Glenn Beck's rally aims at Barack Obama
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Our last presidential election was something like a séance, where the great booming cadences of Dr. King seemed to channel through a man whose hope promised to fulfill the dream.Glenn Beck's rally was held on Dr.King's anniversary forty seven years later, but also a year following his comment that "Barack Obama is a racist."
With such comments, Beck has been trying to defile Obama's style of politics. Beck is the only commentator to drudge Jeremiah Wright back up, but this time as Obama's teacher of liberation theology, which he claims is the secret Marxist belief-system of the president.
Beck's speech was a sermon to America. We hear them all the time. We're always lectured-at in America about morality by politicians and schemers.
Beck is no politician. He's a gold salesman, best known for promoting Goldline, the scam company that cheated people in an antique coin con. This may be why he called the rally "Restoring Honor." Glenn Beck is a Sarah Palin promoter, who would like to see her replace Obama. To help her do this, he gave her a Dr.King moment on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and gained for himself the position of head Pied Piper to lots and lots of white people many of whom he has convinced to support expensive wars and tax-breaks for the plutocracy.
On Saturday, Palin gained some of the Dr.King allure that had become so powerfully associated with Barack Obama thanks to Beck's bold stunt. It was positioning for the elections in November, and 2012. The aim was to siphon-off the effect of Obama's inspirational rhetoric. Glenn Beck has hit President Obama with parody delivered dead pan.
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BrendanPKeane | Sep 01, 2010, 01:36 AM EDT
Monsoonman: For example, I was the only one calling out (really giving-it) to the Democrats for killing the 9/11 Responders Bill. I have argued with lots of "liberal media" types. But think what you want, you're a block of wood. http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/the_keane_edge/jon-stewart-on-low-ground-at-ground-zero-defending-weiners-911-rant-100145164.html
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BrendanPKeane | Aug 31, 2010, 09:45 PM EDT
Monsoonman: I defended republican Peter King against Anthony Weiner's slurs, and his game at hiding what the Dems did on the 9/11 Responders Bill, for example. http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/the_keane_edge/jon-stewart-on-low-ground-at-ground-zero-defending-weiners-911-rant-100145164.html
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Monsoonman | Aug 31, 2010, 08:11 PM EDT
Brendan lad, you want to give us a breakdown of your criticisms of anything conservative/liberal...By my swag, you are at a 95/5 ratio. I think you criticized obama once because he wasn't liberal enough and if I am not mistaken you criticized nancy Pelosis botox injections several months ago, but that is about it. Everything before and after that was slamming everything conservative. Please check my figures but I think I am pretty close.
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BrendanPKeane | Aug 31, 2010, 07:53 PM EDT
On Beck's promotion of virulently anti-Catholic clerics: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/
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BrendanPKeane | Aug 31, 2010, 07:51 PM EDT
Celtica43: I'm independent. I've criticized Democrats far more than Republicans, without really caring which party the politician I was skewering was on. Think what you want and use as many exclamation points and capital letters as you feel necessary to fortify your reasoning.
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Celtica43 | Aug 31, 2010, 05:33 PM EDT
Brendan, I find it difficult to believe you "independent" about much. If not a registered Dem, you surely support them in every election. You are clearly left of center on just about everything. IC needs to have a few more objective opinions. Totally agree with IRISHANDPROUD re BO and his group who are definitely doing a four year stint as opposed to eight yrs!!!!
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IrishAndProud | Aug 31, 2010, 05:20 PM EDT
No, Brendan, I DON'T think Glen Beck in in contempt of me. He's given no indication of that and I give him the benefit of the doubt...made easier by the fact that he is in agreement with the majority of the people. Further, even if he does secretly harbor 'contempt' of those he claims to be for, he nonetheless holds no public office, and therefore no sway of power -- he cannot compel or tell anyone anywhere what to do, and if people don't like him, they can simply turn the tv dial to 'off.' Obama and his party, on the other hand, ARE governing against the will of the people, every single day, on literally every single issue. When people with power not only govern against the popular will continuously but also slander, name-call, bait, taunt and insult them at the same time, THAT is by definition CONTEMPT, in the fullest measure of the word and then some. Beck isn't doing any of that.
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maloney | Aug 31, 2010, 05:15 PM EDT
brendan keane...to your charge, I plead guilty, and right proud of it. It doesn't change the facts. The USA current government is full of liars, traitors, marxists, facists & other misc. trash. I find nothing wrong with being happy about another dead cockroach
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BrendanPKeane | Aug 31, 2010, 03:25 PM EDT
maloney: You're all schadenfreude.
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BrendanPKeane | Aug 31, 2010, 03:23 PM EDT
maloney: If what you say is true, turning to Beck for leadership is unjustified. It's the TV.
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BrendanPKeane | Aug 31, 2010, 03:21 PM EDT
manhattan: I didn't say Beck was out to get Obama because he was Black, I said he wanted to get Sarah Palin elected. This was just a simple political rally, planned for a year, like a Broadway show. You liked the show. Big deal.
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maloney | Aug 31, 2010, 02:53 PM EDT
The Keane edge is as dull as ever. barry obama's inspirational rhetoric has been shown to be all lies. He & the rest of his traitors have been exposed. The America's have finally sharpened their edge. Time to take out the trash.
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maloney | Aug 31, 2010, 01:09 PM EDT
barry obama, nancy, harry & barney along with irish central are unhappy with the awakening of the American people. you haven't seen anything yet. wait til nov. 2010 & 2012 when you will be unemployed & I.C. will really be whining. Bow to the all powerful Beck & Palin
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manhattan | Aug 31, 2010, 12:58 PM EDT
I'm no fan of Glenn Beck or Palin but I object to the insults from you and the left accusing them as out to get Obama because he is black. If they ever called Obama what Bush was called you might have a point. Any American has the right to speak out when they don't agree with the people leading the country that is our right as Americans.Also, if we object to the Mosque being built near ground zero, we are racists. When did Martin Luther King own the Lincoln Memorial because it was the anniversary of his speech? And you wonder why a Glenn Beck has a large following and getting bigger. The silent majority are no more.
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