Since it's April Fool's Day, we were glad to see one of the world's biggest fools in the news today: the unhinged hatemeister Glenn "Dreck" Beck. Dreck is being sued in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts for defamation of character for defaming a Saudi Arabian student, Abdulrahman Alharbi, in connection with last spring's Boston Marathon bombing. Dreck, who hasn't met a Muslim he doesn't hate, started identifying Alharbi (who was wounded in the bombing, incidentally) as the "third" conspirator and a "money man" for the Tsarnaev brothers, who were the sole perpetrators. Long after that fact was established, paranoid conspiracy merchant Dreck continued to push Alharbi as a suspect, with absolutely no supporting evidence.
Here's hoping that Mr. Alharbi gets a very, very hefty settlement from the suit. While it won't stop a nut job like Dreck from spinning his paranoid tales, it'll take some of the jingle out of his pockets.
