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  • I'm in between on this one. Even now that it's "true" (that's a stretch), people just need to READ THE AGREEMENTS THEY ARE AGREEING TO! The only new law that might be needed is one enforcing "plain English" on any legal documentation, especially User Agreements. "Legalese" can often be extremely difficult even for other attorneys to read! It has to be carefully deconstructed and deciphered to be sure of all the details.

  • I purchased Onstar because of the tracking feature.

    I bought the Z71 Colorado for my 80 yo Mom, to replace her beloved 15yo Toyota Kingcab. Mom is a Master Naturalist and Botanist and she still goes into the woods. I got her the truck so she could just as long as she want to...in Safety.

    The fact that it will call help if needed, has a single button call for Medical alerts and can locate and find her if she is in need, is the Reason I got it. I have no regrets at all, its an awesome service.

  • another example of the complete and utter incompetence fo the left and the MSM. Journalism is surely dead with them being in bed with Obumbles. and now this has been proven true about ONSTAR. Great job Glenn Beck!!!

  • Glenn Beck is usually right. Really. You left wing limp wristed idiots should sit up and pay attention.

  • Yet today, GM has revealed that Beck was RIGHT, all along....

  • “The elite ruling class wants us asleep so we’ll remain a docile, apathetic herd of passive consumers, and non-participants in the true agenda of our governments–

    which is to keep us separate, and present an image of a world filled with unresolvable problems... Just stay asleep America, keep watching TV.” Bill Hicks

  • I dont know what that was at 0:38, but it was probably the greatest thing I have ever seen

  • This video is an insult to Dwight Schrute! He is a much greater man than failed TV personality-turned-shock jock, Glenn Beck.

  • Ummmm yeah...apparently Media Matters hasn't heard about the iPhones yet and their special "app". By the way MM, tell George S that Greg and Andy say hi!

  • Speaking of Onstar... Anyone interested in winning a brand new GM vehicle? You don't have to buy anything to enter the OnStar sweepstakes. You don't even need to be an OnStar subscriber! Take a look at the OnStar Youtube page for details.

  • Typical MediaMatters bullshit context ignorers.

  • that guy at the end was funny

  • @tiffyj85 thats bill oreilly about as wacko as glenn beck

  • I like Dwight better than Beck.

  • I love Glenn Beck - he's like watching Gerry Springer and the Colbert Report at the same time!

  • yawn same old BS by the right and left. Left= OH dont believe the right they are crazy. Right= oh dont believe left they are crazy. If you ask me both the right and left has a whole lot of crazy to go around.

  • You know what, I'd like to see a prominant liberal blogger type part of a Beck rant verbatim and then pass it off as their own, and see how much criticism they get.

  • This from the same people supporting the Patriot Act,which basically erases the 4th ammendment.

  • lol

  • Thank God for Glen Beck! He may very well go down in history as the man who woke America up, to the progressives plan to destroy capitalism.

  • @iizkittah76 Oh god I hope you're being sarcastic

  • yea, i just bought a brand new gmc sierra, i was all over this privacy bullshit, anyone could be listening...

  • Fox is full of shit.

  • @gcore18 CNN and MSNBC are shit and part of fox (bill o rielly)

  • Number 1 Dwight was talking about GPS NOT Onstar.

    Secondly, that is Bill O'Reily NOT Glenn Beck

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  • Who really gives a crap where i am? Seriously? Does it have a sent detector to tell when i fart?

  • I don't understand why people worry about that, (even if people were sitting around listening to you in your car) unless you're doing something illegal, that the government wouldn't like, why would it even matter?

  • @Laceyacb Uh...Privacy? What if you were discussing a legal case, or your sex life,or a divorce, or relationship problems, or your health issues, or a miriad of other issues that is nobody's business but your own? You're OK with strangers listening in to that?

  • i thought republicans were all for controlling people

  • @werellstupid what? thats democrats buddy, get ur shit straight

  • jesse ventura has compared government to pro wrestling in the sense that in front of the cameras, the democrats and republicans hate each other. but in actuality, theyre perfectly fine with each other.

  • Its not a conspiracy theory when its a conspiracy fact.

  • well I will never buy american cars so I guess I'm safe.

  • lol, glen beck is crazy.

  • wow media matters spinning things again dwight was talking about GPS and Beck was talking about on star. And I dont believe that people should have the power to shut off you car that is just going to far.

  • Forget all the Conspiracy stuff and just think about the abilities of Onstar doesnt it creep you guys out just a little and might i remind you guys on the left had all kinds of Conspiracy stuff with Bush

  • @jeffmw Shouldn't the emergency GPS in cell phones be more frightening?? ...and thats been around for about a decade. I can bet 50 dollars that Beck dosent believe half the shit he says. He's just a profiteer using fear to get ratings and sell books. It's a political equivalent to cancer.

  • Glen Beck's owners won't let him blow the horn on the cellphone industry (it's corporate owned), but now that GM is owned by the American people he can go after them.

    Don't get me wrong, I do agree with him on On Star and I would agree with anybody that goes after cellphone companies for the same reason, but Glen would never cross his corporate masters.

  • Man!!! That's funny ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

  • Holy fuck this is hilarious ...

    You morons who think the government gives a fuck about your conversations ... you'd have to believe that every artist every author every person who's ever questioned this government is somehow a government operative and against you because I don't know ... you're "conservative".

    When you reach that point I'm sorry ... your mind is not capable of dissent.

    Your mind is mush.

  • How to remove OnStar.

    1.Remove negative battery cable.

    2.Find it! In cars and SUVs it's behind the trunk panels, remove the panels one by one until you find it.

    3.Disconnect the three electrical modules connected to the OnStar computer then use a socket wrench to remove the 4 bolts that hold the OnStar computer to your auto's chassis.

    4.Put panels back on and re-connect negative battery terminal.

    Done! No more chance of big brother watching your every move.

    If you lease you're screwed.

  • First of all OnStar can not just listen to you it's not as easy as it sounds. I use to work there they cannot listen to you without you knowing they are there and no way they can track the vehicle without your permission what so ever

  • As long as I dong endanger

    As long as I dong

    long as I dong

    dong

  • beck is the Democrats greatest friend - he will ensure another Democratic landslide in 2010!

    Thanks Beck - keep polarizing the country it worked well a year ago for us.

  • you are insane

  • I have nothing to hide do you BECK?

  • It's hilarious because if anyone, just one person, on the liberal side of things spewed the kind of crazy conspiracy theories that Glenn Beck does the Republicans would call that person nuts. Glenn Beck believes the same things the homeless people do on the side of the road. That's homeless people Republicans... those people you look down on when your walking down the street. I mean liberals questioned President Bush's reasoning for going to Iraq and WE were conspiracy theorists! LOL! WOW!

  • Wow greg you are a fucking piece of shit...defending our freedom is such a wonderful thing to question! All you liberals are insane and are blinded by the liberal media. You can't even form your own opinion; you just blindly follow people like Nancy Pelosi. You need to wake up and see how retarded you sound.

  • @SergeantSac "you just blindly follow people like ..." i'm thinking its the other way around.

  • @greggymcgurks im conservative and i hated bush

  • @greggymcgurks get a brain and quit following others.You dont have to choose a side you can just be above it

  • @greggymcgurks LOL 1 year ago you wrote this comment!! well, guess you were wrong uh libturd? LOL pathetic.

  • I thought this was all instituted during the Bush administration?

  • Does Beck have a problem with the Patriot Act? or does he just have a problem with the govt invading our privacy only when the President is a Democrat?

  • health care. the public ooptions takes away yoru right to chose who youwant what kind of care you get. Maybe not all at once but it takes it away slowly.

    They are trying to take away our right to raise our childern the way we want to.

    Also we are being assulted on our religion. We can barely say something out in public about our beliefes and not be attacked unless your beliefe is not to believe

  • You forgot to mention FEMA camps and the that they be coming for yr guns pissedoffpotato! Watch out! Obama is behind your house RIGHT NOW watching you!

    lol

    You can raise your kids any way you want. You can believe in whatever fantasy religion you want. And you can watch any fantasy TV show (like Star Trek or Glen Beck) that you want. You can even believe in the tooth fairy. I just pray you try and get facts from a source other than Fox News or Matt Drudge every once in a while.

  • if someone can tell me a news station that is even remotely not in Odouche bags pocket and is fair as FOX then by all means I will. I only not watch gelln but unlike most of the drones out there I check for myself. thats what we are supose to do instead of watching and following every thing they say and take it as pure facts. Glenn backs UP EVERYTHING HE says by using the words of the very people he brings into the light. Prove me wrong please, if he makes a mistake he is first to admit it

  • HA! Glen Beck backs up everything he says? There is no hope for you. I would say watch CNN, but you won't.

  • Yes he backs up everything he says! With more lies, and Republican "common knowledge" (ie. more lies)

  • kinda like colbert/stewart

  • Colbert and Stewart don't pretend to be news. They're comedy, 99% of what they say is supposed to be a joke!??! Beck followers take his ramblings as fact, that's the difference.

  • can you really blame me for thinking Glenn Beck is a joke?

  • No I could see how u could mistake Glenn Beck for a Joke. I mean lets face it, to anyone with any intelligence he is a joke.

  • cgord31...sadly many republicans believe beck's crazed conspiracy theories about OnStar and DEATH PANELS and Kenyan birth certificates and communism.....4,000,000 moronic conservatives watch glenn beck every day...and believe every word he says....they would believe the moon was made of cheddar cheese....if beck or limbaugh told them that.

    their grasp of reality ..is tenuous at best.

  • And that is why Glenn Beck is a detriment to the united states. Propaganda at its worst.

  • @cgord31 - too bad it's true...Glenn Beck, yet again, proven right. He is a great American, trying to do what is right and alert the people. Only those who do not listen to him would call him a "detriment" -- Our President of the United States...BHO...is a "detriment" to the United States. The KING of propaganda!

  • @cgord31 you wrote this a year ago. and now it is been proven Glenn Beck was not issuing propoganda. Sucks to be wrong huh Libturd?

  • @uzimodem WOW, I didn't think someone this dumb would know how to type or write. But yet there it is, you sent me a comment.

  • @cgord31

    Once again, Glenn has been proven right.

    wired.com/threatlevel/2011/09/­onstar-tracks-you/

  • @cgord31 lol No rebute for the comment huh? that is okay. when shown the truth that they are wrong, libturds just insult. Good job there libturd, proven wrong about your statement, and proven right being a libturd. Congrats BOY.

  • @uzimodem Im not a Libterd or a repub. In fact I have nothing to do with your pathetic screwed up country so go fuck yourself douche bag.

  • @cgord31 :well, you made the comment about Beck and his thoughts on the ONSTAR and the USA. which he has been proven he was right and you were WRONG!!!!! lol So, go back you're fucking igloo you dumbass Kanuck. fucking canada, jeez.

  • No, rebjiii, they'd believe the moon was made of cheese because they're all fat and almost constantly think of cheese (when they're not thinking about how much they hate black people).

  • nope, so are all of the people that listen to his Shenanigans, but he's mormon, can you blame him? His parents probably hated him.

  • You are the typical uneducated, republican. How does having a public option take your right away to chose which insurance company you want to be with?

    Do you even understand the concept of the word "OPTION" It means if you want THAT particular healthcare entity then you take it or buy into it, if you DON'T want that particular healthcare entity as your provider then chose another one like BlueCross.

    That is why it's called an OPTION.

    Retarded people make me laugh.

  • imo, dwight schrute is a useful person...if glenn beck could farm beets, he might be of use to someone.

  • word

  • What a stupid ass video, what are you trying to prove?

  • it's a bit ridiculous for a tv personality, seeking respect from others, to suggest that the government has a hand in OnStar. But, on some level, this is a valid point, and I think OnStar should make a statement promising not to allow government use of it's technology. Straight up, zero...I don't care if it's for terrorism or what, bc I'm brown and can imagine being profiled as such!

  • FUCK FOX

  • Fight for your tax dollars? Confused here are you an Obama supporter talking about taxes? Secondly, corporate America is part of the PRIVATE sector, they do not hav the power of compulsion as does government. There will always be some business out there thats tries to get and keep its advantage. Government however that has too much power is much worse. A little history of the founding of this nation would serve many people here very well.

  • wtf

  • The Office rocks. Glenn Beck too. Nice Clip.

  • im from detroit where is my free obama cash

  • its all tru morons, if the govermnt can tap into your phone whenever they wan what makes u idiots think hey would stop there------wait till the goverment finishes eir plan to crash the dollar and puts a computer chip in your ass ---WAKE UP STUPID SHEEPL---UNPLUG FROM THE MATRIX !

  • glenn beck.... what is white culture? YOUR AN IDIOT

  • beck is the best thing to happen to tv!!

  • I agree.....i need someone to laugh at

  • a 4 year old boy killed his own father in a marriage i swear to god to see it write :  "he killed his own father zarazouzou "

  • The truth is thats what Bush started with the patriot act.Why don't Fox talk about that.This is why normal people don't listen to Fox for the real news.

  • Yeah but I trusted bush he was just trying to kill the terrorists that were trying to blow my Wal-Mart up. I don't trust the muslim obama, he wasn't even born here! He is trying to take away my money and spend it on the blacks and the terrorists.

    Signed,

    stupid white republicans.

  • I was pissed at your statement until I saw who signed it.

  • Gimme somadat Obama money!

    Signed,

    typical liberal.

  • Bush was satan. Life sucks. I need the government to support me.

    Signed.,

    Stupid Democrats.

    I hated Bush. I am conservative but i don't support either party. Obama isn't responsible for the well being of Americans. Americans are! If we don't have jobs then go make some! if we think something sucks then go fix it! why do we expect a few people to try and make the world a perfect place. newsflash it isn't and it wont ever be. get over it. lets solve it ourselves

  • Who's going to magically "make" jobs when we're in the middle of a recession? Not the private sector for a very long time.

  • you underestimate necessity. yes the economy is bad. there are many people without jobs who will not be able to get one. so, instead of taking money from the government who is putting more taxes on already struggling businesses, those people need to take some initiative and try and start their own markets. just waiting it out won't solve the problem, and neither will spending money on things that aren't being productive

  • America is a giant wound. we consume far more than we produce so that leads to excessive borrowing only putting ourselves in more debt. WE ARE OUT OF MONEY and the government needs to fuck off and and be smarter with what we have. they also need to get out of businesses. the problem with the car companies was that people were buying foreign cars because foreign companies were actually being innovative. instead we turn our head from the problem and pour more money into a bucket full of holes!

  • any successful company knows that innovation is survival. you have to make a better product or get out. it's not rocket science and its people like you who instead of go and make things better pray upon your god, government, to go and save the world from ignorant self indulgence. WAKE UP!

  • Glenn Beck has said that numerous times dumbass. He slams Bush all the time. Says he hates the man. Mayber if you would watch you'd no that. Don't talk unless you know what you're saying it makes you look stupid.

  • ah here he goes, inducing paranoia yet again.

  • This is hillarious but on star does suck.

    Beck = Dwight genius.

  • Beck is a bit too wild eyed for my tastes, but his point is valid. Anyone not concerned about the growing ability of government to know where you are every moment is being short sighted. We in this country have always been at the mercy of the good intentions of the people who have power over us. What happens when those good intentions no longer square with what we think they should be?

  • "What happens when those good intentions no longer square with what we think they should be?"

    You vote them out...

    And the idea that the current opposition and protest is like the social revolutions of the 60s/70s is laughable.

  • I said nothing about the opposition. I said the people with lofty ideals in the 60s' are now in power and they are every bit as repressive as the 60's governments were.

  • 'The Man' was authority figures in general... not just government and certainly not 'big government'. The movements were about going against the widespread racism, sexism, militarism, and economic disenfranchisement within society. I'm not sure what you consider repressive about the Obama administration? Which of your rights are being stripped away exactly?

  • I dont know what was so difficult about the point I made. Todays Democrat sees government as the answer to all problems and government is the wisest arbiter of your personal choices. And he smiles approvingly on censoring of un approved viewpoints. In the 60s and 70s (Unlike you I was there to witnesss it) Free Speech was the cry, less government was wanted not more. They groused about the "establishment" They are now it and guilty of every abuse in spades they fought against in the streets.

  • Glenn Beck and other Republican operatives are telling us what a Conservative right-wing Republican administration WOULD do, if they were in power.

    The Fox Noise Sturm und Drang is pure hateful projection, and bears no resemblance to the Obama administration's work.

  • They have automated the locks. they can lock/unlock your car. They can also turn it off, control the brakes, control your lights, and, even though they deliberatly dont mention it, can control your steering. In a nutshell, they can drive your car. Its all part of the their attempt to gain total control of your life. Look up in the sky. See those trails coming off the back of that really high plane? Thats the swine flu.

  • On the flip side, if your car gets stolen it can be stopped. Controlling steering and brakes? I think that's a bit extreme though. There are pros and cons.

  • hahahahahahahahahah oh my fucking god are you for real?

  • Hmm..Glen Beck, so far they haven't automated the locks yet, so even if your car stops you can always run.

  • heres something funny. most people cant afford to have onstar. a A NEW CAR. LOL them that can afford a new car buy frome overseas

  • Concerns about onstar? What about built in webcams and microphones? Shit, what about the internet all together? Glenn Beck is a moron.

  • there goes glen beck trying to get people scurd again. If Onstar coudn't hear you scream for help. Couldn't shut off a car thats been stolen, couldn't unlock your car for you when you locked yourself out. Or couldn't tell you where to go....then what would Onstar be? If the government wants to spend resources and tax payer dollars paying people to spy on us, for what reason exactly? I don't know how many terrorists drive vehicles with Onstar.

  • Its funny that the same people who were in the streets shouting "power to the people" in the 60s and 70s are now the same ones who think government is wise enough to make all your decisions for you.

  • What's really funny is how you can posit a situation that doesn't exist and try to make a clever point from it.

    Jees, Danny, if you're going for clever, first get your ducks all in a row.

  • fuk onstar!

  • This is so funny. Glen Beck is such an idiot.

  • gorvenment please turn my car back on cause i need it that bad

  • Ugh, stop posting skewed statistics! This video is funny, lets just leave it at that please. It makes no statements about America or party lines, just makes fun of ONE thing ONE guy said. Relax people.

  • WHAT DO VOTERS SAY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT? 1... 38% say cutting the Federal Budget in half! (66% say that its the LEAST likely to be achieved)!! 2... 23% say health care... (68% say that the passage of health care reform will INCREASE THE DEFICIT)!! 3... 17% education 4... 16% sources of energy What do Democrats say is the MOST important issue? VOTES! What does obama say is HIS most important issue? IMAGE!
  • go away

  • texy, if you're trying to make yourself look silly with all these made up stats - - -

    Congratulations!!!

    Success!!!

  • Now... Glenn please do not cry :(

  • THE DEMOCRAT'S PLANS

    STILL leave people uninsured!!!

    The Democrat's plans ONLY cover 94% of the 330 Million people in America!

    Meaning that ***19.8 Million*** people will NOT GET COVERED???

    And like Medicare... the Dems plan to follow the same pattern.. which means...

    like Medicare... 6.9% are "DENIED" medical claims!

    Which leaves under obamer Care....

    ***22.77 Million*** people will be.....

    "DENIED MEDICAL CARE"???

    Now WHO supports this????

  • Centrists mostly. And even then it's better than what we currently have.

    Actual liberals, and not what Fox News considers to be liberals (everyone to the left of Pinochet) would much prefer a UHC system like France's.

  • Oh poor bigtex..

    If you only had a brain.

  • this video makes 100% sense. the blind will follow the blind

  • Latest Polling Data.....

    49% of voters nationwide say that passing ***NO health care reform bill*** this year would be better than passing the plan currently working its way through Congress!

    ONLY 39% say they support the Dem's plans for health care!

  • Fake!

  • mediamatters4democratsthatarea­sbiasedasanyrepublicansowhythe­fuckdotheycomplainaboutfoxnews­whentheyarejustasbiased?

  • Thats right America-the government wants nothing more than to hear you yap about stupid, meaningless bullshit in your car to your dumbfuck friends.

  • obama=marxism=slavery

  • you=batshit crazy=dumbass

  • Beavis- The government has already used forced GM to give them On-star info in more than one case. The point is that we need to STOP giving them more power over our lives! Maybe they won't use it now, but who knows what the next president, or the next will be like. - And Glen Beck may be an idiot sometimes, but he's the only one who has consistently gone after BOTH republicans and Democrats when they've let us down.

  • BTW...this is a paid subscription service...you VOLUNTEER to use this...and it's a third party provider, NOT "the government." Stoopid fucking Glenn Beck.

  • Phone service providers are a payed third party. Has the Government ever tapped a phone to listen to someone?

  • hahaaha it is funny because bush's patriot act made it possible to kill privacy as we know it ahahaha oh my goodness. i guess it's ok when republicans are in power to spy on you but oh lordy when the rolls are reversed suddenly all the shit they felt was ok is now tabooooo ooohhh noooooooo. double standards. gotta love em

  • Beck was HEAVILY against the Bush Patriot Act too- you need to go to the source instead of the blogs if you're going to try and criticize someone.

  • wow really did i say glenn fuckin no i didn't unless you have some weird form of dyslexia that makes the word republican look like the name glenn beck.

  • haha!!! where was beck when Bush was LITERALLY spying on americans? the double standards are ridiculous.

  • MY MONITOR IS MONITORING ME

  • So is mine dude I'm scared

  • HAHAHA the little Bill O'riley thing was fucking funny!

  • YOU ARE MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!!

  • Producer of this little flick is a moron.

  • So, you people want the cops to be able to turn off your car? It is no conspiracy theory, police departments want the devices.

  • Almost, cartonhead...you were THAT close to the correct quote. Unfortunately, as is always the case with half-truthers, you added that last part about his listeners being stupid. Never said it.

  • the gov spies are our phone conv. and email why not our cars

  • how can people listen to this moron, he even said himself : quote :

    "I'm not a journalist, I'm a rodeo clown and the people who take me seriously are stupid"

  • i think you answered your own question.

  • oh right !

    thanks !

  • GET OFF MY PHONE YOU LITTLE PINHEAD!

  • I'll never understand Beck's popularity. Has he ever been right about anything? He's just a fear mongering troll.

  • 1) The Government has no control over OnStar. It's a private company; and I know how much Republicans like private companies.

    2) If you think the government would use OnStar for such a purpose, when Bush's "Patriot" Act made it legal to bug places without all the coverup work, you're overestimating them.

    3) Liberal stations bash Republicans. Republican stations bash Liberals (O'Reilly, anyone?). As long as this is a partisan world, that will always happen. Get over it and think for yourself.

  • Your are a moron.  STFU and GTFO the internets.

  • It's nice to see someone thinking for themselves. You think I'm a moron. OK; now back that up with something more than bad grammar and overused Internet acronyms.

    -IMP ;) :)

  • You said it PERFECTLY IceMetalPunk!

  • why is media matters saying its neutral but like every time i see a video its always bashing republicans or whatever. Seriously who loves the idea of the gov being able to turn ur car off, or listening to u and know everything about you. Gov is the problem its never been and never will be the answer. Im pretty neutral to beck, sometimes he is right on, sometimes he is way off. This time he is 100% right.

  • Hey! The consumer chooses if he or she wants a system like OnStar in their car, not the government, it's called "an option." The republicans are down and out, that party is dead, but soon it will be the democrats turn to get hit on the fucking head until that party is dead as well. I guess when and if you realize it's not about blue or red you'll see more clearly, and Glenn Beck is not my definition of "seeing clearly."

  • we dropped OnStar after the trial ran out ...... too expensive.