Beck believes that non-belief in God (the Biblical God) is UnAmerican. http://fxpaper.fatalsystem.com/images/wallpapers/3d/fractal/fractal_168.jpg Also, he hates Woodrow Wilson.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Joe" <geezerfr...@...> wrote: > > From the Christian Science Monitor: > > This from today's Wall Street Journal: > > Photos of the Beck event clearly show a big crowd. The weather was great > whatever the exact figure, there were a lot of people there. The area along > the Reflecting Pool stretching out from the Lincoln Memorial was packed. > Groups were gathered under trees far on either side. Large conglomerations of > folks gathered all the way to the Washington Monument. > > The crowd was big enough to disrupt Washington's subway system, with service > from at least 12 stops disrupted due to long lines for entry. > > Given that context, let's wade into the numbers. > > Rally organizers, in applying for their permit, said they expected a crowd of > up to 300,000. And on Sunday, after the rally, Beck himself said on Fox News > that the event drew 300,000 people on the low end, and perhaps as many as > 650,000 people on the high end. > > Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) of Minnesota, at her own rally held on the edges of > Mr. Beck's event, said, "We're not going to let anyone get away with saying > there were less than a million here today because we were witnesses." > > However, a firm hired by CBS News to estimate the crowd put attendees at > between 78,000 and 96,000. The firm, AirPhotosLive.com, had three estimators > go over high-resolution aerial photos of the event, and then combined the > three estimates. (One of the estimators talks about the experience here.) > > These kinds of debates over crowd attendance go way back. > > We'll close with Joni Mitchell's line: "By the time we got to Woodstock, we > were half a million strong . . . " > > Except they probably weren't. Organizer Michael Lang later estimated the > Woodstock crowd at about 400,000. Only half of those had tickets. > The final tally: > Sky News: 500,000 > NBC News: 300,000 > D.C. Official: 300,000-325,000 > Glenn Beck: 300,000-500,000 > ABC News: 100,000+ > CBS News: 87,000 > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" <willytex@> wrote: > > > > > > > > do.rflex: > > > Glenn Buck is 'restoring' Real America > > > and God's values > > > > > "The crowd stretched from the memorial to > > the base of the Washington Monument, about > > a mile away, as Beck took the stage after > > the singing of the national anthem..." > > > > 'Glenn Beck calls for national revival' > > Politico, August 28, 2010 > > http://tinyurl.com/2ueeedv > > >
