Glenn Beck Draws Tyler Crowd

TYLER – Hundreds turned out in Tyler Saturday night to meet radio talk show host Glenn Beck. Beck, whose talk show is heard on KTBB weekday morning at 8:00, was in Tyler promoting his new book “Being George Washington.” Tyler was the last stop Saturday in a four city tour by Beck. Earlier in the day he was in Beaumont and Houston. Just before arriving in Tyler, he visited Nacogdoches.

His bus pulled up to Hastings on South Broadway shortly after 8:00 bringing a roar of approval from the crowd. Among those on hand was Landon Lough from Fort Worth, He waited for Beck’s arrival starting around 9:45 Saturday morning. Lough said it was well worth the wait. He said he would have waited a lot longer for a chance to get to meet Beck. Lough was awestruck by his meeting with the talk show host. Lough remarked, “It was worth every moment of it. He’s just a sincere, genuine guy, and I met with my hero, so mission accomplished.”

Florida-based Constitutional attorney KrisAnne Hall stopped by the Beck event while in town to speak with Grassroots America – We the People. Hall told our news partner KETK, “Well, I believe that he’s also a Constitutional conservative, and that phrase, in and of itself, sort of gathers different interpretations. A real Constitutional conservative believes that you can’t trade liberty for security for any reason.”

According to Beck his book about George Washington is the amazing true story of a real-life superhero who wore no cape and possessed no special powers, yet changed the world forever. It’s a story about a man whose life reads as if it were torn from the pages of an action novel: Horses shot out from under him. Unimaginable hardship. Disease. Heroism. Spies and double-agents. “Being George Washington, according to Beck, is a whole new way to look at history.