I must have touched a nerve with this post (which was accidentally posted to an old personal blog first). Alan Lange decided to make his response to it his featured post.

That said, two things still stick out:

1. Lange gets some facts wrong. (But who cares about that…)
2. He still didn’t answer the question posed.

He wants to call my first post ridiculous. It’s not. He’s clearly tries to discredit or disparage Glen Beck as a journalist in this post, essentially calling him a pseudo-journalist by using quotes around the word journalist. Alan, I agree totally with you about Glen Beck. (See, Alan and I can agree on some things.)

In the same day, he posted coverage of the Biloxi TEA Party. Now, I am well aware that Lange posts news items to his site, some of which he disagrees with. At the same time, anyone want to be against the notion that Lange thinks the TEA Party movement is a good idea?

And, at that TEA Party, there were signs advocating Sen. Thad Cochran’s resignation and/or impeachment. Speakers pointed out some of Cochran’s votes on “pork”, just as Beck did.

So, my question still remains, who can criticize Sen. Thad Cochran? Both groups were making the EXACT SAME ARGUMENT, but because one was on national television it got called to task and because Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant and Auditor Stacey Pickering were at the other, I guess it got a pass.