Look, I don't know if Glenn Beck is a racist or not. For all I know, he's just a simple entertainer attempting (and succeeding) to cash in on the racist tendencies of the ugliest aspects of American culture.

But I will say this: It was completely unfair of Katie Couric to use her "gotcha journalism" prowess on Beck, sneak-attacking him by asking him to explain a thing he said and claimed to have discussed at great length on Fox News. Shame on you, Katie Couric!

Beck sure does seem to have sound bites — and how they can be used to distort people's words — on the mind, doesn't he? I wonder why.

* Is that the correct spelling? I always thought it was spelled "Amuricah."

* The good news is that it is no longer illegal to whistle at the King of Spain. The bad news is that now there's absolutely no reason to whistle at the King of Spain.

* New poll finds Jon Stewart to be America's most trust journalist, Alaska to really hate Katie Couric.

* New scientific report shows the American species seemingly heading toward extinction.

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* What if George Bush and Ron Paul were the stars of a comic book adaptation of the movie Roadhouse from 1989? Yeah, but what if?

* Playing poker with Harry Reid has got to be the best money-making enterprise ever invented.

* Turns out that it was Tina Fey and Katie Couric who were the ones exploiting Sarah Palin's manufactured image as a down-home hockey mom maverick. You owe me a Coke.

* The Washington Post is calling Barack Obama "Nixonian" — conservatives, liberals alike despair for appropriate reaction.

* Barack Obama decides to keep yet another Bush appointee on staff.

* Politico: "Daschle floats through Senate hearing" — Sounds to me like somebody needs to call a paranormalist.