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Glenn Beck launched a sordid smear campaign against Teresa Heinz Kerry, the hospitalized wife of Secretary of State John Kerry, accusing her and the State Department of orchestrating her medical scare to divert public attention away from reports about the whereabouts of her husband during Egypt's most recent transition of power. In a pair of cheap shots on his radio program and web show, Beck speculated that Heinz Kerry is lying and drew an institutional connection between what he baselessly suggests is Heinz Kerry's fake injury and the 2012 concussion suffered by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, which Beck referred to at the time as a "scam."
On July 3, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi was deposed by the country's military leaders amidst popular protests. That same day, CBS reported that one of its producers had spotted Secretary Kerry aboard a yacht in the Nantucket Boat Basin. The State Department denied the allegations, and noted that Kerry was "working all day and on the phone dealing with the crisis in Egypt."
Four days later on July 7, 74-year-old Heinz Kerry, Kerry's wife, was hospitalized with symptoms of a seizure that left her in critical condition. Doctors upgraded her condition to "fair" on Monday morning.
On his radio show, Beck compared Heinz Kerry's hospitalization to that of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for a blood clot, which he suggested was orchestrated to distract the press from the Benghazi attacks. Beck called the State Department's denial of Kerry's whereabouts a "huge scandal" and wondered if Heinz Kerry's injury -- which took place four days after Morsi's ouster -- was also orchestrated as a distraction, asking "You expect me to believe that Mrs. Ketchup is in critical condition? I mean, no offense, maybe she is." Beck then compared Heinz Kerry's medical scare to Clinton's in 2012, wondering of Clinton's treatment, "Was that just a scam?"
full: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/07/08/glenn-beck-hospitalized-heinz-kerry-may-be-faki/194775
Wow, is this worse than the 2004 Swift Boat attacks or what? And with this kind of talk, can you believe that a lot of average Americans actually take Beck seriously? Also, there's gotta be a reason why Beck included the word "truth" in his latest book Control: The Truth About Guns. He can't hold down an argument on its merits I think. And remember when Beck was hospitalized extensively? I don't remember liberals saying "oh Glenn Beck is faking it".
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)Response to alp227 (Original post)
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Just Saying
(1,799 posts)Couldn't help myself.
I hope our almost First Lady gets well soon!
BainsBane
(53,035 posts)nobodyspecial
(2,286 posts)He would pull a stunt like this so he assumes everyone else would do the same thing. Not sure how you fake a medical crisis. Hospitals and doctors don't routinely lie -- like he does.
siligut
(12,272 posts)His story is much more intriguing than a seizure.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)He's living down in Texas these days, isn't he?
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Beck would not admit the truth if someone was helping him.
Warpy
(111,275 posts)They know how phony they are and it comforts them to pretend everybody else is just as fake.
treestar
(82,383 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)Like "Hillary fell on purpose". Same fallacy regurgitated.
madashelltoo
(1,698 posts)It would melt this board.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)To them, any illness is a moral failing and means you are a bad person.
When I was in a hospital bed and had just delivered our child by C-section, which is major abdominal surgery, what was my ex doing?
Sitting as far away from me as possible in the far corner of the room telling me I was "lazy".... I couldn't get up for two days because had spinal anesthesia. He thought I was supposed to drop a kid like a peasant woman with no help. I think he wanted me and the baby to die so he would not have the burden of a family. I and the baby would have died without a c-section. There is no doubt about that.
He was mad at me for having a beautiful healthy baby. He never appreciated what he had and threw it all away by his cruelty. He only cares about money. People are not important.
Later I got very sick from his constant nagging. He told the babysitter that I was faking severe bacterial pneumonia--lungs completely full of pus--and that I bribed the doctor to put me in the hospital. The dr. had to vacuum my lungs out several times to save me from drowning in my own poison, and he thought those thousands of dollars of medical bills were totally unnecessary because I faked it all.
They also think people fake being sick because they want attention. Wanting attention is bad.
He's a sick motherfucker.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)Him, not you.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Last edited Tue Jul 9, 2013, 03:27 AM - Edit history (1)
Our daughter's preschool teacher in fact.
The man shortage is beyond critical is all I can say.
He had a beautiful house, beautiful wife and beautiful daughter and managed to lose it all because I wouldn't tolerate his cruelty.
Oh, and I had to pay him child support.
These macho bastards refuse to deal with human physical needs. This is evident with teachers and bosses who won't let students/employees eat, take bathroom breaks, get up and walk around. They think they are immortal and women are weak because we are disabled by menstruation and childbearing, therefore we should not be accommodated at work.
Glenn Beck is an ass.
no_hypocrisy
(46,122 posts)who called on the air the wife of a rival radio show who had just had a miscarriage and mocked her for not being able to carry a baby to term, that she was a failure.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)The bag.