'Glenn Beck Raped and Murdered' website fights back in domain name flap

By Eriq Gardner

An individual named Isaac Eiland-Hall is sticking up for his right to run a website called glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com.

Fox News host and recent Time Magazine cover boy Glenn Beck is the target of the satirical site whose domain name is a riff on a joke made by comedian Gilbert Gottfried at a Comedy Central roast that rumors that "Bob Saget raped and murdered a girl in 1990" have to stop. After a commenter on the odd-news website Fark asked, "Why haven't we had an official response to the rumor that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a girl in 1990?" the joke became a web sensation on Digg, Reddit and other social-media websites.

Beck, who has become notorious for his conspiratorial rants, wasn't amused when Eiland-Hall registered glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com — featuring videos of crying women and purportedly examining Beck's lack of denial about the rape/murder — and earlier this month he filed an administrative complaint with WIPO. The complaint claimed that the website was improperly using a trademark and the domain name was registered and being used in bad faith. (Beck also seems to be exploring a defamation claim.)

Yesterday, Eiland-Hall's lawyer, Marc Randazza, filed his response. In it, he says the site should be his because it's a valid critique of Beck's politics.

"The website is a legitimate criticism site, consists of political satire, and thus the Respondent has legitimate rights in the domain name," the response brief reads. "Mr. Beck's attempt to censor this criticism is improper and should be rejected."

The brief offers an history of esoteric inside jokes that became Internet meme phenomena, from "Mr. Spock Ate My Balls" to Richard Gere's unflattering "Gerbil story." But this case also makes a political point, noting an interview Beck conducted with Congressman Keith Ellison, a Muslim, in which Beck said, "I like Muslims, I've been to mosques...And I have to tell you, I have been nervous about this interview because what I feel like saying is, sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies."

Comments

[MSD]

Isaac Eiland-Hall should close the site. That's deplorable. If you want to be cute, atleast say he did something other than rape and murder a girl in 1990. How about Glenn Beck sodomizes bunnies...

Your URL is deplorable, and not funny. You will be lucky not to get prosecuted by someone with the stature and media fame of Glenn Beck.

[HeDidn'tDoIt!!!]

Please! The site CLEARLY states that it is trying to put to bed the vicious RUMOR that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a girl in 1990.

No where on the site does it state that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a girl in 1990. It simply asks why hasn't Glenn Beck publicly denied the vicious rumor that he raped and murdered a girl in 1990.

Clearly, if only Mr. Beck would publicly state the evidence proving his lack of guilt in the murder of a young girl in 1990, this whole sordid business would come to a quick end.

[Harry Johnson]

Please explain, my friend, why glenn beck has chosen to spend a huge amount of money hiring legal counsel to gag his accusers rather than respond truthfully to the charges? Does that sound to you like a man with nothing to hide? It would be very simple to answer the charges and provide the necessary proof. It would be far easier than fighting multiple court battles to silence the people who have brought this to light. Yet glenn takes the path of hiding and covering up. Please, please glenn for all of our sakes come out into the open and just once tell the truth. We need to put this behind with a little honesty. If glenn would simply do that the problem would end. Assuming he is innocent. If he possibly were it would be so simple. Why can't the phony CONservatives see that. If they believe in the rule of law they should want to have these accusations of criminal behavior cleared up. Why does glenn beck not plainly, simply and honestly answer the charges and provide proof?

[What's He Hiding?]

MSD, if you have evidence that refutes the fact that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990, you should go directly to the authorities. Seriously, no one should not withhold any evidence that can either prove or disprove the rape and murder of a young girl by Glenn Beck in 1990.

[Tom]

Wah wah wah wah!
Take the site down? Why! It is a protected form of free speech! Already has been upheld in the US SUPREME court! Look at Larry Flint V. The United States! Sheesh!

Kep it up and running my friend! Everyone should do the same thing!

[gocart m,ozart]

I heard that Dan Riehl was involved in Glenn Beck's rape and murder of a girl in 1990? Is this true? Did Dan Riehl really help Glenn Beck rape and murder a girl in 1990?

[Bryn - UK]

Actually there really is no physical proof that Glenn has raped anyone.

However, I have it on good authority that his mother, Mary, was repeatedly gang raped by Nixon, Hunt and Kissenger in the back of a limo following the 1964 Bay of Pigs reunion party.

Whilst no physical proof of that rape remains today either, several children have come forward with vivid recollections of being 'raped' in their sleep by a smelly, drunken Glenn Beck, wearing a red and green hooped sweater. State prosecutors, helpless to act, have retaliated by surrounding Glenn Beck's fortified mansion with Hopei Dream catchers.

Suck my balls Glenn.

[John]

I really hope that GB responds to the allegations that he raped and murdered a girl in 1990! I just don't think anyone who raped and murdered a girl in 1990 should have a tv or radio show! bill clinton got run out of town for a bj and glenn beck murders and rapes a girl in 1990 and gets tv show? I'm not saying he did rape and murder a girl in 1990 and I dont believe that he did, but I think he should defend these horrible murder and rape allegations

[Mike S.]

I don't believe that there is proof of Glenn Beck raping and killing a girl in 1990. However, the "nurse killer" question is still open.

[joe lacy]

i think obama and beck went on a raping and killing spree .. but the media is not covering it and obama wont say he didnt do it .....so .....he probably did it