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Health Care Hypocrisy: Glenn Beck Channels Karl Rove

By Dan Filler

Remember this delicious segment from Jon Stewart - when he tastefully noted the way the GOP talking heads like Karl Rove had flipped on the experience and gender issues with the arrival of VP candidate Sarah Palin?   Stewart is at it again.  

Here we discover that conservative talk show host Glenn Beck was against our current health care system before he was for it.  (And to pre-empt the critics: yes, I can see how one could view Beck's two perspectives as not inconsistent.  It's just that when your product is hot air, it seems fair to be hoisted by your own petard - or perhaps more accurately, peditum.)

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on August 17, 2009 (boomark / email).