Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally will not be political (& other Tea Party nonsense)

[PlainJain]

@villa

@Snowboarder_Bo

Go look at pictures of the Million Man March, or watch video of MLK, Jr. speaking there, and then you’ll see what a crowd of hundreds of thousands looks like.

Well to be honest, a crowd of 500,000 black people only counts as 300,000 white folk, so you can see how these good constitutionalists can make that kind of mistake.

Very, very well played. I shall be honored to join you in hell.

[Mr_Smashy]

That conservative mouthpiece MSNBC
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(http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/08/30/5001303-a-big-beck-crowd-but-how-big-?GT1=43001) some anonymous Park Service dude saying it was around 300k. They also repeat CBS’s guesstimate at 87k. The truth is probably somewhere in between.

I had a hard time finding a number for Sharpton’s cute little counter-rally, but one source said it was south of 5,000.

Good to see that it wasn’t an overtly political rally, and more importantly that both were pretty much sans violence or mayhem.

[BrainGlutton]

@Raygun99

As if numbers turn idiocy into truth.

No . . . But in any republic or democracy, numbers can turn idiocy into policy. So it goes.

And it’s not like kings or dictators or aristocracies or ruling-party hierarchies are never prone to idiocy.

[cosmosdan]

@Clothahump

Uh…no.

Liberation theology is Marxism disguised as religion. Black Liberation Theology took that and threw a healthy dose of victimhood into the stew.

Here’s a reasonably good explanation: The Marxist roots of black liberation theology | Acton Institute

What that is , is a pretty one sided view of BLT. I hope you don’t mind if I let those who practice it ot the man who helped create it, present their side of the story.

I find the stressing of justice for the poor to be in line with what Jesus actually taught. Keep in mind that for most of our history white Christianity supported slavery, and then segregation and a denial of equality.

[Rafe_Hollister]

@villa

@Snowboarder_Bo

Go look at pictures of the Million Man March, or watch video of MLK, Jr. speaking there, and then you’ll see what a crowd of hundreds of thousands looks like.

Well to be honest, a crowd of 500,000 black people only counts as 300,000 white folk, so you can see how these good constitutionalists can make that kind of mistake.

Surely you are all aware of the significance of the 3/5 compromise, right? I mean besides trying to use it as justification for bashing constitutionalists for racism.

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

“Constitutionalists”? As in, “people whose political views are as considered as those of my morning constitutional”?

[DanBlather]

@Rafe_Hollister

@villa

Well to be honest, a crowd of 500,000 black people only counts as 300,000 white folk, so you can see how these good constitutionalists can make that kind of mistake.

Surely you are all aware of the significance of the 3/5 compromise, right? I mean besides trying to use it as justification for bashing constitutionalists for racism.

yeah the significance is that southerners wanted to treat some human beings like cattle in all aspects except when they wanted to count them for the purposes of gaining more influence in Congress.
Of course the good southerners always kept the slaves’ best interests at heart when they voted.

ETA: When you get tired of being a slavery apologist I think the Nazis’ reputation could use some help being rehabilitated.

[Merijeek]

@DanBlather

ETA: When you get tired of being a slavery apologist I think the Nazis’ reputation could use some help being rehabilitated.

Dude, they had the coolest uniforms ever. That’s got to count for something.

-Joe

[villa]

@Rafe_Hollister

@villa

Well to be honest, a crowd of 500,000 black people only counts as 300,000 white folk, so you can see how these good constitutionalists can make that kind of mistake.

Surely you are all aware of the significance of the 3/5 compromise, right? I mean besides trying to use it as justification for bashing constitutionalists for racism.

Surely you are aware of the significance of a joke, right? I mean besides getting your panties in a total wad over it.

[Gangster_Octopus]

@villa

@Rafe_Hollister

Surely you are all aware of the significance of the 3/5 compromise, right? I mean besides trying to use it as justification for bashing constitutionalists for racism.

Surely you are aware of the significance of a joke, right? I mean besides getting your panties in a total wad over it.

Stop calling him Shirley!

[Ludovic]

@Gangster_Octopus

@villa

Surely you are aware of the significance of a joke, right? I mean besides getting your panties in a total wad over it.

Stop calling him Shirley!

That’s not funny!

[John_Mace]

The slaves probably would have loved to have been treated as 3/5 of a person, rather than the 0/5 they actually were treated as.

[Richard_Parker]

@John_Mace

The slaves probably would have loved to have been treated as 3/5 of a person, rather than the 0/5 they actually were treated as.

Indeed, the 3/5 compromise was a compromise between slaveowners who wanted slaves counted as a whole person, and Northerners who didn’t want slaves counted for the purposes of representation at all. Thus, from our modern perspective, the right outcome would have been a 0/5 compromise. Counting them as a whole person would only have more greatly empowered slaveholders.

[SteveG1]

@elucidator

Lefties love tightly packed crowds, gives us a chance to share cooties and cop a feel.

It’s easier to pass the joint too

[cosmosdan]

Hey! Did anyone else notice that half way through Beck’s speech the statue of Lincoln got up and walked out?

[monavis]

@Gangster_Octopus

@Snowboarder_Bo

To “prove” that this is not a political event, it seems that organizers have asked people to leave their classy signs at home “as they may deter from the peaceful message we are bringing to Washington.”

Yes, they should tone down their signs, maybe they could clarify their thoughts,

“I’m not saying Obama’s a Sekrit Muslim Imam out to destroy America, I’m just asking a question”

“It’s not that I think Obama’s not American-born, I just want to see the Birth Certificate.”

“Any monkey references we have made toward Obama have nothing to do with race, its just funny, right?”

In other words you just want to find some reason to critiicise Obama,because you do not like the idea that he was elected? Would you like to be referred to as a big jackass? I doubt it! Would you think it funny? I do not think so. If you are one of the goofies that think he has no birth certificate that is your problem, if it was indeed a fact the Opposition would have made a bigger deal of that even before he was elected.

[Jack_Batty]

@monavis

@Gangster_Octopus

Yes, they should tone down their signs, maybe they could clarify their thoughts,

“I’m not saying Obama’s a Sekrit Muslim Imam out to destroy America, I’m just asking a question”

“It’s not that I think Obama’s not American-born, I just want to see the Birth Certificate.”

“Any monkey references we have made toward Obama have nothing to do with race, its just funny, right?”

In other words you just want to find some reason to critiicise Obama,because you do not like the idea that he was elected? Would you like to be referred to as a big jackass? I doubt it! Would you think it funny? I do not think so. If you are one of the goofies that think he has no birth certificate that is your problem, if it was indeed a fact the Opposition would have made a bigger deal of that even before he was elected.

May I offer a relevant link?

[Snowboarder_Bo]

Yeah, that’s looking like an good candidate for Best Self-Whoosh of September, that is right there.

[heatmiserfl]

@Rafe_Hollister

@villa

Well to be honest, a crowd of 500,000 black people only counts as 300,000 white folk, so you can see how these good constitutionalists can make that kind of mistake.

Surely you are all aware of the significance of the 3/5 compromise, right? I mean besides trying to use it as justification for bashing constitutionalists for racism.

“Humor. I recognize that. I also recognize your brand of soldier.”