“...before you dismiss this as the strange rants of a crazed and largely unknown state lawmaker, let's not overlook the fact that last week, [Glenn] Beck used his Internet show to push a bogus claim about a Boston suspect, but his arguments quickly drew attention from the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, the chairman of the House subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency, the chairman of the House subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, and the chairwoman of the House subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security—all of whom are Republicans, and all of whom took Beck's nonsense seriously. There's a strain of madness running through contemporary Republican politics, and it runs deeper than just some random state lawmaker...”