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As previously reported, conservative radio host and Fox News commentator Glenn Beck is hosting a rally in Washington, D.C., Saturday on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech — but he says the date was not chosen intentionally.
“Whites don’t own Abraham Lincoln,” Beck said in a recent broadcast of his Fox News show. “Blacks don’t own Martin Luther King. Those are American icons, American ideas, and we should just talk about character, and that’s really what this event is about. It’s about honoring character.”
The “Restoring Honor Rally,” which has Sarah Palin booked to speak, will taking place at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday- the sight of Dr. King’s speech – and is intended to “celebrate America by honoring our heroes,” according to the event’s website.
Beck, who has called President Obama a racist, says the rally is not political, and will even spend time celebrating Dr. King.
Meanwhile…
Rev. Al Sharpton will also hold an event in D.C. on the same day to honor the 47th anniversary of the famous speech.
“When we heard about Glenn Beck, it was puzzling,” Sharpton told the New York Daily News. “Because if you read Dr. King’s speech, it just doesn’t gel with what Mr. Beck or Mrs. Palin are representing.
Beck is expecting approximately 100,000 people at the event.
DC Metro Map
For readers who live in the DC area or are familiar with its metro system, writer Jason Linkins wrote a hilarious piece last week about a real visitors guide from rally organizers warning attendees to avoid certain stops on the Orange and Blue Lines, and to stay away from the Green and Yellow Lines altogether.
Linkins wrote in his Huffington Post piece: ”As someone who rides the Green and Yellow Lines all the time, I can assure you that there are no ‘rules’ that state these subway lines must be avoided at all times, especially at night. But then, I guess I’m not using ‘A Cliche-Ridden Guide To Avoiding The Black People On The Subway In Washington’ as a rulebook.
For Glenn Beck, it may have just been business as usual when he compared “social justice” to Communism and Nazism last week and told parishioners to leave churches that espouse the doctrine, but the comments irked one leader enough for him to call for a boycott by all Christians. Rev. Jim Wallis heads Sojourners, a Christian antipoverty group. Whatever Beck’s reasons, he writes on his blog, “what he has said attacks the very heart of our Christian faith, and Christians should no longer watch his show.”
Beck called social justice a “code word” for Communism and Nazism, Politics Daily reports. Communism and Nazism? “They both subscribe to one philosophy,” he explained, and “here in America” that’s social justice. “Am I advising people to leave their church? Yes!” Whoa, say religious scholars. It’s not just hippy-dippy East Coast churches that preach social justice. “One way to read the Book of Mormon is that it’s a vast tract on social justice,” a historian tells the New York Times of Beck’s chosen faith. “A lot of Latter-day Saints would think that Beck was asking them to leave their own church.”
Mike Huckabee on Thursday criticized fellow Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck for calling the former governor and potential White House hopeful a “progressive” for supporting first lady Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity efforts.
Beck on Tuesday referred to Huckabee as a “progressive,” a term that Huckabee said Beck has likened to cancer and Nazis. Beck singled out Huckabee’s support of the anti-obesity initiative.
“He is a progressive,” Beck said. “Look at his record, he’s a progressive”
Beck also called Huckabee someone who doesn’t want to “disrupt big government.”
“I think Mike Huckabee is a guy who’s had Michelle Obama on and said ‘you know what? I think your fat kid programs, they are great,’” Beck said.
Huckabee on Thursday pushed back against the comments, defending Obama’s “Let’s Move” initiative to curb childhood obesity and painting Beck as trying to portray that program as a big-government conspiracy. Huckabee interviewed the first lady on his show last year about the program.
“I’m no fan of her husband’s policies for sure, but I have appreciated her efforts that Beck misrepresented — either out of ignorance or out of a deliberate attempt to distort them to create yet another ‘boogey man.’ The first lady’s approach is about personal responsibility, not the government literally taking candy from a baby’s mouth,” Huckabee said in a statement posted on his website Thursday morning. “He seems to fancy himself a prophet of sorts for his linking so many people and events together to describe a massive global conspiracy for pretty much everything.”
Huckabee hosts a weekly talk show on Fox News. Beck also has a show on the channel that is to end later this year. Beck declined to comment on Huckabee’s statement, a spokesman said.
Beck in a speech last year referred to progressivism as a “cancer in America,” and he’s also compared the tactics of progressives to Nazis.
Huckabee’s criticism of Beck is the second time he’s taken on fellow conservatives this week as he considers another run for the Republican presidential nomination. The winner of the 2008 Iowa caucuses, Huckabee has said he plans to decide later this summer whether to make another run.
Earlier this week, Huckabee defended fellow potential presidential candidate Donald Trump against criticism from the Club for Growth, an anti-tax group that criticized Huckabee for his support of some tax hikes when he was governor.
“I never understood when it became a mark of conservatism to run up debt on your children’s credit card instead of biting the bullet and paying your bills,” Huckabee said on his radio show. “Under their narrow criteria, the things that Ronald Reagan had to do as governor of California and as president probably would have made him a tax-loving Socialist unfit for the White House as well.”