1. It's not a question of whether it's cynical or not ... it's a question of whether it's accurate or not. A nation that kills off more than a million of its own unborn children every year will have no qualms about sending Grandma to her grave when she becomes "inconvenient."
2. I don't listen to Beck at all ... and that's Glenn Beck, Jeff Beck, or that silly 1990s California music act who just went by the name "Beck."