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I Have a Nightmare: Glenn Beck To Speak At Lincoln Memorial

Today is the day for Fox News commentator Glenn Beck to share his dream on the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s famous speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

King delivered his “I Have A Dream” exactly 47 years ago and will now be the scene of Beck and his followers offering their own “dream.” The article below describes supporters wearing telltale teeshirts with Palin’s name that the legend “Babies, Guns, Jesus.”

Here is another tee-shirt from the rally:

Some accounts are almost biblical of Beck’s role in reshaping America. Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey explained “[w]e see Glenn Beck as a guy who is bringing revelations of understanding to the American people.”

Revelations by St. Beck will commence this afternoon.

Source: Bloomberg

262 thoughts on “I Have a Nightmare: Glenn Beck To Speak At Lincoln Memorial”

  1. Blouise

    In Germany during the 30′s middle class citizens were actually starving as in no food to eat and no jobs to be found. Inflation was through the roof and crime was rampant. Dead bodies at the side of the road were a common sight … many having succumbed to starvation. Chomsky’s conclusion that our society is in the same dire straights as the German society during the 30′s is Beck/Hannity/Palin/Rush style fear mongering.

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    Exactly right. Though the job market is poor, no one in my family has lost a job and there are about 60 of them between 20 & 45 – and they live in Michigan.

    The other problems are not here, and not likely to be here. People may die from lack of health insurance, but not from starvation. Inflation is less likely than deflation.

    My biggest fear is the attempted takeover of the military by theocrats. Whoever controls the military controls the way any significant political turmoil ends. This has been true from Rome through the French Revolution to the Yeltsin’s rise in the Soviet Union.

    The loudest voices, Limbaugh, Hannity, Palin, Beck are all easy to see through and obvious demagogues. They are who I mean in “This, too, shall pass”. Mr. Chomsky is correct in that they always do themselves in, eventually.

    More sinister are those Machiavellian characters with the money and power to really determine outcomes through propaganda and election fraud. The internet is a powerful tool to expose these characters – as long as it is not abused or bought out as some of the major news sources may have been.

    People are growing weary and leary of the constant distractions of nonsense controversies like the Rev. Wright, the ground zero mosque, and Ms. Sherrod’s speech.

    The best solution is a good education grounded in civic rights and duties starting in grade school. With a healthy emphasis on our country’s past demagogues, their tools, their rise and their fall. The people that think Mr. Beck is so smart and educated have obviously not had that privilege.

  2. AY,
    I echo your statements about the Republicans and their fear mongering over the end of their precious tax cuts for the wealthy. Paul Krugman’s op ed several days ago put a figure to what each millionaire would get out of extending their tax cuts. It amounted to $3 Million dollars each! I wonder how many of the tea baggers are in that category?!

  5. I am sorry, is the GObP made up of nothing but Bustards. I sometimes confuse my vowels…..

  6. Note Bdaman’s post and the “Think again” quote … it’s perfect right wing fear mongering … the crazies love this stuff and the republican party churns it out non-stop.

    Chomsky would probably see Bdaman as a Goebbels wannabe hoping to gain appointment as Reich Minister of Propaganda when the teabaggers take over the country. When in actuality Bdaman is nothing more than a loyal republican doing his best to lead the crazies in the direction most advantageous to his own self interest. If they get him there he will drop them as quickly as the religious right was dropped.

    It’s fun to watch the costume changes!

  7. Is there too much inbreeding in the GObP? One seems to think that 6 fingers on one hand adds up to five if you bend one down. Talking about being bend over…..

    Take Rubio..and the GobP…

    So it’s come down to this. On Saturday, David Stockman, the legendary Reagan budget chief who presided over the Gipper’s supply-side tax cuts, announced that the “debt explosion has resulted not from big spending by the Democrats, but instead the Republican Party’s embrace, about three decades ago, of the insidious doctrine that deficits don’t matter if they result from tax cuts.” The next day, the former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, who famously helped sell the 2001 Bush tax cuts to Congress, declared them simply “disastrous.”

    And that’s just the beginning. Here, then, are 10 Republican Lies about the Bush tax cuts:

    * Lie #1: Democrats Plan Across the Board Tax Hikes on January 1st
    * Lie #2: Democrats Want a $3.8 Trillion Tax Increase
    * Lie #3: Tax Cuts Pay for Themselves
    * Lie #4: The Bush Tax Cuts Didn’t Add to the Deficit
    * Lie #5: Expiring High Income Tax Cuts Will Hurt Small Business
    * Lie #6: The Estate Tax Devastates Small Businesses and Family Farms
    * Lie #7: The Bush Tax Cuts Helped All Americans
    * Lie #8. Extending Bush Tax Cuts for the Wealthy is the Best Way to Stimulate the Economy
    * Lie #9. Bush Tax Cuts Produced 52 Straight Months of Job Growth
    * Lie #10: The Rich Pay Too Much in Taxes Already

    http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/10-republican-lies-about-bush-tax-cuts

    For detailed explanations of the above see the link……

  8. Here’s another video to brighten your day! I love Stephen Colbert!!!

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAyCNxl8I54&fs=1&hl=en_US]

  9. FFN,

    The crazies, or “street republicans”, as a friend of mine calls them (he likens videos of the teabaggers to the videos of the street arabs we used to see), will always, in one form or another, be with us.

    I read the link you posted and there is much therein with which I agree but I do not reach the same conclusion as Chomsky. In fact, he sounds very much like the frightened radical right in the conclusions he makes.

    In Germany during the 30’s middle class citizens were actually starving as in no food to eat and no jobs to be found. Inflation was through the roof and crime was rampant. Dead bodies at the side of the road were a common sight … many having succumbed to starvation. Chomsky’s conclusion that our society is in the same dire straights as the German society during the 30’s is Beck/Hannity/Palin/Rush style fear mongering.

  12. This rally is nothing more than a big ego feed for Beck and the lackeys that will be there speaking. I’ll be watching Rachel Zoe instead of Beck. Watching Naomi Campbell being a bitch is better…at least she’s honest about who she is.

  13. Blouise

    Exactly! This, too, shall pass.

    So far, no signs – just T-shirts. And flags. Lots and lots of flags. And lots of security for Mr. Beck. When we see the pictures of those T-shirts, we will see “America’s restored honor” – whatever that means.

    And Ms. Palin wasn’t there as a politician – she said so.

  14. There are plenty of candidates who want to lead the crazies … there is nothing we need to do about that except sit back, watch the show, and then replay it with appropriate commentary … over and over again.

  16. Wow. More madness from the above linked article, but from Palin.

    “Palin, who is expected to speak at Saturday’s rally, had a similar message for a sell-out crowd at the annual fund-raising banquet of the Pennsylvania Family Institute Friday.

    “What else do we have, at the end of the day,” beyond faith in God, Palin said, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

    “You’re not afraid to cling to your guns and your religion — and your Constitution,” she added, echoing remarks by President Barack Obama in 2008 during campaigning.”

    One problem with that Caribou Barbie. It’s not your Constitution, it’s our Constitution and it says quite plainly that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”.

    America was not founded for Christians only, you illiterate redneck, and that Constitution you try to hide behind prohibits your attempts at being America a theocracy. If you like theocracy so much, how about taking your smirking wink to Saudi Arabia and see how long it takes for them to beat it off your face because you’re not subservient enough and dress like high end call girl.

  18. Check out this bit of prime theocratic lunatic raving:

    “We are 12 hours away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America,” Beck said, according to the Post. “It has nothing to do with this city or politics. It has everything to do with God almighty.”

    “This is the beginning of the great awakening of America … We must give voice to what God says we must do,” he added. “My message to you tonight is stand where He wants you to stand and trust in the Lord. If He tells you to do it, do it. If you can’t figure it out, He will. Just do it.”

    From: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38891505/ns/politics-more_politics/

    That last bit there confuses me a bit but then again Glenn seems confused to start with. That or he worships Nike.

  19. I rather enjoyed Jon Stewart ripping on Glenn Beck: ‘I Have A Scheme’.

    The best thing one can say about Glenn Beck is he’s demonstrably insane. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people not getting proper mental health care in this country who own televisions.

    This is a moment of paradoxical feelings for me personally. As Dr. King is indeed one of my heroes, I don’t want Chuckle Head Beck to do anything to disgrace the legacy of a wise teacher. Conversely and concurrently, I’ll be watching the news coverage of this today with all the same expectations of a NASCAR fan waiting for an accident.

  20. There’s a solid core of bigots and haters captive to their ignorances and willful stupidities who will be represented by those who will attend Glen Beck’s self-aggrandizing fiasco at the Lincoln memorial today. Basically Beck is taking a dump on the Memorial steps and defiling the entire civil rights movement and legacy of both Lincoln and Dr King.

    I think it would be instructive to see what happened if the majority of the population of Washington DC showed up at the rally to listen to Beck’s words. They would at minimum add a little color to the event. Do you think he might pick and choose different words than he has presently planned? Flash mob anyone?

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