Glenn Beck suing owner of smear site for defamation

When I ask the site’s owner whether he thought, on a human/moral level, the joke had gone to far, there is a pause. “Would i do something like this to any random human being?” he says. “No way, of course not.” But the site is intended as a parody and Beck is a public figure…

Will the site change any TV talking head tactics? The anonymous owner admits that it probably won’t, but he says that the site “feels important to do.” It “served as that release valve of frustration” for people angered by the tactics of talk show hosts.

And yet, he had a moment of pause when someone wrote in to him saying that she had been raped as a young girl and that she found the site grotesque rather than humorous or insightful.