Beck Rates Health Reform as 9/11 Attack (video) »
Posted By Progressive 1 month, 1 week ago in Political OpinionGlenn Beck's found a new way to frame his opposition to heath care reform, and this one's a doozy: It's a terrorist attack. A decade ago “I could have shouted every single day about Osama bin Laden,” the Fox News commentator said, “and nobody would have been willing to stand in line two hours while some security officer made grandma take her shoes off.” But now “America has changed,” and the 9/12ers aren't going to let it happen again—in the US Congress.
“We're taking time out of our busy lives,” Beck continued. “The 9/12ers are willing to stand in line and take our shoes off before the plane actually hits the tower.” Beck’s comments could backfire for congressional candidate Doug Hoffman, who’s called him a “mentor” and happens to be running in New York—a state, Sam Stein notes on the Huffington Post, that doesn't take kindly to trivializing the 9/11 attacks.
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Natureboy1 month, 1 week ago
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Actually, our current healthcare system is just like MULTIPLE 9-11 events; 18,000 or so dieing, every year, because of lack of access to appropriate treatment. That's like six WTC attacks yearly.
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But I know that's not what Beck was getting at. What a waste of oxygen he is!-
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chevydog1 month, 1 week ago
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Hey, you start with ideological presuppositions and utilize ideological reasoning, you get an ideological solution. And you shouldn't be surprised if people who start with different ideological presuppositions and utilize different ideological reasoning disagree with you.
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Take the politics out and maybe we'd all be able to see a little more clearly.
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