HYPOCRISY FAIL: Glenn Beck thinks name calling is bad.

Glenn beck complains about the names he's been called. Name-calling isn't nice, he says.


Ummmm..... isn't this the guy who has called the President:
a racist
a Nazi
Hitler
a Communist
a Marxist
a fascist
an oligarh
he plans to kill Republicans
he plans to kill old people

At least he didn't call Obama a hypocrite.

80% of Americans support a federal health care choice... a public option

(Jonathan Singer)
A new survey commissioned by the AARP conducted by Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates asks respondents to what degree they support or oppose "[s]tarting a new federal health insurance plan that individuals could purchase if they can't afford private plans offered to them" -- a public option, in other words. The results are interesting, though not necessarily surprising to those who have been closely following the debate.

All: 79 percent favor/18 percent oppose
Democrats: 89 percent favor/8 percent oppose
Republicans: 61 percent favor/33 percent oppose
Independents: 80 percent favor/16 percent oppose

Not only does a public option enjoy strong support (37 percent strongly support such a choice), it enjoys broad support -- a finding based not only in this new survey but also in SurveyUSA polling released last week. Indeed, a supermajority of even Republicans supports a federal program to provide individuals with a choice for their health insurance coverage, with just a third of the party membership opposing such a plan.

So why, again, are supporters of a public option finding such difficulty in Congress?

Serious questions: socialized medicine

If the government offers a nationwide H1N1 vaccine, do you think Republicans will refuse it out of principle?

If health care passes, will Republicans refuse to sign up for health care out of principle?

How many Republican seniors are refusing Medicare because it's socialized medicine?

For that matter, how many are returning their Social Security checks?

Refusing to drive government roads?

Forming private military and police organizations to by-pass government run law enforcement?

If their house is on fire, will they turn away government-sponsored fire companies?

Just asking.

Beck fears Oligarhy.... and spelling

Glenn Beck tried to come up with his own acronym to tie Obama to oligarchy. However, he forgot to put a "c" in it, so Obama is only promoting oligarhy.

Poor Glenn. Poor, poor dumb Glenn.

Anger is a drug

Newsweek has an article on fat-bashing examining why Americans love to rage against overweight people.

However, the part I found most interesting is this, and think of the tea-baggers and birthers when you read this:

But why do the rest of us care so much? What is it about fat people that makes us so mad? As it turns out, we kind of like it. "People actually enjoy feeling angry," says Ryan Martin, associate professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, who cites studies done on people's emotions. "It makes them feel powerful, it makes them feel greater control, and they appreciate it for that reason." And with fat people designated as acceptable targets of rage—and with the prevalence of fat people in our lives, both in the malls and on the news—it's easy to find a target for some soul-clearing, ego-boosting ranting.

Doesn't this make sense? Look at the town hall yellers. They're what I'd mostly classify as fringe people. They don't run their own companies, they don't seem to have the most education. In many cases they're seniors. In almost all cases, they seem to be those who normally have little control over their lives.

And so venting at a town hall, even if it's pushing lunatic and discredited theories, makes them feel better. More in control. Sadly, rage - even against ghosts that don't exist - seems to make them feel happy.