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On the local level, where was the coverage on Glenn Beck's hugely successful book signing at Borders on Saturday? I was there two hours early and was about 200th in line. There had to be about 1000 people waiting to shake his hand. Yes, he put a quick G for a signature on his book, "Arguing with Idiots". However, he took the time to shake every hand and look into everyone's eyes.
He spoke into a bullhorn and told us that we were winning. He was cheered on like a rock star. Move over, Obama!
Crowds like this are waiting for him everywhere he goes because "we are angry and we are not going to take it anymore"!
No coverage in our liberal newspapers that I could see on line. I would not spend a dime on either newspaper.
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I wish I had been there to meet him.
My family listens to Glenn Beck all the time.
I never miss Glenn's 5PM show. If I have a commitment that keeps me away from the TV at 5PM, I always sit up until 2AM to see it on the re-rerun.
A day without Beck is no day at all!
Glenn Beck Viewership Beats The Combined Competition Every Night In September
Those with any doubt what a good move it was for Fox News to pick up Glenn Beck look no further than the chart below. His average viewership at 5pm exceeded the combined viewership of his three cable news network competitors every night in September. On six nights he had twice the combined viewership.
I wish you got a photo of the entire crowd, which rapped all through the store, and outside, around the perimeter of the building, and then into the parking lot. I would guess there were at least 2,000 people trying to squeeze into the store for a chance to shake hands with Glenn!
Thousand-strong crowd turns out for Glenn Beck in North Haven
Sunday, October 4, 2009
By Pamela McLoughlin, Register Staff
NORTH HAVEN — Waiting for hours in a Barnes & Noble coffee shop is not the kind of Saturday night date retirees Gerry and Marge Gedrim of Branford are used to, but then again, it’s not often they get to meet the man who is “trying to keep the Constitution alive.”
That man was Glenn Beck, television and radio talk show host and author who rails on critically about President Obama, claims overtaxation by the government, is against gun control, against the political machine in Washington, D.C., and has suggested that President Barack Obama’s health care reform agenda is a means by which Obama can effect reparations for slavery.
“He’s trying to keep us free and keep the Constitution alive,” said Gerry Gedrim.
Marge Gedrim noted that they and friends Richard and Corrine Mulqueen are “ordinary, polite” people who aren’t angry, but rather are “part of the sleeping giant that’s been awakened” by Beck’s ideas.
Corrine Mulqueen said Beck is honest, intelligent and humorous.”
The Gedrims and Mulqueens were lucky to be inside — and especially lucky to get a seat — because there were more than 1,000 others like them, mostly outside, in the rain, waiting for their numbers to be called so they could get inside to have Beck sign his latest book, “Arguing With Idiots: How to stop small minds and big government.”
Beck, on a whirlwind booksigning tour this weekend, was supposed to arrive at 8 p.m., but his tour bus rolled in closer to 9:30 because he was coming from another signing.
They lined up outside, men and women of all ages, anxious to get a glimpse of Beck, who is featured these days on Fox News Channel, although he has local roots at KC-101.
Beck said at the signing that it was “weird, weird and nice,” to be back in Connecticut. He said the beginning of his career, spent here, were the “ugly days” of his life, when he was a self-hating egomaniac. But, he also said it was nice “because this is where I turned my life around.”
Today one thing is for sure: he’s loved by those in a certain camp.
Nevin Adams came all the way from Fairfield.
“Sometimes he’s a little crazy, but I think he’s onto something,” Adams said.”There are a lot of things people aren’t being told. I think he asks a lot of questions that need to be asked.”
Donna Norman of East Haven said Beck is reaching people who at one time wouldn’t have spoken out. Her friend, Lori Jaffe, also of East Haven, put it another way: “He’s putting words to what a lot of people feel.”
Beck fan Bill Hoffman of Hamden said he agrees with Beck’s characterization of Obama, saying that everyone the president has appointed has had something negative about them and, “If you’re hanging around with people like that, it has to rub off.”
Greg Lisowski made the trip from Prospect.
“To me, he’s a folk hero,” Lisowski said. “Someone who isn’t partisan; he goes after both sides. ... He’s the voice of the people.”
But not the voice a small group of high school-aged protestors wanted to hear.
The four, led by Hamden High School senior Maxwell Hansen, held placards, one of which read: “Young People for Peace and Socialism.”
Hansen said he just thought the other side should be represented.
When a few Beck fans came up to Hansen with hostile words, he said he wasn’t surprised.
“I expected nothing less from his supporters,” Hansen said, calling Beck a man who “spews fear-mongering” everyday.
Beck fan Mark Mnick of Meriden recited for Hansen the old saying, “If you’re 20 and you’re not liberal, you don’t have a heart, but if you’re 30 and not conservative, you don’t have a brain.”
Then Mnick told Hansen, “Someday you’ll get a brain.”
URL: http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/10/04/news/metro/a1-nhbecksign.prt
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And to think that The Herald and The Courant did not print a word about Glenn Beck. If I still had their subscriptions, I would cancel them, but I smartened up years ago and cancelled my subscriptins.
sounds a lot like the New Britain City Council:
Beck fan Bill Hoffman of Hamden said he agrees with Beck’s characterization of Obama, saying that everyone the president has appointed has had something negative about them and, “If you’re hanging around with people like that, it has to rub off.”
Glenn Beck is the voice of the people!
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