Prepping for Today’s Glenn Beck “Event”…
FloridaToday.com has an article on local preparations in Melbourne for today’s Glenn Beck event…
Mick of WMMB, which is helping sponsor the event at the Mighty Mushroom, said Brevard County is responding to Beck’s message.
“This is growing beyond anyone’s expectations,” he said. “This community is active and always has been. They are tired of politics as usual and want our elected officials to represent them and the best interests of our nation. This public is going to speak out and be heard . . . and they will act if leaders don’t respond . . .with integrity.”
Arbic said she was expecting 50 viewers and has been overwhelmed with the response. She had to get permission from West Melbourne officials to move the party from her restaurant — which seats 206 — to the parking lot.
“It looks like we’re having a parking lot party,” she said. “We’re ready for 500 people.”
March 13, 2009 at 5:49 pm
It’s the most I’ve heard about Melbourne since we moved 20 years ago. Nice to know the mushroom is still there… I like Beck, but he’s a walking nerve/tear duct. This can’t end well.
March 13, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Yeah, I appreciate Glenn’s sincerity and his passion, but the crying is just too uncomfortable to watch.
I tuned in and made it as far as when he sat down with his first panel and he was still wiping the tears from his face, and that was that.
From what I saw, I thought he had a noble message in reminding people of how Americans banded together after 9/11. Good intentions – but delivered by a seemingly unstable person.
March 15, 2009 at 8:41 am
I agree with you two. The minute he starts tearing up, I’m gone.
Not that it isn’t great to see men express emotion once in a while, but he’s done it a few times now, and it’s just very strange. I could see it when he got emotive when talking about his special-needs child, because that is an extraordinary and personal matter. But when doing it at other times, it just seemed very awkward.
I like him and his show, but still wish John Gibson was back in that time slot. And I mean Gibson without Heather Nauert, and BEFORE he had to talk about Paris and Britney. When it was just him, and just politics, it was a great program!