There's no more strident voice on the right against the taxpayer-funded government bailouts than Glenn Beck, but that hasn't stopped him from profiting from them.
It turns out that Beck works for GM, as a spokesman. Here's what he had to say about his gig on March 30, 2009:
I'm a proud spokesman for GM on my radio program and I was a client of theirs before they were a client of mine. But I've been very clear all along that my allegiance is to the cars and the people who make them, not the company. I'm not defending GM here as much as I'm defending a free-market economy.
Beck can mumble all he wants about how he just likes GM's cars, not the company, and he'd rather have a free-market system, but the fact is that he's sucking on the teat of big government -- and he's doing it by choice.
Beck says that the government is a vampire that has stuck its fangs into GM and won't stop sucking blood until (in his words) "you drive a stake through the heart of the bloodsuckers."
But when it came time for him to choose whether or not he was going to stick his hand out and benefit from the bailout bucks, Beck didn't bat an eye -- he took the money without thinking twice.