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If you ever want to take the political pulse of America, just grab some popcorn and watch any twitter hash tag from the conservative right. For your reading pleasure I offer you the following sample of tweets from the left aimed at Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor Rally.
- DeepVision: RT @Twit_ster: @GlennBeck is a for-profit prophet, while @SarahPalinUSA is a shrill shill #p2 #tcot #828 #fox
- GOPfailorg: Rather than #restoringhonor #GlennBeck should have drank himself to death when he had the chance. #mlk #828 #gbdc
- BrettR4763: RT @RedPlebiscite: Via “@ajit8uk scumbag in chief #GlennBeck called #MLK Jr. a radical socialist earlier this year: http://tinyurl.com/ycx4pc8 #p2 #828 #tcot
- ExcessiveForceX: Buy all the Gold you can at #Goldline The world is ending and @GlennBeck will provide the tainted kool aid #828 #gbdc #kill #yourself
- ACFD23; RT @Bro_Pair: If @GlennBeck is aspiring to be MLK today, inspire yourself to become Malcolm X – by any means necessary. Wear #tcot skins as a trophy
- JTmeep: RT @lysana: .@SarahPalinUSA @GlennBeck The Restoring Honor rally was supposed to be apolitical by IRS law. You advocated for GOP. You lied. As usual.
- brineman: @angelsmomaw I’m a Lefty (so we can agree to disagree on @GlennBeck’s VALUE), but the public saw #RestoringHonor as a gimic; it’ll hurt him
- scottelloco: @SarahPalinUSA and #GlennBeck somehow manage to echo 1930s Germany, 1950s Cuba and 1960s America simultaneously in the same speech.#headache
- Mikebruijn: #GlennBeck does not know what respect is, @$$hole
- pari_passu: @glennbeck @SarahPalinUSA You’re both disgusting. Hypocrisy, bigotry and greed under the guise of patriotism; pathetic. #p2 #p21
- mdurwin: RT @IamSauerkraut: With respect to civil rights, the difference between James Earl Ray and @glennbeck is that Ray used a rifle.
- Bro_Pair: The image on the news tonight: the charred corpses of @SarahPalinUSA and @GlennBeck trussed and hanging from cherry trees.
- SPacer01: Why are #GlennBeck’s legions overwhelmingly overweight and ugly? And why re they crowding out everything in DC #justGoAwayPlease
- KevinP64: RT @Tx4Obama: @glennbeck Hey Beck, YOU can NOT reclaim ‘honor’ that YOU have NEVER had. #gop #tcot #teaparty #palin #p2 #Obama #msnbc
- Bro_Pair: I’m serious. Kill more of them before they can get you. Batter #GlennBeck into the Potomac Feast on their drowned corpses in rivers of blood
I didn’t cherry pick these, I just scrolled down the list I had in my TweetDeck cache. Keep it classy libs. Free speech is a right, making a complete fool of yourself is purely optional.
As expected, the American liberal media is minimizing today’s Restoring Honor Rally. Unlike last year’s 9/12 rally there is an aerial shot. Both the BBC and CNN have posted pictures, can you match the photos below to their owner? (click each photo below for a larger view)
The picture on the right is the BBC photo. Notice how the CNN photo is cropped to show only about half of the Reflecting Pool.
Also, have a look at one of the photos included in CNN’s measely five picture slideshow. I think we can assume that the intern adding photos to this page is an Obama supporter. What is the point of the foot on the marker? Are you implying that this rally of unity and faith is somehow stepping on the dream that MLK spoke of? Any person that actually watched the event would know this to be patently false. Shame on you CNN.
Kudos to the Washington Post that has a much larger photo collection and a more appropriate photo of the MLK marker, indicative of the actual sentiments of the crowd.
As expected, the press is ignoring yet another massive gathering of Americans in Washington D.C. Judging from capacity estimates of the area it looks like at least 600,000 people are attending the Restoring Honor Rally. Here are a few screen captures of the event to give everyone an idea of the scope of this rally. It is NOT a protest, it is a RALLY. Let’s see how the leftward press reports it later today. Feel free to share and distribute this images to help educate Americans to the truth!
