If you're like me you had better things to do on Saturday than pay attention to Glenn Beck's non-political ode to himself in Washington D.C. Thankfully for us those of us that missed the day's events, New Left Media went around and visited with some of the proud Americans who were there to help embrace all that is wrong with our wonderful country. Unfortunately these patriots are just a tad bit uninformed, although they wear denial nicely, sort of like that denim jacket you've been rocking lately. Feed me some Muslim lies you crazed new lefties.
On 8.28.2010, Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally was held on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The purpose of the rally, which Beck claimed to be “non-political” despite featuring Tea Party-favorite Sarah Palin as a speaker and its being attended entirely by conservatives, was unclear. The participants spoke abstractly about the need to restore “honor” and “pride” to a country that had lost it. When pressed for when our country had lost its honor, most cited the election of Barack Obama.8.28.2010 also represented the 47th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, and Glenn Beck has been criticized for by civil rights groups for trying to misappropriate the occasion.
Last year, Beck referred to Barack Obama—our country’s first African-American President--as a “racist… who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.” When offered the chance to respond to Beck’s statements, his fans either agreed with him or simply refused to believe that he had ever made them.
While the speaker list was diverse, the overwhelmingly white crowd expressed paranoid and conspiratorial fears of multiculturalism—that atheists or black liberation theologists or radical Muslims or “free-loading” Latinos were going to ruin our country. There was the constant suggestion that white Christians and their way of life are somehow under assault, and that the attendees of this rally were here to put an end to it and return the country to what it used to be.
Either way Glen Beck would never say Obama is a racist. It's thirteen minutes long so clear some schedule if you're going to take the plunge as it's thirteen minutes of bliss if you enjoy watching people disregard facts and reality. I'd also like to commend interviewer Chase Whiteside for his patience and lack of any mocking tone, which is the cheap route I would have taken.
Also I just know what my sister tells me. [via the daily what]