If you had any doubt as to the intellectual vacuity, not to mention the sellout mentality, of Beck and his ilk, this should put those doubts to bed:

http://www.news-tribune.net/local/local_story_293214043.html?start:int=0

“If these dogs were carrying an actual disease, people would advocate euthanizing them,” Beck said. “This breed itself is not natural.”

Is he trying to be funny?  What the hell does that statement actually mean?  Oh, nothing, what a surprise.

He and his pupil Michael J Bryant (my own favourite example of an unabashed threat to democracy) should both snap out of it and take a long, hard look at themselves one of these days, if they have the guts.

In case you don't believe that Beck is as much of a nitwit as the rest of the shallow, uninformed, self-serving, red herring-dangling, dog hating superficial thinkers who shall remain nameless to avoid vanity search gratification, I'd like to remind you of my interview with this rather pedestrian example of a tenured academic.

It's disturbing, to say the least, to see how far we have fallen as a civilization.  Wankers are steering the ship.

By the way, it really, really irritates me when clowns such as those interviewed for this article misuse the term 'euthanize'.  It's NOT euthanasia when you are killing healthy dogs.  Given the amount of knowledge collectively displayed in the piece though, they probably don't know that.

Wankers.