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Michael Shaw

Posted: August 30, 2010 03:02 PM


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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11:12 AM on 08/31/2010
I'm curious, and would love to get a real answer on this. Has politics all boiled down to, I hate you, because you don't agree with me, so I'm going to say negative things about you. It certainly seems this is where we are at today. And It comes from both sides. If this is the case, then we're pretty much at a loss and there is no reason to even listen to someone on the other side of the aisle.
apiazza
There is no such thing as a fiscal conservative.
11:22 AM on 08/31/2010
It has. The reason they do it is because it is effective. Although I think one side is way more guilty than the other (it's the GOP in case you don't know). What can we do about it? President Obama tried to be 'above the fray.' It's not working.
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FTracy3
My micro-bio is as empty as the rest of my life.
10:37 AM on 08/31/2010
Remember awhile back when some on the left decided there just weren't enough incendiary signs at the tea party rallys so they encouraged sane non-racist people to infilitrate with crazy racist signs so the media and the world could see just how crazy and racist the tea party really is because we wouldn't know it before because there weren't enough crazy racist signs?
apiazza
There is no such thing as a fiscal conservative.
11:23 AM on 08/31/2010
Remember when a lot of people at the Tea Party said that President Obama wanted to "ban fishing"? Talk about crazy...
10:27 AM on 08/31/2010
Nothing is as sad/funny as seeing the teabaggers tote their signs full of spelling and grammatical errors. The hate those signs reveal is kinda scary, though...
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Paperless Tiger
09:39 AM on 08/31/2010
Apparently they have realized that the signs are a HUGE EMBARRASSMENT so they banned them. The message is, “We just want warm bodies to paper the mall. We don’t want to hear or see your ignorant opinions about anything, now SHUT UP AND MARCH!”
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PeterGSW
09:31 AM on 08/31/2010
Hit it out of the park?

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.
12:50 AM on 08/31/2010
That whole spectacle Saturday was designed for one purpose, soften the image of the Tea Party by having a rally where there were no nasty ass signs like you saw at every other Tea Party rally in the past.

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.
12:33 AM on 08/31/2010
Lol @ the liberal in the pic too embarrassed to show her face so she covers it with a bandana
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PanFx
Chief Iconoclast
02:44 AM on 08/31/2010
And how do you know this? Were you there? Did you interview her? It sounds like you're making things up.
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bbbbjr
freedom from religion
08:24 AM on 08/31/2010
She was trying to avoid catching A- S- S (accute stupidity syndrome). it is contagious.
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Orly Holmes
12:16 AM on 08/31/2010
Well, if nothing else, the theater keeps the liberals their sputtering selves.Liberal Bill Press nailed it for his ideology when stating last night on CNN LIVE, that it was ''inappropriate for Beck to mention God on sacred ground''.

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].
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PeterGSW
09:39 AM on 08/31/2010
King was a minister, Beck is a huckster.

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.
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BOBINMO
11:41 PM on 08/30/2010
How did so many Cons lose their honor? I never lost mine.
10:13 AM on 08/31/2010
Ya have to have it to lose it.
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hrayovac
11:33 PM on 08/30/2010
5.7 million?
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.
10:10 AM on 08/31/2010
Campaign funds are now the same as Charity?
09:51 PM on 08/30/2010
Some signs still made their way through, despite Glenn Beck's wise ban. And so the crazy sept through the cracks.

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
08:23 PM on 08/30/2010
After watching the bias and dishonest coverage of the rally and listened to the words of the protest rally I have seen the face of intolerance, disrespect, dishonesty, arrogance, and pure hatred. Shame, Shame, Shame on you biased media! Still haven't figured out why your ratings are plummeting?
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BOBINMO
11:42 PM on 08/30/2010
What "biased" coverage was that? Be specific.
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Gnostic Priest
11:44 PM on 08/30/2010
great comment about our so called MSM
07:21 PM on 08/30/2010
"Removed"? If you watch interviews with attendees, that element wasn't removed at all. It just wasn't visible on handy placards for the world to see. Beck's speech was more tame than his usual ignorance-and-intolerance-filled ranting, but that doesn't mean he's turned his back on all that.

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.
CarmanK
democrat, retired tax acct
08:51 PM on 08/30/2010
How much money went to the vets children's fund??? With 300,000 attendees, Beck said he got $600,000. If they weren't carrying signs, they must have left their wallets at home with their hearts.
11:16 PM on 08/30/2010
5.7 million
05:32 PM on 08/30/2010
4th reason: The message resonates with the majority of Americans, much more so than the divisive demagoguery of Al Sharpton and his army of race-baiters.
06:30 PM on 08/30/2010
What message?
06:32 PM on 08/30/2010
What's your beef?
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Takebackourmoney
07:57 PM on 08/30/2010
I did not go or listen to the rally but what is absent from the reports is his message. What message.
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tnkeating
Dyslexic agnostic insomniac
08:09 PM on 08/30/2010
To be the person you were on 9/12/2001, to pray, to thank our troops and their families for their sacrafice and know just how blessed you are to be an American. Thats probably over simplifide but thats the message, sorry if thats a let down.
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veggiequeenmo
Proud to not be republican.
05:30 PM on 08/30/2010
He also banned their right to free speech.
07:22 PM on 08/30/2010
He did indeed. . .so where's the arguments about their rights being infringed upon and Beck not respecting the Constitution?