Glenn Beck Tea Partiers Try to Coopt MLK, Fail Miserably As Expected

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Today thousands of angry white people have descended on the National Mall on the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, to whine about how they’re being persecuted and unfairly maligned, sponsored by a race-baiting lunatic Fox News host who promotes the ideology of the far right and the John Birch Society and has called President Obama “a racist with a deep-seated hatred of white culture.”

They’re broadcasting this bizarre inversion of reality on C-SPAN, where you can see that they’ve done their best to recruit as many black speakers and absolutely horrible black singers as they could, because that’s how they prove they’re not racist … at all!

Glenn Beck managed to fill the stage with black people, but when the cameras pan around the crowd, it’s an unbroken sea of white faces. And the crowd is nowhere near the 300,000 figure Beck was trumpeting in advance.

If Martin Luther King were alive today, these same people would be vilifying him as a communist and an evil progressive. The irony meter is off the scale on this parade of white victimhood.

Here’s a photo of one of Beck’s admirers; they banned signs from this rally, so he simply put his racist slogan on a t-shirt instead.

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439 comments
1 122 Year Old Obama  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:06:23am

And so ends another chapter in the insane misadventures of Glenn Beck.

2 darthstar  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:06:30am

But Charles, he’s giving out medals! Glenn Beck Awards for [___] Medals

3 ProBosniaLiberal  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:07:01am

This post of yours made me feel alot better. Thank you!

4 Charles Johnson  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:07:31am

I don’t know how they managed to find so many incredibly awful black singers.

5 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:08:39am

What August 28th is really about:

Martin Luther King, Jr. - I Have a Dream

Youtube Video
6 Charles Johnson  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:09:35am

They’re now pushing the white Christian founding of America myth.

7 simoom  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:10:37am

The previous speaker, Alveda King, niece of the Martin Luther King, Jr:

She is the director of African-American Outreach at the Roman Catholic pro-life group Priests for Life. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, a conservative Washington, D.C. think-tank

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Regarding Martin Luther King Jr. and family, Alveda King claimed that “Mrs. Coretta Scott King knew that her husband, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was pro-life” regarding Martin Luther King Jr. winning the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966. In 1994, Alveda King wrote a letter condemning Coretta Scott King’s support for abortion and gay rights. According to Fox News, Alveda King has “long argued” that Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican. University of Cambridge historian David Garrow stated in a Salon profile of Alveda King: “King was not only not a Republican, he was well to the left of the Democratic Party of the 1960s.”

The Advocate magazine has quoted King speaking out against gay rights. At a 1997 rally in Sacramento protesting proposed state legislation to extend civil rights to gays and lesbians, King said: “To equate homosexuality with race is to give a death sentence to civil rights. No one is enslaving homosexuals…or making them sit in the back of the bus.” In a 1998 speech at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: “Homosexuality cannot be elevated to the civil rights issue. The civil rights movement was born from the Bible. God hates homosexuality.” King had been making public appearances throughout 1997 criticizing gay rights.

King is a pro-life speaker and often speaks on college campuses about abortion issues. She joined the pro-Life movement, crusading to offer women alternatives to abortion. King is also noted for her opposition to same-sex marriage. Angela D. Dillard classifies King as among “prominent black members of the Religious Right.” King is currently a board member of the organization Georgia Right to Life.

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The Priests for Life organization provides an extensive collection of photos of live fetuses as well as aborted fetuses, via the internet. Its photos have also appeared in print. According to Pavone: “There is no single thing that I have seen more powerful to change people on abortion than simply showing them the pictures….When people see what abortion does to a baby, they are stung to the heart and their consciences are awakened.”

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As part of the 1998 Tobacco Settlement Agreement, the Philip Morris corporation released millions of pages of documents concerning their operations. These detail how, after the Environmental Protection Agency moved in 1993 to have second-hand tobacco smoke declared a carcinogen, Philip Morris hired the AdTI to campaign against the move.

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AdTI was a member organization of the Cooler Heads Coalition which asserts that “the science of global warming is uncertain” and is focused on “dispelling the myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific, and risk analysis.”

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8 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:11:56am

re: #6 Charles

They’re now pushing the white Christian founding of America myth.

Yep. As expected. It’s Glenn Beck’s “Jesus Camp” for dummies.

9 jaunte  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:12:04am

Narrator above stirring music:
“It’s time to believe… …again.”

10 Winny Spencer  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:12:15am

Over 500 000??

11 elizajane  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:12:31am

This event is billed as “non-political” in the sense that the people who are attending really believe that they are so obviously, completely right that anybody who is not part of their group either just doesn’t understand (yet), or is not really American.

Politics is about one group disagreeing with another legitimate group. These people do not recognize the legitimacy of disagreement.

12 Charles Johnson  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:12:33am

Beck is claiming there are over 500,000 people there. It’s comical.

Now he’s invoking God.

13 darthstar  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:12:55am

Beck just said the media is reporting over 500,000 people are there. “And if the media is reporting that many people, god only knows how many of you there actually are.”

Eleventybillioins!

14 webevintage  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:13:20am

I see Glenn the Grifter is on the “stage” now…he must be so proud how well his new con is working.

15 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:14:07am

re: #12 Charles

Beck is claiming there are over 500,000 people there. It’s comical.

Now he’s invoking God.

When does he start speaking in tongues and preform healings? Looks like a lot of the people in the crowd need some healing outside of their Medicare plans.

16 Varek Raith  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:15:21am

re: #12 Charles

Beck is claiming there are over 500,000 people there. It’s comical.

Now he’s invoking God.

10googolplex

17 Stan the Demanded Plan  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:15:34am

Beck: It has nothing to do with politics, it has everything to do with God.

This is a revival.

18 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:15:47am

re: #15 Gus 802

Perform that is.

19 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:15:55am

Hey all…
re: #12 Charles

Beck is claiming there are over 500,000 people there. It’s comical.

Now he’s invoking God.

Media is reporting it. Fox News probably has it all over the place, but that’s the only outlet.

20 Charles Johnson  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:15:57am

Not a single black face in that crowd.

21 Guanxi88  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:16:22am

re: #15 Gus 802

When does he start speaking in tongues and preform healings? Looks like a lot of the people in the crowd need some healing outside of their Medicare plans.

Didn’t think LDS’ers did that sort of stuff, but who can say?

It’s a bit religious for my taste, but then again, that’s more or less the way it was billed for a while now, so who can be surprised?

22 austin_blue  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:16:41am

Wow. This is something to see.

(quiet voice)

WWII….greatest generation…cannot coexist with evil (wonder who he’s referring to??)…

23 webevintage  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:17:06am

re: #20 Charles

Not a single black face in that crowd.

I noticed that…and middle aged and older.

24 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:17:40am

so how many people do you really think are there?

25 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:18:22am

re: #21 Guanxi88

Didn’t think LDS’ers did that sort of stuff, but who can say?

It’s a bit religious for my taste, but then again, that’s more or less the way it was billed for a while now, so who can be surprised?

Yeah. Beck’s always improvising though and I was being facetious. I figured that him being a caricature of himself every time he’s in front of a camera he may at any moment break out into another cartoon personality of himself.

26 Walter L. Newton  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:18:36am

I wonder why these folks feel like they are isolated from the rest of society? This is like some manufactured pity party. These “Christians” have as much right to practice their faith, no one is stopping them, what’s the problem. These people have as much right to voice their political and social opinions, they haven’t been pushed to the side and made some sort of victims. Nothing has happened in this country to vilify these people, they haven’t been denied their civil rights.

27 Stan the Demanded Plan  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:18:39am

re: #24 PT Barnum

so how many people do you really think are there?

If someone get’s a hold of the FreedomWorks bus manifests, we’ll know.

28 austin_blue  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:19:27am

George Washington gave up his life for the American Experiment?

Who knew?

29 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:19:44am

re: #26 Walter L. Newton

I wonder why these folks feel like they are isolated from the rest of society? This is like some manufactured pity party. These “Christians” have as much right to practice their faith, no one is stopping them, what’s the problem. These people have as much right to voice their political and social opinions, they haven’t been pushed to the side and made some sort of victims. Nothing has happened in this country to vilify these people, they haven’t been denied their civil rights.

But you aren’t allowing us to run things! We’re oppressed! WAAAAAHHHH!

30 Charles Johnson  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:19:46am

Seriously — every single shot of the crowd shows nothing but a sea of shiny white faces. All the African Americans are on the stage.

31 Walter L. Newton  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:20:18am

re: #15 Gus 802

When does he start speaking in tongues and preform healings? Looks like a lot of the people in the crowd need some healing outside of their Medicare plans.

Gus, he’s a Mormon, I doubt he would do that, unless his intent was to suddenly isolate himself from a large base of supporters. As a Mormon, he can bring enough ecumenical preaching to the table to please everyone, there is no need for him to take that route.

32 Charles Johnson  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:20:31am

He’s crying!

33 jaunte  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:20:41am

Uh oh, the tears.

34 Walter L. Newton  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:20:47am

re: #29 PT Barnum

But you aren’t allowing us to run things! We’re oppressed! WAAAHHH!

I never said that. Why would you suggest that that was the intent of my comment?

35 simoom  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:21:04am

I think that was just Beck’s second teary choking up moment so far.

36 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:21:07am

Has honor been restored yet?

37 darthstar  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:21:11am

re: #30 Charles

Seriously — every single shot of the crowd shows nothing but a sea of shiny white faces. All the African Americans are on the stage.

That’s so everyone can keep an eye on them.
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38 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:21:25am

re: #34 Walter L. Newton

I never said that. Why would you suggest that that was the intent of my comment?

I know you didn’t say that Walter..that’s what they seem to be saying. I was agreeing with you.

39 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:21:28am

re: #36 negativ

Has honor been restored yet?

Nope. He’s crying.

40 austin_blue  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:21:44am

He picked up his college-aged children?!?!?!

41 Varek Raith  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:21:46am

Wait…
Doesn’t he hate Lincoln?

42 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:22:12am

re: #41 Varek Raith

Wait…
Doesn’t he hate Lincoln?

Not today.

43 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:23:48am

Have there been any shots of merch tables? Are the gold swindlers sellers well-represented?

44 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:24:26am

Saw another black guy.

45 austin_blue  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:24:28am

Wow. We appear to at war with Obama.

Oh, and there was never a battle in D.C. in the Civil War.

Big Voice!

46 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:24:37am

best twitter I’ve seen so far:

Crowd size at the Glenn Beck #RestoringHonor rally has been estimated to be the size of Keith Olbermann’s ego.

47 122 Year Old Obama  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:24:43am

re: #43 negativ

Don’t forget non-hybrid survival seeds.

48 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:25:36am

Beck: We’ll be pouring the Kool-aid into the Reflecting pool, so line up!

49 Varek Raith  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:26:03am

Praise Jay-sus!

50 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:26:39am

I’m only watching with the sound off, but shouldn’t he have a cheesy little toothbrush moustache and that costume he wore on the cover of his last book?

51 Guanxi88  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:26:48am

re: #43 negativ

Have there been any shots of merch tables? Are the gold swindlers sellers well-represented?

Soros bought up all their inventory:

[Link: www.telegraph.co.uk…]

52 mishuga  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:26:49am

I think we need a rally of critical thinkers on the national mall. No particular cause allowed. Life is complicated.

53 bratwurst  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:27:36am

re: #50 PT Barnum

I’m only watching with the sound off, but shouldn’t he have a cheesy little toothbrush moustache and that costume he wore on the cover of his last book?

He has had at least one book ghostwritten since then.

54 Guanxi88  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:27:37am

re: #52 mishuga

I think we need a rally of critical thinkers on the national mall. No particular cause allowed. Life is complicated.

You know, I think I’d watch that on C-Span.

55 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:27:46am

re: #52 mishuga

I think we need a rally of critical thinkers on the national mall. No particular cause allowed. Life is complicated.

Yeah, but could we get enough LGFers together in one place like that?

56 simoom  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:28:09am

Looks like the crazy truck is in town for the rally:

[Link: www.flickr.com…]

Image: 4933075118_fd39d57144_b.jpg

I’m too scared to go to that web address :o.

57 austin_blue  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:28:24am

Moses = George Washington?

58 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:28:25am

re: #53 bratwurst

He has had at least one book ghostwritten since then.

I don’t keep track of that any more than I keep track of the latest ghost written Palin pablum.

59 jaunte  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:28:54am

re: #57 austin_blue

“Forget it, he’s on a roll.”

60 austin_blue  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:29:01am

Good grief. Now he’s just babbling.

61 Guanxi88  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:29:13am

re: #57 austin_blue

Moses = George Washington?

A common theme - contemporary artwork sorta conflated the two, especially after Washington’s death.

62 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:29:15am

He delves off into Deepak Chopra speak.

63 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:29:16am

Nuther funny twitter
not sure why so many groups are going to flash mob & protest glenn beck rally in dc.? ..beck will only take credit for extra attendance.

64 Stan the Demanded Plan  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:29:19am

Oh this is crazy time.

65 Varek Raith  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:29:23am
Ah, crap.

Lol.

66 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:29:34am

re: #60 austin_blue

Good grief. Now he’s just babbling.

How can you tell?

67 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:29:37am

re: #52 mishuga

I think we need a rally of critical thinkers on the national mall. No particular cause allowed. Life is complicated.

Like they have the fucking time to take three days out of their lives to go to a stupid rally.

68 webevintage  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:30:08am

re: #36 negativ

Has honor been restored yet?

Not sure, but I think he may have taken back the civil rights movement for his followers.

69 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:30:09am

This isn’t about America. This is about Glenn Beck.

70 ProBosniaLiberal  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:30:37am

re: #56 simoom

I’m not going there either. Any volunteers to wade into the deepest pits of the Internet to see what’s there?

71 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:30:40am

re: #11 elizajane

This event is billed as “non-political” in the sense that the people who are attending really believe that they are so obviously, completely right that anybody who is not part of their group either just doesn’t understand (yet), or is not really American.

Politics is about one group disagreeing with another legitimate group. These people do not recognize the legitimacy of disagreement.

“This isn’t political. This is just about doing what’s right. Don’t you want to do what’s right?”

72 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:30:42am

Now he’s promoting self denial of history.

73 Varek Raith  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:30:46am

Looking to the stars is looking forward, dimwit.

74 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:30:51am

re: #68 webevintage

Not sure, but I think he may have taken back the civil rights movement for his followers.

How about sanity? I’d like that back.

75 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:30:56am

Back and forth he goes. Bipolar.

76 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:30:59am

re: #55 PT Barnum

Yeah, but could we get enough LGFers together in one place like that?

You’re mis-using the word “critical”.
/

77 jaunte  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:31:01am

Chin music.

78 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:31:17am

re: #69 Gus 802

This isn’t about America. This is about Glenn Beck.

Just as it’s always been.

79 Charles Johnson  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:31:29am

It’s ironic that Beck talked about the construction of the Wash. monument — it was halted by the “Know Nothing” party. History is repeating in front of our eyes.

80 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:31:30am

re: #69 Gus 802

Some great marketing there, huh.

81 Stan the Demanded Plan  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:31:50am

It feels like someone dragged me to church this morning. wtf

82 austin_blue  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:31:54am

Testify!!!

83 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:32:08am

re: #76 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

You’re mis-using the word “critical”.
/

If we got enough together we could form a critical mass. Or maybe we could all just go fission.

84 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:32:39am

re: #78 PT Barnum

Didn’t you mean “Same as it ever was?”

85 simoom  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:32:41am

A decent shot of the crowd:
Image: 4935225128_50428029d3_b.jpg

86 jaunte  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:32:46am

Bootstrappy!

87 Charles Johnson  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:32:50am

“Pick up your stick and stand!”

Applause, applause.

88 webevintage  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:32:54am

No Glenn, I’m so jaded that I no longer believe in hucksters like you.

and really, why do we need to restore honor? Because Obama is President?

89 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:32:57am

re: #80 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Some great marketing there, huh.

Yeah. For every pop-star their is an audience. I never understood the appeal to Eminem.

90 Varek Raith  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:32:58am

How about I pick up my stick cluebat and whack you with it, Beck?
/

91 Guanxi88  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:33:06am

Just think of all the money he’s making off this thing. All those donations pouring in from his brainwashed followers, all lining his pockets.

[Link: www.specialops.org…]

92 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:33:09am

Cliches!

93 Charles Johnson  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:33:24am

re: #85 simoom

A decent shot of the crowd:
Image: 4935225128_50428029d3_b.jpg

Yep. Definitely not 100,000 people.

94 jaunte  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:33:24am

re: #92 Gus 802

No fish for you!

95 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:33:32am

re: #87 Charles

“Pick up your stick and stand!”

Applause, applause.

Sounded like a golf clap.

96 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:33:46am

re: #85 simoom

That’s a bunch of folks.

97 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:33:47am

re: #56 simoom

Looks like the crazy truck is in town for the rally:

[Link: www.flickr.com…]

I’m too scared to go to that web address :o.

They’re selling t-shirts, that’s about it.

98 Guanxi88  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:33:53am

re: #84 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Didn’t you mean “Same as it ever was?”

Remove the water
From the bottom of the ocean.

99 Charles Johnson  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:34:00am

The Pillsbury Dough Boy just said, “We’ve had a soft life.”

100 Stan the Demanded Plan  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:34:11am

I missed the original stick reference. Guess that’s ok.

101 austin_blue  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:34:12am

Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day.

Set a man on fire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

102 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:34:28am

re: #23 webevintage

I noticed that…and middle aged and older.

It’s the demographic.

103 Walter L. Newton  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:34:30am

So… I’m not watching, with 4 people on a DSL wireless network right now, I don’t have the bandwidth…

How many people is the media suggesting that he has?

104 bratwurst  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:34:33am

Now the canard about the poor in this country having nothing to complain about.

105 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:34:54am

re: #101 austin_blue

That is funny as hell.

106 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:35:32am

all proceeds (After paying for costs of the event) will then be given to the special warriors charity.)

How much you wanna bet there ain’t a lot left.

107 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:36:11am

re: #103 Walter L. Newton

Doesn’t matter. One side will say under-estimated, one side will say over-estimated.

I think the Mall Police put out the official numbers.

Then? One side or the other calls them liars.

108 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:36:27am

re: #105 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

That is funny as hell.

And a man, though naked, may still be in rags.

109 Stan the Demanded Plan  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:36:29am

TOO MUCH

110 austin_blue  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:36:40am

Hey hey! We’re all going to Luray Caverns! Inner space!

111 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:36:45am

It’s Beck Lite™

112 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:37:01am

re: #108 PT Barnum

And a man, though naked, may still be in rags.

Usually at some point in one of the SAW movies.

113 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:37:06am

re: #26 Walter L. Newton

I wonder why these folks feel like they are isolated from the rest of society? This is like some manufactured pity party. These “Christians” have as much right to practice their faith, no one is stopping them, what’s the problem. These people have as much right to voice their political and social opinions, they haven’t been pushed to the side and made some sort of victims. Nothing has happened in this country to vilify these people, they haven’t been denied their civil rights.

Part of it is that they’ve been told by people they trust that other people, living in other ways, getting the same rights as they do, is those people getting ‘special rights’. And they’ve been told that people like them should run things, and the fact that that isn’t always true seems threatening.

And now, the economy sucks, and they’re being told the prophecy is coming true—‘they’ are taking it all away from you.

The fact that Democrats, and black people, and atheists, and gay people and what have you are also living in scary times and out of work doesn’t seem to register very well.

114 bratwurst  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:37:40am

“We must, as Americans, explore inner space!”

Image: Movie-Poster-Inner-Space.jpg

115 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:37:47am

Something about this reminds me of a scene that could have been in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

Either that or 8th grade.

116 Guanxi88  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:38:24am

re: #106 PT Barnum

all proceeds (After paying for costs of the event) will then be given to the special warriors charity.)

How much you wanna bet there ain’t a lot left.

Considering the Special Operations guys are the ones auditing the books for it, I imagine that there’s little margin for them being duped.

117 Varek Raith  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:38:26am

Lol.
Beck, a fearmonger?
Epic understatement is epic.

118 austin_blue  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:38:42am

I am not a fear monger! I’m the guy that saw the iceberg on the Titanic!!

119 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:38:52am

re: #117 Varek Raith

Lol.
Beck, a fearmonger?
Epic understatement is epic.

Glen Beck: Concern troll is concerned.

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120 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:39:10am

re: #110 austin_blue

Hey hey! We’re all going to Luray Caverns! Inner space!

They’re really cool. Seriously.

Take a jacket.

121 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:39:12am

re: #30 Charles

Seriously — every single shot of the crowd shows nothing but a sea of shiny white faces. All the African Americans are on the stage.

That’s kind of a feat in DC. You’d think someone would wander in, if only to be able to tell the guys back at the office what’s going on out there.

122 jaunte  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:39:29am

re: #118 austin_blue

No fear; we’re metaphorically about to die in the freezing water.

123 Stan the Demanded Plan  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:40:00am

I’m looking forward to the tag cloud of this speech.

124 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:40:02am

He’s all over the place.

125 Sionainn  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:40:03am

re: #96 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

That’s a bunch of folks.

This is what 200,000 to 300,000 people look like.

126 Varek Raith  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:40:19am

re: #123 Stanley Sea

I’m looking forward to the tag cloud of this speech.

It’ll crash the server.
/

127 Guanxi88  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:40:36am

re: #123 Stanley Sea

I’m looking forward to the tag cloud of this speech.

You’re soaking in it now.

128 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:40:54am

Now he’s contradicting what he said earlier.

129 Guanxi88  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:41:05am

re: #100 Stanley Sea

I missed the original stick reference. Guess that’s ok.

Moses.

130 Varek Raith  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:41:23am

I’m lost.
Did he just contradict himself???

131 Walter L. Newton  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:41:32am

re: #128 Gus 802

Now he’s contradicting what he said earlier.

What is he doing… reading from the Bible?

132 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:41:33am

Theocracy!

133 jaunte  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:41:49am

re: #132 Gus 802

Our King.

134 Varek Raith  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:42:27am

Your god ain’t tougher than me!!!
/
:P

135 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:42:28am

re: #131 Walter L. Newton

What is he doing… reading from the Bible?

Before he said to not focus on the “bad things” of our history. Later he said to look at the “bad things” from our history and learn from them.

136 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:42:31am

re: #130 Varek Raith

I’m lost.
Did he just contradict himself???

consistency is not one of the values taught at Glenn Beck University.

137 bratwurst  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:43:04am

“That which they gaze upon, they will become”

As I am presently gazing upon a high school-educated charlatan, I hope this is not true!

138 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:43:13am

More cliches.

139 jaunte  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:43:16am

Tell the truth!
/he should watch for lightning.

140 Varek Raith  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:43:27am

re: #137 bratwurst

“That which they gaze upon, they will become”

As I am presently gazing upon a high school-educated charlatan, I hope this is not true!

Quick!
Gaze upon a hot chick!

141 austin_blue  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:43:29am

Give it up to god! Get on your knees! Make sure your children see!

Tell the truth!

Give it up for your family! Charity begins at home!

Make a choice! Forward or Back?

142 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:43:29am

re: #37 darthstar

That’s so everyone can keep an eye on them.
//

I was going to say that was because they didn’t want to get too close to the audience.

//I’m a jerk, I admit it. But I keep imagining a secret phone tree, among third- and fourth-tier black performance artists who haven’t been finding much work. “Seriously, Jane, call this guy. They’re kind of weird, but they pay. They’ll love you. And Bob is going to do it, they just hired him last week.”

143 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:43:53am

re: #44 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Saw another black guy.

Did he appear nervous?

144 Varek Raith  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:43:58am

COMMUNISM!

145 lostlakehiker  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:44:20am

re: #11 elizajane

This event is billed as “non-political” in the sense that the people who are attending really believe that they are so obviously, completely right that anybody who is not part of their group either just doesn’t understand (yet), or is not really American.

Politics is about one group disagreeing with another legitimate group. These people do not recognize the legitimacy of disagreement.

It’s not just these people. Consider what happened to Larry Summers.

146 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:44:30am

re: #52 mishuga

I think we need a rally of critical thinkers on the national mall. No particular cause allowed. Life is complicated.

That would lead to some good signs.

147 Varek Raith  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:44:45am

It was code?
Lol.

148 darthstar  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:44:57am

re: #85 simoom

A decent shot of the crowd:
Image: 4935225128_50428029d3_b.jpg

I’ve been to enough music festivals…that’s not a half-million people. 60,000 sure, but not much more than that.

149 nines09  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:44:59am

Not all loons have feathers.

150 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:45:06am

re: #147 Varek Raith

It was code?
Lol.

iT wAs CoDe!!11ty

151 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:45:22am

re: #57 austin_blue

Moses = George Washington?

I always thought that in American history, that title was reserved for Harriet Tubman, but what the hell.

152 simoom  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:45:38am

re: #121 SanFranciscoZionist

That’s kind of a feat in DC. You’d think someone would wander in, if only to be able to tell the guys back at the office what’s going on out there.

I can’t imagine why minorities might feel unwelcome in that crowd:

Image: 1alp.jpg

153 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:45:46am

Somebody told somebody that they were a great orator.

154 Charles Johnson  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:46:06am

Good lord. My gag reflex is starting to kick in. This is really insane.

155 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:46:08am

re: #68 webevintage

Not sure, but I think he may have taken back the civil rights movement for his followers.

Great! Maybe now older white people will be allowed to vote in Mississippi!

156 Guanxi88  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:46:22am

re: #151 SanFranciscoZionist

I always thought that in American history, that title was reserved for Harriet Tubman, but what the hell.

No, she has it, too, but the mantle first rested on George Washington. There’s always a need to see a continuation of extraordinary types - hence, avatars and such-like.

157 darthstar  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:46:26am

This is supposed to end at 1pm EST (15 minutes away)…where the fuck is Sarah?

158 webevintage  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:46:35am

re: #106 PT Barnum

all proceeds (After paying for costs of the event) will then be given to the special warriors charity.)

How much you wanna bet there ain’t a lot left.

No much, once they pay President Palin.

159 Varek Raith  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:46:43am

MY FIRM RELIANCE IS NOT BELIEVING IN FAIRY TALES!
*Heads asplode*

160 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:46:48am

re: #70 ProLifeLiberal

I’m not going there either. Any volunteers to wade into the deepest pits of the Internet to see what’s there?

I’ve seen it. It’s a truck. It’s owned by an unstable individual. But it’s not THAT bad.

161 jaunte  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:46:51am

re: #157 darthstar

She was on early.

162 Guanxi88  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:47:04am

re: #157 darthstar

This is supposed to end at 1pm EST (15 minutes away)…where the fuck is Sarah?

She was right at the start, speaking as the mother of a combat vet.

163 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:47:13am

re: #158 webevintage

No much, once they pay President Palin.

I just threw up in my mouth a little. Don’t EVER put those two words together, even in jest.

164 Kreuzueber Halbmond  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:47:17am

Come fly with me and the magic sky god.

165 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:47:25am

I think I get it now.

This is really Glenn Beck’s “12 Steps”.

166 Stan the Demanded Plan  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:47:35am

re: #157 darthstar

This is supposed to end at 1pm EST (15 minutes away)…where the fuck is Sarah?

I think we missed Saint Sarah?

167 Mikey706  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:47:39am

Is Pastor Beck passing out koolaid after the sermon?

168 austin_blue  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:47:50am

re: #154 Charles

Good lord. My gag reflex is starting to kick in. This is really insane.

Amazing isn’t it? He’s just a nut-job.

169 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:47:52am

re: #159 Varek Raith

MY FIRM RELIANCE IS NOT BELIEVING IN FAIRY TALES!

No your firm reliance is telling them to people not smart enough to tell the difference.

170 Walter L. Newton  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:48:39am

re: #159 Varek Raith

MY FIRM RELIANCE IS NOT BELIEVING IN FAIRY TALES!
*Heads asplode*

Yet he talks about god… major disconnect.

171 jaunte  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:48:45am

Cincinnatus on the horse.

172 Charles Johnson  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:48:46am

“We the people” was code for “Barack Obama is a racist who hates white culture.”

173 webevintage  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:48:58am

re: #162 Guanxi88

She was right at the start, speaking as the mother of a combat vet.

huh?

174 Varek Raith  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:49:00am

You can do a lot for our country by ignoring Beck.
;)

175 blueraven  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:49:03am

WTF is his message?

176 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:49:19am

re: #99 Charles

The Pillsbury Dough Boy just said, “We’ve had a soft life.”

This is, generationally and nationally speaking, true.

177 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:49:21am

re: #143 SanFranciscoZionist

Did he appear nervous?

Not at all.

178 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:49:25am

We really need to have a voice hookup so we can do a MST3K thing.

179 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:49:44am

re: #175 blueraven

WTF is his message?

GIVE ME MONEY!

180 Varek Raith  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:49:56am

re: #178 PT Barnum

We really need to have a voice hookup so we can do a MST3K thing.

SMOKE MAN MUSCLE

181 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:50:19am

re: #107 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Doesn’t matter. One side will say under-estimated, one side will say over-estimated.

I think the Mall Police put out the official numbers.

Then? One side or the other calls them liars.

I tend to trust the cops on such things. Partly because I figure they’re not partisan about it, and partly because I myself suck at crowd estimates, so I have to trust someone.

182 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:50:27am

Roid tears!

183 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:50:57am

re: #182 Gus 802

Roid tears!

Did he just get a procto exam right on the stage?

184 bratwurst  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:50:57am

re: #175 blueraven

WTF is his message?

Here ya go:

Youtube Video
185 jaunte  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:51:03am

Audience looking a little confused.

186 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:51:15am

Damn. This is lame. If I was a Glenn Beck fan I’d ask for my money back.

187 Varek Raith  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:51:18am

re: #185 jaunte

Audience looking a little confused.

I’m confused!

188 Stan the Demanded Plan  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:51:26am

And here we go!

189 austin_blue  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:51:28am

re: #175 blueraven

WTF is his message?

Still waiting…

The Age of Enlightenment set men free from (organized religion), Beckers.

Hence, Nature’s God, not the God of men.

190 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:51:33am

re: #181 SanFranciscoZionist

yeah… me too…

The cops have no reason to inflate (other than for budgetary purposes).

.
.
.
Oh shit.

191 Walter L. Newton  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:51:44am

Has he done “I have a scream” yet?

192 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:52:11am

re: #183 PT Barnum

Did he just get a procto exam right on the stage?

He was harkening back internally to his hospital experience.

193 Guanxi88  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:52:15am

re: #173 webevintage

huh?

[Link: content.usatoday.com…]

“Say what you want to say about me, but I raised a combat vet. You can’t take that away from me,” Palin said.

194 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:52:22am

re: #191 Walter L. Newton

Ooh! Ice cream!

Ben and Jerry’s in the fridge!

Woo hoo!

195 austin_blue  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:52:23am

Tithe!

(Just not to the Gubmint)

196 webevintage  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:52:29am

re: #175 blueraven

WTF is his message?

Ummmm, tax cuts are good for the rich y’all so sacrifice all ye lower classes for the future of our country.
and when the revolution starts y’all should be willing to sacrifice so guys like Glenn don’t have to sacrifice their kids or fortunes
and tithe to the church of Glenn….it is a joy and a honor….but not to those social justice places like the Catholic Church.

197 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:52:36am

10 percent!

LDS!

198 Charles Johnson  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:52:51am

This is a rambling pile of cliches and crap. He’s just ranting away the same way he does on his TV show.

199 jaunte  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:52:52am

Flat tax/tithe.

200 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:53:08am

re: #148 darthstar

I’ve been to enough music festivals…that’s not a half-million people. 60,000 sure, but not much more than that.

Wel,, 60,000 is a decent turn-out.

201 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:53:37am

12 Steps!

202 blueraven  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:53:38am

re: #186 Gus 802

Damn. This is lame. If I was a Glenn Beck fan I’d ask for my money back.

Yeah, I expected better…as in even more crazy incitement. This is just pathetic.

203 reidr  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:53:54am

I’m curious how Fox News is covering this in light of their recent journalistic failings. Are they upping the ante and promoting the heck out of it, or are they actually showing restraint? I’m going to guess more like the former, but I don’t really want to check. Then again, I haven’t showered yet….

204 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:54:12am

re: #202 blueraven

Yeah, I expected better…as in even more crazy incitement. This is just pathetic.

Seriously. Not enough bass. Should have more digital delay too.

205 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:54:17am

re: #156 Guanxi88

No, she has it, too, but the mantle first rested on George Washington. There’s always a need to see a continuation of extraordinary types - hence, avatars and such-like.

Well, I won’t complain about Washington getting it too. The man deserved a lot.

206 austin_blue  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:54:22am

The truth will set you free!

babble babble babble Moses’ stick babble babble babble

207 Guanxi88  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:54:32am

This is, truly, the age of shiny images and empty words. Take a nothing and a nobody, with no discernible past or experience, dress it up in fancy clothes, cloak its ramblings in fancy words, overlook questionable and alarming associations, and make yourself a little tin godling to worship.

208 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:54:46am

End-O-Times!

209 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:55:08am

We must go to God’s bootcamp!

210 Winny Spencer  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:55:12am

“God boot camp”!

211 webevintage  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:55:13am

“God Bootcamp”
WTF?

212 jaunte  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:55:19am

Beck sticks it to the suckers.

213 Walter L. Newton  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:55:40am

re: #207 Guanxi88

This is, truly, the age of shiny images and empty words. Take a nothing and a nobody, with no discernible past or experience, dress it up in fancy clothes, cloak its ramblings in fancy words, overlook questionable and alarming associations, and make yourself a little tin godling to worship.

Are you talking about Beck or Obama?

214 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:55:50am

Glenn Beck: Agent of L.A.M.E.

215 austin_blue  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:56:02am

It’s a human storm that’s a comin’.

God’s boot camp.

babble babble babble

Is he talking about the Rapture?

216 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:56:04am

re: #198 Charles

The Tea Party type speakers that I have heard have not have an original thought. It’s infuriating.

217 Guanxi88  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:56:05am

re: #213 Walter L. Newton

Are you talking about Beck or Obama?

Yes, and Mama Grizzly, too.

218 Varek Raith  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:56:09am

re: #211 webevintage

“God Bootcamp”
WTF?

FEMA Camp for heretics!

219 AntonSirius  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:56:10am

re: #180 Varek Raith

SMOKE MAN MUSCLE

WATCH OUT FOR SNAKES!

220 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:56:32am

re: #193 Guanxi88

[Link: content.usatoday.com…]

“Say what you want to say about me, but I raised a combat vet. You can’t take that away from me,” Palin said.

That’s admirable, Sarah, but it’s not why they invited you here today.

221 webevintage  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:56:49am

re: #193 Guanxi88

[Link: content.usatoday.com…]

“Say what you want to say about me, but I raised a combat vet. You can’t take that away from me,” Palin said.

Well, any of us can do that if our kid joins the service rather then go to jail….
Whatever Sarah.

222 Charles Johnson  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:56:54am

The wingnuts on Twitter are already getting crazy about the crowd size. Watch. They’re going to claim there were over a million people there.

224 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:57:05am

It sure is gettin’ honorable in here. *loosens collar*

225 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:57:23am

Oh holy hell!

I just found a Edy’s Ice Cream in the freezer…

APPLE PIE flavored.

A 5.8 ounce serving size ice cream.

Who thought of serving ice cream in a lidded thimble.

Asshole.

226 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:57:34am

re: #209 Gus 802

We must go to God’s bootcamp!

Glenn, this world IS God’s boot camp. Get used to it!!

227 darthstar  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:57:39am

It doesn’t help the Tea Party to show the occasional black face in the audience. If anything, it highlights the homogeneity of the crowd.

228 AntonSirius  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:58:13am

re: #198 Charles

This is a rambling pile of cliches and crap. He’s just ranting away the same way he does on his TV show.

Olberman gives him too much credit when he calls him Lonesome Rhodes Beck.

229 webevintage  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:58:21am

Kill the preachers first?
Really?
Any Revolutionary War buffs out there.

230 ProBosniaLiberal  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:58:39am

re: #160 SanFranciscoZionist

Whoops, stupid moment on my part. I should have said I was talking about the website on the truck.

231 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:59:03am

re: #227 darthstar

Ever been to a Manilow concert? I have.

232 Charles Johnson  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:59:03am

That’s David Barton behind Beck on the stage.

233 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:59:07am

re: #229 webevintage

Kill the preachers first?
Really?
Any Revolutionary War buffs out there.

What did he say?

(I’m not watching this. Beck gives me hives.)

234 austin_blue  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:59:12am

I think he doesn’t like the Separation Clause. America apparently hates preachers. Is this the point of this?

235 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:59:27am

re: #230 ProLifeLiberal

Whoops, stupid moment on my part. I should have said I was talking about the website on the truck.

Oh, right. I ain’t going THERE.

236 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 9:59:38am

Dominionism

237 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:00:02am

re: #234 austin_blue

I think he doesn’t like the Separation Clause. America apparently hates preachers. Is this the point of this?

They’re so…preachy. And IIRC from “Strawberry Girl”, they eat all the fried chicken.

238 webevintage  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:00:10am

re: #233 SanFranciscoZionist

What did he say?

(I’m not watching this. Beck gives me hives.)

That the English killed the preachers first because they were preaching that all men are created equal?
I think…..

239 jaunte  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:00:31am

180 million. That’s a really big crowd estimate.

240 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:00:43am

re: #238 webevintage

That the English killed the preachers first because they were preaching that all men are created equal?
I think…

Doesn’t ring a bell.

241 Charles Johnson  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:00:57am

The Kermit voice!

Had to get that one in.

242 HoosierHoops  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:01:05am

In Contrast.. MLK Marching on Washington…The best of who we are in History

Google Video
243 Guanxi88  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:01:11am

re: #232 Charles

That’s David Barton behind Beck on the stage.

Yep, a frequent guest on the program, too.

Who’s the guy on drums?

244 webevintage  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:01:14am

The Koch brothers really got their money’s worth today….

245 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:01:22am

re: #239 jaunte

HAHAHA! I thought the exact same thing!

246 blueraven  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:01:31am

re: #228 AntonSirius

Olberman gives him too much credit when he calls him Lonesome Rhodes Beck.

Oh I dont know, he seems very much like that character in “A Face in the Crowd.

247 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:01:47am

In summary: God, God, God, God.

248 austin_blue  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:02:04am

Gus, I think you got it one.

249 RadicalModerate  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:02:09am

I said it yesterday, and I’ll reiterate it today.

Glenn Beck’s followers are for the most part bigger fans of James Earl Ray than fans of Martin Luther King, Jr.

250 austin_blue  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:03:16am

Seal your children in clay pots! Yay!!

251 jaunte  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:03:16am

Seal him in a clay pot!

252 sffilk  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:03:27am

Being that evidently I’ve missed it, has this “person” called for any sort of race war or religious war or “take back this country from the (fill in the blank)” or any such garbage like that?

253 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:03:34am

I don’t normally follow twitter, but the comments on the #douchebeck feed are pretty funny

If Glenn Beck says “Thou art god” or “Grok,” I’m puttin’ a straw in the tequila bottle. Sobriety can take only so much

254 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:03:57am

re: #251 jaunte

Seal him in a clay pot!

Beckchi!

255 ProBosniaLiberal  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:03:57am

re: #235 SanFranciscoZionist

Well, I guess I can hope that Charles can tell us what that site is exactly.

256 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:04:08am

WAAAH!

God, he cries as well as Michael Landon ever dreamed of doing.

257 Charles Johnson  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:04:09am

Shouting and weeping like a loon. We must be near the end.

258 Walter L. Newton  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:04:14am

There was at least one black there today… pandering…

Alveda King, a niece of the late civil rights leader, also participated in the “Restoring Honor” rally, saying that her uncle would have approved of the event.

“If Uncle Martin could be here today, he would sure commend us of giving honor where honor is due,” she told a large, cheering crowd.
King said earlier she’s been accused of hijacking “the dream,” but on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” on Friday night, she said “the dream” is in her genes.

“I don’t have to reclaim the civil rights movement, I’m part of the civil rights movement,” she said, noting her family’s home and her father’s church were bombed when she was younger. While the NAACP put out a cautious statement regarding the rally, there has been plenty of criticism of the event.

[Link: www.cnn.com…]

259 AntonSirius  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:04:35am

re: #246 blueraven

Oh I dont know, he seems very much like that character in “A Face in the Crowd.

Nah. Andy Griffith was way cooler, and way more coherent.

260 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:04:53am

Twitter:
Wait, did I miss the miracle? Did Glenny turn water and rocks into MOUNTAIN DEW AND CHEETOS???????

261 simoom  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:05:00am

Beck taking credit for creating the next George Washington with his rally today — that it will be the turning point / defining moment of the child’s life :P.

262 webevintage  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:05:14am

Next leader not gonna be a woman.

263 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:05:46am

re: #261 simoom

Beck taking credit for creating the next George Washington with his rally today — that it will be the turning point / defining moment of the child’s life :P.

and the beginning of many payments to some lucky therapist.

264 austin_blue  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:06:06am

Oh God, here comes the Amazing Grace, bullshit…

265 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:06:12am

re: #261 simoom

Beck taking credit for creating the next George Washington with his rally today — that it will be the turning point / defining moment of the child’s life :P.

Possibly. I see a small child, sitting on his grandma’s cooler, listening and thinking to himself, “I must save the adults. They are loony.”

266 McSpiff  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:06:17am

re: #261 simoom

Beck taking credit for creating the next George Washington with his rally today — that it will be the turning point / defining moment of the child’s life :P.

Megalomania is a hell of a drug.

267 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:06:17am

Here comes Amazing Grace.

268 thecommodore  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:06:28am

I don’t know if I’d call that T-shirt racist. It’s birther craziness, to be sure, but it doesn’t seem racist to me.

269 Varek Raith  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:06:39am

re: #265 SanFranciscoZionist

Possibly. I see a small child, sitting on his grandma’s cooler, listening and thinking to himself, “I must save the adults. They are loony.”

Or,
DESTROY ALL HUMANS!

270 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:06:58am

CerromeRUSSELL: #whitestock is going to turn into the worlds largest 2nd Cousins Orgy in min, with #douchebeck in Gimp Suit

271 Alecto  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:07:13am

If anyone is interested, CNN is streaming the Sharpton rally.

[Link: www.cnn.com…]

Rumor is the two might clash at some point.

272 webevintage  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:07:14am

I wonder where calling the President a racist fits into restoring honor?
Or dissing churches who practice some form of social justice?

273 AntonSirius  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:07:25am

re: #261 simoom

Beck taking credit for creating the next George Washington with his rally today — that it will be the turning point / defining moment of the child’s life :P.

You know how, as the original Woodstock faded into the rearview mirror, more and more people claimed to have been there than were actually in attendance?

This is gonna be the opposite of that.

274 Varek Raith  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:07:27am

SAVE ME, JEEBUS!

275 RadicalModerate  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:07:31am

So, Glenn, when will your “Amazing Grace” moment come?
Because you still are being a racist ass, the best I can tell.

276 HoosierHoops  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:07:31am

re: #256 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

WAAAH!

God, he cries as well as Michael Landon ever dreamed of doing.

Michael Landon had a good story line so we let him cry at the end..

277 Charles Johnson  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:07:50am

Please. No. Not Amazing Grace.

278 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:07:56am

re: #271 Alecto

If anyone is interested, CNN is streaming the Sharpton rally.

[Link: www.cnn.com…]

Rumor is the two might clash at some point.

Or, you know, recognize each other and turn into one big force, like when the Irish and the Scots meet up in Braveheart.

279 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:07:59am

Deus ex machina

280 austin_blue  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:08:11am

Oh, gods, no. War pipes.

Beckers breaks into tears.

281 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:08:14am

re: #272 webevintage

I wonder where calling the President a racist fits into restoring honor?
Or dissing churches who practice some form of social justice?

What’s the matter with our honor, anyway?

282 Killgore Trout  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:08:21am

It’s like the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Donald Sutherland version)

283 Varek Raith  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:08:21am

WHY WON’T JEEBUS SAVE ME?!?!?!
XD

284 AntonSirius  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:08:22am

re: #268 thecommodore

I don’t know if I’d call that T-shirt racist. It’s birther craziness, to be sure, but it doesn’t seem racist to me.

Split a hair that finely, and you risk triggering a nuclear explosion.

285 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:08:23am

Kiduu: RT @thomasbetz: RT @NAACP: “Dr King never had to ask his followers to leave hateful signs and guns at home.” #828 #gbdc #mlkvbeck #douchebeck

286 darthstar  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:08:30am

re: #267 Gus 802

Here comes Amazing Grace.

I killed the tab with the live stream before I had to see that.

287 bratwurst  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:08:31am

Bringing out the bagpipes? Wouldn’t bringing out the cuckoo clocks be more apropo?

288 Walter L. Newton  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:08:52am

re: #271 Alecto

If anyone is interested, CNN is streaming the Sharpton rally.

[Link: www.cnn.com…]

Rumor is the two might clash at some point.

“Clash…” who used the word clashed…

“Other civil rights activists gathered nearby with the Rev. Al Sharpton and his National Action Network in a “Reclaim the Dream” rally. Participants planned to march to the site of the future Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, just a few blocks from the Lincoln Memorial. It’s possible participants in both events could cross paths.”

[Link: www.cnn.com…]

Did you make that up?

289 Kreuzueber Halbmond  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:08:55am

Nothing says honor like a badly blown bagpipe.

290 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:08:55am

I’m going to pretend it ends with:

Youtube Video
291 Killgore Trout  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:09:13am

Too much vibrato, dude. It ain’t Rossini.

292 Stan the Demanded Plan  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:09:17am

re: #286 darthstar

I killed the tab with the live stream before I had to see that.

Me too. Now I’m making a bloody mary. My Saturday is toast.

293 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:09:38am

OK, I give up. I’m watching. I’m watching.

294 Varek Raith  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:09:47am

Ok, enough of that…
*Tab closed*

295 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:09:52am

This is seriously weird.

296 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:10:16am

re: #295 Gus 802

This is seriously weird.

Some generations get the Great Awakening.

I get this?

297 webevintage  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:10:50am

There is always someone in the crowd in costume.
Glad to see Washington could make it…

298 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:10:51am

TPM has some good photos from the rally.

299 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:10:56am

The End

300 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:11:11am

Oops. More. He can’t stop talking.

301 Killgore Trout  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:11:17am

Heh

302 Varek Raith  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:11:49am

re: #301 Killgore Trout

Heh

Nicely done.

303 Alecto  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:12:00am

re: #288 Walter L. Newton

“Clash…” who used the word clashed…

“Other civil rights activists gathered nearby with the Rev. Al Sharpton and his National Action Network in a “Reclaim the Dream” rally. Participants planned to march to the site of the future Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, just a few blocks from the Lincoln Memorial. It’s possible participants in both events could cross paths.”

[Link: www.cnn.com…]

Did you make that up?

The two groups crossing paths has a potential for a clash. It was my own choice of words based on what I am seeing on Facebook and Twitter from people. Hence, rumor is they might. Perhaps I should say “They have a potential to clash if put in close proximity to one another.”

304 jaunte  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:12:02am

re: #300 Gus 802

So he planned the event a year ago, but the coincidence of the date was a surprise to him.

305 HoosierHoops  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:12:04am

re: #295 Gus 802

This is seriously weird. Beck

306 austin_blue  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:12:14am

Hey, he planned it a year ago!

Now he’s begging for money!!

307 jaunte  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:13:00am

Love offering!

308 Walter L. Newton  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:13:03am

re: #303 Alecto

The two groups crossing paths has a potential for a clash. It was my own choice of words based on what I am seeing on Facebook and Twitter from people. Hence, rumor is they might. Perhaps I should say “They have a potential to clash if put in close proximity to one another.”

Always plan for the worst… it’s sells too!

309 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:13:06am

re: #306 austin_blue

Hey, he planned it a year ago!

Now he’s begging for money!!

Told you he’d end up channelling Oral Roberts!

310 Alecto  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:14:08am

re: #308 Walter L. Newton

Always plan for the worst… it’s sells too!

I did work in broadcasting for 10 years. It comes naturally.

311 HoosierHoops  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:14:12am

re: #306 austin_blue

Hey, he planned it a year ago!

Now he’s begging for money!!

No preacher ends without it…

312 Guanxi88  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:14:16am

re: #269 Varek Raith

Or,
DESTROY ALL HUMANS!

That you, Morbo?

[Link: futurama.wikia.com…]

313 austin_blue  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:14:37am

Hey! WaPo just cut to the Sharpton rally!

Shit!

314 Alexzander  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:14:43am

Has anyone given a crowd estimate yet? I feel a litle bad for the libertarian followers of Beck (or that portion of Beck), suckered into a three hour sermon.

315 Walter L. Newton  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:14:44am

re: #310 Alecto

I did work in broadcasting for 10 years. It comes naturally.

I apologize… you couldn’t help it :)

316 Varek Raith  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:15:03am

re: #312 Guanxi88

That you, Morbo?

[Link: futurama.wikia.com…]

THAT’S NOT HOW WINDMILLS WORK!!!
;)

317 Guanxi88  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:15:07am

re: #292 Stanley Sea

Me too. Now I’m making a bloody mary. My Saturday is toast.

I dunno, sounds like it’s about to turn around to me.

318 Cato the Elder  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:15:14am

Throw away your mental crutches and your racist T-shirt and think for yourself, dumb fucking white dude!

319 simoom  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:15:29am

re: #313 austin_blue

Hey! WaPo just cut to the Sharpton rally!

Shit!

MSNBC Beck stream here:

MSNBC Video
320 Walter L. Newton  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:16:13am

re: #318 Cato the Elder

Throw away your mental crutches and your racist T-shirt and think for yourself, dumb fucking white dude!

Right… “Embrace Atheism”

321 Varek Raith  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:17:22am

re: #320 Walter L. Newton

Right… “Embrace Atheism”

Embrace the Dark Side of the Force!

322 austin_blue  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:17:53am

It’s back! Final prayer!

Wow, this really is a Dominionist bunch.

Tears!

323 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:18:00am

Sharpton, meanwhile, is leading the ‘No justice, no peace’ chant.

324 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:18:39am

“Hug the person next to you—tell them, ‘Reclaim the Dream!’”

325 jaunte  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:19:13am

re: #324 SanFranciscoZionist

“Hug the person next to you—tell them, ‘Reclaim the Dream!’”

And never let go!

326 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:19:14am

May the force be with you!

//

327 Varek Raith  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:19:26am

re: #324 SanFranciscoZionist

“Hug the person next to you—tell them, ‘Reclaim the Dream!’”

Try to hug me and I’ll Force Zap you!
/

328 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:19:41am

“But now the folks that used to criticize us for marching, trying to have a march themselves!!”

LOL

329 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:19:42am

This has been a Wall Builders production.

330 Alexzander  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:19:44am

“good night!”

331 austin_blue  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:20:12am

That’s it! Glad you came! Don’t forget to tip your bartender and wait staff!

Okay, that was just plain confounding.

332 webevintage  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:20:16am

I think what offends me the most about Beck and using MLK is the social justice angle.
King was all about social justice and the poor.

333 Guanxi88  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:20:29am

re: #323 SanFranciscoZionist

Sharpton, meanwhile, is leading the ‘No justice, no peace’ chant.

Six of one…….

334 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:20:48am

Now Sharpton is telling his own ‘praying on a plane’ story.

His, I have to say, is better.

335 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:21:01am

That had absolutely zero political value. In the real world that is. Of course that won’t stop the hallucinatory Dominionist types.

336 sagehen  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:21:03am

vietnam vets never got a welcome home so they should get it today? Bullshit.

It was way late, but in 1985 Vietnam Vets got the largest ticker-tape parade NYC had ever yet seen

337 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:21:19am

re: #333 Guanxi88

Six of one…

I have to say that his complaints make more sense to me.

338 Cato the Elder  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:21:44am

re: #320 Walter L. Newton

Right… “Embrace Atheism”

Nothing there to embrace.

339 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:21:56am

Lucky me. I tuned in just in time to hear awful music.

340 darthstar  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:22:08am

Good news, everyone. Beck’s rally is now a thing of the past.

341 Varek Raith  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:22:21am

Yeesh, why did I force myself to watch the Rev. Beck?
I need coffee.
BBL.

342 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:22:39am

re: #340 darthstar

Good news, everyone. Beck’s rally is now a thing of the past.

Yet another Futurama ref….Upding

343 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:22:44am

re: #340 darthstar

Good news, everyone. Beck’s rally is now a thing of the past.

Just as it started.

344 jaunte  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:23:12am

re: #340 darthstar

So did I understand Beck to say he was $5.5 million up on the event?

345 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:23:31am

“We didn’t come this far to be no gangsters.”

OK, I guess it takes a Glenn Beck to make me enjoy an Al Sharpton speech.

346 Cato the Elder  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:23:52am

Suddenly I feel so…honorable.

Weird.

347 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:24:09am

re: #345 SanFranciscoZionist

“We didn’t come this far to be no gangsters.”

OK, I guess it takes a Glenn Beck to make me enjoy an Al Sharpton speech.

Yeah. Sharpton just made me hungry.

348 RadicalModerate  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:24:18am

re: #340 darthstar

Good news, everyone. Beck’s rally is now a thing of the past.

It was that before it even started.
It was a rally that harkened back to 1855.

349 Guanxi88  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:24:22am

re: #337 SanFranciscoZionist

I have to say that his complaints make more sense to me.


Not so sure that should matter too awful much - the chant itself, in addition to having been worn out long before I ever first heard it, is of course a thinly-veiled threat of violence. And Beck, thus far, does not have Freddy’s Fashion Mart or a Tawanna Brawley to his credit yet.

350 webevintage  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:24:26am

re: #346 Cato the Elder

Suddenly I feel so…honorable.

Weird.

My honor has been restored.
Beck is a miracle man.

351 Charles Johnson  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:24:29am

Closing with a monumentally awful Christian rock power ballad.

352 ProBosniaLiberal  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:25:03am

re: #351 Charles

How awfult are we talking about exactly? I’m curious.

353 Guanxi88  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:25:08am

re: #351 Charles

Closing with a monumentally awful Christian rock power ballad.

There is another kind?

354 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:26:09am

re: #353 Guanxi88

There is another kind?

All Christian Power Balads are produced by the same guy who inflicted Celine Dion and Michael Bolton on an unsuspecting and apparently undiscerning public.

355 Batman  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:26:17am

…and just like that honor was restored, freedoms reclaimed, and Obama’s skin turned white just before he announced he’s switched parties.

356 Guanxi88  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:26:22am

re: #349 Guanxi88

Not so sure that should matter too awful much - the chant itself, in addition to having been worn out long before I ever first heard it, is of course a thinly-veiled threat of violence. And Beck, thus far, does not have Freddy’s Fashion Mart or a Tawanna Brawley to his credit yet.

Ohh, and I forgot Crown Heights, though the Rosenbaum family never will.

357 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:26:27am

re: #338 Cato the Elder

Nothing there to embrace.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.
-Douglas Adams

358 Guanxi88  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:26:39am

re: #354 PT Barnum

All Christian Power Balads are produced by the same guy who inflicted Celine Dion and Michael Bolton on an unsuspecting and apparently undiscerning public.

Warrants at the Hague.

359 Walter L. Newton  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:27:00am

re: #347 Gus 802

Yeah. Sharpton just made me hungry.

Ho many people showed up at his rally?

360 Cato the Elder  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:27:17am

You’ve gotta hand it to dumb white Americans - even when they do fascism, it turns out weak, trite, shallow, meager, and insipid.

Thank God.

361 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:27:27am

re: #353 Guanxi88

There is another kind?

Mandatory abuse of the Rhodes piano, and Every. Single. Syllable. gets a warbling cadenza spanning 6 octaves.

362 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:28:00am

re: #351 Charles

Nothing like singing to the backs of the folks leavin’.

Nice gig.

I’m sure her parents are still paying rapt attention.

363 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:28:15am

re: #360 Cato the Elder

You’ve gotta hand it to dumb white Americans - even when they do fascism, it turns out weak, trite, shallow, meager, and insipid.

Thank God.

Kinda like their coffee.

364 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:28:23am

Please tell me Sharpton’s on somewhere…

365 webevintage  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:28:53am

re: #364 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Please tell me Sharpton’s on somewhere…

[Link: www.cnn.com…]

366 Guanxi88  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:29:15am

re: #361 negativ

Mandatory abuse of the Rhodes piano, and Every. Single. Syllable. gets a warbling cadenza spanning 6 octaves.

My Bitter Half attends church - long story - and the thing I most despise about the singing they do there is they keep repeating the last damned stanza, then the last damned line, then the last damned word, of damned near every thing they do.

For F*ck’s Sake! If the writer wanted you to do that, he’d have written it that way.

367 jaunte  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:29:34am

Wow, sour note.

368 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:29:42am

re: #349 Guanxi88

Not so sure that should matter too awful much - the chant itself, in addition to having been worn out long before I ever first heard it, is of course a thinly-veiled threat of violence. And Beck, thus far, does not have Freddy’s Fashion Mart or a Tawanna Brawley to his credit yet.

Beck is working overtime to get one. I’m not so sure that attempted attack on the ACLU in Oakland was not his first draft.

369 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:30:12am

re: #364 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Please tell me Sharpton’s on somewhere…

CNN has him on live right now.

370 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:30:14am

re: #365 webevintage

Thank!

371 Nervous Norvous  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:30:20am

Is that Jodee Messina?

372 simoom  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:30:22am

A total WTF sign from the rally featuring — I’m guessing here — the President, the First Lady and Harry Reid:

[Link: www.flickr.com…]

Image: 4934780431_0a4dab4264_o.jpg
373 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:31:31am

Image: 152929494-bbb6c70bfbd191bc2d77a812d78f4208.4c794798-full.jpg

I need one of those “I’d rather be waterboarding” buttons. The “Sarah” one, too.

374 webevintage  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:31:35am

Rev. Al is making me feel good about America.

375 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:32:22am

re: #374 webevintage

Rev. Al is making me feel good about America.

I’ll give him this, he is a much better speaker than Glenn.

376 Cato the Elder  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:32:23am

Thanks, folks! Leave all your money in one of hokey red-white-and-blue Uncky Sam hats conveniently located at the exits! And don’t forget: you’re a minority here. Take the Yellow and Green Lines at your peril!

377 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:33:03am

Statehood for DC… What the hell, Al?

378 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:33:15am

re: #376 Cato the Elder

Thanks, folks! Leave all your money in one of hokey red-white-and-blue Uncky Sam hats conveniently located at the exits! And don’t forget: you’re a minority here. Take the Yellow and Green Lines at your peril!

I wonder where Dan Riehl is, right now. Somewhere in the city of Washington, lurk a bunch of teenage boys who like Barack Obama.

379 austin_blue  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:33:19am

re: #372 simoom

A total WTF sign from the rally featuring — I’m guessing here — the President, the First Lady and Harry Reid:

[Link: www.flickr.com…]

In prison garb. Nice.

380 Walter L. Newton  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:33:19am

re: #374 webevintage

Rev. Al is making me feel good about America.

“The National Action Network held a “Reclaim the Dream” rally at Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C. Speakers included Reverend Al Sharpton, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Urban League President and CEO Marc Morial, and radio and TV host Ed Schultz.”

I guess every rally has to have it’s token wackjob.

[Link: www.c-spanvideo.org…]

381 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:33:34am

re: #377 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Statehood for DC… What the hell, Al?

Oh, that’s a pretty standard TP.

382 Cato the Elder  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:34:26am

Now that my honor is restored, how do I store it?

383 webevintage  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:34:42am

re: #380 Walter L. Newton

“The National Action Network held a “Reclaim the Dream” rally at Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C. Speakers included Reverend Al Sharpton, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Urban League President and CEO Marc Morial, and radio and TV host Ed Schultz.”

Wackjob is right….

384 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:35:18am

re: #382 Cato the Elder

Now that my honor is restored, how do I store it?

Beck can sell you a special, made-in-America Honor Storage Case.

See the website.

385 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:35:22am

Al’s group is mostly black. Does that mean they are racist?

Ain’t a white person on the stage, that I can see…

386 Walter L. Newton  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:36:49am

re: #385 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Al’s group is mostly black. Does that mean they are racist?

Ain’t a white person on the stage, that I can see…

“The National Action Network held a “Reclaim the Dream” rally at Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C. Speakers included Reverend Al Sharpton, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Urban League President and CEO Marc Morial, and radio and TV host Ed Schultz.”

Ed’s white… and STUPID.

387 webevintage  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:37:21am

re: #385 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Al’s group is mostly black. Does that mean they are racist?

Ain’t a white person on the stage, that I can see…

yes.
//

388 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:37:53am

re: #385 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Al’s group is mostly black. Does that mean they are racist?

Ain’t a white person on the stage, that I can see…

Al’s group is openly a black-interest group, for the most part.

Beck claims to represent ‘the real America’. That’s the issue.

I don’t think the lack of black TPers indicates that they’re racist, though, so much as that they really lack any appeal to people who aren’t white. I think they’d love to get more racial diversity in their events, and they do seem to try, at least with speakers. It just isn’t working. At all.

389 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:38:15am

re: #386 Walter L. Newton

Token white guy? And he’s a nut?

Conspiracy.

390 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:39:23am

re: #388 SanFranciscoZionist

But if a white person tried to have a …

Yeah. That argument really doesn’t hold water.

391 sagehen  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:42:02am

re: #388 SanFranciscoZionist

Al’s group is openly a black-interest group, for the most part.

Beck claims to represent ‘the real America’. That’s the issue.

I don’t think the lack of black TPers indicates that they’re racist, though, so much as that they really lack any appeal to people who aren’t white. I think they’d love to get more racial diversity in their events, and they do seem to try, at least with speakers. It just isn’t working. At all.

When they start waxing nostalgic about “the America we grew up in, the better America,” and the people involved grew up in the South, in the 1950’s….

It’s hard to find a lot of Black people with happy memories of that America.

392 Killgore Trout  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:42:50am

Somebody didn’t get the memo about signs: Deport Obama

393 Gus  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:42:52am

re: #359 Walter L. Newton

Ho many people showed up at his rally?

Got sidetracked. Don’t know. I imagine less.

Shartpon mentioned Burger King and the Whopper which made me hungry.

394 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:42:56am

re: #390 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

But if a white person tried to have a …

Yeah. That argument really doesn’t hold water.

Well, clearly the TPers can’t represent themselves as a white interest group, for all sorts of reasons, but they effectively are. As I say, I don’t think they mean to be exclusionary, and I get the impression that they kind of wonder why non-white Americans aren’t interested in their cause, and would like to fix that.

395 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:43:28am

re: #393 Gus 802

Got sidetracked. Don’t know. I imagine less.

Shartpon mentioned Burger King and the Whopper which made me hungry.

He told them to take their Whopper elsewhere. You should go there and get one.

396 sagehen  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:44:33am

re: #394 SanFranciscoZionist

I get the impression that they kind of wonder why non-white Americans aren’t interested in their cause, and would like to fix that.

Losing the Confederate Battle Flag would be a good start.

397 Cato the Elder  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:45:13am

Great! Now that my honor is restored, I can actually feel my lost fweeedoms seeping back into my bones!

398 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:45:15am

re: #394 SanFranciscoZionist

I am wondering… how many large evenly mixed race events have any of us ever seen.

Woodstock… vastly white.
“I have a Dream” speech… Vastly black.
Storming of the Bastille… I imagine all white…

etc…

399 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:47:13am

re: #396 sagehen

Don’t tread on me? It was from the Revolutionary War originally. Ben Franklin, and all that.

400 sagehen  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:47:35am

re: #398 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I am wondering… how many large evenly mixed race events have any of us ever seen.

Woodstock… vastly white.
“I have a Dream” speech… Vastly black.
Storming of the Bastille… I imagine all white…

etc…

Any arena-size hip-hop show.

401 webevintage  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:47:40am

It must be nice to live in DC, there is always some kind of rally or march going on.

402 Walter L. Newton  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:47:47am

re: #398 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I am wondering… how many large evenly mixed race events have any of us ever seen.

Woodstock… vastly white.
“I have a Dream” speech… Vastly black.
Storming of the Bastille… I imagine all white…

etc…

Richie Havens was on stage… Woodstock doesn’t count.

403 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:47:53am

re: #396 sagehen

Losing the Confederate Battle Flag would be a good start.

Perhaps, but I think that even if they could get rid of all the really unpleasant stuff, they still wouldn’t be seeing black or Latino Americans really getting interested in what they’re selling. Since they see their agenda as self-evident, this tends to bog them down in confusion, and then they get a little crabby about it. I do give them kudos for their apparently ongoing attempt to at least have black speakers and performers at events, I do see that as a sincere attempt to have some diversity and leave the door open.

Unfortunately for them, they ARE appealing to racists, and the more racists who come in, the less likely they are to get the diversity they might prefer. Vicious cycle.

404 sagehen  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:48:44am

re: #398 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I am wondering… how many large evenly mixed race events have any of us ever seen.

Woodstock… vastly white.
“I have a Dream” speech… Vastly black.
Storming of the Bastille… I imagine all white…

etc…

NBA playoffs involving the Lakers or Bulls.

405 MandyManners  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:48:45am

The Kid is bruised all over hell and back. His right upper arm got cleated to pieces so did a shin. I’ve never seen him happier. I fed him half a pack of bacon, eight eggs, six pieces of toast, about a quart of milk and half a canteloupe. And, now, it’s nap time for Football Mommy.

406 Obdicut  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:48:55am

re: #398 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

The I Have a Dream speech wasn’t vastly black.

407 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:49:03am

re: #398 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

The inauguration of President Obama was very “salt and pepper”, as was Clinton, Carter, … etc.

408 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:49:28am

re: #398 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I am wondering… how many large evenly mixed race events have any of us ever seen.

Woodstock… vastly white.
“I have a Dream” speech… Vastly black.
Storming of the Bastille… I imagine all white…

etc…

There were blacks in late eighteenth century France. Not a lot, but I assume the storming of the Bastille might have been at least as integrated as the Restoring Honor Rally.

409 Walter L. Newton  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:50:09am

re: #401 webevintage

It must be nice to live in DC, there is always some kind of rally or march going on.

No it’s not… there is always some sort of rally or demonstration going on that is blocking you way in and out of federal buildings and other businesses. I use to spend 2-3 weeks at a time, 3-4 times a year in DC when I worked for the DOE, and I don’t think I remember a single day in town that I didn’t see at least one annoying something going on from my walk from the Metro to what ever building I was trying to get to.

It’s a circus their. And on top of that, then you have the politicians who…

410 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:50:14am

re: #400 sagehen

And the white kids are not generally loved… they’re accepted, but not loved.

Except by the performer who just got some of their money.

411 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:50:48am

re: #408 SanFranciscoZionist

HA!

412 simoom  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:51:59am

re: #392 Killgore Trout

Somebody didn’t get the memo about signs: Deport Obama

Ah, nice photo stream — more from there:

[Link: www.flickr.com…]

SIGN: One Nation Back To God
(bald eagle clutching a bible)

Image: 4934804823_68256eb724_b.jpg

[Link: www.flickr.com…]

Homemade(?) Captain America costume:
Image: 4934804607_7087727a0e_b.jpg

[Link: www.flickr.com…]

SIGN: “Come and Take It”
(Cannon Silhouette)

Image: 4934805109_52b7db7d3b_b.jpg

413 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:52:23am

re: #406 Obdicut

What was the mix? Anyone have a guess?

25/75? 60/40? 50/50? Pictures I have seen have always looked about 80/20.

414 Killgore Trout  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:53:31am

re: #412 simoom

Ah, nice photo stream — more from there:

[Link: www.flickr.com…]

[Link: www.flickr.com…]

[Link: www.flickr.com…]

The “come and take it guys are carrying some suspicious looking bags too.

415 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:54:41am

Random US History factoid: Jefferson sent Sally Heming’s brother to culinary school in France, so he could have a real, classically trained French chef at Monticello.

Years later, he offered Bob Hemings a job as the White House chef, but Hemings turned him down.

416 webevintage  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:55:15am

Anyone know if there is a livestream of the march to the MLK monument site?

417 Cato the Elder  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:55:15am

Beck counts his take for the day, blanches, realizing that it’s not even enough to cover expenses, screams at the backs of departing newly-honorable Americans:

“Wait, you bastards! I told you I need money! Come back here! Hey, did I mention that I’m going blind?”

[sobs for real]

418 Obdicut  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:55:36am

re: #413 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

What was the mix? Anyone have a guess?

25/75? 60/40? 50/50? Pictures I have seen have always looked about 80/20.

I don’t know. It was heavily integrated. As was most of the Civil Rights movement. That’s the point I’m trying to make.

There’s been a lot of heavily integrated crowds, post WWII. People going to hear Obama, for example— those were heavily integrated.

419 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:57:14am

re: #418 Obdicut

Oh, yeah. Democratic events are very heavily populated by white guilt types.
/ runs away laughing…

No, seriously. I have to go to work.

See y’all later.

420 Cato the Elder  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:57:55am

re: #418 Obdicut

I don’t know. It was heavily integrated. As was most of the Civil Rights movement. That’s the point I’m trying to make.

There’s been a lot of heavily integrated crowds, post WWII. People going to hear Obama, for example— those were heavily integrated.

Which is precisely what upsets people like Beck.

421 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 11:00:00am

re: #415 SanFranciscoZionist

Random US History factoid: Jefferson sent Sally Heming’s brother to culinary school in France, so he could have a real, classically trained French chef at Monticello.

Years later, he offered Bob Hemings a job as the White House chef, but Hemings turned him down.

Sorry, wrong Hemings, it was James who went to Paris.

422 Obdicut  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 11:00:00am

re: #419 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Well, Democratic events are heavily populated by whites. As is the country.

423 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 11:01:13am

re: #417 Cato the Elder

Beck counts his take for the day, blanches, realizing that it’s not even enough to cover expenses, screams at the backs of departing newly-honorable Americans:

“Wait, you bastards! I told you I need money! Come back here! Hey, did I mention that I’m going blind?”

[sobs for real]

What’s going on with that, anyway? Has he made any further announcements about his eye trouble?

424 Guanxi88  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 11:01:48am

re: #412 simoom

Ah, nice photo stream — more from there:

[Link: www.flickr.com…]

[Link: www.flickr.com…]

[Link: www.flickr.com…]

The Come and Take It flag is the Gonzales Flag, from the War for Texas Independence. The thing flies everywhere in the Lone Star State, and is a piece of our history.

425 Romantic Heretic  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 11:03:24am

re: #113 SanFranciscoZionist

The fact that Democrats, and black people, and atheists, and gay people and what have you are also living in scary times and out of work doesn’t seem to register very well.

Those aren’t people. /

426 jaunte  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 11:06:54am

re: #414 Killgore Trout

The “come and take it guys are carrying some suspicious looking bags too.

I think those might be folding lawn chairs.

427 Cato the Elder  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 11:14:07am

re: #423 SanFranciscoZionist

What’s going on with that, anyway? Has he made any further announcements about his eye trouble?

Meh. I think he’s got presbyopia - i.e. he needs reading glasses. He just panicked before the eye doctor could tell him what it means.

428 sagehen  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 11:17:39am

re: #421 SanFranciscoZionist

Sorry, wrong Hemings, it was James who went to Paris.

oh, they all look alike

// [ducking the sun-dried tomatoes]

429 HappyWarrior  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 12:14:04pm

So did I have a good day to have my first day covering women’s volleyball or what? Seriously, what is up with these nuts? America love it or go back to Kenya. Yeah, that’s not bigoted at all.

430 elbruce  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 12:22:17pm

re: #424 Guanxi88

The Come and Take It flag is the Gonzales Flag, from the War for Texas Independence. The thing flies everywhere in the Lone Star State, and is a piece of our history.

It’s my understanding that the Mexican army did exactly that. Not something I’d be proud of…

431 Jimmah  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 12:38:47pm

Now at last it’s the turn of oppressed white conservatives to march for THEIR little piece of freedom! And all you people can do is mock!/

432 elbruce  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 12:47:55pm

re: #431 Jimmah

Now at last it’s the turn of oppressed white conservatives to march for THEIR little piece of freedom! And all you people can do is mock!/

Freedom? If right wing protesters were treated even a hundredth as badly as left wing protesters were (and still are) treated, they’d be sobbing and pissing their pants. Here’s something that clarifies the point pretty well:

Image: story.jpg

Leading up to the 2008 RNC, people who just planned to peacefully protest had their houses raided and were put in jail for just thinking about it. During the 2004 RNC, protestors (and anybody in the vicinity) were scooped up with orange plastic nets and detained on piers without due process. Don’t even get me started on “free speech zones.”

Right wingers should take note of the amazing amount of freedom they’re granted compared to the left wing. If they whine this much when they’re coddled, I can only imagine what they’d say if they weren’t. Actually, I can predict that pretty well. Being cowards, they’d all give up and go home quietly.

433 NC Gray  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 5:21:21pm

re: #418 Obdicut

so i am late to the discussion…
but are we talking racial comp. is 80/20?

the country as a whole is less than 17% black…

434 ClaudeMonet  Sat, Aug 28, 2010 11:41:01pm

re: #59 jaunte

“Forget it, he’s on a roll.”

Upding for the Animal House reference.

I wish Beck were on a rail rather than a roll. As in “being ridden out of town on a”.

435 ClaudeMonet  Sun, Aug 29, 2010 12:00:59am

re: #402 Walter L. Newton

Richie Havens was on stage… Woodstock doesn’t count.

And Carlos Santana (the guitar player, not the Indians’ catcher).

436 firefirefire  Sun, Aug 29, 2010 12:47:56am

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437 swamprat  Sun, Aug 29, 2010 12:57:29am

re: #436 firefirefire

Did you just show up to burn a sock?
C’mon you could be refutin’ and straight shootin’; instead you’re just talkin’ and stalkin’.

438 shugli  Sun, Aug 29, 2010 1:39:31am

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439 boxhead  Sun, Aug 29, 2010 1:51:11am

re: #438 shugli

What is so disconcerting is that it is you who are so fooled. Your post contained zero content, much like the far right media’s message you seemed to have swallowed. It really is not about Right or Left. It is about, “We The People”. The vast majority of those that fund the far Right shenanigans are multinationals that don’t give a rats ass about We The People. The Left is not innocent of this crime either.


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