Genius Ownage From The Daily Show & Colbert Report: Glenn Beck Vs Glenn Beck

You've gotta love the bit at the end when Stewart says... no... on second thoughts, best not spoil the punchline...

Watch the videos here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/deadlineusa/2009/aug/14/glenn-beck-healthcare

The Daily Show & Colbert Report reveal Glenn Beck's flip-flop on the need for healthcare reform in America

Fox News presenter Glenn Beck has been one of the leading opponents of Barack Obama's healthcare reform plan and has used Britain's NHS as an example of why America shouldn't change its system.

As comedian Jon Stewart said last night on The Daily Show, Beck's argument is essentially: "Don't fix it if it's already awesome." But Beck's opposition to reform runs counter to a personal story about problems with US healthcare highlighted by none other than ... Glenn Beck.

The Daily Show played clips of Beck complaining about the US health system after he had an operation in 2008. Beck said his surgery was an "eye-opening experience" and aired a segment about his "personal voyage through the nightmare that is our healthcare system".

Sixteen months later, Beck is claiming America's system is "the best healthcare system in the world". Confused? Watch the video above to see if you can make sense of it all.

Meanwhile Stewart's former Daily Show colleague Stephen Colbert reported on sponsors pulling ads from Beck's show because the Fox News presenter said he believed Obama is a "deep-seated racist". Moments later, Beck claimed he wasn't saying the president "doesn't like white people".

Such flip-flopping seems to be part of a pattern on Beck's show. During one broadcast, the presenter played a video montage comparing Obama's healthcare plan to Nazi Germany's eugenics programme. Immediately after the clip, Beck said we wasn't claiming eugenics is coming.

Colbert rushed to Beck's defence: "The problem is too many people only focus on the first half of what Glenn Beck says and not the second half where he immediately disavows the first half".

carried on. Truth is though he may think he's a big star and special while he's right side up, to the surgeon he was just another asshole

their assholes?

I hope he knows that.

"...the thing is, in the uk he'd be done for incitement to racial hatred and banned from the airwaves forever. i know we're excessively PC at times, but that sort of shit gets trashed almost the second it rears its head, and rightly so.

i agree with some of the posters on other threads: progressive america seems to have gone home immediately after electing obama. you need to get out and get angry. you're being too tolerant of this kind of hate."

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