If this was an attack on a liberal, it would be considered a "hate crime"

In fairness http://news.yahoo.com/glenn-beck-family-encounter-hostility-nyc-224805047.html

Did you listen to the audio? It was more than just words. If it were a gay couple being harassed the very same way, would you still be supporting the boors "rights"?

I would ask the same thing. If it was a gay couple or a black couple and people were spewing hatred, would that be okay? If it was a liberal media person? I'm amazed at the mentality that says "you put yourself in the spotlight so you deserve what you get." How did we become a country that allows this trash to happen without SOMEONE coming to the family's defense? They were out having a fun family time. How do you condone that it's right and proper for others to ruin that time? I'm appalled.

As a black person I have endured and seen such hostility of people based simply upon race not idealology or anything else.. No I didn't listen to the audio or saw the video but I can imagine it was horrendous. Like it was during the healthcare debate when black congressman had to walk across the yard to their office past hostile people spitting and cursing at them. Or the difficulty that gay people endured in early San Francisco. Or the burden that the poor and crippled and disabled do everyday. Glenn Beck has to endure the hand he deals the good with the bad. He has an elite position, a voice, not everyone has a voice, most have to endure the hand they are dealt without a platform. The dont have Fox news backing them up or any other entity. But still they must endure. It was wrong for someone to poor anything on them or to touch them in any way. Ity was ugly. But sometimes life gets ugly and its not privelegded. Just ask any black person who lived through Civil Rights. Ask the Indians who felt this is their country and were wiped out. We need to stop crying for Beck.

Then you didn't believe him when he pointed to the riots in Greece and said that we'd see the same thing when austerity measures in the US affected entitlement programs and the public sector unions. Then we saw three weeks of protestors occupying the state capitol in Wisconsin, protesters cornering a Republican legislator and other such acts of thuggery and mayhem (including threats to local businesses if they didn't support the protestors. You didn't believe him when he said Egypt was the tip of the iceberg and the whole middle east could see governments toppling. "(Beck) publicly specifically warned of impending Middle East unrest months prior to the Egyptian unrest. Beck’s views garnered widespread rebuke from both liberal and conservative media personalities alike. His utilization of a worldwide Muslim caliphate scenario was seen as irresponsible provocation built upon blatant exaggeration. Interestingly though, religious leaders from Egypt have since shared views that appear to support the very scenario Beck warned of earlier. And now protests are ongoing in Jordan, Yemen, Bahrain, Iran, Libya, and other surrounding nations. While optimism might suggest these protests could lead to some form of democracy in the Middle East, history proves such a development to be far less likely. It is naive to assume the hardline Muslim power structures in each of those nations would not see the disruption as an opportunity to assume full governmental control over those nations. Yet, it is such a naive optimism that appears to dominate current U.S. foreign policy – optimism and incompetence. Such a combination has also proven disastrous throughout our own history. Iran is already engaged in full-on provocation, Saudia Arabia appears impotent to apply any stabilizing influence, and Israel grows justifiably anxious over the increasing threats to its own security." http://newsflavor.com/politics/us-politics/the-ulsterman-report-apologies-to-glenn-beck-he-was-right-on-egypt/#ixzz1Qcw1SQ2C If you never actually listened TO him, you believe only what you read ABOUT him and your opinions are being fed to you.

Then don't take his word for it.. http://news.yahoo.com/glenn-beck-family-encounter-hostility-nyc-224805047.html

Rollo, would you like me to give you examples of where Glenn Beck has lied, like when he lied saying he held George Washington's handwritten first Inaugural Address in his hands at the National Archives? Would you like more? I have a bunch. Sorry, but I will believe Glenn when I see it with my own two eyes.

Exactly, Annie! This bunch shouldn't be taken as examples of all liberals, or even all who don't like Glenn Beck. What bothers me is all the people who write in support of what these people did. The fact that these actions are celebrated is just plain sickening.

We have every right to profile. These were a bunch of liberal/progressive jerks. They were in the wrong. And no one had the guts to stand up for Beck and his family. Hatley, time and again, we see that the ignorant thugs are on the left, not on the right.