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Glenn Beck Tells Audience He Might Be Going Blind

There's always a chance people are lying. I think it's very, VERY slim in this instance.
Ok. But with his penchant for over the top exaggeration and paranoia about people coming to get him in his sleep I'd say it's more likely than not that he is either lying or saying that he has macular dystrophy when in reality it's something else that isn't nearly as bad. Of course I'm not claiming to know that he's certainly lying though.
 
Of course. He always has been emotional and over-the-top at times.
Ok, with that in mind, would you be inclined to instantly believe someone with Beck's personality and history if they made a claim like that?

I'm less likely to take that person seriously.
 
Ok, with that in mind, would you be inclined to instantly believe someone with Beck's personality and history if they made a claim like that?

Only if in the past they'd lied about a personal illness or other personal history.
 
Only if in the past they'd lied about a personal illness or other personal history.
So, he's lied about a lot of OTHER things, but because he hasnt lied about anything personal (that you know of) then he's Honest Abe when making tear-jerker statements?
 
So, he's lied about a lot of OTHER things, but because he hasnt lied about anything personal (that you know of) then he's Honest Abe when making tear-jerker statements?

I don't know what he's lied about since I don't know him personally. If he says something wrong on his shows, he corrects himself like when he said Van Jones was a "convict". He wasn't right. He corrected it.
 
I don't know what he's lied about since I don't know him personally. If he says something wrong on his shows, he corrects himself like when he said Van Jones was a "convict". He wasn't right. He corrected it.
His batting average is not that great. I personally have never seen him issue a correction.
 
His batting average is not that great. I personally have never seen him issue a correction.

Probably because the sites you peruse don't post them.
 
Sure. Glenn's.
 
I will do that just for you, but first I need to go hit the treadmill. I'll be back in about an hour and a half.
 
This could end up being the best thing that has ever happened to him, as far as his show and career are concerned. Who is going to attack or criticize a blind guy? And if they do, that makes them horrible people, right? I can definitely see him milking this for all it's worth. Of course, I think most political commentators who deal in sensationalism would milk it for all it's worth. Why not? When you are in the ratings game you take any advantage that you can get. I'm sure Keith Olbermann would be doing exactly the same. .
 
The Van Jones correction:

GLENN: The NAACP came to Fox News. The only correction that I have had to issue is for the NAACP and it was this: That I said he was a felon. He was not a felon. He went to jail. He was arrested.

STU: Right.

GLENN: Okay? He was not a felon. That is the only correction that I have had to make in the last year because somebody came. You know, we put the phone in. The phone came really from a discussion with the White House, NAACP was happening around the same time. We said, well, what are the complaints? What did we say? One, in one year, one thing and that was that I said that he was a felon. He wasn't.


Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - Van Jones: American treasure?

Apologized for mocking Obama's daughter: (I didn't like what he did either and said it on this site)

Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - Statement from Glenn

He's also stated on numerous occasions at what a "dirtbag" he was back when he was a druggie and alcoholic and how sorry he is for all the pain and grief he caused people.
 
No, but I looked up Beck's supposed condition and posted a link above.

I'm guessing an eye specialist knows more about it than a person using Google.
 
Probably so. Is there a post by an eye specialist that I missed?

Maybe you should consult someone who actually knows what they're talking about before making your silly assumptions.
 
Maybe you should consult someone who actually knows what they're talking about before making your silly assumptions.

I didn't make any silly assumptions. I looked it up, and found that the condition he supposedly has kicks in around age 10 and leaves the person nearly blind somewhere between the ages of 30 and 40. Beck is 46. It doesn't take a mathematician or an eye doctor to figure out that he's too old to be starting to get the condition now.

Besides, Beck has a history of bending the truth.
 
I didn't make any silly assumptions. I looked it up, and found that the condition he supposedly has kicks in around age 10 and leaves the person nearly blind somewhere between the ages of 30 and 40. Beck is 46. It doesn't take a mathematician or an eye doctor to figure out that he's too old to be starting to get the condition now.

Besides, Beck has a history of bending the truth.

Again, I think an eye specialist is more intelligent than Google. Talk to one and then get back to me.
 
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