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Originally Posted by meson Cardinals star Albert Pujols can kiss his career goodbye ....
I don't get it. How is Pujols attending the 8/28 rally going to affect his game? I mean like, does this affect his batting average somehow? Or you no longer buying Cardinals tickets going to send his contract into a tailspin?
Or you just venting your displeasure that some american want to show an appreciation for the troops? And MLK.
One of the last effective leaders of conservative populist tradition that Palin and Beck represent was George Wallace.
But the ambition to turn from talk-radio rodeo clown to movement Moses has been toned down, with the event now presented as a thoroughly unobjectionable salute to the troops. Even the mention of partisan politics has been unconvincingly forbidden. But still, some smell trouble. Most elected Republican leaders are keeping their distance. Supporters have been asked to keep their signs—and their firearms—at home.
Calling President Obama a "racist" who has a "deep-seeded hatred of white people" is a good place to start looking for explanation. Repeated references to health-care legislation as "reparations," and a relatively new riff on black liberation theology's home in the White House, is another. Oh, and Beck's repeated denunciation of "social justice" is at odds with just about all of King's theology and activism.
But the problem runs deeper than incendiary language deployed for ratings—it's rooted in philosophy. The fellow travelers Sarah Palin and Beck are now calling "constitutional conservatives" are, knowingly or not, resuscitating some of the same constitutional arguments advanced by the pro-segregationist forces that Martin Luther King spent his life fighting.
But what does Glenn Beck and his minions say is the meaning of "restoring honor" I went to his website and could not find any explanation.
I am late here but you have to add/8/28 when you go to his web site to get to anything about the event. I hope this isn't taken as trying to make you look like you don't know what is going on but I watch Beck and see those things on the screen at the bottom of the screen.
Yet another who swallowed Beck's BS hook, line and sinker. If Beck
wanted to honor the troops he'd cancel this farce of a rally.
I don't really know what Beck is doing tomorrow other than calling people together for a common purpose. Whether it's to honor troops or sell books or drink beer with the masses. It's really none of my concern. I might even tune in to see what's really going on but Beck is not a routine function of my focus. I can always turn to you for detail.
I do know that there hasn't been a lot of common cause taking place in the U.S. the last couple of decades and that lack of common interest has left this nation in a struggle to maintain its constitutional independence.
Regardless of the reason people have to gather and regardless of what they take away from the experience it's not really your place to judge the value of any individuals experience.
The 8/28 rally is as valid as the cheesy greek column oration in Denver a couple of years ago.
Bu bu but you said Beck is an "american want to show an appreciation for the troops? And MLK."
I say nonsense, it's all about Beck and his overinflated ego.
It cracks me up , Your talking about an event that hasnt happened yet like you've already attended it and know whats going to happen.
Tell me what all is Beck going to say since you've already attended the event and know whats going to take place.
No I'm talking about Beck's hype prior to the event, of course you knew that.
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