Glenn Beck Accosted At Wendy's: "You Racist Bigot!"

Conservative personality Glenn Beck was accosted at his local Wendy's Saturday night, he said Monday on his radio show. In his attempt to procure a Frosty — "Everybody wants a Frosty," he said — he was stopped by a truck driver with food in his hair and called a "racist bigot."

"I wanted to say, I think you have me mistaken for someone else, but I knew he knew who I was and he just hated me for who I was," Beck said.

Beck's full Wendy's rant below:

It happened to me at Wendy's Saturday night. We are on the bus and we stop to get fuel and I said, I'm going to go in, I'm treating. Everybody wants a Frosty. I'm going to go get Frosties. And one of the security guys, said, No, you're not. I said, Yeah, I am. I mean, it's a truck stop. How much trouble am I going to get in in a truck stop? Everybody here you can trust. You're not going in. I went in, but I had to bring the swat team with me and so I'm just, I just want to Frosty, please, the guy standing next to me, who, by the way, I may point out. Had food in his hair, is a truck driver and he turned around. He looked at me and the recognition was immediate and he said, You racist bigot! And I just said -- I wanted to say, I think you have me mistaken for someone else, but I knew he knew who I was and he just hated me for who I was. You conservatives that have destroyed this country! And the hatred was so deep, it was breath taking. Luckily the swat team was there and I just separated myself from him and he just shouted through other people and there were children in the restaurant and he blamed me for everything, I believe including the Holocaust, and the hatred was palpable. The guy screamed at the restaurant, you better not let me see you in the parking lot because I've got a truck and I'll run your ass over! Wow. Is this who we've become? Is this who we've become?

The TV and radio personality recently signed a deal to jump to Fox News, where he will host the 5PM hour starting in spring 2009.

Comments

[grizhead63]

Glenn IS a racistbigot. Whats the news?

[fredfep]

Reap what you sow, Beck Bigot.

[ThomasMc]

Too bad the truck driver didn't punch his lights out, too.

[bdaved]

It's typical of Mr. Beck to try to marginalize someone who doesn't agree with him as someone with "food in his hair". It reminds me of the segment on his radio show in which he'd call up convenience stores and ask questions of whoever answered the phone and then mock and belittle the person's failure to meet his standards of political awareness, while demonstrating only a superficial knowledge and understanding of the issues himself. I am no longer surprised when those who spread hate and discontent act surprised when they get a little of it on them.

[rbphoto]

SHOCKED ! SHOCKED I SAY !
That ol' shoe doesn't fit well on the other foot, 'eh, Glenn?

I always knew you guys really don't hear yourselves so well, perched up on that lofty high peak.

Well, let me get in my little two cents worth.
Stick it where the sun don't shine.

[wolfmanman]

I just don't get it. The right is somehow able to constantly brand the left as wi mpy pacifis ts, yet at the same time, constantly conjure up fantastically unbelievable stories of big left wing thu gs like this nonexistent trucker, or the nonexistent lady gangs with pink pis tols, or the nonexistent backwards B carver. I mean, at least be consistent with you stereotype­s...

[tchristin]

Reap what you sow jerk. That truck driver had it exactly right.

[cobobs]

When I see this guy, Becky, I flip quickly to another channel without waiting to hear a single peep from him. I do not want to hate or to be provoked.

[Xysea]

The thing is, there are repercussions - for belief systems, ideologies and practices. Nothing happens in a vaccuum.

And if you think that's fire-breathing hate, Glenn, you should check out some of those conservative sites where they talk about 'wishing liberals had been aborted by their mothers' and stuff like that. It's not a rarity, believe me.

I just wonder how you can be shocked by this guy and not by the other stuff. Amazing.

[something81]

i bet he wanted a vanilla frosty

[hexham]

"Is this what we've become?"

Yeah, you PUTZ, because of people like you.

[socialmistfit]

do you have food in your hair?

[dshall]

I'm just relieved that in the Spring of 2009 I won't see his face when I tune in to CNN!

[sazerac]

If you believe this story ... well, may I interest you in a slightly used bridge? I take cash or money orders.

[akkadian]

good show, at least the commentator had the courage of his conviction­s...
no cowardly hiding behind the 'fair and balanced' placard...

[meshach]

Good publicity Beck -- you could've sent others in for the frosties