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As much as Glenn Beck might get frustrated, as seen in:

GLENN: He has gotten so much flack from his friends because, you know, they buy into, “Oh, he’s a fascist.” I don’t care what you do with your life. Honor the Constitution. Limited government. Maximum amount of freedom. Throw them all out. Get people who understand the founding fathers. Libertarians are eating each other alive. And it doesn’t make any sense. It doesn’t make any sense. But see, there’s no, there’s no structure to it. And I’m fine with that. But that’s why libertarians lose is because there’s no, there’s no system. There’s no system. And so there’s no one to defend. And so the, both parties, when they start to grind down on you, you have the entire system against you, and it’s quite amazing. It’s quite amazing.

So here’s Cartman. Now, this is South Park, and I’m flattered. But remember these guys are libertarians. Here’s South Park. …

STU: Everyone’s got their role in society and South Park’s is to make fun of everyone that’s around.

GLENN: And everybody. It was Tom Cruise and Scientology and Jesus is know was a full episode.

STU: It’s on everything, global warming.

GLENN: Global warming. So it is a compliment. I have to watch it, although it is I have to tell you, it would be nice to have somebody, somebody that wasn’t that just had the facts right.

(via HotAir.com)

As much as I like Glenn Beck (although I haven’t watched him in a while, along with the Factor, mostly due to lack of time; I don’t count anyway, as far as Nielson ratings go), I am glad that South Park did a piece on him—if they didn’t, I couldn’t trust them any more.

After all, they are entertainers before they are libertarians (or any other political ideologues). Their job is to make fun of people, make obscene humor, and comment on current events (by way of doing either of the two above). If they chose not to make fun of someone or went easy on someone just because he was a libertarian, well, then we would know that we can’t get good libertarian jokes from South Park.

We can all benefit from understanding that there is some part of what we do that is independent of our ideologies or beliefs. Comics shouldn’t be afraid of making fun of someone out of reverence (see: SNL and Obama); scientists shouldn’t misrepresent science because existing results are unfavorable to left-wing (or sometimes right-wing) agenda; and journalists shouldn’t let their political viewpoint affect what they cover and how they cover it.

Because otherwise I can’t understand their argument at all:

The Center for Constitutional Rights filed the lawsuit on ACORN’s behalf Thursday in Brooklyn federal court. It claims the law was unconstitutional because it punitively targeted an individual organization.

First off, I am not sure if any part of Constitution says that acts mentioning individual organizations are wrong. It does say something about taxes having to be uniform and all (and probably something about due process which may be relevant), but none of them apply. The Congress did not pass a law ordering ACORN officers jailed (which would be overstepping their Constitutional bounds, since that belongs to the judiciary). The Congress passed a law saying that they aren’t going to waste money on a corrupt organization—and since it is the Congress who has the power to spend (or not to), it seems entirely constitutional to me, whether they mention specific organizations or not.

But then, I am not a constitutional scholar, like Mr. Barack Obama, and unlike ACORN, I don’t have Obama representing me, so I’m probably saying something wrong. I should be re-reading the wonderful document that is our Constitution later today though, specifically looking for things that warrants such constitutional claims at all.

In any case, this is very comforting:

The group’s CEO, Bertha Lewis, says she underestimated the impact of the Congressional action. She says state, local and most private funds have been cut off as well.