Seems like egomaniac Glenn Beck is just a little put out that anyone dared to protest his performance of The Christmas Sweater at NYU. (Details on the protest in ColorOfChange's diary here.)
Here's a transcript of Beck's take on the protest from his website:
The Worst Protest Ever
Glenn was on stage live last night in NYC, and simulcast around the country. The message was one of finding forgiveness and redemption and hope. Not in a million years would anyone expect someone to protest that message - but there were actually some that did.
The Worst Protest Ever!
The Worst Protest Ever? What. a. freakin. drama queen. (How about a Klan march, Beck? How about those who beat down pacifist civil rights marchers? How about a mob of angry teabaggers with signs comparing health care reform to Dachau? Would you say those might be worse than what happened on Thursday? Maybe just a little bit worse?)
Beck knows exactly why he is being protested, and yet he pretends like he doesn't. Playing the victim and demonizing his critics - two things at which Beck excels.
More:
GLENN: ... It was a private party. We didn't invite anybody because we knew it was at NYU. So we didn't sell tickets or make it open to the public. We just invited a bunch of people because I didn't want a bunch of protestors there for, you know ‑‑
PAT: Wrecking a national broadcast.
GLENN: Yeah, wrecking a national broadcast.
So let me get this straight. Beck bitches and moans when anyone complains about his disruptive teabaggers yelling so loud as to not even let anyone else speak at a town hall meeting - and yet Beck doesn't want the same happening to him. IMPORTANT NOTE: The protesters at NYU were courteous and respectful! Not like teabaggers - menacing bullies.
Beck tries to paint Thursday's protesters (many of whom are ministers) as being against God and against a message of redemption at Christmas. Reverends Conrad Tillard, Donna Schaper, and Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou - are against God and redemption at Christmas!? ORLY? A load of self-serving bullshit from Beck the cry baby, as usual.
Then he throws out this little gem:
GLENN: I'm going to go with no on that. Except I'm somehow or another tied in by calling Barack Obama Hitler, which I don't believe I ever have.
STU: No, I'm pretty sure.
GLENN: I think I would remember that one. Don't think I've ever called him Hitler, and I'm called by these people Hitler all the time and yet nobody seems to have a problem with that. And I'm not stopping them on their free speech.
- Beck says "And I'm not stopping them on their free speech." Whaaaat? He began this little whine-fest by saying how he tried to keep this event non-public so protesters would not wreck his national broadcast.
- Has Beck ever called Obama "Hitler"? This is not a comprehensive list, but:
Beck: "I'm not comparing" Obama to Hitler, but "please read Mein Kampf" and learn from Germany's mistakes
August 12, 2009 11:38 am ET filed under Clips
Beck claims Obama's "civilian national security force" is "what Hitler did with the SS," "what Saddam Hussein" did
August 27, 2009 6:11 pm ET filed under Clips
Stein on Obama's convention speech: "Seventy-five-thousand people at an outdoor sports palace, well, that's something the Fuehrer would have done"
July 24, 2008 12:09 pm ET filed under Research
Teasing tomorrow's show, Beck airs photos of Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, asks, "Is this where we're headed?"
April 02, 2009 6:37 pm ET filed under Clips
After stating, "I am not saying that Barack Obama is a fascist," Beck compares auto bailout to actions of German companies "in the early days of Adolf Hitler"
April 01, 2009 6:56 pm ET filed under Clips
Beck says he's not "comparing" banks who took bailouts to "people of Germany," while comparing TARP to "exactly what happened to the lead-up with Hitler"
April 21, 2009 8:39 am ET filed under Clips
Beck compares media portrayal of "tea partygoers" to Nazi portrayal of "complainers"
August 11, 2009 7:12 pm ET filed under Clips
Glenn Beck Show: Coulter discusses "problem with huge bureaucracies" like Nazis, U.S. gov't, adds "I'm not saying this is Nazi Germany"
June 19, 2009 10:37 pm ET filed under Clips
Beck attacks Wal-Mart for joining CAP, SEIU on health care, compares to "what happened in ... Germany ... under Hitler"
July 01, 2009 6:41 pm ET filed under Clips
Beck on disputed claim of White House "threaten[ing]" hedge fund: "It's Brown Shirt stuff"
May 05, 2009 7:52 am ET filed under Clips
Beck on ACORN "brownshirts" and "their henchmen" at SEIU: "[T]hey break kneecaps... Maybe they do, maybe they don't, I don't know"
May 07, 2009 6:13 pm ET filed under Clips
Beck on European health care: "How many times do they have to goose-step" before we decide not to follow them
July 16, 2009 5:54 pm ET filed under Clips
Beck warns that ACORN, unions, AmeriCorps acting as Obama's "civilian force," "brownshirts"
August 07, 2009 11:18 am ET filed under Clips
MediaMatters
Beck needs to start taking his garlique, because it seems like his memory is going bad.
Further, how many of Beck's teabaggers held signs portraying Obama as Hitler? Did Beck ever once denounce this? Examples of offensive teabagger signs here, here, here and here.
The signs by the protesters on Thursday night were tame and highly respectful by comparison from what I can see: "Love Thy Neighbor" "No Hate for Christmas" "Glenn Beck Repent" "Glenn Stole Christmas" and "Glenn Beck Make me a Sandwich".
Just more evidence that Beck lives in a propaganda universe of his own making, and there are plenty of idiots out there believing his crap.