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Title: Beck Says US Has 'Wandered in Darkness' Too Long
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Published: Aug 28, 2010
Author: Phillip Elliot
Post Date: 2010-08-28 11:57:28 by war
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Views: 180078
Comments: 203
WASHINGTON (Aug. 28) -- From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck told a crowd of tens of thousands of people Saturday that the U.S. has too long "wandered in darkness." His rally's marquee speaker, Sarah Palin, praised "patriots" in the audience for "knowing never to retreat." The two champions of the tea party movement spoke from the very spot where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech 47 years ago. Some civil rights leaders who have denounced Beck's choice of a venue staged a rival rally to honor King. Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee who may make a White House run in 2012, said activists must honor King's legacy by paying tribute to the men and women who protect the United States in uniform. Beck, pacing back and forth on the marble steps, said he was humbled by the size of the crowd, which stretched along the Washington Mall's long reflecting pool nearly all the way to the Washington Monument. "Something beyond imagination is happening," he said. "America today begins to turn back to God." "For too long, this country has wandered in darkness," said Beck, a Fox News host. He said it was now time to "concentrate on the good things in America, the things we have accomplished and the things we can do tomorrow." Neither Beck nor Palin made overtly political comments. Palin, greeted by chants of "USA, USA, USA" from many in the crowd, told the gathering, "It is so humbling to get to be here with you today, patriots. You who are motivated and engaged ... and knowing never to retreat." "We must restore America and restore her honor," said the former Alaska governor, echoing the name of the rally, "Restoring Honor." Palin told the crowd she wasn't speaking as a politician. "No, something more, something much more. I've been asked to speak as the mother of a soldier and I am proud of that distinction. Say what you want to say about me, but I raised a combat vet and you can't take that away from me." It was a reference to her son, Track, 20, who served a yearlong deployment in Iraq. Palin honored military members in her speech. She likened the rally participants to the civil rights activists who came to the National Mall to hear King's historic speech. She said the same spirit that helped civil rights activists overcome oppression, discrimination and violence would help this group as well. "We are worried about what we face. Sometimes, our challenges seem insurmountable," Palin said. "Look around you. You're not alone," Palin told participants. The crowd - organizers had a permit for 300,000 - was vast, with people standing shoulder to shoulder across large expanses of the Mall. The National Park Service stopped doing crowd counts in 1997 after the agency was accused of underestimating numbers for the 1995 Million Man March. Civil rights leaders protested the event and scheduled a 3-mile plus march from a high school to the site of a planned King memorial near the Tidal Basin and not far from Beck's gathering. Beck has said he did not intend to choose the King anniversary for his rally but had since decided it was "divine providence." Organizers said their aim was to honor military personnel and others "who embody our nation's founding principles of integrity, truth and honor." Many in the crowd watched the proceedings on large television screens. On the edges of the Mall, vendors sold "Don't Tread on Me" flags, popular with tea party activists. Other activists distributed fliers urging voters "dump Obama." The pamphlet included a picture of the president with a Hitler-style mustache. The Rev. Al Sharpton, leading the civil rights march, said Beck's demonstration was an anti-government rally that advocated states' rights - counter to the message in King's speech, in which the civil right leader appealed to the federal government to ensure equality. "The structural breakdown of a strong national government, which is what they're calling for, is something that does not serve the interests of the nation and it's something that Dr. King and others fought against," Sharpton told C-SPAN hours before his event. People began filling up the space between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument early in the day, many waving American flags. Wasington's subway system was extremely crowded with long lines of people trying to get to the rally. Metro spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said that there was crowding at least a dozen stations. Ricky Thomas, 43, a SWAT team police officer from Chesapeake Beach, Md., brought his 10-year old son Chase to the Beck rally. "I wanted my son to see democracy in action," Thomas said. He said he wants government to stay out of people's lives. He acknowledged that he works for government, but said it's "a part of government that helps people when they are in trouble." Beck has given voice to those angry and frustrated with President Barack Obama and other Democrats this election year, especially members of the tea party movement.
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#82. To: Liberator (#81)
Are we there yet! Are we there yet!
Because they were for it or because Joe McCarthy was waiting at every turn in case they did not. HUH?? When the Liberal/Left Media controls the message? Naaah. Not even you could actually buy that. Look, the Dems are just un-principled whores whose votes were for sale. The lobbyists of defense contractors had a field day with these hypocrites.
No, I'm not living at a FEMA Camp. Yet.
Anyone who thinks the GOP has either the criminality quotient or the craftiness to engage in such organized felony election fraud for many years is simply as stupid as one the resident dolts here on LF. HEH! Stated with your usual eloquence and good sense, jag. Dems engage in whatever election criminality they want - and justify it somehow because, "The revolution requires it, man!"
ROFL
A BIT heavy on the MLK crap. Geez, the guy wound up being Jesus Christ, and the event the Sermon on the Mount (with MLK there in spirit.)
You mean with 0bama and the Dems OUT?? At least we'll be able to breathe and suspend our FEMA Camp registrations until the following Dem administrations.
The magic of 9/11
Nice contribution to the thread, Yukie. Gee what a surprise. Can't you flame without invoking fecal material or some lewd act of fornication or sexual connotation?
Yeah, why Palin and some conservatives insist that wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and "Nation Building" are "protecting" us in ANY sense...I just don't get it. The invocation of MLK as waaaay over the top, but guess valuable as a propaganda tool.
Bread & Circuses. Nothing much has changed for centuries. We're at least getting a partially true narrative of things from conservatives within the GOP...and yes - Beck, Savage, Levine, and even Hannity at times. Is it enough to turn around the Republic? Doubtful. Not with 35 million Mexicans about to be given citizenship through Amnesty. OTOH, we get absolutely ZERO Truth from the Leftists of media and the Dem Party who abhor America with every fiber of their corrupt bodies and souls.
Right. Sure. DNC script #10011AX
Clinton and Cuomo are the true bandits who lit the fuse to this economic crisis we're now in. All in the name of getting more minorities in houses: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=12554
Like Iran? Probably.
Ha! Good one. Yes, it is better that Obama and his confederates in congress are gone than sitting there.
Clinton and Cuomo are the true bandits who lit the fuse to this economic crisis we're now in. All in the name of getting more minorities in houses: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=12554
You are soooo gay, Yukie.
I'm desperate for good news ;-) Yes, it is better that Obama and his confederates in congress are gone than sitting there. He and they really WOULD march us into FEMA Camps tomorrow if they could.
For people such as you and I Liberator, FEMA camps are too good! It would be up against the wall for us!
Clinton and Cuomo are the true bandits who lit the fuse to this economic crisis we're now in. All in the name of getting more minorities in houses: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=12554
How is it YOU could explain what Kerry meant, but he and his dozen script writers couldn't?
It would be up against the wall for us! Do you think we'd even reach the FEMA Camp alive? Lol... The easiest and most economical thing for gubmint to do is spray us with biological toxins before FEMA.
Well War is all knowing! I'd like to know what War does that allows him to sit at his computer each and ever work day posting on LF if he's so smart that he can tell us what Kerry meant when even Kerry couldn't.
Clinton and Cuomo are the true bandits who lit the fuse to this economic crisis we're now in. All in the name of getting more minorities in houses: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=12554
If I show you how quickly this reality was put out into the press will you promise to never post here or at LP again? If you are so confident that this was never let alone quickly explained you should take the bet...
Tactical PD paid to snipe. Just fuck off and die.....why AKA let your detestable fraudulent slug ass back on here eludes me. Spit.
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way. Below is positively the most hilariously BS overflowing comment from the resident obamunist spent-condom EVER:) "This is WHY I left the GOP in the mid 90's. ." Dwarf
You really are a Neb Nose aren't you?
Are you claiming that the dems did not try to make paying for the war an issue every time a re-authorization came up?
Neocons control the press, fool. Judith Miller...Russert [RIP]...Dana Milbank...the list goes on...
You'r repeating yourself. I know what the guy;s job is. If he's anti-big government then he's a hypocrite. SWAT teams are a better reason for 2A than health care.
You were the one trying to describe me, Lubey.
Who said that they needed to be?
Yea...Mamie has me pegged all right. Meanwhile, she has online sex with Boofer.
Chuckles...
Wanna bet?
Looks like Bush and his GOP Congress produced the biggest deficit in 2004 (not counting 2008 - the year Republican economic policies came home to roost) Sure. Only regressive idiots like you and "the LF crew" have up and lost your calendars. 2009 numbers???.....2010?????....who needs em when deficit numbers simply ceased to exist after 2008. But yeah.....stay in 2004....heck..go back to 1964 or whenever you gaseous kooks found nirvana......whatever you do keep looking elsewhere and not at what's in front of you. November is coming......and you and your infantile crew of community communists are L...E...A...V...I...N...G...
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way. Below is positively the most hilariously BS overflowing comment from the resident obamunist spent-condom EVER:) "This is WHY I left the GOP in the mid 90's. ." Dwarf
He won't pay up. In fact, he'll keep saying he was right even after he's wrong. Remember his prediction earlier of this being a "long, hot summer", implying riots were going to break out? He doesn't either.
"How many confirmed NV Mig kills do YOU have general? I only have three." - Mad Dog, the village idiot's hemorrhoid.
I've noticed that about him. He keeps saying that Boehner has a plan to cut spending, even after I posted Boehner's "plan" which offers no spending cuts whatsoever. Badeye is delusional. He reminds me of my ex-mother-in-law.
LOL! YOUR "hero" eh corn flake "girl"/"boy"? WE ALL already knew that weasel "boy"/"girl". Wave your "little red book" some more "comrade"! LOL! That's MORE than FUNNY coming from a LIAR such as you weasel "boy"/"girl". I'm NOT posting for you corn flake "girl"/"boy", I'm posting to you for lurkers et.al.. I'm just making sure that the TRUTH keeps bitch slapping your LYING butt down. YOU are what YOU are, which is a self admitted LIAR, you vile loser creep. As illustrated, AGAIN, by your inability to back up even this one of your LIES you sniveling little bitch. I'm STILL waiting for the citation of ME EVER claiming to have been a Naval aviator you vile sniveling little ibTURD LYING POS. ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((crickets)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) Of course you CAN'T, because I've NEVER EVER made any such claim anywhere, and you know it, you pitiful vile sniveling little ibTURD LYING POS. So lets review, 1.) You are a self admitted LIAR. 2.) You have charged that I have made the claim of once having been a Naval aviator, and when called on to provide a citation of me doing that, you rum away and TRY to change the subject, because you are nothing but a pitiful vile sniveling little ibTURD LYING POS. That's what is called "PROOF" you pitiful vile sniveling little ibTURD LYING POS. Now run, and dodge, and evade, and TRY to spin and change the subject you miserable little whiny creep.
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
Come on, care to share?
Clinton and Cuomo are the true bandits who lit the fuse to this economic crisis we're now in. All in the name of getting more minorities in houses: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=12554
They weren't serious about it. They have the entire government in their power and they have no intention of paying for it. They believe in borrowing and that is all.
Clinton and Cuomo are the true bandits who lit the fuse to this economic crisis we're now in. All in the name of getting more minorities in houses: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=12554
Well mutt, you are the one who always puts MAO in your posts. But now you mention it, he wasn't a particularly handsome man, but he was a damn sigh better off then you in many ways. I mean, look at you here in this picture that best matches your online character. Your characteristic hassle from the get go when you first started this when I returned here to now and beyond is something most can't take. But see son, I have a very thick skin and relish in this sort of combat. r I wouldn't bother with forums where I find amusing and colorful whine-os. People like you need spam, as you are probably too Alaskan drunk most the time and can't come up with a different post from the same one over and over. Why, your peepers are so red and blurry with double vision, a cut and paste job no doubt takes you an hour or so to do. Cheers buttercup, thanks for sharing.
He reminds me of a bag lady who's shopping cart has squeaky wheels as she shambles down the sidewalk spewing in line side bar comments out of the side of her mouth at no one in particular. He's harmless. I just ignore him. Though I do sometime bother to read his one liner, for entertainment reasons of course.
LOL! Oh gee THAT really hurts LIAR! /S YOU are what YOU are, which is a self admitted LIAR, you vile loser creep. As illustrated, AGAIN, by your inability to back up even this one of your LIES you sniveling little bitch. I'm STILL waiting for the citation of ME EVER claiming to have been a Naval aviator you vile sniveling little ibTURD LYING POS. ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((crickets)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) Of course you CAN'T, because I've NEVER EVER made any such claim anywhere, and you know it, you pitiful vile sniveling little ibTURD LYING POS.
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
Yeah, but it's sure to spread. WW III? The elites want to reduce the population, we're sucking up too many resources. Quit breathing so much! 8^)
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestBut 0bama hasn't cleaned up ONE "mess" yet; He hasn't "repaired" anything.
#83. To: war (#73)
Yet, Dems overwhelmingly have voted for IT.
#84. To: lucysmom (#82)
Are we there yet! Are we there yet!
#85. To: e_type_jag (#10)
Barack polled 5% higher than Stain simply by being within the ingrained democrap party criminality factor which pushes felons, dead people, northeastern leftists with 2 residences, brainless 20 somethings with home and college addresses, illegals etc.... to swell their ever faked "totals by a good 10%.
#86. To: Mad Dog (#11)
Aren't you always supposed to say "did you want fries with that?" at the end of any statement skippy boy?
#87. To: hondo68 (#12)
"You have the same steel spine and moral courage of Washington and Lincoln and Martin Luther King. It is in you, it will sustain you as it sustained them."
#88. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#13)
In the big scheme of things? Nothing [will change].
#89. To: jwpegler (#14)
What in the hell has happened to American in the last 10 years???
#90. To: Ibluafartsky, jwpegler (#15)
What were you doing prior, sucking off Clinton?
#91. To: hondo68 (#16)
Beating the war drums, "a thousand battlefields far from home". Chickenhawks, let's roll!
#92. To: Capitalist Eric (#18)
The elitists are blatant about their plans, but since the American sheeple are fixated on the more interesting fictions on the TV, they don't believe reality...
#93. To: war (#73)
And, truth be told, dems continually raised the issue of exit strategy and actually PAYING for the war - Kerry's so-called "gaffe" of being "for the bill before he was against it" was because the original bill PAID for what was being approved while the GOP passed bill did not - but were called Troop Haters and Unpatriotic every time that they did.
#94. To: hondo68 (#19)
Palin's backing whatever war, hObama's muzzie ass starts.
#95. To: Liberator (#88)
At least we'll be able to breathe and suspend our FEMA Camp registrations until the following Dem administrations.
#96. To: Ibluafartsky (#20)
WTF are you injecting, manjuice?
#97. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#95)
Ha! Good one.
#98. To: Liberator (#97)
He and they really WOULD march us into FEMA Camps tomorrow if they could.
#99. To: war, Nebuchadnezzar (#73)
And, truth be told, dems continually raised the issue of exit strategy and actually PAYING for the war - Kerry's so-called "gaffe" of being "for the bill before he was against it" was because the original bill PAID for what was being approved while the GOP passed bill did not - but were called Troop Haters and Unpatriotic every time that they did.
#100. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#98)
For people such as you and I Liberator, FEMA camps are too good!
#101. To: Liberator (#99)
How is it YOU could explain what Kerry meant, but he and his dozen script writers couldn't?
#102. To: Liberator (#99)
How is it YOU could explain what Kerry meant, but he and his dozen script writers couldn't?
#103. To: dwarf (#52)
his guy gets paid to snipe Americans for a living and that's "helping" but feeding, clothing, healing and educating is not.
#104. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#101)
I'd like to know what War does that allows him to sit at his computer each and ever work day posting
#105. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#93)
Right. Sure.
#106. To: Liberator (#83)
HUH?? When the Liberal/Left Media controls the message?
#107. To: Liberator (#67)
#108. To: Liberator (#64)
#109. To: Liberator (#66)
If the police are trained to the extent SWAT is, they ARE "SWAT."
#110. To: Liberator (#80)
#111. To: Skip Intro (#9)
Doesn't she know that she has the greatest living hero of the Viet Nam war, MiG Killer Dog, living in her own state?
#112. To: Badeye (#58)
GOP will retake the House, by a wide margin.
American public policy has been dominated by Democrats who don't care and Republicans that don't dare -- Dick Armey
#113. To: lucysmom (#63)
2001 128.2 2002 -157.8 2003 -377.6 2004 -412.7 2005 -318.3 2006 -248.2 2007 -160.7 2008 -454.8 + TARP -750.0
#114. To: jwpegler (#112)
Wanna bet?
#115. To: Skip Intro (#114)
In fact, he'll keep saying he was right even after he's wrong.
American public policy has been dominated by Democrats who don't care and Republicans that don't dare -- Dick Armey
#116. To: Ferret Mike (#30)
#117. To: war (#104)
You really are a Neb Nose aren't you?
#118. To: war (#105)
Are you claiming that the dems did not try to make paying for the war an issue every time a re-authorization came up?
#119. To: Mad Dog (#116)
#120. To: jwpegler (#115)
"Badeye is delusional. He reminds me of my ex-mother-in-law."
#121. To: Ferret Mike (#119)
#122. To: Liberator (#94)
Like Iran? Probably.
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