[Texas Eagle]

“These won’t be massive gatherings like the one in Washington last year,” Beck told me in a telephone interview. . In our interview, Beck said that the tour would be attended by “four presidential candidates, half a dozen to a dozen senators and about three dozen congressmen,” although he declined to name any of the participants. A few days later, Josh Rafael, his spokesman, called to say that, in fact, Beck wasn’t sure which high-ranking American politicians, if any, would be there.

We can gather from the fact that Beck's spokesman called a Chafetz "a few days later", that this interview took place well before the event. The question is, how long ago did it take place. When Beck first announced this event, many people jumped on board but then backed off for various reasons.

He specifically mentioned Israeli police concerns that they couldn't guarantee the safety of Beck's guests especially those of the high-profile nature. Beck's venue was moved just a few short weeks before the event for the same reason.

Chafetz wrote a decent book recently so I'm kind of surprised at the somewhat snarfy tone of this column.

Or am I just being too sensitive?

[NordP]

This could be the result of our collective prayers for “EXPOSURE” of the truth, of evil, and of those of true faith. I’m glad Glenn is shining the light on them all.

[Eva]

I heard, on Beck’s radio show, that Republican members of the House were ordered not to attend Beck’s event in Israel, by John Boehner. Boehner told them that it would be a conflict of interest. No one knew what that meant or whose interests were being conflicted.

[A'elian' nation]

“Chafetz wrote a decent book recently so I’m kind of surprised at the somewhat snarfy tone of this column.”

Yeah was thinking the same thing. He wrote a semi-authorized biography of Rush Limbaugh.

[llandres]

“Chafetz wrote a decent book recently so I’m kind of surprised at the somewhat snarfy tone of this column.
Or am I just being too sensitive?”

If you are, TE, that makes two of us. I was really confused about where he stood on both Glenn and the event in general, when reading this article. Toward the end, it seemed a little friendlier, but I’m still not sure.

Isn’t the term Zionist (which he used in various forms rather often) a derogatory one?

One thing really popped out at me, that he didn’t comment on - all the polling stats on the amount of support (both monetary and ideological) for Israel from Republicans and evangelical Christians just begs the question: shouldn’t more American Jews seriously consider switching their political affiliation, at least in 2012???

It’s just crazy. Do they think they’re untouchable because they live over here? They’d better think again - at least as long as we’re all under the Muslim in Chief’s rule.