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JonM229
08-30-2010, 04:29 PM
Just wondering if anyone caught any of Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally and what they thought of it. I did not watch any of it because I did not feel like throwing up that day. So far, my leftist news sources have not been so kind.

Glenn Beck Cranks Up the Culture Wars (http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/08/30/benjamin.beck.culture.war/index.html?hpt=C2)
By Rich Benjamin, Special to CNN

Glenn Beck, consummate showman and talk hound, would have been more honest calling his rally to "Restore Honor" a rally to restore the culture wars.

Despite his splashy show to celebrate the troops, Beck's rally was not about "honor" any more than the controversy over the Islamic center near ground zero is about a building -- or the immigration debate is about fixing the system. Instead, Beck's rally upped the ante on America's social divides, all the while appearing to champion unity. It was a clever head-fake disguising backward conservative zealotry as feel-good inclusion.

"May this day be the change point," said Sarah Palin, the rally's darling. "Look around you. You're not alone. You are Americans!" In his keynote, Beck declared that America is "in the midst of a great war" over its values. "America is at a crossroads," Beck said. "We must decide: Who are we and what do we believe?"

Anxious that the culture war over gay and reproductive rights is suffering setbacks, the right is doubling down. Its revamped culture war, flaunted at the rally, is gaining impressive traction.

Fiery skirmishes in this war abound. Beck and his progressive adversaries clash over this nation's role and purpose in the world, who gets to be American at home, and what our country can afford and should demand of us. The debates over immigration, birthright citizenship, and the scope of public spending are the more visible flashpoints of this clash.

Besides the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the major figure dominating the rally in absentia was President Obama. One rally supporter, typifying the mood, dubbed the president "Chairman Maobama." Another rally participant sported a T-shirt: "If you can't love America, go back to Kenya."

Beck may insist the rally was nonpolitical, but participants and viewers had other ideas.

With each passing day, President Obama stands increasingly as the lightning rod of this morphing culture war. Growing numbers of people believe the president is Muslim. Other data show that a majority of Americans believe that he is a socialist.

That "Muslim" and "socialist" are the country's two reigning scarlet slanders speaks volumes about the psyche behind this cultural war.

The public's perplexing confusion over Obama's identity -- conservatives' well-landed one-two punch -- is testament to the right wing's canny success contorting the president's image.

Here, a virulent coded racism conjoins with "anti-communist" character assassination. Although Beck's rally touted King as a hallmark icon, conservatives in King's time tarred the black civil rights leader as a Communist subversive. Now, those very attacks are being plagiarized to attack Obama: each has been labeled a communist sympathizer bent on destroying the freedom of average Americans.

During King's lifetime, right-wing leaders cast doubt on his Christian credentials and warned that his efforts toward integration amounted to communist tactics to destroy America. Now, Beck declares: "Most Americans don't recognize Obama's version of Christianity." Other right-wing leaders dub the president's program of economic opportunity a socialist plot to destroy America.

Both branded heretics and communists, King and Obama represent their opponents' disdain for court-ordered desegregation and government "takeover," respectively. They shout "We want our country back!"

King and Obama stand as whipping boys for America's decline, the uppity enemies of "individual freedom," "privatization," "states' rights" and social homogeneity -- goals that once defined segregationist politics and that now define the right-wing cause.

What a cunning feat of psychology for Beck and Palin to have commemorated "I Have a Dream." They spew a toxic brew of anger, spiked with aspiration, to millions of eager white Americans -- all with a smile and a sneer. Each cultural warrior embodies a bizarre combination of triumph and complaint, one that their decidedly white fan base devours. In waging cultural warfare with optimism and grievance, such conservatives willfully misconstrue King's dream that we judge one another by the content of our character as license to neglect social inequality.

Recent right-wing hijinks -- Andrew Breitbart's character assassination of Shirley Sherrod, Laura Schlessinger's n-word musings, the rising xenophobia of immigration opponents -- have had an incendiary racial timbre. Beck surely imagines that yoking his cause to Dr. King's memory, and crowding his stage with black gospel singers, provides the best insurance policy against ongoing charges of bigotry.

Besides twisting King's message, Beck's rally was even more galling for exploiting the troops, who include immigrants and Muslims, to celebrate a reactionary, backward-looking dream for America.

venom
08-30-2010, 09:01 PM
Im looking foward for Keith Olbermann to lead his tens of followers to Washington DC

http://static.thehollywoodgossip.com/images/gallery/angry-olbermann_492x331.jpg

7SteelGal43
08-30-2010, 09:52 PM
JonM229;46069]Just wondering if anyone caught any of Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally and what they thought of it. I did not watch any of it because I did not feel like throwing up that day. So far, my leftist news sources have not been so kind.


Yeah, your leftist news sources wouldn't be so kind if Beck cured cancer. They spoke of Faith, Hope, Charity, and turning back to God.......OH THE HORROR :director: PANIC


What a cunning feat of psychology for Beck and Palin to have commemorated "I Have a Dream."

Yeah, white people paying homage to the greatest black civil rights leader in history, the damn racist pricks !!! :sarcasm:

7SteelGal43
08-30-2010, 09:58 PM
Here, a virulent coded racism


This is all you need to read out of that whole article to know the author is full of :poop:

Either he is the biggest f'in liar or he's just dumber than a bag o' hammers.

JonM229
08-30-2010, 10:11 PM
I love getting you guys fired up

JonM229
08-30-2010, 10:21 PM
Either he is the biggest f'in liar or he's just dumber than a bag o' hammers.

So I guess either way, the author and Glenn Beck would be on a level playing field

venom
08-31-2010, 07:37 AM
Watching hundreds of thousands " white people draped in red white and blue " really got liberals upset. What a shame . Then they want to know why people laugh at the left .


*white typed twice , dont know why.

43Hitman
08-31-2010, 08:23 AM
You should have come JonM, you would have had a nice time. Also, if you really want to know what's going on, perhaps you should do some research outside of your own sandbox.

By JAMES FREEMAN (http://online.wsj.com/search/term.html?KEYWORDS=JAMES+FREEMAN&bylinesearch=true)

Washington, D.C.
Pundits will debate whether the crowd at Glenn Beck's Saturday rally in Washington was the largest in recent political history, but it was certainly among the most impressive.
Mr. Beck is a television host and radio broadcaster with a checkered past and a penchant for incendiary remarks. But if he's judged by the quality of people of all colors that he attracted to the Lincoln Memorial, his stock can't help but rise.
http://m.wsj.net/video/20100830/083010opinionjournal/083010opinionjournal_512x288.jpg (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703369704575461633570826898.html#)
Jason Riley discusses Glenn Beck's rally at the Lincoln Memorial.


One would not be able to find a more polite crowd at a political convention, certainly not at a professional sporting event, probably not even at an opera. In fact, judging by the behavior of the attendees following the event, you'd have a tough time finding churches in which people display more patience as others make their way to the exits.
This army of well-mannered folks that marched into Washington seemed comprised mainly of people who had once marched in the U.S. Army or other military branch, or at least had a family member who had. Perhaps that's not surprising, given that the event was a fund-raiser for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, which provides scholarships to the children of elite troops killed in the performance of their duty. The day was largely devoted to expressions of gratitude for the sacrifices of U.S. soldiers, for great men of American history like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and for God.
But it didn't end there. Dave Roever, a Vietnam veteran, offered a closing prayer in which he thanked the Lord for the president and for the Congress. Despite the unpopularity of the latter two, no booing or catcalls could be heard.
Perhaps feeling defensive about how they would be portrayed in media reports, various attendees wore t-shirts noting that they were "Not violent" or "Non-violent." For other participants, there was no need for an explicit message. Relaxed young parents felt comfortable enough to push toddlers in strollers through the crowded areas along the memorial's reflecting pool.
Not only was the rally akin to a "huge church picnic" (in one Journal reporter's description), but one had to wonder if the over-achievers in this crowd actually left the area in better shape than they found it.
After the event, walking from the Lincoln Memorial's reflecting pool through Constitution Gardens, this reporter scanned 360 degrees and could not see a scrap of trash anywhere. Participants and volunteers had collected all their refuse and left it piled neatly in bags around the public garbage cans. Near Constitution Avenue, I did encounter one stray piece of paper—but too old and faded to have been left that day.
Given the huge representation of military families at the event, maybe it's not surprising the grounds were left ship-shape. A principal theme of the day was that attendees should restore the country by making improvements in their own lives—be the change you wish to see in the world, as Gandhi once put it.
Most of the participants were strictly amateurs in the business of activism. For many, it was their first appearance at a public demonstration. Their strikingly mild-mannered nature might inspire even Mr. Beck to acknowledge that in a crowd estimated at 300,000, the craziest person at the event might have been the one with the microphone. While he admits that he's part entertainer and prone to over-the-top comments, his followers appear to be sincerely responding to his message that Americans need to cling to their best traditions. (Mr. Beck's program appears on the Fox News Channel, which is owned by News Corp., which also owns this newspaper.)
The conservative Mr. Beck's ability to draw this many people to Washington may suggest enormous gains for Republicans come the fall. But the GOP shouldn't expect voters to simply hand them a congressional majority without making them earn it. If pregame chatter and off-season optimism translated into victory, the New York Jets and the Washington Redskins would meet in the Super Bowl every year.
Between Saturday's crowd in Washington and the tea partiers agitating for limited government, we may be witnessing the rebuilding of the Reagan coalition, the "fusion" of religious and economic conservatives that political theorist Frank Meyer once endorsed. Reagan always believed that the Republican Party was the natural home for this movement, but GOP leaders in Washington need to prove they are worthy of it.



http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703369704575461633570826898.html

43Hitman
08-31-2010, 11:49 AM
A Black Man Goes To Glenn Beck's Rally
by Jerome Hudson

08/31/2010


To hear the mainstream media tell the story, you would have thought that I, a black man, had walked into a hornet’s nest of racists when I decided to attend Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally. In reality, my experience was the complete opposite.

Instead of hooded Klansman frothing with hate and venom, I made dozens of new Facebook friends and gained a hundred Twitter followers.

One lady from New Jersey asked me if I was "afraid" because I was one of the "few blacks in attendance?"





I looked at her square in the eye and said, "Ma'am, the only thing I'm afraid of is that if I don't hurry, I'm not going to make it to the restroom in time."

We spoke of family, laughed, shared and she wept as she embraced me with hugs and kisses while thanking me for being there. (What a complete bigot, that lady!)

Beck's rally was meant to restore faith hope and charity in America. And that was the spirit of the day.

To be sure, I was one of the few blacks there that historic day. I'm sure to many I stuck out like a sore thumb. Or, perhaps more aptly, like a chocolate chip smack dab in the middle of a giant sugar cookie.

Perhaps that's why I was interviewed by at several news outlets.

When asked how long I had been waiting for the event to begin, I turned all three interviewers' faces to stone when I replied, "about 24 hours." I'm sure they thought I was kidding, but I wasn't.

Like most Americans, I've had enough with this administration's policies. I was fed up and fired up.

I am even more so in the wake of the most moving gathering I've ever been privileged to be a part of.

At one point, some of the people attending the Rev. Al Sharpton's "counter rally," coined "Reclaiming King," stopped me. I guess they must have been judging me by the color of my skin not the content of my character, because they asked if I was going to come join them.

"No, I won't be there," I told them. "Why?" one of them asked with a grimace on his face. I looked at him and said, "I want to be where the Lord is and the Lord is in this place."

One of the older black women in the group asked me if I felt like I was "selling out" for being one of the "tokens" in the Beck rally crowd?

I laughed and said "Ma'am, Al Sharpton is a pretender. He is going to tell you to pretend that the color of your skin matters. He is going to ask you to ignore the now overwhelming proof that 50 years after the Civil Rights movement, blacks are now destroying each other faster than the KKK could have dreamed."

As I walked away, the group stood frozen, not knowing how to reply.

Later, as Sharpton preached a divisive message void of actual solutions on how to "close the education and economic gap" in the "black community," Dr. Alveda King, Martin Luther King's niece, invoked the spirit of her slain uncle proclaiming, "I too have a dream, that white privilege will become human privilege and that people of every ethnic blend will receive everyone as brothers and sisters in the love of God.”

Her comments on restoring the "foundation of the family" in America were met, not with boos, but with a thunderous applause.

(What bigots those white folks! Having the audacity to cheer Dr. King's niece like that. Racists the whole lot of them!)

I was probably the only 24-year old black college student in the crowd. It's hard to know, because we had over 300,000 people there. But that didn't matter to me. As we all stood hand-in-hand, American shoulder to American shoulder, our myriad faces streaked with tears as we sang "Amazing Grace." It was a moment I will be proud to tell my grandkids about one day.

What that moment taught me is this: Something profound is happening in America that runs far deeper than politics. The ground is shifting, and it's in freedom's direction.

As a nation at war, standing in division and debt, Beck challenged the crowd to return to God.

The message I took away is that we cannot continue to pick at the scab of America's past but must become the balm that heals it. That's the way forward—arm in arm, moving together, toward a better future.

Standing in a crowd that stretched from the Washington Monument to Lincoln Memorial what happened on 8/28 was the most inspirational thing I had ever experienced.

Standing there, unhyphenated and united, this black man has never felt more free in his life.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38767

BnG_Hevn
08-31-2010, 11:51 AM
So I guess either way, the author and Glenn Beck would be on a level playing field


I watched the interview after the rally with Beck. He seems like a pretty down to earth type of guy. He was broke at age 30 and has had to work for everything he has.

I guess the liberal nutjobs of the world can't appreciate that though, but either way he is anything but "dumb".

BnG_Hevn
08-31-2010, 11:54 AM
Also, if you listen to what he says, he is taking out the whole race card. The issues at hand have nothing to do with race, it is the left whackjobs that insist on distorting everything into a racial conflict; I guess they are trying to keep the blacks on their side.

43Hitman
08-31-2010, 12:00 PM
Also, if you listen to what he says, he is taking out the whole race card. The issues at hand have nothing to do with race, it is the left whackjobs that insist on distorting everything into a racial conflict; I guess they are trying to keep the blacks on their side.

Unfortunately a huge portion of this country would rather let someone else make up their mind for them rather than doing their OWN research and finding out for themselves if what their being told to them is true.

st33lersguy
08-31-2010, 07:05 PM
Why would anyone object to a rally based on faith, hope, and charity, bringing everyone together and uniting them, and giving medals to veteran troops. Alveda King, Martin Luther King's niece, spoke at the rally and at one point a bunch of priests, rabbis, and imams came up to pray while amazing grace was played on the bagpipes. All the liberals give me one reason why this is bad.

stillers4me
08-31-2010, 07:07 PM
Why would anyone object to a rally based on faith, hope, and charity, bringing everyone together and uniting them, and giving medals to veteran troops. Alveda King, Martin Luther King's niece, spoke at the rally and at one point a bunch of priests, rabbis, and imams came up to pray while amazing grace was played on the bagpipes. All the liberals give me one reason why this is bad.

Because he's a conservative.

urgle burgle
08-31-2010, 08:37 PM
everyone has the right to disagree. that is one of the things that makes America great. but that disagreement should be about what actually happened, was said, etc. otherwise all credibility is lost. the arguments become meaningless, and just vapid condescension due to personal differences. i read the OP article. nowhere did it actually address what was said, who was there, or the points being made. it spun on supposed "implied" positions, personal animosity, and unfounded criticisms. i watched both the beck rally, and sharpton's rally. both in their entirety. if those that are against either, would like to divulge which specifics of either they disagree with, then that conversation can happen. the thing is, listening, and viewing the beck rally, before and after, any truly rational person would have no reason to complain.
the same could not be said about sharpton's rally. i'll just leave it at that.

st33lersguy
09-01-2010, 07:08 AM
At one point, some of the people attending the Rev. Al Sharpton's "counter rally," coined "Reclaiming King," stopped me. I guess they must have been judging me by the color of my skin not the content of my character, because they asked if I was going to come join them.

"No, I won't be there," I told them. "Why?" one of them asked with a grimace on his face. I looked at him and said, "I want to be where the Lord is and the Lord is in this place."

One of the older black women in the group asked me if I felt like I was "selling out" for being one of the "tokens" in the Beck rally crowd?

I laughed and said "Ma'am, Al Sharpton is a pretender. He is going to tell you to pretend that the color of your skin matters. He is going to ask you to ignore the now overwhelming proof that 50 years after the Civil Rights movement, blacks are now destroying each other faster than the KKK could have dreamed."

As I walked away, the group stood frozen, not knowing how to reply.

Later, as Sharpton preached a divisive message void of actual solutions on how to "close the education and economic gap" in the "black community," Dr. Alveda King, Martin Luther King's niece, invoked the spirit of her slain uncle proclaiming, "I too have a dream, that white privilege will become human privilege and that people of every ethnic blend will receive everyone as brothers and sisters in the love of God.”

Her comments on restoring the "foundation of the family" in America were met, not with boos, but with a thunderous applause.

This shows that Beck is the one trying to fulfill King's dream of "judging by the content of their character and not the color of their skin" while Sharpton has ignored that message

JonM229
09-02-2010, 07:39 PM
Glenn Beck Warned Us (http://www.glennbeckwarned.us/)

The WH
09-03-2010, 12:29 PM
Glen Beck has NAzi Torrets