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Local News8 reported that Glenn Beck made a surprise visit for a Saturday night holiday extravaganza.

Melaluca’s fireworks brought out thousands for Saturday night’s show, but many Idaho Falls families made their way to another celebration this year instead.The Huntsman family threw quite the party on their new golf course in Driggs but it was the evening’s host, Glenn Beck that brought out the crowd.”

He’s an inspiration, he really is,” said Irene Heamanczyk. “I just love him.”

While on Fox News Beck offers many of his political opinions he spent the evening focusing on what makes America great and the lessons we can learn from our founding fathers.

“He researches on the founding fathers and what they brought and who they are, and where we should be today,” said Glenn Beck fan Jimmy Marlowe.

Glenn beck did mention that it was the first time in his life that he wanted a space heater on the Fourth of July. Temperatures dipped down into the 40s in Teton Valley Saturday evening.

This is why we watch Glenn Beck.  Where others whitewash, he tells the truth.

That’s the title of a Daily Finance article this morning reporting about the significant impact that Glenn Beck is having on the publishing industry.

Earlier this month, Glenn Beck did what precious few authors have tried and failed to do over the past four weeks: unseat Stieg Larsson from the top of the New York Times bestseller list. Beck’s thriller The Overton Window topped the charts with more than 132,000 copies sold in its first week, according to Nielsen Bookscan (which tracks approximately 75% of total book sales). This isn’t exactly new territory for Beck, who has seen his name at the top of the charts in fiction, non-fiction, and even children’s picture books. Since 2003, Fox News’s conservative host has sold almost 5 million copies of his books in the United States alone.

Not only do Beck’s books sell at record levels, but so do his book picks. Every month or so, Beck holds up his latest choice from one of his favorite genres: thrillers, non-fiction (mainly about the founding fathers), and polemics. Like Oprah, Beck has turned into a literary tastemaker and for the authors he’s interviewed on his programs and their publishers, the results are staggering. George Washington’s Sacred Fire, Peter Lillback’s 1,200-page biography first published by the tiny Providence Forum Press in 2006, has sold more than 45,000 copies this year, according to Bookscan. The vast majority of those sales coming after Lilliback appeared on Beck’s television show in mid-May…..

The University of Chicago Press has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of his endorsements. Among its list of steadiest-selling books has been F.A. Hayek’s anti-big government treatise The Road to Serfdom (1944), which links socialism to totalitarianism.

Press director Garrett Kiely told Publishers Weekly the book had increased its annual sales from about 7,000 copies to about 27,000 copies since President Obama’s election in November 2008. When Glenn Beck endorsed the book on his TV show on June 8 of this year, that number nearly tripled to 70,000 – just in one week. (Nielsen Bookscan, which tracks approximately 75% of total book sales, reports The Road to Serfdom has sold 57,000 copies since the beginning of 2010.)

This weekend the Connecticut Post reported that Glenn Beck was the keynote speaker at the Office of the Year Awards ceremony of the Stamford Police Association:

Glenn Beck, the polemic and provocative Fox News commentator, said he believes heroes don’t wear capes. They wear badges, carry guns and stand in the line of fire.

“Our society is teaching our children that heroes fly and have superpowers,” Beck said Friday evening at the Italian Center on Newfield Avenue, speaking to a banquet hall full of Stamford police officers. “They don’t. They just do the right thing.”

Beck was the keynote speaker at the Stamford Police Association’s Officer of the Year awards dinner. The conservative and controversial pundit orated about good and bad and right and wrong, and he recalled wanting to be a police officer or fireman as a young child and even a grown man.

Beck has been focusing this week on America’s history — the history that progressives have suppressed.  If you aren’t DVRing it now, please start:

GLENN BECK, HOST: We have been talking about the history of racism in the labor unions and you need to understand what labor leaders stood for in this country.

Paul Moreno — he is associate professor of history at Hillsdale College. He is the author of this book, “Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History.”  Paul, you have been watching the show back in the green room?

PAUL MORENO, AUTHOR, “BLACK AMERICANS AND ORGANIZED LABOR: A NEW HISTORY”: Yes.

BECK: Have I gotten anything wrong?

MORENO: Well, the basic point that race has been used as a tool by organized labor is in a different way.

BECK: I have a feeling that I am — I’m making all the wrong enemies. I have a feeling I’m in trouble with the labor unions. They’re not going to be happy with today’s show, correct?

MORENO: Nobody likes their dirty laundry to be aired.

BECK: Nobody likes to do that. Yes. Sure. I understand that. OK. And what is going to be said is because Trumka just did interview with “New York Times,” did he not?

MORENO: They did a profile of him where he told the usual story that unions had been the victims of employers manipulating racial feeling where it has more often been the other way around.

BECK: OK. I just want to show this. This is an editorial. This is written by Frederick Douglass. This was in — was it the “New York Times”?

MORENO: His own newspaper, the “New National Era.”

BECK: OK, “New National Era.” Frederick Douglass — give me the history before I read the quote.

MORENO: Well, Douglas himself and his son had been a typographer. And they had seen first hand discriminatory action by labor unions. Douglass himself had been ship’s caulker in Baltimore and his son who was excluded from the typographers’ union.

BECK: OK. So here is what — here is what he said — are you ready? “On more than one occasion, we have attempted to convince the working men of the injury to their interest of labor unions of the country and also their oppressions and their tyrannical course towards fellow workers as well as to their employers. The history of these organizations generally managed, not by industrious workmen themselves, but by unprincipled demagogues who control them for their own benefit, furnishes abundant proof almost every day of their mischievous influence upon every industrial interest in the country.”

This seems to me to be the exact same story that happens today. It’s not the union workers. It’s the people at top that have convinced the workers that hey — do you know what I mean?

MORENO: Yes. And considering the fact that we have a system of compulsory unionism in America, where the majority of the work force wants to join the union. The minority are forced to join whether they want to or not.

BECK: OK. So I want to get into — I want to get into a little more of the history of the unions with you here in a sec. But I want to ask you this. There is — I’m trying to remember the labor union where if you opt out, you still have to pay dues.

You still — you can’t ever get out of these things, right? How is this, when you look at history and when the unemployment goes up, when there are problems and they start blaming things on the banks, on the capitalists, et cetera, et cetera.

Marxist, communist, revolutionaries and the unions use race and everything else. Is there a way to diffuse this other than just knowing history?

MORENO: Well, I think if you look at black Americans — black Americans especially, for a long time, they opposed labor unions because they understood the basic principle of equality before the law and the individual rights and those sort of classic liberal principles, so that even though they understood that the unions discriminated on basis of race, they had reasons to oppose unions on a non-racial basis as well because they really don’t benefit the workers generally.

You can make a strong argument that they don’t even benefit their own members because of the way they the press the overall economics.

BECK: Wouldn’t we be reversing the racism here? Wouldn’t — because the numbers are growing. Whites are diminishing and Hispanics are growing, et cetera, et cetera. Wouldn’t it be in the best interest?

I mean, I hear SEIU and everybody else doing this. They’re reaching out to the illegal immigrant. Do you see a reverse racism coming?

MORENO: Maybe a reversal of the way race is being used in that I think SEIU and the labor movement today, which is principally about public employees, not the private sector employees -

BECK: Right.

MORENO: Because unions pretty much froze them out of the economy.

BECK: Hang on. I’ve got a break. Finish that sentence you were saying. I have a hard network break. Sorry. Nine seconds.

BECK: OK. We are running out of time. You have to do your own homework. Read this book. This is “Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History” by Paul Moreno. There it is. I mean, I just opened it up and what does it go to? The Wilson administration. I hate that guy.

Real quick, let me just ask you this. Finish your thought real quickly that we had in the last break.

MORENO: Yes. A hundred years ago or so, when unionization was in the private sector only -

BECK: Yes, yes.

MORENO: Public sector couldn’t organize, as you said. It made sense for unions to exclude blacks because they were doing what any other cartel, like OPEC does. You want to limit the supply so you can raise the price.

Today, now that private sector employment is disappearing and private sector unions are declining, in the public sector, a different economic incentive is there. There, you want to broaden numbers because you are bringing in really not so much the union members as the voters.

BECK: OK.

MORENO: So I think the strategy today is to bring these people, get them voting Democratic and the Democratic Party will enact card check and other kinds of legislation.

BECK: OK. All right. America, I want you to know — this is controversial stuff. But you need to ask these questions and think along these lines. Read the book. And anybody who says, “Oh, that’s old history,” I’ll bet you those are the same people that say our founders were racists. I’m just saying.

Learn more about “Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History” at Amazon.com

If you missed Tuesday’s show Glenn opened with another example of the hypocrisy of progressives:

It’s how it always works with the progressives. They play the “I’m just looking out for the little guy” part and then you buy it and then the giant corporations and the uber-wealthy end up benefiting from it anyway. OK?

What I was just telling you about was in the — in the book from de Tocqueville, “Democracy in America.” I mean, he predicted it, 150 years ago. They say one thing and do another.

Let me give a specific: 1932, FDR campaigned on stopping the big corporations and — believe it or not — he ran on a conservative platform. Have you ever heard that? He hammered Hoover for overspending and I quote, “taking us toward socialism.” The candidate, FDR, promised quote: “Strict and impartial enforcement of the antitrust laws to prevent monopoly and unfair trade practices and the revision thereof for the better protection of labor and the small producer and distributor.”

It sounds great until he got in office.

Oh, yes, they were the party of the little guy until they took power. Then he created something — this is from the Saturday Evening Post — something called the NRA, not the National Rifle Association, the National Relief Act. This suspended the antitrust laws, helping to create monopolies and the NRA’s price controls drove small businesses right out of business because — well, they couldn’t afford, you know, to take the hit on items the government had priced, you know, at little or negative profit.

That was just the beginning.

We know all of the exploits of FDR’s big government onslaught with the New Deal, but we never learned that this man actually campaigned on a promise to be a conservative. You see, this is what they do. They promise anything to get elected. FDR admitted as much to this guy, R.G. Tugwell.

This guy — he was part of the FDR administration. He said  to Tugwell, the key to getting elected would be to tell the regular Democrat what they wanted to hear without using specifics, so that  FDR would be free to do whatever he wanted when he got in. Kind of like hope and change. Sound familiar?