And they left the place spotless!
RE: And they left the place spotless!
SOME POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE THINGS SAID ABOUT THE RALLY:
POSITIVE:
Martin Luther King Jr.’s personal attorney and speechwriter, Clarence B. Jones, said he believes King would not have been offended by Beck’s rally but “pleased and honored”.
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.
James Freeman, in an op-ed for the The Wall Street Journal, wrote positively about the rally, remarking that “the day was largely devoted to expressions of gratitude for the sacrifices of U.S. soldiers, for great men of American history like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and for God.”
After noting how the crowd refused to boo during the closing prayer upon the mention of President Obama, Freeman theorized that “between Saturday’s crowd in Washington and the tea partiers agitating for limited government, we may be witnessing the rebuilding of the Reagan coalition, the fusion of religious and economic conservatives.”
(SEE HERE : http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703369704575461633570826898.html?mod=googlenews_wsj)
On the NEGATIVE SIDE,
Bill Press, who attended the rally personally, criticized the “Christian religious fervor” of the event, remarking that at one point he expected Beck “to part the Reflecting Pool and walk across it.”
(SEE HERE : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-press/glenn-becks-big-bust-on-t_b_698654.html?view=print)
In discussing the setting among the crowd, Press stated that it was “a strange combination of political rally and religious revival”, which left him surrounded by the “old, white, and angry.”
Eric Deggans, media critic for the St. Petersburg Times, hypothesized that with the rally, Beck had created a blueprint for “ultra-conservative” Tea Party activists to “look more mainstream to independent voters” before the November 2010 midterm elections.
(SEE HERE :http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-deggans/the-genius-of-glenn-beck_b_699147.html?view=print)