The Spectacle Blog
Reported on the newspaper’s 12:06 update to their story about the Glenn Beck rally:
On the Mall, an overwhelmingly white crowd of tens of thousands stood quietly during an opening prayer, the silence broken only by an occasional “amen.” The dense assembly , which contained few young people, stretched from the Lincoln Memorial, past the reflecting pool, to the World War II Memorial and spilled onto the grounds of the Washington Monument.
The crowd, consisting of many from the Midwest and the South, was not visibly angry. Rather, they said they had come to express their fear that the country was at a perilous moment.
The Post reporters were obviously surprised the crowd wasn’t angry.
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ncatty| 8.28.10 @ 1:47PM
Next updates from WaPo:
"The crowd was not visibly armed."
"The crowd as not visibly foaming at the mouth."
"The crowd was not visibly a lynch mob."
drybackinpi| 8.29.10 @ 6:57AM
The crown was obviously not liberal.
SeaHunter| 8.29.10 @ 9:06AM
No, the crowd was obviously voters.
Greg Scandlen| 8.29.10 @ 6:31PM
I was there yesterday. It was amazing.
We drove in from Waynesboro, PA. Down I-270. There was virtually no traffic on the way. When we got there there was plenty of parking (at meters, but the ticket was only $25). I was getting worried, but when we arrived at the site it was overwhelming how many people were there. I would say it was well in excess of 500,000, maybe approaching 1 million, but it is hard to say. They clearly took seriously the advice to use Metro or came in busses. In fact, I think there were few from the local area (VA and MD) and were mostly from far away.
Lots of young people in their 20s and 30s, lots of children. Many of the people there had never been to a tea party event. They were not “political” but religious. They knew how to pray in large groups. Some said they would not have come at all if they thought it was going to be mostly about politics. Beck’s focus on a new Awakening was exactly right for these folks.
Ryan| 8.30.10 @ 8:20AM
Honestly, no one has figured out how to count people on the mall. Organizers were claiming 1 million people, detractors 300,000. The truth is probably in-between.
ncatty| 8.30.10 @ 2:52PM
How did the reporters distinguish between the "Midwesterners" and the Southerners."? Hats?
Nate| 8.28.10 @ 1:55PM
Old white people celebrating MLK's "I have a dream speech"?
Sounds good to me.
I wonder what will happen if they go home to their libraries and read up a little more on MLK.
They know the call for Americans to be judged "by the content of their character" rather than the "color of their skin."
But I think that's ALL they know about MLK.
They don't know, for example, that he was a leftist in EVERY sense of the word. On the day he was assassinated he was in Memphis to lend support to a major STRIKE.
So Happy MLK day Tea Partiers!
Enjoy WASHINGTON DC, home of the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
Tim*| 8.28.10 @ 2:30PM
You don't know what they know Nate.
However ,we know you and that you're a Smug Little Twerp .
Alan Brooks| 8.28.10 @ 9:44PM
Glenn Beck is cheap Rush imitation.
Tim*| 8.28.10 @ 11:16PM
Brooks is just cheap .
Alan Brooks| 8.29.10 @ 1:34AM
Beck will be gone a few years from now; Rush is going on about 23 years.
TennesseeVolunteer| 8.30.10 @ 1:38AM
Say what you want, Glenn attracted one of the top Ten largest crowds in the history of Man to Restore Honor and help raise 5 1/2 Million dollars for a worthy charity. glenn Beck may not be remembered but the power of the crowd who attended will.
Alan Brooks| 8.30.10 @ 5:45PM
"glenn Beck may not be remembered but the power of the crowd who attended will."
Yours is a pretty tepid defense of Beck, the power of the rally will be remembered-- but not Beck?
What is he smoking?| 8.31.10 @ 10:44AM
Tennessee put too much lead in his white lightning, and fried his brain. At least what little he has.
Ten largest gathering in the history of man. I was raised not to make fun of retards like him, but what a laugh. mucho graciass.
Truth to Power| 8.28.10 @ 2:58PM
How ironic. So much for that "content of their character" nonsense. According to Nate and the Washington Post, it all can be summarized by race and age. Progressives should be ashamed of themselves. In almost all areas they have become caricatures of what they pretend to hate. Nate is exhibit A.
Martin Owens| 8.30.10 @ 10:20AM
Progressives? Progressing in which direction?
Toward what goals?
Lord God Almighty| 8.28.10 @ 4:06PM
You heathen Nate! How dare you disparage we psilocybin loaded Tea Baggers, and our copycat Nuremberg rally gathering. In my opinion, we are the Lord's of this Nation!!
We know what is best, and all dissenters will have their attitude noticed.
If you do not think beautifull Sarah and Michelle are pretty enough to rule over men, and lesbians on the political right, then you can suck eggs.
Onward Fascist Soldiers,opps Christian Soldiers!
Tim*| 8.28.10 @ 4:37PM
We Tea Party Rebels will see you on November 2nd and show ya how a Democratic Republic works Obama Socialist Boy.
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates .
We Can See November From Our Houses .
Oldefarte| 8.28.10 @ 4:28PM
Yea, Nate, as one of your termed 'old white people', I WORKED FOR A LIVING [as opposed to your no doubt preferred CRADLE TO GRAVE WELFARE STATUS] for 35 years, paid SS/Medicare taxes [along with all other varieties] before retiring. As a young SNOT-NOSED MORON, how are your job prospects these days, thank to EL CHOSEN ONE'S economic policies? Have you learned how to say WELCOMED TO MCDONALDS, or maybe how to greet customers at Wal Mart properly [with your pants drooping down to your knees and your gold earrings protruding from all of your crevaces]? Or maybe you a career WELFARE RECIPIENT who recieves your food, housing, clothes, transportation, education [nope, we all know you have none], medical care,etc from Uncle Sam [which I and my fellow geezers pay for with our governmental taxes] without having to work for same? Maybe you did possibly graduate from college with an arts degree, are unemployable due to lack of adequate job skills, and are living the life of Riley on the taxpayers' dole? Yea, Natey, USENS OLD GEEZER WHITE GUYS are going to, as Beck/Palin suggest, take back OUR COUNTRY in November, and put people like yourself on a strict financial diet of no governmental welfare [and maybe you can join your Che brothers/sisters in the farm/crop fields picking farm produce for 8 hours/day]!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NavyBrat | 8.28.10 @ 5:47PM
Nate the Ninny said:
"Old white people celebrating MLK's "I have a dream speech"?
And then goes on to say:
"They know the call for Americans to be judged "by the content of their character" rather than the "color of their skin."
But I think that's ALL they know about MLK."
Actually, we're not as stupid as you. And the sanitation worker's strike was opposed by the DEMOCRAT MACHINE that ran Memphis, like Boss Crump & his henchmen. It had nothing to do with any commie labor movement. It was an offspin of the civil rights marches. Of course you wouldn't know that PLENTY of Republicans were on the end of some of those lynching ropes hung by Democrat loving Klansmen.
"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge."...Thomas Brackett Reed
This would be YOU Mr. Reed's talking about.
JmsA| 8.28.10 @ 6:25PM
Nate,
You forgot to mention he was a Republican.
JmsA| 8.29.10 @ 2:33PM
Nate,
In case you wonder, I was referring to Martin Luther King.
God speaking, so listen up| 8.29.10 @ 1:20PM
Matthew: Chapter 6, verses 5 and 6, are to be ignored, and considered no longer part of MY Godly Word, and Jesus is to be ignored, because the Mormon Beck is taking his place.
Forget that the Mormon religion came over 1800 years after the has been Jesus did his gig. Beck cries on cue, and has a better speaking aptitude.
Beck said to get on your knees, and let your kids see your piety. That is why I, the Lord of Lords have dismissed the past way of praying in Matthew.
Do not let the warnings of false prophets, and phony so called "teachers", that the Devil Democrats will hurl upon my new Chosen One Beck, for I now ordained Lord Beck as your only path to Heaven.
Resist Me, and My Equal Glenn, and you will be forever in the Lake of Fire!
bmatkin| 8.29.10 @ 8:44PM
Please, put down the sacramental wine.
LiveFreeOrDie| 8.30.10 @ 2:50PM
What a scum bag, go back under whatever turd you crawled out from.
JmsA| 8.29.10 @ 2:44PM
What's the matter, Nate? Haven't seen all of the news footage from the 60s and all the white folks marching alongside the Civil Rights African-American marchers? I will cite one marcher, a rather famous one, may he rest in peace: Charlton Heston. Lest you forget also, Nate, that if Republicans hadn't voted for the Civil Rights Act, it wouldn't have become law. I guess that's what we call an inconvenient truth, huh?
I guess you didn't hear: Martin Luther King was a Republican.
JCfromDC| 8.29.10 @ 7:23PM
MLK, Jr., AND his father were Republicans! How many people know THAT? And the strike was for equal (civil) rights as I recall. I remember what happened in Washingto DC the next day as well
canuckistani| 8.30.10 @ 10:54AM
Interesting.
Was the issue of racist southern dems the reason?
SIRJASON | 8.30.10 @ 11:29AM
Right Nate. MLK, Jr. was also a commie spy, a Marxist, Racist, et cetara...and that was also a ton of BS. MLK, Jr. was a Republican according to his biography.
The One We've Been Waiting For| 8.28.10 @ 2:02PM
We're buying shrimp, Nate. They know where DC is and that is the problem. Nate you are really clueless. I just can't get good help today. Well, I am going to get in a secret round of golf. My energy level has never been higher. I never quit in my efforts for the poor.
Gorgeous George| 8.28.10 @ 3:59PM
Who could miss a Mormon drunkard and druggie, and all his cult glassy eyed followers?
To be around this Nuremberg style meeting, with it's austere Hitler architecture, and black flags all around, not to mention the drug addicted artists, with their artwork showing that scum Obama in blackface is a hoot.
We Gods, guns and fags gang are the hootin hollerin best clan of inbreds to ever assemble.
Bet we can beat the drugs taken at Woodstock
record easy. Hell our fearless leader is a self admitted alchy and druggie.
In my humble opinion, we are the best collective groups of psychopaths to ever assemble.
Like Sarah Palin, and Bachmann , the sluts who we use to attract the child support paying blue collar idiots to come, the idiots will shell out more, just to get back at their ex.
Now that trick (pun intended) to tantilize the clowns, is better than Hustler magazine.
Go Tea Party Go! And more psilocybin in the next cup of Tea please!
Notice: All opinions expressed here, are the sole discernment of the Tea Partier who wrote this wonderfull, great, fantastic, unbeatable, delightfull, hilarious piece of ever written on any blog, anywhere.
Onward Christian Soldiers,
God's gift to humankind,
Gorgeous George
Tim*| 8.28.10 @ 4:42PM
Apparently , Georgie Girl got An Ax to Grind against Christians .
NavyBrat | 8.28.10 @ 5:40PM
Curious George the Monkey
Wanna see what a Nazi rally looks like? Look at the footage of your King Obama accepting his nomination. Wanna see what Nazis do? Look at your King's control of car companies. YOU are one of the Brownshirts that you complain so much about. You wouldn't know "honor" if it jumped up & bit you in the ass. Hence the reason why you will NEVER understand the principles this country stands for.
PS. As for Beck being a recovering alkie, tell us genius. how many heroes on the left have been alkies, druggies, & phillanderers? You people are an f-ing joke!
Now, I've found a special toy for state fellators like you. You can use it as a teething ring, befitting your lot in life as a state fellator:
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Ensign Palmer| 8.31.10 @ 10:47AM
Everyone knows you navy fruits join, so you can be close to all those hot mens, with those breasteses. You go girl, and have fun in the bunk, with your b-boys.
BD57| 8.29.10 @ 12:03AM
what a crock of crap. "Nuremberg ..."
The left is becoming more unhinged every day.
JCfromDC| 8.29.10 @ 7:31PM
Oh George, as I was browsing thru the WashPost's photos of the event, I seem to see plenty of AfricanAmericans in them, maybe 10-12%, about the same volume of the general population. This was not a civil rights march or about minorities. It as about EVERYBODY and restoring honor
Oldefarte| 8.31.10 @ 3:33PM
NOVEMBER'S ELECTIONS CAN'T GET HERE FAST ENOUGH to remove this sort of filth !!!!!
Ken (Old Texican)| 8.28.10 @ 4:20PM
Well folks,
The Soros Trolls finally got their talking points hammered out.
See the similarities in their posts.....yet again.
God's gift to women| 8.28.10 @ 5:30PM
Rupert Murdoch is trying to buy through MY will!
No eathly trading instrument can defeat my will, especially those of ill gotten gain. Honest Mammon is ok , but slutty whores naked, and gossipy grease do not cut it!
I AM YHWH! Do do defy me, or i will take your Tea Party cred away.
You hat dun been be noing wut i beez sayin', you feel me white boy!
NavyBrat | 8.28.10 @ 5:52PM
Did you say something? Or is just that the flatulence from your head leaked through your fingers & onto the keyboard?
NavyBrat | 8.28.10 @ 5:36PM
I beg to differ with the Washington Compost's assessment of the crowd. My wife is 29 & I'm 31. We saw TONS of people our age. The crowd was pretty diverse, with Oriental/Asians, Indians (American & Asian). The liberals haven't the FIRST idea of what "honor" is. That's why they hate the concept of this rally so much. You trolls just keep spouting your ill informed bile. For being supposedly SO much smarter than the rest of us, the fact that you would have a problem with a rally that celebrates the founding tennents of our nation & our military gives lie to your assumed intellectual superiority. But of course, you commies hate America, so why should anyone be surprised?
Siegfried X| 8.28.10 @ 6:08PM
I think that the Democrat attacks will backfire on them. They ending up attacking a mostly religious and pro-military rally which was nothing like they expected it to be.
Dan| 8.28.10 @ 6:51PM
That story line sounded like a riff from the Mel Brooks classic BLAZING SADDLES! Because it called to mind the letter the people wrote to their governor, which began: "We the white, God fearing citizens of Rock Ridge...."
TenneseeVolunteer| 8.28.10 @ 7:18PM
Had a great day at Restoring Honor Rally today and Divine Destiny program last night.
Divine Destiny was an enthralling combination of great historical lessons from David Barton, wonderful music from two African American all star choirs, several informative sermons and Glenn Beck at his best.
Restoring Honor was a home run. 5 1/2 million dollars raised for the wounded special ops guys, fantastic speech by Sarah and Alveeda King.
The return of the black robed regiment may prove to be Glenn's finest hour.
I am so glad I went. To be surrounded by 100's of thousands of all aged people who believe in the goodness of America is a blessing. We couldn't get close to the reflecting pond. We watched from the last jumbo tronthat had any room. The Metro trains were so crowded that many walked miles to get there. Our cabbie said it was largest crowd since inauguration. More tomorrow when I can ost from a computer , not an I phone
bmatkin| 8.29.10 @ 8:50PM
Notice how the progressive trolls never mention the 5.5 million bucks for military families?
The trolls even hate that.
mllnprod| 8.28.10 @ 9:55PM
Paul...you are an idiot! I was at this event as one of the press members and have footage of plenty of children and woman of all races, and yes - a lot of God loving distinguished older men and woman as well.
I get so tired of having to work and stand by people like you at these things, people who go out of their way to be dishonest.
Grow up and get out of my way...at least I am a real journalist that has and continues to report on the truth...you racist looser!
The One We've Been Waiting For| 8.28.10 @ 10:07PM
We're buying shrimp, trolls. I thought Nate was a short bus type of guy until I got to read the rest of these dead enders.
"...you racist looser!"
There is no hope for my Presidency. My golf game looks though. I schooled Bloomberg today.
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martin j smith| 8.29.10 @ 8:14AM
The headline of this article should have read: The WaPo does its usualy stuff on the 8/28 rally. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwn. End of story.
Martin Luther King| 8.29.10 @ 11:55AM
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
Martin Luther King, Jr., delivering his 'I Have a Dream' speech from the steps of Lincoln Memorial. (photo: National Park Service)
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.
As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "For Whites Only". We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
J. Edgar Hoover| 8.30.10 @ 1:08PM
You Negro, i have my young white men, (and it is not what is in your sirty mind), watching you.
You better qit, or i will smear you all over the press, with doctored up tapes, and other tricks, (there i go again) .
I have to go put on my garter now, and choose tonight's dress, but yOU better watch out.
Signed,
The Head G-Man
Leave out the Head
Oldefarte| 8.31.10 @ 3:44PM
All men are created equal, but this is not a guarantee of equality in life [which can only be achieved by using contraceptives, replacing a held ball with a book, pulling up your pants from butt crack, talking/acting like a human being, and paying your way in life instead of taking taxpayers' money]!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Martin Luther King| 8.29.10 @ 12:44PM
But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
Oldefarte| 8.31.10 @ 3:46PM
You, Martin, were granted at birth FREE WILL and your destiny is in your own hands!!!!
Martin Luther King| 8.29.10 @ 1:54PM
With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
Nick| 8.29.10 @ 2:23PM
Mr. Beck was able to get half a million people to show up on the Mall, during a recession....er....I mean a depression.
Al Sharpy Sharp couldn't bus in enough people to fill all the seats in a 20 theater cineplex!
Nate| 8.29.10 @ 3:43PM
Glenn Beck is about the biggest douche bag I ever saw.
I don't care how many people he drew to Washington D.C. The truth is the truth.
Beck once spent ten minutes on national television whining about surgery he had done on his ASS.
I'm trying to picture MLK doing that.
Beck is crass, hateful, fearful, and capable of only divisive, debased language.
That Beck speaks to some percentage of disaffected, older white voters in a time of national economic woes is not such a big surprise, though.
This wave of populist white nationalism (also known as fascism) will pass.
Our institutions are too strong, our society too dynamic and diverse, our traditions too vital and rich, and our national character too great to ever fall under the sway of petty fascistical demagogues like Palin or Beck.
Menken said when fascism arrived in America it would be carrying a Bible and waving a flag.
He was pretty much right about that. But he was wrong to fear it. It turns out that a weak fascistic frenzy happens in between Goldline commercials on the television, inflames the passions of a few hundred thousand half-wits, and then fizzles out.
The One We've Been Waiting For| 8.29.10 @ 4:05PM
We're buying shrimp, Nate.
"Glenn Beck is about the biggest douche bag I ever saw."
I have tried to teach you trolls not to tell obvious lies. Everybody knows that you see a much bigger one in the mirror everyday. Get with it. We only have a couple months to turn this thing around . You, Nate, have been having no effect. Check that. You are actually raising morale with your nonsense. I know it is less than minimum wage but we expect things for our money.
JmsA| 8.29.10 @ 8:37PM
Hear, hear. Nate is running scared. Notice how he brought up Goldline meme. He must have been channeling Weiner the whiner.
Nate| 8.30.10 @ 12:36AM
Nate is running scared?
You must be kidding.
Notice how he brought up Goldline?
Well ... Beck tirelessly peddles that corrupt racket every hour he's on air. So what's your point, jerk off?
NateLover| 8.30.10 @ 7:09AM
Ooooh Nate, you are sooo 'macho'!! You really know about the jerk off thing, don't you.
Tim*| 8.30.10 @ 10:25AM
Nate knows all about the weiner thing .
The One We've Been Waiting For| 8.30.10 @ 7:34AM
We're buying shrimp, Nate. Don't give up on the "summer of recovery" stuff. We need to piss down their backs and convince them that it is rain. Maybe it is time to change your name again, you seem to be losing your cool a lot.
Campy| 8.30.10 @ 1:08PM
The One: Keep on buying shrimp and 'tweeting'. Good laughs and love your anti-Nate persistence!
JmsA| 8.30.10 @ 12:51PM
Why the anger, Nate? Could it be that Mr. Beck's following is growing while the One's is diminishing? Three thousand showed up at "Reverend" Al's counter rally as opposed to 650,000 at Beck's. You're afraid, for you're watching the unraveling of a fraud, and there will be hell to pay in the very near future. Now, though there is really no need to bring in your sexual proclivities into the argument, I thank you nonetheless for showing where your mind resides.
Ryan| 8.30.10 @ 8:26AM
Look, I ALMOST agree with you about Beck.
Here's the problem:
Name ONE fascist/racist thing that happened at the rally or at any tea party.
Mostly white people showing up doesn't count.
Herr Beckenstein| 8.30.10 @ 1:11PM
As they said in Dr. Zhivago, "we have noticed your attitude".
Bow down and worship me, i am GOD!!
TennesseeVolunteer| 8.30.10 @ 4:04PM
Hey Nate, I was there...Mom, the American flag and apple pie.
We are past your name calling and recriminations. I sat next to a very nice black couple who were more fervent than I. I can't tell you how many older folks (70+) that were there to be counted.
People like you are the nattering nabobs of negativism. We don't even know you there.
God can not count?| 8.30.10 @ 4:44PM
I will take my Chosen Blog, the Daily Kos and their expose' today, over your phony, kooky numbers anyday.
Herr Beck, and his NAZI rally did not reach ovwer 50K, the rest were regular end of summer tourist, and media people, who number over a thousand with all their extras who carry crap around, like cameras, you dorks.
Most of the lilly white old farts were prostrate from the heat, and i don't mean prostrate as in lying down, i mean out of it.
But you Demon Devils keep trying, as i the Lord have Hell waiting for you, when My Son comes again.
My pig named mo| 8.30.10 @ 6:58PM
Is this evidence of insanity or poorly constructed sarcasm?
Oldefarte| 8.31.10 @ 3:48PM
Will someone at TAS please FLUSH THIS NURD down its toilet??????????????
JmsA| 8.29.10 @ 2:40PM
The Restore Honor rally drew one half million. Al Sharpton's counter rally drew, according to most dependable accounts, 3,000. Glenn Beck cited God twice within the first five minutes of his speech. Al Sharpton did not cite God once, while repeatedly alluding to us and them in his speech. CBS used to cockamamie estimate of 87,000, while the Wapo published pictures from early in the morning before most of the attendees arrived. These leftist freaks are all scared and all they can do is lie.
JCfromDC| 8.29.10 @ 7:41PM
Amen Bro'. I USED to live just across the river from DC. Wish I was there now and yesterday
bmatkin| 8.29.10 @ 8:54PM
Your forgot to mention that Sharpton's followers were all paid members of SEIU or some other Soros funded progressive organization.
God speaking| 8.30.10 @ 11:30AM
Matthew: Chapter 6, verses 5-7, speak of the evil that Beck perpetrated with his speaking God counting.
I, your Lord could care less if that drunk said God a million times, he is still a phony pulpit pimp carnival barker. You fool's prove an Apostate evil leader can take you all to Hell, with that clown's false doctrine.
CantGetRight| 8.29.10 @ 8:52PM
How Becky fans can turn 87k into half a million proves the fantasy world they live in where tax cuts for the most wealthy create jobs (still looking for them after almost 10 years) where they have nothing to do with the shape this country is in so they sit around complaining like a little kid that needs his diaper changed. You think of your fellow Americans as to dumb to go along with the GOP middle class killing agenda, like they do every time they are in power. Keep voting against your best interest, for a party that does nothing for you but take your money and give it to the richest Americans.
bmatkin| 8.29.10 @ 8:59PM
CGR, did you copy and paste your whole post from
an Immelt corporate directive? I'm glad you posted, helps the conservative cause. Do you actually know that not one thing you said has any
basis in fact or logic?? I feel sorry for you, man.
JP| 8.30.10 @ 7:56AM
"Keep voting against your best interest, for a party that does nothing for you but take your money and give it to the richest Americans."
Sounds like Obama and Goldman Sachs. Or the First Lady, who at least lives like one of the wealthiest princesses in the world.
JP is 100% correct| 8.30.10 @ 11:25AM
The biggest laugh, other than Palin's face, was Beck claiming the day was "divine providence".
He picks a day, and blaspheme's the Lord by saying God picked it.
And normal people listen to this BS?
Ryan| 8.30.10 @ 11:41AM
Ummm...you mean Beck surprised God?
TennesseeVolunteer| 8.30.10 @ 4:06PM
Believe what you want. those half a million voters and their ten to twenty friends each will overwhelm the polls in November. We know what is right, we know God needs to be part of the fabric of this nation and we will do everything in our power to protect our children's and your children's future.
Bring it on| 8.30.10 @ 4:51PM
I the Lord God, will rise another Ulysees S. Grant, and the evil devils, masquerading as my children, will see which side I AM that I AM is on.
Inbreeding hicks from the worst state in the nation, Tennessee, are all suffering from Organic Brain Damage syndrome, from too much drinking "who shot Sally?"
Now go away sayeth I,
Lord God YHWH
My pig named mo| 8.30.10 @ 7:01PM
Allah is that you pretending to be the god of Israel again?
Yosemeti Sam| 8.29.10 @ 11:39PM
Look for an uptick of Fruit of the Loom sales come October!
Among Progressives.
THE October Surprise!
LOL.
JP| 8.30.10 @ 7:54AM
"Menken said when fascism arrived in America it would be carrying a Bible and waving a flag"
I think your quote is a little off. In any event, since the main political goal of the Beckians is to limit the centralized federal government I think the Fascists label is about 180 degrees out of sync. Fascists depend primairily on using centralized bureacucracies to control the behavior of the nation's citizens. Nate, besides brushing up on your quotes, you should also go back to the classroom (or library) and brush up on your history. If you are looking for fascists, look no further than the White House.
God here| 8.30.10 @ 4:37PM
Why do you think i had my apostle Paul warn you, "the Devil Himself will appear as an Angwel of Light"?
Palin Plague| 8.30.10 @ 11:22AM
What an evil that psychoapths were allowed to sully Martin Luther King.
Glenn Beck, drug addict Mormon apostate, talking about his cherry picked day being "divine Proviedence", is blasphemy.
And these lilly white Tea Baggers claim to take our country back? What a joke, the decent people finally took it back from pure Satanic forces, represented by war mongering demon workers, Bush and Cheney.
But at least a good laugh they are.
Ryan| 8.30.10 @ 11:45AM
We probably agree on Mormonism, but I'm wondering what your religion is that pushes you to take Sharpton's side here...
Bruce Berger| 8.30.10 @ 12:11PM
To people like Palin Plague, the only thing possibly worth celebrating is a loud denunciation of the oppression caused by white males. Nothing else computes to them.
Tim*| 8.30.10 @ 12:19PM
Apparently , The Plague here is upset .
Seek| 8.30.10 @ 11:52AM
Even if Martin Luther King really was a Republican, that shouldn't trigger any goose pimples. All it means is that my party -- the Republicans -- has a pathetic need to be seen as "inclusive." We gain nothing by trying to out-Democrat the Democrats, a la Karl Rove/Jack Kemp. Democrat leaders will never be impressed. And their black rank and file will remain in the fold.
Let the other side be known as the party of affirmative action, mass immigration and big government. There's nothing wrong with the GOP acting as though whites actually mattered. What we need are real leaders who say as much -- like Tom Tancredo.
Derek Leaberry| 8.30.10 @ 1:16PM
The Beck rally proved that a lot of people don't have anything better to do on a late August weekend.
Tim*| 8.30.10 @ 3:10PM
Beats goin ' to a Washington Nats Game or a stroll through Anacostia .
Blackwatch| 8.30.10 @ 7:07PM
Or maybe they care more about the drift of their country than you do.
Derek Leaberry| 8.31.10 @ 10:00AM
Glenn Beck has no answers. Nor does Sarah Palin. Mrs. Palin would be better off staying at home and raising her children.
Tim*| 8.31.10 @ 12:59PM
Yeah Sure Leakyberries , Obama 's Got The Answers .
However , It's Just That They Ain't The Right Answers .
Pete| 8.30.10 @ 2:15PM
This might explain it.
http://campaign.r20.constantco....._K6Dg0ow==
Cuffs| 8.30.10 @ 2:25PM
So many people throw around the word
'facism'. Most know absolutely nothing about
it as a politcal system.
Beschloss stated Obama had a strastospheric IQ.
When asked was it was, Beschloss said he didn't know.
Ignorance will kill us yet.
Bruce Berger| 8.30.10 @ 3:07PM
Obama has never authorized the release of his transcripts. Gee, I wonder why? Could it be that doing so would reveal that he is not quite the genius his sycophants would have us believe?
kent b.| 8.30.10 @ 3:52PM
Well, well. Nate and other liberal tooth gnashers seem to be out in strength, bating concerned American Conservatives with their foamy-mouthed vitriol over the recent Glen Beck gathering. We were there among the hundred of thousands and I will not waste time debating the merits of the gathering--or Glen Beck--with potty-mouthed puss-heads. BUT--Because Beck admits his alcolholism he is forever branded by the DNC lockstep zombies an a drunkard. Ditto for Rush Limbaugh because he admitted to rehab for pain pill addiction for a back problem years ago. FINE. That makes OBAMA the GREAT a cokehead and pot addict due to his admitted addiction to these illegal substances as a teen. Read about it in his Bill Ayers assisted memoir. That could explain a great deal about the GREAT Community Organizers inept leadership--and the need for six vacations in an eight week span. SNORT SNORT
Nick| 8.30.10 @ 5:43PM
Nate the dazi,
It's really bugging you, isn't it?
That's okay, try to remember how you felt in November of '08. Or, in January of '09. You will never fell that way again.
President Dither has ruined the democrat party for years, if not decades.
Nick| 8.30.10 @ 6:20PM
Oops, that should be: You will never FEEL that way again.
Oldefarte| 8.31.10 @ 12:16PM
Yea, those WHITE PEOPLE are nothing but troublemakers and rebelrousers. And to think that they have the audicity to go to work everyday, pay their taxes, raise their children to become mostly outstanding American citizens, go to their churches and pray to God Almighty for divine guidance, etc. What heathens and lowlifes! Why can't they be like those persons that commit crimes daily and fill our prisons, sit on their butts and collect welfare that taxpayers work and pay for, and in general be a drag on society and a ROYAL PAIN IN THE ARS????????????????
S Rubicon| 8.31.10 @ 3:31PM
US Park Service, & multiple other federal agencies also reported the crowd was one of the ten largest gatherings ever. Based on crowd density of areas of the mall & sounding grass areas, many organizations (left & right) confirm that the park service has developed an ability to accurately approximate the size of crowds. They do so in a non partisan manner. Media organizations have developed an ability to inflate or detract from crowd size, depending on the particular media outlet's partisan bias.
I have now seen able two hundred photo's on YouTube & other internet posting sites. Those photos reveal many young people (aged 18 to 34), as well as older Americans. The age of the voter has nothing to do with the value or legitimacy of the cause. Many who have become accustomed to rallies turning into protest marches & even some that turn into riots. The Tea Party movement & rallies of average Americans confound their opponents because they actually congregate in a sincere expression of their love for their country.
Those who want to pigeon hole all Tea Partiers & other average Americans as evil, angry, out of control racists, are having difficulty now that they are facing real Americans who rally to effect actual real change for the good of all & the country, not for one political party or for the political advantage of a utopian political cause.
Perhaps opponents should focus on the messages & learn about them, rather than focusing on looking for any flaws they can exploit?