While Glenn Beck has a penchant for theatrics and occasional hyperbole, I have found his fact finding (facts are stubborn things), when taken bare, to be quite useful.  Beck refuses to underestimate his audience, and often explores subject matter that the other bastions of cable and radio will not.  Beck is unafraid of digging deep into the lurid, but at the same time keeps a reasonably well-functioning "BS-meter" (unlike, say, Alex Jones.)Over the past year, Beck has insinuated several times that the 1991 collapse of the communist Soviet Union was a strategic deception.  At his 15 December show in Wilmington, Ohio, Glenn Beck delivered a major clincher:Beck:  "Yeah.  First of all communism never died...""...they fundamentally transformed the Soviet Union, they didn't, they didn't collapse.  This was a planned out strategy to be able to save their own skins and not fall into revolution and have bloodshed.  And so that's...(Read Full Post)