Holy hell – Glenn Beck speaks sense! (For once!)

He said WHAT?!

It must be the End of Days quite shortly, for America’s King Kook, Glenn Beck himself, has officially denounced and derided America’s current favorite conspiracy theory, the Birther lunacy (with the Truther “movement” falling in short second). It must’ve been difficult for Beck to say what he did on his broadcast in openly disavowing this particular conspiracy and its nuts, as it naturally resulted in the whining of, well, other wingnuts who are know gnashing their teeth at Beck for his sudden, inexplicable yet undeniably refreshing decision to actually make sense for the first time in recorded history. (Amongst other tiny little blips of reason.)

Cue the WorldNutDaily, official national headquarters of the Birther lunacy, and their whining in 3 … 2 … 1 …

On the air today, popular radio host Glenn Beck mocked "birthers" and claimed there is a concerted campaign to get those questioning Barack Obama's constitutional eligibility onto the airwaves – a strategy Beck said would actually benefit Obama.

"There's always games being played behind the scenes at a talk radio show," Beck said. "Rush has always called them seminar callers. But instead of being coy with the seminar callers or with you, I'm just going to expose the game that is going on. Today there is a concerted effort on all radio stations to get birthers on the air."

"I have to tell you, are you working for the Barack Obama administration?" Beck scoffed. "I mean, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."

The ongoing dialogue then spun off into ridicule as Beck caricatured those who question the sitting president's eligibility with straw-man arguments reminiscent of jibes made by Obama's apologists in other news outlets.

Beck defined birthers as people who believe Obama was born in Kenya or other foreign country, was raised as a Manchurian candidate and somehow brainwashed Hillary Clinton into not exposing his fraud. According to Beck's running joke, birthers believe someone – maybe Obama's KGB "control" – preemptively placed Obama's birth announcement in 1961 Hawaiian newspapers with a "roadmap" of getting an African man into office.

As for Obama producing a long-form birth certificate to actually prove his place of birth, Beck questioned, "Why do that when these people ['birthers'] are so discrediting themselves?"

The radio host further argued that by distracting the public from actionable issues, "birthers" have become "a dream come true" for Obama, an ideal situation akin to the fantasies of adolescent boys after Hollywood bombshells.

"Barack Obama looks at the birthers as Megan Fox," Beck said, referring to the star and sex symbol of the popular "Transformers" films.

Wow. That must leave the WND with a serious case of teh butthurt, to have America’s chief conspiracy nut deride their cherished nonsense.

The rest of the article is nothing but the same tired nonsense as ever: that Obama’s Hawaiian “Certificate of Live Birth” isn’t the same as an actual birth certificate (when by all practical measures, it is, and the CoLB is also the only certificate given in Hawaii, which means that they couldn’t give a “birth certificate” even if they wanted to because it doesn’t freakin’ exist); that Obama’s father’s dual American-British citizenship voids Obama being a “natural-born American citizen” (which is simply nonsense, as A) a dual citizenship means one is considered to be a naturalized citizen of BOTH countries, not just “half-and-half”, and B) the idea that the father’s citizenship somehow invalidates the son’s when the son was born on American soil is utterly stupid); and so on. These are all claims that have been destroyed countless times over the past year (and more), yet they still persist. Vexing.

Of course, the question to ask is: how insane do you have to be when freaking Glenn Beck is the voice of reason?

(via Dispatches From the Culture Wars)