It's what you've been waiting for!: interviews from Beckapalooza/Whitestock 2010.
Highlight responses cover:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht8PmEjxUfg
On 8.28.2010, Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally was held on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The purpose of the rally, which Beck claimed to be “non-political” despite featuring Tea Party-favorite Sarah Palin as a speaker and its being attended entirely by conservatives, was unclear. The participants spoke abstractly about the need to restore “honor” and “pride” to a country that had lost it. When pressed for when our country had lost its honor, most cited the election of Barack Obama.8.28.2010 also represented the 47th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, and Glenn Beck has been criticized for by civil rights groups for trying to misappropriate the occasion. [...] While the speaker list was diverse, the overwhelmingly white crowd expressed paranoid and conspiratorial fears of multiculturalism-that atheists or black liberation theologists or radical Muslims or “free-loading” Latinos were going to ruin our country. There was the constant suggestion that white Christians and their way of life are somehow under assault, and that the attendees of this rally were here to put an end to it and return the country to what it used to be.
+Bonus: "The Dumbest Shirts At The Glenn Beck Rally".
▲ Where does one even begin?
▲ Classy!
▲ Clearly, the only fitting way to "reclaim the Civil Rights" movement.
This is exactly what MLK would've had in mind to celebrate the first black prez!
▲ REPEAT OFFENDER!
▲ ....Okay, aaaaand?
▲ What is up with all the "cracker" t-shirts?
▲ This one just confuses me.
▲....Ho. Lee. Shit.
Source: Towel Road | New Left Media | BuzzFeed
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Lessons learned: imploring that your "tea party"/birther listeners/viewers leave their political/incendiary signs at home wont stop them from bringing their incendiary t-shirts, mouths, and brain matter.
- Immigration
- Freedom of Speech
- The meaning of "Restoring Honour"
- Islam/Muslims/the 9-11 Mawsk
- "I don't recall Glenn Beck calling Barack Obama a racist..."
- "Barack Obama has turned blacks and white against each other, and that's not fair."
- "We know *just* how the Natives/Ellis Island immigrants first felt."
Click to viewhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht8PmEjxUfg
On 8.28.2010, Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally was held on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The purpose of the rally, which Beck claimed to be “non-political” despite featuring Tea Party-favorite Sarah Palin as a speaker and its being attended entirely by conservatives, was unclear. The participants spoke abstractly about the need to restore “honor” and “pride” to a country that had lost it. When pressed for when our country had lost its honor, most cited the election of Barack Obama.8.28.2010 also represented the 47th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, and Glenn Beck has been criticized for by civil rights groups for trying to misappropriate the occasion. [...] While the speaker list was diverse, the overwhelmingly white crowd expressed paranoid and conspiratorial fears of multiculturalism-that atheists or black liberation theologists or radical Muslims or “free-loading” Latinos were going to ruin our country. There was the constant suggestion that white Christians and their way of life are somehow under assault, and that the attendees of this rally were here to put an end to it and return the country to what it used to be.
+Bonus: "The Dumbest Shirts At The Glenn Beck Rally".
▲ Where does one even begin?
▲ Classy!
▲ Clearly, the only fitting way to "reclaim the Civil Rights" movement.
This is exactly what MLK would've had in mind to celebrate the first black prez!
▲ REPEAT OFFENDER!
▲ ....Okay, aaaaand?
▲ What is up with all the "cracker" t-shirts?
▲ This one just confuses me.
▲....Ho. Lee. Shit.
Source: Towel Road | New Left Media | BuzzFeed
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Lessons learned: imploring that your "tea party"/birther listeners/viewers leave their political/incendiary signs at home wont stop them from bringing their incendiary t-shirts, mouths, and brain matter.