On today's edition of his Premiere Radio Networks program, Glenn Beck suggested that some vaguely defined “they” wants conservative opposition to prevent the use of full body scanners at airport security check points, so that the next time there is an act of terrorism on a plane, “they” could “point their collective government finger” at those who opposed the scanners.

President Obama, Beck claimed, is a great propagandist: “We have an amazing, amazing president when it comes to propaganda. Wouldn't you say? He is great at getting the words out.” Beck then noted that despite mixed public reaction, the Transportation Security Administration had adopted full body scanners “without a single speech from the president, with any effort from his gigantic arm or propaganda.” This, Beck claimed, belied a lack of commitment on the part of the president: “You know what's weird? It's almost like they want this to fail. It's almost like they want the pushback.”

Finally, this led Beck to his insidious suggestion that this “they” would politically exploit a terrorist attack to “point their collective government finger right to those voices that said, 'Don't do the scanners.'”:

You know what'd be awful, is if somebody on the right would say, “This is an infraction of my rights, my rights to privacy,” and then the government had to fold. And then there was a bomb on a plane, or a shooter on a plane, or a terrorist on a plane, that could have been saved. We could have known if we used these scanners. And they can point their collective government finger right to the voices that said, “Don't do the scanners.”

This fits Beck's habit of weaving conspiracy theories from thin air, most recently a litany of conspiracy theories, falsehoods, and anti-Semitic attacks against George Soros. Before that, he was busy wondering if the White House manufactured the Shirley Sherrod scandal to smear Andrew Breitbart and Fox News, and claiming, absurdly, that financial reform would allow President Obama to control Fox News.