Riiiiiiiight.
So here's how Beck set the tone for last night's "Health Care Special":
Gentlemen, first of all, does anybody here believe eugenics is coming, building a master race?
R.J. PESTRITTO, AUTHOR, 'WOODROW WILSON': No, sir. Absolutely not.
BECK: No. OK, good. We're all clear on that. That's not what we're saying.
Does anybody here think that Barack Obama wants to snuff out anybody's grandma?
JOHN HOFF, FORMER HHAS OFFICIAL IN BUSH ADMINISTRATION: Absolutely not.
BECK: OK. ...
So this is going to be a calm, earnest discussion of the pros and cons of health care reform, got it? Good. Now to some highlights:
BECK: Well, let me ask you, R.J. I mean, historically, what has — wasn't — didn't the, what was it, the T4 project over in Germany. ... It was the baby — I think it was "Baby Knauer," was a horribly crippled, blind, deaf, I think, didn't have two limbs out of four. They said it was going to be a horrible life. The parents said, "Please, doctors, please put him out of his misery," and Hitler came to the forefront and said, "I will do it." It started as compassionate, and then it went awry.
Do you see any parallels in history at all where an emergency would kick us into rationing? ...
BECK: We're not even arguing when does life begin, if it's at conception or at birth. Now we're saying life doesn't really begin — I mean, I know Peter Singer says it doesn't, I think until the child can recognize that there is a tomorrow. ...
BECK: I mean, you could have — you could have killed Ronald Reagan. You could kill any child up to, I think he says, two-ish. I mean, that's where we're headed here. ...
BECK: And I want to say something: You know, we've said about the idea that, you know, it all starts out really well and this then goes awry. Germany went awry because of a couple of things. First, money — they ran out of money so they've got to make choices, tough choices. And then, crazy people. ...
BECK: OK. So we have — one of the pieces is money. You're going to have a problem with money. And the second is crazy people. And I don't think any of these people are crazy. But let me ask you, the people underneath this in the root system, one is a communist. They believe in forced abortions, legal rights for animals, and babies not human. ...
Well, I think we've really cleared things up here...
Update: Relatedly, professional maniac Ann Coulter somehow manages to make the people smearing Zeke Emanuel look sane. (Er, saner...)