Glenn Beck acts as if he's a prisoner of the Commie/Socialist Obama administration, and that's why he plays the courageous, "populist" rebel, throwing shit against the walls of his cell in protest.

But Beck's merely a monkey in a zoo, throwing shit around just for the sake of it. It's earned him attention, but he's a phony. It's not that I disagree with him, which I do. He's a phony because he doesn't speak from conviction or to raise hell but just to pander for his own celebrity.

The best satire yet of Beck's bullshit comes from a video "discovered" by Internet pioneer Lauren Weinstein (click above).

Net neutrality is a major big-business, privacy, and freedom-of-speech issue over continued open access to the Internet. The outcome of this fight will govern how we will use the Web for decades to come — and whether we will be able to use it unfettered. Beck calls net neutrality an Obama-endorsed "Marxist takeover" of the Internet.

Actually, plenty of right-wingers (including the Christian Coalition and Gun Owners of America) strongly support net neutrality, because they're rightly worried that ISPs (Internet service providers) will exert enormous control over what we do online unless there is net neutrality.

See the Christian Coalition's argument that net neutrality "is extremely important to America's grassroots organizations and to those Americans who want to ensure the cable and phone companies controlling access to the Internet will not discriminate based on content."

In fact, the Christian Coalition's argument is one of the most well-reasoned and concise explanations of net neutrality. Beck is ludicrously accusing the Christian Coalition and many other right-wing groups of a "Marxist plot."

Here's Beck's smear of shit against net neutrality. Not clever enough to be a self-parody, it's typically hysterical monkey business by the cynical Beck.

Beck doesn't believe what he's saying; he's running a con that inexplicably has made him a celebrity. (Well, not inexplicably, considering that people avidly keep track of the doings of Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton and Jon and Kate.)

On the other hand, Lauren Weinstein, a geek who rides a motorcycle, is a recognized Internet pioneer (a comrade-in-arms with people like Vinton Cerf, the "father of the Internet."

Weinstein is one of the most thoughtful, respected Web philosophers and activists, and he's not a celebrity, except among those who are geek-inclined. Usually serious, he has produced a brilliant satire of opponents of net neutrality. Many of Beck's followers have been duped by this satire. The mainstream press doesn't give a shit about Weinstein, so start reading Weinstein's blog at his vortex.com.