Fox News host Glenn Beck: My family was harassed during New York Bryant Park movie '39 steps'

Aliyah Shahid New York Daily News 06/28/2011 19:49

Radio and television personality Glenn Beck said Tuesday that he and his family were verbally assaulted at a movie in Bryant Park earlier this week.

It's not easy being Glenn Beck. The outgoing Fox News host held back tears on Tuesday as he recounted how he was verbally assaulted in New York's Bryant Park while watching an outdoor movie with his wife and daughter.

Beck, 47, said cinemagoers turned on him during Monday's screening of Alfred Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps." One person, he said, shouted "We hate conservatives here" and another yelled "We're in New York and we hate Republicans."

To top it off, one angry person purposefully kicked a cup of wine onto the back of his wife, Tania, as others snapped photographs of him and his family, said Beck.

He likened the attack to a public lynching.

"'I swear to you, I think, if I had suggested, and I almost did, 'Wow, does anybody have a rope? Because there's tree here. You could just lynch me.' And I think there would have been a couple in the crowd that would have," Beck said on his radio show.

Beck decided against leaving, but said the crowd -- "some of the most hateful people" he has ever seen -- began to applaud as he exited at the end of the film.

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