Glenn Beck Claims Murdered EVE Player Was CIA

[CoL0sS]

I heard that his guy is insane, I just didn't know how much.

By the way:

Currently working undercover in Dark Souls, getting my contracts through floor messages.
This is how I operate.

Now that's a silent kill. 47 ain't got shit on me.

 

[Imp_Emissary]

Glenn Beck? The guy who went so crazy Fox got rid of his show?

Jeez, that guy must be a loony toon! Fox still has O'Reilly (I think) and he seems a few fries short of a happy meal!

O'Reilly is still there, but he is no Beck. O'Reilly is an actor. He gets infront of the camera an tells his viewers what he has been told to tell them. (Though, that may have changed. I don't really watch him now, so I can't say for sure.)

Beck use to be just an actor too, but then he started to believe in his own crap as the truth. After that became clear, Fox got rid of him.

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

" to cover up the Obama administration's involvement in the Libyan uprising."

Bit late for that. Obama made a freaking speech on national television of him committing fighter jets, bombers and other military support.

Exactly my thoughts. America, along with others, were very openly aiding the rebels, so there would be no need to cover anything up.

Assuming they were their to do a cover up on behalf of the CIA (which I don't believe for a second btw), it'd be more likely they were there to destroy records of the co-operation between the Bush administration and the Gadaffi regime before the rebels found out just how much of the torture and persecution that their people had suffered under for years had been aided by the US government.

 

[deth2munkies]

God fucking dammit Escapist, stop encouraging him, if we all ignore him he'll gradually go away.

 

[cerebus23]

Ya know if you have never played an mmo or had friends that played an mmo at work constantly, then you might be able to make the drawing that playing an online game is a very unusual thing.

So unusual that it must mean something like this was some super secret secure way the cia was sending code.

But to gamers this just means that the guy loved eve online so much he said skrew his actual job, go go government employees, i would hope the assistant ambassador had something more important to do than use his tax payer salary to play eve online at work.....

Lest that is what is should mean to people .

That is my whole problem with the story is why is this guy on eve all the damn time at work .

But to all those other people that are totally ignorant of games and gamers this just sounds insane because they cannot imagine it period. It is not a thing a rational human being would do normally.

 

[ErwinGodfrey]

The gist of Beck's story is that the U.S. government surreptitiously dropped weapons into Libya during the uprising against the Gaddafi regime, but with extremist forces moving in and Libya teetering on the edge of complete chaos, it needed to get those weapons out of the country before they fell into the wrong hands. That was why Stevens was in Benghazi: He brokered the original deal, Beck believes, and so he was sent in, with CIA handlers, to clean it up.

This was probably the only part of this bull shit that makes sense. The CIA did something similar in Afghanistan to buy back stinger missles given to the mujahideen before they fell into the wrong hands, which they did, because Iran was able to get there hands on a great many of them. It's also no secrect that those good-old-boys currently raising hell in the rest of the Mahgreb and Azawad got a lot of the weapons and cash to do so as spoils of war from Libya.

 

[jedizero]

Beck: "Hrm...these people died horribly. The nation mourns their loss...which means they're not paying attention to me. How can I profit off their deaths?"

 

[Treblaine]

(which I don't believe for a second btw), it'd be more likely they were there to destroy records of the co-operation between the Bush administration and the Gadaffi regime before the rebels found out just how much of the torture and persecution that their people had suffered under for years had been aided by the US government.

It's so sad that beck would go to such contorted attempts to denigrate the Obama Administration but gloss over the implications of what the Bush administration did secretly without congressional oversight nor popular approval.

 

[SnakeoilSage]

Beck? I thought he was dead or living in a pueblo in New Mexico, waiting out 2012.

 

[orangeapples]

...times like this, I wish natural selection would work a little better.

well, too bad we humans defeated Natural Selection soon after Darwin coined the phrase.

Also, i'd think you'd no want natural selection to work, because a faceless nameless person of the internet has no chance against someone with name recognition and a devout following that makes Westboro Baptist Church seem tame.

 

[Rellik San]

Ya know if you have never played an mmo or had friends that played an mmo at work constantly, then you might be able to make the drawing that playing an online game is a very unusual thing.

So unusual that it must mean something like this was some super secret secure way the cia was sending code.

But to gamers this just means that the guy loved eve online so much he said skrew his actual job, go go government employees, i would hope the assistant ambassador had something more important to do than use his tax payer salary to play eve online at work.....

Lest that is what is should mean to people .

That is my whole problem with the story is why is this guy on eve all the damn time at work .

But to all those other people that are totally ignorant of games and gamers this just sounds insane because they cannot imagine it period. It is not a thing a rational human being would do normally.

It's not exactly processor intensive to have EVE running in a background window whilst you auto-Mine or set skills on your lunch break.

Hell I play Pokemon White at work when it's quiet. I don't see why this is an issue.

 

[cerebus23]

I say its an issue because all these old guys in media have consistently shown they do not get gaming period. All the major media are old men in suits, anyone that grew up with a computer at all or video games is another culture to them.

I have an issue with productivity in general, hell i have a issue with a supposed cia operative being distracted from his duty at all by a video game, i have an issue as a tax payer since all these guys are government employees, and i have an issue with computer resources and harddrive space being used for a video game, not even to mention the possible security risks of having 3rd party gaming software on a government owned pc that may have sensitive or even classified data on it.

 

[Bostur]

I get the feeling that the quote may be a misunderstanding, due to the possible mix of real life events and in-game events that can happen in game chat or forums.

"Watching the exits" is very common EvE terminology for keeping scouts on stargates and wormholes. Most organized PvP events in EvE will have people watching the exits. Someone being trapped in a solar system unsure if they can get out of there 'alive' is also a pretty common event.

I imagine that for someone who is unfamiliar with the tone and language of the game it's easy to misinterpret what is being said.

I'm just speculating of course, but something about the quote just seems like it refered to something that was going on in EvE.

 

[Dangit2019]

It's like he doesn't understand actual emotion and the possibility that he could have been friends with some of those people he played with and instead went with "THE FBI IS USING VIDEO GARMES OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG".

 

[piinyouri]

This is not news.
Glenn Beck has no place on The Escapist.

 

[Matthi205]

I sincerely doubt that CIA protocol contains EVE as the standard way of contacting the Agency.

I mean, why not just send an email? Occam's Razor, Beck.

Because E-Mail isn't fancy enough.
That aside, what you can at least learn from this is that the disguise that works best is the one in which you aren't taken seriously. Nobody cares much about whatever it is you're doing, because it can't be anything real and/or interesting anyway.

 

[Baresark]

I am a devout Libertarian (the thing that Glenn Beck claims to be) and I can't stand him. Whenever he opens his mouth, people are more stupid for having listened.

That's not to say that he is wrong, he may be right. I don't claim to know anything about that. But I'm willing to believe that the state department knew what was happening there already without the need of a secret message to the shitty ass CIA. But all of that aside, when Glenn Beck talks about it, anyone with two brain cells stops listening. He would be doing the world a favor by just quitting his day job.

 

[antipunt]

But in Glenn Beck's world, that's not what happened at all.

reminds me of the "Meet the Pyro" TF2 vid..

 

[BaronIveagh]

The Mittani, for the record, denied that Goonswarm is a CIA front.

From what I know of EVE, I'd not be surprised if the CIA was a front for Goonswarm.

The fact that Mittani said it makes me now suspect that it might be true far more than what Glenn Beck has to say. Though it would explain a few things surrounding the big goonswarm scandal earlier in the year. (Such as why ol Mittens wasn't arrested for, you know, violating enough laws to keep the goonlegal corp busy for the next decade.)