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Title: Beck Bombs: Only 700 People Attend Restoring Honor Tour Kickoff
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URL Source: http://www.politicususa.com/en/beck-bombs
Published: Oct 5, 2010
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Post Date: 2010-10-05 07:12:43 by PSUSA
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In the biggest sign yet that Glenn Beck’s fame is on the decline, Beck opened his national Restoring Honor tour in New Jersey yesterday in front of only 700 people in a venue that holds 8,000. Organizers were able to sell less than 10% of the tickets for the event, highlighting the fact that Beck is not the mega draw that Fox portrays him as. According to the Asbury Park Press, “A crowd of about 700 people, comprised mostly of Tea Party supporters, gathered at Six Flags Great Adventure on Saturday to help kick off conservative talk-show host Glenn Beck’s “Restoring America” tour. Spectators paid $50 for a ticket or $125 for special VIP privileges to listen to speeches by various conservative and libertarian activists, radio talk-show hosts and musicians in a six-hour event.” Here is some video. Notice all the empty seats: Organizer Janet Longo blamed the small crowd on the fact that they only had a couple of weeks to promote the event, “We only put this together in a couple of weeks. But I’m glad the people came out.” The problem with this excuse is that Beck has drawn a crowd on short notice before. Remember, 2,000 people showed up on 9/11 for a Beck event with an appearance by Sarah Palin in freaking Alaska for an event that Beck didn’t promote on his Fox News and radio shows. If 2,000 people could show up in sparsely populated Alaska, where was the crowd in New Jersey? The truth is that much like Sarah Palin, and the Tea Party itself, Glenn Beck on his own, can’t draw a crowd. Despite oodles of media coverage and promotion, all of Beck’s events have underperformed. Before the disappointment that was the Rally to Restore Honor, there were Beck’s assorted Tea Party tax protests and 9/12 group events. The little secret behind all of them is that none of them drew a crowd equivalent to the hype and publicity that the events were given. This weekend, Beck was even on the cover of The New York Times Sunday Magazine, and he could not attract a crowd. Unlike Palin, Beck has a long track record of drawing a crowd, especially when he is hawking new book, but since his ratings have declined there is no doubt that the crowds have gotten smaller. This attendance disaster could indicate that Beck, like Sarah Palin, has oversaturated the market to the point where crowds will no longer come out for him. Just like Sister Sarah, Beck is in it for the cash, and he has taken every opportunity to squeeze a buck out of his audience. It is not a coincidence that when Palin is on her own she often draws only hundreds to her events, and only 700 showed up for Beck yesterday. Without the Fox News publicity megaphone or the help of other Fox talent on the bill, the Tea Party audience is extremely limited. Beck’s popularity has been waning since the beginning of 2010. It was a good ride, Glenn, but I think it is coming to an end. Because the Right seems especially slow to catch on to these things, organizers will continue to believe the hype and pay Beck big money to appear, and lose their shirts when nobody shows up. Without Fox News, Glenn Beck is nothing. His lunatic Armageddon shtick seems to be getting old even to the very fringe he is playing to and his transformation into Glenn the Evangelist is not putting butts in seats. Like Palin, Beck is on his way down, and history will remember him as nothing more than the voice of reactionary fear and anger after the United States elected their first African American president.
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#1. To: PSUSA (#0)
Beck's problem is that he's a peace-nik General screaming no signs allowed, everyone be nice, let us continue to kiss ass ... while his army of abused taxpayers are foaming at the mouth angry warriors getting ready to mutiny if Sarah Palin would just flash a little tit and declare a real war ! Beck's a big fat pussy !
"Politics and Religion are the building blocks of slavery and oppression. Greed is the mortar that bonds them". Doug Scheidt, 10-5-10
he's that and more. Maybe beck is losing his mojo. He's a parasite, no different than a leech. And the tea baggers were stupid enough to let him suck their blood. They did it willingly. When it comes to palin, the tea baggers are hoping that she sucks something else. They'll just end up disappointed with a bad case of aching blue balls. .
Click for Privacy and Preparedness files The second dumbest creature on the face of the earth is the one who cannot recognize its enemies. The most stupid of all is the one who will defend and collaborate with the very enemies that are destroying it and its own kind. -Ben Klassen
It's called over exposure. He does a three hour daily syndicated radio show (with re-runs on the weekend) a M-F TV show, then countless personal events (some with O'Reilly). His high water mark was 8/28 and it will be all down hill from here. He sheds audience every time he tells his audience to "study the life of Gandhi & MLK." We're Americans Bub, stick to guns and butter.
Fools and their money....
"Satan / Cheney in "08" This coming you, a person whom complains about the military does every chance you get, is laughable. Everyone has an off day. Of course, the low turnout in D.C. last weekend for the socialist unions is laughable as well.
Well said, JT !
"Politics and Religion are the building blocks of slavery and oppression. Greed is the mortar that bonds them". Doug Scheidt, 10-5-10
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
Your inability to complete a thought or a sentence is laughable !
"Politics and Religion are the building blocks of slavery and oppression. Greed is the mortar that bonds them". Doug Scheidt, 10-5-10
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
The Big Dog is PAULCJ
"Politics and Religion are the building blocks of slavery and oppression. Greed is the mortar that bonds them". Doug Scheidt, 10-5-10
Could also be that people are very seriously having to focus on simply surviving in these times and the fun-days-good-times express has made it's last stop when it comes to superficial political gatherings. After all, how many of these damn things have Hammity, Lameblow, now Beck, Tits, etc. had, yet what's changed? NADA! Nada freakin thing has changed !
"Politics and Religion are the building blocks of slavery and oppression. Greed is the mortar that bonds them". Doug Scheidt, 10-5-10
I don't think it's Beck's particular message that turned people off as much as the fact that the Washington Mall extravaganza was (1) at a major tourist venue that lots of people wanted to visit anyway and (2) offered various celebrities. You can't say that about his NJ rally. If Beck was thinking that HE was a Great Leader, the guy on the big white horse, with an army of devoted (and voting) followers ready to do his bidding, he's had a strong dose of reality.
Agreed. There is only so much surplus energy out there that he can tap into and siphon off to dissipate into phony activism. That, imo, is his assigned function. It only benefits the kikes. .
Click for Privacy and Preparedness files The second dumbest creature on the face of the earth is the one who cannot recognize its enemies. The most stupid of all is the one who will defend and collaborate with the very enemies that are destroying it and its own kind. -Ben Klassen
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Agreed. I'm not sure if he thought he was maximum leader or not. Did he do it to feed his ego, or did he do it only to carry out others agenda? Or a combination of both maybe? Getting into peoples motivation is not easy. Sometimes even they dont know what motivates them. They already gave him plenty of money and fame. .
Click for Privacy and Preparedness files The second dumbest creature on the face of the earth is the one who cannot recognize its enemies. The most stupid of all is the one who will defend and collaborate with the very enemies that are destroying it and its own kind. -Ben Klassen
Yikes ... I'm a cute lil pink bunny rabbit !
"Politics and Religion are the building blocks of slavery and oppression. Greed is the mortar that bonds them". Doug Scheidt, 10-5-10
I know little about Gandhi but people might as well study Lenin as MLK.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic. He started in with the "black founding fathers" crap in May I think. Just in time for the election.
The noblest man will marry the lowest daughter of a base family, if only she brings in money. And a lady will share her bed with a foul rich man, preferring gold to pedigree. Money is all. Good breeds with bad and race is lost. -- Theognis
Yeppers.
The noblest man will marry the lowest daughter of a base family, if only she brings in money. And a lady will share her bed with a foul rich man, preferring gold to pedigree. Money is all. Good breeds with bad and race is lost. -- Theognis
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
The uninformed, cowardly PC crowd are the ones who use Gandhi & MLK as models of "revolution." May they be the first to be tacked to a tree.
#2. To: noone222 (#1)
Beck's a big fat pussy !
#3. To: PSUSA, 4 (#0)
#4. To: PSUSA (#0)
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Spectators paid $50 for a ticket or $125 for special VIP privileges to listen to speeches by various conservative and libertarian activists, radio talk-show hosts and musicians in a six-hour event.”
#5. To: noone222 (#1)
Beck's problem is that he's a peace-nik General screaming no signs allowed, everyone be nice, let us continue to kiss ass
#6. To: Jethro Tull (#3)
It's called over exposure. He does a three hour daily syndicated radio show (with re-runs on the weekend) a M-F TV show, then countless personal events (some with O'Reilly). His high water mark was 8/28 and it will be all down hill from here. He sheds audience every time he tells his audience to "study the life of Gandhi & MLK." We're Americans Bub, stick to guns and butter.
#7. To: noone222 (#1)
#8. To: PaulCJ (#5)
This coming you, a person whom complains about the military does every chance you get, is laughable.
#9. To: noone222 (#8)
#10. To: Eric Stratton (#9)
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#11. To: Eric Stratton (#7)
Needs Vicks to fake crying. et al.
#12. To: PSUSA (#0)
#13. To: Jethro Tull (#3)
#14. To: noone222 (#10)
#15. To: Shoonra (#12)
I don't think it's Beck's particular message that turned people off as much as the fact that the Washington Mall extravaganza was (1) at a major tourist venue that lots of people wanted to visit anyway and (2) offered various celebrities. You can't say that about his NJ rally.
#16. To: Eric Stratton (#14)
#17. To: Jethro Tull (#3)
He sheds audience every time he tells his audience to "study the life of Gandhi & MLK."
Lord Acton
OsamaBinGoldstein posted on 2010-05-25 9:39:59 ET (2 images) Reply Trace
#18. To: PSUSA (#0)
Beck’s popularity has been waning since the beginning of 2010.
#19. To: Jethro Tull (#3)
He sheds audience every time he tells his audience to "study the life of Gandhi & MLK."
#20. To: Shoonra (#12)
#21. To: PSUSA (#13)
#22. To: PSUSA (#15)
#23. To: noone222 (#16)
#24. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#19)
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