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?

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.

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

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.

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!

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