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Glenn Beck Tells Audience He Might Be Going Blind

I can't believe people are praising and happy about Beck's possible blindness. So if Obama goes blind should all conservatives rejoice and say he deserves it? I pray Beck has a swift recovery and doesn't go blind even though I disagree with him on many things.

no one is actually wishing for his blindness. don't over react.
 
I really would hesitate to mock someone's serious and debilitating illness like some are doing, even if it was someone I despised.

In forty-some years I've too often seen individual's mockery of someone's misfortune come back to bite them.

Whether you believe in God, Karma, the Threefold Rule or the Theory of the Ironic Universe, I'd really think twice about mocking a man for going blind, or or reveling in it.

no, i am not mocking his illness, i am mocking his obvious attempt to use his illness as a way to trash healthcare reform. big difference.
 
He was mocking you today on the radio, lib. :p
 
Beck's "illness" is obviously as phony as most of his program. He is already past the age at which macular distrophy becomes manifest. He is simply trying to gain sympathy from his viewers.

Yet, he continues to fool the gullible. Go figure.
 
Beck's "illness" is obviously as phony as most of his program. He is already past the age at which macular distrophy becomes manifest. He is simply trying to gain sympathy from his viewers.

Yet, he continues to fool the gullible. Go figure.

some people are not just gullible, they are downright stupid.
 
Beck's "illness" is obviously as phony as most of his program. He is already past the age at which macular distrophy becomes manifest. He is simply trying to gain sympathy from his viewers.

Yet, he continues to fool the gullible. Go figure.

Um....you're an eye doctor?
 
So....both Ditto and liblady believe he does not have macular dystrophy. Based on....nothing. Gotcha. :)
 
So....both Ditto and liblady believe he does not have macular dystrophy. Based on....nothing. Gotcha. :)
Beck's history does not do him any favors. He doesnt have a great track record with honesty and his tear-jerk tactics are well known. This makes people, myself included, disinclined to take Beck seriously when he says stuff like this.
 
Beck's history does not do him any favors. He doesnt have a great track record with honesty and his tear-jerk tactics are well known. This makes people, myself included, disinclined to take Beck seriously when he says stuff like this.

Ahhh...add Hoplite to the group. :)
 
Ahhh...add Hoplite to the group. :)

If it were to ever be found out that Beck is exaggerating or just straight making this up would you admit that he is a liar that should not be trusted?

Just curious.
 
So....both Ditto and liblady believe he does not have macular dystrophy. Based on....nothing. Gotcha. :)

don't put words in my mouth. ditto is right, macular dystrophy normally comes much earlier in life, and in any case can be treatable. the disease is rampant in my husbands family.
 
If it were to ever be found out that Beck is exaggerating or just straight making this up would you admit that he is a liar that should not be trusted?

Just curious.

Absolutely. I would be completely disgusted.
 
don't put words in my mouth. ditto is right, macular dystrophy normally comes much earlier in life, and in any case can be treatable. the disease is rampant in my husbands family.

So you're saying he's lying.
 
Ahhh...add Hoplite to the group. :)
Can you at least agree with the statement that Beck has a history of making emotionally charged statements and has, on occasion, embellished things for effect?
 
aren't you supposed to be a teacher? please learn to read before the summer is up.

No need for personal attacks.

I'll ask you straight up....do you think he's lying?
 
Can you at least agree with the statement that Beck has a history of making emotionally charged statements and has, on occasion, embellished things for effect?

Of course. He always has been emotional and over-the-top at times.
 
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I think the better question is "do you think there's a chance he's lying?"

And I'd reply yes, and the odds that he is ain't very bad in my opinion, but I don't claim to know that he certainly is.
 
i have no idea, nor do i care.

Then why are you here? Why the remarks about people being gullible? Why keep saying that it occurs early in life? You certainly seem to be implying that he's lying and anyone who believes him is stupid.
 
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I think the better question is "do you think there's a chance he's lying?"

And I'd reply yes, and the odds that he is ain't very bad in my opinion, but I don't claim to know that he certainly is.

There's always a chance people are lying. I think it's very, VERY slim in this instance.
 
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