This was originally on Andrew Sullivan's site. It is a fast paced commentary on news, especially the US variety, in the dry sarcastic pop-British manner. It is entertaining.

I am out of touch though, between getting married and learning a new technology for work, and not having a TV, I did not realize that Glenn Beck was so ... bizarre. The 912 project at the end of the clip where he cries constantly is the actions of a con-man, snake oil salesman, come entertainer. I could never do anything that I didn't really believe in. I am too much me and am not psychologically or personality chameleonic.

I used to wonder if the political commentators did believe the words they were saying and writing, rather than surrendering to the party or sycophancy, and repeating talking points with the polished skill of verbatimism. The episode where Peggy Noonan spoke unwittingly to an open mic disabused me of the notion that commentators did believe what they driveled. It is performance.

Beck represents Debord's postmodern spectacle at its most cynical. Best and Kellner write:

Debord saw not simply the blurring of illusion and reality but the authentication of illusion as more real than real itself.

Debord was mainly concerned with appearance sublimating reality through spectacle. There is an argument with the Tea Parties that illusion has been accepted as reality. The claims by Fox media personalities of socialism, fascism, etc are easily disprovable.