JAY NORDLINGER: “I keep hearing that Glenn Beck is just a blowhard opinionist, contributing nothing but hot air. If that is true, why do we keep learning news from him? About Van Jones, about ACORN, about Anita Dunn . . . I mean, isn’t that the New York Times’s job? No? What a strange era we’re living in.”

Plus, the difference between Fox and CNN.

UPDATE: Related: Jacob Weisberg loses it. But Weisberg gets some backup from Kaus.