Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts said in response to the Glenn Beck ‘Restoring Honor’ rally that it’s a free country, and that he’s not all that happy about that fact. Patrick said “It’s a free country, I wish it weren’t.
The clip was posted by Michael Graham from Boston’s WTKK in which the Gov. was answering a question about the rally. It’s beyond me how any public official could ever spew something that politically dumb without an ounce of thought about it– or even thinking for a second what they are saying is, well, absolutely crazy.
At Glenn Beck’s ‘Restoring Honor’ rally this past Saturday in Washington, D.C, a group of black Conservatives were approached by liberals who think they know best what African Americans should do and think.
One says “What happened to your African religion? You’re supposed to be Muslim.” Then, one of the tolerant liberals drops a word-bomb with a splash of racism, “Christianity is a white man’s religion.”
Leave it to the sheeple debating these guys who believe everything they are told as the absolute truth. For buying into political correctness in history, they sure don’t hold PC highly while claiming that Christianity is a white mans religion. Double standard much?
By the way, where was the racism from the ‘crazy right-wing fringe extremists that don’t represent a majority of America” crowd at Beck’s rally?
On Saturday we sent our own Joe Schoffstall to see what exactly Al Sharpton’s counter rally was all about. He was able to get an interview with Ben Jealous, NAACP President, about the Sharpton rally as well as the Restoring Honor rally. Jealous claimed that those at Restoring Honor wouldn’t applaud MLK. On today’s show Beck took notice and defended the Restoring Honor rally attendees.
I wonder if Ben Jealous will publicly retract his smear against the Restoring Honor participants? I won’t hold my breath…
Not only did Gibb’s dance around questions regarding Obama’s past statements–and opposition– for the successful surge in Iraq, he was also asked 6 times if Bush would get any credit for Iraq. Not surprisingly, it’s answered in typical Gibbs fashion.
In 2007, Obama said: The 20,000 troop surge “will not in any imaginable way be able to accomplish any new progress“.
This was old a long time ago, now it’s just downright annoying- not to mention ineffective.
On August 30, President Barack Obama talked about his administrations ‘focus’ on the economy after meeting with his economic team. Of course, there’s no shortage of blaming Bush within the speech– or technical difficulties.
Apparently after the difficulties, the people gathered could not hear what he was saying, but Obama insisted the press could and continued anyways.
In an interview with NBC’s Brian Williams, President Obama reinforced his position on the Ground Zero mosque. In typical Obama fashion, he blamed the media for the mis-understanding of his initial remarks.
Of course, we all know nothing is his fault…
However, despite Obama defending his position, it still puts him at odds with Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid who called for relocation. Howard Dean also came out in support of the mosque being moved. As are 71% of Americans who are saying it’s “inappropriate” to put a mosque at Ground Zero.
Benjamin Jealous, president of the NAACP, told Eyeblast.tv at Al Sharpton’s ‘Reclaiming the Dream’ rally at Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C.– a counter protest to Glenn Beck’s ‘Restoring Honor’ rally held on the same day from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have A Dream’ speech–that if you were to read King’s speech to the crowd in attendance at Beck’s rally, no one would applaud.
“I have a feeling if someone stood up and read Dr. King’s speech to that crowd, it would not get applause”, Jealous said.
I haven’t paid much attention to the numbers the mainstream media is saying attended the Glenn Beck ‘Restoring Honor’ rally yesterday at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., but I’d guesstimate it’s somewhere around 500-1000 people given their track record on previous ‘estimates’. (note: that’s sarcasm directed at the media’s reporting of the first 9/12 march last year.)
This is a photo I first saw on Twitter, and since I’ve seen it floating around elsewhere. I thought I’d share it with everyone just in case you haven’t seen it.
I did leave the rally early and headed over to Al Sharpton’s ‘Reclaiming the Dream’ rally in hopes of getting an interview with him. Unfortunately, his bodyguard told me he wasn’t doing interviews.
Despite all the talk from the NBPP president, Malik Shabazz, on how he was going to crash Glenn Beck’s rally– he didn’t even show up to Sharpton’s event. Looks like Shabazz is full of bark, and carries little bite. Read More
Given all the debate recently over illegal immigration in this country I figure it might be a good time to get, at least, a little bit of perspective. You may have heard about the recent mass grave found in Mexico. However, what you probably didn’t hear is those killed were all illegal immigrants traveling through Mexico in order to get to the United States.
Here’s the report. Now its from Al Jazeera’s English channel but the reporting seems solid.
