Glenn Beck, Moron

I like the idea of the conservatives having to deal with their own resident lunatic. Glenn Beck is a classic 12 stepper, painfully and publicly recovering from whatever consumes him at the moment.

He is a little short in the intelligence department. Several months ago he called President Barack Obama a racist. A few weeks back he spent the better part of his show connecting Obama to the word “oligarchy”. Unfortunately for Beck and his production staff, they misspelled it and never once noticed it during the course of the show.

Then there’s his million mad men march of teabaggers in Washington for which he didn't even bother to appear (apparently Beck didn’t know the sexual reference of teabagging), his laughably high crowd estimate from the University of “I don’t know” to his co-opting Yom Kippur for Fox viewers not familiar with the Jewish Day of Atonement.

Today Keith Olberman ridiculed Beck's laughably inept understanding of the US Constitution, specifically Article 1, Section 9, Clause 1 which reads: "The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year One thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation not exceeding ten dollars each person."

Glenn Beck got this wrong and in a big way. For Beck this was somehow a confirmation that the founding fathers "actually put a price tag on coming to this country: $10 per person. Apparently they felt like there was a value to being able to live here. Not anymore. These days we can't ask anything of immigrants--including that they abide boy our laws."

Seriously. Glenn Beck confuses a tax on slaves for a price tag that he thinks the founding fathers somehow put on immigrants for the benefit of living here.

Yes people he really is that stupid.

Beck is an affirmative action hire, employed first by CNN and now Fox, to give even more conservative spin from the windbag pundit class.

The problem is not only that Beck is a dolt. It is that he offers untruths and lies to support his over-the-top analysis.

President Barack Obama is a racist? Really?

As the comedian Ron White says, you can't fix stupid.

Short Bits...Health care conversations

Healthcare has been an issue since the Truman era and no one has had the guts to really take on the insurance and pharmaceutical industries which control health care. It is a for profit industry and while CEOs can bank $12 million per year, 45 million Americans are not covered. Instead of looking for anecdotal evidence on how bad the English,French or Canadian systems are, why not go talk to some of the 45 million? Each of these three systems is superior to ours. And the evidence suggests that the respective citizenry is happy with their health care. Hell, Twitter in the UK was shut down two weeks ago by NHS supporters protesting the lies perpetuated by the American right in this debate. Per capita, their health care is superior to ours. That is not a debatable point--we rank 38th in the world--but go ahead and look for anecdotes. I prefer to live in the real world and look for serious solutions to a very complex problems. Slogans like "socialist" or Obama-care mean shit to me.