If there is a time to be incensed by the actions of the radio show commentator, Glenn Beck, this is the weekend! The political propagandist is flaring his extremist muscles, correction flab, in creating, promoting and eventually destroying our country with his "Restoring Honor" rally. If the name isn't inflammatory enough, the date of the event, August 28, 2010 will send you overboard. August 28, 2010? The date of the "I Had a Dream" speech, by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This speech occurred in the same location, same date, 47 years earlier. How dare Glenn Beck taint this date with his ketchup and cheese fries covered fingers! Doesn't he know he's a white conservative and can't possibly appreciate Dr. King, the civil rights movement, or patriotic actions by brave historical leaders?
What is this rally, you may ask? Tea Party? No. Political driven freak show? No. According to the website, "come celebrate America by honoring our heroes, our heritage and our future." Celebrate America? How can you do that without being a right wing extremist nut? Not possible. Fund raising for our troops? This must be a cover for the underground fundraising for Palin 2012. And what kind of title is "Restoring Honor". Honor is an antiquated tradition of our foundin father's who are outdated, old fashioned, and racist. This is apparently another attempt at Beck to brainwash his followers, if anyone even attends, into his pro-America, capitalist, freedom loving mentality. And I for one, must take a stance against it. How dare he.
2 comments:
I had several family memebers attend and they said it was a really great day. I wish I could have been there. The reports say that there were over 300,000 people. So far I haven't heard of any arrests that have happened. 300,000 people and no arrests.....can conservatives be that peaceful???? I didn't think it was possible....
I find it laughable that the only controversy that people can stir up about this 3 hour long event with many conservative speakers is the SIZE! Almost every article can only criticize Beck's, Palin's and others that were at the rally's opinions on the crowd estimate! Doesn't that indicate that they couldn't scrounge up some sound byte that fit their idea of them being bigots, hate mongers, etc. Or some hateful anti-Obama poster. Or some racist with his stars and bars t-shirt. 3 hours with 500K homophobe, islamaphobe, racist, bigotted crowd, and the only controversy is inaccurate crowd estimations? Stretching.
I thought it was GREAT! As someone who is not witness to many evangelical meetings, I felt like I was sitting in the back pew of an evangelical congregation, shouting out "Amen!"
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