CNN to give sexist, homophobe, racist prime-time slot next week

CNN has finally decided to become FOX News. What other explanation for why, after everything far-right extremist Glenn Beck has said on the air, CNN would let him host Paula Zahn's prime-time show for a week? The man has suggested that Muslim-Americans, all of them, are working with the terrorists. He's riffed about "faggots" and fat chicks. He "hates" the families of the victims of September 11, and think Katrina victims are "scumbags." He compared Hillary Clinton to Adolf Hitler. He said, on the air, that Dennis Kucinich may have given his wife a date rape drug.

Even by FOX News standards, this guy is an idiot. But for CNN? This is truly embarrassing. If ratings are all that matter (and actually, Beck's ratings are terrible, and falling), and CNN's top brass doesn't care any more about being the most trusted name in news, then why not just air porn and snuff films and quit pretending that the network has any credibility left?

PS Joe had an idea. Since Paula Zahn has done all those shows about how horrible "Hate in America" is, maybe Glenn Beck could redo them, you know, presenting the other side's position?