Opponents of Beck have made a big deal out of this. Why is beyond  us. Sure, it’s far from the greatest statement. But the fact is, it’s subjective.   It seems preposterous, but still, it’s an opinion. And a lot of people are racist.  Maybe the President is a little bit. We don’t see it at all.  But had President Bush been called a racist who hates Black people, would this same uproar of protest have occurred?

But what makes this so troubling,  is really two things.

The first thing is that it does not crack the top 100 ridiculous, inflammatory, misleading, blatantly erroneous, wildly hypocritical, dangerously deceptive, and profoundly ignorant things that Beck has asserted in recent years; and which the media, and his opponents, continue to allow him to assert without thoroughly undermining any credibility whatsoever even with his own viewers.  These are things that those who oppose Beck would be right to make a bigger issue –and national story – out of, than this mildly out of control ”racist remark.”

The second thing, is a bit funnier. It turns out (as per usual) Beck was wrong.   It’s not Whites the President is prejudiced against, or hates. It’s Gay Fish.   Which just seems, well, wrong.   [For those who don't know the Southpark episode in question, it centered on how the Kanye West character did not get the "fish sticks" joke because he was, well, a gay fish, which in the minimal interests of good taste that can be salvaged after this column, we will not repeat, um, here, either.]

If the President is prejudiced against anybody (and we don’t think he is), it is, clearly, gay fish.  Not White people as the insane, Obama hating, venom spewing, Glenn Beck asserts.