C-SPAN to air Glenn Beck's 'Restoring Honor' Rally LIVE on Saturday morning on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial from 10 a.m.-1 p.m.Beck will be joined by Sarah Palin, Jo Dee Messina, Alveda King (niece of Martin Luther King, Jr.) and many more in a non-political event paying tribute to America's service personnel and other citizens who embody the spirit of our nation's founding principles. Net proceeds raised by the event will benefit the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, a nonprofit charitable organization that provides scholarship grants and educational and family counseling to the children of special operations personnel who lose their lives and immediate financial assistance to severely wounded special operations personnel and their families.
Washington Post
Beck rally will be a measure of 'tea party' strength
Beck's decision to speak on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on the anniversary of the "I Have a Dream" speech leads to criticism by social activists and civil rights leaders.
By Amy Gardner Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 26, 2010
When Fox News and talk radio host Glenn Beck comes to Washington this weekend to headline a rally intended to "restore honor" to America, he will test the strength - and potentially expose the weaknesses - of a conservative grass-roots movement that remains an unpredictable force in the country's politics.
Beck, who is both admired and assailed for his faith-based patriotism and his brash criticism of President Obama, plans in part to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. as an American hero.
He will speak on the anniversary of the "I Have a Dream" speech, from the spot where King delivered it
Read the rest of the article at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/25/AR2010082507203.html
I am by no means the first person to say this, but however large or small the attendance at a three-hour rally in sweltering Washington at the end of August is, will neither prove nor disproves how fundamentally strong the Tea Party is in its various incarnations in all 50 states.
Very strong in some regions of the U.S. for reasons both geographic and cultural, while only so-so in other places where strong party politics are a foreign concept because political independence was already prized long before there was a Tea Party Movement -like Maine.
That's why we have elections, instead of political rallies at football stadiums.
And yet the MSM just can't accept this explanation.
They keep wanting this event on Saturday to stand for something else, something many of them clearly don't personally like -as if that wasn't noticeable at all in all of the media coverage.
It's a rally for people with some common goals and desires to come together and get enthused about the hard work that lays ahead.
That's it.
I especially encourage my friends overseas to watch for yourself and see how the U.S. media's depiction of this has, again, been much less than truthful. To see the live stream of the rally on Saturday, go to http://newsforamericans.blogspot.com/2010/08/glenn-beck-restoring-honor-rally-stream.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMGpBCllHWs
Since I've never mentioned it here before, I listen every day to Glenn Beck's daily morning nationally-syndicated radio show and religiously watch or tape his weekday 5 p.m TV show on Fox News Channel -or the encore broadcast at 2 a.m.- just about every day, having given NPR the boot in the morning quite some time ago as I've previously commented here, since if Diane Rehm has a guest or topic I'm interested in, I know that I can always go to the website and listen to it again over the weekend.
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/44014/
But just like Rush Limbaugh's nationally-syndicated afternoon radio show, if you don't listen to Beck's show when it's on, you completely lose the immediacy of what's on his mind and his listeners across the country.
To imagine, as some do, that these two men don't really have a great influence on what the MSM deigns to discuss on other TV chat programs or what will appear in elite newspapers or news magazines, is to harbor a delusion of America that's simply at odds with reality. Nobody 'accidentally' listens to the show every day.
Speaking of numbers and their portent, it's a good thing for Katie Couric that eyeballs alone don't tell the tale of someone's fundamental fitness the way the WaPo seems to want to judge this weekend's rally, or else she'd be out on her butt after CBS Evening News just received it's lowest weekly ratings EVER.
http://spectator.org/blog/2010/08/25/katie-couric-and-rush-ratings
If her name wasn't Katie Couric, she's already have been shown the door, like Campbell Brown at CNN.
Not that you would know any of that if you depended on the Miami Herald to make sense of the current media world, as her stewardship there at CBS is never mentioned.
If there's a major newspaper in the country that's more unsophisticated and behind-the-ball than the Herald in its coverage of media in its various guises, considering the people who live here, I don't what paper that could be.
It's truly abysmal with a capital "A."
See also:
Brian Williams: Katie Couric 'Always Welcome' at NBC
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/generalities/brian_williams_katie_couric_always_welcome_at_nbc_171045.asp
See details on Saturday's rally at: http://www.glennbeck.com/828/
See the Washington Post's online chat with Brendan Steinhauser, Director, Federal and State Campaigns, FreedomWorks, from yesterday at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2010/08/26/DI2010082603846.html
http://www.glennbeck.com/extreme/
