I’ll say this: I’ve never seen the so called ‘Civil Rights Movment’ ever put back on its heels like Glen Beck just did. Beck simultaneously gave them a big fat target but, there was nothing to attack. It’s like he’s created this huge untouchable and unmovable object that has the creates lots of energy but, has the mass of shaving cream. It can’t be attacked becuase there’s no ‘there’, there. On the other hand it’s both substantial, significant, and growing.
He didn’t take on the left as much as he envloped them. It wasn’t only on that phony Al Sharpton Civil rights stuff, either. He trumped them with his rhetorical religion and his economic message as well. The movement can’t be labeled which is the strength of it.
I knew with Obama’s election, politics would change. While this is true in all presidential elections, it is especially true here. By gaininng their ultimate prize in the form of a black president, the left is now weakened rhetorically. In a real way, they should be proud of this fact. In makes no sense to play the victim card when there no longer is a victim. Beck has exploited this pleasant truth beautifully.
I imagine a great deal of the people there already HAD a label...Tea Party. I heard Beck on the radio today state that "if these tea party people don't get behind 8/28, they are fools!"
Some people are fawning over Beck the way the libs fawned over Obama...I give him credit for some smart moves, but I'm not ready to order my kneepads just yet.
And just what is a "rhetorical religion"?
“He didn’t take on the left as much as he enveloped them.”
Wow, you said it - remember last year, Glenn’s theme of We Surround Them?
He’s been (and continues to be) a forward thinker with amazing vision.