Striking back at the efforts of Fox News host, Glenn Beck to paint President Obama as a communist because of ’32 czars’ in his administration, the White House strikes a hefty blow to reveal Beck’s lies.

Over the past several weeks, we’ve seen with increasing frequency and volume issues raised around the use of “czars” by this Administration. Although some Members have asked serious questions around the makeup of the White House staff, the bulk of the noise you hear began first with partisan commentators, suggesting that this is somehow a new and sinister development that threatens our democracy. This is, of course, ridiculous. Just to be clear, the job title “czar” doesn’t exist in the Obama Administration. Many of the officials cited by conservative commentators have been confirmed by the Senate. Many hold policy jobs that have existed in previous Administrations. And some hold jobs that involved coordinating the work of agencies on President Obama’s key policy priorities: health insurance reform, energy and green jobs, and building a new foundation for long-lasting economic growth

The use of the word czar to represent the point man in an organization or department was coined in 1973 to describe President Nixon’s appointee to the Director of the Office of Energy Policy, John Love. Whether the media uses the term ‘czar’ to shorten an otherwise lengthy job title, like call Staff Sargeant Smith ‘Sarge’ for short has no more to do with communism today than it did when Nixon was in office.

Why is Fox News so comfortable allowing a know nothing, fear mongering idiot like Beck have a platform? Oh, yeah, advertising money is more important than democracy or journalistic integrity.

Countdown did a good run down, again, of the Beck hallucinations and deliberate misrepresentations.

The University of “I am making this up”