Everything is a fraud and a hoax according to conservative talker Glenn Beck, who has come up with a new theory about the measles outbreak.
February 7, 2015

Almost everyday we get pillaged with new right wing conspiracy theories ranging from liberal controlled weather weapons to free college tuition turns students against white people.

Glenn Beck, a rape denier, may be the first conservative to deny there's any validity to the recent outbreak of measles and spins it into a federal government plot to control you.

Nothing better demonstrates this fact that the opening of Beck's radio program yesterday where he declared that the current measles outbreak is a "hoax" designed increase government control, which he "proved" by reading from a piece posted on 21st Century Wire.

As Beck told it, "if you look at the 102 children in California who have been detected with measles, you look at where they came from, you see that the two cases came from 1) an Amish community and 2) a group of travelers who entered the U.S. from the Philippines. If you eliminate those two sources, there is no uptrend in measles."

Beck and co-host Pat Gray then went on to assert that even though immigrants from the Philippines are responsible for the measles outbreak, the media won't report that because their intention is "to make the case that you've got to obey the government" and get vaccinated."Do everything you can just to obey the government," Beck said

All it took was five minutes for Kyle to uncover a little truth for the truthless.

As the CDC explained, there was a large outbreak of measles "among unvaccinated Amish communities in Ohio" in 2014, but that outbreak started when "unvaccinated Amish missionaries traveled to the Philippines and returned with the virus."

The current measles outbreak has literally nothing to do with this 2014 incident and Beck's assertion that the current outbreak can be tied to "this Filipino family or group of travelers" is entirely false as it was not Filipino tourists who brought the disease into the U.S. but rather unvaccinated Amish missionaries who brought it back to the U.S. from the Philippines in April of last year!

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