I don’t know why you characterize this, as no doubt Beck himself does, as a “win” for him. Jones made and signed offensively nutty statements. Imagine a hypothetical staffer in some future Republican administration — and there will be one, some day — who turns out to have in the present day signed a petition asking for an inquiry into President Obama’s birth certificate, and declared himself at one point a “fascist.” Honestly are we to imagine that anyone would think this was OK?

It doesn’t matter how this all came to light; the President did the right thing cutting him loose. I hope and expect that he’s got a team combing through the administration looking for other people with loose screws who might have gotten onto his staff through similar failures of vetting.

Maybe if you generate enough copycats you could push Glenn Beck to the best sellers list and get him a big display in the front of the store. What a hoot.

The best you can hope for is that you never write anything salient that gets you attention from a respectable liberal, because the wing nuts would find this post and use it to show how the loons on the left love to play grade school pranks and should not be listened to when discussing serious policy.

Thanks a lot. Jackass.