Beck: “As Martin Luther King said, I don't know if I'll be there when we reach the promised land” Written by Media Matters Staff Published 08/27/10 11:26 AM EDT From the August 27 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program: Video file Previously: Beck now claims he's “not trying to be Martin Luther King,” adds that 8-28 attendees “can change the world” Beck tells his listeners: Like Dr. King, “you may not make it to the mountaintop”