Below is full video from yesterday's "Glenn Beck" show on the Fox News Channel. Clifton B., a conservative blogger in New Jersey, was one of the folks in the New York City studio audience (he appears in Part 2 of 7, at the 5:25 mark). Clifton gives some behind-the-scenes commentary, and compares this show to November's show: "As we hung out before going into the studio, I mingled with the other black conservatives and found that this time we were a much ideological[ly] tighter group (few if any CINOs [Conservatives In Name Only] as far as I could tell). I do not know if that was due to better screening by the Beck people or just the luck of the draw. Either way, it worked for me. As we waited to go into the studio, the Beck staff was conducting mini interviews with each of us. A segment of [New York conservative blogger] Adrienne Ross’ mini interview is shown at the start of Video 3 of 7. My mini interview is never show[n], sorry folks. I am glad for that, because on second thought my answers were lame."
Clifton continues his commentary: "Before the show started, Beck explain what topics would be discussed. I was grateful for this. The last time Beck merely turned the whole show over to the audience and the show became too freewheeling. The topics the audience favored then was too mundane for my taste (health care, cap and trade, etc). I blog about that crap everyday, I did not want to waste a special opportunity focusing in on that stuff. This time the topics were tight and related specifically to the black community. That worked for me."
More commentary from Clifton, about the show: "As the show came to a close [man, those 45 minutes go quick] Charles Payne [end of video 6 of 7] touches on things that were taken away from the black community. Payne mentions that liberal thinking has taken away the family the village being taken way from the black community. At this point Adrienne Ross and Lisa Fri[t]sch [who is now seated in the row in front of us] both determined that the real thing that was taken away from the black community was true belief in religion. I could not believe more. Religion was the turbo charger that saw our ancestors through the impossible times of slavery, segregation and the civil rights struggle. Religion gave our ancestors the boost they needed to have faith in themselves. There was no belief in big government solutions, the Democratic Party or the Republican Party to help those blacks over come their oppressive adversity. Our ancestors had to have God giving them strength in themselves to carry on. Where is that today? When I watch young blacks savage themselves over utter b___t, like they did in the case of Darion [sic] Albert, I think of my strong faith in God and know I would be completely incapable of debasing myself or savaging my brothers and sisters over such trivial nonsense. Trur faith and true belief in ourselves is what was taken away by the white liberal agenda."
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"Glenn Beck" Town Hall Meeting With Black Conservatives: "A Time To Be Heard", Part 2: Content Of Character
