"Beck: Help us restore traditional American values" by Philip Elliott and Nafeesa Syeed, Associated Press Writers | August 29, 2010
WASHINGTON --Conservative commentator Glenn Beck and tea party champion Sarah Palin appealed Saturday to a vast, predominantly white crowd on the National Mall to help restore traditional American values and honor Martin Luther King's message.
Is that why the Globe flopped the WaPo piece into the web version.
Related: MSM Misses MLK's Message Again
Kind of used to it by now; they misuse his legacy to divide us by race.
Yup, this election is going to be about race, immigration, Muslims, and mosques.
The agenda-pushing AmeriKan MSM will see to it!
Civil rights leaders who accused the group of hijacking King's legacy held their own rally and march.
Isn't that a loaded word? They couldn't find another verb?
While Beck billed his event as nonpolitical, conservative activists said their show of strength was a clear sign that they can swing elections because much of the country is angry with what many voters call an out-of-touch Washington.
That part is true.
Palin told the tens of thousands who stretched from the marble steps of the Lincoln Memorial to the grass of the Washington Monument that calls to transform the country weren't enough....
Palin, the GOP vice presidential nominee in 2008 and a potential White House contender in 2012....
Still?
Even after defending use of the N-word?
Then she is definitely part of the show.
Beck repeatedly cited King and made references to the Founding Fathers. Beck put a heavy religious cast on nearly all his remarks, sounding at times like an evangelical preacher....
Related: Beck says D.C. rally to honor US military
War Rally
Somehow I do not feel the good Dr. would approve.
Beck exhorted the crowd to "recognize your place to the creator. Realize that he is our king. He is the one who guides and directs our life and protects us." He asked his audience to pray more.
Like five times a day?
"I ask, not only if you would pray on your knees, but pray on your knees but with your door open for your children to see," he said.
I pray God will forgive this nation for what we have done.
A group of civil rights activists organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton held a counter rally at a high school, then embarked on a three-mile march to the site of a planned monument honoring King. The site, bordering the Tidal Basin, was not far from the Lincoln Memorial where Beck and the others spoke about two hours earlier.
Yeah, the OPPOSITE END of the CONTROLLED OPPOSITION SPECTRUM!
Btw, what is with the THEOCRATIC THEMES, America?
Sharpton and the several thousand marching with him crossed paths with some of the crowds leaving Beck's rally. People wearing "Restoring Honor" and tea party T-shirts looked on as Sharpton's group chanted "reclaim the dream" and "MLK, MLK." Both sides were generally restrained, although there was some mutual taunting.
One woman from the Beck rally shouted to the Sharpton marchers: "Go to church. Restore America with peace." Some civil rights marchers chanted "don't drink the tea" to people leaving Beck's rally.
Sharpton told his rally it was important to keep King's dream alive and that despite progress more needs to be done. "Don't mistake progress for arrival," he said.
That would be the END of WAR!
He poked fun at the Beck-organized rally, saying some participants were the same ones who used to call civil rights leaders troublemakers. "The folks who used to criticize us for marching are trying to have a march themselves," he said.
So what does that mean, Al? They don't have the right to march?
He urged his group to be peaceful and not confrontational.....
Related: Sleeping With the GOP
Oh, Reverend!
Politics sure does make strange bedfellows, you fraud!
Sharpton and other critics have noted that, while Beck has long spouted anti-government themes, King's famous march included an appeal to the federal government to do more to protect Americans' civil rights....
That was then, this is now.
It was not clear how many tea party activists were in the crowd, but the sheer size of the turnout helped demonstrate the size and potential national influence of the movement.
If nothing else the Repugs should be taking the House in November; Dems will probably hold Senate by 1-2 votes (putting Zionist Joe Lieberman in the catbird seat again; imagine the odds).
Tea party activism and widespread voter discontent with government already have effected primary elections and could be an important factor in November's congressional, gubernatorial and state legislative races....
Related: The Most Important Election of Your Life
They say that every time and nothing changes.
Palin told the crowd she wasn't speaking as a politician. "I've been asked to speak as the mother of a soldier and I am proud of that distinction. Say what you want to say about me, but I raised a combat vet and you can't take that away from me." It was a reference to her son, Track, 20, who served a yearlong deployment in Iraq....
Actually, yeah, they can, dip shit!
And I hardly think the good Dr. would be applauding there!
Cut from print:
Ken Ratliff, 55, of Rochester, N.Y., who served as a Marine in the Vietnam War, said he is moving more in the tea party direction. "There's got to be a change, man," he said....
Clarence B. Jones, who served as King's personal attorney and his speechwriter, said he believes King would not be offended by Beck's rally but "pleased and honored" that a diverse group of people would come together, almost five decades later, to discuss the future of America.
Why did that get the cut?
Jones, now a visiting professor at Stanford University, said the Beck rally seemed to be tasteful and did not appear to distort King's message, which included a recommitment to religious values....
Except that it was a WAR RALLY!!
On the edges of the Mall, vendors sold "Don't Tread on Me" flags, popular with tea party activists. Other activists distributed fliers urging voters "dump Obama." The pamphlet included a picture of the president with a Hitler-style mustache....
I was wondering how long it would be until I received a Hitler reference in my MSM.
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Yeah, tie up that web space with the exact same article while censoring and dumping other items.
What you webbers got:
"Beck, Palin call for restoration of traditional values; Rights groups hold own event to honor King" by Philip Rucker and Carol Morello, Washington Post | August 29, 2010
WASHINGTON — A sea of people rallied at the hallowed site of the Lincoln Memorial yesterday as conservative commentator Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and other heroes of the Tea Party movement honored Americans serving in the military and delivered impassioned calls to turn the nation back to God and to protect its traditional values.
Claiming the legacy of the nation’s Founding Fathers and repeatedly evoking civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., the speakers at the “Restoring Honor’’ rally exhorted a vast and overwhelmingly white crowd....
As Beck attempted to expropriate the legacy of King, who delivered his famous “I Have a Dream’’ speech from the same marble steps 47 years ago to the day, the Rev. Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders organized a simultaneous event....
That's not the way it was reported above, WaPo!
WTF?
The crowd was generally peaceful. People said they had come to express fear that the country is at a perilous moment....
Yes, the grass roots of the Tea Party are good, well-meaning people.
As for the co-opted leadership....
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Who cares?
