[Vermont Lt]

A guy selling tickets to a concert in Dallas is not what most newscasts would deem news. Bruce Springsteen and Toby Keith do twice that much on most any night during the summer.

[dead]

You’re right, but seven fat chicks and a goat can make the news if they’re gathering for gay marriage or against guns.

[SamAdams76]

Not exactly. Here's a link to the top grossing concert tours of all time.

Only one artist (U2) drew an average of 65,000 people. Most other performers averaged 20-30,000 people to a concert.

Thus I would say it is newsworthy that a conservative talk show host/book seller would fill a stadium of 65,000 people.

I would rather go to see Glenn Beck than to see Bono screeching about saving the environment while he drags a quarter million tons of equipment around the country on tour with him, not to mention the private jets and limos.

[papertyger]

Bruce Springsteen and Toby Keith do twice that much on most any night during the summer.

When's the last time either of them drew those kinds of crowds to do charity projects in hundred degree heat ?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Yeah, VermontLT, but our local paper ignored a big (big for our little burg --- 300) Religious Liberty Rally, but ran a pic and article of "almost a hundred" women in Madrid --- Madrid! ---demonstrating in favor of abortion.

And you could easily gather 100 women in Madrid just by opening a keg of Mahou-San Miguel.

[libertylover]

Bruce Springsteen and Toby Keith do twice that much on most any night during the summer.

No they don't.

[thackney]

Bruce Springsteen and Toby Keith do twice that much on most any night during the summer.

Would you please point me to one concert either had with 130,000 people attending?