In your pleasant Tuesday media column: Glenn Beck vs. Joe Klein, a stranded-in-the-airport magazine, Dave Eggers wants to marry print and live in Never-Neverland with it, and Les Moonves struggles through another year of penurious wages.

Because Bill Clinton politely asked fringe conservatives to stop encouraging violence against the government on the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, Michele Bachmann has decided that he wants to "take her out." In a killing sense. Not romantically.

He's still fuming over Tom Coburn calling Nancy Pelosi a "nice lady." But O'Reilly is really mad about Coburn's claim that Fox News says that people who don't pay for health insurance would go to jail. "Nobody's ever said it."

Noted novelist Glenn Beck has finished his latest work, a thriller called The Overton Window, and he's asking fans to pick the cover. Once choice features a girl Statue of Liberty, and another features a boy Statue of Liberty. Weird.

Last month, the magazine's in-house prick Bill Kristol used Napoleon to describe Obama's health care victory. Now it's Gary Andres, who compares the Democratic Party to a tainted Tylenol of the 1980s. Who is tampering with the Democrats' package?

Glenn Beck's media empire netted him enough money last year to buy 79,000 blackboards. Too bad it's probably all tied up in gold! Where did most of that money come from, anyway? Publishing. That's right. Book learning. [Forbes]

A 64-year-old Washington man was arrested and charged with threatening the life of Senator Patty Murray, after leaving dozens of voicemails about her support of the health care bill. We have highlighted the sources of some of his complaints.

Ah, the tea-baggers! America's latest crazy political offshoot group—and, thanks to a growing number of celebrity members, the most entertaining one, too. Here, we showcase the most popular and outstandingly ridiculous celebrity tea baggers.

At HuffPo, you can't compare Glenn Beck to anti-Tutsi propagandists, but Deepak Chopra's still ok.

Freelance journalist Alexander Zaitchik wrote several stories about Glenn Beck for Salon late last year. This February, the Daily Beast's book imprint published John Avlon's book, Wingnuts. Avlon's chapter on Glenn Beck borrows very liberally from Zaitchik's work. [UPDATED].

Jay Leno asked for Joy Behar's feelings about Glenn Beck and he got them. Here, she addresses Beck directly. Somewhere, Beck weeps.

Today we were blessed with two Glenn Beck stories. His fans had their cars towed, and he revealed the title of his exciting new novel, The Overton Window. Here are today's best Beck-related comments from you terrible, godless progressives.

In what was either a conspiracy of tow truck companies, academic Maoists, and ACORN or a hilarious frat prank, 53 cars were towed from a University of Central Florida parking lot while their owners were enjoying a Glenn Beck show.

Glenn Beck is writing a novel. It's about a group called "the Founders Keepers" starting a civil war. In a classic Beckian touch, he's given it a title designed to enrage smart people who find him repellent: The Overton Window.

Today at Gawker.TV, Jimmy Fallon drops by Today, the craziest Tea Party Protest videos on the internet, Glenn Beck fires back at James Cameron, summoning the Kraken, and inspired by Reading Rainbow's revival— four shows PBS should bring back.

James Cameron announced his hatred of Beck for the past three years because Beck called him "the anti-Christ". Last night, Beck responded to Cameron's comments on his show. So two people nobody likes don't like each other? Weird.

It's true and it will be epically terrifying. Also today: some good news for some old favorites, Kevin Kline embarks on a new something, and some very devastating deaths must be reported.

And cheaper, too. Say you have some life-altering product that needs advertising to get off the ground, using Google TV Ads, you can buy TV ad space whenever/wherever you want. Slate tested it out, and the results were surprising.

The LA Times profiled Bill and found that he's mellowing in his old age. He's even happy that Glenn Beck has stolen his thunder as a liberal hate figure. "I'm just a human meat shield for the guy," responds Beck.

Tonight, Jon Stewart opened The Daily Show with what was probably one of his greatest segments ever: a complete and utter destruction of everything Glenn Beck stands for and propagates. And Stewart did it as Beck. The incredible video, inside.