Glenn Beck Hates Facts

It's bad when Fox News sister company the Wall Street Journal is calling Glenn Beck an intellectual weakling. Thomas Frank brutally tears Beck apart.

What Mr. Beck's silent phone really symbolizes is a new kind of ignorance, a coming high-tech dark age in which people can choose to blow off professional standards of inquiry; in which they can wall themselves off with cable TV and friendly Web sites, dismiss what displeases as liberal bias, and demand that any contrary view be transmitted to them via telephone call from the president himself.

Frank did some research on Beck's hotline phone. Turns out people that were attacked by Beck were not gien the number.

Professor Robert McChesney: "He never asked me or Free Press to call the red phone."

Mark Lloyd: "No, no one gave me a phone number to call Beck."

Beck doesn't want to debate people he disagrees with. His embarrassing performance on The View is a perfect example.

Barbara Walters: "You are an investigative reporter..."

Glenn Beck: "No, I am not."

Barbara Walters: "You're a reporter."

Glenn Beck: "No, I am not."

Barbara Walters: "So you check no facts at all."

Glenn Beck: "No. I am a commentator."

Beck admits he is ignorant and proud of it. His fans have his same disdain for knowledge.