Fox News host Glenn Beck has a unique interpretation of the Founding Fathers: in part, he fancies them men of God and figures that they might have been okay with secession. But Beck has his own ideological forefather who has gone largely unnoticed by a large portion of the media watchdogs who have tracked Beck's meteoric rise. That is, until the incisive Salon exposé of W. Cleon Skousen -- "Beck's favorite writer and the author of the bible of the 9/12 movement" -- which ran yesterday online. (more...)