Detroit pastors are denied in their attempt to meet with Glenn Beck
Rev. Horace Sheffield says he was unable to obtain an “impromptu” meeting with pundit Glenn Beck on Wednesday in New York, but he was able to share his concerns with a Fox News program director and producer.
Beck dropped a rhetorical bomb on Detroit earlier this week, comparing the city to Hiroshima, which he praised for rebuilding via the free market while Detroit “embraced progressive policies and corrupt government and unions and companies that weren’t allowed to fail and they should have failed because they stunk on ice.”
The controversial comparison — marked as it was by Beck’s ignorance of Hiorshima’s rebuilding, the auto bailout and most everything else — sparked a local backlash not seen since Chris Hansen returned to town.
Sheffield — along with Rev. Charles Williams an attorney Karen DeSoto, who has appeared as a guest on Fox News — attempted to confront Beck in NYC for “a broader discussion as opposed to just his diatribe,” he told host Frank Beckmann Thursday on WJR-AM 760.
To no one’s surprise, Beck didn’t take the meeting. But Sheffield said he talked with program director Bill Schein and laid the groundwork for a future conversation.