mr. milbank.ut far more serious is what the justice department is now doing to governor chris christie of new jersey. listen to this. this is the second example of desperation on the left. as you may know, christie is emerging a fierce advocate of smaller government and budget-cutting. now attorney general eric holder is putting out that christie did not properly follow hotel guidelines while he was a federal prosecutor for six years. the amount in question about $2,000. now, you don't have to be dana milbank to know this is bogus. the justice department isn't accusing governor christie. it's just pointing out his accounting was a bit lax. but why? doesn't holder have anything more important to do? this is a desperate attempt to denigrate governor christie, is it not? what other explanation is there for this? the governor should just write hold ear check for 2 grand and send it to him. preposterous. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight, reaction. joining us from austin, texas fox new

mr. milbank argues that mr. beck is a show man rather than an ideologue. and examines mr. bixby articleep theories come his viewership ann his effect on today's political debates. >> good afternoon and welcome to the st another inside edition. i'm your host. today we're happy to welcome. "washington post" columnist dano milbank. welcome washington post columnist dana milbank who writes the washington post must read and just recently named an op-ed writer for the editorial page. he is the author of three books including the latest, "tears of a clown," glen beck and the teabagsing of america. t.a.r.p. joined the washington post as a political writer and later recovered president bush's first term and as a white house correspondent on the national staff. she won the white house correspondents award for repeated excellence in white house coverage and before joining the post he spent two years as senior editor of the republic and in spite of that he was a staff reporter at the wall street journal. please help me in welcoming dana milbank. [applause] >> i want to get to the subje