12.17.10
The Charlatan
Surf out to BagNews for two photo essays on Glenn Beck’s trip to Wilmington, Ohio.
It portrays part of his book tour for “Broke,” part of his “America’s First Christman,” a one-man stage show.
I just saw the latter excerpted on Fox. It’s hard to stomach — from Beck masquerading as a Santa pointedly making jokes in a German accent to his wandering the stage in a red union suit.
Beck’s use of Wilmington is drily summed up by the BagNews journalists:
There is something disconcerting about a book called “Broke??? being aggressively sold to people who are, by a writer who isn’t.
The BagNews photo essays are here and here.
On Beck’s Fox News show he’s spun the story of his trip to Wilmington as one in which all that is needed to overcome extreme hardship — crushing unemployment — is prayer and determined self-reliance.
But the celebrity meal opportunity is $500/head.
Dick Destiny » Allergic to Americans said,
December 28, 2010 at 9:28 am
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