Before you go after me for giving Glenn Beck any attention again, please watch this:

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I am writing this post so that I can email it to my in-laws who watch Glenn Beck's show every single day and ask them how they can support this kind of heartless and inhuman spew. I am writing this post because it isn't right for him to be able to shout this kind of excrement out with no counter response. It offends me. No, it infuriates me. At this point, it's all too personal and too close to home and I'm really just damn sick and tired of letting conservatives get away with this crap while they roll in their moneybags and lowball bids on foreclosed homes of the people who aren't them.

Glenn Beck needs to be unemployed for at least 99 weeks, without benefits. He needs to lose everything he worked for all his life, his home, his status, his self-esteem, his overblown sense of self-righteousness and most especially, his damn microphone, pointer and chalkboard.

In 90 seconds, Beck goes for the double play: Demonize unions and the unemployed together, because they're not "regular Americans." No, they're so into sucking off the government teat that they won't even bother to look for a job.

C&L's posting standards prevent me from using the language I think appropriate to describe this man with a brain cell count lower than an amoeba and the soul of the devil himself. But as someone who has been employed and has been an employer too, listening to the venom in his tone and the hypocrisy of his hate was enough to make me run for the Tums. I'm also going to have to plaster the hole in the wall where my closed hand went through it while viewing the video for the first time.

This is what right-wing compassion looks like. View it up close and personal. There's nothing but a selfish, ugly, lying, shriveled piece of sh-t where a heart should be.

The transcript follows, but watch the video, because it's as much his tone of voice as it is what he says. Also, he's either lying in the video or he's lying here. But you knew that. It's his native tongue.

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I've been a popular guy this week; been doing a lot of radio interviews. I also was on GritTV earlier this week, chatting with Laura Flanders about the wellsprings of the extremist rhetoric that is unleashing all this unhinged behavior from sore-loser Tea Partiers.

I'm still recovering from my jet lag and I look like crap, but I think I was at least reasonably coherent.

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Mitt Romney, who is the GOP insiders' favorite to win the GOP nomination in 2012, went on Greta Van Susteren's show the other night to talk about how much better a job he would be doing than President Obama. But Greta also brought up the, um, *delicate* subject of the Tea Parties.

Of course, we're now becoming accustomed to the Romney flip and flop maneuver. He had it on display here.

First, he was for the Tea Parties ...

Romney: I think it shows a great deal of energy and passion on the part of the American people to say stop, we're going the wrong way, enough already, let's get things right in America. And America is headed in the wrong direction -- this growing government, the increase in taxes, the more intrusivesness of government has made a lot of people very angry, and they want to see change in Washington. They want to see the Washington politicians that have been voting for this kind of intrusive government thrown out of office. And I think it's a good thing. I think Washington politicians need to understand, there's a lot of focus and energy around what's happening, and people aren't going to take it a lot longer.

Afore he was agin' 'em ...

Romney: Well, if there were a third party, and a real intent to create a strong third party, that would obviously be very damaging to the party it drew the most votes from, and if it were a Tea Party party, why, that would certainly be from conservative Republicans. I don't think that's going to happen. I think people recognize right now we're not talking about politics, we're talking about the country.

This is a really critical time for the country, both globally and in terms of our safety and security, but also economically. And if we divide the conservative vote, and therefore hand over to the Democrats more years of single-party rule and Barack Obama another four years, we would have a very different country at the end of eight years of Obama rule.

And I don't think in the final analysis that anyone is going to put their personal political aspirations above the needs of the country.

Maybe I need to clean out my ears or something, but it sure sounded to me like he was saying that voting out Obama transcends politics -- it's a national-security issue. If that's what he said, well, wow.