imprisoned in the echo chamber

Usually I have better things to do than sitting around hating on Glenn Beck, or even reading any of his hypertensive fulminations for that matter. But every once in a while he says something that makes me wonder, "What's up with this guy?"

As for instance happened yesterday when on Fox News, while he was showing that little snippet of videotape of the Israeli attack on the relief flotilla that the Israeli government released (they of course aren't willing to show us what happened in the previous or subsequent minutes), Beck suddenly revealed that Fox was the ONLY place where viewers could see that tape. "No one seems willing to show that," Beck rumbled ominously. "Why?"

Now, as Jon Stewart documented last night, the same piece of tape had been shown repeatedly during the previous 24 hours, on MSNBC, regular NBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, PBS, etc. It's also been all over the internet. So why would Beck think he could get away with telling such an outrageous whopper?

It's because he's confident that Fox News viewers don't ever watch anything else, isn't it?

Yep. And he's probably right.