Fake.

Not just for obvious reasons.

The couple looked familiar. Then I remembered I saw them in this Onion article.

It's a cool fake, though.

Ken at Popehat

I note that the undercover reporter is in compliance with federal law requiring local news personalities to have at least one grotesquely misspelled name.

I love the sourcing: an email from a parent who heard it from a guy who heard it at school.

I also love some of the details in the press release. One street name for the drug: "Leroy Jenkems." (Presumably the kid told his dad it was actually Leeeeeeeeroy Jenkems!!!!!" but that didn't translate.) Also, the bit about seeing dead people.

Really, how hard would it be to hire one disaffected 15-year-old as a youth culture consultant?

I agree that this is contemptible. But bear in mind that by highlighting and criticizing Beck you are simply assisting in the currently popular right-wing-blowhard two-step:

1. Blowhard acts like a douche.
2. When blowhard gets called out as a douche, he immediately complaints that this is Stalinism, that the left wants to silence him, that he is a victim, etc. etc. etc. -- and generally acts like a big girl's blouse. Tiresome, but lapped up by his core audience.