Editor:

CBS News recently reported the following:

"In an interview for the inaugural installment of '@katiecouric,' the new Web show hosted by Katie Couric, Glenn Beck said that he thinks 'John McCain would have been worse for the country than Barack Obama.'

"Beck, the Fox News personality, radio host and author, also said that he may have voted for Hillary Clinton over McCain had Clinton been the Democratic nominee in 2008. 'I can't believe I'm saying this, I think I would have much preferred her as president and may have voted for her against John McCain,' Beck told Couric.

"Prompted to elaborate by the CBS Evening News anchor and managing editor, Beck said he thinks 'McCain is this weird progressive like Theodore Roosevelt was.'

"'I think John McCain would have been worse,' he continued, laughing. 'How about this? I think John McCain would have been worse for the country than Barack Obama. How's that?'"

Just a few observations here.

First, Beck's admission that Obama and Hillary Clinton were preferable to McCain provides proof of the old adage that even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while.

Second, Theodore Roosevelt was a "weird progressive?" The "weird progressive" that won the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the end of the Russo-Japanese War, ensured the construction of the Panama Canal, created the Department of Commerce and Labor, took on the gargantuan railroad, tobacco, and oil trusts, and preserved 230,000,000 acres of public land in the form of 150 national forests, 51 federal bird reservations, 4 national game preserves, 5 national parks, 18 national monuments, and 24 reclamation projects?

Listen closely, Einstein. You've blubbered and sobbed all over national television about much you love your country, but in 2005 you declared, "When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh shut up.' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining."

You were 41 when you said that. When the "weird progressive" was 41, he was leading a charge of dismounted cavalry up San Juan Hill.

DICK BLUST JR., Rock Springs