It's a real battle of the titans!

In the span of just a few hours earlier this week, Beck managed to debunk his own media conspiracy revolving around the dubious New Black Panther (non) story.

Behold:

If you were watching MSNBC over the weekend, they covered Mel Gibson over and over and over again. We counted eight times. But they told the Black Panther [sic] story not once. Help me out on this. Help me out. Why is the Mel Gibson story, that doesn't affect anything except your movie going experience, why is that news? And yet the Panthers, which involves our republic and the upcoming votes, why does that matter?

Beck was clearly perplexed as to why the New Black Panther Party story hasn't become a very, very big deal in the real world, the way a story about a controversial Hollywood star has. Yes, the NBP story revolved around exactly two members who were videotaped two years ago spouting racist rhetoric outside a polling place. And yes, they belong to group most people have never even heard of, let alone support. And yes, it was the Bush DOJ that decided not to press criminal charges against them.

Nonetheless, Beck was adamant that the NBP story demanded our attention and should be covered by the mainstream press as relentlessly as it's been hyped by Fox News.

That was Beck on July 12.

But this was also Beck on July 12, early that day on his radio show when he inadvertently answered his own question about why the NBP story wasn't generating much press [emphasis added]:

The Black Panthers [sic] are out on the fringes of society and nobody is taking them seriously.

Glenn Beck 1, Glenn Beck 0.