This explains a lot

Fox's Glenn Beck, who organized the anti-health care reform demonstration in D.C. last week, has a hard-on for a lunatic named Cleon Skousen. 

snip: "Beck has created a massive meet-up for the disaffected, paranoid Palin-ite "death panel" wing of the GOP, those ideologues most susceptible to conspiracy theories and prone to latch on to eccentric distortions of fact in the name of opposing "socialism."   In that, they are true disciples of the late W. Cleon Skousen, Beck's favorite writer and the author of the bible of the 9/12 movement, "The 5,000 Year Leap." A once-famous anti-communist "historian," Skousen was too extreme even for the conservative activists of the Goldwater era, but Glenn Beck has now rescued him from the remainder pile of history, and introduced him to a receptive new audience.

"By 1963, Skousen's extremism was costing him. No conservative organization with any mainstream credibility wanted anything to do with him. Members of the ultraconservative American Security Council kicked him out because they felt he had "gone off the deep end." One ASC member who shared this opinion was William C. Mott, the judge advocate general of the U.S. Navy. Mott found Skousen "money mad ... totally unqualified and interested solely in furthering his own personal ends."

The man even agreed with John Birch Society founder Robert Welch who said Dwight D. Eisenhower was a  "dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy." And who thought both he and Truman were definitely communist sympathizers, and probably actual Soviet agents.