Madison Root gave what Glenn Beck
called one of the best interviews “ever” to be conducted on his radio
show. And she’s only 11 years old.
Root is the young girl who wanted to help pay for her braces, so she decided to gather 100 bags of mistletoe from her uncle’s farm
and sell it at the popular Portland Saturday Market in Portland, Ore.
She said she was told by a security guard that city ordinance bans such
commerce without proper approval — but that she could beg for money
instead.
“I don’t want to beg! I would rather work for something than beg,” she told KATU-TV of the exchange.
The Marketplace by TheBlaze
saw Root as the perfect budding entrepreneur to encourage and assist,
and announced Thursday that it will hold a limited-time fire sale of her
mistletoe.
Root called in to Beck’s radio program
Thursday to discuss the incident and the fire sale, and by the end of
the interview, Beck and his co-hosts were wondering aloud how many years
it would be until she could run for president.
“What
it really boils down to is this generation’s work ethic,” Root told
them. “And I think that how it’s going right now … it’s disappointing to
me that this country has come down to begging, instead of working hard for something you want and you need!”
Beck
asked the 11-year-old, who goes to public school, where she is learning
such values. She said her father is an entrepreneur with his own
company, and “my whole family has always been entrepreneurs; they always
have some business going on.”
Beck told his audience that The
Marketplace would not profit from the sale, and that the only extra cost
to consumers is a small surcharge to cover credit card fees. He had
hoped they could sell all 1,000 orders by the end of the day — but they
were sold out within an hour of the interview.
Beck said they are working to get more orders, and you can check out the sale yourself by clicking here.
“Don’t
you ever give up on dreaming,” Beck told Root. “Don’t you ever let
somebody tell you, ‘Well you can’t do this because you need these
permits…’ There’s always, always a way to freedom and to pursue
your own happiness and your own dreams. That is what the Constitution
guarantees you … so don’t ever give up.”
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UPDATE:
The fire sale for mistletoe by Madison Root on TheBlaze Marketplace is
officially closed. A staggering 3,000 orders were placed within 6 hours
of the 11-year-old’s interview on the Glenn Beck Program.
Source: theblaze.com
