Can anyone give a recap of how the Beck event went

[grantcart]

I simply cannot stomach him even for a few seconds and I suspect there are others who turned it off as well.


What was the general impression on the size of the crowds, the effectiveness of his speech and other speeches and the general coverage.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. check out Daily Kos post by someone who was there...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9035801&mesg_id=9035801

[EV_Ares]

2. I'll come back in case someone answers because I am like you, cannot stand

to watch him; did not really see any kind of numbers but also have not seen or heard anything on the other rallies.

[grantcart]

6. Keeping it off my TV allowed my TV to live for another day.

[babylonsister]

3. I'd like a recap of the other, righteous rally. Will go search. nt

[still_one]

4. I could care less how that so-called rally went. This is entirely a fox self-promotional event

Since I do not watch "entertainment tonight", or what is called "journalism" today, I will not know what happened at this event

My life will proceed quite well with out knowing.

Since the so-called media loves doing inane polls based on a false statement or lie, such as, "Do you think Obama is a Muslim"?

How about they do a poll on beck, such as, "do you believe glen beck is mentally stable"?

[Catshrink]

5. Here you go

Beck showed up looking fatter than usual because of the bullet-proof vest he was wearing, gave the Heil BecKKK salute. Some people who weren't white came on stage and BecKKK gave them awards he made up all by himself. He cried, The Quitter Queen talked, some guy in the audience did something else while she talked (wink, wink), they talked about Jesus and God and stuff, BecKKK cried, shook The Quitter Queen's hand, then it was over. The attendees had to wander through DC and avoid as many Black people and the Bad neighborhoods as much as they could -- and remember not to go out after dark ('cuz it's hard to see Black people when it's dark outside).

BecKKK called Ruppert to tell him he thinks he can get his advertisers back and make some money for him.

[UTUSN]

7. Here's what I sent my local radio wingnut

The bad news for us Dems at first was that the crowd numbers might ill be from 300-500K, the NY Times' guess, but the WaPo and even FoxNews only guess "thousands."

But there was more good news than bad for Dems: The ENTIRE BecKKK crowd was White. They were told not to bring their signs, because those would have given away their true (racist) feelings and English language impairment of spelling and grammar. But the usual trick from the Rethug National Coventions was used: Audience/White; everybody ON STAGE = MINORITIES. And, like the Rethug conventions, the REAL Rethugs/BecKKKers were KEPT OUT OF SIGHT: No Dick ARMEY (FreedomWorks), PALIN emasculated (yeah, I know she's a woman) from her politics, no BACHMAN and the rest. The MLK niece is a fringe family member who was a child and barely knew MLK and now claims he was a Rethug and is from a Catholic anti-Choice group, and has a degree that is HONORARY. She was recruited just for her MLK blood but I and my relatives know that family relations don't equate with "she or he speaks for me" and vice versa.

But the absolute best news for Dems: As the C-SPAN cameras panned, the BecKKK audience, mostly bearded White dudes in ballcaps besides the OLD OLD White people, were TOTALLY BORED AND DISAPPOINTED in what they were seeing on the stage. While all the minorities' gospel singer were doing their rousing thing on stage, the bearded ballcapped dudes were standing STARING AT THEIR FEET in disappointment. They wanted their red meat and were being told they could NOT SHOW THEIR REAL SELVES TO THE COUNTRY. And BecKKK's spiels were embarrassing sermons and pseudo-history lectures. The BecKKKers DIDN'T COME HERE FOR THIS, for everything they were seeing on the stage. The dude is nuts: He attempted to usurp the places of George WASHINGTON and Alfred NOBEL, making up fake medals/awards to give out, and really equating his "ministry" with THE ACTUAL JESUS and even GAWD himself.

[11 Bravo]

8. He came, he fleeced, he cried, he split.