I surely do hate using Glenn Beck as a source for my articles, but dang I get some good stuff when I visit his site. No one, and I mean no one, turns on his own peers as effectively as Glenn Beck does. Except for maybe his peers…fellow Republican and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), for example.
From The Blaze:
- On Tuesday, Glenn Beck said a source told him Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell insinuated during a closed-door meeting of Republican senators that anyone who supports FreedomWorks or the Senate Conservatives Fund is a traitor to the party.
- The source is not someone Beck would describe as ?on our side,? but someone who was present in the meeting who was ?disgusted? by what they saw.
- Beck said a second senator also attacked FreedomWorks and the Senate Conservatives Fund, saying “?if any of you take a dollar from either FreedomWorks or the Senate Conservatives Fund, you’re an enemy of mine.?. As of Wednesday evening, the second senator’s name was not reported.
From Beck’s original story on The Blaze:
Glenn Beck on Tuesday revealed the name of a Republican senator who allegedly insinuated that supporters of FreedomWorks and the Senate Conservatives Fund are traitors to the party: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Allegedly, McConnell made remarks in an off-the-record meeting of GOP senators.
?Here is what happened [at the meeting],? Beck continued. ?As they are all standing in there, they are told in not so many words, that they are on the wrong side. That?these?people have been here for a very long time, and you new senators come in and you think you know it all.? And if?anyone?is working with the Senate Conservatives Fund or FreedomWorks, you’re a traitor.?
Beck’s co-host Pat Gray asked if ?traitor? was the actual word used.
?The actual word used was not ?traitor,?? Beck said clearly. ?They couldn’t remember the actual word, they said, but that’s what everybody heard, and that’s what set this guy off. Because he was like, ?Yeah, you put ?em in their place.? And then when he heard the word, and he doesn’t remember what it was, but he translated it as ?traitor,? and he was like, ?Whoa, that’s a little strong.'”
Beck won’t be able to keep a secret, so I’m sure we’ll eventually find out who his source was.?A McConnell spokesman issued the following statement:
?The anonymous claim is false. He neither said nor insinuated that.?
Who do you believe?
Read more on The Blaze?or watch the footage below.
Featured image via video screengrab.
