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Glenn Beck wore bulletproof vest while speaking at 'Restore Honor' rally at Lincoln Memorial
New York Daily News ^ | 8/31/10 | Richard Sisk

Posted on 08/31/2010 8:20:24 AM PDT by Nachum

WASHINGTON - Fox News host Glenn Beck wore a bulletproof vest at his weekend rally, where he claimed "many, many miracles" had occurred - including a flyover of geese."I'm absolutely wearing a bulletproof vest," Beck said he told Alveda King, the niece of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., before the "Restore Honor" event at the Lincoln Memorial. He and other speakers risked their lives but "she decided not to wear it," Beck said of Alveda King, and now "she is a marked woman for standing on that step with me."

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KEYWORDS: alvedaking; beck; bulletproof; glenn; glennbeck; restoringhonorrally; vest
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To: ConservativeWarrior

just noticing the times of posts, mine shows 3 minutes ahead of when I actually posted. It’s just now 12:03 and yours is at 12:06, wierd


41 posted on 08/31/2010 9:10:19 AM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 -Happy B'day Daddy 2/20/23)
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To: Nachum
Beck often describes himself as a potential target in his conspiracy theories.

Can't write a straight news piece without getting snarky.

In fact, he IS a potential target and in fact, if you actually LISTENED to what he talks about you'll find there is a lot of political ANALYSIS going on and NO "conspiracy theories".

42 posted on 08/31/2010 9:10:45 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: tina07

now there’s a 6 minute difference, actual time vs. time shown of my last post...


43 posted on 08/31/2010 9:11:56 AM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 -Happy B'day Daddy 2/20/23)
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To: Brugmansian
Please refresh my memory. I know playing the Freud Card comes after playing the Race Card but does it come before playing the Hate Card?

Playing the Freud Card implies the Hate Card and leads up to the "unconsciously intolerant racist, bigot, homophobe and islamophobe" cards all at once. The Hate Card trumps all, of course.

44 posted on 08/31/2010 9:12:01 AM PDT by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality Now: Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: Alter Kaker

No - it’s me too.


45 posted on 08/31/2010 9:13:59 AM PDT by stormer
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To: Alter Kaker

Is it just me or is Beck suffering from something of a Messiah complex?
It’s just you.


46 posted on 08/31/2010 9:15:10 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Nachum

When I tuned in to watch him I noticed it right off. I was glad to see him practicing caution but thought that it was a pretty light vest - more useful for handgun projectiles than from rifle fire.

No matter - as someone else commented, he probably did it more out of consideration for his wife than out of any fear for his life.


47 posted on 08/31/2010 9:15:29 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Nachum

“Beck often describes himself as a potential target in his conspiracy theories.”

Nevermind the stream of death threats from the unhinged left...


48 posted on 08/31/2010 9:32:04 AM PDT by piytar (Those who never learned that peace and freedom are rare will be taught by reality.)
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To: Alter Kaker

he’s to self depricating for a complex


49 posted on 08/31/2010 9:37:16 AM PDT by stevecmd
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To: Jedidah

Couldn’t agree with you more. I was hoping Glen would do something to protect himself from the looney left.

I also wish everyone would stop with the “running for President” stuff. For some, their mission is to bring things to light. Glen is doing a fabulous job of that. We need someone to keep our representatives under a microscope and hold them accountable.


50 posted on 08/31/2010 9:49:42 AM PDT by Apple Blossom (Politicians are like diapers, they both need changed regularly, and for the same reason.)
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To: stormer; Alter Kaker
The fact is Beck has done more than the entire republican establishment combined to define the other side - the difference between the hate sotted race pimps, welfare hustlers and greedy union thugs and the rest of us couldn't be more clear now, and Beck and his rally managed to do it without uttering a single word to disparage them.

I could care less whether he has a complex, to be honest. I appreciate what he's accomplished.

51 posted on 08/31/2010 11:20:21 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Good.


52 posted on 08/31/2010 12:28:04 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Nachum
There were also several black-clad marksmen (snipers) stationed on the Lincoln Memorial roof and on the two tallest "frames" at the far right and left of the stage.

Segmented videos of the full event are available at http://www.watchglennbeck.com/restoringhonor/, and, in segment seven (7), for instance, at 20-21 seconds, you can see the marksman atop the right (facing the stage) "frame"...

53 posted on 08/31/2010 12:43:46 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: tina07

You truly are ahead of your time.


54 posted on 08/31/2010 12:47:42 PM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (In last year's nests, there are no birds this year.)
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To: Puppage
Look at where his left arm extends out through the armhole of the vest. Shirts do not have that sharp "step" in them...

(I'm too lazy to post-process the photo with reduced brightness and a "shadowing" filter and upload it for posting on FR -- but the vest is definitely visible in that image...)

55 posted on 08/31/2010 12:52:27 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: Nachum

The impact vest with its plates I wore in Iraq weighed about 30 pounds. Oh my aching back


56 posted on 08/31/2010 1:02:18 PM PDT by jesseam (Been there, done that)
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To: Puppage; Nachum
Is the vest visible now?


57 posted on 08/31/2010 1:48:06 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: TXnMA

Heck, I just thought he looked well fed. :)


58 posted on 08/31/2010 1:51:19 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: GOPJ

Beck is no fool. He wore a vest but that would not have stopped a head shot. Still, with all those people I don’t think anyone would have gotten close enough for a shot—he had 500,000 guards that day.


59 posted on 08/31/2010 2:01:36 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: TXnMA

I saw them. I tried to post the picture but the canopy can
seen.http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac122/Dianer0839/IMG_0327.jpg


60 posted on 08/31/2010 4:50:20 PM PDT by Dianer0839 (If you don't pay the exorcist can you be repossessed?)
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