LF: Glenn Beck: My DC Rally Will ‘Reclaim The Civil Rights Movement’

Title: Glenn Beck: My DC Rally Will ‘Reclaim The Civil Rights Movement’
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Published: Aug 26, 2010
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Post Date: 2010-08-26 13:31:41 by Brian S
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glennbeckbluetie Glenn Beck: My DC rally will reclaim the civil rights movement

Beck plans rally at Lincoln Memorial on anniversary of King's famed 'I Have a Dream' speech

Glenn Beck's rally on the anniversary and at the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech is drawing criticism, protests and questions about his intentions.

Beck insists the event Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial is not about politics, even though Beck and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will attend. But the rally is drawing a strong reaction — and several counter-rallies — as the nation looks toward November's elections.

Beck, a popular figure among tea party activists and a polarizing Fox News Channel personality, has said it is merely a coincidence that the event is taking place on the 47th anniversary of King's plea for racial equality. Beck has called President Barack Obama a racist.

The event's website says the "Restoring Honor" rally is to pay tribute to America's military personnel and others "who embody our nation's founding principles of integrity, truth and honor." It urges citizens to attend and "help us restore the values that founded this great nation."

"This is going to be an iconic event," Beck says. "This is going to be a moment that you'll never be able to paint people as haters, racists, none of it. This is a moment, quite honestly, that I think we reclaim the civil rights movement. It has been so distorted and so turned upside down. It is an abomination."

The rally also is to promote the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, which provides scholarships and services to family members of military members.

Beck's critics dismissed his claims that the event will not be political.

"When we heard about Glenn Beck, it was puzzling," the Rev. Al Sharpton said. "Because if you read Dr. King's speech, it just doesn't gel with what Mr. Beck or Mrs. Palin are representing."

Beck has called Obama "a guy who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture."

"I'm not saying he doesn't like white people. I'm saying he has a problem," Beck said. "This guy is, I believe, a racist."

Palin has defended radio personality Laura Schlessinger, who announced this month she was ending her "Dr. Laura" program after using a racial epithet repeatedly on the air during a discussion with a caller about racism. Schlessinger later apologized but said her free speech rights were being violated by those urging station affiliates and sponsors to drop her program.

"Dr.Laura:don't retreat...reload!" Palin tweeted. She called Dr. Laura "even more powerful & effective w/out the shackles, so watch out Constitutional obstructionists. And b thankful 4 her voice,America!"

"The 8-28 rally is supposedly is about 'reclaiming the civil rights movement,' but it is being led by someone whose idea of a racist is the president of the United States," said Jess Levin, a spokesman for the liberal Media Matters for America, an organization that has targeted Beck, Fox News Channel and Schlessinger. "This rally is about one thing and one thing only. And that's promoting Beck's political agenda."

Elsewhere in Washington, civil rights activists planned to mark Saturday's anniversary of the landmark 1963 speech with rallies and demonstrations, some ending on the National Mall. One group planned a four-story sculpture in honor of King near the Washington Monument. Others planned to meet at a Washington school.

Sharpton's National Action Network plans a "Reclaim the Dream" rally that will feature Education Secretary Arne Duncan, National Urban League president Marc Morial and Martin Luther King III.

In an opinion piece for The Washington Post, King said of Beck's event that it's "commendable that this rally will honor the brave men and women of our armed forces who serve our country with phenomenal dedication." But he also said it was clear the organizers were invoking his father's work.

"My father championed free speech. He would be the first to say that those participating in Beck's rally have the right to express their views," King wrote Wednesday. "But his dream rejected hateful rhetoric and all forms of bigotry or discrimination, whether directed at race, faith, nationality, sexual orientation or political beliefs."

Organizers of Saturday's rally advise attendees not to bring signs, "as they may deter from the peaceful message we are bringing to Washington."

Signs at some tea party events have included pictures of Obama embellished with a Hitler-style mustache, racial epithets and threats to Democratic officials. They gave tea party critics grounds to claim the loose organization of activists was motivated by racism against the nation's first black president.

"Dr. King never had to ask anyone to leave their signs and guns at home," said Benjamin Todd Jealous, president of the NAACP. "To say to your followers, don't bring your signs — it's like saying don't open your mouth."

In the 47 years since King's speech, it has become a staple of civil rights history.

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character," he said on Aug. 28, 1963.

On Wednesday, Beck again sought to play down comparisons to the slain civil rights leader.

"I know that people are going to hammer because they're going to say, 'It's no Martin Luther King speech,'" Beck told his radio listeners on Wednesday. "Of course it's not Martin Luther King. You think I'm Martin Luther King?"

Civil rights leaders, too, hoped Beck wouldn't exploit the King legacy at the spot. But the imagery — a packed lawn listening to a speaker standing in the shadow of Lincoln — was certain to draw comparisons.

"I hope that's not what he's trying to do. I hope that this is a coincidence," Jealous said. "But more than anything, I hope that he, having chosen this day and this locations, pushes himself to really honor the unifying legacy of Dr. King."

"Were you ever in the music or song writing business?" ... e_type_jagoff to Mudboy lol ..... AND ....... "But his decent into vile absurdity is still actually kind of sad and pitiful really" .... mad doggie

And get fellow Mormon, Mitt Romulin into the White House. The nation will be inundated with copies of "The Watchtower" if he succeeds! Kids in cheap suits, scrounging in your trash cans.

"See in my line of work, you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." --- George W. Bush (Rochester NY, 5-24-2005)

I'm not sure what people's problem is with this, though. You don't have to be a Beck fan to appreciate his efforts to encourage people to become more involved with gov't. Isn't that what we all want?

Now - perhaps I'll be proven naive since I'm taking him at his word that it's not an event to support some "agenda".

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Zero diddled while America burned

BS. She has certainly NOT aligned herself with Keith Oberman, Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow, and Al Franken.

Good on Beck! We're behind him 100%. Only the shit-bird liberals despise his American ideals.

Clinton and Cuomo are the true bandits who lit the fuse to this economic crisis we're now in. All in the name of getting more minorities in houses: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=12554

Beck has the second or third highest rated radio program AND the second or third highest cable program in the country. Yet, the hidebound, clueless left somehow thinks that he is the one who is "marginal".

Here's the problem: those people run the country, from the teachers in our classrooms all the way to the White House.

Electing a GOP Congress in November won't be not enough. We need to FLUSH the leftists from public life, just like the Chinese have FLUSHED their leftists over the last 30 years.

Agreed. But we live in a Republic and if someone doesn't do a good job we get rid of them.

If these Republicans who are elected in 2010 don't look after the American public than out they go in 2012.

Even this year, only 7 (or 8 depending on the outcome in Alaska) of incumbent Senators and Congressmen have lost their primaries.

Yes, Tea Party candidates have picked up several more open seats. That's a good thing.

The primaries are WORSE than general elections in affecting change. Sure, "swing" districts can switch parties in tough times, but how many challengers can defeat incumbents and change their party's direction in the primary? Not many.

However, Jefferson said that the country REQUIRED periodic REVOLUTIONS to remain free because he knew that in any system, the tyrants would always figure out how gain control.

The tyrants are in complete control today, from the classroom to the White House. I am more worried about the classroom than the White House.

The dumbing down of education - particularly US History - over the last 50 plus years is what has allowed the political catastrophe culminating in Zero in the WH.

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Zero diddled while America burned

But what can you do? Our high standard of living virtually ensures that our populace won't ever pick up a AR15 and start taking down politicians.

That and the "bread and circuses" that entertain our foolish men of our society realizing that they, like the rest of the country, have sold themselves into serfdom.

What gets me is what the fuck are all these Stage IV cancer patients thinking??? They have very little to lose and they are selfish. Blah!

Or you constantly read of some guy offing his family, even little infants, as if they had anything to do with him losing his job and his house! What the fuck is up with that?

If the economy continues to deteriorate, we can see a change in the targets of these angry people.

The dumbing down of education - particularly US History - over the last 50 plus years is what has allowed the political catastrophe culminating in Zero in the WH.

AND the dumbing down of math and science in the schools is what has allowed Japan, Korea, India, and China to catch up to America and surpass us in innovation and/or production.

There are very few "teachers" in the government monopoly schools. Mostly there are only political operatives and their union stooges.

They need to be FLUSHED, like Deng FLUSHED the Gang of Four and their followers.

States across the country have already nullified numerous federal laws, including gun control, Obamacare, illegal immigration, unfunded federal mandates, medical marijuana, and more on the way.

Nullification as a concept makes us behave like the Founders wanted us to behave -- as citizens of our STATES. It's the Jeffersonian approach

Yes, at some point a Federal Judge will rule on all of these. The federal courts could find in favor of the federal government. If they do, then there are more active options we can contemplate to restore liberty. BUT we are not there yet. Not even close.

The lesson is to pay really close attention to your elections for Governor, State Attorney General, State Senate and State Representative, because they are the ones who are going to lead us out of this mess and restore the Republic.

By the way, the evil "Gang of Four" were not put to death to China. Two of the four were sentenced to death, but a judge commuted their sentence to to life in prison.

Jury nullification can slow down, if not stop that process. It worked pretty good during prohibition, and eventually a Constitutional amendment was passed ending it.

Your theory on nullification works only if the states and the citizens of said Republics are willing to go the whole nine-yards and resist the inevitable Federal blow-back that would result.

Of course that isn't the only option, but without it you can pretty much kiss good-bye any chance of any meaningful change.

In 1861 the anti-government movement was very regional and focused on one issue.

In addition, in 1861 there wasn't any internet or talk radio that provided the folks with alternative views.

I'm sorry JW, but I can only go on history. If your method would work, and I wish that is all it would take, I'd back you up.

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