Have you seen Glenn Beck’s interview with PETA president Ingrid Newkirk? She bashes Al Gore for eating meat* and in the process brings the clumsy art of pandering to sordid new lows.

* Look, you know how I feel about this — eat less meat, and when you do, choose ethical, sustainable product. But giving up meat and fish is not going to save the planet — even if a lot of us do it. The only people who have the power to save the planet are legislators, and they will only take bold and necessary steps to cap carbon emissions and make corporations pay for their pollution if they are pressured from below. Al Gore lit and stoked that fire. Let the man have his fucking cheeseburger.

(Via Inhabitat, with hat tip to Nathan.)