Is this what awaits us in 2012? Maybe the apocalyptic 2012 prophesies of the crackpots are true!

Glenn Beck has hit the big time! He's on the cover of Newsmax and just today becomes a Poster Child for Mediawingnuts!

I guess Americans still go for clowns, noisy rants and part-time bigots over genuine news. Sad, but apparently true. Would you believe that Glenn Beck’s TV show on Fox Cable News (and radio) has been breaking records — attracting more than 3 million viewers a night since it lowered the morality ratings of Cable TV in general when it premiered in January.

Besides all else, he’s the only author ever to have a No. 1 New York Times best-seller in the fiction, nonfiction and paperback fiction categories. I might understand fiction, but what is non-fiction about his fantasies and boring little blackboard?

The only positive side to this is that a Palin-Beck Republican ticket might wake enough Americans up so as to return to Obama's "hope and change" message of 2004.