Beck 08 Stage Show

Last night Dan and I attended the Beck '08: Unelectable stage show that was beamed by satellite to our local theatre. He was performing in Dallas and we saw the show live in HD. Because we don't get his radio show here in Chico, I assumed that Dan and I would probably be the only one's there, but I was pleasantly surprised. I brought my camera along because Glenn Beck on his radio show (which I download everyday to my iPod) urged those of us who would be in theaters that would be virtually empty to take pictures and send them in. So, I had my camera with me. There was a total of 40 attendee's. During the first segment of the show he focused on the "great work" that our politicians do on our behalf and we collectively dropped our jaws when he mentioned a piece of legislation that Chico's city council passed. About 8 years ago, our esteemed city council passed a law that it is illegal to detonate a nuclear devise within the city limits and any person in violation of this law will be fined $500. A definite head scratcher and shows the deep thinkers that sit on our city council. Anyway when the intermission started, me being me, I asked everyone there if they would be willing for me to take a picture of them to send in to Glenn. They all heartily agreed. Dan got the usher to turn on the lights and this is the picture he took. As you can clearly see there are not 40 people in this picture, but it was intermission and some had to tend to bathroom needs and others to hunger and thirst needs.
Even though we'd never met any of these people, we had the best time together talking and getting to know each other. What I love about Glenn Beck is that it's not about the political parties. In fact, whenever politics enters into the problem solving process, trouble and idiosy soon ensues. The second half of the show he gave the political speech that he would give if he was the presidential candidate. Keep in mind, he does not seriously see himself entering politics at anytime. Hence, the "Unelectable" portion of the stage show title. The speech was totally politically incorrect, which made it completely delicious. It was chalk full of common sense and I believe that conservative and liberal alike would find much that they would agree with in what he said. The bottom line of his message is that this is a great country, full of wonderful and resourceful people, and it is up to each of us, as individuals to take responsibility and do our part to solve these pressing issues before us. Government is not the answer. Taxing people into oblivion to bail out large corporations and individuals who make poor choices is not the way. What makes this country great is the fact that we have the opportunity to succeed, as well as fail. In fact it is important for people to fail. This is how we learn. I know this from personal experience, as you probably do to. I also believe that many of our problems are solvable if we use common sense and get all the special interests and political agendas out of the way.