Not all, just what were the primary outlets…
Not everybody can afford chalk.
Jumping the gun a bit, aren’t we?
That fiat againts signs and “politics”, that was pretty shrewd of Glen’s handlers.
Without the crazy ass signs, there aren’t images of crazy ass white folks with scary signs. Makes everybody appear more normal. Of course, from my perspective, they already looked normal and that’s the fucking problem, but I digress…
Second of all, it doesn’t remind the participants that not each and every one of them shares the same priorities. They share the same politics, roughly, but not the same priorities. And I doubt more than one in ten has any idea that they are wildly opposed to net neutrality, the memo from the grassroots hasn’t arrived in the grassroots.
Score one for the Forces of Darkness. I think this one worked for them.
So, a market-based approach is the province of whining greenies and one-track mind lefties? I guess your approach is just plain-old whining then?
Not only that, but what makes him think he and the people at his rally are the ones to do the restoring? And how do they expect a rally to do it? That takes work, not a bunch of people standing around patting themselves on the back as being the only true patriots.
I think witch hunts and propaganda come in somewhere along the line. This kind of “honor” is something you have to harass and shame folks into accepting.
Sarah Palin is not a politician, she’s a pundit. She knows this as she started her “Make Me Rich” speaking tour and a new book practically the second she became the former governor of Alaska. If she had any political ambitions, she wouldn’t have quit.
We’ll see about that.
Oh don’t get me wrong, I would love for her to run for President. She would get creamed in a way that I’ve never seen (I was only 3 when Reagan nearly ran the table). If nothing else, I’d expect an amazing sequel to Game Change.
This criticism could be leveled at every rally/march/demonstration ever held in the name of any cause, and it would be equally unfair in every case. Rallies are not for accomplishing their stated goal… they’re for stating the goal. Rallying around it, so to speak. The test is always what happens after.
A lot of people may not have computers but they probably have a computer available, or the ability to use a library, go to some meetings and listen, ask questions, etc.
I think the larger problem is that to many people don’t want to know the facts. They facts are far to discouraging, and maybe demanding. I think they want to be told that what they already tend to believe is true.
I suppose a lot of that is because our media that could educate and present the facts doesn’t seem interested in doing that. THat includes Glenn Beck. I watched his show for a couple of months back because a friend asked me to. Beck seems to care very little about the truth.
Well, of course he doesn’t. Truth has an obvious liberal bias.
This is correct. Obviously people are dissatisifed with the way things have been going. I think yesterday’s rally shows we can’t dismiss the Tea Party crowd as won nuts and racists. I’m a little concerned about Beck Stressing religion and encouraging people , not only to believe, but to go back to church, and saying the country has to get back to God. He had a show on Fox yesterday stressing the same thing with David Barton from Wallbuilders.
America is far to diverse now to cater to one brand of religion. We’ll see what he stresses in the weeks to come.
Well, during his address he made a point of not specifying a chosen religion. at the closing he had a diverse group of pastors, rabbis, etc on stage and even gasp mentioned mosque multiple times.
“She offered her honor, so I honored her offer. And that’s how it went all night: on her, off her, on her, off her…”
I’m not sure how this is meant, but the truth has no bias whatsoever. How we interpret the truth before us, and what we do with it , is where bias shows up.
I think we need decent conservatives, liberals, and moderates to engage in real discussions and problem solving based on the facts without the Mt. of dishonest bullshit being spewed at us now from our elected officials and the media.
hehe a classic
The government was set up to lie to the public long before Nixon. That’s just when it started to become more obvious. As long as we’re doing okay, there’s no reason to invest the effort to change it.
Yeah, the more political part was the Michelle Bachman rally cleverly arranged for the same day.
that’s where they non politically asked the Tea Party folks to not throw out all the incumbets. I later heard Beck and guest David Barton prasing Bachman as a wonderful Chriatian woman on a show Saturday afternoon.
Sounds to me like the non political part is a clever ruse. It is a clever political strategy though.