David Barton was on “Today’s Issues” on American Family Radio yesterday, which is a program hosted by American Family Association President Tim Wildmon and AFR General Manager Marvin Sanders, discussing a range of issues, including how he managed to get hooked up with Glenn Beck.
Barton explained that God brought them together, as Beck had been praying about who he should get to teach the faith aspect of his American history lessons when two different people approached him in church and told him to read Barton’s books. Barton also reveals that Glenn Beck has a massive security detail and has to wear a bulletproof vest when out in public:
Wildmon: How’d he get your name? How did you guys get hooked up?
Barton: He said that he had read books that I had written years ago and as he was at church, really the Sunday before he made the decision, that two people came up to him and both on that day gave him some of our books and said you really need to read this stuff. And he thought that was the Lord speaking to him, in the mouth of two or three witnesses He establishes it. So that was kind of the thing that was the spur; he was praying about who should I get to present the faith aspect of this and then two people walked up to him and made the same recommendation, not knowing he was praying about it and so that’s how it kind of tied together.
Wildmon and Sanders: That guy is under siege. He has replaced Rush Limbaugh as the most hated man in America. Why do you think that is David?
Barton: Just to kind of affirm what you’re saying before I get to why: he asked me to go over and do a Broadway event with him … There we were on Broadway and I reached over, we prayed together, and I reached over to give him a hug and he’s wearing a bulletproof vest. I find out that that is typical for him. He doesn’t go anywhere without lots of security. I think that particular night the FBI had alerted him that they had a very credible threat than an attempt would be made on him and so it was much like being with the Secret Service and the President. I think there were like 15-17 bodyguards that night, there was one at every exit. As he was up on the stage speaking, there were guys down in the front of the stage doing nothing but watching the crowd, one from each side of the stage, I mean it looked exactly like a Presidential detail and that’s the kind of he and his family have to live with.
