He is the ultimate showman. He is crafty, shrewd and at the very least, an Elmer Gantry for the new millenium. He desecrated the hallowed Lincoln/MLK land today with the purpose of underpinning the lower classes, the poor and struggling to celebrate the haves. But he has done it in a genius way. He has turned his evil upside down so that it looks smiley face Stepford wive-ish. He has presented his rally as an open book (mostly the bible) for all people to join. The only stipulation it would seem is that you are all very, very religious, preferably Christian. He asked attendees to leave their signs at home (like true Beckbots, most did - great response from NAACP: "Dr. King never had to ask his followers to leave hateful signs and guns at home".)
Beck made pains too to make the rally about the troops, of course. All immaculately planned and organized, Beck's rally positions the tea party and the radical right to further their goals in turning the US into a theocracy. While Beck used the words 'liberty' and 'freedom', his goals are nothing at all related. He wants the rich to get richer, women back in the home, gays imprisoned and arts to be censored. He cannot deny that. Today was a big step in the march of the American Taliban. But most of all, Beck hungers for power and money. He knows how to get it.
This marks what I believe to be a right turn in Beck's strategy. No longer will he use racial undercurrents to stir the pot (although I can't see the code words disappearing anytime soon). Beck will now turn to religiosity. He will become even more grandiose but in a kindly, inclusive way. He will go from TV pundit Beck to preachin' the gospel Beck. He will become the new voice of reason while the progressives who know better will become the sinners, the fornicators and most of all, the angry left. No more dirty fucking hippies. We will become in culture what the teabaggers are in reality. In typcial but masterful wingnut fashion, Beck has taken his own weaknesses and vices and turned them on the left - brilliantly. Beck has slickly usurped MLK's dream and made it his own. Today was a work of art better than Rove could have cooked up during his heyday. Beck will turn the whole world upside down, and few will question his motives. Today, the tea party became holy and Glenn Beck became their preacher.
I bet McVety and Kryskow were paying close attention and are licking their chops.
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Count on McVety and Kryskow licking their chops. In fact, I'm sure lil' miss Faytene probably kisses her picture of Glenn Beck before she sleeps every night (probably not all she does; but anyways...)
I wouldn't be surprised if the two of them were there.
By the by; we learned the secret of Glenn Beck's bawling on the boob tube; vicks vapo rub:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m692Tqbnbxo
As you will see, the vicks vapo rub is starting to no longer work. Hemlock perhaps?
Good analysis.
I watched a few clips of Beck's little shindig at Media Matters, and I kept waiting for him to slip in something about Goldline. What a freak.
The teabaggers are losing steam: they got about the same number of people to this Beckapalooza as they did to last year's event. They may be electing teabagger candidates in primaries, but those candidates are pretty much unelectable in a general, and the GOP has started backing away.
Thus Brother Beck's change in direction. It's worrisome, though -- the race-baiting is bad enough, but there's nothing like religion to make people go completely batshit insane and who knows what follows.
After watching the Twitter feed, checking the American media and blogs, I have to agree with JJ. My first impressions after going through all of this was, how boring!
After the laughs many of us bloggers had reading and viewing each other's pages with video podcasts of interviews with tea-baggers at 9/12 last year, seeming to not have a clue as to what they were doing there, the misspelled, rather colourful signs in all shapes and sizes with an assortment of the wingnuttiest of messages worn by the tall and the small as well as their pets. I was looking forward to similar entertainment, but, Brother Beck banned signs of any kind. Killjoy!
I listened to part of Sarah Palin's speech, but I felt a migraine coming on and had to turn it off, she really didn't have anything entertaining to say. If stupid isn't entertaining, it's just boring.
I got the feeling that both Sarah and Beck are starting to become has beens, much like Ann Coulter.
I think the turn out to this extravaganza was even lower than that of last year, but then again, I don't think anyone got an accurate count of last year's count.
But the boredom of this event could well mean that, as JJ points out above, that this tea-bagging movement may be a passing fad; slowly but surely. A glimmer of hope state side.
Besides, what is there really now? Obamacare passed, such as it is. Their other issues such as taxation and Islamophobia has always been around and will continue to exist, unfortunately.
Thus Brother Beck's change in direction. It's worrisome, though -- the race-baiting is bad enough, but there's nothing like religion to make people go completely batshit insane and who knows what follows.
Worrysome; yes, and it's never a good idea to underestimate the likes of wingnuts like Beck, Palin or Limbaugh, but other than some of those places in the bible belt and other states like Kentucky,where they have always had this warped sense of Christianity, I'm not sure this theocracy will grow as quickly. It's a novelty. Like most novelties, they too, tend to fade.
Most may not like Obama these days, but I think they see him as the lesser of the evils.
To go off topic, if I may, a Republican, in fact, arguably a tea-partier before it became mainstream, Ron Paul, told CNN, that he too, was in favor of the Islamic Center being built on Ground Zero and condemned many fellow Republicans for their bigotted remarks.
Kinda makes you wonder, he's obviously more lucid than his son. I wonder what went wrong? Did Jr fall on his head at birth?
Just that side note to indicate that even some republicans are standing up, refusing to allow themselves to be hijacked by these shrieking assortment of misfits.
Ck - Ron Paul gave what I thought was a great defense of the NYC mosque. But he is a libertarian, and libertarians are vehemently supportive of first amendment rights (free speech, freedom of religion).
Rand Paul's opposition is because he is just a candidate, not yet an elected Senator. He needs those anti-Islam votes.
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