Glenn Beck is becoming increasingly unhinged and deranged these days, and today, the Anchor Baby links to his new big thing which kicks off today: the “We Surround Them” circlejerk campaign.

I’m sure the war in Iraq and the meltdown of our economy have many tangents, but neither would have been possible without validators from a quote-unquote “journalistic” class who willingly spread lies and disinformation while a lot of people got rich. The shrieking and fulminating of Marty Peretz, whose New Republic mainstreamed hawkishness within the Democratic Party, had its counterpart in CNBC’s Jim Cramer.

Muntather Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at Bush, gets three years in jail.

Norm Coleman needs money, and needs it very badly. The prospect of a massive drop in online donations is absolutely toxic to his ability to sustain his election contest — so much so that he could be forced to drop his planned appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court. However, it looks like the drying up of the online money flow may actually be the least of his worries.

As part of the right-wing effort to blame The Bush Economic Miracle Financial Sector Meltdown on minorities who should have kept in their place rather than tried to join The Ownership Society as owners, a bunch of Bush-era Treasury politicos spun the New York Times into casting scary aspersions on heroic Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) for her involvement in a meeting with them about minority bank participation in TARP and the recovery.

When we last left the Corner Krewe, Sarah Palin was awesome and liberals who questioned her qualifications other than PR fer the base, her fact-challenged hypocrisies and her RNC-financed silk boxers for her man candy were godless heathen meanies.

That was then. This is unwed motherhood…

• The markets still hate Obama’s socialism!
• Hell of a legacy, W.
• Gettin’ da RNC playa’s back.
• Amato re: MC Steele at the LAT.
• It’s official: he’s toast.
• Yeesh…but at least…
• This seems counterproductive.
• Diaper Dave, to the courtesy phone.
• You stay classy, Laura Ingraham.
• Oh yeah — the codpiece.
• More calls for sedition.

The war against Wall Street bankers began Thursday night, when Jon Stewart nuked the ethical pretensions of the entire industry and its media shills. And Jim Cramer became both Exhibit A and an accessory in the criminal indictment.

Thank you Jon Stewart.

All American Rejects – Gives You Hell.

What’s on your mind tonight?