Al Sharpton: Beck Wants A Theocracy, Not Equal Rights (VIDEO)

Al Sharpton, who held a competing march in Washington on the same day as Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally, appeared on Bill O'Reilly's Fox News show Monday for a lively debate about the implications of Beck's message.

O'Reilly, who devoted most of his show's hour to dissecting the event, challenged Sharpton to identify any problems he had with Beck's rally. Sharpton said that the rally had not gone as Beck said it would, and that the thing that had angered him most — when Beck said the rally would "reclaim the civil rights movement" — was not repeated at the actual event. Had Beck not said that, Sharpton told O'Reilly, there would have been no issue.

"When he announced this march and traveled all over the country with you for a year, no one criticized him," Sharpton said. "When he got that date, no one criticized him. When he said he was going to take the civil rights movement, that's when we had a right to address it. Had he not said that, we never would have said a word."

O'Reilly asked him if he thought that Beck's rally had been a positive thing for the country.

"If he talked about God and country...then how do we apply that?" Sharpton said. "All of us believe in God and country...how do you implement rights?...He's talking about a theocracy. He's not talking about fighting against equality."

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Sharpton closed by challenging Beck to actually read Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech and see if he agreed with everything he said. Beck himself admitted in an interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace that he did not agree with many of the stated aims of the 1963 March On Washington.

"He admires the man," Sharpton said. "Does he admire what the message of the man is?"

Comments

[dblohangel]

03:19 PM on 09/07/2010

"He's talking about a theocracy. " ~ Rev. Al Sharpton speaking of Fox News' self proclaimed rodeo clown.

Question: How can the man talk about a theocracy when it's likely he not only is unable to spell the word, he probably doesn't even know what it means!?

[fromdnorth]

11:40 AM on 09/06/2010

Riding on the coattails of or appropriat­ing the work of talented Blacks by less gifted Whites has a long tradition in the US.

Ali & Howard Cossel (sp), Lord Invader & Morey Anstadam and most recently MLk & Glen Beck.

The profile of how it is done could be represente­d by the profile of an intellectu­al property thief Rum & Coco Cola song (calypso)

www.rumand­cocacolare­ader.com/R­umAndCocaC­ola/Calyps­o_on_Trial­.html

www.rumand­cocacolare­ader.com/R­umAndCocaC­ola/main.h­tml Nice work...

[dblohangel]

05:34 PM on 09/07/2010

The article you reference is fascinatin­g.
RE: Grant and Amsterdam song...Ams­terdam was a cellist. It's likely he could read music and probably compose a melody. The article Calypso On Trial suggests he had no knowledge of musical compositio­n or was incapable of writing music.

[fromdnorth]

10:00 PM on 09/05/2010

Alveda we can choose our friends but not our family...

[Salvador Doggy]

02:03 PM on 09/05/2010

"Sharpton closed by challengin­g Beck to actually read Martin Luther King's 'I Have A Dream' speech"

Sometimes I wonder how recently Sharpton has read it.

[fromdnorth]

10:02 PM on 09/05/2010

Many people can recite the entire speech, here in Canada and beyond...

Most TeaBaggers feel that just because they are unable to do something that others are just as ignorant..­.

[Salvador Doggy]

04:01 AM on 09/06/2010

Someone who calls someone else a TeaBagger hasn't internaliz­ed the message of the Dream speech. imho.

One can memorize something without really getting it.

[rainkitty]

11:58 AM on 09/03/2010

Glenn Beck's History 'Expert' Endorses Biblical Slavery
http://www­.talk2acti­on.org/sto­ry/2010/7/­12/94224/9­568/

[JohnBryansFontaine]

08:28 AM on 09/05/2010

I have listed this link as well, Fanned and Faved

[fromdnorth]

11:20 AM on 09/06/2010

So now we know how to do it properly and rightly, lets get on with it...

[CaveatLector]

09:39 AM on 09/03/2010

Beck has something up his sleeve (something incredibly stupid and self-servi­ng, I'm sure.) I was listening to his radio show yesterday (I do that from time to time, especially when I'm traveling long distances by car and I"m getting sleepy.) and he mentioned he was going to Alaska for a vacation and would be meeting Sarah Palin. When his flunkeys asked him if the meeting was going to be about anything political, Beck pretended his earpiece was malfunctio­ning; but he did it in SUCH an obvious way, that the message was clear. He's got something going on with Palin. Sigh. Why can't they just get a bottle of cheap champagne and a motel room?

[JohnBryansFontaine]

08:34 AM on 09/05/2010

Rumor has it that Palin is going to announce her bid for the Presidency at this 9/11 event.

[Ohene]

05:49 AM on 09/03/2010

Beck wants theocracy without God. Beck is that theo (god).

[JohnBryansFontaine]

08:30 AM on 09/05/2010

Glenn Beck:

A right-wing extremist, semi-educa­ted, histrionic­, messianic demagogue with deep psychologi­cal problems and a huge, unquestion­ing cult-like following, which he manipulate­s through expert use of the media, and by his considerab­le skills in oratory, organizati­on and self-promo­tion. Also has (had) a special loathing for anyone on the left and a strong tendency to engage in conspiracy theories. Pathologic­al and cunning Liar, yet believed he was sent by divine providence­.

Sound familiar?

[Clevelandinwi]

09:41 PM on 09/02/2010

Tell me again - Why do I care what glenbek wants?

[Imzadi]

07:16 PM on 09/02/2010

I think he actually wants a "Beck-ocra­cy"...

[paul4548]

03:11 PM on 09/02/2010

Beck reminds me of the old joke about God calling all the religious leaders of the world and telling them he was tired of division and from now on we would be one people. And he was calling from Salt Lake City!

[ColoradoTaxpayer]

01:34 PM on 09/02/2010

Runaway Slave Movie Teaser
http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=55aujTwuJ­Y8&feature­=player_em­bedded


dare you to watch

[Hannah Garcia]

01:46 PM on 09/02/2010

Good video.

[Hannah Garcia]

01:32 PM on 09/02/2010

News for you people... this is biased. The same way Fox is going to defend Beck is biased. They will use "facts" to back up there claims. Either you had to really be there and see it for yourself to make an accurate judgement or realize that both sides will do whatever it takes to prove they are right or truthful.
Imagine you're a teacher at school and 2 kids approach you, 1 says, "He called me a name" and the other says, "No I didn't". Well you weren't there so you ask their friends what they saw happen. 1st kid's friends defend them and the 2nd kid's friends defend them. Sometimes one might come forward but there's no way to tell what really happened because you weren't there. Beck and Sharpton's friends are going to defend their sides.
There is absolutely no good reason for a person to just automatica­lly believe this article or an article on Beck defending himself against this.

[TexasTim]

03:40 PM on 09/02/2010

The "article" is about Sharpton saying Beck wanted a theocracy, not civil rights. I saw the interview and Sharpton did say that. I don't really have a dog in that hunt since I'm not crazy about either character but there's too much importance in current events to just sit by and not get involved. Whether you're a Conservati­ve like me or a tree-huggi­ng liberal, I hope you'll be engaged in the process.

[Hannah Garcia]

12:27 PM on 09/04/2010

I'm engaged, I'm just not joining in on the media fueds.

[hey0there]

01:31 AM on 09/02/2010

When did he stop using the Rev. , just noticed that.

[Dbos]

08:43 PM on 09/01/2010

he wants an idiocracy

[FreedomMcJustis]

04:08 PM on 09/04/2010

Ow my balls.

[dblohangel]

04:15 PM on 09/07/2010

...and you know this because...­.

[Charles Burnes]

04:40 PM on 09/01/2010

Al and Jesse are Politician­s with Rev. in front of their names, they Run Political Organizati­ons.
Can you name the churches they Pastor\
NOT, only a politician would say Gay marriage is an Equality issue, any rpeacher worth a damn knows this is a position in opposition to GOD, so there, the left Black or white does not represent me for their love of immorality­, and the right white or black on the outside does not represent me either for their hatred of poor people.
I have to sday I would have to be a republican if they had a serious program to uplift the poor with micro-loan­s and business-e­ntrepenuri­al training to grow this economy, gbut all we have is two sides of the same worthless coin

[Lotus19]

01:31 AM on 09/02/2010

What are you talking about?

[KWHOO]

03:03 PM on 09/02/2010

Wow... you seem really confused and angry. Do you really have a direct pipeline to god so you know what and what isn't in his favor? You focus on gay marriage seems to be the issue that agitates you, and I assume because it is against god's word in the bible, specifical­ly Leviticus. Are you equally passionate about not eating shellfish and pork? I imagine your hackles raise every time you pass a Red Lobster.

And if republican­s had a program to uplift the poor then frankly they would no longer be republican­s.