On his radio show today, conservative talker Glenn Beck mocked ThinkProgress for noting the fact that he asked controversial pastor John Hagee this week if Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) “might be the Anti-Christ.” Beck says it was not “a serious question” because he was “laughing all the way through it,” but it was “so very predictable” that he would be criticized for it:
Well, here’s the best part, because what picked this up originally was, I don’t even know, ThinkProgress. It’s a blog. ThinkProgress, yes. Let’s ThinkProgress. Do you know Progressive has “Progress” in it? It must be good. ThinkProgress is the first that picked this up on the blogs. They’re like, Glenn Beck thinks that maybe…
Watch it:
[flv http://video.thinkprogress.org/2008/03/GlennBeckTPMMKO.320.40.flv]
Beck may think he was telling a joke, but we doubt that Obama was “laughing all the way through it.”