At one point on his Wednesday show, Glenn Beck said “my head hurts trying to figure this out.” That was in reference to another one of his conspiracy theories, but it often feels like a universal maxim when dealing with Beck's seemingly infinite fantasies.

Today Beck said that President Obama deliberately waited 71 days to accept international help with the Gulf oil spill. Why? Because he wanted to create a crisis situation in order to pass cap and trade through Congress. That, on it's face, doesn't make much sense, but it's also just wrong factually.

Like every other conspiracy Beck promotes, this one falls apart pretty quickly. International help has been accepted in the clean up for some time now, despite the claims of Beck and others at Fox News, and Admiral Thad Allen, who is in charge of the operation, has indicated that there are 15 foreign vessels involved in the clean up. Allen noted this 15 days ago, and the ships had been operating before that.

The main point of Beck's conspiracy, that President Obama was just now accepting foreign help in order to pass cap and trade (somehow), just isn't true. Beck pumping out this kind of unsubstantiated conspiracy every night really does make your head hurt.