Breaking News: Conservative Turns Out to be Pro-Government Racist

I watched the video of Glenn Beck ranting about Indian health care, because a lot of my Indian friends are pissed off about it. It was embarrassing. He tried to defend the high costs of American healthcare by explaining that the money's going to skilled doctors who are "offsetting" the 20 yrs of education and burdensome debt they were - unbeknownst to him - forced by government intervention to go through. WHEN YOU DEFEND AMERICAN HEALTHCARE, YOU DEFEND THE GOVERNMENT INTRUSIONS THAT MAKE HEALTHCARE UNAVAILABLE TO 15% OF AMERICANS. YOU CANNOT BE PRO-MARKET AND PRO-STATUS QUO AT THE SAME TIME.

He then goes on to say that he doesn't want to live in India, because he doesn't want discounted wages and he actually finds beneficial some things in America like labor "protections", which amount to government violence to keep the price of labor artificially high and exclude a major segment of the population from the work force. This must explain why he thinks government should keep "illegals" from stealing our jobs. And since he thinks it's okay for government intrusion to prop up wages, he apparently thinks it's okay for government intrusion to prop up the price of living, because that's what happens when you keep one side of the market artificially expensive. So he openly admits it - no longer is he a statist running around in free marketeer skin, now he's just a naked statist.

Not to mention his cheap Indian "jokes" about fictional universities with unpronounceable names, India's derth of flush toilets, and a sacred river whose name he thinks sounds like the name of a disease.

I read that someone's mom yelled at the TV. Yelling isn't good enough. Sometimes the TV needs to be shot.

I cringe every time I remember that Glenn Beck is considered a voice of the small government crowd. He contributes to and propagates popular misconceptions of the market, and thereby alienates people from free market ideas. He talks with an arrogance that would disgust any newcomer who has one drop of social propriety. And he seems to enjoy intentionally pissing off minority folk who the political right would do well to reach out to.