Amateur Hour at CNN: Error-Filled Chyron During Beck Rally

Newsbusters ^ | August 28, 2010 | Jeff Poor

[hinckley buzzard]

I din't think a rally is intended to 'convince' anybody, per se. I see it as more a motivational device.

[wally_bert]

I had one disastrous day with the old MAX. All of a sudden during a live teleconference, it went wacko on me, function keys half worked, effects were on and off. The power supply had caught on fire but it was in another space so nobody knew what was going on.

[Chaguito]

I was just there. Beck is at the top. Sharpton isn’t mentioned. Katrina is #2.

[I see my hands]

To: Whipp's Ledges

You have to figure all in attendance were, by definition, already motivated. I'm not trying to be negative, I guess I don't understand.

[silentreignofheroes]

You

[screaminsunshine]

They are in the denial stage..This can not be real.

[Ole Okie]

Meetings like this are intended primarily to encourage the base.

I think getting 300,000 or 500,000 or 1,000,000 people (whatever the final count turns out to be) to an event such as this is an amazing thing.

We need a huge turnout for the election in November, and this helps inspire me, if nobody else.

[CitizenM]

Isn't it very telling that not one of the detractors of the Glenn Beck rally "Restoring Honor" mentioned this important achievement:

BECK RAISED OVER $5 MILLION DOLLARS TODAY FOR THE FAMILIES OF THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIORS FOUNDATION...WITHIN ONE HOUR!

Beck broadcast a number for people to Text in their donation of $10 or more. He asked that people join together and everyone text at the same time. In about an hour later the sum of $5 million was announced as received for this honorable charity.

Yet no mention of this achievement was made by any of the media, by Sharpton or his people, or even put forth by many of the Beck supporters. This was the greatest feat of the day, and it has hardly been noticed.

[SuziQ]

Those folks will go home, and talk to their family, friends, and co-workers. They’ll be able to tell those folks who were not there, but listened to the network news reports about it, how the media purposely LIED about it. May even start those who have never thought about it, to start questioning what the MSM tells them about politics in general, and Republicans in particular.

[excopconservative]

I guess as long as it is someone speaking at a Tea Party event and spelled vaguely correctly it is OK.

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If it had been a Tea Party event, Victoria Jackson would have been strumming and singing “There’s a Communist in the White House”. Sadly, that part was missing today.

[GoldwaterChick]

Excellent point. Wasn’t that stunning? When Glenn asked everyone to send that text message, I had a feeling that just about everyone in that crowd would do so. That’s the character of the people who were there.

After his request, my husband said Let’s make a contribution. And I’m sure many, many people who were listening at home or elsewhere made the same decision. (We are clueless about texting! :) I told him we already gave yesterday; that’s the $100 I said I wanted to send via Glenn’s website, and he had agreed. It’s the least we can do for those who gave all.

[DefeatCorruption]

Who did this rally convince?
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Thanks to Beck (AND ALSO the Tea Party) a good portion of this country is waking up. I don’t believe it was to “convince” anyone, but it sure felt good to see so many people taking the trouble to show support for restoring and taking back our country. Yeah, there was a lot of religion and the courage(wars) of our beginnings...so therefore what I got out of it was ‘PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION’. Vague for some, but loud and clear to me.

[DefeatCorruption]

If only the mainstream media had brains...this country wouldn’t be suffering like it is today.