There’s self-delusion, and then there’s self-delusion.

Glenn Beck sees himself as Edward R. Murrow to Keith Olbermann‘s Joe McCarthy . I can’t decide whether to laugh or cry.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Olbermann said Beck is a “wolf in sheep’s clothing. The very dangerously bigoted guy who is selling himself as a pragmatic philosopher. I don’t think he sees his own bigotry. There’s something about him that suggests that, one night, he’ll say something that will cost him his career in television.”

Beck, predictably, lashed out in response, but his reaction was telling. Here’s what he told his viewers last night:
“If I’m going to be shut down for that, well, it will likely be because of an intolerant ideologue like Keith Olbermann. The very idea smacks of the same McCarthyism Murrow fought so valiantly against.”