Glenn Beck is an Idiot

I should say that with the qualification that when I flipped his program on CNN Headline News on, I wasn't entirely sure if it was him or a guest talking (I came in RIGHT when the idiocy started), but he (or guest) finished a segment on Iran with the statement:

"I just want to say to you all that I believe that these mullahs are far worse than Hitler."

I don't think I need to comment on that.

The problem, here, and it's also what helped turn Nancy Grace into a GREAT prosecutor and advocate into a hyperbolic gunner, is that CNN Headline news is intended to be gripping, sensational, over-the-top, and, for all that, Fox News's direct competitor (here in OC they are actually on adjacent channels, with Nancy coming on at the same time as CNN-turned-Fox swan [aka: plastic surgery galore as part of network switch contract] Greta Van Sustren, for example) and that means reduced quality. I think that CNN (the prime station) is intended to compete with a station like BBC, but isn't editorialized/cult of the personality enough to compete with fox (it's not Jerry Springer enough to capture the attention of the ADD American audience), which is why CNN Headline News (even the name implies fast tidbits: the news distilled) is the real Fox News competitor.

Ok I have to stop watching this show. He just started talking about he's an alcoholic and the "insanity" in LA.

VC

PS: OH GOD! I should have switched it off when I said I would. He just rallied against Hep B vaccinations in LA schools because it vaccinates for a "sexually-transmitted disease." HELLO! It's not like saying to kids "ok, now it's safe to have sex." It's saying: "This is becoming a big problem in the world, and we didn't used to have a vaccine. Now we do. You might need this as an adult." THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN STUPID PEOPLE ARE GIVEN MICROPHONES!