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National News See other National News Articles Title: Beck-Palin Rally in Washington Drawing Supporters of `Babies, Guns, Jesus' Fox News commentator Glenn Beck has a dream about the rally he and Tea Party heroine Sarah Palin plan in front of the Lincoln Memorial tomorrow in Washington: A crowd that organizers say could reach 300,000. Beck insists that the assembly -- on the same steps where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his I Have a Dream speech exactly 47 years earlier -- isnt a political rally. Instead, its billed as a celebration of the military, patriotism and American heritage. Organizers got a permit from the National Park Service that says they expect 300,000 people to attend, the Washington Post reported on its Web site. Beck, who will be joined at the event by Palin, the Republican former Alaska governor, sought to limit crowd expectations during his television show yesterday. Its going to be a little overwhelming as we see tens of thousands of people standing together, locked arm-in-arm, peaceful, happy, he said. This event is bigger than any single one person; it is not about one person. Beck, Palin and allies are feeling empowered by skirmishes their candidates have won in a war against the political establishment. One is playing out in Palins home state, where Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski trails a Tea Party rival in a protracted Republican primary vote count. Alaska Vote Murkowski, 53, who followed her father into office, is 1,668 votes behind political newcomer Joe Miller, 43, a Gulf War Army veteran endorsed by Palin and Tea Party activists. Thousands of absentee votes are to be counted starting Aug. 31 to determine the winner of the Aug. 24 primary. Like Beck, Palin is also employed by News Corp.-owned Fox News. Catherina Wojtowicz, 41, is one of those who traveled to Washington to see Beck and Palin. She arrived in the capital yesterday wearing a T-shirt that carried Palins name and Babies, Guns, Jesus. The self-employed event organizer from Chicagos Southwest Side said she wanted to celebrate the Constitution and see Beck in person. He talks to you and not at you, said Wojtowicz, who was meeting in Washington with about 40 members of the Chicago Tea Patriots group. Hes giving you an education. Last Septembers 9/12 march in Washington was the first national gathering to demonstrate the size and potential influence of the Tea Party movement. Restoring Honor Beck has said tomorrows event, titled Restoring Honor, isnt designed to be political or to rally voters ahead of Novembers congressional elections. Organizers are discouraging people from bringing signs, and no current officeholders are scheduled to speak. St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols is scheduled to be honored, and team manager Tony La Russa, who plans to introduce him, said they agreed to appear only after being assured the rally wouldnt be a political event, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported today on its website. Still, the rally has been surrounded by political activity. Representative Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican, said he asked people to donate to the event, saying in an interview that it was a good thing for our country. Americans for Prosperity, another Tea Party group, is holding its political action convention in Washington over the weekend and busing people to the rally. Michele Bachmann And FreedomWorks, a political organizing group affiliated with the Tea Party, expects 1,600 people to attend its gathering in Washington today. Members will hear lectures by leaders including Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, who organized a Tea Party caucus in Congress, and will be briefed on how to organize voters to support conservative candidates. We see Glenn Beck as a guy who is bringing revelations of understanding to the American people, FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey, a former congressman from Texas and House majority leader, said in an interview. Glenn Beck is the instructional arm of the small-government movement and we are the action arm. The leader of the House Democratic campaign effort, Maryland Representative Chris Van Hollen, challenged the claim by rally organizers that the event is nonpartisan. Its a blatant political effort, he told reporters at a Washington press conference today. Youve seen Glenn Beck and a lot of the talk show hosts on Fox News out there talking about this election for 15 months. Democratic Committee The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee this weekend is organizing an effort to knock on 200,000 doors in the most competitive House districts across the U.S. Becks rally will get competition from the Reverend Al Sharpton and other African-American and civil rights leaders, who will hold their own event tomorrow to commemorate Kings Dream speech and focus on improving education equality. It will conclude with a march to the site of a planned King memorial, near Becks rally. Organizers of the Sharpton rally said in a news release that Beck is attempting to hijack the dream by pushing for an expansion of states rights, the exact antithesis of the civil rights movement and Dr. Kings legacy. Dr. Martin Luther King would also have been a Beck target, Jim Wallis, an evangelical author who plans to speak at the Sharpton rally, said in an e-mail fundraising letter to supporters. We refuse to let Mr. Becks rally cast a dark shadow over the civil rights movement, said Wallis, president of Sojourners magazine. Genocide Beck has said it is a coincidence that his event is taking place on the anniversary of Kings speech. Alveda King, a critic of gay and abortion rights and a niece of King, is scheduled to speak at the rally. At an anti-gay-marriage rally earlier this month in Atlanta, she likened gay marriage to genocide, saying that heterosexual marriage guards against human extinction. Last year, Beck said on Fox that President Barack Obama is a racist with a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture. He later told CBSs Katie Couric in an interview that he was sorry the way it was phrased. To contact the reporters on this story: Lisa Lerer in Washington at llerer@bloomberg.net; John McCormick in Washington at jmccormick16@bloomberg.net
Poster Comment: 300,000 to "support our troops?" Give me a break.... get them out of all these wars to support them.
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#21. To: buckeroo (#0)
Why, pray tell, would you want 300,000 troops, who have just been trained in house to house combat, back home under Obama's direct control? If they come home and leave the service, fine. If they choose to stay, perhaps over seas deployment is best.
Bring the troops home, pal. Bring them all home. The reasoning is simple, too. Wars everywhere around the world by the USA have produced no REAL result other than the deterioration of and about the quality of our respective lives in America. It is time to make a change in political strategy.... but tomorrow's war whores won't say that .... they will deny the same and discuss the liberty of Iraq and Afghanistan as substantiating PROOF about our own derelict government. Since both Original_Intent and Eric Stratton refuse to be 4um's greeters upon this fantastick event, maybe you can do the job. We need a good poster capable of viewing this epic event, commenting from time to time.... we need a laff... and don't want to miss anything.
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I say Beck/Palin do 200,000k Sharpton and the Ink Spots, 30k
I say Beck/Palin do 200,000k Sharpton and the Ink Spots, 30k However, the media, except Faux, will report it as 20k and 300k.
Did you overlook the k? 200,000K = 200 Million. I don't think there are that many Americans registered to vote. They certainly couldn't fit on the Mall. Not that it matters; I think Glen Beck has rented two porta-johns for the crowd that shows up. Tell you what: If it's 200 Million or bigger, I'll pay you $100 for every person above 200M in the Washington Post's crowd estimate. But you gotta pay me if it falls short of 200M: You pay me $1 for every person below 200 Million.
Truthfully? Ow! Stop twisting my arm! Yeah, read right past it, but I knew what he meant. However, while we disagree on a good many points I do hope it is a dud. Glen Dreck is a NeoTrotskyCon Warbot who sells the Party Lyin'. Sarah Palin is a life support system for a set of tits. Now Michael Palin is another matter. Unfortunately he's not an American.
#59. To: Original_Intent (#56)
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