The first Tea Party Convention of 2010 was held in Nashville this past weekend.  In case you missed it here is Glenn Beck interviewed by Greta Van Susteren On the Record talking about the Tea Party Convention and their activists.

See it here: They Say They Want a Revolution.

If you didn’t see last night’s Glenn Beck show, do it now. He tells the story the mainstream media is missing about a clear and present danger;  a danger that our leaders in Washington are not focusing on. Watch and decide for yourself.

There’s been a lot of discussion about the Obama recession and the government’s response.   Glenn compared the facts about what happened during the Bush recession with this latest one. In case you missed it, here’s a chance too.

Remember last week’s epic takedown of Joel Klein by Glenn Beck over an article Klein wrote which called the American people dumb.   Klein came on O’Reilly as a follow up.  Here’s Mediaite’s takeaway:

Bill O’Reilly started the week by not only taking on Republican critics of Pres. Obama, but also Factoring in some liberal guests into the fold.

One of those, Joe Klein from Time magazine, has had a recent back-and-forth with Glenn Beck, and O’Reilly took the chance to offer a defense, of sorts, of his colleague.

…. O’Reilly brought up Klein’s FNC criticism, going back to last year as well. “You don’t like Fox News much,” said O’Reilly.

Klein said he likes and respects people like Carl Cameron and Major Garrett…and even O’Reilly. “Those are good guys, I think you’re a good guy, we come from the same neck of the woods,” said Klein. But surprise, surprise: “Your pal Glenn Beck is peddling a lot of hateful crap.”

I guess he’s still stinging from last week’s takedown by Glenn.

Oh what a tangled web we weave when at first we practice to deceive.  After publicly accusing Beck of using rhetoric that incites the public and that his remarks are the journalistic equivalent of shouting fire in a crowded theater it turns out that Arianna Huffington only recently came to this view.   Check out David Patten from News Max:

Fox News host and bestselling author Glenn Beck fired back Monday against allegations by Huffington Post blogger Arianna Huffington’s that he is “inciting” Americans to violence are “completely ridiculous.”

On the Sunday talk program ABC’s This Week, Huffington asked Fox News CEO Roger Ailes if he were concerned that Beck “talks about people being slaughtered, about who is going to be the next in the killing spree.”

Ailes replied that Beck was referring to massacres by Hitler and Stalin. But Huffington insisted: “No, no, he was talking about this administration.”

…….In discussing Huffington’s allegations on his radio program, Beck revealed that Huffington had tried to recruit him last year to write for her Web site. “Arianna Huffington, I would like you to explain this,” Beck told listeners.

“The last time and the only time that I’ve ever seen you or spoken to you, you asked me to write for the Huffington Post and tried to convince me that it would be good, because you are so open minded and everything else.

“Now, were you trying to incite people, when you asked me to write for the Huffington Post? Or are you going to deny that? It was, I can tell you when it was. It was at the Time Most Influential 100 dinner last year when I was an absolute nobody. But I was on Fox News and I was saying the same stuff.”

Wonder who has an axe to grind?

If you haven’t been watching Glenn Beck you’ve been missing a lot lately.  His docu- mentary exposed a movement that many thought had been forgotten or simply ignored.  Take a look at Jen Shroder’s piece on Renew America for a quick update.

Ever feel like both Republicans and Democrats are just puppets on a stage of distraction? Glenn Beck has been explaining why to millions of captivated Americans. It’s the Progressive movement and it attacks the Constitution from BOTH parties. If you haven’t been watching his show, you need to.

Glenn explains how Progressivism has been with us since the turn of the century. It isn’t discussed in textbooks because President Woodrow Wilson and Walter Litman were part of the “Council of Foreign Relations” whose goal it was to change history as we knew it through education and the media. The movement (alive and well today) is out to replace our beloved Constitution with a philosophy that the elite should rule. Woodrow Wilson said, “Justly revered as our great Constitution is, it could be stripped off and thrown aside like a garment and the nation will still stand forth…” He said the preamble of the Constitution should never be read and the Declaration of Independence has zero relevance to any other age other than 1776……

These are Progressives with EVIL philosophies, admiring mass murderers like Che, Castro, Stalin and Mao. So who do we know that’s a Progressive today? Beck plays the clips:

HILLARY CLINTON: “I prefer the word Progressive which has a real American meaning going back to the Progressive era at the beginning of the 20th Century. I consider myself a modern Progressive.

BARACK OBAMA: “You will carry on the best Progressive forward looking values of this proud commonwealth…,” “Change has always come from places like Wisconsin, the State where the Progressive movement was born.” He refers to Democrats as Progressives.

Before becoming President, Obama said the Warren court failed to “break free from the essential constraints” in the U.S. Constitution and launch a major redistribution of wealth. But Obama said the legislative branch of government, rather than the courts, probably was the ideal avenue for accomplishing that goal. Then he stood there in his State of the Union Address and chastised the US Supreme Court for their decision to uphold the Constitution.

MICHELLE OBAMA on the campaign trail: “…and Barack knows that we are gonna have to make sacrifices, we are gonna have to change our conversation, we are gonna have to change our traditions, our history, we are gonna have to move into a different place.”

ANITA DUNN, former White House Communications Director: “Mao Tse Tung and Mother Teresa; not often coupled with each other, but the two people that I turn to most.”

Mao was responsible for the deaths of 70 million people!

RON BLOOM, Manufacturing ‘Czar‘: “We know that the free market is nonsense…. We know that this is largely about power, that it’s an adults only, no-limit game. We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun.”

There are 82 members of the Progressive Caucus of the Democratic Party. In fact, 11 out of 20 standing committees are chaired by members of the Progressive Caucus.

Glenn has also noted that John McCain is a Progressive who’s hero is Teddy Roosevelt, also a Progressive…..

Meanwhile, as you can imagine, Beck is taking much heat for all his hard work. Articles are being published in the Mein Kampf media attempting to belittle Beck. Yet top historians don’t seem to come up with a single inaccuracy,. Arianna Huffington said on Keith Olbermann of Beck, “We cannot just dismiss him because the truth of the matter is that there is a good reason why we have an exemption to the free speech protected by the First Amendment when we say you cannot shout “fire” in a crowded theater, and he’s doing that every night, he’s basically using images of violence to bring together with all that he’s accusing the Obama administration of…”

So free speech should be protected when it agrees with Arianna Huffington and the Progressives. Arianna, your Chavez is showing.

Perhaps the arguments Beck presents on his show are too subtle for progressives like Ariana Huffington to understand or perhaps she understands all to clearly?  In any event Huffington’s attempt to claim on ABC that Beck believes our President has slaughtered or plans to slaughter Americans is laughably ignorant or willfully malicious.    Here’s Newsreal’s take:

HUFFINGTON: Well, Roger, it’s not a question of picking a fight. And aren’t you concerned about the language that Glenn Beck is using, which is, after all, inciting the American people? There is a lot of suffering out there, as you know, and when he talks about people being slaughtered, about who is going to be the next in the killing spree…

AILES: Well, he was talking about Hitler and Stalin slaughtering people. So I think he was probably accurate. Also, I’m a little….

HUFFINGTON: No, no, he was talking about this administration [Emphasis added].

AILES: I don’t — I think he speaks English. I don’t know, but I mean, I don’t misinterpret any of his words.

Glenn Beck aired a special on Friday, January 22 (I do believe the documentary was in English) showing some of the history of the atrocities committed by socialist and communist dictators throughout history, and how the Obama Administration employs people who actually hold evil despots like Mao Tse-tung in high regard. This is as close as I can come to figuring out what Huffington was talking about, and it isn’t very close.

The far Left seems wholly unable to comprehend their own abject lunacy as they misinterpret or mischaracterize Conservatives to paint them as insane. If the Left intends to keep the ear of the President, and more importantly the American people, I have some advice for them – maybe it’s time to ratchet back the crazy a little.

The Fresh and Bold Tour is going quite well and it is generating media coverage.   Check out the Virginian-Pilot’s  take:

Millions of people watch, listen to or read Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck every day. That, apparently, is not enough.

The pair of political commentators kicked off their Bold and Fresh Tour to a sold-out crowd last week in Westbury, N.Y., and will perform before another sold-out crowd in Norfolk on Saturday.

The TV talkers are feeling the love from their fans. Tickets for the initial four dates sold out in less than a week, prompting the addition of two shows in Los Angeles. Those who don’t have tickets to the Norfolk show can pay to see live simulcasts Saturday in movie theaters.

There also will be a repeat showing at movie theaters Tuesday.

Fans will get the same kind of no-holds-barred political talk and theater that the men present on the Fox News TV shows. O’Reilly and Beck give individual presentations, then sit down to banter together…….

ABC News reports the results of the annual survey of the most popular television personalities in the USA.

Oprah Winfrey regained her throne as America’s favorite TV personality in 2009, but conservative TV and radio talk show host Glenn Beck made his debut on the annual Harris Poll, coming in second place.

Beck, 45, who hosts a Fox News channel political TV show as well as the nationally-syndicated talk radio program “The Glenn Beck Program”, fared well with Republicans, Independents and those over 64 years-old in the annual Harris Poll of favorite television personalities, released on Monday….

It was the first entry for Beck on the poll that Harris has conducted since 1993.

Beck, a self-described libertarian who disputes evidence suggesting human activity is the main cause of global warming, was joined on the list by another influential Fox News conservative, Bill O’Reilly, who was placed 10th.

Seven of the top 10 were talk show hosts.

The Top 10 list of favorite TV personalities among Americans in 2009 was:

1. Oprah Winfrey

2. Glenn Beck

3. Jay Leno

4. Ellen DeGeneres

5. Hugh Laurie

6. Jon Stewart

7. Charlie Sheen

8. Mark Harmon

9. David Letterman

10.Bill O’Reilly

Politico reports the results:

Fox is the most trusted television news network in the country, according to a new poll out Tuesday.

A Public Policy Polling nationwide survey of 1,151 registered voters Jan. 18-19 found that 49 percent of Americans trusted Fox News, 10 percentage points more than any other network.

Thirty-seven percent said they didn’t trust Fox, also the lowest level of distrust that any of the networks recorded.

There was a strong partisan split among those who said they trusted Fox — with 74 percent of Republicans saying they trusted the network, while only 30 percent of Democrats said they did.

CNN was the second-most-trusted network, getting the trust of 39 percent of those polled. Forty-one percent said they didn’t trust CNN.

Each of the three major networks was trusted by less than 40 percent of those surveyed, with NBC ranking highest at 35 percent. Forty-four percent said they did not trust NBC, which was combined with its sister cable station MSNBC.