So I watched some of Beck's rally ...

[BattyDem]

I listened to some of the comments by the talking heads, I read a few blogs, I even followed some posts on Twitter and I still can't figure out two things:

Who is he trying to reclaim the civil rights movement from and what honor is he trying to restore? :shrug:

[Faygo Kid]

1. Bull's.

[dana_b]

2. wow - perfect!

I'd bet that Bull would be 100% behind Back today.

[BattyDem]

3. That's a disturbing photo.

:-(

[hlthe2b]

8. Wouldn't you be proud to be a descendent of Bull Connor...

:eyes: Of course there were many more like him then and ARE today many more in the TeaBagger crowd.

[Faygo Kid]

12. So were today's manufactured Fox News/Lonesome Rhodes efforts

With apologies to Andy Griffith, who is a fine liberal and deserves better.

[ThatsMyBarack]

16. Mayberry Values....

:loveya:

[BattyDem]

17. You're right.

It made no sense, it wasn't newsworthy and yet the rantings of an egomaniac were on the TV, being broadcast as news. Very disturbing. :(

[malaise]

4. I came to one conclusion

He's fugging crazy

[BattyDem]

5. LOL!

:rofl:

[lunatica]

6. The KKK always talked about honor

It's KKK speak

[BattyDem]

7. I didn't know that.

So he stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial on this day and used KKK speak?

:grr: :grr: :grr:

[hlthe2b]

9. I always thought that was Southern (confederate) rhetoric

as in "the south will rise again"... but, it does make sense that Beck would co-opt this language for the "dog whistle" crowd...

[Raschel]

20. And carried flags and crosses.

[spanone]

10. beck doesn't like the black President. period.

[opihimoimoi]

14. Beck is using Naziesque mind napping tricks to capture his "Aryan" crowd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSG3To_3WXc&feature=related

here is some music heard in Nazi cells

[BattyDem]

18. That's true about Beck and his followers.

None of them were concerned about "taking their country back" when Bush* trampled the constitution, but as soon as Obama was sworn in, they began screaming about losing their freedoms. :eyes:

[niyad]

11. you watched the rally? you poor thing--quick, sit down, let me get you a drink and a cool

cloth for your forehead. do you need an aspirin? a quaalude?

[AnArmyVeteran]

13. I'll take that Quaalude! I watched a minutes and I'm traumatized.

I made an appointment with my shrink for Monday.

[Froward69]

15. twist a joint

make your favorite drink, put your feet up and just relax... every thing is still ok.

[BattyDem]

19. Thanks, I needed a drink after that!

:toast:

I didn't watch the whole thing. That would have made me insane, LOL! The bits I saw were enough for me. I thought there would be some kind of political message, but it seemed more like a weird sermon. I checked out Twitter and the blogs just to see if I was missing the point of the rally. Apparently not. Those that agreed with his anger didn't seem to know exactly what they were angry about. Those that disagreed with him didn't care what he was angry about, they just thought he was crazy.

And yet, there he was on the TV, being covered by "news" channels as if he was saying something important. :eyes:




edited for clarity :-)