Just finished reading all three pages of this most excellent salon.com article; came in here to post about it. Ya beat me to it.

Three whole pages...and I only go to salon for the comics.

Some incredibly glib and revealing quotes from the article, ABOUT Mr. Skousen:

"Skousen's personal position," wrote a dismayed [Carroll] Quigley, "seems to me perilously close to the 'exclusive uniformity' which I see in Nazism and in the Radical Right in this country. In fact, his position has echoes of the original Nazi 25-point plan."

[Carroll Quigley and Louis C. Midgley] accused Skousen of "inventing fantastic ideas and making inferences that go far beyond the bounds of honest commentary."

Members of the ultraconservative American Security Council kicked him out because they felt he had "gone off the deep end." One ASC member who shared this opinion was William C. Mott, the judge advocate general of the U.S. Navy. Mott found Skousen "money mad ... totally unqualified and interested solely in furthering his own personal ends."

Money mad...totally unqualified...interested solely in furthering his own personal ends...inventing fantastic ideas...making inferences that go far beyond the bounds of honest commentary...

Sounds just like a certain rightwing nutjob I know. His name is right on the tip of my tongue...

Well, the Mountain Meadows Massacre was based totally on "natural law".

We should pick a sparsely-populated state and turn it into a giant non-stop live-action roleplaying game based on "Red Dawn", where Bleck and Dush and all the rest of the idiot servantes can pretend there's an oppressive Obama government out to destroy them and ravish their daughters.

Or maybe just a cabin in the woods for Bleck and his boyfriends. Anything to keep them out of our hair.

Wow, I didn't know it was POSSIBLE to be crazy enough to get kicked out of the magic underwear brigade.

Is Salon not the media? Is TPM? What a worthless descriptive phrase "the media" is. It can criticize anything that's in and not in it. Is every publication in the world supposed to debunk the myths of Glenn Beck? If we are going to complain about something let's complain about something a little bit more tangible. THE LEFT THE LEFT IS TRYING TO DESTROY US. It's the same thing.

Glenn Beck's only world view is predicated on what he needs to do to make a boat load of money. He doesn't believe in anything or he would not be able to spew the swill he puts out.

I watched a clip of Beck's show last night on Olbermann. I am blown away by how fucking crazy this guy is. I can't even imagine the dumbest of the dumb falling for anything he has to say. It is also interesting that sponsors are pulling back every day and yet his ratings are sky high. It blows my mind.

I think Beck appeals to the same geriatric demographic that believes they actually won a million dollars when they get a magazine contest envelope in the mail addressed to "resident."