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Yesterday, on a FOX News morning program, Glenn Beck finally went full retard and called Barack Obama “a racist”.

Oh, yeah. He came right out and said it, too:

Naturally, this provoked outrage among … all the folks Glenn Beck provokes outrage among every day. And a bunch of other people, too. So FOX pretty much had to say something about it.

Had Beck finally crossed the line? Would this incendiary remark bring about his long-deserved comeuppance?

If you cried ’surely!’ or even dared to hope that discipline would be necessary … you must not watch much FOX News.

Here is their statement:

“During Fox & Friends this morning, Glenn Beck expressed a personal opinion which represented his own views, not those of the Fox News Channel. And as with all commentators in the cable news arena, he is given the freedom to express his opinions.”

This comment is not only devoid of any sort of apology, criticism or half-assed slap on the wrist for the most insane horse of their stable of retarded television stallions, it  amounts to tacit approval of the way Beck has conducted himself towards the Obama administration.

They don’t care if Beck lies, manipulates, misrepresents or date-rapes the truth, nor do they care if he widens America’s racial divide with comments designed to place Barack Obama next to the Black Panthers in the ideological spectrum.

(And let’s face it, for a certain percentage of Americans, Obama never got far from his designated white-hating place in that line.)

But the response by FOX is worse than Beck’s comments, because it does nothing to assert authority when it is clearly called for or inject truth where it is badly needed.

CNN had a similar problem a few weeks ago, when Lou Dobbs went out of his mind and began sounding like a conspiracy theorist on his radio show by talking about Obama’s birth certificate.

Even though CNN has no ownership of Dobb’s radio show, they apparently told him and his staffers to cool it, an used a segment of his show to discuss how ridiculous the story is:

Cooler heads at CNN put some distance between themselves and their once star host, with fill-in Kitty Pilgrim using a segment of “Lou Dobbs Tonight” on Friday to provide a substantially more skeptical look at the Obama-made-in-Africa claims.

Pilgrim introduced the topic of Obama’s alleged foreign birth as she sat in for Dobbs that night, calling it “the discredited rumor that won’t go away.”

“CNN has fully investigated the issue,” the substitute said, and “found no basis for the questions about the president’s birthplace.”

So, yeah. Not to defend CNN or anything, because lord knows they have contextual issues and partisan hackery as well, but at least they know when someone affiliated with their brand is driving the wrong way on the talking head highway.

FOX … well, as I said above, you should have expected nothing more.