Glenn Beck's Seattle Event Draws a Few Dozen Protesters (Wow, 30!)

Seattle Times ^ | Susan Gilmore

[nickcarraway]

About 30 protesters turned out for the appearance of controversial TV and radio talk-show host Glenn Beck at Safeco Field at midday today, many expressing their displeasure with Beck calling President Obama a racist.

Among Beck's roots in the state lies a South Sound mystery

About 30 protesters turned out for the appearance of controversial TV and radio talk-show host Glenn Beck at Safeco Field at midday today, many expressing their displeasure with Beck calling President Obama a racist.

Don Sly of Seattle held a huge, tongue-in-cheek sign that said, "Sure he's an idiot bigot, but he's our idiot bigot, Welcome Glenn."

Sly said he came to Safeco because he wanted to express the concern many people have with the conservative movement in this country.

Sly said he has issues with Beck calling the president a racist.

"He's perfectly free to do it if he can back it up," he said.

Beck, 45, 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."

Daniel Stevens of Seattle said Beck is one of the worst people in the country and racism should not be allowed run rampant in America.

For Hayley Nicholas of Seattle, her dislike of Beck affects her physically.

"Glenn Beck makes my stomach hurt," she said.

Not all were against the media personality, though.

Craig Hartmann of Redmond, who was standing in line to buy tickets, said Beck speaks a lot of truth.

"He's not a racist," Hartman said. "The race card being played by the left side of the aisle is wrong."

As ticket holders made their way into the stadium, protesters shouted, "Save your souls, don't go in."

[kromike]

30 people is a LOT, enough for Nanny Pelosi to proclaim that the "vast majority" of Americans want GB fired.

Yada...yada...yada...

[rockabyebaby]

controversial TV and radio talk-show host Glenn Beck

Truth tellers are controversial..................I'm sure Glenn is PROUD TO BE CONTROVERSIAL...........!

[GOP Poet]

wish I could have seen Beck in Seattle.

[Wacka]

"Glenn Beck makes my stomach hurt," she said.

Buy some PeptoBismol

[cripplecreek]

"He's perfectly free to do it if he can back it up,"

He's perfectly free to do it even if he can't. Fortunately the truth of his statement is clear.

[IrishCatholic]

Well, 30 people showed up to protest.
How many people were there to see Glenn Beck?

[pissant]

Funny, did they bother to give us a count of how many came to hear Beck and paid because they LIKE him?

[Cruz]

“How many people were there to see Glenn Beck?”

That is a questiion the “j0urnalist” should have answered first.

[cmsgop]

I drove by Safeco today around 11am and traffic off 4th was backed up all the way to the I-90, so I think it went well enough.....

[mainepatsfan]

There probably would have been more protesters if this were a week day.

[LibertarianLiz]

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. A few protestors, how many tickets were actually sold to the event? Could the Seattle Times be bothered to even ask?

[ETL]

"expressing their displeasure with Beck calling President Obama a racist."

From Jeff Head's website...
One notable quote from [James] Cone describing his Black Liberation Theology is as follows:

"Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love." - "Divine Racism: The Unacknowledged Threshold Issue for Black Theology", in African-American Religious Thought: An Anthology, by William R Jones, ed Cornel West and Eddie Glaube (Westminster John Knox Press).
http://www.jeffhead.com/blacklibtheology.htm

African American Religious Thought: An Anthology (Paperback)
by Cornel West (Editor), Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Editor)
http://www.amazon.com/African-American-Religious-Thought-Anthology/dp/0664224598
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HANNITY: But Reverend Jeremiah Wright is not backing down and has not for years and in his strong stance on the teaching of black liberation theology is nothing new. He had the same things to say last spring when he appeared on "Hannity & Colmes:"

WRIGHT: If you're not going to talk about theology in context, if you're not going to talk about liberation theology that came out of the '60s, systematized black liberation theology that started with Jim Cone in 1968 and the writings of Cone and the writings of Dwight Hopkins and the writings of womynist theologians and Asian theologians and Hispanic theologians, then you can't talk about the black value system.

HANNITY: But I'm a — reverend

WRIGHT: Do you know liberation theology, sir?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html
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For all you'll ever need or want to know about Wright's
RACIST, COMMUNIST "Black Liberation Theology",
see my FR Home page:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/

Hint...

"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410
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Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright and Dr. William Ayers
are greeted by Rebekah Levin with the Committee
for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine.
(Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune / May 17, 2009)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ayers_wrightmay18,0,6689521.story

[ditto h]

They mention that Glenn called bambi a racist 4 times in this little article. They had,maybe, 30 people protesting here. How did the seattle times cover the million people who protested in dc?

[LibertarianLiz]

Truth tellers are controversial..................I'm sure Glenn is PROUD TO BE CONTROVERSIAL...........!

I love how anyone who is the least bit conservative in their viewpoints is always tagged with the "controversial" label.

During that whole Carrie Prejean thing, I was watching Fox News and one of their news readers talked about the "controversial" statements made by Carrie. The woman said (politely, I might add) that here beliefs were that marriage was between a man and a woman. Controversial? Only to the member of the gaystapo who asked the question. To more than 80% of the rest of us, not a controversial statement at all!

BTW, hubby is attending the Beck event today. I'd have been there too, but had some surgery this week and not feeling up to it.

[Velveeta]

Twitter folks are reporting “7500+” are there to see Beck.

[Velveeta]

[mendedheart]

Glenn Beck i s my family’s favorite person. He tells it like it is & backs up with proof.
My household comes to a halt at 2:00 pm every day for his program. (CA time)
I hope he can wake up more people before its to late.

[RegulatorCountry]

I don’t enjoy watching or listening to Beck, he’s shrill and forever verging on coming unhinged, much like Savage/Wiener.

But, he serves a purpose. He’s galvanized a group of people in our favor.

So, I guess he’s ok. I still won’t watch or listen to him, though.

[Velveeta]

Photos by Twitterer reporter Chrisdaniels5

[IrishCatholic]

Wonder what the local press will write on that. They wrote about the 30 protesters.

AP had a story yesterday about Glenn Beck's bad week. It was about the protests in his home town etc.

I also wonder if he knows he is having a bad week with 7,500+ there to cheer him on.

[Toespi]

This is the most slanted jouralism I have ever read and that says a lot. First they state that thirty protestors were there but then it states that “many” were there to protest Beck’s statement regarding Obama being a racist. What does this mean “many of thirty?” How many were there in support of Beck? I guess that’s not important. This is nothing but trash and if I had my hands on the Seattle Times, guess what I would do with it.

[Psycho_Bunny]

lololol.....only 30? In Seattle?.....lolololol

[Tolsti2]

Same with me. I find him grating and can’t watch, but I’m glad he’s doing some good it seems.

[nickcarraway]

What? They don’t know what you are talking about.

[LostInBayport]

Glenn Beck i s my family’s favorite person. He tells it like it is & backs up with proof. My household comes to a halt at 2:00 pm every day for his program. (CA time) I hope he can wake up more people before its to late.

A couple of weeks back I visited my grandmother...86 and still very active. Staying home is always 'Plan B' for her. We were talking about this and that and somehow the topic of Obama came up. She was telling me about czars and ACORN. I asked her how she knew all of this...she tells me from watching Glenn Beck! She's not great on the particulars, but gets the main idea quite well.

She and her friend (also in her eighties) make Glenn appointment viewing and then discuss it after. She tells me she then uses what she's learned to refute her Democrat friends at card parties, bingo...and today I find she attended a Republican fundraiser! I find all of this heartening because growing up my grandparents were pretty reliable "old school" democrats.

[My Favorite Headache]

Wow...there is a big article on Yahoo about this being a bad week for Glenn Beck and that he was booed and jeered in his hometown return. BIAS UP THE ASS in that article!

[EDINVA]

That’s some reportage ... 30 people came to protest and got all but the 2 lines of the story that were inserted to make it ‘balanced. Like Olympia Snowe being the only R to vote with D’s making a bill ‘bipartisan.’

[rlmorel]

I will side with Beck on this: Barack Hussein Obama IS a racist.

If I went to a weekly meeting for 20 years where the meeting moderator said the things about blacks that “Reverend” Wright said about whites, I would fully expect to be called a racist, and rightfully so.

But is isn’t his racism that bothers me, it is his Marxism, socialism and radicalism coupled with his vows to slash the military and sell us and our allies out.

[ozark hilljilly]

Beck had said on his show that he had heard that they were busing in protestors...
Must have been a short bus.
; )

[JustaCowgirl]

"Glenn Beck makes my stomach hurt," she said.

I hear a thousand tiny violins playing.

[rlmorel]

ETL, I have been following your postings, and you are on the money. Thanks for the documentation.

[Freddd]

It doesn’t state how many showed up for the event....?

[jobim]

You're a laugh riot!

Let me give you yourself in the form of an analogy:

You: His uniform is disheveled, his hair's a mess, his musket has not been cleaned, and he carries it on the wrong shoulder.
Regular Citizen: But sir, the man has captured a fort single-handedly, causing the taking of a battallion of the enemy. He has broken their transmission code, allowing us to track their every move.
You: I still don't like him.

[dynachrome]

Wow, 30 protestors at a Glenn Beck appearance.

I guess Fox better fire him now./sarc

[ETL]

You're welcome.

I don't understand why our side wastes so much time defending the BS "racist" charge (against us) when there are so many REAL racists on the black communist left. ie, "Black Liberation Theology", etc. We should just confront them with that.

RE: Obama's (former) "Green Jobs Czar", Van Jones

Van Jones became a revolutionary communist following the 1992 L.A./Rodney King Riots (58 dead)
various sources

Posted on Sunday, September 06, 2009 10:19:07 AM by ETL

"Jones was arrested during the L.A. riots and spent a short time in jail. "I met all these young radical people of color," he recalls, 'I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, "This is what I need to be a part of." I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary.'..."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2333342/posts
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From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:

"Throughout its history, one of RCP's [Revolutionary Communist Party] principal objectives has been to foment civil unrest in the United States. The most notable example of such efforts occurred on April 29, 1992, when RCP members looted and trashed the downtown and government districts of Los Angeles, triggering the infamous Rodney King riots. During the days immediately preceding the violence, RCP -- which maintained close ties to the L.A. gangs known as the Crips and the Bloods -- had circulated throughout South Central Los Angeles a leaflet featuring a statement by RCP National Spokesman Carl Dix, titled 'It's Right To Rebel' -- a quote popularized by Mao Zedong.

Encouraged by Dix, RCP activists helped lead the riots that would leave 58 people dead, more than 2,300 people injured, some 5,300 buildings burned, and $1 billion in property damaged or destroyed. On the ten-year anniversary of the rioting, RCP member Joseph Veale fondly recalled the violence as 'the most beautiful, the most heroic civil action in the history of the United States.'"
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6197

[freespirited]

Sly said he has issues with Beck calling the president a racist. "He's perfectly free to do it if he can back it up," he said.

Anyone have this guy's email? Beck DID back it up.

Beck Explains His "Racist" Comment

[RegulatorCountry]

You're a laugh riot!

And you're a trifling fanboi. Your analogy is hilariously far afield.

He's done apparent good, and I've acknowledged that. I don't care to listen to or watch him, though. He's shrill and always teetering on unhinged.

[TiredofItalltoo]

Glen makes my stomach hurt too, because I feel like I wanna puke when I hear all the lunacy that is going on in this country.

[XenaLee]

HAha! So friggin true! Lefties are too busy in front of the boob tube to demonstrate on Saturday. No work and no football on work days!

[Arizona Carolyn]

ROFLOL.. and the papers predicted over 16,000 protesters would be there....

[jobim]

I don't like to engage in derogatory tones online, so I suppose I hit a bit hard. But given the state of the Union, and given the unprecedented daily impact that one man is having on the national debate, I think it petty to lead with your displeasure of his style, rather than give full credit for what he is accomplishing. What the hell difference does his personality make, except perhaps to note, strictly as an aside, that you prefer something more cerebral or academic. It would seem his nightly expose so far outweighs his foibles as to render them insignificant. The term damning with faint praise comes to mind.

What's a trifling fanboi? If it's something along the lines of a groupie, that would not fit me, as I had never seen nor heard Beck up until 3 weeks ago, after he had taken a week off to prepare for what he is doing now.

[rlmorel]

"...Glenn Beck makes my stomach hurt..."

[marstegreg]

It also doesn’t seem important to interview any of the thousands there to see Beck, or how about interviewing some of the 30 people outside who agree with him. Perhaps that would be honest journalism...can’t do that!

[TigersEye]

For Hayley Nicholas of Seattle, her dislike of Beck affects her physically. "Glenn Beck makes my stomach hurt," she said.

Now I want a T-shirt with Glenn's picture on it so I can spread the pain. ;^)

[XenaLee]

Not only that, but Beck also stated the FACT that Zero said (his own words) that we should judge him by the people he surrounds himself with.

Let’s see now... Van Jones, an anti-Whitey racist communist. Rev. Wright, anti-Semite/anti-Whitey racist “black power” fool. And then of course, there’s this idiot....yet another anti-Whitey racist, appointed as the “””Diversity Czar””” no less, Mark “Whitey needs to be FORCED to step down” Lloyd...http://newsbusters.org/blogs/seton-motley/2009/09/23/fccs-diversity-czar-white-people-need-be-forced-step-down-so-someone-0.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but as a native American descendant, I have HAD it with these leftist aholes.

Pitchfork time YET?

[certrtwngnut]

Does he make you stomach hurt, or just your hair. I personally like him a lot but I hate it when he cries.

[RegulatorCountry]

My ears, actually.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

” Thousands of people bought tickets to hear Beck speak at the Evergreen Freedom Foundation’s “Take the Field with Glenn Beck” at Safeco Field.

” A $500 private reception was sold out, as was a $250 private visit with Beck and $100 seats in the stadium.
General-admission seats were $15.”

” Beck, 45, came to Seattle, amid a torrent of anger over his proclamation on July 28 that President Obama was a racist ...”

30 is a torrent ?
The lines at my local Starbucks are longer.

[rockabyebaby]

Yep yep yep better call out the national guard, there’s a full scale riot in progress.......oh wait,,,,30 people you say??? 30 people??? LMAO, and how many came out in support of Glenn? I guess that doesn’t count now does it! What a freakin’ upside down world we live in........