Infotainers ... ripe ground for cynics

Glenn Beck seems less able to hide his insincerity than most, but it's still nice to see this Avlon article exposing the "chase the money" mindset of these kinds of public figures.

It really does beg a question that I've often asked myself -- how much of the mindless partisan crap that the radio and TV show hosts and print political hacks write is stuff they truly believe, and how much of it is performance art manufactured to entertain the audience they are targeting (in order to enrich themselves, of course)?

I suspect the fans of many of these hyper-partisan entertainers would be deeply disappointed if they were to discover the truth about what most of these people actually think about the issues of the day, and how little they truly value the intellect of their own audiences.