Glenn Beck Surgery Goes "Horribly Awry"

[RamboLiberal]

Headline News' Glenn Beck talks about his recent botched surgery, rails against the hospital where he was treated, launches into the Presidential campaign and a lack of compassion then talks about how he became "full fledged suicidal."

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX1rLv_hNeI

:nopity: from me. This jerk probably has great health insurance from CNN & his radio gig. *sshats like him like to brag U.S. is #1 in health care. The little bit of video I can stomach looks like he's throwing a pity party for himself. Maybe this is a wakeup call to the jerk!

[Avalux]

1. From what I saw, he had a bad trip from his pain meds.

And he kept talking about compassion and being "better able to implement it now". Maybe he's seen the light and will become a liberal. ;-)

[Radio_Lady]

83. Oh, dear. That's a subject that's very close to my heart.

:rofl:

[Junkdrawer]

2. Now imagine the broadcast when Rush's house goes underwater...

due to Global Warming....

It's only real if it happens to THEM....

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. Pity partys are so over-rated...

as Mr. Beck may find out shortly...

:popcorn:

[AlCzervik]

4. what the kind of surgery did he have, his sense of shame was removed long ago

so thats not it.

[alfredo]

20. They tried to extract his head out of his ass, but failed.

[MilesColtrane]

30. Craniorectal inversion surgery is notoriously difficult.

I guess he'll have to keep talking out his ass.

[alfredo]

32. The difficulty stemmed from the surgeon not being able to

tell the difference between the two ugly, smelly holes.

[pink-o]

76. LOL LOL...

I love it!!

...I'm gonna need surgery to dislodge the vodka-coated icecube from my own throat now!!

[LSK]

49. DUZY RIGHT THERE

:rofl:

[Andy Canuck]

86. For the sake of the planet

I am hoping it was a vasectomy.

[shenmue]

5. The sad thing is, he doesn't see it.

He doesn't see the connection between bad things that happen to him and bad things that happen to other people. I bet he hates it if other people have issues with the health care system.

:(

[ingac70]

9. "Conservatives" are incapable of empathy. n/t.

[Canuckistanian]

68. Incapable of empathy and sympathy

However, they make up for it in psychopathy and sociopathy.

[readmoreoften]

6. Full-fledged suicidal? What a disappointment. I wish he was a man of action. /nt

[ingac70]

7. Nah. ALL talk. n/t.

[originalpckelly]

11. Suicide is not something to joke about.

Your comment has the air of superiority in it, is this joking about such a serious thing superior?

[originalpckelly]

8. This sounds very interesting, is he having a change of heart?

[Richard Steele]

64. No, by "horribly awry" they mean he's just the same as he ever was. nm

[Warpy]

10. People have weird reactions to opiates

and most of the people who don't have weird reactions to them want to get off them ASAP. Except for an unlucky few with the wrong sort of brain chemistry, opiate use is self limiting.

As for his revelations about the meaning of compassion, I'll believe that when I see it.

Right now it just looks like a pity party because nobody in a short staffed for profit hospital had time to kiss it and make it all better.

[supernova]

12. He doesn't want to talk about it

but he makes a tape to splatter all over YT, Fox, and the rest of the net.

:crazy:

[City Lights]

13. Good thing he had it here in the US, where our health care is #1!

Imagine how horribly, horribly awry it would have gone if he'd had it elsewhere. :sarcasm:

Sorry Beck, you get :nopity: from me.

[Marr]

14. It always amazes me how quick these self-proclaimed manly men whine.

It's almost as if they didn't come from salt of the earth, blue collar backgrounds at all. I know in my community, that kind of whining was something you'd only expect from a child.

[wtmusic]

65. Bingo.

:thumbsup:

[spotbird]

15. What kind of surgery did he have?

He looks like shit.

[KamaAina]

47. They tried to remove that big, ugly tumor on top of his neck

and, clearly, failed. :puke:

[Radio_Lady]

84. ROFL.

:rofl:

[seemslikeadream]

16. What was your key to recovery?

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/cnn/glenn_becks_road_ahead_a_doctor_told_me_you_keep_treating_your_body_like_this_youll_be_dead_in_6_months__71460.asp

TVN: Are you ever worried about saying the wrong thing?

Beck: I worry about saying the wrong thing all the time. Not that I'm worried that someone is out to get me; someone is always out there from the left or the right to get everybody. Where I beat myself up the most is when it comes out the wrong way, or sounds hurtful. I don't want to be that guy.

TVN: You've had your ups and downs, overcoming drug and alcohol abuse. What was your key to recovery?

Beck: Knowing what I believe. I, for most of my life, was afraid of myself. I was trapped in my own selfishness and greed and ego until I bottomed out and realized death is the next step. A doctor told me, 'You keep treating your body like this you'll be dead in six months.' Eight months later I was still drinking and doing drugs. I was suicidal. My mom took her life when I was 13. I was one of the few that was able to change and restart.

Number 1: The only thing I own of value is my word. So I've got to say what I mean. Number 2: I've got to know what I believe and why I believe it. I'm still sketchy on a lot of stuff. If you are unafraid of the answers you'll find, not a slave to an agenda or particular answer, you just want the truth, everything in life will turn around for you.

[Canuckistanian]

74. He went through all that and is STILL as asshole?

Sounds like he's still fight his battles only without the drugs and alcohol.

And why is it that the BIG conservative stars are all recovering addicts?

[knitter4democracy]

17. Ha! What a dip.

Chances are, he had regular care and can't understand why it's so bad. Understaffed nurses are cranky nurses who can't catch everything. Overworked doctors miss stuff. S*** happens, as they say.

Look, Beck, I had a scary surgery last year. They quartered me, held my ribs out of the way for three hours, took out a pound of flesh, and cut off three inches of rib. When I woke up, I had no pain control. We had been hoping that Duramorph (morphine into the spine in an epidural) would work, given my history of narcotics only giving me side effects and no pain relief. Well, it didn't. Do I blame my doctors? No. The lab chick could draw my blood well at all. Did I do a video blog post about her, name names, and throw a hissy? No, I just refused to let her touch me again on the last day. The surgeon chewed me out, I stood my ground, and he finally admitted that he didn't really absolutely need the numbers that day. My nurse yelled at me for being upset at the bruising and horrible pain from the lab chick's many attempts at getting blood, forgetting that I had no real pain control for one of the biggest surgeries that can be done to a body. Did I post her name all over the internets? Heck no, I just forgave her and realized she'd been yelled at by the surgeon first, even though it wasn't her fault.

I really hope that whole mess is from his meds. Sheesh.

[bullwinkle428]

18. So will he have to hire a lawyer? Like, say, John Edwards, for example?

In an effort to get some restitution from the hospital?

Karma is indeed a bizzle!!

[spotbird]

23. They always sue when it happens to them,

even when there was no malpractice.

This is promotional, nothing more.

[AlCzervik]

19. does anybody know what type of surgery he had?

[spotbird]

21. It looks like the kind you

get when you want to drive up ratings by keeping it a mystery.

This guy is disgusting.

[lonestarnot]

70. Well maybe he won't be able to breed.

[Kingshakabobo]

22. Darn! I thought there would be better news after THAT headline.

[lpbk2713]

24. Maybe Limbaugh can fix him up with a big supply of Oxycontin.

Those RW Radio Hatemongers have to stick together don't you know.

[yurbud]

were they trying to replace his missing soul and his body rejected it?

[gasperc]

25. maybe he should go to Canada

where they have a good health care system

[Stephanie]

26. Here - I did a rough transcription for my bf who's at work >

Quite a pity party >

Beck from the Dead

Recovering from surgery - scheduled, went horribly awry. The joke that will never end. On the way to the hospital i said, if i die... almost happened. one of the most eye opening experiences of my life to receive health care in the U.s. in one our glorious medical institutionis even tho i live in a very nice area was phenomenally bad. I have stories that will melt your brain and hopefully melt the brain of hte CEO of this hospital because this is the hosptial where the president of GE is going. If they don't care about him do you think they care about average working stiffs? Same could be saidd for the soldiers in Walter REed - the government treats our heroes this way? I got a piece of it. I'm wrting something now on the real meaning of compassion becuase I know what it means, i think i can define it now. because it's where all of us get screwed up when we're getting ready to vote. we don't even understand compassion any more. but i have some real examples of compassion and what it means. I'll share that on monday as well. so that ties into what are we voting for right now. also i had one of the darker experiences of my life, maybe not as dark as when i see this tape on youtube. i had one of the darker moments, it's the only time i've had moments of things that were going on in my head, much of them drug induced with the medication from the hospital.doctor said you're on a combination of just about everything that we have for pain and i said yeah i'm trying to live without it right now. but this stuff took me into place that i started on thursday and by saturday night i was full fledge suicidal and then somethign happened that turned me in a miraculous fashion that i am once again in awe of my wife. ithink she saved my soul twice. saturday night if they came in with a broom and a handgun and said we can give you more medication or we can give you this handgun and you can blow your brains out i would have honestly taken the handgun at that point and ended it. and it was jarring to me to be a successful guy to just come off this tour where i met so many people. i'm sitting here with a quilt given to me by project blindness given to me on tour. they made this quilt for me so i'[m thinking about them. it was so weird to go from so much success, so much going on in your life. to in three days being convinced that there's absolutely no reason to live. that'll either screw you up or it will open your eyes. and i think it really opened my eyes and i can't wait to share that with you as well. so that and you know the coming economic apocoplypse on monday's show. the doctor said,

[salin]

27. sounds like a pretty serious experience

I hope he grows from it.

[Lex]

28. I'm sorry his surgery went horribly awry. He's still a giant asshat.

nt

[pleah]

29. I thought at first the guy died. To bad his mouth is still running.

[Contrary1]

31. Let me take a wild guess here...

Those lowly hospital workers did not realize that the one and only Mr. Glenn Beck was the patient in that room?

Did he have to wait for his pain meds more than a couple minutes?
Was the food not quite up to par for his distinguished taste buds?
Did he have to pour his own glass of water?

I am almost tempted to tune him in, just to hear what he believes is botched surgery, and lack of compassion. I imagine it is the same thing the rest of us are used to.

What a self-important twit.

[jmowreader]

67. No....they KNEW the one and only Mr. Glenn Beck was the patient

Unfortunately for the one and only Mr. Glenn Beck, all the nurses on that floor are registered Democrats.

[RedCappedBandit]

33. Okay, so, he got low and couldn't handle it?

Rofl, cry me a river. I can't stand to listen to this guy speak.

[peekaloo]

34. Well if the surgery was for penis enlargement it seems like a rousing success.

that guy is a HUGE dick.

[blondeatlast]

50. Except it's attached to his shoulders--maybe that's what went so terribly wrong.

:shrug:

[Binka]

71. SNARF!

Oh shit that is toooooooo funny! :thumbsup:

[The Backlash Cometh]

35. Tell him to write to Michael Moore. Maybe he'll put his story on you-tube

[malaise]

36. Ding ding we have a winner n/t

[The Backlash Cometh]

37. Glenn Beck is an asshat. If you're over 35, you're the walking wounded from

some botched medical treatment. It used to be that a conservative was a liberal who got mugged. Now it's the other way around. The new liberals will be a conservatives who have had a botched medical procedure which was dismissed in court.

[malaise]

39. Wouldn't you enjoy seeing Michael Moore

destroy his fascist ass in public?

[The Backlash Cometh]

40. It would do wonders to the endorphines.

[democrat2thecore]

38. Hate is so easy. The immature responses here astound me.

I can't stand Glenn Beck. He's as far to the right as they go. HOWEVER......

I just watched that whole video and that guy just came off an experience that - obviously - has had a profound effect on him. Why not wait and see what happened? Reading through this thread it is obvious that, for some, compassion is only for those with whom we agree with politically. That's pathetically immature and separates the kids from the adults on this forum - and I don't necessarily mean chronological age.

Hate is so easy. We're better than that.

Edit: Here is direct link to the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX1rLv_hNeI

[The Backlash Cometh]

42. The point is, that GB and his ilk make a living of bashing anyone who

has had the kind of experience that he now has. All of a sudden he expects all kinds of attention and compassion, when he never showed compassion for anyone else?

He can start by saying, he was wrong before and that he now sees our point.

[democrat2thecore]

43. A Quote

Compassion? It's easy to care for your friends. The true measure of a person is how you treat your enemies when they are hurting.

Or something of the sort. The meaning is clear anyway. Unfortunately, we live in a day where everyone we disagree with we put in the same class as Hitler. So many living in a black & white world, when in fact, it's a gray world we are all fighting through to make sense of it all.

[The Backlash Cometh]

45. You're absolutely right.

Compassion is running low these days. And you know why? Because compassion doesn't bring us togther the way it use to. It's just used as a weakness against you. So, not until someone shows contrition and offer restitution, if needed, will I even bother to care about them. You see, that's how the good ole boy system works. They make sure you feel sorry for them, get invested in them, and then they screw you over WITH YOUR APPROVAL, no less.

[wtmusic]

62. I feel sorry for people who screw me over

so much that I invite them to screw me over again. It's the least I can do. If I keep letting them screw me over, ONE day they'll realize how bad they've been and buy me a big yummy chocolate milkshake.

No "good ole boy system" for me!

[The Backlash Cometh]

69. It's often frightening to see how easily they feed on those who provide

them compassion too readily. Let's face it, we've been riding a cycle of abuse for the last ten years and these people are the generators. They manipulate people through emotions, evoking fear when they want your undivided attention, and when fear no longer works, they try to stir up your sympathy and compassion. The "Don't kick me when I'm down" strategy. The big question is, what are they going to do once they figure out that we can't be emotionally manipulated anymore, and they have no other alternative but to reason with us, on our terms?

[DEMocracity]

61. Yes...

You, my friend, "get it".

[Binka]

73. Oh Thanks For Your Concern

Not.

[JBoy]

44. I agree - show me some contrition Glenn,

and I'll show some compassion. Until then, consider this a character-building opportunity. Maybe the doctors can install some bootstraps, so you can pull yourself up.

[RamboLiberal]

51. As another poster said I'll show compassion when he shows

contrition. I'm interested in what the heck he considers "horribly wrong" in his surgery! He at least got his surgery unlike those who's health insurance bickers over providing it. Or those who have no health insurance and can't get the surgery. Did they amputate the wrong body part for Beck? Was he awake during the surgery feeling horrible pain but couldn't tell them? Or is he just going through post-surgery depression?

I'll say he's got me curious!

[The Backlash Cometh]

72. Well, you'll get your answers. He has his own soapbox to rely on.

Some of us weren't so lucky. What we got was the cheap HMO referral game -- being referred from doctor to doctor, as each one hoped the other would convince the patient that it was all in her head. And by the time she figured out that all her problems were derived from that first wrong prescription, the statute of limitations had run out. They won. If Glen Beck wants my sympathy, he can start by starting a movement to eliminate statute of limitations.

[creeksneakers2]

81. My guess

Glenn is a former drug addict. He should not have been given narcotics for pain relief.

Narcotics were given for three days. That's long enough to create a physical addiction. Perhaps Glenn realized he was once again an addict and thought he was about to go back to the hell he'd previously known.

[wtmusic]

56. Don't confuse hate with pointing out hypocrisy

Glenn Beck, one of the most hateful people on the planet, goes beyond that -- he is a hate advocate. A public figure who spreads hate like seed.

Excuse me if I can't generate one ounce of sympathy for this self-pitying, pathetic hypocrite as he explains "how best to apply compassion". When he gets on his knees and publicly apologizes for his support of a war where hundreds die daily I'll rethink my attitude.

[knitter4democracy]

78. He has made fun of others' pain and now wants sympathy.

That, dear friend, is hypocrisy. If he had apologized for ever demeaning others, if he had talked about the compassion he alluded to and what it meant to him, if he had given any clue that he really had changed because of the experience, maybe people here would give him the benefit of the doubt. Instead, he talked about naming names, attacking those who hurt him, and whined about how bad it was.

I'm sure he went through an awful experience. It happens. I lost my right kidney, right adrenal gland, and three inches of rib last year to a huge tumor--all with no pain control when I woke up from surgery. I didn't get on YouTube and cry about it. I didn't attack my doctors and out my day nurse who was understaffed and overworked. He had a bad reaction to pain meds. I wish the darn things worked on me. Instead of taking that moment and thinking of all those in pain every day, all those who suffer with no health care or bad health care, he whined about it and blamed everyone else.

I'm sorry he had a bad surgery experience. I know how that feels, and I still deal with the trauma of all those needles that still scare me and all that pain that still gives me nightmares. I know how that feels. Still, he needs to really learn from this and change, not whine and blame.

[creeksneakers2]

80. I'm surprised I feel anything for Glenn at all.

Michael Shiavo's wife's brain was severely damaged from a heart attack. For years, Michael tried quack cures or anything that might change his wife's situation. Much of her brain was gone. She could no longer think. She didn't even know she existed.Her heart and lungs pumped but she was no longer in her body. Michael decided to close the situation. For years the wife's family dragged Michael through the courts. Finally, Michael got court permission to have his wife's feeding tube removed.

While Michael was going through this:

Glenn told a national audience Michael's wife was cognitive, and responded to family presence and visual cues. (Actually, Michael's wife's brain deteriorated to the point that all portions capable of cognition were gone.)

Glenn said Michael never had his wife's brain scanned. Michael did. There was no point in repeating scans after it was learned that significant portions of brain were gone. Brains don't grow back.

Said Michael stood to inherit a large sum and that was Michael's motivation. (there was no inheritance)

Raised the possibility Michael caused his wife's condition.

Accused Michael of wanting to get rid of his wife so he could carry on with his new woman. (Michael waited years before dating again. He never married his new love until after he'd seen to his wife's needs.)

Said Michael and judges in the case were part of a culture of death.

Accused Michael of trying to murder his wife while she was in hospice care.

Many other lies as well. The peak came just before Michael's wife passed on. Glenn Beck took up a collection and offered Michael the proceeds in exchange for what remained of his wife. It was up to $6 million. Glenn laughed that Michael would surely take the money, being so evil. Michael never took the money.

Glenn admitted during the weeks when he made slandering Michael the top feature of his show that Glenn covered the case from the other side for a radio station five years earlier. Beck must have known that everything he was saying about Michael, who was going through so much, was a lie.

Beck's conduct was sick. I surely hope his experience in the hospital sends him on a tour of his own behavior. God can still save his soul.

[jhain]

41. Mostly likely

he simply had a spas attack when they didn't send him home with enough dope.
Addict.

[Mike03]

46. One would hope that Beck's experience of suffering might teach a lesson about

compassion for others. It wasn't that long ago he was telling the homeless and destitute to go f*ck themselves because they get what they deserve for being lazy.

But suffering didn't teach Tony Snow, Rush Limbaugh or Bill O-Reilly compassion, so I won't hold my breath.

[windoe]

48. He says he knows the definition of compassion-

pain and loss often trigger epiphanies in even the darkest personalities. I for one hope he has had one, and do not wish to be as hateful as he has been.

[Bright Eyes]

52. He was full fledged suicidal?

Damn. Where's Dr.Kevorkian?

[wtmusic]

53. "Full-fledged suicidal" is akin to "attempting suicide"

A cry for attention. It takes something less than an idiot to be successful at suicide.

[Junkdrawer]

54. PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the rest of the human race, will not be responsible for any karmic debt or liabilities contracted by Glenn Beck, as he/she is no longer associated with the human race as of January 4th, 2008.

[warrior1]

55. So what

was the surgery for?

[Junkdrawer]

58. All I could find...

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/3413/

[Radio_Lady]

85. Where do I sign up?

[Earth_First]

57. FROM THE WORLD'S BEST HEALTHCARE PROVIDER?!

How's that privatized healthcare that you rave about day in and day out treating you now?

I'd hate to have seen the results from a Universal Healthcare provider.

[RamboLiberal]

59. For those feeling any sympathy for Glenn Beck some quotes

On families of the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks: "his is horrible to say, and I wonder if I'm alone in this -- you know, it took me about a year to start hating the 9-11 victims' families? Took me about a year."

On Hurricane Katrina survivors who remained in New Orleans: "And that's all we're hearing about, are the people in New Orleans. Those are the only ones that we're seeing on television are the scumbags -- and again, it's not all the people in New Orleans. Most of the people in New Orleans got out! It's just a small percentage of those who were left in New Orleans, or who decided to stay in New Orleans, and they're getting all the attention."

Discussing disclosures from a caller who claimed to have tortured prisoners in U.S. custody: "I've got to tell you, I appreciate your service. ... Good for you. Good for -- I mean, good for you. Is it because you did it for the country? ... I have to tell you, when all is said and done, I'm glad people like you are on our side."

On filmmaker Michael Moore: "Hang on, let me just tell you what I'm thinking. I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out -- is this wrong?"

On the father of Nick Berg, American civilian beheaded in Iraq: "The want to be a better person today than I was yesterday says he's a dad, he's grieving, but I don't buy that. I'm sorry, I don't buy it. I think he is grieving, but I think he's a scumbag as well. I don't like this guy at all."

http://mediamatters.org/items/200605030014

On the November 14 edition of his CNN Headline News program, Glenn Beck interviewed Rep.-elect Keith Ellison (D-MN), who became the first Muslim ever elected to Congress on November 7, and asked Ellison if he could "have five minutes here where we're just politically incorrect and I play the cards up on the table." After Ellison agreed, Beck said: "I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.' " Beck added: "I'm not accusing you of being an enemy, but that's the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way."

http://mediamatters.org/items/200611150004

[cynatnite]

60. I couldn't sit through that garbage of his at all...

He sounds so full of shit...but then, he always sounds that way. I just for the life of me can't take him seriously at all.

I'm wondering if he's upset that he didn't get a custom built bed or he wanted the nurses to rub his toes or something. :puke:

[hatrack]

63. Hope it hurt, Glenn.

Hope it continues to hurt.

That is all.

And no, I'm not sorry.

[lunatica]

66. Self pity is the best kind

Because you know it's sincere.

:nopity: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[tsuki]

75. No, not a wake up call. He is a professional victim. He is

victimized by everyone and everything. The survivors of 911, Katrina, the California fires, the illegal immigrants, the poor, etc.; they all conspire against him to steal his taxes, his health care, his way of life--a professional victim just like most of the Republicans I have met.

[Beelzebud]

77. I agree. He lived.

[Rex]

79. Aw, to bad they didn't lop his head off.

I mean, get better you piece of shit.

[Orsino]

82. Get him on record NOW as to how he feels about tort reform...

...and single-payer health care.

[candymarl]

87. I feel so sorry for him

NOT!

[deutsey]

88. Oh, boo hoo, hoo, Glenn

Something goes wrong in your perfect little life and now suddenly the healthcare industry is bad, verrrrry bad?

Cry me a river, dickhead.