Beck to get city key:"Change the Locks!"
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| Sat, 09-05-2009 - 9:50am |
Mary would you throw a tomato for me please?
Glenn Beck To Get Key To City: Protesters Say "Change the Locks!"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-mann/glenn-beck-to-get-key-to_b_275873.html?view=print
The mayor of tinfoil-hat icon Glenn Beck's home town says he wants to give the Fox News carnival attraction the key to the city.
A number of anti-Beck protestors outside city hall in Mount Vernon, Wash., this week have been carrying signs reading "Change the Locks!"
In what may be one of the most politically tone-deaf moves this year, Bud Norris, mayor of the small farming community just north of Seattle, says he'll hand over the hardware to Beck on Sept. 26. Members of the local Young Democrats will be there to protest and welcome the Beckster back to Earth from Planet Fox News.
Western Washington is solidly Democratic, and Seattle's King County nearby voted for Obama last fall by a whopping 4-to-1 margin. Even in Mount Vernon's rural Skagit County, it was Obama by a solid 53-to-43 percent margin.
Norris said he knew Beck when Glenn was just 12 years old. He said he remembers the future right-wing crackpot as a tyke carrying a sandwich board saying "Vote for Norris for county commissioner." No word on whether pre-teen Beck labeled Norris' opponent as a racist.
Beck's popularity and alleged success "is built off a lot of ridiculous and hateful and divisive language. We feel that as a non-partisan position, the mayor should not be endorsing that at all," local Young Democrat President Marc Oommen told Seattle's KING-TV.
Norris' response is classic. He says his decision to recognize locally spawned loonie Beck isn't partisan at all, given that Beck has never formally declared his party affiliation.
"It's probably a judgment call and that's my prerogative. In general, I agree with Glenn Beck's delivery and everything, I enjoy watching him," said Norris. (No word on whether or not Norris was also a fan of the late Gov. George Wallace's speaking style.)
Norris says Beck, who reminds one of late L.A. televangelist/showman/paranoiac Dr. Gene Scott, will give a short speech, and that's it's the first city key he's awarded in six years. It could be the last.
It wouldn't be a total surprise if more than a few people locally and from Seattle showed up to give Beck a warm, town hall-type "greeting" by "presenting" him with their own remembrances -- locally grown, overripe tomatoes.
Edited 9/5/2009 2:01 pm ET by libraone



If that happens his viewers better be prepared to send him tissues - I foresee more tears in the future! Tomatoes aside - I don't approve of throwing objects as people one disagrees with whether it be tomatoes or shoes - I hope there is a resounding protest and that Beck gets to see it. I doubt it will make him think twice but he should at the very least get to experience on some level what he is actively trying to create for others.
Wonder if that mayor has a chance at reelection after this? Maybe he is signaling his desire to retire?
Edited 9/5/2009 12:34 pm ET by justjane2009
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You said it.
~Heather~
Tomatoes are much too precious to waste on Beck....however, at this time of the year, we do have an overabundance of giant zucchinis...hmmmm....that would be one way to get rid of them!
Change the locks? I say lock him up and throw away the key!
Beck is such a crackpot. By the way...I think he was fond of both, crack & pot. Maybe his years of drug & alcohol abuse damaged brain cells?