Antivaxer Glenn Beck, is going to kill somone if the flu vaccine becomes mandatory

[EvolveOrConvolve]

Okay, that's not exactly what he said:

Today's outburst came in the middle of a hypothetical scenario Beck developed, one in which the government would consider taking his children because he refused to have them receive a mandatory flu vaccine. Beck explained to the audience that his response to such a claim would be to "meet Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson," a reference to the gun manufacturer.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201010150025

The rhetoric from anti-vaxers like Beck is truly scary. It's scary that he thinks the government will take his children and even more scary that his answer to this is to take up arms and shoot someone. It's scary that Beck (who has been pretty outspoken about his fear of the vaccine) has so little understanding of science, technology, medicine, and society, and that he lacks basic common sense. The irony is that science has provided the technology for the vehicle he uses to promote his anti-science and anti-vax nonsense.

[mzteris]

1. omg -

he has OFF-SPRING???

well, maybe it's just as well they don't get vaccinated . . .

(was that mean? :hide:)

[EvolveOrConvolve]

6. I was sorta thinking the same thing

Why is it that the idiots like Mr. Beck always have to over-procreate? I actually feel sorry for his kids - their dad is a raging alcoholic barely holding back the urge to go on a wild bender while at the same time trying to suppress a nasty case of paranoid schizophrenia (my guess). Oh, and he's a complete sociopath.

Was THAT mean? :)

[DCKit]

2. I talked to a guy in Western VA who claimed he was told by a state legislator...

that the H1N1 vaccine was delayed until the gubmint could insert drugs or a virus that would destroy the immune systems of the elderly and make children sterile.

[CoffeeCat]

5. Was this person serious...

....and is this a serious person?

[DCKit]

11. Just a bit whackadoodle. With weapons.

Not a real threat as far as I can tell - very rural.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

13. It only takes a little bit of whackadoodle

If you mix it with firearms, you've got the potential for a not-very-nice scenario.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

7. Holy crap, get that guy some help!

Paranoia like that is usually a sign of mental problems.

[DCKit]

12. One of the 23% teabaggers.

You can't tell someone like that they need help.

He's in his 70's, but I know many younger people who are just as rigid in their thinking.

[d_r]

3. come to think of it

remember on the x-files. There was something about small pox vaccines and cataloging dna, or something, and something about bee pollen and aliens impregnating women, and something about the government hiding an alien invasion or something like that. And some kind of oil stuff in the artic that turned people's eyes black. And an alien guy that you could only kill by stabbing in the back of the neck, and he was like a clone or something. Anyway, I wonder if that is what has him worried. I bet it is.

[lizerdbits]

15. Black Oil

The alien virus that looked like oil but would infect by permeating the skin. There was one episode where Mulder found a buried train car full of alien corpses in the southwest that all had smallpox vaccine scars. Another episode had Mulder and Scully in an abandoned coal mine in WV looking through files of people who were "abducted". Yes, you could only kill the alien hybrids with a special instrument to a specific spot in the back of the neck. Fortunately most of us realized that it was fictional TV.

[CoffeeCat]

4. "They're taking down the swingsets!!!!!!!!"

Seriously.

Beck was in a major meltdown yesterday because an elementary school took down
a swingset. Apparently, there had been some injuries due to the swingset. So
the school took it down.

Beck was freakin.

I'm telling ya. You have to watch the show. I've never actually watched a dry
drunk swirl down the drain while careening through a panic-driven breakdown. But
it's on Fox for all to see.

Yesterday, he went OFF on the new, healthy school lunches. Boy was he angry.

It's the government!!!!! They're telling us what to eat!!!!! They're trying
to control us!!! And our kids!!!! Beck said, "Changing to healthy menus is
a nudge, but pretty soon, it will a push!!!!!"

A push. A PUSH I TELL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The government is trying to control
our lives with salad and apple wedges. RUN!!! Run for your ever lovin liiiiiiives!!!!!!!
Just don't run into a swingset!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm sorry if that was annoying, but seriously. That was the show yesterday.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

8. I can't stomach the guy so I never watch his show

Except when I'm at the doctor's office on mental health day. It's deliciously ironic that I'm there for a checkup on my psych meds and I get to watch a raving lunatic on the TV.

I wish that I could say that Beck's career has plateaued, but that level of crazy is important to Fox News.

[thunder rising]

10. I know I'm at least sane enough not to want to watch Beck. I take my clues as they show up.

I used to say, that if I ever thought I understood "Silence of the Lambs" I was in trouble; but, now that's trivial compared to prime time.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

14. Yea, I take comfort in the fact that I'm not as messed up as Beck

No matter how bad things get, I can always imagine myself living in Beck's skull and know that there are far worse fates than my own.

[hedgehog]

20. Why would a psychiatrist have Fox on in the waiting room?

It's almost as if he's presenting a test challenge to his patients. Depending on how they react, he'll know what's going on with them.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

21. It's my family doctor

My kick ass medical plan doesn't cover the $300/hr psychiatrist, so my family doc does the best he can with my condition.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

9. The unrec monsters are at it again

Why, WHY would anyone unrec a thread about Glenn Beck and his conservative lunacy?

[Quantess]

16. And besides, what basis does he have to think that flu vaccines would ever be mandatory?

He pulls scenarios from out of his ass, and weaves them into whole cloth.

[HuckleB]

17. He has no basis for anything that he says.

[HuckleB]

18. Wow! Anyone who unrecced this after listening to it is simply out to lunch.

Anyone who unrecced this blindly, should not be allowed to unrec any more threads at DU.

[eilen]

19. I hope he gets the SuperFlu. nt

[Odin2005]

22. He sounds like the Anti-vax nuts here on DU.