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Here's a Round-Up of How the Mainstream Media Covered Restoring Love
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Here's a Round-Up of How the Mainstream Media Covered Restoring Love

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The three days of Restoring Love concluded Saturday night with tens of thousands of people packed into Cowboys Stadium for the main blowout event. Just what kind of coverage did it receive from the rest of the media world? Here's a sample:

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram covered the main event...

Glenn Beck wanted to focus on one message Saturday night: It's time to restore love.

Speaking before tens of thousands of people who packed into Cowboys Stadium, the conservative radio and TV host said it's time "to love each other."

"Here we are ... to restore our purpose as a nation, to remember who we are as Americans," Beck said. "America is great because America is good."

...and also spoke to a man who drove halfway across the country to attend:

Joe Colombaro, 43, was among those who traveled long distances to Saturday night's event.

He, his father and son drove 22 hours from Delaware.

Colombaro, a consultant in the auto industry who carries a copy of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution with him, said this was an event he just couldn't miss.

"We want to be part of something that is history-making in taking back our country," he said.

He said Beck is delivering a message of unity. "This is a way of life. If you want to live free, you need to fight for it," he said.

The Dallas Morning News focused more on the "Beckies":

The vast majority, call them Beckies, had this in common: They despise President Barack Obama. They love Glenn Beck. They believe America is broken and he knows how to fix it.

“I believe he’s a Pied Piper,” said Ann Hettinger, who is 74 and lives in Rockwall. “And so many people here are ready to take action to re-establish traditional values in America using the Bible to guide public policy.”

Hettinger sat alone at a table and handed out literature from the Concerned Women for America, which opposes abortion and gay marriage. Visitors from across the nation swarmed around her and the other vendors crowded into booths on the stadium’s mezzanine level just below the Cowboys Ring of Honor.

A woman wearing a button, “I’ll take the Mormon over the Moron,” sat resting at a voter registration booth. Below a “Restoring Love” banner, a vendor sold T-shirts emblazoned with “Why the #&$%@ should I have to press 1 for English?” Across an aisle, another vendor sold paintings of prairie women cradling rifles and fathers teaching young sons to shoot.

Shoppers kept an eye out for conservative icons rumored to be in the house — U.S. Rep. Michelle Bachmann, Rick Santorum, gun activist and aging rock ’n’ roll guitarist Ted Nugent, who signed a moose skull to be given away as a raffle prize.

Dallas-Fort Worth CBS affiliate KRLD-TV said the "conservative -- and often controversial" Beck put politics aside...

...while the Dallas-Fort Worth Fox affiliate KDFW-TV zeroed in instead on the presence of Westboro Baptist Church protesters:

Conservative commentator Glenn Beck is at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington this weekend promoting what he calls his "Restoring America Through Love Tour." Saturday Beck also attracted a notorious protest group a small church in Kansas, Westboro Baptist, notorious for anti-gay rallies at the funerals of soldiers.

The Westboro protestors we met by a larger group of Beck fans in a counter protest. Arlington police watched as heated words were exchanged but nothing more.

Last but certainly not least, the Drudge Report linked to the CBS affiliate reporting that 65,000 were in attendance.

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