This weekend at an event supported, financed and even planned by Fox News, people like the Koch brothers and Dick Army, Tea Party members gathered to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. "I have a dream" speech. Just how were they commemorating such a pivotal moment for the civil rights movement? Glenn Beck, looking like a fatter version of Micheal Douglas's in Falling Down, put on a bullet proof vest and spewed more of his trademark hysteria and hypocrisy to supporters.
According to Beck and Fox News a crowd close to a million people gathered in support, while CBS and several other media outlets report closer to 87,000 people attending. Withall the racist coded language, violent rhetoric and divisive politics used by Glenn and his Tea Bagger cohorts, this event seems like a revival of the KKK movement similar to what was triggered during the civil rights movement. Why would Beck chose the have a rally on the anniversary of the I have a dream speech? Beck is "restoring honor to America" the same way the KKK tried to restore "American" values and traditions by inciting hatred by holding events side by side with various civil rights rallies in the 50's and 60's.
One of the centerpieces of Beck's speech was attacking the liberation theology movement. Liberation theology, which Martin Luther King based much of his philosophy on, was a Christian movement that interprets the teachings of Jesus Christ in terms of liberation from social, economic and political conditions. They followed the belief that to get into heaven one must care for the sick, feed the homeless, shelter the poor- that kind of stuff. Instead Glenn Beck referred to this as a "perversion of the gospel of Jesus Christ" he also attacked president Obama's faith by claiming "people aren't recognizing his version of christianity."- you know the secret muslim kind of christianity. You may or may not know that Glenn Beck is a mormon. Mormons refer to anyone of darker skin than their prophets as mud people. Mormons also had a large part in financing Prop 8 in California, donating time and money to legally define marriage as a union between opposite sex couples.
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