So now he’s a genealogist?

Glenn Beck

Glenn Beck thinks he’s figured out the story behind President Obama’s name.

BECK: He chose to use his name, Barack, for a reason. To identify, not with America -- you don't take the name Barack to identify with America. You take the name Barack to identify with what? Your heritage? The heritage, maybe, of your father in Kenya, who is a radical?

Don’t ask; yes, he is that completely demented.

I do like this response from commenter History Punk at Dispatches From the Culture Wars, though (despite the little errors, which I’ve fixed in square brackets):

He chose to use his name, Beck, for a reason. To identify, not with America -- you don't take the name [Beck] to identify with America. You take the name [Beck] to identify with what? Your heritage? The heritage, maybe, of your ancestors from Germany, many were investigated by the US Army ((http://www.archives.gov/iwg/declassified-records/rg-319-army-staff/irr-personal-b.html) and the CIA (http://www.archives.gov/iwg/declassified-records/rg-263-cia-records/first-release/name-files-b.html)regarding their involvement in the Second World War ?

Why has Glenn Beck not distance himself from these dubious individuals and war criminals?

Oh, marvelous. But, it doesn’t answer a much more pressing question … did Glenn Beck rape and murder a young girl in 1990???

(via Dispatches From the Culture Wars)