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Glenn Beck Tells Audience He Might Be Going Blind

Going blind and losing my hands are two of my worst fears as they are what keep me employed. So I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. Hope he gets better.
 
digsbe said:
I can't believe people are praising and happy about Beck's possible blindness.
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I bet he uses his possible blindness to the hilt to garner sympathy for his political views.
 
winston53660 said:
I bet he uses his possible blindness to the hilt to garner sympathy for his political views.
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I don't like to think this about someone, but I can't get those images of him crying like a bitch on tv out of my head. I wouldn't put it past him.
 
roughdraft274 said:
I don't like to think this about someone, but I can't get those images of him crying like a bitch on tv out of my head. I wouldn't put it past him.
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And the moral to the story is don't put Vicks vapor rub in your eyes:mrgreen:
 
Goshin said:
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.
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Thanks for bringing this thread to showing some sort of human decency.:) Kudos!
 
Aunt Spiker said:
*waiting to see how he will connect this to Obama's fault pocket . . . and then be healed by the power of the founding fathers*
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I doubt even the founding fathers can heal muscular dystrophy. It's a devastating disease in most cases I've seen.
 
I guess he also faked his daughter's seizure a few weeks ago. Have a little compassion, people.
 
lizzie said:
I doubt even the founding fathers can heal muscular dystrophy. It's a devastating disease in most cases I've seen.
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Not muscular dystrophy. Macular dystrophy.
 
Mellie said:
I guess he also faked his daughter's seizure a few weeks ago. Have a little compassion, people.
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Uh-huh. I'd like to point out that everyone in this thread that attacked Glenn Beck's daughter should be absolutely ashamed of themselves, I can't believe anyone would stoop....

Oh wait, no one did...
 
Mellie said:
I guess he also faked his daughter's seizure a few weeks ago. Have a little compassion, people.
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.... Mellie, while you're cheer-leading is annoying, have you stopped to realize that Beck used his 'condition' to take political shots? What are your views on that?
 
Hatuey said:
.... Mellie, while you're cheer-leading is annoying, have you stopped to realize that Beck used his 'condition' to take political shots? What are your views on that?
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Doesn't bother me in the slightest.
 
Mellie said:
Doesn't bother me in the slightest.
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So then it doesn't bother you when people debating politics take shot at his condition, should it? If it's fair game for him to use it for his advantage, it's fair game for others to criticize him and make fun of him. It's a two way street Libertarian.
 
Hatuey said:
So then it doesn't bother you when people debating politics take shot at his condition, should it? If it's fair game for him to use it for his advantage, it's fair game for others to criticize him and make fun of him. It's a two way street Libertarian.
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See Goshin's post.
 
Mellie said:
See Goshin's post.
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Couldn't care less. You don't care Beck is using his 'condition' to play politics. You only care when other people attack him for it. It's called hypocrisy. If Goshin's answer is the same as yours then guess what? He's a ****ing hypocrite too.
 
I hope he doesn't go actually blind because that's pretty much my biggest nightmare.

Although I still hate him as a person. :p
 
digsbe said:
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.
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I'm not happy with it. It's a huge waste of a smiting. If there were really a god, he'd have lost his voice.
 
I cant really bring myself to feel sorry for him.

I'm not surprised he's using this as a platform for anti-healthcare reform ranting. I can only hope this experience will teach him some humility.
 
Goshin said:
Yeah well, if it actually turned out that he was lying about it for attention, I'd be passing out the tar and feathers. People who fake grave illness for attention are scum.
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I think you can start heating that pot of tar now.

From the link in the OP:

Mortality/Morbidity

Corneal changes become visible in the first decade of life; a significant reduction in vision usually occurs by age 20-40 years. Eye pain from recurrent corneal erosions can occur but is much less common than in patients with lattice or granular dystrophies.
Sex

No sexual predilection has been reported.
Age

Corneal changes become visible in the first decade of life; vision may be significantly reduced by age 20-40 years
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Beck is 46 years old. If he had macular distrophy, he'd be well on his way to being blind by now. He would have known about it when he was a kid.
 
Damn socialists! They aren't happy just taking his money, now they want to take his sight too!
 
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