Teary Glenn Beck: I Might Be Going Blind

A teary-eyed Glenn Beck has confided to a conservative crowd that disease may rob him of his vision in a year. "I can't focus my eyes," he told some 6,000 people in Salt Lake City on his American Revival tour. After tests, his doc told him: "You have macular dystrophy. You could go blind in the next year. Or, you might not."

The relatively rare genetic disorder causes a progressive loss of sight. An emotional Beck said he could learn to cope with never seeing his wife and kids again because he knows what they look like, but he would miss reading, especially since "I'm too damn lazy to learn Braille." He didn't pass up an opportunity to take a swipe at health care reform to the crowd's delight, saying he "went to the best doctor I could find, while I could still go to the best doctor I can find," reports Politics Daily. (Click here for a video rundown of Beck's previous ailments.)