Glenn Beck poisons our national discourse with an unending stream of lies and paranoia. That’s why he has to travel with a security team. That’s why he and his family are not welcome in Bryant Park in New York City. He seems to think that he can make himself insanely rich by virtue of shameless demagoguery and hatred in a horrible economy where people are struggling to stay in their homes and find jobs to feed their kids, and he can do it with complete impunity. There are literally millions of people who would like to give a piece of their mind to Glenn Beck. People he’s called traitors. People he’s accused of being communists or fascists. People whose religious beliefs or lack thereof he has denigrated. People who have a healthy respect for the truth and resent well-paid liars. The list is long.
Glenn Beck forfeited the right to take his family out in public without fear of harassment. Like any other citizen, he should not be assaulted, but people have a First Amendment right to tell him off to his face and in front of his wife and kids. Should I ever encounter him in public, I would certainly have a couple of things to say to him.
I hope all the money is worth it.
in Bryant Park in the sixties. Good to see the spirit is still alive.
he’s a fucking crybaby and a liar. The mediaite link doesn’t give the whole story: gawker actually spoke to some of the people Glenn is smearing:
No one attacked him. I sure wish someone who lost a family member during 9/11 had though:
In fact, I’d update the post with this video.
If someone stabbed him, he’d say he’d been shot.
That’s just how he rolls.
Well, hmm, what do we make of this? Sounds like there was a little hostility after all, if that stuff can be believed.
Croc tears for the Beck thugs.
i don’t deny he might have faced some hostility, which the fat-faced pig deserved. But I also think his account is like everything else that comes out of the anus on his face: he’s full of shit.
As I said, he’s lucky someone didn’t shoot him or kick his ass.
We surround him.
Strange to contemplate that he is from same area (Mt. Vernon, WA) that Bob Gates calls home.
Gates is a big name around Western Washington. There’s also Bill, of course. And his Dad was the “Gates” in Preston, Gates, Ellis, of Abramoff scandal fame, now known as one of the few millionaires working for a fairer tax structure.
Mount Vernon’s an odd place. The area is about 1/3 each redneck good ol’ boys & gals (who still control the local politics), people who’ve fled Seattle (mostly liberals or hippies), and Mexican farmworkers. But 40 years ago, when Beck was there, it was all GOB’s.
I’ve lived in the area since the ’70’s and would have to agree with your description. I was heartened with Mt. Vernon cancelled their ‘Glenn Beck Day’ last year when he returned to visit family.
By Katie Goodman. Not safe for work.
Best line: “You’ve even got your own tea party. Congratulations you’re the Mad Hatter.”