Facts. What are facts? 2 + 2 = 4. That's a fact. If you mix blue with red you get purple, that's a fact. So why are other facts less obvious to some people?
I was on a message board earlier today and we were discussing Glenn Beck. One woman called him a "beacon of light". I had to fight the urge to ask her if we were talking about the same person. At his rally today he spoke a great deal about restoring honor, equality for all, being closer to God.
Yet this is the same man that berated Katrina survivors and and 9/11 victim families? And I quote:
"When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh shut up' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining." –"The Glenn Beck Program," Sept. 9, 2005
"The only [Katrina victims] we're seeing on television are the scumbags." –"The Glenn Beck Program," Sept. 9, 2005
Honor? Close to God?
"But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?" John 3:17
If Glenn Beck is a "beacon of light" I'm a runway model.
On his radio show back in May, Beck went above and beyond the norm in his audacity.
"This is a moment quite honestly that I think we reclaim the civil rights movement. It has been so distorted and so turned upside down because we must repair honor and integrity and honesty first. I tell you right now. We are on the right side of history. We are on the side of individual freedoms and liberties and damn it we will reclaim the civil rights moment. We will take that movement because we were the people that did it in the first place."
Really?? Now, to be fair, I'm going to assume that when he says "we" he's referring to Republicans. And it's true, Republicans helped make it a reality. However, he forgets that in the sixties Republicans were liberal and Democrats were conservative.
What is with the concept of "reclaiming" the civil rights movement? Reclaim it from whom? Since the concept was equality for all, then it belongs to all, right? They want to "reclaim" the civil rights movement, they want to "take back" the country. I have asked repeatedly on discussion forums and message boards "Just what was taken?", and have yet to receive an answer.
They are free to marry a heterosexual partner if they wish. They can attend any church they see fit, anytime they feel. They can apply for jobs wherever they like. They're free to dine, shop, and use the facilities in any public place they decide to enter. When they aren't happy with a political figure they are just as free as anybody to cast a vote for whomever they see fit. If they are financially capable they are free to purchase a home or business wherever they wish throughout the entire nation. All of the same freedoms that they had 2, 5, 10, and 20 years ago.
But I suppose it's lovely rhetoric. Cause people to fear losing something and you'll have them fighting mad. And if you're lucky, they won't be bright enough to ask what it is they they supposedly lost.
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