I'm not a close follower of Glenn Beck, but he sure is making waves and driving Liberals nuts. He makes their heads spin round and round almost as much as Sarah Palin does. I think they do for related but not quite the same reasons. The key is that they both are in-your-face challenges to everything Liberals believe in (or don't believe in maybe is a better phrase).
But what was this Restoring Honor rally all about? I've read a lot of comments on it, but the best comes from a Univ of Chicago associated blog called Chicago Boyz. Here is what someone named Lexington Green says,
The Glenn Beck rally is confusing people.
Why?
He is aiming far beyond what most people consider to be the goalposts.
Using Boyd’s continuum for war: Material, Intellectual, Moral.
Analogously for political change: Elections, Institutions, Culture.
Beck sees correctly that the Conservative movement had only limited success because it was good at level 1, for a while, weak on level 2, and barely touched level 3. Talk Radio and the Tea Party are level 3 phenomena, popular outbreaks, which are blowing back into politics.
This is just the beginning of a 'read the whole thing' post. I think the guy nails it. Critics tried like heck to find a blatant political angle in this, but couldn't. Yes, politicians were there, most notably Tea Party Heroine and candidate-backing juggernaut Sarah Palin (who just pulled out another in a long string of victories, giving the
This event may seem a little cornball, hackneyed to the urbane, cynical observer. I admit it does to me. But cynicism is for losers. The sense of moral mission Beck is trying with some success to instill in the country will pay dividends in many ways.
More from Lexington Green:
Beck is attacking the enemy at the foundations of their power, their claim to race as a permanent trump card, their claim to the Civil Rights movement as a permanent model to constantly be transforming a perpetually unjust society.Word.
