Why Glenn Beck Suxors!

[omahas]

So, I'm surfing through CNN, having nothing better to do at the moment (and having just read an article on the site anyway). And I see a headline for an article that peaks my interest. Too Bad, Michigan and Florida. I decide to read it.

It's actually an editorial by Glenn Beck. That should have warned me right there. But I decided to read it anyway. He starts out by blathering some example stories of people/institutions who have gotten themselves into trouble by doing arguably irresponsible things. Then he says,

"These stories prove how personal responsibility has all but vanished in America, and our government is leading the way."

Okay, so he's all about personal responsibility in this editorial, is he? Okay, let's see where this leads.

He goes on to remind everyone about the "Don't Use Drugs" ad from the 80's, the one with the father catching the kid in his room using drugs, and the kid admits he learned how by watching his father's habits. Then Beck says,

"Well, we are that kid and our government is that drug-using father who doesn't think that anyone notices his bad habits."

Whoops...wait a sec. I thought we were all about personal responsibility here, Beck? And now you are passing off the responsibility and blaming "Big Daddy"? Yeah, it's all "Daddy Government's" fault...we wouldn't be this irresponsible if it weren't for our government.

Sigh...why can't we have better editorialists?

Comments

[srmalloy.livejournal.com]

Listening to all the rhetoric about how not allowing Michigan and Florida to send delegates to the Democratic convention (notice that, with the McCain having the Republican nomination locked, no one is complaining that the Florida and Michigan Republicans are being "disenfranchised"), it's all kind of amusing. The national party organization warned the legislatures of the two states that they'd lose their delegates if they went ahead and moved their primaries up into January, and the both states went ahead and did it anyway. Now Hillary is crying outrage at the way the "voices of the people" in these two states are being ignored.

And I can't help but wonder just how hard Hillary would be beating the 'count the vote or do it over' drum if Obama had won both states, or if she were leading in the delegate count. I don't recall her voicing any objections to the "disenfranchisement" until after Obama took the lead away from her. All her protests sound much more like a frantic grab at the possibility of getting more delegates when it appears that her campaign is failing to live up to the earlier promise.