Michael Scheuer Vying For a Role on 24?  | Wed Jul. 1, 2009 6:40
AM GMT  Getting exercised over the mind-numbing stupidity
exhibited each day on the cable news networks is easily avoided.
Just turn them off. Read a book. Go for a walk. Do something...
anything else. But occasionally they're worth watching (in very
small doses), if only for their grim comedic value. Tuesday's
Glenn Beck show on Fox News is a case in point. The conservative
blowhard spoke with Michael Scheuer, former chief of the CIA's
Bin Laden unit, about Obama's proposed plan to send 1,500
National Guardsman to the US-Mexico border to combat drug
smuggling. But the conversation quickly went off course,
ultimately ranging from Scheuer's views on gun control
(Democrats "want guns only in the hands of the government") to
his aggrieved sense of populism. Scheuer, a highly educated guy
himself and one who made a career in the elite echelon of the
country's intelligence service, derided how the federal
government is run by elitists who care nothin