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
{durn it…moderation hell….trying again….}
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Social justice is the application of the concept of justice on a social scale.
~wikipedia
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Definition
Fair and proper administration of laws conforming to the natural law that all persons, irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, possessions, race, religion, etc., are to be treated equally and without prejudice. See also civil rights.
Read more:~businessdictionary
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Social justice, sometimes called civil justice, is a concept largely based on various social contract theories. Most variations on the concept hold that as governments are instituted among populations for the benefit of members of those populations, those governments which fail to see to the welfare of their citizens are failing to uphold their part in the social contract and are, therefore, unjust.
Social justice refers to the overall fairness of a society in its divisions of rewards and burdens.
~wordiq/definition/Social_justice
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Main Entry: social justice
Part of Speech: n
Definition: the distribution of advantages and disadvantages within a society
~dictionary.reference.com/browse/social+justice
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Social Justice [Health] An interactive process whereby members of a community are concerned for the equality and rights of all.
~websters-online-dictionary
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Urban Dictionary: social justice
Common meaning for equality. Typically among the social classes. Leftist in nature.
~urbandictionary
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Catholic Culture : Dictionary : SOCIAL JUSTICE
SOCIAL JUSTICE The virtue that inclines one to co-operate with others in order to help make the institutions of society better serve the common good.
~catholicculture…/culture/…/dictionary/index
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social justice The requirements of justice applied to the framework of social existence. The term has been attacked as involving redundancy, since justice is necessarily a social or interpersonal concern.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics
Dictionary definition: social justice
Article from:
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics
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well, no wonder there’s such a debate going on.
can we elevate the understanding and apply it to a larger scale with fewer definitions….a working definition is one that is understood concretely by all involved…you’d be surprised how the conflict is diminished in that venue…
Here’s an excerpt from an an excellent article about Glenn Beck and his “revival” last weekend written by conservative Kathleen Parker.
From the Washington Post
My name is Glenn Beck, and I need help
By Kathleen Parker
(September 1, 2010)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/31/AR2010083104879.html
Excerpt:
Despite all the words spilled in evaluating Glenn Beck’s tent-less revival last weekend, the real meaning may have been hiding in plain sight.
Beck’s “Restoring Honor” gathering on the Mall was right out of the Alcoholics Anonymous playbook. It was a 12-step program distilled to a few key words, all lifted from a prayer delivered from the Lincoln Memorial: healing, recovery and restoration.
Saturday’s Beckapalooza was yet another step in Beck’s own personal journey of recovery. He may as well have greeted the crowd of his fellow disaffected with:
“Hi. My name is Glenn, and I’m messed up.”
Beck’s history of alcoholism and addiction is familiar to any who follow him. He has made no secret of his past and is quick to make fun of himself. As he once said: “You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I’ve made a lot of money making fun of me.”
Self-mockery — and cash — seems to come easily to him.
Any cursory search of Beck quotes also reveals the language of the addict:
— “It is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head-pounding, hung-over, vomiting-for-four-hours kind of morning in America.”
— “I have not heard people in the Republican Party yet admit that they have a problem.”
— “You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one — I can’t speak for you, but I’m on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show.”
Indeed. After the hangover comes admission of the addiction, followed by surrender to a higher power and acknowledgment that one is always fallen.
These may be random quotes, but they can’t be considered isolated or out of context. For Beck, addiction has been a defining part of his life, and recovery is a process inseparable from the Glenn Beck Program. His emotional, public breakdowns are replicated in AA meetings in towns and cities every day.
Byron,
“…Beck…is partially correct that stoppage was due to the war.”
How was Beck “partially correct?” Was the building of the monument stopped because of the Civil War or not? According to the National Park Service, work on the project stopped in 1854.
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Text from the National Park Service
http://www.tourofdc.org/monuments/washington-monument/
On July 4, 1848, the cornerstone was laid with elaborate Masonic ceremonies. The trowel used by Washington at the laying of the cornerstone of the Capitol in 1793 was used on this occasion.
Work progressed favorably until 1854, when the building of the monument became involved in a political quarrel. Many citizens became dissatisfied with the work and the collection of funds lagged. This unfortunate affair and the growing antagonism between the North and South, which resulted in the Civil War, brought construction to a halt. For almost 25 years, the monument stood incomplete at the height of about 150 feet. Finally on August 2, 1876, President Grant approved an act which provided that the Federal Government should complete the erection of the monument. The Corps of Engineers of the War Department was placed in charge of the work.
No it’s definitely Fox News, if you’ve never watched it they have a bunch. Well except Greta, I still like her though. Sometimes I watch Fox like Uni Vision. I don’t speak Spanish very well but who cares. Have you seen all the ones they got:)
I que wenno, mucho mujare’s ta bien, que rico sta!!!!!
Mike A.,
I don’t mean to correct you but I have heard it stated before and the source may be credible, but, isn’t it Faux News?
I don’t consider Fox a Media outlet. They are not really a news organization more of an opinionated broadcast.
Mike A I would defer to Dr.Slartibartfast for the answer to your mathematical question.
In my mind, it’s not the number of people who watch Fox, it’s the numbers of people who don’t watch the media outlets, any less and they will be void of viewership. 🙂
Byron,
Although I have asserted in a number of posts, and firmly believe, that there is a new Know Nothing movement afoot in this country, Mr. Beck’s history does not suggest that he is wedded to any particular principles other than opportunism. He has finally found an approach that works for him: maudlin makes money.
Mike A:
good point. Although I think there are about 100 million conservatives based on a couple of polls I saw that said about 30% of the population describes itself as conservative.
as far as social justice being a euphemism for communism or statism, it is.
I think it was John Rawls who coined that phrase, he wanted to counteract the “injustice” of nature by depriving those favored by nature (the productive element of our society) and give to those less favored by nature. It seems to me that is rightly called communism or socialism.
“General Conception
All social primary goods – liberty and opportunity, income and wealth, and the bases of self-respect – are to be distributed equally unless an unequal distribution of any or all of these goods is to the advantage of the least favored.”
http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~piccard/entropy/rawls.html
Bdaman, I enjoy seeing your frequent postings of the news channel ratings. However, since we liberals control the entire media universe other than Fox, at least according to the constant complaints conservatives make about the media, would it not be fairer to conclude that of the roughly 300 million people in this country, approximately 4 million of them rely on Fox?
Hey FF LEO,
Has it been as hot out yonder as it has been asunder?
Hi Elaine,
Mr. Keith isn’t quite right and actually Beck is not lying about the change in color and is partially correct that stoppage was due to the war. You can look on Wiki and get the story [I checked a couple of other places as well]. Mr. Keith is using the Know Nothings to slam Beck. The Know Nothings infiltrated the free masons and took control of the building but couldn’t raise any money and gave up. The cheap stone they bought was removed and the monument was finished by the Corps of Engineers after the Civil War. The color change is due to different quarries.
More from Glenn “Liar Liar Pants on Fire” Beck…
From Mother Jones (9/1/2010)
Glenn Beck’s George Washington Whopper
The Fox host says he held the inaugural address of the famously truthful founding father. Yeah right, says the National Archives.
— By Stephanie Mencimer
http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/08/glenn-beck-george-washington-restoring-honor
Excerpt:
During his much-ballyhooed “Restoring Honor” rally on Saturday, Glenn Beck told a whopper involving the founding father who was supposedly unable to tell a lie: George Washington.
Speechifying at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial, the controversial Fox News host highlighted the legacy of the nation’s first president to drive home his claim that encouraging honesty and integrity was a main aim of the event. Beck even told attendees that “the next George Washington” was “in this crowd. He may be 8 years old, but this is the moment. This is the moment that he dedicates his life, that he sees giants around him. And 25 years from now, he will come not to this stair, but to those stairs. And he can proclaim, ‘I have a new dream.'”
Beck also invoked Washington while describing the inspiring experience of visiting famous tourist destinations around the nation’s capital. “I have been going to Mt. Vernon,” he explained. Holding out his hands for emphasis, he declared with emotion, “I went to the National Archives, and I held the first inaugural address written in his own hand by George Washington.”
It was an eyebrow-raising revelation and certainly an original image: Beck cradling the actual words of the first president. But would the persnickety gatekeepers of the nation’s historical legacy at the National Archives allow some talk show bombthrower to put his mitts on a rare (and fragile) artifact? The answer, it turns out, is no way. Beck was not telling the truth.
Beck did receive a special VIP tour of the archives, arranged by an as-yet unidentified member of Congress. During that tour, he did get a peek inside the “legislative vault,” which isn’t open to ordinary visitors. But Archives spokeswoman Susan Cooper insists that Beck didn’t lay a finger on any precious documents, much less George Washington’s inaugural address. That would be a major violation of policy. “Those kinds of treasures are only handled by specially trained archival staff,” she explains. Cooper acknowledges that someone at the archives did show the document to Beck, but that was the extent of it. Regarding Beck’s claim that he held the document, Cooper says that seeing such documents for the first time can be a very emotional experience. “I’m certain it was a figure of speech,” she says.
Cooper is being charitable. Beck’s whopper gave his speech more heft and rhetorical flourish. It was high patriotic drama. But his fib stands in stark contrast to the point of the rally, which was all about restoring the principles of courage and honor that the nation was founded upon. In fact, one of Beck’s only prescriptions for fixing the country was to “tell the truth.”
Moreover, Beck has a history of chiding others for lying and stretching the truth to bolster his own incendiary rhetoric. In April, for instance, the Rev. Jim Wallis wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post criticizing Beck for suggesting that the term “social justice” was “code” for communism and for encouraging his radio show listeners to flee churches that promote social justice. Beck retorted by quoting the Bible to Wallis: “Thou shalt not lie.” Groups like Media Matters soon found clips from Beck’s show where he said precisely what Wallis had claimed he did.
Keith Olbermann fact checks Glenn Beck’s tale about the Washington Monument that he told at his “Restoring Honor” rally:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2m5lWSNigI&fs=1&hl=en_US]
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Here’s a video of Lewis Black on The Daily Show talking about Glenn Beck making Nazi comparisons/connections. It’s a riot!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1s4fj-5zlk&fs=1&hl=en_US]
From Mediaite (8/30/2010)
Exclusive: Glenn Beck Launches “News And Opinion” Website, The Blaze, Tonight
by Steve Krakauer
http://www.mediaite.com/online/exclusive-glenn-beck-launches-news-and-opinion-website-the-blaze-tonight/
Excerpt:
Having conquered TV, radio, book publishing and now live events, Glenn Beck is looking to expand his media empire into a new arena – the web (obviously GlennBeck.com is thriving too).
Mediaite has the exclusive details about a news and opinion website Beck is launching tonight. Here’s what to expect.
Beck’s new site is called TheBlaze.com, and will be edited by Scott Baker, formerly of Breitbart TV and host of “The B-Cast”. In an exclusive statement, he tells Mediaite:
Our hope is that everyone who comes to The Blaze finds original reporting, insightful opinions and engaging videos about the stories that matter most. We are excited to launch and I look forward to keeping Scott and his team busy by sending countless ideas at 3am every morning.
We talked to Baker today about what readers can expect from the new site, the team behind it and more. “It’ll be news and information,” he told Mediaite. “Some commentary and opinion stories we’re interested in that are being under-covered or not covered.”
People will inevitably make the comparison to Arianna Huffington – whether Beck’s role as figurehead behind the site will make The Blaze into a conservative Huffington Post. “The one thing pretty clear around Mercury [Beck’s company] is that Glenn is not short on ideas or hesitant on input,” Baker said. “His input is already evident in how the site looks, and that’s what will continue. It will be a continual flow of tips and suggestions and encouragement.”
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“For joy,” she said (with tongue in cheek) “Beck launches a new Internet site where we can all get ‘fair and balanced’ news!”
if you click your heals together 3 times and say I am a joke you will be transported home from the leftward land of lunacy.
By the by old chap did you see the GDP numbers? A downward trend since 2009, those Obama lackeys sure know their economics. Maybe reality is finally biting you [pl] in the assets.
yeesh
No. Really. It’s not.
Applying my argument (and indeed insult) skills to one so under performing and substandard as yourself is a bit like using a flamethrower to light a cigarette. Until you come up with something of substance, I’m going to keep treating you like you’re a joke.
Because you are. A bad joke, but a joke nonetheless.
Enjoy being made fun of.
I know I will enjoy rubbing your face in it, troll.