What Twitter Taught Us: Glenn Beck Meets Bono and the World Collapses
Glenn Beck (@glennbeck)
THE TWEET: Who did Glenn get to meet last night? U2 frontman: Bono! Glennbeck.com has the exclusive picture and video http://bit.ly/eHqs2h WG
WHAT WE LEARNED: So we know that Glenn Beck saw Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark and gave it a pretty enthusiastic thumbs-up. But the story doesn’t end there — he met the musical’s songwriter, New York Times columnist Bono, after the show. Let’s eat some humble pie and admit that we’re not going to write anything as good as this masterpiece, courtesy glennbeck.com
About halfway through the show Glenn got a text message that said, “Would you like to see Bono after the show?”
Glenn joked, “I just text back and went, ‘that’s the way I roll. ‘”
Here’s how the meeting went down, as described by Beck himself:
And so I kind of start to turn and there’s Bono. And he’s just kind of like hanging out, just listening to what we were talking about. And I said, hey.”
At first Glenn figured Bono had no idea who he was, but Bono was quick to thank Glenn for his kind words on radio. Glenn told the story, “And [Bono] said, some of us don’t need to have good reviews, he said, but there are people that have given up so much of their life and are the beginning and, you know, a good review means everything to them because they’re at the beginning of their career. And he said, I can’t tell you how much that meant.”
But really, the snapshot of them together is one of those moments when a picture tells a thousand words.
