Beck could have hosted his "Restoring Honor" rally on any date besides the 47th anniversary of the March on Washington, and at any other location besides the same location where King led activists to demand an end to legal discrimination and inequality.
| For the same reason, the Progressive Left could protest the military at locations other than Marine recruiting stations, but they don't ... |
But Beck couldn't resist sticking it to leaders of civil rights organizations.
Yea, having MLK's niece on stage with him will really stick it to them?
| The whole point of a rally is to stick it to someone ... |
His antics are designed to pander to the extremists in the Republican Party who feel threatened by a black man in the White House.
For instance, when Beck called President Obama a "racist," it was shocking, even if it didn't make much sense.
"I'm not saying he doesn't like white people. I'm saying he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist," Beck said.
| What bothers the professional Left the most is that Beck uses the word 'racist' the way most people understand the ordinary use of the word as opposed to the way it's defined in an academic department of race and gender studies ... |
Apparently, it didn't matter to Beck that Obama was surrounded by white strategists during his campaign or that whites outnumber blacks in his administration.
There's a news flash!
| But it's cool because the white folks are all card-carrying democratic socialists, and all understand the proper way to use 'racist': that is, against Republicans ... |
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