History Of Hate
Glenn Beck uses his media platform to disseminate vitriolic hateful rhetoric and stoke racial anxieties. The Southern Poverty Law Center admonished Glenn Beck for fueling violent hate groups and the Anti-Defamation League aptly describes Beck as “fearmonger-in-chief.” When advertisers sponsor Glenn Beck, this is what they are paying for and associating their brand with:
Glenn Beck said President Obama is “a racist”
On July 28, 2009, discussing President Obama, Glenn Beck said:
“This president has exposed himself, I think, as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people, or white culture.“
Adding…
“I’m saying he has a problem. He has a, this guy is, I believe, a racist.“
To date, Glenn Beck stands by his claim that Obama is a “racist” with a “deep-seated hatred for white people, or the white culture.” Additionally, Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox News, recently stated that Glenn Beck was “right.” In a November 10, 2009, interview with Sky News, Murdoch agreed with Glenn Beck’s assertion that Obama is “a racist”, saying:
“And um, that was something which perhaps shouldn’t have been said about the President, but if you actually assess what he [Glenn Beck] was talking about, he [Beck] was right.“
Glenn Beck launched bigoted attack against India
On December 10, 2009, Glenn Beck launched a bigoted attack against India. Media Matters offers this fitting description:
Thus, within the span of a few minutes, Beck implied that there are no quality medical schools in India; implied that medical care in India is a shoddy imitation of real health care; implied that the entire nation is an undeveloped backwater without even so much as indoor plumbing; and compared the Ganges River, a holy body of water for one of the world’s oldest and largest religions, to a disease.
Details and video of this rant are available here.
Glenn Beck has a long history of sexist comments
On December 8, 2009, Glenn Beck said “I don’t hate women, they’re very convenient to have around [but they shouldn't vote].” I’m sure he’ll protest by claiming that he was joking. But, I don’t really see what’s funny about the struggles that women have and continue to face. Moreover, his long history of sexist comments make such an excuse less acceptable.
On December 7, 2009, after noting that Sarah Palin “looks really hot,” Glenn Beck proceeded to mock the appearances of Sec. Hillary Clinton and Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Some excerpts of what Beck had to say:
“Sarah Palin looks really hot in that hot…And, in a completely unrelated note, Hillary Clinton looks tired.”
“Oh, yea sure she [Hillary Clinton] looks professional, Sarah Palin looks hot in the hat. Seriously.”
“I wonder what Nancy Pelosi would look like in that hat. Has she had…Has anybody noticed that Nancy Pelosi…Has she had serious plastic surgery? Either that, or she is a Disney auto-animatronic.”
Is is it appropriate for a political commentator and newsman to speak about female political figures this way? Glenn Beck would seemingly answer yes. On October 8, 2009, just a few months prior to making the above remarks, Glenn Beck mocked the appearance of another female political figure. Of former Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, Glenn Beck said looking at her “burns your eyes out,” adding, “look at the skin on her neck…she looks like a turkey.”
On November 25, 2009, while discussing a potential Palin/Beck 2012 ticket, Glenn Beck suggested that a woman’s place is in the kitchen. In ruling out the ticket on November 24, 2009, Glenn Beck said:
“Palin/Beck? Ridiculous…I was just thinking, what I’m gonna take backseat to a chick? While you’re at it, go shoot a bear! Make some stew! I’m hungry in here.”
The above are recent examples that Glenn Beck can add to his long history of propagating sexism, which among many instances, includes:
- Glenn Beck called Senator Mary Landrieu a “high class prostitute.” Later that day, speaking about Sen. Landrieu, Beck added to his earlier remarks “so we know you’re hookin’, but you’re just not cheap.” [12/23/09]
- Responding Gloria Steinem’s discussion of sexism in American politics, Glenn Beck said: “You self-centered, self-righteous, socialist, out-of-control, dangerous, man-hating bitch. Shut your mouth. We might have bought into this crap in the 1960s because too many people were doing LSD. We’re not on LSD anymore. You need to start making sense.” [5/3/08]
- Glenn Beck saying “Ugly people, if you’re a guy, you can get past it. I don’t think you can as an ugly woman.” Adding, “you’ve got a double-cross, because if you’re an ugly woman, you’re probably a progressive as well.” [2/14/08]
- Glenn Beck commenting on Hillary Clinton’s voice: “She’s the stereotypical bitch, you know what I mean?” [3/17/07]
- Or, in Glenn Beck’s distant past, where he called a rival radio DJ’s wife, who had just suffered a miscarriage, and proceeded to mock her for it live on the air. [details of this event are available here.]
Glenn Beck asked the first Muslim Congressman to prove he is not a terrorist
In 2006, Glenn Beck raised the specter of interment camps for Muslims “who have sat on their hands” and not “lined up to shoot the bad Muslims in the head.” A month later, he issued a similar warning to Muslims if they failed to respond to terrorism the way the he wanted, saying they “will be looking through a razor wire fence at the West.” Following these claims, Glenn Beck’s anti-Muslim bigotry reached new heights in a November 15, 2006 interview with Rep. Keith Ellison. Ellison is the first Muslim ever elected to Congress. During the interview Glenn Beck asked the Congressman to “prove” that he wasn’t working with terrorists:
Glenn Beck: OK. No offense, and I know Muslims. I like Muslims. I`ve been to mosques. I really don`t believe that Islam is a religion of evil. I — you know, I think it`s being hijacked, quite frankly.
With that being said, you are a Democrat. You are saying, “Let’s cut and run.” And I have to tell you, I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, “Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.”
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about 3 years ago
The point is, Beck's lying. There is nothing in any of our President's writings, speech, or actions that shows that he has an anti-white agenda. Beck is lying. That's all. But it's enough to cost him credibility, respect, and advertisers.
Good.
about 3 years ago
Thank you. The drooling ignorant scum who watch Beck have no actual evidence for Obama being racist against white people, or a marxist, or Muslim… so they have to resort to completely invalid association arguments: he lived in Indonesia, so that proves he's a Muslim! He went to Reverend Wright's church, so he must be a Black Radical! He lived in the same neighborhood as Bill Ayers 30 years after Ayers' radical days, so that proves he's a terrorist!
Unfortunately for them, even folks who are committed Republicans, but still sane and logical, will understand that these arguments amount to nothing but raving lunacy.
about 3 years ago
Well, actually, the B in Believe shouldn't be capitalized, and “where” should be “were.” Also, the comma error in your last line is fairly minor, but still wrong.
So you're not a smart as you think you are. But if you are actually 14, there's still time. And if you watch Fox News, kid, please bear in mind that they lie constantly. My advice: start watching Jon Stewart' Daily Show every chance you get. Also: fact-check anything you find fishy on Fox with FactCheck, Politifact, and/or Snopes. And every day MediaMatters has a de-bunking of the latest lies from Fox and Limbaugh.
about 3 years ago
This isn't about R vs. D. This is about vile, despicable propaganda fed to Americans who are told to trust only Fox and Limbaugh and ignore everything else, and who then act out loudly and even violently, and hate Obama, Progressives, minorities, gays, the Census, etc. based on utter and complete lies. The right-wing lie that Obama is planning to confiscate everyone's guns has already cost several good members of law enforcement their lives. THAT's the kind of thing that makes Beck, Limbaugh, etc. so dangerous.
There used to be many sane Republicans, and I think there still are some, but they're afraid to go against the tide of vapid Tea-Bagging lunatics whose votes they need.
I agree, however, that both parties should avoid going to bat for party members who are exposed as corrupt or incompetent, and not make excuses for them.
How retarded do you find that?
about 3 years ago
Let's see if I understand this comparison correctly unemployed, probably unemployable college student living off mommy and daddy's $ or better yet lives off government entitlements, generates no income pays no taxes, spoiled brat compared to successful commentator and media personality that has worked in the industry for years, employs close to 50-60 people pays hundreds of thousands in taxes, supports family values and voting to employ change……..one lives, survives and is succesful in the real world and the other hides behind his keyboard. not much of a comparison
about 3 years ago
I agree with ScamN2. He hit it on the nail. The problem with the people that beleive Beck is they are all looking for something to blame their miserable lives on. And I agree that most of the Beck lovers are from the south east part of the country. The KKK is still alive and they think that belonging to a church lets them see things their way. I don't know if Beck is married but if he is his wife has to be dumber than a box of rocks to live with a guy like him.
about 3 years ago
Wow what a douche, I don't really watch tv so i didn't know who this joker was, but now its apparent, its a fox show….what the fsk are you doing watching fox? I don't watch tv for a reason, but even I know, fox is what is wrong with the world today, it symbolizes everything we should try to never be. it is evil in all respects, this is only from the view point of someone raised on the interwebs, I would have to say the biggest baddest most horrible thing you could ever do to this fool and all the other fools at fox is Never, Ever watch the fox channels, Ever. you will save your children, your sanity, cut back on your anxiety, feel better about life, and if you could inspire millions to do that, they would loose all their power, this beck fool would be gone, and so would all the rest of these morons, they are All bad, not one of them is good, you must see this?? I hope you do anyways
about 3 years ago
us vs them BS
Blanket terms labelling an extremely diverse group
the always mysterious “They”
Beck is a dickhead period and it has nothing to do with liberal or conservative
Your simplistic arguments are best used on people with the level of education as Glenn Beck
about 3 years ago
Maybe you should go back to the september 9 of 2005 episode of the glenn beck show and tell me what he meant about wanting the families of victims of 9/11 to “shut up” because they are always complaining. Explain to me how it is ok for him to say that?
about 3 years ago
What is your proof that Obama is a racist or a marxist? Is it something you actually heard him say or just something that Mr. Beck decided to say? Please I am interested, please post a quote and your source.
about 3 years ago
Just a question, on page 2 of his book “The Real America” Glenn Beck admits to being a borderline schizophrenic. Ok, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, some symptoms of schizophrenia include “…paranoid delusions and belief that others are trying to harm them, ie cheating, harassing, poisoning, spying on, or plotting against them or the people they care about… trouble organizing his or her thoughts or connecting them logically…agitated body movements.” Just food for thought.
about 3 years ago
You, sir, are an idiot.
about 3 years ago
Fascism is a completely far-right political belief. It means giving more control to cooperations and limiting government – the exact political belief of the Right.
about 2 years ago
“Sarah Palin looks really hot in that hot” Really? Glenn Beck looks hot in that hot? I think you should find something better to do with your time than be a hate mongerer yourself.
about 2 years ago
Haha. Aside from picking on a guy who's wife had a miscarriage, (I am assuming this was during his alcoholic phase), almost all of the things posted here make me laugh. And I'm the first to preach India's medical prowess, and the first guy to admit that women should be running the place. Mostly, I just like how he can get an entire website devoted to stopping him, just by saying provocative things. He is a shock DJ. He works for giggles. Lotta hate here, I suppose.
about 2 years ago
The people who hate,like those from the left are always worse then the one who is hated. This is an adage that comes down from thousands of years in the past. If you hate as much as you say you do,hate usually comes out of fear and hiding the truth. Truth causes the guilty to hate. Think about it. If the Radical Muslim hates,where does that put you if you hate? In the same camp of hatred. Not good.
about 2 years ago
Fascism is defined in the Webster's New Collegiate as: “Any program for setting up a centralized autocratic national regime with severely nationalistic policies, exercising regimentation of industry, commerce, and finance, with rigid censorship and suppression of opposition.” It is typically considered a type of “corporatist” system of government as well, where economic and social programs are the result of close cooperation between the government and corporations. Fascism is “syncretic”, in that it combines views of both the right and the left wing; but in its Italian and German forms it gravitated towards the right wing. Fascist regimes almost universally oppose progressivism, liberalism, Marxism, socialism, and the European Enlightenment, preferring to depend on spiritualism, the power of “will”, nativism, admiration of the rural/agrarian lifestyle, anti-intellectualism, discipline, and militarism.
The United States in its current form is not a fully realized fascist state; but we are well on our way. Mr. Beck's vehement opposition to progressives (“Progressives must be eradicated…”); his cloying and saccharine sentimentality for a fantasized American “past”; his super-patriotism and love of armed conflict; his hate for any group that will not (or cannot) assimilate; his references to “real Americans”; all these qualify him as a type specimen of the fascist species.
about 2 years ago
I do find it amazing how ignorant Americans are the will believe almost anything hence the success of Glen (the nazi) Beck. I am a recovering Republican that does not like the left because they have no guts to stand up. Any way the wind blows they will go along including Obama. The other day Senator Al Franken gave a fabulous speech concerning the Roberts Court. It was all true but my ignorant right wing friends were bad mouth him anyway. I guess the bought the Frank Mutz bull to the core. With these people pure logic makes no sense. Furthermore they don’t have a clue concerning the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. If someone has an R in front of their name the buy it.
Orwell’s world is here. On Google Video I suggest watching on Orwell Rolls in His Grave. Most of these right wing nuts don’t even know who George Orwell is.
Americans we believe almost anything.
The Doors Of Perception: Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/arch...
about 2 years ago
Hey Boz, I am not really a Glen Beck fan but I wonder why you care so much. Wanting three people to be set on fire for what they believe only lends credibility to what Beck says about (democrats – liberals -progressives). I assume by your arrogant attitude towards those who you don't agree with, that you must think you have all the answers and anybody who disagrees with you must be a racist, sexist or ignorant person. My advice to you, learn to operate the remote control on your television and change the channel or turn it OFF. Beck may be crazy but people like you are the reason civil discord has evaporated in this country.
about 2 years ago
Have you taken a look and listen to what the BLACK PANTHERS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT YOUR RACE? TALK ABOUT HATE!
about 2 years ago
Hmmm…have you listened to the Black Panther's lately? Have you heard the non stop lying of the President at every corner? Where have you been? I don't need Beck or anyone else to TELL me what is going on I can hear and read and listen for myself thank you very much…this country is sinking and the past and present administrations are the anchors taking us down…time to get them all out of office and get some CONSTITUTIONALISTS back into running AMERICA
about 2 years ago
uhh…no…Obama is doing even worse job than Bush…can't you count?
about 2 years ago
Hmm…how bout something like his administration dropped charges against the NBPP who intentionally dressed up in army garb and brought a baton to a polling station? How bout how his wife spoke at the once-pro-civil-rights-now-racist NAACP conference and did not denounce the lies that the Tea Party Movement as a whole was not racist? Or, as Eyewasthere pointed out, that he sat in the church of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright who constantly degraded and belittled whites?
about 2 years ago
Free speech gives Glenn Beck the right to be a racist, sexist, intolerant ass on television. It also gives other people the right to call him a racist, sexist, intolerant ass.
People are judged by their actions, whether fairly or unfairly. Those who support Glenn Beck will often be judged as cattle, driven into a frothy mouthed stampede. Glenn Beck and his ilk (and by that I mean Olbermann, Maddow, Limbaugh, Medved, etc) are a cancer in this country, spreading thoughtless kneejerk spite throughout the viewing public too lazy to pick up a book.
about 2 years ago
your smart, I liked your comments to john stathakis , I couldn't have said it better. bravo.
about 2 years ago
There is not a Black Panther movement, and I know even if there was that you would have been near enough to “listen”. The CONSTITUTION protects the KKK and any group like the Black Panthers to express themselves…..and unless your a member of either group, I don't see how you have listened to them speak….except for on FOX.
about 2 years ago
If you were smart enough to do some research, maybe read the 5000 year leap, you would know that the far right is actually anarchy. Not Fascism, there is no real difference between Communism and Fascism. Fascism having military rule and Communism is having Rulers Law. The right does not want either. They or we want FREEDOM. All you liberals are hypocritical ignorant complainers that just want everyone to be equal. What a $&%^ boring society.
about 2 years ago
Oh and BTW Glenn, our 'best in the world medical system' ranks #38 according to the World Health Organization. (Which is of course probably run by brown and black folk from some third world nation so they are lying racists anyway and why should we believe them). It is not possible to have a rational discussion with a delusional paranoid.
Fortunately not all of America has been infected. I live about an hour south of Beck's hometown in Washington State. The Mayor declared a Glenn Beck Day about a year ago. The City had to stop answering their phones and the website crashed. Thousands of concerned citizens phoned and emailed in protest. The final estimate was 16,000 unhappy folks in and around Mt. Vernon, WA. Thank God all of us have not fallen asleep and let our pods mature.
about 2 years ago
The question was what is your source/proof?
about 2 years ago
Wait don't they call themselves New Black Panther Party? They may have 12 members, tops. As for Glenn Beck what disrespect he has for the Jewish Community. Since the election he has mentioned Hitler 141 times on his show. Not only mentions him but imitating Hitler's many forms of propaganda. 9.12 project specifically to take all Americans attention away from 9/12. Stating he hates the 9/11 families? Creating 9 policies to follow. Hijacting 8/28 to sell books. The sad part about all of this is folks support him. On his road trip and live feed in movie theaters recently all of 14 ppl showed up. How sad it is to know that he has the top ratings during prime time. Go figure.
about 2 years ago
The guy running this website needs to get a life… It's intertainment…. If you want to see hate just go to the liberial web sites and listen to MSNBC
about 2 years ago
Do you have proof/sources that the KKK only had southern members. Yes it originate there but can you show me the roll? The hoods were to hide their identity!
about 2 years ago
If he acknowledge daily that it was satire then I doubt if we would have a problem! Fact is he pulled out he blackboard much like Hitler. In fact much of what he is doing is like Hitler. He mentions him toward Obama to throw folks off. See you can fool some of the people all the time and that is who he concentrates on! Although he is a highly paid entertainer he pretends to be an educator. Glenn Beck University? If he was honest with his foolishness then we would not object to him. He however represents himself as news!
about 2 years ago
well when he said 5 seconds later in the clip you have so nicely spliced he clarified and said “and it's only 2 or 3 of them [that I'm talking about]” – nice try
about 2 years ago
while you run around trying to find the most accurate technical definition of fascist, I'd like to have my country back thank you… fascism plain and simple cannot be right wing because it massively restricts individual liberty
about 2 years ago
Oh my god!! Someone actually doesn't believe Obama is the 2nd coming of Christ? BURN HIM AT THE STAKE!!!
about 2 years ago
No one is trying to ban anyone's existence here. All we aim to do is to get advertisers to withdraw their support of his television show, because we object to it. I'm sure you would do the same to a show you found equally disagreeable, and you have every right to do so. We are not trying to get him banished to the sun, we're just trying to stop the willful spread of misinformation from a news source. No matter how vehemently I may disagree with your views, I believe you have the right to hold them.
about 2 years ago
If you were trying to be sarcastic, shutupstalin, you failed utterly. It does not, in fact, describe Obama at all.
Led by a dictator: Obama is not a dictator anymore than Bush, Clinton, or Reagan were. They are all democratically-elected officials that lead our government.
Having complete power: Again, Obama has the same power that any other president has had. If you think the U.S. is a dictatorship, then live in Antarctica, where there is no government.
Forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism: Definitely NOT Obama. Obama bends to the will of the right wing so much that I'm beginning to think you guys planted him there as your puppet to do your bidding. Obama listens to his opposition, and ends up doing as they say (no public option? you got it!)
Regimenting all industry: Again, this hasn't been done, nor will it ever be done
Emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism: Again, no racism present in his actions. If by nationalism you mean patriotism (one of the definitions thereof), then Bush is guilty of this if anything, not Obama.
So please, shutupstalin, think before you speak, and take the advice that your username gives.
about 2 years ago
Ugh. A cited Wikipedia article backed up by facts is just as reputable as any other informational source. Please don't trot out the tired “posted by random people” attack; it just doesn't work. Wikipedia is heavily moderated. I once edited an article to insert a tiny joke and within MINUTES it was reverted and I was kindly directed to register and use the Sandbox for testing, not actual articles. And this was in 2007. Just because regular people can add to it and edit it, doesn't immediately make it invalid as a source.
about 2 years ago
The president isn't a racist. He's a big government leftist, who just uses racism to divide people…
about 2 years ago
GB is a serious nut job. Good luck in bringing him down!
about 2 years ago
You say that because of increased defecit- THE DEFECIT WAS ALREADY HIGH WHEN BUSH WAS PRESIDENT, AND IS EVEN HIGHER NOW BECAUSE YOU CAN'T CEASE SPENDING.
Can't YOU count?
about 2 years ago
you guys are fags
about 2 years ago
and yet ironically your comments made it on the website so it can't be that biased? as for free speech being a two way street….no one on this website is claiming glenn beck doesn't have the right to say it, we're merely trying to hold him accountable for the things he says.
about 2 years ago
The right wing wants liberty……so that their corporate masters and interests can't be prosecuted after they run the country into the ground. Hehehehe it always amazes me how willing people are to go to the slaughter as long as you convince them that it was their choice to do so.
If I didn't love the country as much as I do, I'd say “To hell with them. Let them reap what they sew.” But I hope to have children one day and I'll be damned if a culture of “everybody's ok” and “you think you're better than me just because you devoted more of your life and dedication towards becoming an expert and I haven't….reward my mediocrity” are the ones at the helm.
The Right Wing would happily turn this country into a real live version of Idiocracy and all they have to do is tell you that the Left is trying to stop you from it. And like children and teenagers, that's all it takes to convince their supporters to revolt and rebel against policies that are designed to assist the American people. So convinced they know best that they'd eat crap than admit they could possibly be wrong….
about 2 years ago
So does that mean that all of white america is racist because the entire US has sat under the influence of all of our racist media outlets since the inception of the radio broadcast?
If you admit that Obama is racist because how can you sit under the sermons of a racist pastor once a week for 20 years and not become racist, then you admit the rampant racism towards blacks/hispanics/asians/native americans, etc. in our culture has tainted all of white america because, by your argument, you can't sit under racist influence and not be penetrated…
Right? Yeah….somehow I don't think you'll agree. Laughable. You could be rational and say that we all have the ability to make up our minds and decide for ourselves what the truth of it is….but if you say that, then you'll have to give Obama some leeway. So which is it? Either Obama is a racist and so are you….or Obama has the capability to make up his own mind and so do you…
about 2 years ago
Yes because as long as my enemy is being racist, then its ok for my side to be. Because they have no reason to be pissed off ever. And since the Civil Rights Act of 64, everything has been equal for both like rates of profiling to rates of unemployment (even with completely equal qualifications no less). EVERYTHING has been equal since that magical paper and now it's ok to be mad that I can't be racist again so what I'll do is find evidence of them being racist because after centuries of being racist, we can now play the victim. Woohoo!
Brilliant rationalization. Excuse me, I have to go pray for future generations if this is what passes for critical thinking today.
about 2 years ago
Well on that I can agree. And lately, white people have been totally throwing out the race card. In the “Hey I'm not a racist just because I disagree with the President. And I can't help how they think….they need to stop being so lazy and just get off my hard-earned money….all they want is reparations anyway…” Not saying you are because I don't know you personally and I've never spoken to you….but I've heard a lot of crap thinly-veiled racism lately that start out with “People think I'm racist because I'm against Obama” which is immediately followed up by real racist sentiments that people feel completely comfortable in expressing now.
Not that anything has actually gotten better for the black and hispanic communities, but now that there is a half-black president, white people have been dropping the race card quite often while also chastising any race who still thinks the US has a problem with race. Health care reform is reparations against white people (evidence of black racism for these guys) but there is always a legitimate reason for racial profiling (if you have nothing to hide, you won't mind it).
You're right….the race card is being well played right now. So either white people are victims or they're all powerful. When do we all get to be really equal? If we're so equal, then why this reaction to having a half-black president, as if a black man at the helm is going to enact retribution for previous and on going racial discrimination? Why is it that having a half-black president makes him any less concerned for the well-being of the entire country? Does that mean then that all of our presidents before him have only cared about white americans? Does that mean that every president I've voted for was really against my best interest because he only cared about white americans? Doesn't that sound kinda silly?
about 2 years ago
No actually what you're trying to say is so what you don't support him and think he's dangerous and toxic….still support it with your pocketbook.
I think you've confused having the first amendment right to free speech with everything I say and do will be supported because I said it. They're not the same.
Financial protest is one of the best ways to do it now. It's a swift kick in the cojones without causing physical injury. Why would you hate on someone else expressing their 1st Amendment right?
about 2 years ago
well you dont have to go far on FOX NEWS to find people's free speech being raped by people like beck who FLIP OUT when asked a hard question, OReilly who cuts you off screams at you and throws you off the show when you ask for evidence, hannity who invites you to the show and just talks over you ETC ETC ETC….