Having his "flock" refrain from bringing any signs to the praise-heavy folk rally at the Lincoln Memorial, the clever Beck did more than just conjure up the appearance of sanctity and kumbayah. He also removed the overwhelmingly hateful and poisonous signature element the media and the public has come to identify the Tea Party by. (Here's BagNewsNotes contributor Nina Berman's capture of Tea Party signs, among countless examples.)
Beck managed to take it way beyond that, however, succeeding in transferring the "sign baggage" on this pseudo-spiritual day onto the counter-demonstrators. (If you watch this TPM video, it seems the Tea Partiers were actually trained and prepared to respond to counter-demonstrators, including this offended black woman, by evoking the name and temperament of Dr. King.)
As a result -- as you can see in the Flickr photo taken by Biketripper and used by permission -- it's Dr. King's natural constituency this day that ends up sporting the tinfoil hats, and standing out for the qualities of hysteria and aggression.
Also:
1st Reason Glenn Luther King Hit it Out of the Park in DC -- Visual Media Swallowed the King Sham
A 3rd Reason Glenn Luther King Hit it Out of the Park in DC - God (and GW) are in the Tea House
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If you bus 'em in you can find a few tens of thousand losers almost anywhere.
As for the message, "we are the chosen ones." "God speaks to us, personally, and that's what America is about.", well the increasing bagger-directed hate and violence toward muslim americans and hispanicsis going to start crowding out their "I have a meme!" moment.
It is a complete scam that the Tea Party had no signs. They are famous for signs and no one showed up with them? Get real.
Election season is coming and the Tea Party of nasty signs won't win much in November. the Tea Party of "let's have a pleasant picnic and praise God" will win. But it's as fake as professional wrestling.
Huh? King did it,and no-one had any problems including Press. The person that the memorial is named for had few problems either. Press becomes the epitome of the liberal mindset in America. YOU must curb your carbon-generating ways, but algore can still have his LEAR.The Koch Brothers [being rich and white] are fair game. Imam Rauf [ being rich and Islamic] , is not. ''Fair scrutiny''applied to the one, is ''racism'' when applied to the other. Criticism of Bush was ''patriotism''. Criticism of Obama is racism. [ye gods, even the poor saps at CNN stood no chance when Sanchez used the words ''cotton-picking'' and Obama in the same sentence rendering a ''post-racial America'' into a quite racial minefield.[white liberals ,being amongst other liberals of course, can still get away with their ''uncle tom''schtick when referring to black conservatives, rendering their own ''tolerance'', suspect].
When you casually hear about white guys being stopped in traffic for suspicion of being illegal aliens, or drug dealers or anything else for the reason that they are white, or getting handcuffed in the subway, then getting rolled onto their stomach and shot in the back on video and the cop gets a slap on the wrist, then you can maybe talk reverse racism.
It took Beck 6 months to raise what Howard Dean raised in one month and Dean did so without any help from the Democratic party. . Just thought y'all might like to know.
For instance, this fellow by the Washington Monument needed to let everyone know that Obama wasn't born in the US, and that his true name is "Barry Soetero." http://twitpic.com/2jgwar
And this person didn't bring his Confederate flag to the Mall, but left it on his car a few blocks away. An interesting symbol with which to "take back"a civil rights rally, no? http://twitpic.com/2jh0j5
Don't fall for the trick of hiding the real emotions there. The signs were out of sight, but they're still out of their minds.