The crowd sings God Bless America, 6:30 a.m. August 28, 2010. Photo by Freeper Pete.
Posted on 08/28/2010 5:49:06 AM PDT by kristinn
The crowd sings God Bless America, 6:30 a.m. August 28, 2010. Photo by Freeper Pete.
The rally is scheduled to run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT.
Links for live reports and coverage:
C-SPAN showing the rally on cable and live stream.
Live stream at Glenn Beck's Facebook page.
UStream is also live streaming the rally.
Class of '97 Freeper Pete is live Tweeting updates and photos. He has a thread going in Bloggers
Frog Mom's Live Thread from yesterday.
Link to D.C. Traffic cameras.
Folks camped out overnight at the Lincoln Memorial for the rally.
Live traffic cam - National Mall (on map, click the Mall or other locations of interest.
Webcam view from Netherlands Carillion.
C-Span is repeating this overnight. I watched it on u-stream with 129,000 others. Has anyone totaled online viewers?
Also, Glenn Beck is going to be on with Chris Wallace on FNC tomorrow——we get it 9 am and 6 pm. I think he will have to put weights in his pockets to keep him from floating up to the ceiling with joy! :)
Amazing Grace was the perfect touch, along with the closing prayer. As emotional as Glenn is, I was surprised he wasn’t bawling thru all of that—along with the rest of us!
Kristinn, you have attended so many rallies in the name of all of us. It must have been very, very difficult for you, not being able to be there in person.
I’ll bet they sizzle...and the weather has nothing to do with it! Something like the Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz who said, “I’m melting.....!!”
Burn, baby, burn.
Thanks
DVR ready
If they respond at all it will be with something crazy, but the depths they will go to are hard to predict sometimes.
;)
“Evidently you missed Palin remarks. She was introducing a guy whom Glenn Beck invited, a Colonel who had been in Hanoi Hilton, tortured, in solitary, when finally he was transferred to a larger room with other Americans, including John McCain. It was just an aside. The crowd was going nuts over this exuberant Col. and then when she said the “m-c” word, you could hear a pin drop. I think it was hilarious!
Another note on Palin, near the end when Glenn called up the bagpipers to play Amazing Grace and the whole crowd was into it, they flashed camera to Palin on end of stage and she was stoic but had to brush a tear from her cheek. Just wonderful. She’s is such an American. There were many wet eyes in that crowd.”
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Actually, I did miss them, and others filled me in on the context, thank you. I did see the bagpipe rendition of Amazing Grace and Palin’s heartfelt response. It was quite touching and the rally was amazing!
Proof that 0bama’s supporters have no respect for America.
This crowd showed their patriotism by being there...some spending thousands of dollars including taking off work. My hat is off to all including Glenn Beck of course.
Just wish they would have included some moments the ‘crowd’ could show their patriotism- some great patitriotic songs, country music stars, etc.. it was missing in all this and you could see the reaction to too many speeches. (and the mention of racism...well, wrong rally)
I knew people there and they said the same...the crowd wanted to cheer, sing, etc...
Photo of today's event. (From the Washington Monument?)
Fantastic
Conservatives believe in taking care of themselves and their environs.
Liberals believe in comfort and convenience for self, everything and everyone else be damned.
At the tail end of it, I watched it on Beck's site with over 100,000 others. Were you on the same site or a different one?
“I’ve had a split screen with this thread and Ustream with 130,000 others, along with 2 TVs on C-Span while doing laundry. Yeah, I’m a multi-tasker. ;*)
Now I must get to work”
I give up!!! You win!!!!! :) I was cooking bacon for my husband’s lunch with one eye on the screen and missed seeing the clergy gather behind Beck—next I looked, they were there. Would have loved to have seen them filling in! Thank you for giving me the chance to tell my engineer husband—who “only does one thing at a time”—that there are others who do more than I do.
That photo was taken by a camera with a seriously distorting lens. The reflecting pool is more than 500 yards long (or twich the distance as the NYC mosque is to Ground Zero.)
Thousands of people are also under the trees that line walking paths on either side of the pool.
It was quite pleasant under the trees, but a view of the jumbotrons was a bit restricted.
“I don’t unify around destroying innocent human lives. Glad you’re not surprised.”
Political success is not about complete purity, and it’s certainly not about complete *theological* purity/unity. What it is about, in the case of Pro-Lifers like you and I, is to realize that Conservatives and those for fiscal restraint most often also include as HUGE and POWERFUL subset Pro-Lifers, Pro-Family, Pro-Christian fiscal and social Conservatives. Success for fiscal conservatism, has as its concurrent, success for social conservatives.
This is how the Tea Party has it exactly right strategically and why we Social Conservatives must support the Tea Party expressions.
This is NOT to say that we cannot point out discrepancies in people’s stances - like you did with Beck’s honoring of John Huntsman, Sr. But such should not disqualify Beck’s generally reasoned and passionate voice for Conservatives, nor the goodness of this rally today.
INCREDIBLE!!!! Is all that comes to mind.
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Women dress in red white and blue (L) and Men wear colonial costumes (R) as thousands gather to support TV commentator Glenn Beck at his Restoring Honor rally on the US National Mall in Washington, August 28, 2010. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS MEDIA)
Scottish Games are held here in Greenville, SC each Memorial Day weekend. It’s awesome! The festivities start on Friday evening with a parade of the clans through downtown. YES! It does give one goosebumps and makes the hair stand on your arms! DH and I just love it to no end!
From local news TBD.com, the heat took its toll on ralliers today:
4:45 p.m. Lots of casualties.
The DC Fire and EMS media hotline reports 150 to 200 people were evaluated at "casualty collection" stations serving the two events. More than 100 received treatment, mostly for heat-related ailments. About two dozen people were taken to hospitals from "Restoring Honor" and another dozen from "Reclaim the Dream." Six or seven of those were described as serious, mostly people with heart conditions.
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