ARKIE WINGERS BUY INTO BECK

Seems state Republicans have jumped on the Glenn Beck bandwagon. Evidence One: This little posting on the ARRA News Service, courtesy of "Christian News Service" -

Cass Sunstein, President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), has advocated a policy under which the government would “presume” someone has consented to having his or her organs removed for transplantation into someone else when they die unless that person has explicitly indicated that his or her organs should not be taken.

We all enjoyed that, and will take a little time to get to the bottom of it, but the source has us suspicious. It's not like these folks haven't made things up out of whole-cloth in the past. We also found it suspicious after reading this last night:

And Beck doesn’t appear to be finished.



“Van Jones is the tip of the Iceburg [sic].As VJ has said:”personnel is policy”.Demand that the President DISAVOW EACH STATEMENT AND GROUP.CALL DC,” Beck Tweeted last week.



Another Twitter message to his followers last week read: Watch Dogs: “FIND EVERYTHING YOU CAN ON CASS SUNSTEIN, MARK LLOYD AND CAROL BROWNER. Do not link before burning to disc.”



Blogger David Weigel brought attention to Beck’s Tweets last week, and notes that Sunstein, a Harvard Law professor, is the Obama White House’s nominee to head up the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs; Lloyd is the chief diversity officer of the FCC, which regulates TV and radio; and Browner is an assistant to the president on energy and climate change issues.



As with Van Jones, the new targets appear to be at least partly personal for Beck. Lloyd, for example, is a known critic of the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine. From the 1940s until the Reagan administration, the Fairness Doctrine dictated that broadcasters using public airwaves must give equal time to opposing viewpoints. When Reagan repealed the Fairness Doctrine, it paved the way for the explosion in one-sided, right-wing talk shows, of which Beck is a part.

KO promises to rip Beck a new one tonight over this. And, of course, it doesn't change the fact that Beck is certifiably insane and lives in a world of make-believe. Just interesting to see some folks taking their marching orders from his ilk.





Raw Story. As Beck eyes more White House scalps, Olbermann declares war