Glenn Beck to use 9/11 anniversary to stage another Obama-hating rally
November 23, 2009 9:08 am ET by Eric Boehlert
From Politico [emphasis added]:
Additionally, POLITICO has learned that Beck’s 9.12 Project is co-sponsoring a march on Washington on Sept. 11, 2010 to voice unhappiness with the agenda of President Obama and the Democratic congress, and that the group will also become involved in voter registration drives.
The idea of trying to politicize the 9/11 anniversary in such a naked way is shocking. But of course nothing actually shocks us any more about Beck's tasteless, Obama-hating campaign. What would be amazing though, is if Beck is able to get away with this. (At least this year's anti-Obama rally was held the day after Sept. 11.) Meaning, if Beck's followers really follow through with their plan and use the hallowed anniversary of 9/11 and turn the tragic terrorist attacks of 2001 into a day for hurling hateful attacks against the President of the United States, will there be no outcry?
Will the Beltway press corps look away from the right-wing attempt to turn a day of healing into a day of hate? And will leaders of the conservative movement in America stand by silently while rodeo clown Glenn Beck and company make a mockery out of our collective mournful memory?
After all, news of the 9/11, Obama-hating rally has been out for several days now, and so far the silence has been deafening.
UPDATED: Of course, remember that Beck hates the 9/11 families.
Beck claims that he just happened to come up with 9 principles and 12 values. That's exactly how many there are - not 8 values and 13 principles, 9 and 12. And lo and behold, that just happens to be the day after 9/11.
He didn't come up with 9 principles because there's 9 principles we should hold dear, or 12 values because that's all he could think of...he came up with those numbers because he STARTED from the premise that he needed to come up with two lists, one 9 items long and one 12 items long to go with the day after 9/11.
But if you listen to him, he didn't start from 9/12 - he started from a desire to create two lists of principles and values, and they just happened to end up being lists that were 9 and 12 items long.
It's horrific, really. Go read his "principles" which he says he distilled from the 28 principles that our nation's founding fathers used to create our country. I don't recognize hardly any of them from anything that our nation's founders ever said or wrote.
"Furthermore, the Church views with concern the politics of fear and rhetorical extremism that render civil discussion impossible. As the Church begins to rise in prominence and its members achieve a higher public profile, a diversity of voices and opinions naturally follows. Some may even mistake these voices as being authoritative or representative of the Church. However, individual members think and speak for themselves."
Here's a link to the whole press release that supports the need for civil discourse - http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/commentary/the-mormon-ethic-of-civility
At the origin of America, our Founding Fathers built this country on 28 powerful principles. These principles were culled from all over the world and from centuries of great thinkers. We have distilled the original 28 down to the 9 basic principles.
I don't care what they're really from. My point was that, contrary to what Beck has said, he didn't come up with 9 principles and 12 values, and THEN notice that they coincidentally matched up with the day after 9/11. He came up with the 9 and the 12 in order to create a movement playing off 9/11.
Sounds like a good excuse for a DOJ investigation.
And here he is organizing protests that have absolutely nothing to do with the memory of 9/11.
I know Beck is a sleazeball and everything but honestly...I find it amazing. How could any person possibly tolerate such rampant hypocrisy within themselves?