Maestro on the Mount

God, what an exhausting week. I've got nothing of any value to say, really, so here's an update on the Maestro.

Glenn Beck's McCarthy-istic ass is going to be in Mount Vernon tomorrow.  In true neo-con fashion, the event's closed to the media.  Hopefully someone'll sneak a video camera in and document the fiasco.  B'ham still hasn't heard anything back from Comedy Central or Jon Stewart's crew, chances are looking grim.

Here's a video of the Maestro totally skewing cap and trade (claiming that cap and trade would cost American households over $1700 per day for some reason), then doing an impression of a southern belle:




From Huffpost:

Glenn Beck latched on to a discredited argument being promoted by conservatives that the climate bill would increase personal income taxes by 15% and cost every American $1761. (Beck takes the fuzzy math even further and implies that it would cost this amount PER DAY.) The Treasury memos Beck and others use to validate this claim, according to Media Matters. "...Do not address the current House climate change bill but, rather, a proposal that would auction 100 percent of the emissions allowances; the bill under consideration spends revenue created by the program to offset costs to households and businesses."