My previous Nerditorial on this matter was in response to her original post.
I'm sure she would be delighted with your input. She is very spirited when engaging those who comment on her blog threads.
Here is my latest comment on that thread:
Okay, one more time with feeling.
I'm not calling into question Beck's long term memory.
Considering the logistical complexity involved in scheduling and planning his "Restoring Honor" event, it is not a possibility that he just arranged the matter with a single phone call. Like any event of that size, there was a great amount of organization and forethought that had to go into the matter just to secure the venue and make sure the P.A. system worked.
That Beck didn't store the anniversary of the "I have a dream speech" in his long term memory doesn't account for how this event was scheduled. The fact that the event went as scheduled allows for no other possibility than the event was reasonably well planned, and that includes the timing of the event itself.
And thank you, Jacque, for making my point. Everyone knows when Christmas is, even if they aren't of the Christian faith.
Not everyone knows when Easter is. But every devout Catholics knows. Lapsed Catholics, such as myself, may have lost track of such an elusive date. However, devout Catholics, such as my late great-grandmother, make a point of keeping track of such information.
A person with an ardent interest in Martin Luther King could be expected to know the anniversary of his "I have a dream speech".
Like Alveda King. MLK's niece.
She knew when the anniversary was.
Did she have other plans that day that she canceled at the last moment to appear at this totally coincidental Glenn Beck event?
Really?
There was no reason for Beck to pretend he didn't plan this event to occur on the anniversary of MLK's history making speech. It is just in his nature to be a passive-aggressive button pusher.
I should have posted this series of comments over here, but I hope you will take time to check out the link and the series of comments I posted this AM over at the Herald Politics blog that elaborate on Apexnerd's spot on points.
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They touch on the intellectually devoid, so called Glenn Beck University and other outrageous distortions of history that this miscreant espoused at the recent rally of crackpots.
Also I think some, because of the forward slash between our names in a recent comment, may believe that I and Apex are the same, probably since I have embraced his use of the term Bravo Sierra. I would not saddle him with my short comings. We are different people who share some of the same opinions.
My view of Mr. Beck is a bit slanted as it is almost exclusively from the Daily Show. My impression is Beck is on the air way too much and thus talks too much. Therefore he is fertile ground for entertainment.
ReplyDeleteI did watch Beck's speech. I was surprised at how boring it was. I know he has been a very successful entertainer, but he really fell flat. Palin did as well which is more surprising. I think they were not able to transcend the setting they chose.
As for the date, they could not have picked a worse one. One could argue that they were trying to co opt the MLK, but given MLK's ability to inspire and the date being the anniversary of that speech Beck was setting himself up for failure. The date and the setting required a great speech, I don't remember anything he said except some history about the Washington Memorial that he took too long to say and his point was lost on me. I felt like I was back in high school U.S. history class and the teacher was reading from 25 year old lesson notes. ZZZZZZ
Poorly taken notes at that...
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Whopper after whopper..
ReplyDeletehttp://motherjones.com/politics/2010/08/glenn-beck-george-washington-restoring-honor
Not sure why my links aren't working?
ReplyDeleteI think the reason the event fell flat was that it was manufactured, not authentic.
ReplyDeleteOld white retirees can put on the mantle that they are the oppressed targets of racial prejudice, the endangered class, but it all comes across as just a little bit ridiculous. Beck & Co. tried to adopt the righteous mantle of a religious revival in the manner of the ministry of Dr. King, but again that is just too ridiculous a stretch, too absurd to be comfortably digested.
Dr. King spoke to the pressing need to reform civil rights after a delayed century of apartheid. Beck & Co. bellyached about 18 months of abuse imposed through the election of "The Magic Negro."
The whole slop-fest of John Bircherism, Christianist white patriotism, 1850s gutter politics and racebaiting, and PT Barnum/Bozo the Clown hucksterism should just sicken everyone in this country. The fact that it did not suggests how ill this country already is, poisoned and driven mad by four decades of scorched earth nonsense.
Here's the comment I posted on Patti's site. (I've no idea if she will approve it or not - because I never comment on her blogs after the way I was treated by Brett Bonner, Patti Brooks and KGMI management).
ReplyDeleteOne of the reasons I started Latte is I was fed up with the disinformation campaigns being waged by "the media" in this nation.
Patti,
Martin Luther King was actually born on January 15, 1929. Our nation officially celebrates Mr. King’s birthday on the third Monday of January (January 19th).
We can all agree that American Journalism has become increasingly powerful over the last 20 years. In fact, Americans are routinely bombarded with information and updates 24 hours a day. But I think it would a stretch to claim that we are somehow better informed than our parents were.
Nor would I argue that newspapers and the nightly news on television are outmoded business concepts that are losing readers, viewers and profits. Sadly, the days of Walter Cronkite being the most trusted man in America are gone. Americans no longer trust politicians or the media.
Why? we no longer have a deliberative process taking place in the media to inform public opinion.
Instead, media blow hards (from both sides of the isle) are distorting and routinely manipulating information to make a PROFIT. The more one distorts and sensationalizes, the bigger the profits. The ruder the talk show host, the better.
The result? The American public no longer trusts the mainstream media (or it’s government).
As long as media darlings from both sides of the isle are getting paid millions of dollars based on ratings — talk show hosts will continue to distort and sensationalize the news to boost their own ratings and earnings.
Talk show hosts and popular media pundits should never be confused with professional journalists. Talk show hosts, thanks to an ever expanding network of wealthy foundations, think tanks and web sites, are creating a new media structure that is obsessed with the“dumbing down of America.”
Check out the latest poll results regarding how many Americans think President Obama is a Muslim.Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck should be proud of themselves!
What the purveyors of “sensational media” don’t seem to realize is that a growing number of Americans are fed up with the political grandstanding and demagoguery — and are seeking their news from more reputable sources.
According to these clowns, it is not possible the Left actually wants to create a better, more prosperous country--no matter how "wrong" or "wrongheaded" those efforts may be, that they are motivated by a desire to create good.
ReplyDeleteNo, the Left wants to enslave and destroy the country.
That is at the crux of what's wrong in our political discourse, this assumption that our civil disagreements are motivated by monstrous forces of keening Evil. Limbaugh wallows in it every day. I can't think of anything quite like it on the Left, the idea that the people with whom we genuinely disagree are monsters and murderers.
Hi Shaun,
ReplyDeleteI don't know why your links aren't working. Let me try from inside Latte.
Here are shaun's links:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/08/glenn-beck-washington-monument-art-critic.html
http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/08/glenn-beck-george-washington-restoring-honor
Hi Shaun,
ReplyDeleteI reported the problem to Blogger. Hopefully, they can get it fixed.
Thanks for calling attention to the problem!
Anonymous2,
ReplyDeleteI think Rush is convinced that he is one of the elected.(from Puritanism).
I studied American Literature in College. Many early American Puritan writers were obsessed with good and evil -- and, like today, "evil" was at the root of any thought that challenged traditional puritan belief.
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_18c/defoe/puritanism.html
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ReplyDeleteMore specifically, it's Calvinism--the idea that prosperity = moral superiority. I understand the intellectual underpinnings of it, and it holds together as a thought experiment, but as Christian expression it is at odds with just about everything in the Gospel of Matthew.
The real "Engine of Destruction," though, is Newt Gingrich, who brought the thuggery of Nixon's dirty tricks plumbers and hitmen like Lee Atwater aggressively into the Congress. Prior to Gingrich, that was a place where people could "agree to respectfully disagree." But all you have to know of Gingrich was that his actions during the Clinton Admin. was 24/7 violent payback for Nixon and Bork.
It's been all payback, all retaliation, all the time ever since.
Well Beck isn't the only one on the right for whom it is easier to lie....
ReplyDeleteIt's a long list. Boehner, Ryan, many more..
they just never admit it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/03/glenn-beck-admits-lying-i_n_704958.html