Bloggingheads.tv: Glenn Beck—Artist or Idiot?

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Fox News host Glenn Beck recently attacked George Soros with rhetoric that was arguably anti-Semitic. At least, the Anti-Defamation League considered it “offensive.” On Bloggingheads.tv, Adam Serwer of The American Prospect and Michael Moynihan of Reason pondered the age-old question: does Beck really know what he’s doing?