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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Glenn Beck Program, December 29, 2010

This program is a rerun.  It originally aired on December 10th.  The notes from this program are incorporated below.



e4 – Shorthand for a new direction for the program next year.

Things people are saying that are not true…
  • Things are bad.
  • I want to be rich.
  • Capitalists are greedy.

Tonight he will prove that the above is not true.

He discussed a few poems he used at a prior public presentation.

He introduced a friend Jon Huntsman, CEO of Huntsman Corp., and a self-made billionaire.
  • Jon struggled early on.
  • Work effort got him a scholarship.
  • He has 9 children.
  • One child was kidnapped.
  • He has rescued his company several times over the years.
  • He has given away $1.2 billion over the last 10 years.
  • He established the Huntsman Cancer Institute in order to cure cancer.
  • He has had cancer three times.
  • He authored the book “Winners Never Cheat”.
  • He met Glenn 4 years ago.
  • He feels the biggest single problem in the country today is greed and the accumulation of wealth for accumulation’s sake.
  • He was the first to come up with the idea of selling records over TV in the late 1960’s.
  • He used the money he made selling records to found his plastic business.
  • He advocates doing business ethically.
  • He mentors Glenn.
  • Glenn had him relate his child’s kidnapping ordeal.
  • Glenn gave him a check for $100,000 for his cancer foundation.



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