You might want to skip this video. It's Glenn Beck performing in Salt Lake City, when he claims to have macular dystrophy and might go blind — and it's revoltingly mawkish, maudlin, and self-pitying. People are actually swayed by this bathetic BS? Amazing.
Next time I give a talk, I'll have to try rubbing vaseline in my eyes before I get up on the podium.
(via Joe My God)
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