2fer: Forget BECK's sanity, Gawker thinks he's a FAKE. & Noriega up on deck at SOTOMAYOR's court?

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http://gawker.com/5320095/the-glenn-beck-conundrum

Wingnuts

The Glenn Beck Conundrum

.... When I first listened to the now-infamous audio clip, I remember being overcome with the feeling that Beck went on the air that day fully planning to go off on the first person to challenge him, just to get people talking about him, which is why I personally opted not to post it after it'd been passed over by our day editors, despite a steady flow of email tips alerting us all to it.

.... ...since this is a website that chronicles the media (among other things), attention must be paid to Glenn Beck, sadly. But it's something that's becoming increasingly hard to do, not only because I feel that by doing so that I'm sort of feeding the beast, but also because I just don't believe this guy is for real anymore. Sure, I do believe he's a conservative, but I just don't buy that he's as much of a wacko conservative as he makes himself out to be on his show. I've gone back and forth in my mind for a while and have finally come to an absolute conclusion—I think that Glenn Beck is a guy who looked out across the vast expanse of America and saw a nation filled with paranoid dipshits waiting to have their irrational fears confirmed and exploited by an expert modern charlatan, a role he's been all too happy to fill.

So I guess what I'm trying to say here is that Glenn Beck's lack of authenticity, or, better stated, my perception of his lack of authenticity, is really beginning to bug the shit out of me. And that's just freaking sad, isn't it?

Anyway, Beck tells O'Reilly that his rant on the radio last week was real. Needless to say, I don't believe him.



http://www.nypost.com/seven/07222009/gossip/cindy/noriega__a_man_with_no_land_180686.htm?page=0

NORIEGA: A MAN WITH NO LAND

AS we speak, an interesting case is being considered at the so-far Sotomayorless US Supreme Court. Panama's Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, jailed 20 years ago, remains in custody in Miami although his sentence ended 2007. France wants him extradited for a shaky case of money laundering. Panama wants him for trial on the harder case of murder. Per the Geneva Convention, a POW must be returned to his own country. However, the US finds itself maneuvering to prevent this one-time el Jefe from ever again returning home. Our global economy's well-being depends on a stable Panama Canal, free of turmoil -- and Noriega's return, it is believed, might imperil Panamanian governance. He thus remains in a legal twilight zone. The US Supreme Court will likely be determining his no-man's land status.

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1. Beck isn't the only one

Most of the wingnut talky types are cranking up the crazy to pull in a bigger audience. Hell, even Lou Dobbs has gone full-out birther.

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2. Yip, O'LOOFAH was pleased as punch to re-run the BECK clip 3 times, and then

to feature BECK, himself *also* pleased as punch, to talk about it. What's in it for O'LOOFAH is to make HIM look IN COMPARISON to appear sane.


What I would want to piss BECK off with royally is to say to him, "Hey, forGET about talking about politics. We want to hear you TALK ABOUT MORMONism, what YOU KNOW!1 Tell us what Mormons really really BELIEVE!1"

That would set him off.