Glenn Beck Chokes Up Talking About His Daughter, Born with CP

[RamboLiberal]

During his Fox News show today, after airing a story on the practice of eugenics during Nazi Germany, FNC host Glenn Beck got choked up talking about his daughter who was born with Cerebral Palsy. He also made clear, "No one is saying that eugenics are coming..."

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/fnc/glenn_beck_chokes_up_talking_about_his_daughter_born_with_cp_124097.asp

Wow - I didn't think it possible for Beck to be an even bigger shithead - but he is. He has a daughter with CP and still he throws this eugenic shit against the wall and has no empathy for those who have or have children with illenesses like his daughter. Good thing you have good health insurance Beck. You don't deserve a job spreading your crap.

[kirby]

1. I feel sorry for his daugther...

Not only does she have the challenge of Cerebral Palsy, but worse, her Dad is Glenn Beck!

[seeviewonder]

4. Excuse me for being like this but

I am not sure which is worse out of the two realities.

[Kittycat]

6. I'd say him as a father.

As a parent of a CP child, I feel physically ill right now. How he could cast aside his daughter and those like them for his own outrageous gain... Well, maybe so he can make the money necessary to cover everything his daughter needs that is otherwise excluded in our regular middle class health care plans.

[seeviewonder]

7. I'm sorry to hear that.

My wife used to work with special education students while in college and still tries to help them out wherever she can. She is actually trying to get a school district in Illinois in trouble for not doing the necessary evaluations for a child diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. Back to the reply, though. I cannot completely understand how you feel but I know that I could never do anything like that to my daughter, especially on TV.

[Kittycat]

2. He makes me sick.

[Faygo Kid]

3. Beck is a madman. He scares Rush, because he is even more nuts.

Rush is all over pushing Nazi crap about Obama because he is scared he is losing "the base" to Beck. They deserve each other. But Beck is something Rush hasn't seen before. Savage, Hannity and Coulter could be dismissed. Beck is scaring the hell out of Rush.

[Spazito]

5. Sounds like he and Palin are made for each other,,,

both having NO conscience in using their children for gross political purposes.

[LostInAnomie]

8. Nothing like exploiting your children for your own gain. Just ask Sarah Palin.

What would even be the point of talking about eugenics if not to draw an obvious comparison or at least a juxtaposition?

I wish, just for once, that both parties would agree to quit with the Nazi comparisons. It was wrong when we did it with Bush and it's wrong now. It only serves to water down and make meaningless the horrors of that regime.

[spanone]

9. his opinions mean squat to me. he spews hate.

[crim son]

10. That guy would choke up if the waiter brought his hamburger without ketchup.

It can't be an act because it's too ridiculous: he has to be mentally ill.

[asdjrocky]

11. Wow. I can no longer be surprised.

[Hugabear]

12. Too bad he can't just choke, period.

The airwaves would be so much better without his daily bile spewing forth.

[Morning Dew]

13. I wonder if they're using the socialistic benefits available to them?

such as SSI:

http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/10026.html#ssi-benefits

We may make immediate SSI payments to your child
It can take three to five months for the state agency to decide if your child is disabled. However, we consider certain medical conditions so limiting that we expect any one of them to disable a child. In these cases, we make SSI payments right away and for up to six months while the state agency decides if your child is disabled.

Following are some of those conditions:

•HIV infection
•Total blindness
•Total deafness
•Cerebral palsy
•Down syndrome
•Muscular dystrophy
•Severe mental retardation (child age 7 or older)
•Birth weight below two pounds, 10 ounces
If your child has one of the limiting conditions that is expected to disable a child, he or she will get SSI payments right away. However, the state agency may finally decide that your child’s disability is not severe enough for SSI. If that happens, you will not have to pay back the SSI payments that your child got.

[donheld]

14. And now she's stuck with a moranic father.

[obliviously]

15. I never will understand the mentality

of people that enjoy viewing the aftermath of car accidents or train wrecks. Don't view this guy! You are advertising for him and helping his ratings go up.

[BlueIdaho]

16. Beck is a hyperbolic bi-polar asshole.

Are you sure he wasn't crying about the advertisers that are dropping his sorry ass like a hot rock?

[DesertRat]

17. Palin, now Beck

Using their children with special needs for political gain. Disgusting!

[Kievan Rus]

18. Even Glenn is realizing it's time to dial it down a notch or two

With all his sponsors jumping ship, even this wingnut realizes he's got to quit behaving like an oaf and stirring the pot.