March 23, 2009 09:39 PM UTC

Glenn Beck Goes Nuts (Featuring Josh Penry)

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• by: Colorado Pols

We almost missed this one but it’s definitely worth a mention–KJCT-TV reported a week ago:

Cable talk show host Glenn Beck had people all over the country fired up on Friday.

That included a large viewing party for the show here in Grand Junction, where an estimated 150 supporters gathered at Bassett Furniture for what was being called “We Surround Them” Friday.

The purpose of the event was to showcase how Americans can come together and stand up to their government no matter where they stand politically.

Before Beck’s show, State Senator Josh Penry spoke to the crowd via DVD message.

When the show started, the crowd seemed to mirror the talk show host, alternating at times between tears and laughter…

If any of you watched the March 13th Glenn Beck Fox News special “We Surround Them,” you already know Beck was crying. But handlers of Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry, who introduced the broadcast to Grand Junction supporters described above, should probably have paid attention to what Beck was saying:

We are a country that is headed towards socialism, totalitarianism, beyond your wildest dreams. I have to tell you: I’m doing a story tonight that I wanted to debunk – these FEMA camps – I’m tired of hearing about them – you know about them? –  I wanted to debunk them. We’ve now for several days done research on them.  I can’t debunk them! If you trust our government, it’s fine. If you have any kind of fear that we might be heading towards a totalitarian state: look out. Buckle up..

Wow–we haven’t checked a complete transcript to see if black helicopters were mentioned, but it looks like they might as well have been. We’ve heard that “We Surround Them Friday” was heavily attended by members of the conspiracist John Birch Society and supporters of fringe presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche–both of whom are generally quite receptive to warnings, the more shrill the better, that we are headed toward “socialism, totalitarianism, beyond your wildest dreams” and secret FEMA prison camps. Aliens, too.

But the question is, does Josh Penry believe this bug-eyed insanity? We assume, like “Swastika Guy,” that the answer is no. But, just like with “Swastika Guy,” you have to ask the question: why is he sharing a stage with this?