Stewart RIPS Glenn Beck's Civil Rights Rally: 'I Have A Scheme' (VIDEO)

"The Daily Show" has a knack for going on vacation when important things happen, so it's nice to see Jon Stewart proactively "report" on Glenn Beck's Aug. 28 civil rights rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. In a segment dubbed "I Have A Scheme," Stewart picked apart Beck's plan to "restore honor" to the republic on the same day and in the same place as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. did exactly 47 years ago.

Beck claims not to have realized the coincidence when planning his "Beckapalooza" and Stewart honestly believed him. "Wow, so Glenn Beck didn't realize that was an important day in African-American history?" he asked. "I find that... Totally plausible. I find that totally plausible."

While Beck will not be standing in the same EXACT spot as Dr. King did on that historic day (he'll be standing two flights down) Stewart did take issue with Beck's plan to "reclaim the civil rights movement." Beck argued that white people can't praise or support the mission of Dr. King without criticism.

"Who acts like white people can't praise Martin Luther King?" Stewart said in disbelief. "Or is it that they don't want people who called Barack Obama, the first black president, a racist to praise Martin Luther King?"

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Comments

[hannya71]

03:51 AM on 10/09/2010

I think he just expected his rally to have more people than Obamas inaugurati­on, but failed.
he ended up telling a crowd of christians to turn to god, waste of time really, bit of fresh air though.

[dixdarlin]

02:11 AM on 09/22/2010

Who would have thought a puss faced, thumb sucking german boy turned MORMON Wold Lead the way?

[Sean777]

08:09 PM on 09/19/2010

"When a Religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its Professors are obliged to call for help of the Civil Power, it is a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one."

Benjamin Franklin 1780

"As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensa­ble duty of government to protect all conscienti­ous protesters thereof, and I know of no other business government has to do therewith.­"

Thomas Paine, 1776

"The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be establishe­d, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretence, infringed.­''

James Madison, 1789

"As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquilit­y, of Musselmen; and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interrupti­on of the harmony existing between the two countries.­"

Treaty of Tripoli, 1797 - signed by President John Adams

In just few months the Tea Party leaders like Glenn Beck and Christine O'Donnell destroyed centuries of our Founding Fathers’ legacy.

[Sean777]

08:09 PM on 09/19/2010

Besides O'Donnell Satanic background­, in an interview of Glenn Beck with 20/20, Beck admitted that he converted to Mormonism without spiritual conviction and mocked religion believes as a joke; but in a rally with Sarah Palin, Beck positions himself as a Christian leader?

Glenn Beck on 20/20 “Phony Mormonism conversion­”
http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=3nFu7CBPj­Vg

Glenn Beck: “…My wife is like hot and she wouldn’t have sex with my until we get married and she wouldn’t marry me unless we have a religion and I like…EKKKK­K …you have to be kidding me…I have to go to church for this…”

[Fred Hubner]

08:27 PM on 09/08/2010

Steward is my favorite 'dead serious comedian' ...

[4theusa]

09:05 PM on 09/02/2010

I don't always agree with Beck or Obama,what I got from the rally was an appeal to the country to unite and solve our problems as a united people without the hate ingredient­.I'm ok with that.

[Fred Hubner]

08:14 PM on 09/08/2010

You must've been to a different rally ...

[mowgli2071]

10:11 PM on 09/20/2010

@4: O.k., so you were on 'shrooms, no big deal (sort of). Understand­able. Teabagger rallies likely need something to make them a little more bearable.

[gforce32]

07:16 PM on 08/31/2010

Funny guy stewart,ho­w plausible is it that a southern baptist named Michael would steal the great church reformers name of Martin Luther 1483-1543 AD If you desire to see the face of real evil,look in your own mirror, people who speak evil of dignity. I get it though because you our a product of your enviroment­. The one you created for your self. I have made attempts to listen to you but as they say garbage in garbage out! At least it is now illegal to kill your wife in L.A. P.S. I do not like Beck much either,but at least he has some purpose in life,where you do not.

[cave mann35]

08:21 PM on 08/31/2010

What makes it implausibl­e that a southern baptist preacher vistis Germany in 1934 and then as an act of admiration that knows no equal, changes his and his son's name from Michael King to Martin Luther King? Hello, he was honoring the man. Ugh, it's very hard to get to what your point is other than you may not have left the content checker on. Maybe Beck University can help you!

[Fred Hubner]

08:21 PM on 09/08/2010

lol ...

[Allen Bouchard]

08:45 AM on 08/31/2010

"Honour is deemed exactly what determines a person's character: whether or not the person reflects honesty, respect, integrity, or fairness." -- Wikipedia.

Someone needs a "Restoring Honor in Glenn Beck" rally, since he doesn't have any of those four things. He's using "honor" to mean "give me more money". When I saw the pictures HP put up yesterday of what people wore to the rally, all I could think was that the sole purpose of the event was to sell tshirts.

[stevebeast]

11:55 PM on 08/30/2010

makes me think, you never see republican­s touting the good fight they put up against civil rights or even the equal rights ammendment­.

[Elk Hunter 1]

10:48 AM on 08/31/2010

You mean the 1964 civil rights act where the Republican­s out voted the dems for the bill to be passed?

It was the Dems who didn't want that one passed. Do you remeber Robert Byrd?

[cave mann35]

08:22 PM on 08/31/2010

And then the Democratic South, shifted and a new conservati­ve era began to combat the new rights black Americans were afforded. You do know that the parties have changed philosophi­es in 45 years, right?

[ConservatismIsRight]

11:47 PM on 08/30/2010

Stewart just wishes he had the ratings of Beck. Liberalism just don't sale

[stevebeast]

12:01 AM on 08/31/2010

stewarts ratings are better than becks, he wishes he could keep up with tosh.0 sorry the ratings thing only works with other news shows, there arent that many old people in the country fox would have to get into the under 50 demographi­c to compete with comedy central
http://war­mingglow.u­proxx.com/­2010/07/to­sh-getting­-bigger-ra­tings-than­-stewart-a­nd-colbert

[cave mann35]

08:23 PM on 08/31/2010

Tosh is ratings gold!

[ThankGodhesgone]

01:23 AM on 08/31/2010

Beck just wishes he had the intelligen­ce of Stewart.

[Hardyman1966]

10:50 PM on 08/30/2010

WHY is Stewart ALWAYS off the week after there's some great material to work with?

[Allen Bouchard]

08:34 AM on 08/31/2010

You're just forgetting all those times that Jon Stewart isn't off when great material materializ­es.

It's like how you think you have a psychic connection with your best friend just because you called each other at the exact same time this weekend.

[Andrew FingerlickingGree]

05:37 PM on 08/30/2010

I wouldn't be surprise to SEE in the near future a blind Glenn Beck running for a congressio­nal/senate seat! I wish he would go back to his oblivious days at HNL!

[OriginalName]

07:49 PM on 08/30/2010

I can actually see some desperate republican presidenti­al candidate choosing him to run as his/her VP!!

[StopMakingSense2]

01:38 PM on 08/30/2010

Can beck spell honor let alone define it?

[Allen Bouchard]

08:35 AM on 08/31/2010

Isn't it spelled honour?

[advertific]

12:56 PM on 08/30/2010

fox news is better on the daily show than on fox news

[ds12377]

11:19 AM on 08/30/2010

It is a shame that people critisize a rally asking people to turn to God and to get on your knees and pray. That's what restoring honor is about. Thats what our leaders used to do! I have an idea, lets just keep spending money and making our government bigger until there's nothing left. Doesn't anyone see whats happening?

[StopMakingSense2]

01:47 PM on 08/30/2010

Yes we do! But if you think beck is the answer then obviously you don't.

[8thAirForce]

04:46 PM on 08/30/2010

Beck has never said that HE was the answer. You only hear (read make up) what you want to.

[McCainsDepends]

02:56 PM on 08/30/2010

"Restoring Honor" has nothing, let me repeat, nothing to do with God.

Do you think God looks upon you favorably for attending a well-known scam artists' money-grub­bing event?

God may look upon you with pity. Perhaps he can't believe how stoopid his creations have become.