Outrage: Beck to spit on ‘I have a dream’ anniversary
UPDATE: I spoke to Paul Porter of IndustryEars this evening, and he has gotten the ball rolling on major push-back on this, including the NAACP and Beck’s nemeses at Color of Change. It’s on!
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The race-baiting Fox News/talk radio host/conspiracy theorist who has accused the president of the United States of hating white people and “the white culture,” and who has lost dozens of sponsors because of it, plans to hold one of his “9/12 movement” teabagger marches (wonder if he’ll actually attend this one…) next summer, on the 47th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech at the March on Washington. Seriously. RawStory quotes the preening, self-important media personality:
“I am drafting plans now to bring us back to an America that our founders would understand,” he told a crowd in Florida saturday, at a book-sales event.
Beck has been “doing a lot of reading on history in the last few years” and announced that he is crafting a 100 year plan for the nation.
Beck told the crowd he wants them to come to a march at the foot of the Abraham Lincoln statue next summer for its unveiling. His next book will be called The Plan.
Book sales ploy, anyone? And from ThinkProgress, signs that even the wingnuts think this guy’s delusions of grandeur are becoming simply delusions:
At the rally and in a letter on his website, Beck said that he planned to organize a series of conventions in seven regions of the country, where his supporters can go to learn about “self-reliance, community organizing, the economy and how to be a political force in your own neighborhood and country.” The conventions will culminate in a new book by Beck called The Plan and a march on Washington to launch it:
- All of the above will culminate in The Plan, a book that will provide specific policies, principles and, most importantly, action steps that each of us can take to play a role in this Refounding.
- On August 28, 2010, I ask you, your family and neighbors to join me at the feet of Abraham Lincoln on the National Mall for the unveiling of The Plan and the birthday of a new national movement to restore our great country.
Hot Air’s Allahpundit notes that the date of Beck’s DC event “happens to be the anniversary of the ‘I Have a Dream’ speech” by Martin Luther King, Jr. “Eschewing the title of ‘leader’ is thus a curious display of modesty from a guy who thinks his book launch is worthy of a modern-day March on Washington with him in the MLK role,” writes Allahpundit.
More from Allahpundit, who makes two very salient points: that “thinking like China” is “… an interesting model for a libertarian to emulate.” And regarding the timing and location of next year’s event (which also happens to be the 2 year anniversary of the nomination of the first black candidate for the presidency by a major U.S. political party):
No doubt he’s using the date and location as an homage to King, and will cite his example in bringing about another necessary “Refounding” of America. But I’m willing to bet that that’s not how it’ll be received; it’ll be treated as a window onto his ego and an endless opportunity to sidetrack his movement with racial politics.
Although I doubt the “homage” part will happen — so I’m assuming Allahpundit was being tongue in cheek. Besides, Beck NEVER misses an opportunity to sidetrack his movement with racial politics. Why start now?
And by the way, watch out, GOP. Glenn Beck’s plan is aimed at destroying your party, too. Or at least, he’s pretending that it is. And since his followers hang on his every word, kind of like a certain bearded Saudi living somewhere between Afghanistan and Pakistan, you’d better beware. Perhaps Beck’s purpose, like Sarah Palin’s is simply to move a lot of books and get rich (and then convince his dim-bulb followers to fight like hell to prevent the government from making him pay taxes.) Or, perhaps both of them envision an America with themselves as its rulers, swept into power by a tide of white, southern revolution. An anti-Kingian movement, if you will, designed to reverse what King and people like him, of all races, got started in 1963 (two years before sweeping legislation was passed, including the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, and Medicare.) Looked at that way, it’s even worse than a racist like Beck spitting on MLK’s grave by giving a speech coinciding with the historic 1963 march, which will no doubt include racially-charged attacks on the country’s first Black president, and lots of signs depicting Barack Obama as Adolf Hitler. Beck is seeking not just to take a dump on King’s legacy, and the legacy of an entire era that brought so much change to this country, he’s seeking to reverse it.
Related: Read and watch King’s brilliant 1963 speech here.
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