Media Matters Action Network, our partner organization, has unearthed a 1987 American Spectator article (available here) in which Lord Christopher Monckton -- one of the right's favorite global warming deniers -- advocates requiring the entire population to undergo monthly HIV tests and forcibly quarantining “for life” those who test positive.

You would think that such views would have made Monckton a marginal figure. But apparently there are no views too extreme for the right-wing media.

On October 23, for instance, Glenn Beck said on his Fox News show that Monckton is “one of the world's foremost authorities on what the global warming hoax is really all about and what they are about to sign over in Copenhagen.”

Monckton appeared as a guest throughout Beck's October 30 Fox show. Beck introduced Monckton by saying: “With me now, Lord Christopher Monckton, former adviser to British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher and climate change expert.”

On October 19, Rush Limbaugh described Monckton as “a voice of sanity,” saying, “The hysteria on the left on virtually everything is all over the place. So you got to hear a voice of sanity in this. Last Wednesday, St. Paul, Minnesota, during a presentation at Bethel University, a portion of remarks made by Lord Christopher Monckton regarding the United Nations' climate change treaty.”