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.
Tell that to Scozzafava in New York! Rush and Sarah both backed the Conservative Party candidate, not the "republican". The "republican" candidate was the 3rd party in that election. Sticking with the Scozzafavas in the world just because they have an R next to their name is worse than just giving up and voting for the democrats. The Republican Party of Reagan is dead...it's gone...it doesn't exist anymore...either one is a Conservative, or one isn't. Listen to Rush and Sarah, and be a Conservative.
I'm thankful Beck has good folk like this man!!
Security seemed pretty tight!
Ping a ding ding!
Thanks to COMRADE whatisthetruth for the heads up!
Hey RBB I used your ping list
Well just darn - thought you might be out and about and away from the computer!
LOL, I pinged the COMRADES a few seconds before you did....and I’m glad to see you’re on it in case I wasn’t!
I was actually,,,,doing shopping, raking leaves etc. just finished up with all that and thought I’d pop on FR! No biggie, better a double ping than no ping at all!
Wow, 8 seconds apart, not bad. 30 more minutes before the big announcement, wonder what it could possibly be?
Thanks for the ping.
Someone going to give us the highlights for those stuck at work?
COMRADES! Thanks!
There aren't enough Conservative/Libertarians to take over the GOP but there are enough to form a viable 3rd party?
Do you really believe this absurity?
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 instanity to think you can form a viable third party.
Do you really believe this absurdity? Neither Sarah Palin nor Rush Limbaugh agree with your assessment. They believe the solution is to take back their GOP, not run away.
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.
And let’s not forget Rick Santelli, whose frustrated rant first brought the modern tea party movement into being. Beck did a magnificent job in fleshing it out and giving voice to our frustrations - based on his caller’s “they surround us/we surround them” call. That caller, too, is my hero.
He has also brought attention to some serious books about the founders and their principles. Anyone who describes him as only a “rodeo clown” (his description) is missing the mark.
Hopefully Blinko works, altho I can only get the Realplayer link to work good on my PC....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391032/posts?page=3#3
Go back to DU, troll!
Thanks for the heads up!
He wants us to be nice to the Pres_ent and lets just talk about JOBS, Jobs....
This Pres_ent is destroying our country and he and the GOP want us to play nice....RIGHT....well the GOP better soon wake up.
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