Beck Rates Health Reform as 9/11 Attack

9/12ers are girding for this year's national catastrophe

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 3, 2009 8:09 AM CST

(Newser) – Glenn Beck's found a new way to frame his opposition to heath care reform, and this one's a doozy: It's a terrorist attack. A decade ago “I could have shouted every single day about Osama bin Laden,” the Fox News commentator said, “and nobody would have been willing to stand in line two hours while some security officer made grandma take her shoes off.” But now “ America has changed,” and the 9/12ers aren't going to let it happen again—in the US Congress.

“We're taking time out of our busy lives,” Beck continued. “The 9/12ers are willing to stand in line and take our shoes off before the plane actually hits the tower.” Beck’s comments could backfire for congressional candidate Doug Hoffman, who’s called him a “mentor” and happens to be running in New York —a state, Sam Stein notes on the Huffington Post, that doesn't take kindly to trivializing the 9/11 attacks.

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Fondue

Nov 3, 2009 11:43 AM CST

@ BPS, thanks for helping me prove my point. Under the paragraph "Party-based Ideology": True to their nonpartisan tendencies, close to half of political independents -- 45% -- describe their political views as "moderate." Among the rest, the balance of views is tilted more heavily to the right than to the left: 34% are conservative, while 20% are liberal. Thus far in 2009, Gallup has found an average of 36% of Americans considering themselves Democratic, 28% Republican, and 37% independent. - Next time read the whole thing. Also, check out this Gallup article: http://www.gallup.com/poll/122...

Kip

Nov 3, 2009 10:27 AM CST

Murdoch does it for the money. Simple as that. If there was more money in liberal news -- or less competition -- he'd be in charge of a liberal network. He's a classic capitalist. Isn't this obvious to all???

ChickenChopper

Nov 3, 2009 6:51 AM CST

lol. right on i dont care for any combo of either group of them, so i guess it all works.

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Beck Rates Health Reform as 9/11 Attack