Glenn Beck Tells Audience He Might Be Going Blind

[RamboLiberal]

During a tearful and passionate speech at his "American Revival" meeting in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Fox News host Glenn Beck revealed that he may be going blind.

During his speech (video below), Beck told the audience, "I can't focus my eyes."

Taking a shot at health care reform, Beck said, "I went to the best doctor I could find, while I could still go to the best doctor I can find."

Beck, 46, says he has been diagnosed with macular dystrophy, and joked that the doctor told him, "You could go blind in the next year . . . or you might not."

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/07/19/glenn-beck-i-might-be-going-blind/

I was almost going to feel sorry for him if this is true and he is not hyping - but then he still had to take a shot at Obama and health care.

Frankly Mr Beck I don't give a damn.

[madmax]

1. Yeah, well

we already know he's insane.

[arbusto_baboso]

2. Karma can be a bitch, Glenn.

Of course, you deserve far worse, but then that's not really for me to judge.

[dkf]

3. I am sure God will save him.

[gratuitous]

4. Too much VapoRub will do that

Well, Glennie will probably sue Vicks for not putting a warning on the label: "Caution: Using this product under your eyes to produce fake tears while you're ranting incoherently on your teevee program could result in damage to your eyes. Not to mention the Republic. Don't do it, asswipe."

[Arkansas Granny]

29. LOL! That was my first reaction, too.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

43. My first thought too!

But I gotta admit, you took it to its logical and best conclusion with your commentary!


HAAAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA!!!!!!!





If ONLY product warnings were so succinct!

[femrap]

50. I think it's too

much viagra. Sue them, buttface!

[Erose999]

5. He's already "blind" whether his eyes work or not. I have no pity for Beck. I don't even think

that Mr. T could pity that fool.

[izquierdista]

6. His brain has infected his eyes

Quick, better remove it before it can spread and cause more damage.

[Javaman]

7. Since pecker has slid dramatically into the religious right camp

I suspect that he will be "miraculously" healed sometime soon, by his favorite witchdoctor de jour.

Wait for it, "faith based medical care".

[RKP5637]

17. +1, n/t

[WillParkinson]

8. Should have just done it till he needed glasses!

Heed your mom's warnings, Mr. Beck.

[Xenotime]

9. Happy happy joy joy!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[liberal N proud]

10. He isn't going blind - just closed minded

He was misdiagnosed.

[lpbk2713]

11. Please pity me!!1!

And buy my lame books n shit.

[SunnySong]

12. I wonder if that is related to the behaarte palm condition last year. nt

[mwb970]

13. It's the same as with cheney.

There are only a few people that I cannot muster any compassion for, and cheney and Beck are two of them. It's not because they both have dangerous levels of paranoia (no law against that), but because they have used their power and reach to spread their lethal fears to so many millions of others, to the detriment of the nation. If that doesn't make them traitors, it at least makes them enemies of the state. As such, they are exempt from my compassion.

[47of74]

24. Agreed

I don't have much compassion for Beck either. I don't care what freepers think of me, but with the hatred spewed out by him over the past few years having any compassion for him is a waste of time and energy.

[RamboLiberal]

14. BTW here's Wikipedia on macular dystrophy

Vitelliform macular dystrophy or vitelliform dystrophy is a genetic eye disorder that can cause progressive vision loss. This disorder affects the retina, specifically cells in a small area near the center of the retina called the macula. The macula is responsible for sharp central vision, which is needed for detailed tasks such as reading, driving, and recognizing faces.

Vitelliform macular dystrophy causes a fatty yellow pigment (lipofuscin) to build up in cells underlying the macula. Over time, the abnormal accumulation of this substance can damage cells that are critical for clear central vision. As a result, people with this disorder often lose their central vision and may experience blurry or distorted vision. Vitelliform macular dystrophy does not affect side (peripheral) vision or the ability to see at night.

Researchers have described two forms of vitelliform macular dystrophy with similar features. The early-onset form (known as Best disease) usually appears in childhood; however, the onset of symptoms and the severity of vision loss vary widely. The adult-onset form begins later, usually in middle age, and tends to cause relatively mild vision loss. The two forms of vitelliform macular dystrophy each have characteristic changes in the macula that can be detected during an eye examination.

Best disease is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern, which means one copy of the altered gene in each cell is sufficient to cause the disorder. In most cases, an affected person has one parent with the condition.

The inheritance pattern of adult-onset vitelliform macular dystrophy is uncertain. Some studies have suggested that it may be inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern. Many affected people, however, have no history of the disorder in their family and only a small number of affected families have been reported.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitelliform_macular_dystrophy

[lady lib]

59. I'm assuming he has the adult-onset form and according to your article...

"The adult-onset form begins later, usually in middle age, and tends to cause relatively mild vision loss."

Seems like quite a jump from mild loss to potential blindness, eh?

Quite frankly, I don't know enough about this condition to comment.

Does anybody have any expertise to add?

[indypaul]

66. Could that "fatty yellow pigment"

be human feces collected from talking while having
ones head so far up ones ass?

[CLANG]

79. Once he can't read the teleprompter - we're rid of him!

[RKP5637]

15. What goes around comes around, Mr. Beck. Remember, god works in

mysterious ways.:) After the crap you've doled out, if even what you said is true, I could care less. You're ripped off people enough to cover your costs.

[RamboLiberal]

20. Beck going blind? Limbaugh went deaf

Maybe God is giving trying to give these hate mongers a message? One they are not acknowledging.

[RKP5637]

34. Beck's always been amazing to me, because

generally assholes can't see.

[AspenRose]

64. God forgive me, but I thought of the 'see no evil, hear no evil' monkeys

That's an awful thing to think and I totally admit it up front. DU is my confessional today :-)

[LiberalFighter]

70. Reminds me of the Blind men and the elephant.

Instead of them all being blind they are losing different senses and they still tell difference.

[PassingFair]

31. Crappy things happen to GOOD people, too.

Illness is not divine retribution.

:)

[RKP5637]

37. Yep, reminds me of the song, "Only the Good Die Young." n/t

[Sebastian Doyle]

73. Or maybe this song from KISS?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ-wWKRUYuY

[RKP5637]

77. Yep!!! n/t

[BlancheSplanchnik]

47. thing is, with these repuke CONservative shitbags,

it's ALWAYS, "Ohhhh, my terrible tribulations, help me, pray for me, send me money....."

After said money and attention is gotten, it's, "I'm OK now!! Let's get back to our regular programming: KILL teh LIBERALS!! God HATES GAYS! FEMINAZIS should DIE!!"

[tsuki]

16. I cannot believe what he says, so I'll save my empathy. nt

[EstimatedProphet]

18. Now if only he'd go mute...

[DailyGrind51]

19. Beck (blind), Limbaugh (deaf), and Hannity (just plain dumb)

[reformist2]

26. Is God trying to tell talk-show listeners something?

[Greybnk48]

41. LOL! I'm an atheist, but this is just too freaky! n/t

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

68. They should play a mean pinball. -nt

[spartan61]

21. With all the lies he has told,

why should anyone believe him now?

[BrklynLiberal]

22. This generation's version of a televangelist...in the worst meaning of the word.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/glenn-beck-the-televangel_b_546417.html

Glenn Beck: the Televangelist Con Man Selling God's Plan for America

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Brings to mind the time one of the televangelists said that the angel of death had visited him, and the only way he could be saved would be if people sent in more money ....:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[CLANG]

80. I think that was Oral Roberts

[BrklynLiberal]

95. Thanks. I tried to find out who it was via Google, but could not do it.

[Bitwit1234]

He's already stupid....how many other

things can he have, insensitivity, lack of honesty, money mad, absolute crazy and paranoid.

[Ganja Ninja]

46. Don't forget butt ugly.

If he's anything he's that.

[proud2BlibKansan]

23. He's already blind

to the truth.

[KansDem]

25. What's this "diagnosis" from Dr. Tautology?

"You could go blind in the next year . . . or you might not."--:shrug:

[piratefish08]

27. I'd settle for mute.

[Axle_techie]

28. Blindness and insanity is a sign

of lead poisoning... Have you been eating paint chips again Mr. Beck?

[mnhtnbb]

30. My youngest son has a juvenile, genetic form of macular dystrophy

called Stargardt's disease. He had a major loss of vision when he was 9.

Guess what Beck? Your a$$hole Bushie boy--and all you right wing f*cktards-- were
responsible for setting back the research in the U.S. (for 8 goddamn long years) on the use of stem cells to correct macular degeneration.

So, cry me a river, you a$$hole.

What do you bet he'll start yakking about stem cell research in the next 3 months?
It's like the pro-lifers, as my family practice guy told me once, in his office, they're all
against abortion until a daughter gets pregnant, and then they're in his office asking
about how to 'fix it'!

[Mad_Dem_X]

32. WTFE, Glenn

If this is a publicity stunt, no one cares. And if it's real, no one cares.

[marmar]

33. I believe the APA is putting out a DSM on this basket case right now

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mHCAWDirEHQ/SqAgiKIIdtI/AAAAAAAABwo/-t3nJv2weZg/s400/Glenn+Beck+from+Tom+Degan%27s+Rant.jpg

[alfredo]

35. Check for hair in his palms.

[QC]

36. I guess you really can cry your eyes out. n/t

[rocktivity]

38. Brings back memories of my feeling sorry for Rush when he said he was going deaf

before I found out about the oxycontin, I mean.

:headbang:
rockivity

[mmonk]

39. If true, I wish him well and will not devolve to his level

if a prominent liberal was given a bad diagnosis and what his ilk might say. That being said, would that be a more literal form of the term the blind leading the blind?

[JVS]

40. I'm just waiting for this nutbag to say that unless he gets $8 million in donations God will call...

him home.

[Skidmore]

42. Rush went deaf, Beck blind... who goes mute?

We need "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil posterboys"...

[apnu]

44. Ann Coulter? Michelle Malkin?

They can both be muzzled.

[CLANG]

81. I nominate Sarah Palin for mutedom

[1776Forever]

45. Well Rush can be his eyes and he can be Rush's ears - they can't buy them! n/t

[Sheepshank]

48. The very best doctor he can find?

and he says this?
"You could go blind in the next year . . . or you might not."

I guess he believes all the clap trap he spews. Ignores all other proof that US medical system isn't the very best...just the most expensive.

[gmoney]

54. Yeah, I could have told him that.

I guess that breaks down into a 50% chance... either he will go blind or he won't.

[Sheepshank]

58. That will be $58,000

want we should bill insurance?

[LoZoccolo]

49. He could be trolling to provoke threads like this. n/t

[mistertrickster]

Rush went deaf and Beck goes blind. God really does work in mysterious ways. nt

[TK421]

61. Now we need Ann Coulters tongue to fall off n.t

[UTUSN]

51. His M.O. is to constantly hype something COMING, always next week, next month... n/t

[Urban Prairie]

52. Dreckk phishing for sympathy

While lacking any real compassion for those less fortunate than he is (hint: 95% of us), and as if his wealth cannot buy the best medical care available.

"while I could still go to the best doctor I can find."

What a load of BS, who or what is going to prevent Dreckkk from going to any doctor of his choice? He has enough money to go w/o health insurance coverage, and pay all of his bills in cash, even if they were to reach seven figures, unlike millions in this country that are uninsured or under-insured. Many have serious pre-existing conditions that won't be covered, even if they could afford the cost of private insurance premiums.

Fact is, the reason that most conservatives don't want single-payer, is because they believe that only socialist liberals would benefit, and they would soon lose the ability to choose the doctors clinics, and hospitals that they can go to, since we libs all are jobless, shiftless, and lazy pocket-pickers of those hard-working right-wingers. This despite the fact that HMOs and PPOs now being popular and commonplace. So what would happen if their aging parents who are now dependent upon Medicare "entitlements" were instead to lose them? Since their parents are no longer productive members of society, they must now be "disposable".

Sorry Mom and Dad!!

(I have read many posts on some open forums in the past from young(er) right-wingers who actually have replied that they no longer want to pay FICA taxes, so that their parents can continue to have Medicare coverage. How compassionately conservative of them!!)

[Dr.Phool]

53. His mother told him that if he didn't stop that, he'd go blind!

He thought he could quit masturbating when he started wearing glasses.

[Booster]

55. Well, that will fit in nicely with his deafness and dumbness.

[ladywnch]

56. cry me a river, bunky. My father lost his sight 25 years ago to a

rare disorder, and he was 10 thousand times the man that Glenn Beck will ever DREAM of being. Maybe he'll learn what it's like to be 'different' in this society. ( and yes, I know he is quite different already but you folks know what I mean) Next he'll be whining about being treated unfairly because he has a disability....and he still won't see his own hypocrisy in it........douche bag!

[TwilightGardener]

57. Don't care.

[johnnie]

60. Maybe if he takes his head out of his ass...

Just sayin'

[LynneSin]

62. If Beck is going blind he should thank his lucky stars he's rich enough for the best health care

That pisses me off about Carly Fiorina. She brags about how she battled breast cancer and won. Of course she won - she's got a gazillion dollars to her name and can afford the very best of treatments in this world.

But for the rest of us going blind or fighting breast cancer we have to fight the health care system and hope for the best.

[Hubert Flottz]

63. He'd better quit cuffing his carrot then...

[Bonhomme Richard]

65. Maybe if he stopped the public masturbating every day....

it may slow the process.

[JHB]

67. No surprise. He' been shaving his palms for quite a while now... n/t

[Liberal In Texas]

69. He could also shoot himself in the next year...or he might not. n/t

[DirkGently]

71. Shades of Oral Roberts -- did he ask for donations?

[Lorien]

72. Since his job is nothing more than masturbation I'm not surprised. nt

[Fly by night]

74. He should stop "spanking his monkey" using pics of Ann Coulter and Margaret Thatcher as inspiration

[Lucian]

75. It's from touching himself too much.

[GreenTea]

76. Beck has been blind for many years - Like ALL republicans Beck is blind to truth & facts!!

[niyad]

78. even if this is true, doesn't stop him from being a class one lying, hate-mongering buffoon.

and, besides, glenn, we have known for years that you are completely headblind.

[Dragonbreathp9d]

82. Yay! This means he won't be able to read anymore....

oh, wait, nevermind... this changes nothing

[RamboLiberal]

83. A bit more on story

Glenn Beck dropped quite the bombshell on a Salt Lake City audience over the weekend, revealing that he's been diagnosed with macular dystrophy, a slowly progressive eye disorder that can cause blindness.

He said that he went to a doctor because he "can't focus my eyes."

He joked that he went to a LensCrafters first, and that the guy there told him: "Woa, you might be going blind!"

When his doctor told him he had macular dystrophy, Beck said, "Is that that Jerry Lewis thing?"

He also joked that the doctor wasn't much help, telling him: "You could go blind in the next year . . . or you might not."

Skip to 6:23 to hear him talk about his condition.



Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/07/19/2093600_glenn-beck-going-blind.html?storylink=omni_popular#ixzz0uA4brAs3

[WorseBeforeBetter]

84. Baby Beck goes to LensCrafters with the unwashed masses? Riiight.

He's a pathological liar.

[lpbk2713]

85. Just like Cheney has been dying of the same heart attack for twenty years ...

... BecKKKerhead will be going blind for the next twenty years.

Check back in twenty years or so and his vision won't be any worse.


If he would just keep the Vick's away from his eyes he'd be alright.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

86. I hope he goes mute, too.

[IndianaGreen]

88. He and Sarah

I can't stand watching Beck do his drama queen gig on TV, and I can't stand hearing Sarah's voice.

[IndianaGreen]

87. He is as crazy as Oral Roberts!

If he was really diagnosed with macular dystrophy, it may take years for total blindness.

Beck is already blind!

[SkyDaddy7]

89. It is probably just a scam...

He will claim to going blind and then have everyone pray for him then he will come out and say he is better and the doctors are baffled!

Been down this road many times before as Christians like to claim "MIRACLES".

[havocmom]

90. He is gonna die someday. We all are

If blindness is a threat, maybe he should stop masturbating on TV, you know, just in case there is some truth to the old warning.

[RamboLiberal]

91. CBS has picked up the story

Liberals might believe that Glenn Beck has been blind all along, but now the television talk show host says that he is suffering from macular dystrophy and may actually lose his sight.

"A couple of weeks ago I went to the doctor because of my eyes, I can't focus my eyes," he said to a Salt Lake City crowd on Saturday. "He did all kinds of tests and he said, 'you have macular dystrophy ...you could go blind in the next year. Or, you might not.'"

The often comedic Beck fired back, "Did you just charge me a thousand dollars for knowing what I knew my whole life?"

Vitelliform macular dystrophy is a genetic eye disorder which causes vision loss over time by disrupting cells in a small area near the center of the retina which is responsible for sharp central vision. A more aggressive version can strike during childhood. Either form can make it hard to recognize faces, read and drive.


http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20010976-10391704.html

[elehhhhna]

92. Limbaugh struck deaf. Beck struck blind. Jesus is trying to tell y'all freepers something.

Duh.

EXPECT PALIN TO LOSE HER VOICE ANY MINUTE NOW!

Go on, Baby J. Please do it.

[elehhhhna]

93. Limbaugh struck deaf. Beck struck blind. Jesus is trying to tell y'all freepers something.

Duh.

EXPECT PALIN TO LOSE HER VOICE ANY MINUTE NOW!

Go on, Baby J. Please do it.

[LawnKorn]

94. Beck is a dumb alcoholic who drank too much wood alcohol

He is an admitted drug user and alcoholic. You should have thought about what you were smoking 20 years ago Mr. Beck, now the circle is closing in.

[Maine-ah]

96. at least he can afford to go see the best doctor.

many people can't afford to see a doctor at all.