Burns: "Beck's insistence that today's rally was non-political ignores the facts"

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- by mari2jj (August 28, 2010 3:37 pm ET)
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  I think the most outrageous thing about the Beck grandiose "gathering" is the fact that he has chosen the MLK site, has tried by innuendo to put himself forward as being associated with Dr. King's ideals. Like the words from President Reagan, "Glenn beck, you are no Dr. Martin Luther King!" In fact, Mr. Beck, you work tirelessly at dividing, promoting hate and racism. You constantly disrespect our President. Your use of the mall and your attempt to coopt King’s message is filled with self delusions of grandeur. Really, although I am a life long Republican, Mr. Beck, you embarrass me.
  
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  - by mari2jj (August 28, 2010 7:29 pm ET)
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    PS: Actually Beck's choice will be the undoing of this silly guy. Anyone can simultaneously broadcast some of the spellbinding speech given by MLK and then the drivel Beck spewed and we will so graphically see how silly Beck really is. Poor thing has NO self awareness at all. He has no clue just how pretentious his behavior is. All I can say to Beck, is, "Sir, you certainly have no relationship to MLK's greatness." And, further, your silly attempt to coopt King's legacy has totally flunked. When you have inherant race bias, you should not be throwing insults at Obama, because we all recognize it as projection, Mr. Beck. Poor thing just looks pitiful beside the awesome abilities of President Obama! Beck would have been way ahead without this sad comparisons he has insisted on.
    
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  - by iowalib (August 28, 2010 7:32 pm ET)
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    Like the words from President Reagan, "Glenn beck, you are no Dr. Martin Luther King!"
    
    Actually I think you're alluding to the comeback by Lloyd Bentsen to Dan Quayle during the vp debates: "Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy."
    
    Although your reference was off, your meaning was right on.
    
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  - by markbfoot199 (August 30, 2010 5:03 pm ET)
    
    Mar, so the only events that are allowed now at the Lincoln Memorial can only be MLK themes? I guess we need to rename it the MLK Memorial?
    
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    - by MiddleLeft (August 30, 2010 7:57 pm ET)
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      Why do you hate the Constitution? Is Mari not allowed to exercise his or her free speech to complain when a craven populist tries to expropriate and corrupt the principles of Lincoln and MLK to advance his agenda?
      
      Not a political event? How many Democrats attended? Give me a percentage.
      
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- by CatsRBigLuv (August 28, 2010 5:38 pm ET)
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  I wanted to post this in the comment article about MLK Being on Becks Chalk board, because that is more than just metaphorical. But comments for that article are closed, so I'm posting it here.
  
  Check out this link
  
  http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/35344/
  
  Is it hypocrisy, lunacy, forgetfullness, stupidity or what?
  
  So not only do we have Sarah Palin trying to co-opt the image of MLK, just days after exhorting Dr. Laura to RELOAD! for using the N-word. Not only do we have a homophobic preacher like Hagee trying to steal the spirit of an event organized by the proud and openly gay man (Bayard Rustin.) Not only do we have the same crowd that ran Shirley Sherrod through the ringer for bogus sound-bytes contrived by Andrew Breitbart (when she was, in fact, talking about coming out of her own racism).
  
  We have Beck trying to appropriate for himself, the words and promise of a man he described as a socialist (the worst thing a person can be in his world.) He's trying to steal the legacy of someone who he described as not being the person we celebrate.
  
  hmmmm....
  
  The mendacious audacity, let alone the whole-hearted embrace of cognitive dissonance, overwhelms itself.
  
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  - by CatsRBigLuv (August 28, 2010 6:24 pm ET)
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    For the record, in the above transcript, Beck mangles a soundbyte of Julian Bond to draw the conclusions he does, which mostly devolve around some bizarre conspiracies about the so-called left (aint that a shocker?) Beck claims that its Bond who called King a socialist, and he is just quoting him.
    
    He seems appalled that an activist who went to jail fighting an unjust establishment should ever be called a radical. And from that he goes to assuming that this means King was a socialist, or at least asserting that Bond had said so (as if Dr Kings economic perspectives were really that obscure.)
    
    And through it all, his attitude is childish, condescending, embittered, paranoid and hardly reverend at all to Dr Kings real work and message. All his pretenses to co-opting King for his own bs rally today are belied by his own behavior.
    
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- by liberalXtian (August 28, 2010 6:49 pm ET)
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  Did anyone in any speech actually touch upon the sacrifice of our military, or did the speakers all assume that our men and women in uniform all oppose high deficits, Obama and the Democrats, Social Security and Health Care refrom and support tax cuts for the rich. To say a rally that purports to "Restore Honor" is meant to support a group that has never lost its honor is insulting to our military.
  
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  - by markbfoot199 (August 30, 2010 5:05 pm ET)
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    Lib, you can watch the event on tape, you decide. Or you can just stay here and listed to all this hate speech from the left.
    
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- by donwelty (August 29, 2010 2:20 am ET)
  
  From the clips that MMFA had, I think that restoring honor is what Beck needs, but the real title of the whole thing should have been "The Gospel Hour with GB."
  
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  - by markbfoot199 (August 30, 2010 5:05 pm ET)
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    Don, stop trusting MMFA and watch for yourself from beginning to end.
    
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- by markbfoot199 (August 30, 2010 5:01 pm ET)
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  Burns, Restoring Honor Event was held on Saturday, you seem to be talking about other events outside of Saturday. So where is the so-called political overtones from Saturdays Restoring Honor Event?
  
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