Posted on 08/26/2010 5:57:21 AM PDT by STONEWALLS
When Fox News and talk radio host Glenn Beck comes to Washington this weekend to headline a rally intended to "restore honor" to America, he will test the strength - and potentially expose the weaknesses - of a conservative grass-roots movement that remains an unpredictable force in the country's politics.
Beck, who is both admired and assailed for his faith-based patriotism and his brash criticism of President Obama, plans in part to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. as an American hero. He will speak on the anniversary of the "I Have a Dream" speech, from the spot where King delivered it.
Some "tea party" activists say the event, at which former Alaska governor Sarah Palin is also scheduled to speak, will have a greater impact than last September's "9/12" march along Pennsylvania Avenue. Though the attendance figures for that anti-tax rally are disputed, it was the first national gathering to demonstrate the size and influence of the tea party movement.
But with just a few days before the Beck rally, basic questions linger, including how big it will be and whether the event, which Beck says is nonpolitical, will help or hurt Republicans in November. Also unanswered is whether Beck can pull off the connection to King without creating offense - or confrontation with another event the same day led by the Rev. Al Sharpton.
Beck said in a recent broadcast that he did not intentionally choose the "I Have a Dream" anniversary for his rally - but that he believes the coincidence is "divine providence."
"Whites don't own Abraham Lincoln," he said. "Blacks don't own Martin Luther King. Those are American icons, American ideas, and we should just talk about character, and that's really what this event is about. It's about honoring character."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Lame Stream Media attempt to trivialize and minimize both Beck's 8/28 rally and the 9/12 rally last year, which was HUGE!!
Well, we'll see what it's all about on Saturday, I guess... ;-)
The WaPo headline, as are many headlines these days, is only an opinion and not accurate. It’s evident from this article that neither Amy Gardner nor the headline writer know what the tea-party movement is. Or if they do, then they are lying.
How folks are going to vote this year and in the future cannot be measured by whether just a few or many, many people attend a rally such as Beck’s or any rally at all.
It always amazes me that some think we can totally abandon core conservative principles and still succeed.
If you can't get it right on the sanctity of life and marriage, you have no business being in politics or any other position of leadership, and you will not get my support. Period.
These are foundational, bedrock issues not open for debate or discussion. I don't care if someone shares 99% of my beliefs. If they get it wrong on the sanctity of life and marriage, they must be opposed.
So your myopic approach is to withhold your support for someone who has done more that the GOP has done for years because of one issue.
With such friends we do not need enemies.
I am pro life, pro-traditional marriage (with admittedly many gay friends) and I have no problem with Glenn occasionally on the “wrong” side of an issue given the bright spot light he has shown on the filth of this current administration and his attacks on the previous administration when it behaved like progressives.
On balance Glenn is much better in our camp then working for the communist Marxists on the left.
If they get it wrong on the sanctity of life and marriage, its not being “myopic” to refuse to support them. Its just common sense.
For all of you who are attending, I hope thaty Beck has rented the same portapotties that the Clintons got for Chelsea’s wedding..Those were nice..
Leaving Indy tomorrow at 8 am for the long drive to DC.
Hee hee.
LLS
I am not sure but I think CSPAN would be covering the events.
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Maryland PING (last ping was Global Warming by mistake).
And I care about what the Compost (or any of the other MSM) think?
Thank you, I appreciate that.
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