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Beck: Its 'Plausible' That John Brennan Converted to Islam and 'Reasonable' to Ask Questions

Perhaps the most amazingly hypocritical thing about Glenn Beck is that his entire Blaze network serves as nothing but a repository for conspiracy(link is external) theories(link is external), wild(link is external) speculation(link is external), and outright(link is external) lies(link is external) while Beck holds himself up as a champion of "the truth(link is external)":

Case in point, on his program(link is external) last night Beck took up the allegation that John Brennan, President Obama's nominee to head the CIA, may have secretly converted to Islam(link is external) as part of a counterintelligence operation run against him by the Saudi government.  Despite the fact that this claim originated from one laughably unreliable source(link is external), Beck found it to be entirely "plausible," saying that(link is external) "if somebody makes a charge like that, shouldn't we at least explore it" before saying that the media wouldn't even bother to investigate because "it seems like we can't even ask reasonable questions any more":