Beck's Restoring Honor Rally: Thousands Expected To Attend

[truebluefan]

.Conservative commentator Glenn Beck and tea party champion Sarah Palin appealed Saturday to a vast, predominantly white crowd on the National Mall to help restore traditional American values and honor Martin Luther King's message. Civil rights leaders who accused the group of hijacking King's legacy held their own rally and march.

While Beck billed his event as nonpolitical, conservative activists said their show of strength was a clear sign that they can swing elections because much of the country is angry with what many voters call an out-of-touch Washington.

Palin told the tens of thousands who stretched from the marble steps of the Lincoln Memorial to the grass of the Washington Monument that calls to transform the country weren't enough. "We must restore America and restore her honor," said the former Alaska governor, echoing the name of the rally, "Restoring Honor."

Palin, the GOP vice presidential nominee in 2008 and a potential White House contender in 2012, and Beck repeatedly cited King and made references to the Founding Fathers. Beck put a heavy religious cast on nearly all his remarks, sounding at times like an evangelical preacher.

"Something beyond imagination is happening," he said. "America today begins to turn back to God."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/28/becks-restoring-honor-ral_n_697873.html

 

[Denny Crane]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/us/politics/29beck.html


Officials do not make crowd estimates because they are unreliable and can be controversial, but event organizers put the number of attendees at 500,000; NBC News said it was closer to 300,000, but by any measure it was a large turnout. The crowd stretched from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument.

 

[Denny Crane]

Pretty sad that NY Times has to spin it as some sort of Tea Party event. People were told/asked to bring no political signs, and Obama wasn't mentioned by name once.

 

[truebluefan]

Very hard these days to find a legit media that will report things as they are. Always some agenda behind it! Both liberals and conservatives are guilty of this.

I dont like Glen Beck, but I am impressed that he drew a large crowd!