Glenn Beck's "Common Sense" Tour at Midland Theatre in Kansas City
Glenn Beck’s “Common Sense” Comedy Tour visited Kansas City, MO tonight in the beautiful Midland Theatre. The event was also broadcast to about 450 theaters and there will be an encore presentation on June 11th in selected cities.
If you follow Beck’s radio or TV programs, or are a right-leaning, liberty-minded and freedom-loving person, then you would have loved his Common Sense program.
If you are left-leaning, or a “progressive” wanting bigger government with more control over our every day lives, then you may not have have been so thrilled with Beck’s humor.
While photography or recording of the event was not allowed, I live tweeted as @efg2:
6:05 Will attempt to tweet from Glenn Beck Comedy tour in KCMO
6:38 Have fairly good seats at Glenn Beck in KCMO
6:53 Stu doing warmup for Glenn Beck in KCMO
7:01 Glenn Beck wearing 1791 T shirt
7:03 Glenn having fun with Barbara Walters and Whoopi Goldberg
7:06 Glenn contrasting “private” and “public”
7:15 Beck: Conservatives don’t organize well — because they have jobs
7:28 Glenn explains “appreciation” of PBS, Sesame Street, arts
7:46 Beck wants politicians with common sense
7:53 Beck says to throw out all politicians, but imprison some too
8:27 Beck shows how far we’ve gone from Freedom
8:34 Beck talks about rewriting Common Sense — a case about out of control government
8:37 Beck: Common Sense will make “ism’s” scatter
8:46 Beck finds hope with people waking up; studying history; Henry Ford’s story
9:13 Beck’s second hour was more history and inspiration than comedy. Still well received by audience.
Beck railed against both Republicans and Democrats and called for private citizens to seek more accountability in our government.
The program’s theme was based on ideas from Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, which Beck modernized in a soon-to-be published Glenn Beck’s Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government.
Beck will repeat his show two more times: tomorrow in Texas and on Saturday in Richmond, Virginia.
See Beck’s Comedy Tour Blog and pictures from Kansas City.
As of this writing I don’t find any clips of Beck’s Kansas City appearance on YouTube.
Postscript: At 12:51 AM on Friday, Beck tweeted from Houston:
You MUST see the NY Times review. I just got into Houston and getting ready for bed wehn it came in. WOW. At least he went in open. HA!
Here’s a link to Glenn Beck, Simulcasting Discontent in the New York Times.
Related:
- Glenn Beck’s Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
- The Glenn Beck Common Sense Comedy Tour, Necessary Cool blog, June 4, 2009.
