Saturday November 7, 2009, 7:36 am
For the past several months, on radio and television, Beck has cast the SEIU, the country's largest union, as a Toxic Avenger-looking bogeyman in his conspiratorial fantasyland. In the progressive plot of Beck's imagination, the "radical, Marxist" SEIU is conspiring with ACORN "thugs" to destroy the freedoms guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and turn this country into North Korea--or worse.

Just hours before his hospitalization, Beck was at work increasing the pitch of his attacks on SEIU and its leaders. On Monday, he warned his Fox News audience that SEIU president Andy Stern is "controlling our country." On Wednesday, he claimed Stern was spouting "communist, Marxist propaganda" by addressing the need for labor to organize globally in a global economy.

It is obvious listening to Beck go after the SEIU that he has only recently encountered the name Andy Stern. Almost certainly the introduction came in the form of talking points spoon-fed to Beck by his friends at the corporate-funded policy shop, Americans for Prosperity..

He clearly has little to no understanding of what unions do, their central role in creating the American middle-class, or why the labor movement has long served a legitimate and important role in national politics.

While he's lying on his back, Beck should take advantage of his illness to begin his self-education. He might ask his "amazing" nurses what they think about their wages and benefits, which are some of the best in the country. He should ask them to talk about the relationship between those wages and their yellow and purple union cards. He might learn that they enjoy some of the highest standards for healthcare jobs in the country, not because of the "free market," but because generations of 1199 members fought for them.

The quality of care Beck is receiving is directly connected to the proud history of New York's Local 1199. To pick just one study out of many, research by the U.S. National Institutes of Health shows that heart attack victims sent to unionized hospitals enjoy higher survival rates over those sent to non-unionized hospitals by between seven and 11 percent.

If Beck wants to put his healthcare where his mouth is, he should demand to be taken to a non-SEIU hospital on the future morning when the inevitable cardiac arrest interrupts The Glenn Beck Program and puts its smug, unsuspecting host in the back of ambulance once again.

Saturday November 7, 2009, 8:32 am
Beck is delusional and a hypocrite!

Saturday November 7, 2009, 9:27 am
Beck is mentally handicapped. I never watch or listen to him; know nothing of his lifestyle, medical or mental history. He seems to me to be the product of alcoholism; either one of his parents suffered from it and produced damaged sperm or eggs, and/or he himself is or has been a serious abuser of alcohol. Same goes for Rush, BillO and all members of the Extreme Right. They make NO sense, you can't believe anything they say.....so why waste time listening to them??

Saturday November 7, 2009, 10:10 am
I don't listen to him either, but it seems that a lot of people do, and that he has a lot of influence. How much, I really couldn't say. How large is his audience? How many watch his Fox shows & believe the garbage he is sprouting about healthcare reform?

So when I read about such a flagrant case of hypocrisy and I hear about smears against the very health care union whose members have given him care, I think that that news needs to be spread!

Sunday November 8, 2009, 6:42 am
his pointing of the finger came back to point back at him.. never criticise as oneday you will have to face your opponent.. just like he did, butt on the bed pan with his pants down... and a nurse wiping your butt..