It is the penultimate commercial break in Glenn Beck’s Fox News TV show, and the host is coming off an interview, of sorts, with Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal about Blumenthal’s legally intriguing attempt to claw back AIG bonuses, during which Beck said to him, “You know what you’ve done? You are an insult to George Washington, sir.” The rant seems to have winded him. “Oof. You know, I couldn’t do this every day,” confides Beck to a cameraman while stretching his legs; invisible to the folks at home are his laceless Converse sneakers. “To sit there and go, ‘You,...