On Monday night’s broadcast of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Beck and John Hagee dedicated a segment to railing against a proposed anti-discrimination ordinance in San Antonio, Texas that the Religious Right is convinced would ban Christians from running for office or in any way working for the government.
It is not true, of course, but Beck returned to the topic again last night when he asserted that the filibuster Texas state Senator Wendy Davis carried out against the radical anti-abortion legislation earlier this summer was nothing more than a stunt designed to raise her profile in order to allow her to run for higher office, just as San Antonio’s anti-discrimination proposal is an effort by the city’s mayor to become Vice President of the United States.
“In this case,” Beck said, “the mayor of San Antonio is a Hispanic and he’s trying to show Hillary Clinton and all the other Democrats that he is the perfect running mate in 2016.”
Because that makes sense, since presidential candidates frequently tap mayors to serve as their running mates:
