Who the Hell is Glenn Beck?

Well, I actually know who Glenn Beck is, but many people don't and they might get the wrong idea. For the time that has passed since the 2006 midterms I have still been listening to my progressive talk radio, and I have been inundated with advertisements for the Glenn Beck Show on CNN Headline News Prime (I have no idea what this is though.) I hear sound teases like,"I may be conservative, but I'm not an idiot," (which we all know is impossible) and all kinds of conservative ideology being passed off as populism I guess.

Now while I can not fault progressive talk radio for scooping up an advertising dollars that they can, this guy disturbs me. I wikipedia'd him and he claims to be a "conservative that happens not to be a republican." Sounds good, but he's anti-choice, anti-tax, anti-gay marriage, and had a show after the 2004 elections called "Gloat Fest!" Sounds like a Republican to me.

Worse, this afternoon I hear on the Al Franken Show a clip of him asking this of Keith Ellison (first muslim elected to the House of Representatives) :

"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.' " Beck added: "I'm not accusing you of being an enemy, but that's the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way."
you can watch it here.

I also discovered that this albino ass was awarded "Worse Person in the World" by Olbermann.

If you've got the time, email CNN and voice your objection to this a-hole's presence on the cable tubes. Though it does not apply to the cable format, I nice treatise on how this kind of crap doesn't serve the public interest goes pretty far in tweaking the conscience of news heads (if not the programing heads.) Or you could demand a show in the preceding or following slot to "balance" Becks extreme views.

We just got our government back, time to get real news back too.