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

[bjefrz]

Hey Beck, he doesn't hate you for who you are. He hates you for what you do and say. There's a huge difference.

[Choicelady]

I rarely pay any attention to Glenn Beck who is a racist bigot who does not even KNOW that about himself. But he now gets to see himself as a victim. Again. White Christian conservatives wallow in that sense that they are persecuted despite the fact that their vitriol spews everywhere against everyone.

Mr. Beck - you're not a victim. You earned this anger. Live with it, suck it up, and move on. You are paid obscene amounts of money for your completely thoughtless prattle, so every once in awhile, someone gets mad - get over it. Go to the bank. Buy saomething. Bray some more on air about the horrible Muslims, immigrants, and whoever you're hating today. The fact that someone fought back does NOT make you a victim. It doesn't even make the rest of us even.

[Bananafarm]

He's got to be lying. Who the heck would recognize him? He is totally indistinguishable from any other cranky old white man.

[epitomized]

That is what I thought. I also SERIOUSLY doubt he has a security team. He may have a "security guy" at times, but I VERY SERIOUSLY DOUBT he has a security team.

[NanDarien]

I thought the same thing.

[Kalitipo]

Racist bigoted mormon

[RockySoldier]

joe the truck driver was upset that reagan de-regulated the truckin industry and busted the Teamsters for years.

joe the truck driver is right.

joe the truck driver deserves a medal of freedom for speaking truth to power.

[dhinds]

Beck is Power?

[thedirtman]

Poor Glenn. We know you're not in it for the h ate. You're just in it for the money right? Nothing wrong with that in a capitalist society.

[d00derman]

Beck is making fun of hard working truck drivers now? I bet he thinks they're elitist.

[aznurse]

Where's the video??

[ThirdSection]

Okay all you truckers out there: Next time you verbally attack a racist bigot, remove any food you may have in your hair.

Got it?

[jotunloki]

Funny thing, the guy is supposedly in the line NEXT to dear ol' Beckie, but he ALREADY has food in his hair?

[atlantishp]

Big wind Glenn assumed that all truck drivers were stupid rednecks who let people like him do their thinking for them. Glad you were enlightened, Glenn.

[granamica]

Funny thing is, that they are his target audience.

Good news, they seem to be really listening and making some sound judgments!

Way to go, good buddy.

[JICC]

Shame. No happy ending (first forward, then in reverse, then forward, then in reverse...)

[foneric]

That is funny!!

[MaybeMilo]

Is there such a thing as an "unracist" bigot?

[indy100]

"Is this who we've become? Is this who we've become?" Glenn it's who you always have been, and some others have also become. Was it uncomfortable when the shoe was on the other foot?? Good thing you had the "swat team" to protect you from that man and his words, you poor thing!

[Binx101]

Your comment is a bulls eye. Perfect.

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[Tamoomoo]

Yeah! I love it! Talk Host Goof Narrowly Escapes Frostie Beatdown by Joe the Trucker!

[Mannock]

More like "Doughboy confronts American".

[Harbinger08]

The chickens come home to roost. A guy dispenses angry, hate-filled , judgmental, opinionated, vitriolic lies to the unsuspecting public, and has the gall to act surprised when a trucker tells him he sucks? Glenn, reality calling, it's time to leave the cocoon and mingle with your "adoring" public.