said, on November 10th, 2009 at 2:58 am

I will be impressed with certain parties when those going after their political enemies register 10,000,000,000,000 domain name variations of everyone they hate.

For example, let’s say they register 100,000 variations of Beck and “hand them back to him”, that will cost him $1,000,000.00 a year to keep them from “getting back into the wrong hands”.

That would be an effective way to keep the money out of the hands of the poor, and then they could then point to Beck and say how uncaring he is for spending a million bucks a year for domain names when it could be used to help people.

# 38 Phydeau said, on November 10th, 2009 at 4:46 am

#33 Those are the same words the wingnuts used during Dubya’s reign of error, whenever someone tried to criticize him: DON’T CRITICIZE HIM HE’S A WARTIME PRESIDENT AID AND COMFORT TO THE ENEMY BLAH BLAH BLAH.

Works both ways, don’t you think?

# 39 The Monster's Lawyer said, on November 10th, 2009 at 6:12 am

Beck hates black people. I’m not saying he’s a racist. I’m just saying he hates black people.

# 40 smartalix said, on November 10th, 2009 at 6:12 am

Please, the GOP are so myopic and ignorant of reality they don’t even realize how disingenuous and hypocritical they are.

# 41 Phydeau said, on November 10th, 2009 at 6:39 am

http://nytimes.com/2009/11/09/opinion/09krugman.html

Paul Krugman hit the nail on the head here when he said:

What all this shows is that the G.O.P. has been taken over by the people it used to exploit.

The state of mind visible at recent right-wing demonstrations is nothing new. Back in 1964 the historian Richard Hofstadter published an essay titled, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” which reads as if it were based on today’s headlines: Americans on the far right, he wrote, feel that “America has been largely taken away from them and their kind, though they are determined to try to repossess it and to prevent the final destructive act of subversion.” Sound familiar?

But while the paranoid style isn’t new, its role within the G.O.P. is.

When Hofstadter wrote, the right wing felt dispossessed because it was rejected by both major parties. That changed with the rise of Ronald Reagan: Republican politicians began to win elections in part by catering to the passions of the angry right.

Until recently, however, that catering mostly took the form of empty symbolism. Once elections were won, the issues that fired up the base almost always took a back seat to the economic concerns of the elite. Thus in 2004 George W. Bush ran on antiterrorism and “values,” only to announce, as soon as the election was behind him, that his first priority was changing Social Security.

But something snapped last year. Conservatives had long believed that history was on their side, so the G.O.P. establishment could, in effect, urge hard-right activists to wait just a little longer: once the party consolidated its hold on power, they’d get what they wanted. After the Democratic sweep, however, extremists could no longer be fobbed off with promises of future glory.

Furthermore, the loss of both Congress and the White House left a power vacuum in a party accustomed to top-down management. At this point Newt Gingrich is what passes for a sober, reasonable elder statesman of the G.O.P. And he has no authority: Republican voters ignored his call to support a relatively moderate, electable candidate in New York’s special Congressional election.

Real power in the party rests, instead, with the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin (who at this point is more a media figure than a conventional politician). Because these people aren’t interested in actually governing, they feed the base’s frenzy instead of trying to curb or channel it. So all the old restraints are gone.

…

And if Tea Party Republicans do win big next year, what has already happened in California could happen at the national level. In California, the G.O.P. has essentially shrunk down to a rump party with no interest in actually governing — but that rump remains big enough to prevent anyone else from dealing with the state’s fiscal crisis. If this happens to America as a whole, as it all too easily could, the country could become effectively ungovernable in the midst of an ongoing economic disaster.

# 42 Benjamin said, on November 10th, 2009 at 7:48 am

Well since precedence has been set, I am free to open my did-barak-obama-rape-and-murdere-a-young-girl.com web site with out fear of government retribution or being sued.

# 43 Phydeau said, on November 10th, 2009 at 8:18 am

#42 This is why right-wingers don’t make good comedians. They don’t understand humor, satire in particular.

*sigh*

Yes, Benjamin, you could do that, but you’re missing the point. Glenn Beck is the one who’s making outrageous accusations, and then when the person he accuses doesn’t deny his obviously outrageous accusations, he claims they’re guilty. When you use a person’s dishonest tactic against them, that’s satire. Since Obama doesn’t use that tactic, using it against him wouldn’t be satire, it would be dumb. And it would expose you as a clueless wingnut. Capice?

# 44 The Monster's Lawyer said, on November 10th, 2009 at 9:10 am

#43 Fido – Nicely put.

# 45 Mr. Fusion said, on November 10th, 2009 at 10:59 am

#43, Phydeau,

Very well put, sir. Unfortunately I am afraid it is wasted on people too stooopid to realize Beck just may be wrong.

# 46 Bob said, on November 10th, 2009 at 7:37 pm

#45 Mr Fusion,
Is “stooopid” a real word to you, or are you just too stupid to spell “stupid” correctly?

# 47 deowll said, on November 10th, 2009 at 8:51 pm

Some things are funny and some things are so sick that even if it was meant to be funny it still means you are one sick puke. The website passes my puke test.

I would feel the same way if it was going the other way. If it isn’t wrong if your friends do to someone you don’t like it isn’t wrong if it is done to you. Wrong is just wrong no matter who does it.

# 48 Mr. Fusion said, on November 10th, 2009 at 11:25 pm

#46, Bob,

Your very question is stooopid.

First, say the word, as I wrote it, out loud. Now think of yourself as you say it. The longer it takes to understand the more this applies to you. If you fail to get it, then there never was any discussion.

# 49 Uncle Patso said, on November 11th, 2009 at 3:09 am

Art still lives!

(And yes, satire is Art.)

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