So Much for Tolerance on the Left - of Glenn Beck

Beck & Family Harassed During Outdoor Movie Night in NYC Park


There are those who love freedom of expression, as long as it’s not conservatives who are doing the expressing. Just ask Glenn Beck. On radio Tuesday, he told the stunning story of how he and his family were harassed during an outdoor movie in New York City’s Bryant Park.

For those unfamiliar with Bryant Park, it hosts weekly showings of classic films during the summer months. Attendees bring blankets and picnic dinners and sprawl out on the park’s great lawn while watching the films on a giant screen.

As Beck explained, he attended Monday night‘s public showing of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The 39 Steps” with his wife and daughter. During the film, he was ridiculed, had someone “kick a cup” of wine on his wife and on his blanket, and even witnessed another person stand up and yell, “We hate conservatives here!”

“These people were some of the most hateful people I have ever seen,” Beck said. “All I wanted to do is go out on a blanket with my family and have dinner in the afternoon sun and sit around Americans, not like-minded Americans, and just watch a movie in the park. And last night at about‑‑ when the movie was just about over, my wife and I got out because it was hostile.”

When Beck left near the end of the movie, the crowd applauded.

“I don’t know what kind of victory you thought you won,” Beck said on radio in response, and later added, “I swear to you I think if I would have suggested, and I almost did, wow, does anybody have a rope, because there’s a tree here, you could just lynch me. And I think there would have been a couple in the crowd that would have.”

[Gilligan (Premo)]

That's what so many have come to. Their brain died and the programmed impulses carry on from there.

Critical thinking and reasoning is hard. Being a lemming is just too darned easy and you'll have lots of good company being one.

[thatguy]

Originally Posted by EmptyTimCup

There are those who love freedom of expression, as long as it’s not liberals expressing their dislike for glen beck

[Toxick]

Originally Posted by thatguy

So you think harrassing and throwing #### at a family trying to enjoy an evening together counts as "free speech" do you?

[thatguy]

Originally Posted by Toxick

So you think harrassing and throwing #### at a family trying to enjoy an evening together counts as "free speech" do you?

I see what beck described as freedom of speech, yes. I dont buy into the whole "kicking a glass of wine on our blanket" beiong equated to "throwing #### at a family". As for harrassment, meh.....

[Toxick]

Originally Posted by thatguy

I dont buy into the whole "kicking a glass of wine on our blanket" beiong equated to "throwing #### at a family". As for harrassment, meh.....

How convenient.

Pfff.

[Gilligan (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Toxick

How convenient.

Pfff.

yeah that.

But moral equivalency generation, deflection, redirection, and general excuse making are other key elements of the lefty skill set, of course. Leaving the direct personal attack (if you cannot argue the message, try to destroy the messenger) as the final bit in their kit bag.

So sadly predictable.

[Gilligan (Premo)]

Originally Posted by thatguy

I see what beck described as freedom of speech, yes. I dont buy into the whole "kicking a glass of wine on our blanket" beiong equated to "throwing #### at a family". As for harrassment, meh.....

So the next time you hit the River Concert and somebody does that to you while your sitting on the grass watching the music, because your t-shirt offends them..yr totally good with that.

Got it.

You must have been trained by Ghandi.

[thatguy]

Originally Posted by Gilligan

So the next time you hit the River Concert and somebody does that to you while your sitting on the grass watching the music, because your t-shirt offends them..yr totally good with that.

Got it.

You must have been trained by Ghandi.

which part of their actions would not be covered under freedom of speech?

[Gilligan (Premo)]

Originally Posted by thatguy

which part of their actions would not be covered under freedom of speech?

Not my point. My point was to make sure you know how much I respect your incredible level of tolerance for when the same thing happens to you.

What consitutes assault, illegal harassment and other things..we don't even need discuss because you are not bothered by any of that.

I'm in awe.

oh ..wait..hang on. From your attitude I might also conclude that you too might do that kind of thing to somebody, since yr clearly OK with it. Maybe I'm not in awe any more.