Press to be limited for Glenn Beck's city visit

[Tripper11]

Source: Seattle Times

Is someone trying to restrict press access when Glenn Beck is presented with the key to the city of Mount Vernon?

There will be no press credentials for the sold-out "Welcome Home Glenn Beck" event, 7:30 p.m. Saturday at McIntyre Hall — with the exception of one member of the local press who will accompany Mayor Bud Norris.

Norris, who planned the instantly controversial evening, said the directive came from Fox News and syndicated-radio personality Beck and his representatives, and that he wasn't told why: "No, I didn't ask for a reason." Norris said he would be choosing the one reporter allowed but hadn't decided who it will be.

Chris Balf, president of Beck's production company, Mercury Radio Arts, said in a statement Tuesday, "Glenn is very excited about returning home and being a guest at the fundraiser , but there is a slight misunderstanding as we are guests and are not running the event."

Read more: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2009922881&zsection_id=2003925728&slug=beck23m&date=20090923

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Pick an excuse, any excuse!

[SpiralHawk]

1. Why do Republicons HATE the truth?

Gotta be because they are such liars.

[MurrayDelph]

11. According to Sir Dr. Stephen T Colbert

it's because the truth has a known liberal bias.

[Selatius]

2. Hypocrites. They champion free press when it serves them, censor it when it works against them nt

[No Elephants]

3. Whose idea was it to give him the key to the city? S/he should take the heat, not local businesses.

If he had any brains or decency, he'd express gratitude and cancel, on the ground that he does not want any business or its people to suffer. He might even win some points that way. The catch, of course, is the brains and decency bit.

[Tripper11]

4. It was the Mayor's idea....

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009796296_beck03m.html

As dozens of companies pledge not to advertise on Glenn Beck's Fox News Channel show after he called President Obama a racist, and as his controversial on-air behavior draws more scrutiny, the mayor of Mount Vernon ... is presenting him with a key to the city.

Mayor Bud Norris announced that Beck, who grew up in Mount Vernon, will be on hand to accept the award Sept. 26, which Norris will also proclaim "Glenn Beck Day." Tickets for the Saturday evening event are $25.

Beck's advertiser abandonment has snowballed since he called Obama a racist on July 28, adding that he believed the president has "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture."

[humblhumn]

14. Now he's coming to my town

I couldn't believe it when I read it. He just released his new book and he's signing at a local Borders and a GUN STORE! Talk about a recipe for disaster. Beck, his zombie followers, and a gun sale!

[go west young man]

15. Now that is one dumb ass mayor.

[Thornleylv]

5. They will cry foul'

When the MSM does not cover it. :hide: :hide:

[Roland99]

6. He's just following Sarah Palinsane's lead.

[Monk06]

7. Poor Rush relegated to the Pappy O'Daniel Flour Hour by neophyte Beck

[Howardx]

12. nice!

:toast:

[tanyev]

8. Sounds like a worthy recipient for next year's Value Voters Media Courage Award.

[shadowknows69]

9. Bank on it.

[rvablue]

10. Are there sunshine laws in the state. If there are, the local press can file a FOIA

with the city attorney and demand to be allowed into this city-sponsored event.

[UTUSN]

13. K&R #3 for, BecKKK's stealing material from this OTHER whackjob: SKOUSEN::

Whacked BecKKK's whacked hero:
One Willard Cleon Skousen, who worked/retired from the FBI and went on to be investigated by Miss HOOVER's FBI to the tune of 2,000 pages. I've always thought it was brilliant of LIMBOsevic that his main thrust in attempting to make Conservativism respectable when he first started was to ---purposefully, deliberately--- distance himself from the kooks, the BIRCHERs, the Trilateralists, etc. He would cut off all callers who started ranting on these topics. The same way he still cuts off those true followers who slip and let loose their true racist selves---------------INSTEAD of "disguising" themselves.


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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/16/beck_skousen/index.html

Meet the man who changed Glenn Beck's life

Cleon Skousen was a right-wing crank whom even conservatives despised. Then Beck discovered him

By Alexander Zaitchik



.... But more interesting than the contents of "The 5,000 Year Leap," and more revealing for what it says about 912ers and the Glenn Beck Nation, is the book's author. W. Cleon Skousen was not a historian so much as a player in the history of the American far right; less a scholar of the republic than a threat to it. At least, that was the judgment of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, which maintained a file on Skousen for years that eventually totaled some 2,000 pages. Before he died in 2006 at the age of 92, Skousen's own Mormon church publicly distanced itself from the foundation that Skousen founded and that has published previous editions of "The 5,000 Year Leap."

As Beck knows, to focus solely on "The 5,000 Year Leap" is to sell the author short. When he died in 2006 at the age of 92, Skousen had authored more than a dozen books and pamphlets on the Red Menace, New World Order conspiracy, Christian child rearing, and Mormon end-times prophecy. It is a body of work that does much to explain Glenn Beck's bizarre conspiratorial mash-up of recent months, which decries a new darkness at noon and finds strange symbols carefully coded in the retired lobby art of Rockefeller Center. It also suggests that the modern base of the Republican Party is headed to a very strange place. ....

...The city's ultraconservative mayor, J. Bracken Lee, fired him in 1960 for excessive zeal in raiding private clubs where the Mormon elite enjoyed their cards. "Skousen conducted his office as Chief of Police in exactly the same manner in which the Communists operate their government," Lee wrote to a friend explaining his firing of Skousen. The man is a master of half-truths. In at least three instances I have proven him to be a liar. He is a very dangerous man (and) one of the greatest spenders of public funds of anyone who ever served in any capacity in Salt Lake City government." ....

...Skousen laid low for much of the '60s. But he reemerged at the end of the decade peddling a new and improved conspiracy that merged left with right: the global capitalist mega-plot of the "dynastic rich." Families like the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds, Skousen now believed, used left forces -- from Ho Chi Minh to the American civil rights movement -- to serve their own power. ....

"Skousen's personal position," wrote a dismayed Quigley, "seems to me perilously close to the 'exclusive uniformity' which I see in Nazism and in the Radical Right in this country. In fact, his position has echoes of the original Nazi 25-point plan." ....

Skousen may have been too extreme for the Quorum of the Twelve in Salt Lake City, but he soon found rehabilitation on the intellectual margins of Reagan's Washington. In 1980, Skousen was appointed to the newly founded Council for National Policy, a think tank that brought together leading religious conservatives and served as the unofficial brain trust of the new administration. At the Council, Skousen distinguished himself by becoming an early proponent of privatizing Social Security. He also formed relationships with other evangelical church leaders and aligned the LDS church with an increasingly religious GOP. ....

..."The Making of America." Besides bursting with factual errors, Skousen's book characterized African-American children as "pickaninnies" and described American slave owners as the "worst victims" of the slavery system. ....

"The 5,000 Year Leap" is not the only Skousen title to find new life on the 912 circuit. The president of the National Center for Constitutional Studies, Dr. Earl Taylor Jr., is currently touring the country offering daylong seminars to 912 chapters based on Skousen's "Making of America." For $25, participants will receive a bagged lunch and stories about America's religious Founders and their happy slaves. An ad for Taylor's "Making of America" seminar, currently featured on the Web site of the Tampa 912 Project, claims that Skousen's book is "considered a great masterpiece to Constitutional students (and is) the 'granddaddy' of all books on the United States Constitution."

Like so much declaimed by W. Cleon Skousen and his 21st century acolyte Glenn Beck, this last statement is fantasy. But it is also a profitable and popular one. In coming to terms with a movement that has an ever more tenuous relationship with accepted fact, we relearn that perennial lesson grasped even by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. Fantasies can have serious consequences.

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[Doctor_J]

16. It would be great if a few thousand gun-waving Dems showed up.

:thumbsup:

[DebbieCDC]

17. Let's keep all that librul Seattle media away

"Fundraiser" -- for who? for what cause?