Beck has no clue what it means to have an idiological axis. He is a fire-bomber who's only mission is to stir it up for the sake of ratings. I give Limbaugh credit for at least understanding politics, even if he does exploit it. Beck doesn't know what the fuck he is talking about.

For a total moron, he sure knows how to push his brand and sell his product.

What Glenn Beck means is attacking Hillary would have been even better for his career than attacking Obama. Chances are no group would have organized a boycott of his advertisers for calling Hillary sexist.

Spending 4 years trying to convince his viewers McCain is a "weird progressive" would have been a hard slog and would have decreased his ratings.

This statement actually makes perfect sense within Beck's worldview.

Beck is trying to radicalize people. The idea he's pushing is that there WAS no choice, that voters have no recourse, and that the entire government is illegitimate. He wants the democratic process to break down because that's when the people who shout the loudest become even more powerful, and he's got a big megaphone.

Beck is a Great Republican - one of the leaders of the current Republican Party. And William F. Buckley Jr. is rolling over in his grave. 2 r 3 years ago Buckley thought Bush & Cheney were destroying his party.....

Beck hates McCain because he wasn't rightwing enough. (Far too rightleaning for me but ...) Extremists often hate moderates. This is fairly predictable human nature. Look at how some far lefties have loathed Obama for being too moderate and not in lockstep with their ideology. Or witness the villification of The Goracle, who was labeled as a virtual identicle twin to George Bush. To an outside observer, this seems crazy. But not to fanatics and ideologues.

Moderates are in some ways worse then opponents, and regarded as "traitors". I'd expect some anti-immigrant wingnuts to hate McCain more than they hate Democrats. Democrats oppose them, but McCain and other "RINOs" "stabbed them in the back".

It makes perfect sense.

I think we should take everything this man says at face value....

Good Lord, TPM.

The man's a loon, and who cares what insane rant he's off on today? Tomorrow he could just as easily break down crying in an on-air apology to McCain and call Hillary the Devil.

Frank Rich had a good OP-ED piece in last Sunday's NYTimes on this guy.

"The man's a loon, and who cares what insane rant he's off on today?"

Unfortunately, he's a loon who can command a one-on-one interview with Katie Couric, no doubt for use on the CBS Evening News. And that means we have to care, just as we have to care about Tuberculosis, hurricanes and other menaces to human health and safety.

Forget McCain- he called Teddy Roosevelt a weird progressive!??!

Did Katie Couric ask Glenn Beck why he has lied about his mother's death -- claimed it was a suicide in 1977, when police records show it was an accidental drowning in 1979?

And why did his first wife first not learn about it until years after they married, when she heard him discussing it live on the radio?

(These questions are based on Alexander Zaitchik's report yesterday on Salon.com.)

It's hard to follow a really good act, I must admit!