Glenn Beck's Next Target Post Van Jones Could be Cass Sunstein, Nominee to Head Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs

Well, it didn't take us long to figure out Glenn Beck's next targets:  Cass Sunstein, Mark Lloyd and Carol Browner. According to his Twitter feed, his message last night to his followers was to  “FIND EVERYTHING YOU CAN ON CASS SUNSTEIN, MARK LLOYD AND CAROL BROWNER.” Who are these people? According to the Washington Independent they are, respectively, the nominee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the Associate General Counsel and Chief Diversity Officer of the FCC, and the Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change. Browner was also administrator of the EPA for all eight years of Bill Clinton’s presidency.


Beck's sole motivation is to expose the “czars” who’ve been appointed by the president. Sunstein's nomination has been tied up by holds and filibusters for months, and Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) only filed for cloture on his nomination at the start of August.

How has Sunstein become so controversial? Basically, right wing websites have twisted his theoretical writings and highlighted bits and pieces that sound downright crazy.  One example comes from CNSNews.com. They claimed he advocated removing people’s organs without explicit consent.

Outlined in the 2008 book “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness,” Sunstein and co-author Richard H. Thaler argued that the main reason that more people do not donate their organs is because they are required to choose donation. … This problem could be remedied if governments changed the laws for organ donation, they said. Currently, unless a patient has explicitly chosen to be an organ donor, either on his driver’s license or with a donor card, the doctors assume that the person did not want to donate and therefore do not harvest his organs. Thaler and Sunstein called this “explicit consent.”

This is expected and since Glenn Beck managed to help force Van Jones to resign, he will be emboldened to continue his "crusade."