8/28 Glenn Beck Rally

• Ty Webb

  

  http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/29/beck-says-rally-wanted-to-reclaim-civil-rights-from-politics/
  
  
  
  Did anyone read about this..some scary stuff coming out of it.
  
  Beck had the gaull to to compare these Tea-Party people to the people who fought for civil rights in the 1960's. Claims that our "civil rights" are being taken away. He can't be serious can he? I haven't had any of my rights taken away in the last 20 months,have any of you?
• Ty Webb

  

  He also said that they are going to take back the Civil Rights Movement
• CenterBHSFan

  

  I have no beef and/or problems with the tea party people. They're sick and tired of the status quo, as we all should be.
  The conventions or rallies that they go to are the way they have chosen to make their voices be heard in the hopes that more people will be awakened from their government nudged comas.
  
  Nothing wrong with that at all. More power to them, I say. At least they are doing something about it; which is more than most of us are doing.
• RedRider1

  

  Ty Webb;465500 wrote:http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/29/beck-says-rally-wanted-to-reclaim-civil-rights-from-politics/
  
  Did anyone read about this..some scary stuff coming out of it.

  Yea...wanting America to reconnect to our founding principles is scary.
  
  Raising over $5 million for wounded soliders is scary.
• Automatik

  

  Lots of GB supporters on here and old Huddle. I figured someone would have organized a bus convoy down there. lol
• cbus4life

  Don't have a problem with it at all, but still thought it was an odd spectacle (Because of Beck).
  
  Glenn Beck is a genius...managed to take the legitimate concerns of the public and make them his own quite easily, in the process allowing him to make bank. Very well done.
  
  I'm not going to say anything bad about the movement, as they've every right to be upset and angry and more power to them.
  
  Beck is a douche, though, and i don't believe a word he says.
  
  Would love to see the whole "movement" with an actual leader, and not some opportunistic snake.
• believer

  

  Call Beck a douche but you have to admit, he apparently touched a raw nerve because his rally was supposed to attract a mere 100,000 but ended up with over 300,000 including my brother and his wife.
  
  For me this is not about Beck....it's about a general groundswell of disgust with the crap we're seeing coming out of Washington and good, hard working concerned mainstream Americans finally getting off their asses and showing that displeasure.
  
  I think that disgust is meant for the entire DC culture (Repubs included) but Democrats in particular need to be shaking in their shoes. Naturally they'll pop out the inevitable "October Surprise" in an effort to minimize the impact, but it will be too little too late to stop what's about to happen in November.
  
  I have a hunch this would have been the case even without Beck's influence.
• queencitybuckeye

  Ty Webb;465500 wrote:I haven't had any of my rights taken away in the last 20 months,have any of you?

  
  We all have, and in the several years before that.
• fish82

  

  Ty Webb;465500 wrote:http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/29/beck-says-rally-wanted-to-reclaim-civil-rights-from-politics/
  
  
  
  Did anyone read about this..some scary stuff coming out of it.
  
  Beck had the gaull to to compare these Tea-Party people to the people who fought for civil rights in the 1960's. Claims that our "civil rights" are being taken away. He can't be serious can he? I haven't had any of my rights taken away in the last 20 months,have any of you?

  
  Beck continues to do the happy dance inside you people's heads...and Fish continues laughing at you. It's a vicious circle.
• Bigdogg

  Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party. The Koch brothers and Rupert Murdoch have self-interested agendas that go well beyond the interests of those who carry their banners.
  
  
  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29rich.html?_r=1
• I Wear Pants

  Rupert Murdoch might be my least favorite corporate guy.
• Little Danny

  

  Ty Webb;465500 wrote:http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/29/beck-says-rally-wanted-to-reclaim-civil-rights-from-politics/
  
  
  
  Did anyone read about this..some scary stuff coming out of it.
  
  Beck had the gaull to to compare these Tea-Party people to the people who fought for civil rights in the 1960's. Claims that our "civil rights" are being taken away. He can't be serious can he? I haven't had any of my rights taken away in the last 20 months,have any of you?

  
  Just because you don't agree with people in their movement, does not mean their concerns are not valid. There right to speak, rally and protest against the government is what makes this country great. In many countries the government would have sent the military down there to shoot and kill the opposition. Be thankful our country allows this form of protest so that when the viewpoints that align with yours are being championed they will have the right to speak.
  

  Bigdogg;465966 wrote:Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party. The Koch brothers and Rupert Murdoch have self-interested agendas that go well beyond the interests of those who carry their banners.
  
  
  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29rich.html?_r=1

  Yeah, because billionaires and millionaires never align with the democrats (sarcasm). Ever hear of George Soros pal?
• I Wear Pants

  You make valid points. I don't have a problem with them demonstrating I just think that anyone who rallies behind Glenn Beck as a political leader/champion of a movement is misguided or worse. Dude has no education behind high school (which isn't a bad thing unless you're on television pretending to be someone who knows what they're talking about in regards to politics, economics, religion, foreign affairs, etc).
  
  
  This was posted in a facebook discussion (I know I know) I was having on the subject: "Nobody ever went broke by underestimating their audience. Glenn speaks to the most xenophobic and hostile tendencies in human beings. We're naturally afraid of what we don't know, and we have the tendency to think that our hardships are the... result of somebody screwing us.
  
  Understand that Glenn Beck is not his own creator. He didn't move up through the ranks of the crazy bullshit industry because of his nuanced insight. Someone is paying him insane amounts of money because he does a very important job for them.
  
  Every piece of the media is somebody's property. If someone owns media, you can bet they own some politicians, too. Do you think Fox News, or any news channel, would accurately report on the abuses of its owners?"
  
  I think it's pretty correct. Glenn Beck isn't really important which is why it isn't really useful to get upset at him. If the network didn't have him they'd get someone else to do the same thing. It doesn't help thinking he's the villain (because he's merely doing things for incredible amounts of money that we'd all probably do regardless of our views) just as much as thinking he's some important thinker or something is pointless. He isn't either, he's a puppet.
• bases_loaded

  

  Martin Luther King does it(by the way his niece spoke at this rally), hes a hero. Glenn Beck does it, hes an uneducated douche bag trying to make money off the ignorant? My parents went and by looking at their pictures I would say there was far more than 300,000 people there. Numbers aside, I saw were the President said he didn't pay attention to the rally. Close to a million people march on your back yard and you don't pay attention? WHAT THE FUCK AMERICA?
  
  Just because you go to college does not make you better than anyone else. I went to college and it was a waste of my time. Half my classes were about how bad of a place America is and how we need to do all this shit for everyone else who is too lazy to take care of themselves. And I was a biological science major.
  
  100,000 blacks march on Washington they call it the Million Man March. Close to a million concerned and unhappy Americans march on Washington and they call it a gathering of ignorant Glenn Beck followers.
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  Eh, didn't watch or go to it. Didn't care for the rally either. Not a Beck or Palin fan, so I didn't feel the need to pay attention. I get their point, just disagree with the whole notion that America has lost honor, but whatever.
  
  It was funny to watch some of the people who went to the rally arrive and wander around DC. I even saw on a Maine Tea Party website "no go zones" that included actually fine areas, like U Street and Adams Morgan. There were some funny shirts I noticed walking to and from work on Thursday and Friday last week.
• BGFalcons82

  

  bases_loaded;466014 wrote:100,000 blacks march on Washington they call it the Million Man March. Close to a million concerned and unhappy Americans march on Washington and they call it a gathering of ignorant Glenn Beck followers.

  
  Million, eh? I think it was only a few dozen.....a thousand tops. Most hid their white robes and pointy hats. Everyone else was just visiting DC and just happened to stop by and see what the fuss was all about. You can't count these people just passing through as attendees. They were either headed to see where Obama lives or march with Sharpton since the President was out golfing.
• I Wear Pants

  College was a waste of time because you made it so.
  
  Im not saying I'm better than Beck because I'm in college or that he's lesser because he doesn't have a degree. What I'm saying is, he isn't qualified to be the spokesperson for the tea party movement. I could take them a lot more seriously if the people speaking for the movement weren't Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin.
  
  100,000 blacks? The lowest estimate for that march was 400,000 with the most likely accurate one being 837,000 ±20% (669,600 to 1,004,400).
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  I also enjoy this little nugget:
  http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/08/glenn-beck-rally-attendees-all.html

  Though the rally was a mostly peaceful gathering, two rally attendees got into a heated argument with an employee at the GW Deli over the D.C. bag tax, which ultimately resulted in one of the tea party members throwing a sandwich in the deli employee's face. The GW Deli declined to comment on the issue.

  It's 5 cents and goes to the river cleanup. It's not that big a deal and DC people have adjusted to it. Still, funny though.
• bases_loaded

  

  Half my classes were bullshit classes that had nothing to do with my major and everything to do with trying to tell me how to think. Therefore half my time and money was wasted.
  
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• bases_loaded

  

  As far as people just passing by. I'm guessing that is your opinion from your dorm room in BG. My parents pictures tell a different story.
  
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• ptown_trojans_1

  

  bases_loaded;466074 wrote:Half my classes were bullshit classes that had nothing to do with my major and everything to do with trying to tell me how to think. Therefore half my time and money was wasted.
  
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  lol, that's on you. I had professors that had me think for myself and loved when I challenged them.
  BTW, it was not a million people. A million would have stretched beyond the Washington Monument. It was at best, a couple hundred thousand.
• bases_loaded

  

  ptown_trojans_1;466086 wrote:lol, that's on you. I had professors that had me think for myself and loved when I challenged them.
  BTW, it was not a million people. A million would have stretched beyond the Washington Monument. It was at best, a couple hundred thousand.

  
  Its not on me, its on The Ohio State University and their required classes that have nothing to do with Biological Science.
  
  And as far as the number of people, I will take your word for it because your location is DC so you are obviously more qualified to give me a number of people in an open area.
• BGFalcons82

  

  bases_loaded;466083 wrote:As far as people just passing by. I'm guessing that is your opinion from your dorm room in BG. My parents pictures tell a different story.
  
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  Relax, bases. I thought the reference to the Pres playing golf would have given away the tongue-in-cheek post. I wouldn't want to be in the BG dorms right now cuz they don't have A/C!!
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  bases_loaded;466100 wrote:Its not on me, its on The Ohio State University and their required classes that have nothing to do with Biological Science.
  
  And as far as the number of people, I will take your word for it because your location is DC so you are obviously more qualified to give me a number of people in an open area.

  
  Are you referring to GECs? Cause, yeah those are hit and miss, but its OSU, so you should have been able to find some good ones. I did at least at OSU. Some of my favorite courses were GECs.
  As to Bio Science, if the program was as bad as you say it was, why did you go there? You choose to go to OSU. Why didn't you apply to another school with a better program?
• sleeper

  

  ptown_trojans_1;466114 wrote:Are you referring to GECs? Cause, yeah those are hit and miss, but its OSU, so you should have been able to find some good ones. I did at least at OSU. Some of my favorite courses were GECs.
  As to Bio Science, if the program was as bad as you say it was, why did you go there? You choose to go to OSU. Why didn't you apply to another school with a better program?

  
  There is no school with a better program.