Glenn Beck Announces His Candidacy for Pope of America:

Demagogic blowhard Glenn Beck took his "white's only" message to Washington, D.C. yesterday, where he told thousands of other white folks that God had given him a divine message that they, the white folks, should "take back America," meaning of course that they should continue to give him lots of money so that he can continue to ramble inanely over the airwaves.

Beck was joined by the most vacuous political candidate to ever appear on the national scene, Sarah Palin, whose only program is to promote herself and wear expensive clothes paid for by others.

A crowd of at least 300,000 white folks showed up to hear the two celebs tell them how nice it was to be white and that God was on their side, provided they continue to give the two of them money.

Much of the funding for the event evidently came from two libertarian billionaire brothers, who have made much of their fortune by ruining the health of their workers and polluting the environment.

(For related stories, see today's Washington Post, The New York Times, and The New Yorker.)