From a Newsweek story about Roger Ailes and Fox News, in which Ailes said that Bill O’Reilly was scared by Glenn Beck:

O’Reilly, who chatted up Obama during this year’s Super Bowl, occasionally defends the president against harsh attacks. Ailes says O’Reilly has “moderated” his views and that “Beck scared him”—meaning Beck was so popular on the right that O’Reilly had to find a different niche…

He waves off any talk of moderation and insists he never worried about the now-departed Beck: “He’s a performer, I’m a journalist.”

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Get a load of this hilariously mis-aimed email I just received:

Dear Ed,

Greetings on behalf of Dennis Prager and the entire faculty at Prager University!

In case you weren’t already aware, Prager University seeks to create a better understanding and appreciation of our unique American Judeo-Christian value system by leveraging the viral power of the Internet with content-rich, visually compelling courses. Taught by some of the best minds in the world, our five minute videos make key concepts accessible, understandable and fun. The result is a whole new approach to higher education – the five minute university.

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As you no doubt noticed, we have done a fairly significant redesign on the site. We went from a three column layout to a two column layout and incorporated many of the aesthetic changes that PZ had made to his blog network-wide. I think it looks much better and I hope you all do too. You’ll notice that the most recent posts, most recent comments and most active posts are now in a tabbed box on the right sidebar, which reduces the clutter a bit. There are still a few tweaks to be made on the new design and some new functionality on the way as well. You should soon have the ability to sign in for comments using your logins from Facebook, Twitter and other places.

We also have an outside company handling our advertising now. Hopefully the ad targeting will improve — I don’t think many of you are going to click on ads for Christian dating sites, Glenn Beck pimping gold or Liberty University. Can’t say I blame you either.

Gil Dodgen over at Dembski’s Home for Wayward Sycophants says that one of the main influences in his conversion from an “obnoxious, nasty, self-aggrandizing, pathetically prideful atheist” to an obnoxious, nasty, self-aggrandizing, pathetically prideful Christian was Dennis Prager. And he highly recommends Prager University, Prager’s sad attempt to become the next Glenn Beck.

Let’s recall some of Prager’s truly ridiculous arguments, shall we? Like in 2006, when Prager argued that Keith Ellison should not be allowed to swear his oath of office with his hand on the Quran:
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From Glenn Beck:

As the thing started to unfold, and then there was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like, you know, the Hitler Youth or whatever — I mean, who does a camp for kids that’s all about politics? Disturbing.

You mean like your pals in the Tea Party movement, who’ve started summer camps for kids that focus on politics in (at least) Florida, North Carolina and Michigan? How disturbing.

From Meghan McCain, responding to Glenn Beck after he said the thought of her naked made him want to vomit when he say a PSA she did for skin cancer where she was naked down to about her freaking collarbone:

As a person known for his hot body, you must find it easy to judge the weight fluctuations of others, especially young women.

You’re a full-grown man with teenage daughters who are probably dealing with the sexist, body-obsessed media environment that is difficult for all women. Is this really the legacy you want to be leaving for yourself?

As a person who is known for his hot body, you must find it easy to judge the weight fluctuations of others, especially young women. If any of your daughters are ever faced with some kind of criticism of their physical appearance or weight, they should call me, because women’s body image is another issue I feel passionate about, and have become accustomed to dealing with and speaking with young women about on my college tours.