Beck speaks to 7,000 at Seattle

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Seattle Times

In a sea of 7,000 fans, controversial TV and radio talk-show host Glenn Beck took his crusade to Safeco Field today, saying he is the voice of reason in a divided America.

"I am a flawed human being," said Beck, 45. "But I'm in a position to ring the bell of warning."

Beck, sponsored by the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, came to Seattle amid a torrent of anger over his proclamation on July 28 that President Obama was a racist and that he believed the president has a "deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture


Read more: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009949568_webbeck26m.html

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Safeco Field seats over 40,000. That's for baseball. For the Beck show there was seating on the field.

Looks like an epic fail teabaggers.

[Catshrink]

1. On Monday he'll be claiming 700,000 and blaming the librul media for underreporting the crowd.

[jasi2006]

22. Did he say anything in reference to the slain Census worker?

Did he take credit for it...or is he leaving that to Rush or Hannity?

[Chulanowa]

2. Evergreen Freedom Foundation...

A blatantly anti-union, anti-teacher, ACORN-conspiracy-pushing whackadoodle shits making Washington look idiotic.

I wish I had known - I would have attended to heckle.

[daleo]

3. He considers himself to be a voice of reason?

I suppose crazy people are always the last to know.

[Historic NY]

4. he rings a bell alright, ding a ling, ding a ling, ding a ling.

[wordpix]

5. "flawed human being"---should have said, "I'm a fucking idiot mouthpiece for the repukes"

:evilgrin: :crazy:

[Captain Hilts]

6. Conservative writer at IrishCentral ties sentiments generated by Beck to murder of Census worker

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/col/NOdowd/Why-hate-filled-Glenn-Beck-is-no-Bill-OReilly-61805637.html

The hysterical denunciations of the other side are taken straight from the play book of the "Know Nothings" the racist group that tried to drive the Irish out of the U.S. after they landed here during the Great Famine.

Calling Obama a racist against whites, making Acorn,a group that enrolls blacks to vote a punching bag, taking every extreme statement by the other side and portraying it as official Democratic Party policy is the same demonizing tactic the Know Nothings used when they portrayed out Irish ancestors as ape and mocked our religion as superstitions.

Alas, the murder of a census worker in rural Kentucky is part of the inevitable outcome of whipping up such passions.

...

Did Glenn Beck kill him ? No. Did he help provide the rope that hung him? Maybe. His obsessive anti-government ranting was probably taken seriously by some ignorant "Deliverance" backwoodsmen who picked on a poor single father.

[MadMaddie]

14. Reading the comments the nuts are Beckized

they see nothing wrong with what Beck is doing and sadly that is the danger. They don't realize that it's going to backfire back on themselves and their families...because there is always a new target....

round and round they go who's the next target no body knows.

[Historic NY]

17. IC annoys me sometimes, but then sometimes they get it right.

[Captain Hilts]

18. Same here. That might be why it sucks me in. Slan! nt

[madrchsod]

26. i can`t resit..."blazing saddles"

Olson Johnson..."all right! we`ll give some land to the niggers and the chinks..But we don`t want the IRISH!...

Aw..prairie shit..EVERYBODY!"


drunken irishmen men .. "drinking on saturday and praying on sunday". that was a common thing to say when my dad was growing up in the 20`s.

[Captain Hilts]

27. Before Vatican II you HAD to go to Mass on Sunday, hence "Drunkards' Mass" at Midnight on Sat. nt

[MichaelHarris]

7. For a small fee

I'll tell you how important I am.

[WestSeattle2]

8. There are 1.8 million people living in the Central Puget Sound

region. The fact that this idiot could only draw 7,000 on a sunny Saturday afternoon speaks volumes; both about him and in my opinion, to the higher level of education that is found in this region. Critical thinkers don't waste much time on the likes of Beck, Limbaugh, or O'Reilly.

[LiberalFighter]

11. Probably had more important activities. College football game, chores, exercise, lattes.

[AsahinaKimi]

28. It would have been nice to see...

40,000 there to BOO HIM!!

[Diane R]

39. Excellent post. Everyone in Washington knows Beck does not represent Seattleites.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

44. Amen to that!

The ultra conservative right wing fear mongering crowd is, in reality, sorta small here :)

[Sanity Claws]

9. I wonder how much the Evergreen Foundation paid in rent for the place

You don't rent out Safeco Field for a crowd of 7000. What a bust!

[LiberalFighter]

10. He didn't go up a mountain to receive his ten commandments from his god?

[silver10]

12. Why can't he just go away?

If he is the voice of reason, then Republicans are the party of compassion and tolerance.

[saracat]

13. Wow,creepy. Most of the comments are supportive of the idiot.. Gotta be paid bloggers

Truly disgusting.

[Joanne98]

15. If they say it was 7000 it was probably 2000. Always lying about numbers.

[David Zephyr]

16. "A Face in the Crowd": Keith Olbermann nailed this guy perfectly.

If you don't know the film, rent it.

It's Glen Beck's life story told 1/2 century ago.

[jasi2006]

23. How many people did they bus in? nt

[lib2DaBone]

19. This is SICK.. should be setting off warning bells all over the United States..

[bitchkitty]

20. 7000 seems a lot for Seattle.

I'll bet even that number is inflated. And I'll bet that there are more than a few Potemkin fans to pad the numbers.

[WestSeattle2]

42. Actually, there were probably two from Seattle, the rest came

from Mount Vernon, Lewis County, and Okanogan County...(Washington State's "Appalachia/Dueling Banjo's" territory.)

[regnaD kciN]

21. So, when do DUers start the call to boycott "redneck, hick town" Seattle...?

:shrug:

[Anakin Skywalker]

46. 7,000 Jabronies in a Mega City like Seattle

is NOTHING! A drop of pee in a whole bladder! LOL

[Wizard777]

24. So that's like what? 7 People?

:shrug:

[jfkraus]

25. The stadium must have looked empty!

Any pictures?

[madrchsod]

29. this is the only one so far

check out the "overflow crowd"

http://www.komonews.com/news/61940897.html

safeco field must be really small!

[madamesilverspurs]

31. How can it be an "overflow crowd"

if there are only 7,000 in a 40,000 seat stadium???

But I loved the KOMO story about the key-to-the-city event in Mt.Vernon, with the plane circling towing a sign reading "Change the Locks!" Looking forward to seeing the reports from DUers who were there.

[WestSeattle2]

43. The photo is misleading...the stadium seating was completely

empty; his "fans", such as they are, were sitting on folding chairs on the playing field. Had they been in the actual stadium seating, the "crowd" would have looked as pathetic as it really was. Picture a 40,000 seat baseball stadium when the home team is behind 18-0 in bottom of the ninth...that's all the warm bodies that Beck could muster. And, that's with a month's worth of advertising that his sorry ass would be in the area. I had more friends and family than that at my college graduation party. :)

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

45. "Sure he's an idiot bigot, but he's our idiot bigot."

From the KOMO link.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

38. This video captures pretty well the dearth of attendees

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkp1-NJu-Dk&feature=player_embedded

[onehandle]

30. The Obama Administration monitored the attendance and collected all of their names.

This will make it easier to round them up when the time comes.

[d_b]

34. dude...

not out loud.

[thelordofhell]

32. Soy un perdedor

Glenn's a loser baby......

[ribrepin]

33. News flash...7000 people can't wait to part with their hard earned money

[tomm2thumbs]

35. An airplane circled overhead with a banner saying, "Change the Locks" - FAVE /nt

[Zoeisright]

36. BlecKKK wouldn't know reason if it bit him in the ass.

He is just a total mess.

[UTUSN]

37. Woman on the news said he is "kind." Part 2 here shows his sadistic viciousness

Whacked BecKKK's whacked hero:
One Willard Cleon Skousen, who worked/retired from the FBI and went on to be investigated by Miss HOOVER's FBI to the tune of 2,000 pages. I've always thought it was brilliant of LIMBOsevic that his main thrust in attempting to make Conservativism respectable when he first started was to ---purposefully, deliberately--- distance himself from the kooks, the BIRCHERs, the Trilateralists, etc. He would cut off all callers who started ranting on these topics. The same way he still cuts off those true followers who slip and let loose their true racist selves---------------INSTEAD of "disguising" themselves.


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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/16/beck_skousen/index.html

Meet the man who changed Glenn Beck's life

Cleon Skousen was a right-wing crank whom even conservatives despised. Then Beck discovered him

By Alexander Zaitchik



.... But more interesting than the contents of "The 5,000 Year Leap," and more revealing for what it says about 912ers and the Glenn Beck Nation, is the book's author. W. Cleon Skousen was not a historian so much as a player in the history of the American far right; less a scholar of the republic than a threat to it. At least, that was the judgment of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, which maintained a file on Skousen for years that eventually totaled some 2,000 pages. Before he died in 2006 at the age of 92, Skousen's own Mormon church publicly distanced itself from the foundation that Skousen founded and that has published previous editions of "The 5,000 Year Leap."

As Beck knows, to focus solely on "The 5,000 Year Leap" is to sell the author short. When he died in 2006 at the age of 92, Skousen had authored more than a dozen books and pamphlets on the Red Menace, New World Order conspiracy, Christian child rearing, and Mormon end-times prophecy. It is a body of work that does much to explain Glenn Beck's bizarre conspiratorial mash-up of recent months, which decries a new darkness at noon and finds strange symbols carefully coded in the retired lobby art of Rockefeller Center. It also suggests that the modern base of the Republican Party is headed to a very strange place. ....

...The city's ultraconservative mayor, J. Bracken Lee, fired him in 1960 for excessive zeal in raiding private clubs where the Mormon elite enjoyed their cards. "Skousen conducted his office as Chief of Police in exactly the same manner in which the Communists operate their government," Lee wrote to a friend explaining his firing of Skousen. The man is a master of half-truths. In at least three instances I have proven him to be a liar. He is a very dangerous man (and) one of the greatest spenders of public funds of anyone who ever served in any capacity in Salt Lake City government." ....

...Skousen laid low for much of the '60s. But he reemerged at the end of the decade peddling a new and improved conspiracy that merged left with right: the global capitalist mega-plot of the "dynastic rich." Families like the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds, Skousen now believed, used left forces -- from Ho Chi Minh to the American civil rights movement -- to serve their own power. ....

"Skousen's personal position," wrote a dismayed Quigley, "seems to me perilously close to the 'exclusive uniformity' which I see in Nazism and in the Radical Right in this country. In fact, his position has echoes of the original Nazi 25-point plan." ....

Skousen may have been too extreme for the Quorum of the Twelve in Salt Lake City, but he soon found rehabilitation on the intellectual margins of Reagan's Washington. In 1980, Skousen was appointed to the newly founded Council for National Policy, a think tank that brought together leading religious conservatives and served as the unofficial brain trust of the new administration. At the Council, Skousen distinguished himself by becoming an early proponent of privatizing Social Security. He also formed relationships with other evangelical church leaders and aligned the LDS church with an increasingly religious GOP. ....

..."The Making of America." Besides bursting with factual errors, Skousen's book characterized African-American children as "pickaninnies" and described American slave owners as the "worst victims" of the slavery system. ....

"The 5,000 Year Leap" is not the only Skousen title to find new life on the 912 circuit. The president of the National Center for Constitutional Studies, Dr. Earl Taylor Jr., is currently touring the country offering daylong seminars to 912 chapters based on Skousen's "Making of America." For $25, participants will receive a bagged lunch and stories about America's religious Founders and their happy slaves. An ad for Taylor's "Making of America" seminar, currently featured on the Web site of the Tampa 912 Project, claims that Skousen's book is "considered a great masterpiece to Constitutional students (and is) the 'granddaddy' of all books on the United States Constitution."

Like so much declaimed by W. Cleon Skousen and his 21st century acolyte Glenn Beck, this last statement is fantasy. But it is also a profitable and popular one. In coming to terms with a movement that has an ever more tenuous relationship with accepted fact, we relearn that perennial lesson grasped even by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. Fantasies can have serious consequences.

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3 PART ARTICLE:
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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/21/glenn_beck/

The making of Glenn Beck

His roots, from the alleged suicide of his mom to Top 40 radio to the birth of the morning zoo. Part 1 of 3



http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/22/glenn_beck_two/index.html

Glenn Beck becomes damaged goods

The radio phenom takes over the morning zoo, makes fun of miscarriages and flames out. Part 2 of 3

.... Beck's real broadcasting innovation during his stay in Kentucky came in the realm of vicious personal assaults on fellow radio hosts. A frequent target of Beck's in Louisville was Liz Curtis, obese host of an afternoon advice show ... Curtis, whom Beck had never met and with whom he did not compete for ratings, was overweight. And Beck never let anyone forget it. ....

...He told Beck to lay off Curtis, suggesting he instead attack a morning DJ like himself, who could return fire. "Beck told me, 'Sorry, all's fair in love and war,'" remembers Meiners. "He continued with the fat jokes, which were exceedingly cruel, pointless, and aimed at one of the nicest people in radio. Glenn Beck was over-the-top childish from Day One, a punk who tried to make a name for himself by being disruptive and vengeful." ....
Louisville is where Beck began experimenting with another streak that would become more pronounced in later years: militaristic patriotism and calls for the bombing of Muslims.

The birth of Glenn Beck as Radio Super Patriot can be traced to the morning of April 15, 1986. This was the morning after Ronald Reagan ordered U.S. warplanes to bomb Moammar Gadhafi's Tripoli palace in response to the bombing of a Berlin nightclub frequented by U.S. servicemen. Beck sounded stoned during the show -- and given his later claim to have smoked pot every day for 15 years, might have been -- ....

"A couple days after Kelly's wife, Terry, had a miscarriage, Beck called her live on the air and says, 'We hear you had a miscarriage,' " remembers Brad Miller, a former Y95 DJ and Clear Channel programmer. "When Terry said, 'Yes,' Beck proceeded to joke about how Bruce (Kelly) apparently can't do anything right -- about he can't even have a baby." ....

"It was low class," says Miller, now president of Open Stream Broadcasting. "There are certain places you just don't go."

"Beck turned Y95 into a guerrilla station," says Kelly. "It was an example of the zoo thing getting out of control. It became just about pissing people off, part of the culture shift that gave us 'Jackass.'" Among those who were appalled by Beck's prank call was Beck's own wife, Claire, who had been friends with Kelly's wife since the two worked together at WPGC.

The stunt was a textbook case of media marketing 101: Attention is good; controversy is better. Outrage is the gift that keeps on giving. ....


http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/23/glenn_beck_three/

Glenn Beck rises again

Getting clean, getting Mormon, getting talk radio -- and going to Yale, with the help of Joe Lieberman. Part 3 of 3

.... Beck didn't just fire people in fits of rage -- he fired them slowly and publicly. "He used to take people to a bar and sit them down and just humiliate them in public. He was a sadist, the kind of guy who rips wings off of flies," remembers a colleague. ....

One local politician who appreciated Beck's regular digs at the governor was the man who had defeated Weicker in a bitterly contested 1988 senate race: Democrat Joe Lieberman. Beck and the senator were friendly throughout the '90s, until they fell out over Lieberman's refusal to back the impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1998. But before they parted ways, Lieberman would play a role in Beck's search for a worldview and identity by helping Beck enroll part-time at Yale in the fall of 1996. The ADHD-diagnosed Beck didn't last long at Yale. He took one class, "Early Christology," and dropped out. ....

"The guy had dozens of enemies. People thought he was an annoying, washed-up has-been. When I see people today bragging that they knew him back then, I'm like, 'But you fucking hated him!' "

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[Anakin Skywalker]

47. Beck Sounds Like a Real Loser

with a huge flawed past that causes him to have a grudge against society. This sumbitch is a psychopath!

[Mimosa]

49. That Skousen guy was oogly!

And nuts.

[BlueIdaho]

40. Safeco baseball seating = 47,116 Beck's bunch is truly underwhelming. nt.

[lunasun]

41. He said the media has surrendered to the government

Thats right I see all their ads on TV and in papers and magazines all the time ... it is all government ads all over the place selling prescription drugs, franken foods and plenty of "hooked on stars" stuff to numb your brain so you do not think Yeah it is the government who owns the media that's right the 'media' said throw the corporate bums out(even though they are large corporations)and surrender to the government. All those news shows with all their clips of PRO health care rallies and stuff how dull they are now that they have surrendered to the government - no more no sense crap to flood our ears if you are looking for real news like Glenn Beck

[Zorra]

48. 7,000? Probably mostly Volksfront members. n/t

[DebbieCDC]

50. Most of them were probably bussed over the pass from red-state Eastern Washington

It's a whole different world on the other side of the Cascade Curtain