One of the problems is that when looney-tunes shit like this, which sounds like an outtake from a John Birch Society meeting, is presented with a straight face on a legitimate news outlet such as CNN, it enters the national discourse with a claim to seriousness which it really doesn’t deserve.

This is part of what Dave Neiwert (Orcinus) calls the “transmission belt,” where wacky wingnut ideas (such as “Global Warming is a front for Nazi United-Nations Takeover of the World”) are transmitted from the fringes of the kooky-con right wing into the mainstream of American conservatism. This process of transmission is made even easier when big-time mainstream news organizations like CNN lend their imprimatur to wingnut tools like Glenn Beck.

Wingnut All-Stars like Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, and Ann Coulter — all of them help to poison the national discourse by taking ideas that, in a sane world, would be relegated to the midnight campfire of an Aryan Nations meeting in the Idaho Panhandle, and injecting them into the mainstream of American political discussion.

The sad thing, Filius? People like Dank actually believe this shit.