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When Fox News and talk radio host Glenn Beck comes to Washington this weekend to headline a rally intended to "restore honor" to America, he will test the strength - and potentially expose the weaknesses - of a conservative grass-roots movement that remains an unpredictable force in the country's politics.
Beck, who is both admired and assailed for his faith-based patriotism and his brash criticism of President Obama, plans in part to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. as an American hero. He will speak on the anniversary of the "I Have a Dream" speech, from the spot where King delivered it.
Some "tea party" activists say the event, at which former Alaska governor Sarah Palin is also scheduled to speak, will have a greater impact than last September's "9/12" march along Pennsylvania Avenue. Though the attendance figures for that anti-tax rally are disputed, it was the first national gathering to demonstrate the size and influence of the tea party movement.
But with just a few days before the Beck rally, basic questions linger, including how big it will be and whether the event, which Beck says is nonpolitical, will help or hurt Republicans in November. Also unanswered is whether Beck can pull off the connection to King without creating offense - or confrontation with another event the same day led by the Rev. Al Sharpton.
Glenn Beck rally will be a measure of the tea party's strength
Boy, oh boy....Can you feel the contempt in Amy Gardner's words here from the Washington 'Com'Post....Let me ask, when demo's use activism as a blunt tool for their message, are they expected to pull it off in a non political way? Are they expected to not offend anyone? I would say hell no, in fact their purpose is often to offend. But now at least in Ms. Gardner's mind it has to be non offensive....
j-mac
Boy, oh boy....Can you feel the contempt in Amy Gardner's words here from the Washington 'Com'Post....Let me ask, when demo's use activism as a blunt tool for their message, are they expected to pull it off in a non political way? Are they expected to not offend anyone? I would say hell no, in fact their purpose is often to offend. But now at least in Ms. Gardner's mind it has to be non offensive....
j-mac
Watch Beck come out as a liberal :2razz:
If he does, then liberals will start to love him, he'll suddenly become brilliant, and all his thoughts will have Deep Merit. And he'll be funny and entertaining, too. Without chaning anything other than his political bent. Hazlnut will have an epiphany and recognize Beck's true genius.
And then conservatives will pile on with all the things liberals say about him at the moment. He'll be the new Olbermann.
No offense, but most of the tea party candidates lost in the primaries. That was the best measure of their lack of strength as a group.
While they certainly haven't won in every case, saying "most" of them lost is a bit of a distortion.
Who won, exactly? Did ANYONE that Sarah Palin supported win this week?
Sharron Angle. Nikki Haley. Paul LePage. Anna Little. Rand Paul. Kristi Noem. Tim Scott. Et al.
Palin backed Carly Fiorina.
Last I saw, Murkowski is behind in the count in Alaska.
Why are you limiting results only to this week?
I'm going to laugh my ass off about this thread in November.
I'm going to laugh my ass off about this thread in November.
I don't take offense to what they're doing, where they're doing it.
I do however think that Mr. Beck is pretty disengenious with his reasoning, I actually heard him say
"We're going to reclaim the civil rights movement"
What? Reclaim the civil rights movement? Are conservatives being hosed down by firefighters at bridges? Or did I miss something...
A portion of the population believe that the Civil Rights movement has been coopted by the Liberal Democrats. I for example, believe the Democrats want to keep minorities repressed and believing they are victims because that works to the Liberal Democrat's political asperations of getting elected. I'm not sure if that's what Beck has said, but that's what I observe. Without victims, Democrats would not have as much support and by educating and providing minorities the ability to take control of their own destiny instead of putting out their palms for government handouts via social and welfare programs, Democrats would probably lose some of their voting block. :shrug:
That's actually as hyperbole as saying all Republicans wanna see a theocratical Christian state...
I mean do you think Obama's master plan is to keep a brother down so they keep voting for him?
It may be hyperbole but I also believe it's true.
And it's not Obama - it's the DNC leadership and has been for a long time. This isn't new - it's been going on for decades.
When it's obvious as this is... yes.K............. So you believe hyperbole?
Actually the reverse. Decades of it make it more possible, no less.It's possible... but more possibly not.
When it's obvious as this is... yes.
My exact words identify a want to doubt, hence, using the word "may". I want it to be untrue, but as I stated already twice, after decades, the chances that it's hyperbole are slim. What I want and what is, are two different things.Your exact words were "it may be hyperbole, but I think it's true"
So you basically believe something you know to be untrue?
There's no way you can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that democratics strategy is to make sure people stay poor and downtrodden.
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