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Beck says 9-11 was a "wake-up call" from god.
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201008280017

Yikes, that was eerily similar to the Pat Robertson/Jerry Falwell fiasco post-9/11. Okay, I'm going to change my mind about Beck... I had previously thought that he was doing his schtick on Fox News solely for the money. Now that I've seen some of what he said at this event, and how he said it, I'm starting to get genuinely concerned that he is a dangerous, theocratic demagogue

:boxedin:
 
I'm still bemused as to anyone can be charmed by Palin. I tried to watch a few minutes of her speech before I had to turn it of, reinforced in the belief that she is the most irritating person in existence.

I can see how people could be charmed by Bush, I really can. That they are by Palin is baffling to me.
 
Thousands gathered in opposition to Beck's nonsense. For some reason, Beck told all of his "protestors" to leave their signs at home.
 
When this thing was first announced, back in the end of 2009, he was supposed to be using it as a springboard for "The Plan" -- book by Glen Beck to follow.

Does anyone who gets the GB memos know what ever happened to "The Plan"?

All I recall was that it was a 100 year plan for changing America or something. I lost track and never found out why it was dropped in favor of the version we got.
 
Well, I read the transcript of Beck's keynote address. (and who uses blackboards?)

Some snips:
http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978060978

...Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution. And it was designed to eat the Constitution. To progress past the Constitution.

...By the way, Theodore Roosevelt, the guy who started the Bull Moose Party, which was the progressive party.

...I’m tired. I am tired, and I know you are. I’m tired of common sense not applying anymore. We all know what the problems are. It’s tax and spend. One party will tax and spend, the other party won’t tax but will spend. It’s both of them. Both of them together. I’m tired. I’m tired.

...(attempts to erase blackboard but eraser doesn’t work well)
Oh, this is good. This isn’t going to work out well. Um.

...What we don’t have a right to is: health care, housing, or handouts. We don’t have those rights.

...I grew up in a bakery in a small town called Mount Vernon, Washington. It’s a small little town in – you’re from there?

...Small little town – Mount Vernon, Washington. We had the city bakery – my father ran it. I cleaned the pots and the pans and worked in the back with him at seven years old. We should get him on labor laws, but –

...I took one class. Do you know why? I couldn’t afford it. Now I never once even thought, this isn’t fair. I never once thought, I want to take it from him – how come he goes and I can’t go? I never once thought I was owed an education. I was thirty when I went. I was trying to find answers. When I couldn’t afford to go anymore, I was okay. I went to work, I got – picked up my kids from school, I spent the afternoon with them, I put them down to bed, or – whatever we did. I did my homework, if you will, for the next day’s show, and then I went and I read. I educated myself, I went to the library – books are free.

The keynote at least, seems aimed at giving some kind of vocalization to the tea partyists. The core argument is interesting - if I understand it right, it is that through suffering that people become strong and the weak, well the weak are mostly food for the strong.

His account of small town America is enchanting, except that his father lost his family business, he became a drunk, and they pretty much lost everything. He couldn't afford classes so dropped out. And lo, this is good because he pulled himself up by his bootstraps and overcame. He is now not a parasite on society, but is instead a famous conservative talk show host...

But he took advantage of the library. "Free books" - what the heck is that? There is no free lunch and certainly no free books. Why stop at libraries? That is such an odd idea coming from him I had to highlight it.

His grasp of history seems a little skewed, but otherwise I don't see much in the speech of substance - he's really preaching to the choir.
 
Anybody know where I can find pics or video of the crowd? Any estimates of the numbers?
 
Well, I read the transcript of Beck's keynote address. (and who uses blackboards?)

Some snips:


The keynote at least, seems aimed at giving some kind of vocalization to the tea partyists. The core argument is interesting - if I understand it right, it is that through suffering that people become strong and the weak, well the weak are mostly food for the strong.

His account of small town America is enchanting, except that his father lost his family business, he became a drunk, and they pretty much lost everything. He couldn't afford classes so dropped out. And lo, this is good because he pulled himself up by his bootstraps and overcame. He is now not a parasite on society, but is instead a famous conservative talk show host...

But he took advantage of the library. "Free books" - what the heck is that? There is no free lunch and certainly no free books. Why stop at libraries? That is such an odd idea coming from him I had to highlight it.

His grasp of history seems a little skewed, but otherwise I don't see much in the speech of substance - he's really preaching to the choir.

Psst: Mr Beck. The Library is one of those forms of dirty socialism you hate. Just FYI.
 
Thousands gathered in opposition to Beck's nonsense. For some reason, Beck told all of his "protestors" to leave their signs at home.

Dr. Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke at Beck's rally. Al Sharpton could only get Eleanor Holmes Norton.
 
Alveda King is estranged from the rest of the King family.
She also recently said gay marriage opens the door to genocide [paraphrasing].
 
Alveda King is estranged from the rest of the King family.
She also recently said gay marriage opens the door to genocide [paraphrasing].

That's the sort of paraphrasing that earned Joseph Goebbels a living.

"I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to be extinct. And none of us wants to be. So we don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage." A.V.

Since MLK never spoke publicly about the issue of gays (and the non-existent issue of gay marriage in his day), we don't know what his opinion on the subject would be today.
 

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