Paranoid Glenn Beck Cries About How Mean New Yorkers Are To Him And His Family
We already know that Glenn Beck sees the world through his own peculiar filter, but this one really takes the cake. Notice the trembling lip, the catch in his voice. He's so into his vision of himself as the Second Coming. Poor Glenn Beck, the man who's targeted so many liberals that they got death threats and lost their jobs... It wouldn't even occur to him to have an "aha!" moment:
Today on his radio show, Glenn Beck tearfully recounted an incident from Bryant Park last night when he and his wife and daughter turned up to see a showing of the Hitchcock classic The 39 Steps. Apparently some fellow picnickers began harassing the Becks, even at one point "accidentally" kicking a glass of wine onto his wife's back. It sounded genuinely unpleasant and a little scary, though the famously paranoid Beck played up the dramatics in his retelling. "I swear to you I think, if I had suggested, and I almost did, 'Wow, does anybody have a rope? Because there's [a] tree here. You could just lynch me.' And I think there would have been a couple in the crowd that would have," he said. He called Gawker, which ran some user-submitted photos of the Becks, "especially horrible." "They have done everything they can to stalk me and my family," he said. "They’ve put my family in jeopardy in their own home."
Then, for almost ten minutes, Beck went on an extended rant against New Yorkers and the type of twentysomethings that harassed him. "These people were some of the most hateful people I had ever seen," he said. "I was told a lot last night about how New York hates people like me."
"I really feel sorry for you," he continued. "Here you are, 25 years old, and you are so lost and so arrogant and so convinced that you are absolutely 100 percent right. And you are helping craft a system that is fueled by hate. You're being used, and you don't even know it. You're building a system fueled by the very things you say you hate: special interests, the rich, the powerful, global corporations — that’s who's pulling your string."
So that tearful part where he's so worried about leaving his family to the mercy of the horrible crowd? He forgot to mention the bodyguards. Here's a different version from someone who was sitting behind him:
Just a quick FYI -saw your article on Mr. Beck and his numerous FALSE claims about the way that he was treated at Bryant Park last night. Myself and several of my friends were seated immediately behind Mr. Beck & co (have pictures) and I can tell you that while the crowd was certainly not *thrilled* that he had shown up, his family was left completely alone, and for the most part he was too. Conversely, it was his security detail (two body guards) that seemed to be unnecessarily prickly with the crowd, scolding myself and my friends for acrobatics and other harmless activities taking place well before the movie started, and contributing to a considerably less relaxed atmosphere than is typically experienced during BPMN (I've been going for about six years now).
It was my friend that spilled the glass of wine on Tanya -and I can assure you that it was a complete accident. A happy one, to be sure, but nonetheless a complete and utter accident. As soon as the wine spilled (and I question how Tanya became soaked from a half glass of wine) apologies were made and my friends pretty much scrambled to give Tanya & co napkins -no doubt aware that it would look terrible and that their actions could be perceived as purposeful. No words were exchanged after that, as I think that it became pretty clear to Beck & co that my friends and I were doing everything in our capacity to help clean the "mess".
I'm sure it's unnecessary to point out the hypocrisy in Glen's statements that we were being hateful. I can assure him that we don't need his sympathy. Incidentally, none of us have made a career of "spewing hate" on the radio, or any other media platform. We live our lives intolerant only of those who don't tolerate: We have chosen New York as our city for that very reason. We do things like go to Bryant Park Movie Night, and vote to legalize gay marriage. We don't taunt Glen, or his family. And we certainly don't waste our wine, even on Tanya.
Glenn, you're such a liar. I feel sorry for you.
Poor little Glenn. those mean old metrosexual East Coast liberal elitists are so brutally unfair to him. He should move out here to God's country in western Montana. Here in the People's Republic of
Missoula (an island of progressive hate in a sea of red(neck) crazy), we would never spill wine on his wife. We would dump our glass of microbrew over his head, then kick him in the nuts. After which, we would point and laugh.
humor really is not your thing, eh?
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
So he actually went on to describe himself, how weird! Well except the 25 years old part. Multiply that a few times over!
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Gee, I thought Republicans were supposed to be tough guys, not afraid of anything never play the victim, etc. What happened? A mean ole librul spilled some wine on Beck's lady and it's time for the waterworks? Too bad this "story" is another in a long line of bullcrap from Beckerhead's never ending supply.
He did get one thing right....I'm sure most of the people there would gladly see him hung.
What a bunch of crybabies, always claiming to be the victims when they are the victimizers. Glenn, if you say stupid, slanderous, hateful things for a living, don't be surprised when people don't like you. Go to your big pile of money and blow your nose on the $1,000 bills.
The book of the year...
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that the Koch brothers can't go to normal everyday activities either.
not only most people don't know who they are. But most people in this country will suck the chrome of a rich guy's door knob to get some of that sweet cash their way.
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
i hereby submit that "normal everyday activities" for bajillionaires differs from that of the rest of us.
I almost feel sorry for his wife and kids.......they have this schmuck for a husband and a father.
I'm sure his millions do something to assuage their pain.
Beck *may* in fact be telling something approaching the truth here.
The woman who says she spilled the wine “accidentally” live-Tweeted the incident. First, she mentioned she was near Beck, and was quite repulsed. One of her friends asked if she could “accidentally” spill something on him.
And then, in an astonishing coincidence, she did.
Funny how things like that work out, huh?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/woman-seated-...
Hardly conclusive, but certainly strongly indicative…
For flips sake, let's stop letting our hatred of Beck and his message make us all so frakking gullible.
And even if the act was purposeful, they helped clean it up, APOLOGIZED, and everything seemed ok. Then Beck makes it sound like they were ready to lynch him.
Who is stretching the truth more?
I've seen some stuff, man. And some thangs...
There's no doubt Beck is milking the incident for everything he can get out of it. But it really really looks like it was not only not an accident, but also that they've been desperately trying to rewrite history.
It's the sort of story that would benefit from some actual investigation of the alleged facts, and not just assuming that if you're against Beck, then you must be honest and we'll automatically believe everything you say.
*That* was the mistake we made with Weiner, when he started by saying his account was hacked, etc... "Oh he's one of us, so he must be telling the truth".
No.
I thought he was lying through his teeth from the getgo, especially when he wouldn't say the picture was definitely not him. I actually expect both conservative and liberal politicians to lie, and was not surprised in the least when Weiner fessed-up.
Like I said, maybe it was purposeful. But, they helped clean it up and apologized. THREAT OVER. The chick may be a total loser, but that doesn't change the fact that at no time was Beck and his family in any danger. And that's what us gullible people are talking about. Beck crying about being in danger over spilt (accidentially or on purpose) wine while he had two bodyguards there.
I've seen some stuff, man. And some thangs...
I wasn't there, so I don't know what happened. But we on the left can often spin things so that we are so right, and "they" are so wrong. I sure wish Beck would just disappear already, but I say he has the right to sit with his family and watch a movie in a park without being harassed.
to "harrass" people that support the policies of democratically elected officials. Or harrass doctors who are performing procedures totally within the law of the United States. Respecting rights is a two-way street.
But, go to a public place, you can't deny someone's speech. If the wine thing was purposeful, that was wrong. But the people shouting (if that is true) have every, ahem, right to do so.
I've seen some stuff, man. And some thangs...
You, of course, are right.
the rich asshole loudmouth with, note this, TWO ARMED BODYGUARDS, was actually feeling much of a threat, especially since the bodyguards didn't feel there was enough of a threat to remove Beck and his spawn from the scene or to intervene in any way.
Beck, as usual, is full of shit.
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." -- Robert E. Howard
You are right.
Obviously, had such been the case, Beck and his family would have been removed to safety. What man or professional security would put a wife and kid at such risk over anything, much less an old movie? And, like, seriously, Beck claims people were shouting "we don't like conservatives around here." Right. Now, if he had reported "Yo, Beck, you $#@#@!&^ piece of crap. Get the $#@& outta' here already. You think you're betta' than me? Oohhhhh!"
I've seen some stuff, man. And some thangs...
You are right, too! haha
Oh, you said too. Nevermind.
Maybe that woman was exercising her right to free speech.
If Beck can get away with inciting violence, then wine spills are also protected under the 1st amendment.
Seriously, not matter what big of an asshole someone is in this country. There will be no shortage of "concern" for their well being. However, if one is a true victim. Then they are on their own.... it is fascinating really how misplaced the priorities are.
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
You are so right.
I guess?
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
I actually hear you. And I did think back to Weiner's case to have second thoughts, just as you say.
I gotta remind myself, however... that's not the way it works. When someone loses all credibility spreading lies and slander, we can't just give that person the benefit of the doubt. Especially when it comes to... and I use the term loosely... "journalists."
If the magazine that prints stories of Bat Boy and "Obama's terminal illness! Last, dying wishes!", I can't just say.. "well, that sounds unbelievable, but that's what I thought about Weiner." (Okay, that may be an exaggeration.)
I think you get my point. Glenn Beck may very well be telling the truth. It might look overwhelmingly like he's telling the truth sometimes. But you can't blame anyone for not believing a serial liar.
Nice concern trolling. The Blaze is owned by none other than Goldmember himself, Glenn Beck.
But you're right though, let's just take Glenn Beck at his word. It's not like he's a psychopath or a compulsive liar or anything.
This was posted at another blog a couple days ago in reference to this story. It's worth repeating.
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First, Beck should apologize to his viewers for 1) attending an event in a public park funded on a marxist model of confiscating money from achieving members of society and 2) for being anywhere in New York, which licenses the union of godless sodomites.
and you did nothing. Not even any words. You were that scared but didn't leave. You were that threatened but apparently your security guards didn't have to do anything over the wine incident.
Yes, Glenn, their are people that would like to kick your ass. Calling our president a racist and a Nazi - yeah, that upsets people. Sorry. And you know what? Falsely accusing people of being mean to you and even your wife - totally making up shite - that just makes people want to slug you even more. But that won't even happen. And hang? Please. Yeah, New York liberals are the hallmark of violence against conservatives.
I've seen some stuff, man. And some thangs...
As my Aunt would always say; "what goes around, comes around!"
BTW, you ain't seen nothin' yet, Glennbo.
After your republinazi fascist fu*kheads get done screwing the morons who voted for them along with everybody else for another 14 months, don't be surprised if them libruls' go French Revolution postal on you fascist oligarch SOB's.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
In Greece one of the PMs who voted for austerity was attacked.
At some point even the body guards are likely to realize which side they're on.
Then all these fascist pigs will begin to fear for their lives, as they should.
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
their obscene wealth will NOT protect them when the hoi polloi finally says, "Enough!"
I would love to live in a world where I could be justified in thinking that no one could be this self-unaware. I have subjected my eyeballs to a whole lot of Beck in the past couple of years, this really should have provided that A -Ha moment where Beck realizes that there is such a thing as social pressure. Even with his aversion to facts and penchant for hyperbole, his story is a story of social and political pressure; a story of people standing up against quasi-fascist, semi-literate, paranoids who cannot take the the hint that nobody wants to buy the hate Beck is selling.
Is definitely my feel good article of the day. This is what happens when a known liar actually interacts with people outside of their handpicked callers and studio audiences.
The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
Maybe the real reason he's so upset is because his wife ripped him a new one...due to his incessant assholery on TV they can't go anywhere without this type of response from real Americans.
His kids probably get beat up, too. I assume they are nice kids, but ten years ago my kids did some local activities with the kids of a current congressman and they were little assholes. So who knows.
"I really feel sorry for you," he continued. ....... you are so lost and so arrogant and so convinced that you are absolutely 100 percent right. And you are helping craft a system that is fueled by hate. You're being used, and you don't even know it. You're building a system fueled by the very things you say you hate: special interests, the rich, the powerful, global corporations — that’s who's pulling your string."
Wow that sounds just like what I would have to say to him. What planet is he on?
But you summed it up perfectly Susie:
Poor Glenn Beck, the man who's targeted so many liberals that they got death threats and lost their jobs... It wouldn't even occur to him to have an "aha!" moment.
Beck is obviously describing "Glenn Beck fans."
Beck, everyday you view one of the most hateful persons in the world when you look at your reflection.
What a fucking performance. A big fat lie by Glendora and he inflates a minor incident, which according to all reports, was handled without a problem by the parties involved, to make him look the victim to keep his sheep following him.
Like a little cheese with that w(h)ine, ya wimp?
Jeez, that "feel sorry for me" voice is creepy as hell, isn't it?
Keith Olbermann said last night he occasionally gets the same or worse celebrity harassment, but then he said, "If you can't live with it, get out of the business."
If Beck can't take the same kind of heat he's been stirring up without bitching about it, then just stay home and play with his paranoia and blackboards.
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
What's a Mormon convert doing with a glass of wine at a Bryant Park?
That seems to be the go-to excuse...
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
But I don't feel the least bit sorry for you. You made your bed and you can sleep in it. You converted insane conspiracy-mongering into a seven figure income. In doing so, you've turned yourself into a social pariah that even people at Fox are embarrassed to be associated with you. Enjoy your money, you miserable excuse for a human being.
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Anybody see anything odd about the whole set-up & timing of this story? Anthony Weiner's now assured assumed credibility to every BPD afflicted sociopath, dorky Breitbart wannabe within range of an electromagnetic impulse, to drown us all in the unremitting projectile-spewed bile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Wessel#Pos...
...if the follow-up "expose" from The Blaze is to be believed.
Look, I have no sympathy for Glenn Beck, and as far as I'm concerned, he's one of the few human beings that burned his "I get to have a normal life" card, because he preaches and promotes a level of intolerance for the left that has been documented to result in violence against innocent people just trying to live THEIR lives.
But there seems to be evidence that at least one member of the wine-spilling party was tweeting about being near Beck, being a bit of a douche around him and generally acting the fool, only to subsequently play the "What, me douchey" card after the fact. I vaguely remember what it's like to be young and want to ruin the lives, or at least the night, of people I thought deserved to experience some level of inconvenience. I'm not saying I ever did something about it, but if I had, I certainly wouldn't brag about it AND THEN pretend I was an innocent about it, either. And I probably would try not to involve the a-hole's wife and children in it, either.
The wine-spillers pulled a douche move. I've no sympathy for them, though to be sure, I've less sympathy for Beck.
I have no sympathy for Beck. But the wine-spillers were dicks.
I just thought it was ridiculous that C&L took the wine-spillers version of "What, me douchey?" events at face value, when clearly it didn't take much effort to see through their bullsh**.
But you certainly have a good turn of phrase there.
even if everything printed on Glenn Beck's corporate opinion blog is true (hah!) then the audience member's account is closer to the truth than the putrid whining mixed with bile found in Glenn Beck's account of the incident.
If you don't know by now, Beck is a liar. A piece went up today that describes how much Beck has lied about his life story.
What you probably won't hear much about is how Beck may be on the down-low. I use the word "may" because only one witness will go on the record to that effect.
"The antidote to bad speech is more speech." ~~J.S. Mill
beck lies.
you cannot trust what beck says.
did this happen as beck tells it? ha! riiiiight.....
allowed to drink w(h)ine?
Projection. Classic projection.
SO, now that beeeck is gathering all the tassels and party favors for his last hate-spew-fest on cluster-fox today, all we've gotten this week so far are more warnings that the black helio's are warming up just over every other mound of earth, the mercenaries from the nearest calafate branch office and his family being fake-sacrificed at the great wine vineyard of a theater somewhere in the NYC area, I'm sure that tears will flow, warnings of burning spears coming out of Dick Morris's eyes will spew everywhere and the leaders' robe and staff may get wielded around the studio with the resulting pounding of the red White House telephone being smashed to bits in disgust... what a carnival show....
THEN, on to his new gig running a hate-crimes web site from Waterloo Iowa.. with Gacy's memorabilia splattered all over the small basement studio walls - during the blizzard of 2014... with vids of Michelle O'Bachmann and the Alaskan Swag-Hag playing in the background... oh, shades of future game shows.....
SNAP!!.... Back to reality.. Have a nice day folks !!
Insane teacher be there reminded of the rhyme"
"You're building a system fueled by the very things you say you hate: special interests, the rich, the powerful, global corporations — that’s who's pulling your string."
so confused, it's all very simple, objectification, treating people as a disposable commodity, this is the problem. sometimes i think people like beck have a glimpse of this reality, but are unable or unwilling to follow the thread to the bitter end.
....I would have said to Glenn, "I really feel sorry for you. Here you are, 47 years old, and you are so lost and so arrogant and so convinced that you are absolutely 100 percent right. And you are helping craft a system that is fueled by hate. You're being used, and you don't even know it. You're building a system fueled by the very things you say you hate: special interests, the rich, the powerful, global corporations — that’s who's pulling your string."
I am sure that Glenn rails against the "special interests, the rich, the powerful, global corporations" when he attends those getaways at the Koch brothers compound.
He's a modern day Robin Hood.
"Fascism is capitalism plus murder." Upton Sinclair
I pray that it wasn't a good imported wine that was spilled.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
in this case.
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
I had a laugh at some of the comments on the website this post links to... A supposed life long Democrat who watches Glenn Beck all of the time and notes that he's not been "crazy" since he got sober. How believable is this person? lol
Given the whole tweet situation it sounds like the younger people in this case might have acted out a bit. But even so, I might make jokes about "oh man, it's ____, that guy, what am I going to do?"... That doesn't mean I'd do anything. I'd still be likely not to. Wine spills sometimes when you're hanging out in the grass.
I think the only story here is that this supposed paragon of virtue allowed himself to be this rattled by, essentially, nothing. He felt like he was being lynched because some people laughed and spilled wine on his wife? He's said and done things to people that are far worse, yet that doesn't seem to bother him in the least.
Hell, he goes after these kids in a way that's quite a bit more insidious, at least in my opinion. The media essentially ran to report what the guy said and only once someone involved read the post were they able to even try to attempt to defend themselves. He knows what he is doing, he knows how to spin this stuff and, predictably, somehow it all winds up going back to some sort of Soro and rich people pull kids strings argument.
And as mentioned, if it was remotely as dangerous as he is claiming how did his security detail do nothing about it at all?
He loves playing the victim to the point that it's hard to believe his side of the story at all. Especially with the levels of hyperbole he uses.
there is a reason beck, why people hate you. you reap what you sow
should all be treated like pariahs in public. Stay in your gated communities and doorman-guarded apartments and don't infect the air the rest of us breath.
Janek
this is the same Glenn Beck, who after the wife of his competitor had a miscarriage, called her on air and mocked her about it.
If he was physically "attacked," I reject and denounce the action as unacceptable.
I think I'd believe literally any other version of events, however. Glenn Beck has no credibility. None. Zero. If he said the capital of USA was Washington DC, I'd double-check to make sure.
Even if he turned out to be telling the truth, I would not regret doubting his story, and would probably do it again.
On a side note-
I feel bad for his wife and/or kid(s), but if people mock and shout him down in public (non-violently), I'm fine with that, in the same sense that Don Rumsfeld should be called a war criminal wherever he goes. (Alright, so maybe not THAT much.)
Very few people deserve it more. He's certainly no stranger utilizing the First Amendment to say whatever he wants about anyone he wants, no matter how false or slandering it is. Why in the holy hell should he get to say "Alright, but once I'm off my show and out of my studio where I allow no debate whatsoever, I'm totally off limits."
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!
Such a hypocritical, snake-oil virus and parasite to this country. I really hope we have heard the last of this complete buffoon. It's sad when millions think this dumb ass has anything to offer in the form of advice.
Nation of morons. I can hear the toilet flushing now.
I work in the Fox News Building and I saw them moving some of his stuff out of the building as I was leaving yesterday. Plus, I checked a little while ago, and they already took down the large poster of his smug face on the wall by the elevators. Now if they can do something about the Bill O'Reilly poster...
As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
I don't know if the Book of Mormon says that, though.
Don't let the door hit you in the ass, Glenn, it might raise a lump on your head.
When Donald Rumsfeld accepted a job at Stanford's Hoover Institution, I remarked that he should avoid eating at Bay Area restaurants for the short term. Until a decent interval had passed, and people in the Bay Area were afforded an interval to begin to forget his war crimes, he ran a real risk every time he ate food prepared out of his line of sight.
Palo Alto, for example, is quite the conservative radian cesspool. It is neatly segregated even...
The biggest risk Rumsfeld runs over there is coinciding with Condoleeza (sp?) Rice at dinner time.
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
I understand he was not attacked, his wife simply got some wine spilled on her, an accident. If that is so awful, they had better never leave their house again. This guy incites people to violence, and when an accidental spill of wine happens (wine spill is always tragic), he turns it into a terror attack. Get this Bozo a rubber room, because paranoia of this extent, needs professional help.
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Why did Beck talk for 20 minutes on national TV about something he first described as meaningless? And why did he cry about leaving his daughter outnumbered when he could have chosen to stay but instead left her outnumbered?
...on demand. This was confirmed by the director of his Broadway play, The Christmas Sweater. Although Beck is serious about his reactionary, yellow propaganda, at the end of the day Glenn Beck, hypocrite-in-chief, is a complete fraud.
"The antidote to bad speech is more speech." ~~J.S. Mill
Beck has been stirring up hatred and division among Americans, pitting one group against another, and telling us to be very afraid because America is coming to an end because of Democrats, for YEARS. And now he complains when those he has been attacking voice THEIR opinions?!?
Free speech is a two way street, Glenn. "As you sow, so shall ye reap," as the saying goes.
So is Glenn saying that he's NOT a name caller??? In my mind name calling rates pretty low on the list after things like shooting someone in the head who you disagree with politically. Ask Gabrielle Giffords. Save your tears for real hate Glenn.
He's a hypocrite about name calling! He once claimed that bloggers, who criticize him, "just name call."
It is amazing how blind the Beckerheads are to Beck's many faults. He is a gifted and manipulative propagandist, and Beck has become over the last 30 months a cult of personality.
Because of Beck, many if not most in the Tea Party believe progressives to be "evil." That is just one reason Glenn Beck was, and still is, a dangerous man.
"The antidote to bad speech is more speech." ~~J.S. Mill
I expect he was given a bad time and people were rude to him (and to other people there to watch the movie), but -- he said that the people who confronted him said they hated Republicans and conservatives -- I'd think they would say that they hate bigots or idiots or whiny creepy useless liars who encourage people to harass and attack other people. It reminded me of the person who accused Michelle Obama of calling someone "whitey" -- that just doesn't sound right. And he really does need to review what he's stirred up, the scum.
And I've had beer spilled on me by accident at a baseball game -- grass doesn't make the stablest table.
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