CAIN: I just got back from China. Ever heard of the Great Wall of China? It looks pretty sturdy. And that sucker is real high. I think we can build one if we want to! We have put a man on the moon, we can build a fence!

Now, my fence might be part Great Wall and part electrical technology. It will be a twenty foot wall, barbed wire, electrified on the top, and on this side of the fence, I'll have that moat that President Obama talked about. And I would put those alligators in that moat!

Back in March, Cain burst onto the presidential scene when he said he will not appoint any Muslims in his administration.

But then after intense pressure, Cain's campaign walked back his words, saying that he would appoint any person for a position based on merit.

But the very next week, Cain said he would only appoint a Muslim who disavowed Sharia law, but that "he's unaware of any Muslim who would be willing to make such a disavowal.

Then on the Glenn Beck Show Wednesday, Beck asked him about his refusal to appoint Muslims. Cain told Beck that he would be willing to appoint a "Muslim only if they can prove to me that they're putting the Constitution of the United States first."

Beck followed up by asking if he was calling for some loyalty proof for Muslims. Cain said, "Yes, to the Constitution of the United States of America."

When Beck asked if he Would you do that to a Catholic or would you do that to a Mormon? Cain said this: "No, I would not."

CAIN: Engage the people. Don't try to pass a 2,700 page bill. I am only going to allow small bills - three pages. You'll have time to read that one over the dinner table.

"I just gave an interview just the other day, where people said 'so you're going to be endorsing candidates?' I said not over my dead body will I be endorsing candidates."

"I don't ever endorse anybody. Nor do I want to. I'll tell you what I think about individuals, but I don't endorse them. I don't lend my credibility to anybody. I struggle to keep my credibility with myself."

Fox News and Mercury Radio Arts, Glenn Beck's production company, are proud to announce that they will work together to develop and produce a variety of television projects for air on the Fox News Channel as well as content for other platforms including Fox News digital properties.

Glenn intends to transition off of his daily program, the third highest rated in all of cable news, later this year.

Glenn Beck said: "I truly believe that America owes a lot to Roger Ailes and Fox News. I cannot repay Roger for the lessons I've learned and will continue to learn from him and I look forward to starting this new phase of our partnership.”?"

-- Union leaders are communists, socialists, or revolutionaries who want destruction of western way of life.

-- Maybe Obama decided to try suspects at Guantanamo to inflame the Islamic world.

-- Obama is merely a player in a globalist, Islamist show.

-- Showing images of Obama, SEIU, and others, Beck says he would put a lot of these people in jail.

-- Beck somehow linked 9/11 to Wisconsin election, budget cuts.

-- Beck smeared students protesting in Wisconsin as Lenin's useful idiots.

BECK: Madison is just the beginning, AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka told a union rally in Annapolis on Monday. Madison is just the beginning; you ain't seen nothing yet, he says. The message?

Angry schoolteachers and the unions are the same. Join us April 4th, 2011, a day to stand in solidarity with working people of Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, and a dozen other states, where well-funded right-wing corporate politicians are trying to take away the rights that Dr. King gave his life for.

Wait, wait, hold it, just a second. Dr. King lost his life for collective bargaining for the public unions, really? Did you know that? 'Cause -- that -- we have to update our history books, because I didn't know that. Did you know that?

PAT GRAY: I personally didn't. (Laughs)

BECK: Thank you for that.

GRAY: I didn't know that. I - I was - I'm a little confused, I guess, 'cause, yeah, I thought it had something to do with civil rights, but it was a union deal? BECK: It was a union deal. Yeah.

GRAY: Ahh, that's right. How did I miss that?

BECK: Well, to make the point - here's the deal -- April 4th is the 43rd anniversary of the day Martin Luther King was assassinated after speaking on behalf of the striking black garbage collectors in Memphis, Tennessee.

So, I'm sure that the fact that they were black and in Memphis had nothing to do with his mention -- with his, uh, message. It was all about unions and collective bargaining. I'm sure that's what it was.

GRAY: You know it was.

BECK: Well, of course.

KING: The issues is injustice. The issue is the refusal of Memphis to be fair and honest in its dealings with its public servants, who happen to be sanitation workers. Now, we've got to keep attention on that. That's always the problem with a little violence.

You know what happened the other day, and the press dealt only with the window-breaking. I read the articles. They very seldom got around to mentioning the fact that one thousand, three hundred sanitation workers were on strike, and that Memphis is not being fair to them, and that Mayor Loeb is in dire need of a doctor. They didn't get around to that.

Now we're going to march again, and we've got to march again, in order to put the issue where it is supposed to be. And force everybody to see that there are thirteen hundred of God's children here suffering, sometimes going hungry, going through dark and dreary nights wondering how this thing is going to come out.

That's the issue. And we've got to say to the nation: we know it's coming out. For when people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory. [Dr. Martin Luther King, 4/3/1968]

Though deeply committed to a program of freedom for Negroes, he had love and concern for all kinds of peoples. He drew no distinction between the high and low; none between the rich and the poor. He believed especially that he was sent to champion the cause of the man farthest down.

He would probably say that if death had to come, I am sure there was no greater cause to die for than fighting to get a just wage for garbage collectors. [Benjamin Mays' eulogy of Martin Luther King, 4/9/68]

BECK: But here is - here is the point on that. I believe that's because he just sees us as the oppressor nation. He just sees us as a nation who is and has oppressed the Native Americans and, and the Muslim communities around the world. And so he's - he's - he's not with the terrorists, I'm not saying that, but he is sympathetic to their cause, which slows people down. You know what I mean?

GRAY: Mm.

BECK: You agree with that or disagree with that?

GRAY: Well, I don't know if sympathetic to the cause is the right -

BECK: Sym -

GRAY: - phrase.

BECK: Whether you call it Gaia, or whether you call it Jesus, there's a message being sent and that is, 'hey, you know that stuff we're doing? Not really working out real well.' Maybe we should stop doing some of it.

ALTMAN: The comment isn't that surprising, I suppose; Beck has made a fortune sussing out conspiracies most of us can't detect.

That doesn't make it any less odious. The death toll in Japan is expected to top 10,000. Thousands are still missing, whether trapped in rubble or submerged in the ensuing tsunami.

To attribute a natural disaster caused by seismic shifts to human fallibility -- the U.S. national debt? Abortion? Japanese imperialism circa World War II? -- is both vintage Beck and, perhaps, the reason his numbers are slipping.

It reflects poorly on Fox, which has correspondents doing real reporting from grief-racked Tokyo. If David Carr is right that Fox is pondering life beyond Beck, this could be the nudge they needed.

His show has lost more than one million viewers over the course of the past year, falling from an average of 2.9 million in January 2010 to 1.8 million in January 2011.

BOEHLERT: "It's hard to gain a million viewers, but it's really hard to lose a million viewers."

My life as a communist actually began without me knowing it, on Friday(sic) evening, when Glenn Beck spent his program explaining about a "communistic" conspiracy that included 10 groups in America. One was 350.org, a global campaign to fight climate change that I helped found three years ago. He even put our logo up on his whiteboard - and next to it a hammer and sickle.

Since I don't actually watch Mr. Beck, I didn't know about it until e-mails began to arrive, informing me that indeed I was a communist. My first reaction was: I'm not a communist. I'm a Methodist.

But then I reconsidered. What exactly was I doing when those e-mails arrived? I was downloading an iPad app, At Bat 11, which lets me (for only $14.99) hear the broadcast of any baseball game anywhere in the country. Since I live in New England, I use it to track our beloved Boston squad, whose moniker I had never before deeply contemplated. Now - well, enough said.

And the next morning, on my first full day as a communist? I spent most of it outdoors, at the annual New England festival for young cross-country ski racers. More than 500 kids from across the region were competing, and I was standing on the toughest hill cheering.

And here's the thing - at least with the first- and second-graders, I was cheering for everyone equally. Not only that, but did you know where this particular type of skiing was invented? Norway.