Over the years, I and the other writers here at Crooks and Liars have written a lot about right-wing talkers on Fox News and elsewhere fearmongering about “death panels.” It was always a ridiculous construct. No one on the left was talking about euthanizing Granny, but here we are. And not just Granny, but anyone over the age of 60. Seriously, they are having this conversation in a serious way over on the right side of the political spectrum.
But this asshat who manages somehow to scrape together enough people to keep on poisoning them with toxic politics really takes the cake.
“I sincerely hope that we are not at a place, as Americans, where we are going to let the Democrats jam down the Green New Deal because we’re at home panicked,” Glenn Beck told his viewers. “I want to have a frank conversation with you and ask you where you stand. I mean, I’m in the danger zone. I’m right at the edge, I’m 56. In Italy they’re saying if you’re sick and your 60, don’t even come in. So I’m in the danger zone.”
WHAT danger zone? There is NO danger zone. We are not going to leave people over 60 to die in the street in the greatest nation on earth, are we?
Well, no. We’re not. And even Beck concedes that. Like Tucker Carlson the night before, Beck has the idea that the elders in our society should sacrifice themselves on the altar of St. Dow or Sister NASDAQ.
