Because of his rambling incoherence I’m not completely sure I followed this, but I’m pretty sure this is a summary of what I just heard Glenn Beck say while doodling on a whiteboard.

Universal health care would be a bad idea because if we actually gave people care they didn’t have they would want more things they didn’t have. So we’d have to give little Suzy (he then drew a sketch of a little girl) health care for her horse (insert horse sketch here). Then she’s going to want universal high-speed internet. And because mortgages are skyrocketing (after struggling with a way to explain how it’s going up he just said “it looks like this” and drew what was clearly an exponential curve. But that’s one of them fancy book learning words that elitists use so he can’t offer that up as an explanation) Suzy is going to lose her home and then she’ll want a universal house. After more pointless ranting he eventually decided his picture was missing food, so Suzy would obviously want a universal sippy cup.

I’m not even going to touch the confusing and disjointed path he took in his progressing fantasy (universal health care = universal horse care = universal high-speed internet = universal housing = universal food supply?). And I know Glenn has wide ranging and unfounded reasons for not wanting health care reform to pass, but the way he was talking about it here it came off as him being completely against any form of universal health care. Can I just ask what the problem is with everyone having access to medical care? Or, if we follow his later examples, housing and food for everyone? Does he really want to leave people homeless and starving without even trying to help? I really do try to stay away from singling out specific commentators, but Glenn Beck is so completely ridiculous that I just couldn’t stop myself this time. I’m not sure if I think it would be worse if he actually believed this stuff or if he’s just passing it off on people for ratings. Either way, he’s no good for anyone.

~George