Glenn Beck Explains Healthcare Reform

After backing away from the greatly lampooned ObamaGator’s Got Your Granny Euthanasia Meme, Beck asks his bewildered guests:

How many people in the Green Movement believe that people are a virus?

Doesn’t matter, even if its zero. Simply saying they do provides him with a premise for his whacky argument that “ObamaCare” is all about “crazy people,” “forced abortions,” and putting “sterilants in the drinking water.”

Watching Beck become a parody of himself sure makes for entertaining teevee, though an increasing number of corporate sponsors don’t think so and are bailing out as fast as they can. According to Color of Change, they include: ConAgra (maker of Healthy Choice products), Roche, Sanofi-Aventis, RadioShack, Men’s Wearhouse, State Farm, Sargento, Lawyers.com, Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance, SC Johnson, and GEICO.

Bye-bye.

8 Comments

  2. Propagandee

    Hi Eye Chick:

    I’d prefer a steady dosage of LSD instead…

    Upon further reflection, maybe not so good an idea , considering their psychological state. The cognitive dissonance that would follow from hallucinating they’re sane, even for a few hours, might prove too much and result in an irreversible psychotic break.

    That in turn might result in their being denied coverage by their local HMO claims supervisor who could make a pretty good case for a “recission” based on “evidence” of a “pre-exisiitng condition” and when added to other denials, insure him or herself a fat bonus at the end of the year.

    Never mind!

  4. mary b

    Propagandee,

    I think I read that on a couple of different blogs today.
    Isn’t it shameful that we have literally no credible news network anymore? Was it BushI or Clinton who let the Murdochs of the world take over what is supposed to be public airwaves?
    I really hope that something can be done about this. Sure, they probably can’t make them break them up into smaller markets. But they can re-regulate them. And if they have the willpower, they can regulate them so heavily that they won’t want to own such a large percentage. But, you know as well as I that it’s probably never going to happen. Democracy does not exist anymore. We live in a country that is not for the people anymore. Only the super rich people. It’s as if the Constitution was written by the Corporations, for the Corporations. I don’t think there is any way to go back. Politicians and Lobbyists need each other. You can’t run for a high office without all that money. Lobbyists own all of us.
    I am very serious when I say if I ever had access to money, I really would move to another country. The good old U.S. of A. doesn’t even try to pretend anymore. Example? Look at the Bush Administration. War criminals, financial criminals kidnappers, torturers, and on and on. Where are the investigations and prosecutions? Why was Clinton impeached about a freakin blow job but Bush could shred the Constitution he swore an oath to uphold?
    There is no justice. She is truly blind.

  6. Propagandee

    Hi mary b:

    Rick Perlstein (who authored a definitive book on Tricky Dick last year and now writes for WAPO), nailed it last week in his column:

    …You never heard the late Walter Cronkite taking time on the evening news to “debunk” claims that a proposed mental health clinic in Alaska is actually a dumping ground for right-wing critics of the president’s program, or giving the people who made those claims time to explain themselves on the air. The media didn’t adjudicate the ever-present underbrush of American paranoia as a set of “conservative claims” to weigh, horse-race-style, against liberal claims. Back then, a more confident media unequivocally labeled the civic outrage represented by such discourse as “extremist” — out of bounds.

    The tree of crazy is an ever-present aspect of America’s flora. Only now, it’s being watered by misguided he-said-she-said reporting and taking over the forest. Latest word is that the enlightened and mild provision in the draft legislation to help elderly people who want living wills — the one hysterics turned into the “death panel” canard — is losing favor, according to the Wall Street Journal, because of “complaints over the provision.”

  7. mary b

    One time, I woke up really early in the morning and O’Lielly was on. I had never watched his show so I thought I’d give it a crack. I couldn’t sit through ten minutes of it. He nauseated me.

    I have to give you and a host of other bloggers a lot of credit. By watching these whackjobs teevee shows and reporting on, you do me and I’m sure many others a great service. You must have a stomach of steel. Maybe if someone watched with me who knows how to crack jokes pretty good, it might make it more bearable. But I must be a coward because I don’t even want to entertain the thought of watching anything on Fox, never mind subjecting my kids to that.

    So, Thank You for doing the hard work for us so that my last nerve doesn’t disintegrate, and so that I don’t yell at the teevee too, too much. MSNBC, Tweety in particular, makes me yell an awful lot sometimes.

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