Once again, Glenn Beck struggles to draw a big crowd

[babylonsister]

Remarkable. Not a word from the media. :eyes:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201010270013


Once again, Glenn Beck struggles to draw a big crowd
October 27, 2010 11:16 am ET by Eric Boehlert


Beck appeared at a rally in Rapid City, S.D. yesterday in connection with his book release tour. Beck spoke at the local civic center which holds about 10,000 people. When Beck spoke, 3/4 of the arena was empty.

A view from the Rapid City Journal:

[Sanity Claws]

1. Everyone is white and at least 50 yoa

They'll be extinct soon.

[RKP5637]

19. Fortunately, not all older people are like this, but to these duffuses at Beck's screw them. n/t

[Kurovski]

23. What do you mean?

I'm as near to death as any other 50 year-old!

[RKP5637]

26. Yeah, but you weren't there at Beck's shindig (were you). This all got me laughing, as

I was saying the same thing in the 60's, that "I'll be glad when these old SOB's in power are long gone." And here I am 50 years later and they're still around, Tea Baggers and all. I just sit here laughing, WTF happened, they're still around, we were all going to fix this in the 60's.

[Kurovski]

31. We live longer now.

Time to turn in those socialist medicare benefits and catch-as-catch-can, don't you think?

And you can make a deal with satan and live forever, ie Dicky Cheney.

[RKP5637]

33. Yep, that's gotta be what's going on, deals with satan... Cheney is like a movie with

endless sequels, a grade B horror movie that goes on and on. He's gotta be bionic by now.

[Kurovski]

34. His policies are still quite popular.

A cool dude like Obama seems to find them to his liking.

Dicky is just that ultra-groovy.

[zbdent]

38. Beck spoke at the "Young Republicans" club meeting?

[Kurovski]

40. It appears so.

:rofl:

[cleanhippie]

2. As disgusting it is that the MSM is mute about it...

Its heartening to see that he seems to be losing his charm with the gullible.

[arcane1]

12. I hope they remain mute, too

o need to give this fool, or his book, any free publicity

[cleanhippie]

15. Agreed. Let him fade away into obscurity.

That would best for all of us, I think.

[texastoast]

3. Lots of brown people live in South Dakota

Wonder why they didn't show up?

[Kurovski]

9. They just don't understand.

That reminds me, I have to buy more gold coins today!

[Gamow]

4. Using repub maths, the center holds 5 million people and 6 million showed up.

[Kurovski]

24. Welcome to DU!

You must have learned that at Beck University! It's a fine institution. It really treasures imagination over all else. Like that Rawling woman, and her tales of satanic children!

[LostInAnomie]

5. That's what happens when you don't have a news network hyping it for months...

... and don't have Astroturf groups bussing people in.

[kentuck]

6. He should have invited Sarah Palin...

They would have packed the place. :-)

[Kurovski]

7. It's so bad, he's posing semi-nude in Vanity Fair these days, poor little hon.

Maybe I'll make a nice pot of soup to take to his house, some cans of tuna and what-not.

Poor little darling. I'd hate to see him lose all that adorable baby fat at such a young age.

[babylonsister]

10. Got arsenic?

:D I kid, I kid!

[Kurovski]

13. I'm going to have to alert on you.

I've seen you making all your liberal death threats here at this website. Don't think I haven't young lady.

Besides there are other, less traceable seasonings in my cabinet.

[babylonsister]

16. Haha!

Yea, I'm terribly dangerous. :scared:

Get cookin'!

:hi:

[Kurovski]

18. I donned my toque as you posted.

Yummy, yummy, yummy, he'll have love in his tummy.

[icnorth]

8. Those seats aren't really empty...

they are filled by the ethereal Ghost Baggers.

[Kurovski]

11. I think they just went to the restroom.

Bladders take a beating when you're 90 years old

[lpbk2713]

14. Was the Faux Snooze Cheerleader Squad there?

These folks don't look all that cheerful. :rofl:

[Kurovski]

20. It was a low-impact event.

They wouldn't waste their time.

Besides, sudden moves could cause unpleasant bowel events.

[the redcoat]

17. Well, to be fair, it looks like he managed to get the entire population of S.D. nt

[RKP5637]

22. Good one!!! LOL!!! n/t

[liberalhistorian]

28. Oh, please don't smear all of us South Dakotans!

There are 850,000 of us and we aren't republicbots. Unfortunately, there are still too many of them.

[butterfly77]

21. Not a word so that..

they can keep pretending that they are the majority and we are losing,we're not. GET OUT THE VOTE!!!

[butterfly77]

25. Not a word..

so they can keep pretending that they are the majority and we are losing,we're not. GET OUT THE VOTE!!!

[liberalhistorian]

27. I live in SD and was pleased to see that they had to slash

the ticket prices in order to get any kind of a decent crowd, according to an RC Journal article last week. Of course, the Journal did everything it could to play up the appearance and downplay the price-slashing, but there's only so much spin you can put on something like that. And the way it was played up in RC, you'd think it was the second coming of Christ. But that's par for the course for that area. Scream about taxes and the eeeevil fedrul' gubmint, but take in more money than they send, have their hands out for their farm and ranch subsidies and disaster relief anytime there's a flood or blizzard, and, the biggest money-draw in the area, Mt. Rushmore, which was paid for and is operated and maintained by said eeeeeevil fedrul' gubmint.

The state could never afford to do that on its own and it would be in some seriously bad financial shape without the tourist influx because of it. They love to put down "Easterners and West Coast-ers and Northerners", but have no problem taking their money during tourist season and such groups make up a huge chunk of the tourists each year. And FDR's CCC basically built the Black Hills into the tourist draw that it is today, private companies weren't interested in doing the kind of work necessary to make it a national tourist draw with easy access to most of the area.

[Kurovski]

41. Excellent points all.

Beck should have gotten a federal subsidy to paper the house.

He could have said it was a livestock show.

[madrchsod]

29. mother nature is pissed off at him...

the mother of all storms were hitting the plains for the last few days....

[Rex]

30. It is the M$Ms favorite secret-not so secret. They giggle about it

as Rome still burns.

[gratuitous]

32. The electricity fairly crackles from that photo

Hard to imagine a crowd more juiced up! By why did so many of them come dressed as empty chairs? I hope Beck still got his full honorarium.

[babylonsister]

35. LOL! You KNOW beck got the dough. nt

[Kurovski]

37. omg...dressed as...

:rofl: :rofl:

[Initech]

36. So why can't we get rid of him yet?

[Kurovski]

39. You'll have to ask a billionaire that question.

I'm just a lowly millionaire.

[krkaufman]

42. kinda weak, really. I'd think 2500 people for Rapid City ....

... to be a pretty good showing.