Beck Keeps Lying and Losing Advertisers

Posted on 08/15/2009 at 3:45 pm by Bob Cesca

More than a dozen advertisers have bailed out of the Glenn Beck show.

Yet he continues to flagrantly lie on his show.

This time, on Friday’s show, he claimed that Hawking never enjoyed government help with his ALS disease, “without a bailout or a hand out.” Again, this was yesterday. Several days after this Investor’s Business Daily myth/typo/gaffe was widely debunked and corrected in the media.

Stephen Hawking, this week, praised England’s national healthcare system and credits his survival to the outstanding care he received from the government-run healthcare program:

“I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS,” he said. “I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.”

There’s no gray area there.

Adding… Guess who’s a big fan of Glenn Beck’s work? Grasshole.

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  • http://nanotyrnns.blogspot.com Nanotyrannus

    So. Who is that’s been paying to keep Hawking alive for forty years? What awesome private insurance company has been footing the bill all this time?

  • alopecia

    Two quick points:1) Most if not all of the advertisers pulling out of Beck’s show are still buying time on FNC. Color me unimpressed.2) Even before he gets to the flagrant lie about Dr Hawking pulling himself up “without a bailout or a handout,” Beck mangles Dr Hawking’s life story. When he was diagnosed with ALS, Dr Hawking was already a brilliant scientist. And, contrary to Beck, he didn’t simply “pick himself up” as if he were a toddler who’d stumbled: Dr Hawking spent the next several years more or less trying to drink himself to death, an understandable reaction. Beck’s writers can’t seem to get anything right, can they?3) (For lagniappe…) I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: Glenn Beck is an actor who believes the lines he speaks for precisely as long as it takes him to say them. He’s not a very good actor, but that’s a topic for another time.

  • mrspeel2

    And there’s no gray matter in Glenn Beck’s head!

  • http://oneceltsview.blogspot.com/ Wolfe_Tone

    Bob,That’s one of my favorite plays, and was my directorial debut in community theater (it was a hit, by the way).Thanks for sullying the memory for me.

  • http://broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl™

    He has the time to read that drivel but doesn’t have the time to read the 1,000 page health care bill.Or maybe even worse, he’s looking for it “on tape” because (GASP!)… he can’t read!

  • http://broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl™

    Clarification: “He” meaning Grassley, who had a copy of Beck’s “Common Sense.” If only Beck actually had some. Common sense that is.