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You just made me think about Glenn Beck’s penis. I thought we were friends.
Sorry, hf. It was inconsiderate of me.
It’s ok. I just saw Glenn Beck for the first time on that video Drudge linked yesterday. He kind of reminds me of the guy from CSI that has that eye disease. He said he had had a lot of dark times, and the camera was intimately close and you could see what could maybe have been pain in his eyes. I remember thinking that I bet he drives a really nice car.
Also, just to throw it out there… anyone else wonder if there’s a connection between the Glenn Beck ads that have run on Drudge this year and Drudge’s highlighting a video that was mostly devoid of content but to pimp Glenn Beck’s show on Monday?
So, what kind of surgery was it, and what happened? I don’t feel like watching. I’m more of a reader.
I mean, what’s up with the vlogs? I do internet stuff because I like to READ. If I wanted to watch something (other than the occasionally funny piece) I’d watch tv. I know Dan likes/links videos a lot, but I usually don’t stick around to watch.
It was back surgery, Carin.
I watch at work but not at home usually. Mostly you can just let it run under another browser and get the main ideas from your audio and then just toggle to the intriguing parts. Still, I think some of the videos sometimes really push the boundaries on what kind of length you can really get away with online but that’s part of the evolution to wireless platforms and you gotta move with the times or retire to New Hampshire.
I can empathize. I’ve had back surgery and it is no fun.
I wish that they’d cut off his head–not that it would have made any difference….
“I wish that they’d cut off his head–not that it would have made any difference….”
Said by the peace loving, compassionate mother fucker that he/she most likely claims to be but obviously isn’t. And if you don’t claim to be that, then you’re just an asshole. What an insignificant little prick you must really be cythera4.
Watched the entire video.
Wish I hadn’t. What a whining, preening idiot.
“A life changing moment.” Sob.
Geez, I used to like the guy.
In his defense, mesablue, he was probably still on pain medications…or not. Given his history as a recovering addict, he was probably limited as to what he could take. But you could tell he was at one of his lowest and points, by the rambling.
Back pain is the worst. I managed to collapse two disks a few years ago, elected against surgery..just had teh therapy. Not much for drugs, so I grimaced and bore it.
Makes for a stone face, it does…
Glenn Beck is a tool. Fuck him anyway!
Go ahead, ross — you know you want to.
what a whiny-butt! I’ve had a chronic-pain condition for 40 years, 12 surgeries. Welcome to the real world, Glenn, and I hope you have to fight the world of managed care as well as you feel like crap!!!! See how the rest of us live!!! Real men can’t handle the pain.
The amount of hostility here is amazing. He’s a person like everyone else, just richer and more successful than most… Is that why so many people here are hoping he suffers? How about a little empathy and sympathy? Even the woman who has been suffering for many years is somehow happy and is actually wishing it on another human being.
All he did was post a video telling his story. Geeez.
Glen Beck likes to pretend he is Orson Wells.
The only question is who will do themselves in first.
Glen Beck or that other blowhard Adam Carolla.
Dan Bonaduce
He acts like he’s the only one who’s ever been ill. GEEEZZ Open your eyes, Glenn, the world is filled with others. what an ass. Sorry you had such hard time, but many live their entire life with pain.
Sickness and pain often cause people to regress to immaturity. I don’t know that you can judge the man’s typical approach to the world based on what he says while in pain. A good reason not to make videos at times like that.
Was watching his show and just had to come back to the computer to see why all the commotion. Whiny, whiny. I’ve had three pregancies, emergency appendectomy, ectopic pregnancy,and the most recent was quadruple by-pass after a heart attak. (My daughter took me to my hair stylist the day I came home from the hospital). I pray that one day some man in this world carries a child for nine months and gives birth.Perhaps some woman should give him his rib back.
Wow Louise you are the toughest person in the world!! “Whiny,Whiny” Give him a break, he almost died from a botched surgery. And OOOOHHHHH you have had three pregnancies…..Geez you must be the only woman in the world to do that. Maybe you should nominate yourself for a medal.
Geeze, Louise. Three kids… try going into labor and staying there and have the baby slowly increase in size like a balloon the whole time, then try to push it out through a hole the size of the barrel of a ball point pen. And uh, post a video of it – from the neck up – for us to watch you so much as not even breathe hard. Okay? Hospitals suck.. I know someone who’s worked in them.. too many people could care less about the patients and the ones who do get in trouble for taking the time to give a damn.
I like Glenn, and I have been listening to him for years. I have to agree though, this is whiny. I don’t doubt he was in pain, and for that I empathize with the man, but by his own admission he chose to go home rather then be admitted, and in the regular joe world, that means that if you want back in immediately you better have an appointment or your heart better stop. This is a case where a celebrity didn’t get preferential treatment, despite the call ahead of time to try to get moved to the front of the line. Sorry, I feel for him, but I have heard worse stories of people, young children, sitting around for an hour or more waiting for a doctor. If he waited 45 minutes he got in quick actually. He thought about killing himself? Giving up his life and family and hope? Because he was in pain and had to wait 45 min for the doctor?
If we were ever stuck on an island with Mr. Beck, it is very apparent who we would be eating first.
This was not back surgery. I have been through that more than once. He would not be returning to work this soon. He would not even be able to make that video right after a back surgery. With that said, his comments (on GMA this morning) on the “care” patients receive while going through something traumatic are relavent. He mentions no compassion from one of his healthcare providers in particular as they drummed on the door he was suppossed to walk through in pain w/ no professional assistance. I have experienced this type of lack of compassion as well. He is right when he says we need to put “care” back into healthcare!
I’m watching it now, on ABC, and it was, ironically, hemorroid surgery.
And it wasnt even the actual medical care he’s whining about, it’s;
– waah, their customer service was terrible
– waah, I had a bad trip on my pain meds.
He does have some valid points, but puh-lease, this is totally blown out of proportion. He was comparing his experience with the Saw movies, for crap sake. =/
Baby’s got back
The people of peace are about as peaceful as the Religion of Peace.
I watched the video and later the report on his program. I even watched he and his wife on GMA today. Bottom line (no pun intended) he seems to feel entitled to be more than “a number” because he is GLENN BECK. Guess what pal, that is the way of the world for those who do not make 50 mil a year and always will be. Welcome to the real world. My elderly father had a life threatening injury. Guess what…he was a number and it wasn’t BUTT SURGERY. Get over yourself Mr. Beck. You can’t BUY EVERYTHING.
Well, I watched the video…
I don’t know much about Glenn Beck, I don’t like to watch other people blather on about politics. I prefer to read and make up my own mind. But, pain is pain. Feel sorry for him on that note. I’ve had extreme pain. I don’t wish it on others.
But yeah, the health care systems in the hospitals are horrid. I had to have an emergency appendectomy in January of 2005. And they wouldn’t even let me have an ER bed until I was moaning and crying out loud enough to scare the clinic patients. Then, one nurse, who I would dearly love to smack, said I had the flu…. At least 5 times. While I was exhibiting all the classic signs of appendicitis. Including pain (on a scale of one to ten) of level nine, throwing up, severe temperature fluctuations, curling around my right side, and the bounce back pain. A truly darling woman. Thank goodness for the on call doctor. He only had to take one look at me and said, “You aren’t trying to throw a case of appendicitis on us, are you?” I love love love that man. Pain reliever, tests, and eventually admission and surgery flowed from him. Hallelujah.
Thankfully, this past summer when I had a kidney stone, I knew how to work the system to get what I need. It’s called: Be Loud! And throw up on their feet if you have to. It’s unfortunate that in order to get noticed with an emergency you have to practically throw yourself at them.
My mom broke her leg December 15th. Of course, the most convienent hospital was the one I had been to previously. It took way too long her to get proper pain management, and the doctor on call told her she had a simple fracture that could be all healed up in 2 to 3 weeks. What a crock. She’s still in an air cast, and will be until at least January 18th, and still has the threat of surgery over her head for 3 fractures to the fibula.
For the price of our health care system we sure don’t get much but shit, do we?
Milica
Oh, add on, my mom reminded me that the ER doctor also sent her home only to take her own arthritis medications. Darvoset and Mobic. That in no way!!! did the job. I have never seen my mother in such pain. We had beg the ER later for a prescription of Percoset for her pain. Which I had to pick up over icy roads and drive to the pharmacy. Seems that it would havemade more sense and been more full proof if it had been faxed to the pharmacy, instead of someone merely glancing at my ID and sending me off. I know it’s not legal in my state, but it makes more sense to me.
Listen to yourselves, people, and re-read/watch the video, for God’s sake. The Glenn Beck I saw was letting the small majority of us already know. He was talking about the lack of care given to people needing care, when that is what they are in the business to do. CARE!!! They are not there just to earn their pay, meager as it might be. They have to still make more per hour than I do, being unemployed due to wrongful termination. (Won the case, by the way. By then, I was disabled to the point that I could not get any gainful employment….Long story..) But, what he is saying is very worth bringing into the public eye the atrocities of most, if not all, caregivers. I don’t care if it is hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living or any other supposed health care worker. A few of these people have so much education that they cannot remember what it is like to be stripped of pride, all the money they can get, and most of all, their DIGNITY. I have been the “victim” of needing their care. But most recently, my family went through all of the above with my mother who passed away 2 months ago, mostly caused by MRSA which she must have been exposed to at a high-pay, posh, wun-der-ful assisted living facility or a Class A, highly-rated hospital. My point being, listen to the man and think about what he is saying. Don’t make a big thing whether you like him or his show. I watch it when he has something interesting to me. Why can’t we just listen and HEAR what they are saying? It sounds pretty simple to me. Listen and make eye contact so the “victim” knows that you ARE listening. Thanx for letting me get this out to someone/anyone who just might read/listen to my rant.
glenn, i’m so sorry for surgery ooch but what i’m writing about is that tonya must be sent by the Lord, only special people has what you have. get well so and God bless you both. phyllis kincaid , lenoir, n.c.
I am a Glen beck fan. But, someone should have stopped him before he made that video (esp. if he was on pain medication). It was embarrassing.
Folks, think what medical care will be like when it’s dispensed by the equivalent of the Post Office. Yes, nice people work there, but like all governmental agencies, it’s process-oriented, NOT outcome oriented: so if you are in pain, well, wait your turn. Unfortunately medicine has already moved too far in this sad direction. There’s a reason Canadians come here for medical care; when we become like Canada, think how much worse it will be for all of us. Maybe this was a cosmic hint to Glenn that he has a cause to take up.
Unfortunately I can understand Glen Beck’s outrage. Being a nurse, I would like to remind all of us in the medical community, that no one is forcing us to be in the field we are in. We CHOSE to be in a caretaking field and that is our job. We can go on and on about how bad our healthcare system sucks and I completely agree but lets not make excuses and deflect the focus away from where the responsibility lies. While the current system tends to allow little time with patients, it does in no way stop us from providing the highest level of care with compassion for the short amount of time we do have. We must provide care, comfort and support for our patients as if that were us, our children, parents or friends lying in that bed. The only thing worse than being in pain, is being in pain and having to depend on your caretaker to bring you your pain medication on THEIR time schedule. Glen Beck obviously had a great amount of pain to begin with, combined with the anxiety that many hospitalized patients feel because they are 1) having to convince their doctor/nurse that they are in pain in the first place or that their pain is not managed with the medication the doctor has prescribed or 2)they are having to wait an unacceptable amount of time to recieve their pain medication after it is requested. That level of anxiety actually creates a situation where the patient often requires more medication than if the patient knows that they are not going to have to beg for their medication. As far as Glen Beck whining and complaining etc., I would say that possibly those who have not experienced a similar situation, may wish to reserve comment. For everyone out there who can relate on some level to Mr. Beck’s experience, I send my sincerest apologies for my cohorts who provided care for you in a manner which looked out only for their convenience and not your needs and who are in this field for all the wrong reasons. I have to say that unfortunately, I often observe an attitute in which the patient is a “bother” to his caretakers and there is a complete lack of empathy for the vulnerability that this person is experiencing during a hospital stay. Think about it, you have to go to a strange place to have individuals you don’t know take care of you during an illness or after surgery which, to top it off goes wrong. You have the worst pain you’ve ever experienced and it is not being managed. When it finally is managed, you are on so many medications that you no longer feel your body lying in the bed and your mind is going places that you didn’t even know existed. With Glen Beck’s addiction history, this is admittedly an even greater source of anxiety. You are in such a state that you really cannot be an advocate for yourself. It is fortunate that his wife was able to be with him as much as she was however, that sense of helplessness and vulnerability, I believe, would make most people brake out into a rant. Let’s try to put ourselves into his shoes and cut him some slack.
I had back surgery back in May. The targeted stay in the hospital was 2 – 3 days. The one nurse that “cared” for me mostly was awful at first. My drain hose had come loose from my back (the one that drains blood out of the wound) and she said would not change my sheets that got seriously bloodied. They looked like something out a horror movie. Said it wasn’t her job. Bled all over the floor when I got up and she wouldn’t clean the blood off the floor. Visiting family had to step over it. I was ready to leave that place ever before meeting the release protocol. Some of the other nurses were nicer. There were times that I had to ring them multiple times before they would show up. The nurse from Scottland was super nice and cool. So I know what he means about hospital care. When ever I got irritated with the lack of care, I just mashed the morphine button again. HOOOOOOORRAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY for morphine!!!!!!!
My understanding the Glenn has been experiencing loss of blood since his surgery. I was wondering if the doctors check to see if by chance if (he had a tube down is throat)a vein may have been nick causing the blood lost. My niece had surgery and when the person who put the tube down her throat nick something and evenually she died on the operation table when the doctors try to save her. It is just a thought have this check out.
He didn’t have back surgery. He had back-side surgery. He had hemorrhoids removed. Just wanted to make sure folks are clear…the idiot said he had ‘roid rage’. Still can’t figure out how such a guy failed out of his first year of college, got married, became an alcoholic and drug adict (hopefully not while he was conceiving children), got divorced, converted from catholicism to mormanism, continually speaks before/without thinking, and yet is on the air and perceived as knowledgable. Seems to me that there are a lot of folks out listening to a whining, coke-head, drop out. I was just trying to do some research on the guy and found this thread. Yikes!
women Quit your whinning.your made too have babies. Four or five hours of intense pain too create life.Back pain can last a lifetime. You can tell by the way he walks if he is fakeing. Been there had back surgery. If he is realy hurting then who are we too judge.If he is not,then he needs too take that long look in the mirror.He knows what I mean.
What is the government doing to with the bail out.Besides waste tax payer money. If a business gets bailed out by the share holder they are made accountable for the funds and can not waste them without having to showing where they are going. And why were the people that paid them selves the bonus were not made to refund them or convicted for stealing the money, sinhce that is what they did, as the way that I understand bonuses are paid out is that when a company makes a profit and is paid to the employs, and not just to the upper management, which I would bet was paid to the top management only, and that none of the people who were doing the work at a lower level did not get any.
Glen Beck: Hurry back, I miss you. My comment, and beliefs. When black men greed it puts the world in need. When you’re a righteous man, he finds the world quickly against him… Keep up the good work,Glen. Get well soon. GOD bless.
I accidently came into this boggy blog and felt like I stepped something that really stinks. It stinks of devilish frustration with the fact that this man (Glenn Beck) is about to turn the liberal world upside down with of all things-TRUTH
wow…no wonder the current government is running over America like a drunk trucker. is there nothing else in the world to be concerned about? the truth always lies somewhere in the middle. take from the left and take from the right and devise some real opinions with your own mind. most of you sound like the worthless idiots who have made a career out of dissing celebrities on their choices of attire on the red carpet. really? find something with substance and do your part to get our country going where it needs to. or continue wearing blinders and diapers and argue over hemorrhoids and child birth…
glen beck is great 4 this country it’s always good to have more than 1 view. if u fill u fill his in wrong let it out but calling names is grade school kids and it’s not good 4 either side
i’m a blue dog dem but the leadership of the party is truning people like me red be as libreal as u want but when it comes to u telling me how to live my life u can kiss my red white and blue ass
I have just read one of your sections on illness attributed to you. After reading what was written by others than you, please be advised that there are many sickos out there who are not receiving treatment. I learned in some of my doctoral classes that somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of the population is on drugs or booze and could be considered addicts. Perhaps this number has grown. If people like or dislike others and their ideas, they can always turn or change the channel or radio station. I happen to agree with much that you say, and as a former history teacher myself, think you are an excellent teacher of United States history. Unfortunately, too many people sat in class because they had to take the history to graduate, and did not learn much about different forms of government. A few months ago, I received a letter from the White House, and they all but said they knew that I was sending wrongful accusations about the health bill 3200l. I read the entire bill at the time, and was just informing friends about the lies that our president was telling about the bill. I even clarified with my congressman. He asked me just how I felt about the health bill, and I told him that I was 73, not ready to go, and for him to get real for God’s sake. I then heard from Axelrod, twice, and when I sent 10 pages of documentation about the House bill and accused the entire Executive branch of trying to turn us into a Neo Marxist government, I never heard from them again. My phone sounds funny at times, and I am sure they check my emails, and I do not consider myself to be a paranoid person. I just think this country is being sold a bill of goods by a smooth talking man who may just be a mole for the Islamic Jehhad, bent on destroying this country. I have seen copies of his enrollment as a nine year old Barry Soetoro, at the Fransiskus Assisi school in Jakarta, Indonesia, which listed his religion as “Islam” and his nationality as “Indonesian”. He also received a scholarship at Occidental College as a foreign student from Indonesia. Keep your history lessons coming! Do what is right and forget the nuts! Cecelia R. Smith
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