Shit - Glenn Beck is doing his Live Show 537 theater Simulcast from Pittsburgh

[RamboLiberal]

Well now I know if there is an odor next week in my hometown from where it emanates.

The book is "Broke." The author is not.

Glenn Beck will promote his book "Broke: Restarting the Engine of America" with a $90.50-a-ticket performance Thursday at the Benedum Center in Pittsburgh's Cultural District, a day after a book signing in Robinson. The show will be simulcast to 537 movie theaters across the country, where tickets cost $20.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_711279.html

Hope it is a massive fail - fools wasting $90 or even $20 on this clown!

[Bolo Boffin]

1. Some people will pay to know what they really think. n/t

[kas125]

2. Hopefully there will be people there to protest his lies. I

wish I was in Pittsburgh, I'd organize it!

[RamboLiberal]

3. There ought to be protests for the 3 police officer killed here

in April 2009 by a loyal Beck listener loser Richard Poplawski who thought Obama was going to take his guns & in FEMA camps.

But the main thing was that Poplawski's fears about the "Obama gun confiscation" was the proverbial tip of the iceberg when it came to his increasingly paranoid ideas that he seemed to glean largely from talk radio and from Beck.

"Rich, like myself, loved Glenn Beck," Poplawski's best friend Eddie Perkovic told me during a long interview in his narrow rowhouse on the steep hill running down to the Allegheny. (Perkovic had a lot of time -- he was wearing an ankle bracelet for house arrest because of an unrelated case.) Perkovic and his mom -- who also had a close relationship with the accused cop-killer, still awaiting trial -- told me that for months Poplawski had been obsessed with an idea -- frequently discussed by Beck, including in ads for his sponsor Food Insurance -- of the need to stockpile food and even toilet paper for a societal breakdown. Poplawski was also convinced that paper money would become worthless -- another claim given credence by the Fox News Channel host, particularly in close connection with his frequent shilling for the now-under-investigation gold-coin peddler Goldline International.

And there was another idea that not only worried Poplawski but which Perkovic and his mom still swore by in January 2010 -- despite widespread debunkings in the mainstream media -- that the government had established a gulag of what Perkovic called "Guantanamo camps" here in the United States, for the purpose of arresting and detaining law-abiding Americans. This was the idea that Beck famously declared on FNC on March 3, 2009, or one month and one day before the shootings, that "I can't debunk." Poplawski downloaded to the Web a video of Beck glibly discussing the possibility of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, abusing its powers with a U.S. Congressman, Ron Paul of Texas. Poplawski's mother later said in a swown statement that her son "liked police when they were not curtailing his constitutional rights." By then, Officers Eric Guy Kelly, Stephen Mayhle and Paul Sciullo II were already dead.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008090022

[NuclearDem]

4. Glenn Beck has been morally broke for a long time

The title comes as no surprise to me

[Divernan]

5. Seating capacity at the Benedum is 2,885

As opposed to 6,200 at Duquesne University's nearby Palumbo Center.

I wonder if this will turn out like some of Sarah Palin's appearances, where she was booked in venues this large, but ended up with an audience of around 500 people. And there's the question of how many free tickets are being distributed by the radio/TV stations which broadcast his show.

Speaking of fools in Pittsburgh, there's a woman working for PNC who's been a loud-mouth tea party supporter, but wait! her husband works as a transit cop for the county govt.'s Port Authority (that's the bus service)and now she's near hysterical at the thought that her husband will be laid off because of massive cuts to service.

She's all for cutting government to the bone - until it's her family which is affected. Suddenly unemployment benefits are not socialist anymore!

[RamboLiberal]

6. Serves her right - but I sure feel sorry for all the working folks

Who will be out of bus service. I know a lot of workers and senior citizens in my Mon-Valley area will be completely without bus service. And the new Repuke governor & state legislature could care less about the poor working folks & seniors.

[CoffeeCat]

7. Are you kidding me?

So, you have to pay $90.50 to attend the show. And if you want to see it simulcast in a theater, you pay $20.

OMG. Either I am completely out of touch in thinking that this is bizarre, or Glenn Beck really has hypnotized his stupid listeners.

Seriously. Who would pay $100 to listen to this clown promote his book???? Or pay $20 to sit in a theater and listen to him???

The guy has a television show that is on every day. Why pay $100 or even $20?

I think Glenn Beck is milking his hysterical-fear show for all its worth--and then some.

There are many intelligent and interesting people who have great things to say. I know very few who can command $100 a ticket. Most great musical
groups don't even charge that much.

I think this is pure hubris on Beck's part--to believe that he can get people to shell out nearly $100 to his his ranting.

I can't wait to see how this plays out. I know he's got a following of loons. I watch his show sometimes and I'm mesmerized by the idiocy. However,
I never thought that there were enough of them who would pay $100 to hear the crazy.

:wow: I'll be watching how this goes down, for sure. My guess is that its a colossal failure--especially the movie-theater sales. Good Lord. :eyes:

[Rex]

8. He sells misery like candy to the RW crackheads.

They love him for it! Broke, the ultimate FUCK YOU to his ditto-like fans as he rakes in millions every year. Almost as bad as a televangelist imo. Whoring personal politics...no wonder Billy 'O don't like him!

[SpiralHawk]

9. $90 bucks a hit!? Wow. Ya gotta be a mAjoR sUcKerpuPPet (R) ...

...to swallow that crap at that price...in the midst of the deep economic downturn created by the 8 tragic years of Republicon so-called 'conservativism' (borrow & squander, enrich RepubliCronies, have closet sex).

[Rex]

10. Hell he should be doing pay per view!

The man is missing out on a huge market, could compete directly with Springer. His puppet minions follow him around like zombies I bet they shell out 90 bucks with smiles.

[givemebackmycountry]

12. I love that pic of Craig with the puppets!

It's WAVY the Shark!

"what-a doo, everyone!"

[OneGrassRoot]

11. Look at this clown:

I didn't even realize he was selling a book but wondered what commercial he was involved with that was airing before Harry Potter movies. :eyes:

He's even going with the clown approach on the cover:



Here's a summary, if you can stand it:

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/books/?ibid=46535

I'm actually tempted to get it, to see what most of the people I know are going to be spewing forth next based on this book, and then give it to one of the more illiterate ones who wouldn't buy a book if their life depended on it for Christmas.


Edit to add that the sad/scary thing is, much of what he says many of us agree with: government is no longer for The People, the parties have both gone off track, we as a citizenry must sacrifice to correct our course, etc., etc.

But when he continues to call progressivism "cancer" and liberalism "evil" and no doubt "getting back to religion" is going to be a core underpinning of his recommended course correction, he promotes a completely different worldview than most of us have. Of course, he also just continues to make shit up and rewrite history, with the blessing -- and encouragement -- of Rupert Murdoch. He seems to be leading the way in that regard at Faux now, which is part of their bigger plan, imho.

Rewrite history.

It's not about political ideology, it's worldviews. Of course, I don't think he and Limbaugh and most at Faux really give a shit at all -- they're just riding this crazy wave, laughing all the way to the bank on the backs of their viewers/listeners.

:(

Edit to add: Dayum, the Kindle edition is $12.99!