Was Glenn Beck Cared for by “Radical, Marxist” Nurses?
November 6, 2009 at 3:24 AM Leave a comment
On Wednesday, Glenn Beck had an emergency appendectomy. Yesterday he tweeted “in praise of the ‘AMAZING drs/nurses’” who were caring for him. Chances are good that those very nurses are members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a union Beck was trashing the very day he went to the hospital:
Just hours before his hospitalization, Beck was at work increasing the pitch of his attacks on SEIU and its leaders. On Monday, he warned his Fox News audience that SEIU president Andy Stern is “controlling our country.” On Wednesday, he claimed Stern was spouting “communist, Marxist propaganda” by addressing the need for labor to organize globally in a global economy.
While he’s lying on his back, Beck should take advantage of his illness to begin his self-education. He might ask his “amazing” nurses what they think about their wages and benefits, which are some of the best in the country. He should ask them to talk about the relationship between those wages and their yellow and purple union cards. He might learn that they enjoy some of the highest standards for healthcare jobs in the country, not because of the “free market,” but because generations of 1199 members fought for them.
But of course, that would be too introspective and honest an exercise for Glenn Beck.
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