Paranoid ratings

Glen Beck, apparently encouraged by the high ratings his recent sobfest garnered, has clearly gone off the rails. He's taken to passing out John Birch literature and is currently peddling a conspiracy theory about Obama building internment camps for conservatives as part of a secret plot to build a "totalitarian state."

Most of the commentary was focused on the similarity between Beck's paranoid ravings and various fictional works. But here's the thing. While I think Beck is faking fear for ratings, I couldn't help but recall, the Bush administration did indeed contract for construction of camps in case of an "immigration emergency." To my knowledge they never started construction, but KBR was "to receive an estimated $450,000 annually for administrative costs." I wonder if we're still paying on that contract?

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