Time to find heroes again? As if none exist? How's this for heroes:

Todd Beamer, Capt. Chesley Sullenberger, Capt. Richard Phillips, Katharine Gun, Cynthia Cooper, Dr. David Benke, Rick Rescorla, Cindy Sheehan, Pfc. Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, James "Catfish" Miller.

And that's just in this past decade. Open your eyes, Beck. They're there. Too bad you missed them.

Truly, I maintain Beck has bipolar disorder.

Sarah Palin is a joke. Her double standards when it comes to the First Amendment is ridiculous. It's alright to drop the N-bomb on air ELEVEN TIMES IN FIVE MINUTES, but God forbid somebody say the word "retard". Free speech works both ways, lady.

Beck asks,

"Tomorrow that's what this is about really, reflection of who we are, where we are, where we're going, what each of us have to do. How do we get our way out of this? ... It's time we find heroes again... .What is it we trust? Who is it we believe in?"

His audience will answer most of these with two words - 'White people.'

It's a masterclass in talking about race without talking about race.

The left constantly plays the race card, but howls when it is played on them!

I think Obama is a racist, because for example I believe he jumped to conclusions based on racial stereotypes in his comments about the Cambridge police arresting Gates.

Nothing is more pathetic and disingenuous than white folks crying about reverse racism. You Andrew Breitbart types makes me sick!

Obviously, right wingers just don't like what they see in the mirror.

If the right isn't racist, why does Beck draw only a sea of white faces? Looks like some kind of Nazi rally.

Why is he failing to connect with America's millions of minorities?

Couldn't be because he represents the party that opposes Civil Rights and that formulated the Southern Strategy, now could it?!

Beck has such a pampered, soft, flabby look to him.

Like a worm.

Makes me sick.

HEY, IT WORKED FOR HITLER! WHY NOT BECK?

I promise, effective immediately, that any source, respectful or otherwise, who even mentions the names of these things, Palin, and that obnoxious and nauseating creature, Beck, will be wiped from my life. Let's spend our time on other things.

Beck and Palin are shameless deluded hucksters. They are either very cunning and know exactly why they say and do what they do, or they are too stupid to know the difference...Revisit Ms. Palin's attempt to recall a single Supreme Court decision in her interview with Katie Couric....Revisit, GB's obsession with fear mongering and Nazis

This is what they do...try convince people that it doesn't take intelligence to form an opinion

On second thought I'm going with cunning AND stupid.....

Beck is an enemy of social justice.

He's the absolute opposite of MLK.

He's a charlatan, and everyone with a brain can see it.

Thank you Dr. Leon.
I hope this is widely read.

MLK, Jr. was Republican. Search NAACPC.org for documentation. The Congress of Racial Equality guys were also Republican, and their analysis of the press as wired to power and afraid of getting the wires cut is as true today as it was in the 70's.

00:04:

The Tea Party folks are always comparing Obama to Hitler--when it's not Stalin. The hyperbole goes both ways. But it is true that Hitler was on the Right and rose to power by scapegoating minorities. 03:00 makes the case.

As for Palin & Beck--are they "offering hope" with their lies or just enriching themselves by pandering to the credulous?

Beck mixes the master race with nationalism and religion. He isn't looking to be the leader of a political party, but a new fuhrer.

These right-wing comments must be from Texas where history is altered to suit their ideology. I lived when the right was similar to today only the media was not as powerful. The South was ready for another civil war when the schools were told to integrate. The leaders of the left were murdered: MLK, Medgar Evers, the Kennedy Brothers, et al. To hold an event supposedly honoring a hero of that time who paid with his life is incredibly horrible to me especially when we have had two years of solid race bashing since the election of Obama. The only improvement in this event was that they did not wear their guns (illegal still in DC) and threaten anyone who disagreed with them. They left their Obama/Hitler/Muslim/alien posters at home. A very sad day.

Beck, Limbaugh and Palin the 3 white horses of America's apocalypse. Where there is intelligence they preach selective stupidity. Its not racial pride they preach, but pride in being ignorant. Look how many showed up to pump their fists. But the real devil in the details are the financial backers who promote, Beck Palin and Limbaugh,is Rupert Murdoch an American citizen?These charlatans are feeding the racist undercurrent of this nation, stoking the flames all the way to the bank. A black president is, in their minds, the beginning of the end. Period. The combination of hate and stupidity is at the core of american values, not the constitution. That's why the tea party has grown and will continue to grow, there are plenty of stupid haters out there, just waiting on a reason to unleash it. Where's David
(klean kut klan)Duke when you need him? Their policies wrapped in a constitutional flag, unless non-whites try to take advantage of it. All people are not created equal in their eyes.

And just as the profit motive had nothing to do with the founding of the United States, so it has nothing to do with our wars. All have been fought for altruistic motives and on the side of the angels. The millions that have died at the hands of American arms in Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, El Salvador, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere play no role in this narrative. Other than as the objects of our gifts of Freedom and Democracy... no that's not quite right ... shall we say our conveyance of the Almighty's universal gifts of Freedom & Democracy, they don't exist. The Tea Party was at the Reflecting Pool to honor the warrior not fret over his victim

Sarah Palin, "the proud mother of a combat vet" led off by telling us that the "warrior's stories are America's story." "Just a mom" Sarah Palin had the honor of introducing three heroes from America's Wars. As she introduced them, each of these heroes was brought out on stage amidst much applause and flag waving. The first was from Iraq. She told a story about how once his squad didn't kill a group of civilians but should have.

The second was the heroic story of a U.S. Marine in Falluja and how he won the Bronze Star. She neglected to tell us that today doctors in the new American hospital in Falluja, we bombed the old one out of existence, are advising the women of Falluja to just stop having babies because the birth defect rate is off the charts. Anyone familiar with the true history of the [Battle|Liberation|Slaughter] of Falluja, including the liberal use of depleted uranium and white phosphorous on civilians, might assume that that is where America's honor got so lost that it now needs restoring. Just in case you were thinking that, Palin is here to tell you that for these soldiers "Honor was never lost."
These are victims of American Willie Petebut they are not from Vietnamthey are from Falluja, Iraq 2005

The third story was about a Marine pilot shot down while on "a routine mission over Hanoi", a city that saw thousands upon thousands of civilian deaths rained down from American Aircraft. He was captured and became a prisoner along with John McCain at that "living hell" known as the Hanoi Hilton. Palin tells us how he described the torture he endured for five and a half years. "There was nothing to do, nothing to read, nothing to write. You had to just sit there in absolute boredom, loneliness, frustration and fear." As Marlon Brando said at the end of Apocalypse Now, "The Horror, the Horror."

from Vietnam: American Holocaust If you are looking for racism at the Restoring Honor rally, you need look no further than here. It is the way they can bring the world such destruction while seeing themselves as all goodness and light. It is the way the can brand the others as evil while seeing themselves as doing God's work. It is the way they stripe away the humanity of their victims and count their lives in the balance as not even worth an 'honorable' mention.

Anyone familiar with America's wars, wars that since WW2 have almost exclusively been against people of color in poor countries,
knows that they have not been pretty or kind to the children. A special operations warrior is that special breed of soldier who can justify slitting a child's throat in the name of operational security. That is the brutal truth of the matter. I wrote a dairy here at the beginning of the year about the special forces execution of eight schoolchildren between the ages of 12 and 14 in Afghanistan. Some see those killers as terrorists but at the rally the Beck and Palin crowd portray them Rambo style as America's own true superheroes, fighting for truth, justice and the American Way. The sullied truth is they are the U.S. government's ultimate goon squad, hired assassins and mass murderers. They are the people the President sends in secretly when he knows he doesn't have any legal justification for his rampage.

Obstinately, the reason for this rally was to raise money for the Special Operations Warriors Fund. They provide money and tuition for families of special operations soldiers killed or wounded on missions. The founder and president of SOWF is James Carney. He was the SO agent who buried the advanced landing lights in the Iranian desert for Carter's disastrous 1980 special forces hostage rescue mission. Other notables on the board of SOWF include Erik Prince of the firm formerly known as Blackwater. Apparently Glenn Beck's deal with SOWF provides that they don't see penny one until all the expenses of the rally are paid. I would think that they could hope for a little more charity from a guy that earned $18 million last year but instead they had to settle for having faith that contributions would be greater than expenses. One wonders just what those expenses might be and whether they might involve a moose for sister Sarah. But enough about them.

The fund raising was nonstop. One of the early ones was that new trick of texting ten dollars. When Glenn Beck made his dramatic appeal saying "These men and women have died in our name, let's take care of their children, let's do it right now." he could have been channeling Saddam Hussein appealing for contributions to the families of suicide bombers.

Sarah Palin was followed by Negiel Bigpond, a Native American "covenant warrior of God" who counseled us to "never look back at the past" and told us we had to become "a covenant of warriors in Christ." He introduced the Black minister C.L. Jackson, who told us of all his personal accomplishments because "God would not let me stop." You can't fight God's destiny. Perhaps sensing that the crowd didn't want to hear from him, he said "Just let me say this, and then I'll be out of your hair." He then told his story, ending with the plead "even a dog is deserving of crumbs."

There was also Deb Argel-Bastian, a military mom who described how her son decided in the 3rd grade that honor meant never breaking a promise, and then in the 5th grade made a promise he would be the best special forces soldier ever. He died young in a foreign land but he kept the promise of a ten year old and kept his honor.

And so it went with speaker after speaker praising Beck, lauding billionaires, promoting this as a Christian nation, as a Warrior nation whose unwilling destiny it was to rule the world, with much fanfare and flag waving and an announcer's voice that sounded like it was from The Running Man. As Glenn Beck himself summed it up in the end, "a global storm is coming and we have to guide the world to safety."

Glenn Beck scheduled his rally to happen on the 47th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I have a Dream" speech, and at the same place, the Washington Mall. It is often forgotten that that famous civil rights march on Washington on August 28, 1963 was the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. And while the Tea Party crowd at the Glenn Beck affair might not have much truck with the civil right aspect of the thing, in this economy, you'd think they would be all in with the demand for jobs, which makes it all the more strange that the demand for jobs was never mentioned.

In fact, one of the defining characteristics of this rally was that no demands and no concerns that could possibly make a real difference in the lives of the people there, the demand for jobs, housing, health care or an end to foreign wars for power and profit, would be addressed at all. There were allusions to defending marriage for procreation and protecting our children, even in the womb, but nothing was said about the most vital concerns of the people.

The attempt to co-op Dr. King's legacy was obvious. There was much talk about MLK and even a presentation from a niece of Dr. King, and speaking politically, a very distance niece at that. But what kind of Dr. King did they praise? It was Dr. King, the empty icon. Dr. King devoid of any political content. Dr. King completely whitened, completely blanked by them. When I think of Dr. King, I think first of his leadership of the struggle of Black people for civil rights. To see things that way, you must first acknowledge racial oppression. Instead we are given a man that hoped "God's love will transcend skin color and economic status." Dr. King is also widely regarded for the non-violent methods he advocated in the struggle. These people are here to celebrate warriors. Non-violence didn't get mentioned. Finally, I most honor Dr. King for the giant leap he made near the end of his life by adding our perchance for imperialist wars to his list of causes. Believe me, the Dr. King that called his country the greatest purveyor of violence in the world, was nowhere to be found. MLK Jr., now gutted of any content was hoisted on their petards as another empty icon on the road to world domination. His niece spoke of "soldiers, like Uncle Martin, [that] gave their lives for the freedom of others." It's just what Americans do. We honor God so that He will honor us!

One question that was never clearly addressed at the Restoring Honor rally was just what honor they think was lost and how it had been lost. This was a very slick event mediawise. The Tea Party was told to leave the signs at home, and likewise a lot was understood but unspoken. Great pains were taken to show they weren't racists, in fact there may have been more people of color on the stage than in the crowd. No that's not fair. I couldn't see everyone in the crowd. Still there are these indications that one of their underlying points of unity is opposition to President Obama and all bullcrap aside, they oppose Obama because he is Black. Maybe the Take America Back 2010 t-shirts give a clue. Was America lost as well as her honor when Obama was elected President?

Not that any in the Tea Party oppose him because he is Black. It's not that! We're post-racial. It's all those other things. President Obama spoke to that himself this weekend when Brian Williams asked him what he could do about the poll that showed a fifth of the people falsely think he's a Muslim. He said he couldn't spend all his time with his birth certificate plastered on his forehead. He was saying that the real problem was not his religion or his place of birth, it was something else.

It took me a while to understand the Tea Party's passion for the birther thing. I mean it is so ridiculous, and so completely disproved and yet they still cling to it. There are so many other grounds on which to say someone is not fit to be president, but those won't do for the birthers. They need a reason to say that Obama can't be president by birth, and they can't say what they really feel, maybe even subconsciously, which is that he can't be president because he was born Black, so they cling to this absurd metaphor that he can't be president because he wasn't born here.

And while they fiddle, the Empire burns..

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