Beck "lose[s]" his "mind;" screams at caller: "Get off my phone you little pinhead!"

People who are on a power kick and live near the edge of reason can't stand anyone challenging them. This is the way with Rush, OReilly, and Hannity. If you disagree with an opinion just yell "shut up" or something else equally offensive.

People who are on a power kick and live near the edge of reason can't stand anyone challenging them.

like Obama telling his supporters to "get in the face" of people who didn't agree with them? saying "I won" to a senator that disagreed with him?

Which one loses his cool more - Beck or O'Reilly:

Glen Beck is the Jerry Springer of all news shows.

kinda like this pelosi, frank, and obama is in politics mrmajestic ha ha

Glen Beck is the Jerry Springer of all news shows.

You shouldn't insult Jerry like that.

No kidding. Jerry doesn't pretend his show is idiotic. Glenn is in the land of liars and losers. Is his show considered a "news" show? He denied it on a talk show I saw & said he is an entertainer, then was all up in arms because he was terribly insulted that he is a crybaby too.

Hey, he ought to be a guest on Springer! Surely there's a spot for him...he could get into a fist fight or pull someone's hair out. It's all good Glenn, keep shouting until you get cancelled.

My friend and I have a saying, "When all else fails, personal attacks!" I see Beck was listening in on our conversations...

he is more in dire need of thorazine or lithium.

the man is really a raving psychotic.

Heretical, NO, dont give the man Xanax..too potentially disinhibiting.. can reawaken alcohol addiction..can cloud (already limited) judgement.

The Lithium idea might actually have some merit...there is a fair comorbidity with alcoholism and bipolar spectrum and other impulse control disorders.

That said, I've watched his show on and off for many years..I was quickly disappointed to see his original claims of wanting "to restore common ground" and address the political middle laughable at best. Faux news IS the proper venue for this guy.

Is it more entertaining than John Stewart? Well damn.

By the way, thanks for reminding me about the movie Aimee ;D

Also Beck, what's wrong with Massachusetts?

The problem with Massachusetts is that they are cutting health care to legal aliens because the fund is close to bankruptcy. Too much use not enough money.

not enough money indeed. or doctors to treat all the new patients. and people with coverage still going to the emergency room to routine crap.

what romney did was strike a balance between employers, citizens, insurance and hospitals. but way many more people joined than orignally thought. costs are out of control. and you know what... even though it is mandatory... there are still people that choose the fine over coverage. you can't insure people that don't want to be insured.

Yes, if you are a regular listner to the program you would know that he was making fun of her.

Yes, if you are a regular listner to the program you would know that he was making fun of her.

if that is his sick idea of fun he really needs to seek professional help. i would not waste my time listening to him if you paid me.

nothing but raving psychotic drivel in overdrive.

Respectively disagree.

Mother of a Dr.

He may have been making fun of her, but screaming at the top of his lungs appeared to be pure rage. He screamed at her throughout.

He describes himself as a 'rodeo clown', why would anyone take him seriously?

I think I would rather go to my dentist for a root canal than to watch or listen to Beck.

Jarrod & Aimee,

Agreed that Beck screamed at her. But so do people who believe they are right. We sometimes (and I stand guilty of this from time to time), ascribe this to passion to the side we support ..... and as boorishness, arrogance to the side we don't. In this case, I surmize you don't like Beck (I do but once a week is all I can take of this guy) .... and this is the first time I heard his radio show.

But I did hear the whole segment. I heard the lady make some personal ( and rather presumptuous) remarks at 0:38 .... I also heard that the lady did not have any comebacks for what Beck said (sarcastically, of course) about people dying left and right in this country because they had no healthcare, but that may be because they don't ..... Even in the screaming part, Beck actually makes some great points about the excellent healthcare technology in the US, where even foreign leaders from all over the world come to get complex surgeries done.

RandomSample: "if that is his sick idea of fun he really needs to seek professional help. i would not waste my time listening to him if you paid me."

I've never heard of the guy or listened to him before this clip. I was LMAO. But anyway, if someone paid me to listen to him I would (as painfully as it would be), but, that way I might be able to purchase my own health insurance! LOL (tongue in cheek)

Paddy Clarke,

Beck didn't point out that the main reason US healthcare technology is so advanced is because it is subsided by the US taxpayer. Technology companies as well as pharmaceutical films get huge grants from the government for research and development, and/OR get huge tax credits. Then, they charge huge prices for the drugs and technology here in the US, while selling the very items overseas at greatly reduced prices - because their government-run healthcare systems will not pay the exorbitant prices they gouge us for.

We are already subsiding health care for prisoners, illegals, unemployed, homeless, etc. Study after study for the past 50 years at least has shown that universal health care would decrease our expenditures. It is not free health care anymore then public education or highways are FREE - we share the cost because these things are common goods that we all benefit from.

It does not mean that people who prefer private health care don't have that option - you don't have to participate in universal health care anymore than you HAVE to send your kids to public school.

Every other developed country in the world has universal health care and their citizens are not dying from neglect or waiting 3 years to have their gallbladder out. This is the kind of reactionary conservative verbal crap that has prevent universal health care in the past.

Wow that's amazing. Thank you very much for the link.

And you think Bill Moyers is unbiased ?? He is actually an old liberal fart ..... I am still waiting for him to interview someone from either Canada (who cannot find a doctor because he/she lost a lottery), Great Britain or the relatives of people who lost their lives in France because the doctors were on vacation. To quote from the last link

Earlier this month, the government commission recommended better coordination between health bodies in the future, reports CBS News Correspondent Elaine Cobbe, saying thousands of lives could have been saved if the alarm had been raised sooner.

But most of the top health officials were on vacation, and the (French) government report says that also partly explains why the alarm wasn't raised sooner.

I am not at all saying that our system is perfect (it is far from perfect unfortunately) but Moyers should not confuse all people to be leftist idiots.

Paddy

What are you talking about?

Who cares about Bill Moyers? The focus was Wendall Potter. Moyers didn't hardly talk at all.

Your smoke screen is laughable. Watch the interview before criticizing it please. I think you'll find your comments pretty ridiculous ;) Discredit the messenger all you want; at least take time to hear the message.

And our system is indeed far from perfect. In the last decade, healthcare premiums have increased a rate 4x greater than average wage (120% to 29%). That is viscerally dangerous to this nation.

@jarrod

Who cares about Bill Moyers? The focus was Wendall Potter. - I don't. My point was, in the interest of a balanced reporting, (if indeed Bill Moyers is a good reporter/talk show host), he must have interviewed someone with a view of the system from the other side .... and shouldn't hardly speak.

In the last decade, healthcare premiums have increased a rate 4x greater than average wage (120% to 29%) - And how will government reduce that ? To quote from this Senate report :

Public spending accounted for 46.1% of NHE in 2006, up from 30.0% in 1966. Within this category, the federal government took on a growing share of spending (33.5%) of NHE in 2006, compared with 16.3% in 1966), while state and local governments spent proportionately less (12.6% of NHE in 2006, a 40-year low).

So, as you can see govt and state accounted for nearly 50% of the healthcare spending (NHE = National Healthcare Expenditure) in the country (note the increase in govt spending and the lowering of private funding) .... So, that begs the question, why haven't costs come down then ?

That is viscerally dangerous to this nation. - So, are trillion dollar deficits, don't you think ?

Bill Moyers might have a bias, as does everyone, but his interviewing demeanor and etiquette put others to shame. If you'd refuse to watch anything because of a perceived or underlying bias, just turn your TV off and shut the blinds. Bias is inherent in nearly everything, look at the underlying message.

The first eight principles sound great. I hope Glenn takes them to heart some day.

The ninth statement sounds like a recipe for anarchy if taken to its illogical conclusion - remember those nuts in Montana who declared their cabin an independent country?

Glenn should add a tenth principle - if you disagree with me, you're wrong. That sums up his radio show.

That #3, well if he wakes up tomorrow and says the correcty day of the week, that would make him more honest than he was today. Even for a piece of used toilet paper like himself, Beck set the bar impossibly low on that one.

I have heard him say these. I am the ocasional listener. I like Beck because he is funny, but sometimes he is just crazy...he is after all and entertainer...like Jon Stewart of Steve Colbert (sp).

The 9th principle is excellent.

@Repoman

The 9th principle is excellent. - Right on bro. Even if all the others are abolished, this principle is the only principle protecting the individual from the state. Unfortunetly nowadays, special interest groups have mastered the art of manipulating the government with focused lobbying ..... the individual is hung out to dry. His taxes, his property and his freedoms don't matter much !

I think there needs to be a logical balance between individual liberty (freedom of religion, speech), rights (claims on government action), and civic responsibility (obeying Constitutional laws, showing up for jury duty).

As much as some people live in mortal fear of "Big Brother," anarchy is always a disaster - look at Somalia since 1991. Or Iraq from 2003-2007.

Take comfort in Winston Churchill's observation - Democracy may be a poor form of government, except it works better than all the other forms that have been tried.

Except that we don't live in a democracy..... We live in a Constitutionally limited Republic. Democracy is nothing more than mob rule whereby society is ruled by the vagaries of the moment and the tyrannous majority.

And if balance has to be imposed on us by government, then I would rather not have such a balance......

But what alternative is there realistically?

If a central authority is not in place to resolve conflicts and make basic services available (sewage, clean water, electricity) I doubt you'd like the result.

Most people have long since abandoned the frontier mentality of "give me a hunting rifle and a tent, and I'll do fine all by myself." Camping is fun for a couple of days; after a few months it would grow wearisome to say the least.

Democracy does not always degenerate into mob rule. That's the precise reason we have a representative form of democracy along with propositions that people can vote on directly.

Yes, it's far from a perfect system. Yes, money will always influence policy making.

But as long as our population is 300 million and growing, splitting up into little bands and villages is not a realistic option.

The alternative is freedom with limited government with as you say "a central authority in place to resolve conflicts". But the power to resolve conflict implies that we vest in that authority the valid power of force. And though we put in place the checks and balances to see that the power is not misused, we are not far from a tyranny sometimes.

Sometimes freedom is automatically associated with the "frontier mentality". This is done sometimes deliberately (not by you, of course) by statists like Barack obama (cling to your guns and religion etc) or out of ignorance and even fear .... Note that many people fear freedom and free people. That is why the Islamists fear us, they see why people would be attracted to us.

As far as I understand it, freedom implies doing what you do and accepting full responsibility for your choices. Freedom automatically means undertstanding that risks come with rewards or ... maybe total ruin.

True, splitting up into bands and villages is not an option but banding everyone into a big commune to be ruled over by a messiah (the govt., a despot , whatever) is much more scary. Given the two options, I'd rather take the former.

Beck is a natural for comedy shows like FOXNews! He's a good laugh as I hear he wants to legalize pot and claims he's a recovering alcoholic. Interesting that he claims to be a Mormon as they teach that drinking alcohol is a no, no. I'm sure the same goes for pot.

In the video he sounded like someone who was putting on an act. The ranting and raving is intended to help sell his next book of cliches, old wives tales and rabid hallucinations. He's like Rush and the FOXNews crowd, well paid and never knew economic hard times

You obviously do not listen to the show, Beck became a Mormon after he stopped drinking. His family owned a bakery and he did loose everything due to his drinking. Perhaps you should check your facts before you post!

Are you saying that you have to experience economic hard times to understand to have an opinion?

Aimee

Compassion is an evil, sinister word for Beck and many others. Our country's 'every man for himself' attitude is slowly deteriorating us. There is a residual effect to being a people. One can't just tend to their own backyard and lock their door at night to feel like they've done their part. It's bigger than that; the Glenn Becks of the world just don't get it.

Mother of a Dr.

You obviously do not listen to the show, Beck became a Mormon after he stopped drinking. His family owned a bakery and he did loose everything due to his drinking. Perhaps you should check your facts before you post!

I have listen haphazardly. There is no reason to listen on a regular basis to someone like him. Regarding him losing everything, it's his own fault if he lost it because he was a drunk!

Are you saying that you have to experience economic hard times to understand to have an opinion?

Of course not but when I see people making millions like Rush and never show any compassion for those less fortunate it shows me that such a person has no compassion. Oh pardon me, Rush and his ilk do have "compassion". Rush, the Bushs, Reagan, Hannity and similar types feel so sorry for the rich that they cannot do enough for them.

So Davinci, according to your logic, Obama's father had to have been at least a Senator for him to become President, no ?

But sarcasm aside, where you are does not have anything to do with where you will be. (Cliched statement follows ) You can be born with all the riches but you can die a pauper and vice versa.

why they are against anything that will help the poorest in our society - Can you explain then the close to trillion dollars that are spent on Medicare, Medicaid and other government health programs that the taxes of the evil "rich" people (Rush, Beck, O'Reilly), the businesses and the middle class are helping to finance ..... Come to think of it they are helping more than we are because they are paying a larger part of taxes, right ?

Anyone ever heard the term dry drunk? It's when a drunk or an addict tries to live a non-sustance abusing life using thier own will-power, they have all the same behaviors and thought patterns and misery of the active user only without the substance to relieve that misery. Kind of sounds like,oooh I don't know, George Bush or Bill O'Rielly or Lush Rimjob or our boy Glenn. Inflated egos coupled with egg-shell thin self-esteem and God help anyone that doesn't agree with your point of view.

See the following link -

http://www.nationalreviewofmedicine.com/issue/2006/03_15/3_policy_politics03_05.html

Also note that the doctors being fought over are foreign trained.

It still costs nothing to go to the hospital. And this is in one small community in one small province. What about the rest of the country? Could you find more, or is this the only one? Canada is still better off than the US, no matter how you look at it when it comes to medicare.

No problem. You said you hadn't seen it, I sent you where I have seen it. The uninsured problem too is like that in the US, it is less than 5% of the population that is actually uninsured. So, if you are willing to make an exception to the "one small community in one small province" then you must make an exception to a small minority of the population that is uninsured. If say, 5% of the polulation does not have cars, don't dick around with a system which makes it possible for 95% to afford theirs.

Canada is still better off than the US, no matter how you look at it when it comes to medicare. - Can you please state on what basis you are saying this ??

50 million uninsured in the US. Many more millions under insured. That is more than 5%.

In Canada, if you do not have a family doctor you go to the hospital. And it is free.

Do your own math. Free is a hell of a lot better than supporting corporations that care more about profits than people!

50 million uninsured in the US - Glad you brought that up. Now can you tell me how many of these 50 million are a. US citizens. b. People who voluntarily don't own insurance to save money i.e. they are confident iin their health c. People who are to be covered by medicare but don't sign up ..... And what percentage of the total population do the 50 million make up ? I say it again - If say, 5% of the polulation does not have cars, don't dick around with a system which makes it possible for 95% to afford theirs.

In Canada, if you do not have a family doctor you go to the hospital. And it is free. - Shove Canada ... this is the greatest country on Earth. If you like it so, much get your %^& over there and stop destroying my country.

Free is a hell of a lot better than supporting corporations that care more about profits than people! - Firstly, Che Guevara is dead, get over it. What are you like, 13 ? Can anything be free unless someone is paying for it ?

I guess you are now using Beck tactics. Yell and scream to prove tour point.

Please tell me what percentage of the uninsured who are illegal.

Please tell me where I mentioned Che Guevara. (I had to check the spelling.)

"What would like,13" Please explain. I might be stupid about this. I am only a Canadian who gets free medical service. I guess that we need it to counter attacks from corporate supporters like you.

BTW I am in Canada. Please do not compare me to anyone in the US.

BTW You have just proved why the US needs universal care.

Please tell me what percentage of the uninsured who are illegal. - Use google.

BTW I am in Canada. - Yeah, stay there and mind your own business. Don't you have somone's free speech rights to trample over ?

And before you go suggesting how we fix ours, put down your copy of "The Communist Manifesto" and try and fix your own healthcare system.....

Sheesh, as if we don't already have busybodys of our own in the US .....

You are one of the people that are on the extreme that doesn't understand compassion.

See above comments.

BTW you never answered them. You used Beck tactics. Yell, lie and usual tactics that do not hold water.

BTW you never answered them. - Ask me poitely, use sensible logic, drop the corporate hate mongering, and stop trying to promote a "free" healthcare system .I will shower you with facts and figures and dazzle you with my superior intellect ;)

That's why I asked whether you were 13 .... How can a "free" system survive ? Will not everyone just line up at the emergency for every cut and scrape ? And since rationing is inevitable in such a case, who decides who gets what level of treatment and how ??

on the extreme that doesn't understand compassion - We spend 600 billion dollars of taxpayer money on medical welfare and we don't have compassion ?

And to quote wikipedia (which cites independent sources)

However, U.S. government-spending covers less than half of all health care costs. Private spending for health care is also far greater in the U.S. than in Canada. In Canada, an average of $917 was spent annually by individuals or private insurance companies for health care, including dental, eye care, and drugs. In the U.S., this sum is $3,372.^[11] In 2006, health care consumed 15.3% of U.S. annual GDP. In Canada, only 10% of GDP was spent on health care.^[5] This difference is a relatively recent development. In 1971 the nations were much closer, with Canada spending 7.1% of GDP on health while the U.S. spent 7.6%

So, don't you dare question my compassion, buddy.

By the way, did you see why the Canadian health system is messed up yet .... or you too afraid to face the truth ..... Free system, indeed !

I asked you about 13, I still don't know.

Your superior intellect? I guess that is your opinion.

You do not want me to include money gobbling insurers. I guess that you have ulterior motives.

Let me guess. You are now covered by an insurance company. You do not have an unusual disease. You like bush. obama is black.

Did I miss something?

AS I SAID. Canada is a whole lot better than the US.

The woman wasn't out of her element. Beck actually completely changed the subject to avoid addressing the issue the woman was bringing up. She at no point mentioned the quality of care in the United States, she mentioned how many people have realistic access to that quality care.

Glenn Beck went on a rant about how great the treatment is in the United States, which is a completely different topic than who has access to that treatment.

I was more or less pointing out that she failed to site any facts to back her claims, namely that while some people in the Netherlands do go outside the country for some treatments, they are completely covered by the insurance. On beck completely avoiding the issue, he most certainly did that, and pointing to a failing healthcare plan in a particular state does not set the example of what will invaribly happen should a single payer system be instituted, however he also avoided the subject as to what he would suggest to improve the system here.

legion of squirrels.......priceless :)

Not just any Squirrels... they are ill-tempered.

That's what rabies does to ya'. Too bad those squirrels can't get health insurance coverage or they could get that treated ;)

In the states, you never really get cured 100%, at least not right away.

You just get some happy pills, and are told to keep taking the happy pill, until you can have a operation, which somehow doesn't really cure the condition, but only part of it.

So you need at least 2 more surgeries to be cured. After all of that is done, you get charged for your stay, which includes around $3,000 a night just for relaxing in your bed.

That includes the luxury of the medical visits of poking your finger, and five star hotel food.

Mushroom - That's BS.

Which part?

MushroomX

I agree. I wonder how many posting here can tell us how much an aspirin cost when laid up in a hospital:)

They'll find a way to charge $100 for an aspirin or Tylenol.

My father was hospitalized with pancreatitis six years ago. He ended up on total parenteral nutrtion for two weeks. The hospital still billed him for meals they knew he was not going to eat. After he was discharged, he learned that they simultaneously billed his insurance company and Medicare for some of the same in-patient services.

All told, his bills topped $100,000. I don't know what we would have done without insurance coverage.

Agreed. I just laugh at them

Faux news sure does get the 'base' (literally) fired up with fear and smear...but thats a large part of why the repubs lost the recent elections...they lost the political center.

Keep it up Rush and Co.!!

If he did cry, they were tears of anger, not of fear and sadness ;)

Golden:

You are so funny: OTFLMAO.

:) Debeki..........

Hope you're well....haven't seen you in a couple.

Goldern:

Every since I kept getting deleted - I've been laying low - you know what I mean. (wink) Haven't seen "her" around either.

Doing pretty good - How about yourself?

Okay back on topic - So I am trying to figure out if Glen is going for the ratings because Rush and O'Reilly and maybe Hannity is ahead of him or he is actually having a mental breakdown.

That was just like a spoil brat holding his breath and then exploding - WOW... even the most snot-nose, spoiled, gimme, gimme brat doesn't sound as bad as Glen. WOW.

I've been laying low

Ya right....whatever

Ya right....whatever

You rang?

You rang?

I didn't know we have a "whatever" in our group!

sorry. i was being sarcastic to ms debeki, my "lil otta"

HI

Oh,Darryl, I know you were...

I was just teasin! (my family has been watching old Adams family DVD's... I was doing LURCH)

HI right back attcha!

;-)

Lurch is one of my favorites!

Debeki ... Do what I did.....I ignored her :) You know like that knock at the door at 7 a.m. on Sunday proclaiming the apocalypse is upon us so you might as well donate to the cause, read their magazine and consider converting?

I'm doing okay, suffocating in this heat and humidty. I have no idea how people survived the summers here in FLA before AC!

Who knows why Beck does what he does anymore. He's more hormonal than I am sometimes! ;)

Whatever........I thought that was Lurch's saying? ;)

Darryl (Hi)....she and I were both deleted so she has cause! :)

I love Morticia, dahling.

Don't torture yourself dahling......that's my job!

:)

Don't torture yourself dahling......that's my job!

Do you really want to "go there" Chiquita?

DarryL; Whatever back at ya -

Whatever Hi how ya doing - Love Lurch, but Thing and Cousin It are my favorite.

Golden: You are right the heat here is sweltering - agree Thank goodness for AC. And Ignoring her is a good idea.

Darryl: Are you being mean to me? Bring it on - I like sudo-masachism sometimes - it much show by the banging of my head on brick walls. LOL

I had to leave early last night - we rescued a little kitten from in back of our warehouse. She was only a month old and really sick. So we took her to the Vet, got her shots and she was in quarentine for about 3 weeks. It was her first night out last night and we had to introduce her to Kane and Kody (my two dogs - Kane was a recused puppy) Kody thinks she's a toy and Kane thinks she's his baby. It was kind of cute. Bastat is the kittens name and she is completely black with blue eyes - so adorable. So that's where I was last night. Hope everyone had a good time.

Back on topic - Glen Beck is torture - I wonder if he would mind if we waterboarded him? Hmmmmm It's a thought.

Are you being mean to me?

In short, YES!

I have learned a little spankin' every now and then helps keep lil otta in line!

Darryl.................Just because it's you, you can continue calling me "Chiquita" although....I haven't been one in many many years! Actually, it's what my grandmother used to call me...so it's all good :)

My Morticia comment wasn't directed at you..it's just my favorite line from the Adaam's Family movie....and yes, it has come in handy, too! :)

Debeki ..........What did you name the new kitten? Sounds adorable. I hope she keeps getting better.

Glenn Beck needs to check his hormones at the door, enough already with his over the top ridiculousness. He carries nothing of value unless of course the only thing worth valuing is entertainment ;)

I haven't been one in many many years!

Ya well get over it! LOL Your still my Chiquita!

Hey, I haven't competed in body building in years either, doesn't mean I don't still work out...;-)