Alan Colmes Website: Public Ego Masturbation By Beck Pretty Much A Bust

[Hissyspit]

http://www.liberaland.com/b/Did-The-Beck-Rally-Change-America-And-Do-A-Miracle--Ummm....No/-89097690243051517.html

Did The Beck Rally Change America And Do A Miracle? Ummm....No

By James Frye

I’ve just finished watching the 3-hour (or 300 hour, if you include Glenn Beck’s never-ending, rambling word salad “speech”) rally for “Restoring Honor” in DC on C-SPAN. Despite the hype for and against, this thing was kind of a bust.

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The message was pretty clear and nothing new – “If America doesn’t turn toward God we’re all doomed!” combined with speaker after speaker pretty much fetishizing the military. The faces in the (nearly all-white) crowd told the story – they came from all over the country for THIS? I’ve never seen so many frowns concentrated in one spot in my life.

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People on Twitter were reporting that the attendees said they felt “snookered” by Beck and weren’t happy at all.

So what’s the “miracle” that took place today? It was that this public ego masturbation by Glenn Beck attracted so many people (up to 350,000 people according to the US Park Service estimates) and got any attention at all.

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[muntrv]

1. In short, it was a right wing circle jerk.

[Zephie]

3. Except no one but Beck got off.

[old mark]

10. No one but Beck was important...just ask him....

Welcome to the monkey house, Z!

:hi:

mark

[DJ13]

4. Congress was in session today?

:hide:

[AnArmyVeteran]

11. I wondered why I could only see one person's arm at a time.

[enough]

2. You have to wonder what they thought was going to happen. Or even what Beck himself

thought was going to happen.

[mike r]

5. "attendees said they felt “snookered” by Beck and weren’t happy at all."

Yep, they were scammed good.

[prolesunited]

8. Brought to you by Goldline

You think they would be used to it by now.

[PDittie]

6. Colmes has been raking

for the last few days. I haven't seen him say a word on TV for years and just found his website recently, so to hear him actually fighting back is, for me and in itself, a mild surprise.

[bbernardini]

7. Where are these Tweets? I'd love to read some of them. nt

[hlthe2b]

9. ditto...

So have the Freeper crowds fessed up to the event being somewhat less than miraculous? :eyes:

[whatchamacallit]

12. Ha, alright Colmes!

Rare bit of fire...

[blogslut]

13. I agree the whole thing was one big Yawn

However, Mr. Colmes is incorrect with this:

It was that this public ego masturbation by Glenn Beck attracted so many people (up to 350,000 people according to the US Park Service estimates) and got any attention at all.

The Park Service made no such estimate. They don't make estimates about crowd sizes anymore. The "350,000" is the number the event organizers specified in their permit.

[janet118]

14. CBS estimate 87,000

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20014993-503544.html">Glenn Beck Rally Attracts Estimated 87,000

An estimated 87,000 people attended a rally organized by talk-radio host and Fox News commentator Glenn Beck Saturday in Washington, according to a crowd estimate commissioned by CBS News.


The company AirPhotosLive.com based the attendance on aerial pictures it took over the rally, which stretched from in front of the Lincoln Memorial along the Reflecting Pool to the Washington Monument. Beck and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin spoke at the rally.

[Hissyspit]

16. Thanks for clarifying. I was wondering about that.

[BlueIdaho]

15. "Hey everybody, look at MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

Glenn's self loathing momentarily drops 2 points.