Posted on 11/20/2009 3:03:42 PM PST by ConjunctionJunction
Glenn Beck, the controversial Fox News television host, is planning on becoming more active in the populist conservative movement he spawned, according to sources familiar with his thinking.
At a rally Saturday at a massive retirement community in central Florida, Beck is planning to unveil what he has billed as a “big plan” for 2010, which is expected to involve the 9.12 Project, the group he started earlier this year and named for the day after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, when he says the nation was unified.
“Coming this January, my whole approach changes on this program,” he hinted cryptically on his Wednesday show. “This next year is going to be critical and I think it's going to change and I think we are going to set it right, at least set our course right. And if that means the Democrats or the Republicans are destroyed along the way, well, good. Good.”
Beck's Saturday rally, which is set for 3 p.m. will be broadcast live on Fox, and is timed to coincide with the kickoff of a tour promoting his new book, “Arguing with Idiots.”
After Beck unveiled his 9.12 Project, dozens if not hundreds of local 912 groups sprung up across the country and some have merged in purpose and tactics with the Tea Party movement of conservatives that exploded onto the scene this summer. Though the local 912 groups clearly look to Beck as their de-facto leader, they maintain no formal ties to Beck’s 9.12 Project.
The 9.12 Project is co-sponsoring a march on Washington on Sept. 11, 2010 partly to protest the policies of President Barack Obama and Congress. A source said the talk show host is not going to attend, but is planning to become more involved in 912 movement activities.
The 2010 march – called the “We the People Restore Our Constitution March, Rally and 9/11 Memorial” – is planned for Washington’s National Mall. Its other co-sponsor is an online activism group called ResistNet.com.
ResistNet’s Darla Dawald credited Beck with setting in motion the march, but said he’s not involved in its planning. “Glenn doesn’t want it to be about him – always about the people,” Dawald, who is leading march planning for ResistNet, wrote in an email. “He wanted the 9.12 Project people (grassroots) to be involved and step forward – not him.”
Christine Drawdy, a Florida event promoter involved in the Tea Party and 912 movements who is listed as the travel coordinator for the 2010 march, said the permit for the march is in the name of The 9.12 Project’s administrator, Yvonne Donnelly.
Though Drawdy stressed that Beck “is not the leader of” the 912 movement, she added “all he has to do is say something and they’ll jump.”
ResistNet’s Dawald said she was asked to join the march planning effort by Donnelly, who works with Beck on the 9.12 Project website but did not respond to an email message.
Beck has emerged as a potentially potent populist force in conservative politics, as evidenced by the response to his broadcast in March urging viewers to try to recreate a united America, calling out politicians for leading the nation astray, and unveiling the 9.12 Project.
Local 912 groups sprang up, and many credited Beck’s on-air promotions with the huge turnout at the Sept. 12, 2009 “Taxpayer March on Washington,” where some waved “Glenn Beck for President” and said Beck spurred them to become politically active for the first time.
But Beck’s 9.12 Project played no role in sponsoring or planning this year’s march, nor did he attend it. He has mostly not involved himself personally in any of the 912 movement activities, and has downplayed characterizations that he is leading the movement.
Nonetheless, Fox News has drawn fire from media ethicists and liberals alike for breathlessly promoting Tea Party marches, and for whipping up the crowd at the Sept. 12 rally.
The 912 Project website, which is maintained by Mercury Radio Arts, Beck’s production company but hosted by Fox News, lists the march among many other upcoming 912 events, and provides a link for subscribers to sign up.
The FoxNews.com logo adorns the lower right hand corner of the 912 Project homepage, which indicates it is “Brought to you by FOXNews.com” and links to the network’s website.
Publicists for Fox News and Mercury Radio Arts did not respond to questions about the announcement, or the roles of Beck, Fox or Mercury in The 9.12 Project or planning the march.
I suspect that like Beck you were raised a Democrat and just cannot bear, even now, to hold "your team" accountable for it's actions. So instead of dealing with the world as it is, you, like Beck, manufacture this rationalization to shout at both sides equally rather then have to rationally confront the facts and hold "your team" accountable for it's acts.
So put your angst on hold and consider things rationally for just a heartbeat. You can go back to your mindless rage afterward.
You cannot get enough Conservative/Libertarians organized to take over the political machinery of the GOP. Yet some how you think you are magically going to get enough people organized to set up a politically viable third party.
Did you even stop for a heartbeat to think about the fundamental illogic of that notion? You can see the coming trainwreck of "The Plan" from here.
If Beck does NOT set up a third party, your sort will go back to your mindless raging only now Beck will be your target in place of the GOP. He will have "sold you out".
If he does try to form a new party, it will be viable only as long as you all agree on every single issue. As soon as an issue comes up that you do NOT all agree on, your sort will go back to screaming your rage at what ever equivalent of "RINO" the factions in your new party create.
The Democrats have controlled both houses of Congress since January 2007. The Democrats Congress is responsible for most the stuff you endlessly bitch at the GOP about. I will grant you that Bush should of vetoed it but to exclusively blame the GOP, as you do, for what the Democrat Congress created is extremely moronic.
Time to move outside the comfort zone. Time to revolt and refuse to participate if this health care passes as it is now.
I’m still curious to hear your reasoning behind claiming that 3rd parties never achieve anything other than political irrelevance, given that the Republican party started out as a third party.
It does no matter how often you repeat this, it isn't true. The Whig party collapsed immediately after the election of 1852. At that point there was a one party system. The GOP formed in 1854. At the same time the American Party formed. In 1856 a coalition of the Republicans and the American Party took control of Congress. Within two years the American Party fell apart in the slavery crisis, leaving the GOP as the second party.
I am not sure it will work. I am hearing 2010 is going to make 09' look like a cakewalk.
Commerical paper is non existant for businesses.
Banks hording cash to cover the potential Commerical Real Estate Collapse.
Unless they pass this around as in walking around money, they can't get it in the pipeline fast enough to make a difference of the 2 tusnami's I mentioned that are here or coming.
...BTW, it is the third party movement that has repubs scared sh!tless. and it's about time these turds woke up. The only problem is they're too late, to get on the ship, because most conservatives see through their fake fookin’ sanctimony...
Yeah, sure. You'll be back though, using another name. Probably something like 'humblimbaugh'.
...or ‘El Gunno’
...Heard about them on Quinn and Rose a couple of weeks ago. These folks need our utmost support, to follow the Constitution and not the COC, POSPOTUS, congress, or anyone of these criminals in elected office. Bravo...
Many states have laws which prevent new parties from getting regular ballot access (in New Jersey the GOP barely qualifies sometimes. The law requires that a party must run candidates for the state assembly who receive 35% of the total vote to stay on the ballot).
As to what to do with liberal Republicans, infiltrate, take over, and purge their rear ends out!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2391885/posts
http://www.youtube.com/user/mediamatters4america#p/u/3/t3UvZKR_ld4
I, for one, have given up on going cap in hand to the current crop of Republicans, mewling and puking to please please please pretty please be conservative.
They want my vote, they need to speak their piece in a conservative forum - and tell the truth.
LOL!!! They completely agree with my assessment, in fact, it was THEIR assessment! Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh said NO to the republican candidate in NY. That's a FACT, Jack. You can pretend it didn't happen, but that just puts you hiding in the closet of delusion with Michael Steele.
Did you people learn nothing from the implosion of Perot's Reform party in the late 1990s? If you cannot even get organized enough to take back the GOP from the RINO, it is utter insanity to think you can form a viable third party.
"you people"...just wonderful, thank you. As to the rest, well, "we people" (Conservatives and Libertarians) told "you people" (the RINOs and RINO lickers) to bite us and we carried a HELL of a lot more political weight in that election than "you people" (RINOs and RINO lickers) did. And don't forget - Sarah and Rush were on our (Conservatives and Libertarians) side! Hey, look, I think McPain just took a dump, maybe you should run over and clean his arse...
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