Beck's meaningless rally won't make history books

Tens of thousands attended conservative commentator Glenn Becks "Restoring Honor" rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial Saturday. Why were they there? What was the point?

I went to Glenn Beck's website in an attempt to get a clear understanding of the message of the rally, the objective; the point. What I found was a poorly written collection of thoughts that spoke to understanding who we are and how we find heroes. "Tomorrow that's what this is about really, reflection of who we are, where we are, where we're going, what each of us have to do. How do we get our way out of this? ...It's time we find heroes again. ...What is it we trust? Who is it we believe in?"

Glenn Beck claimed that this rally would pay tribute to the Rev. Dr. King and "reclaim" the civil rights movement. It has been so distorted and so turned upside down. It is an abomination." These are interesting words from a man who continuously fans the flames of bigotry and hatred. He said last summer that president Obama has a "deep seated hatred for White people, or the White culture. I don't know what it is. This guy I believe is a racist." Is Glenn Beck inferring that President Obama hates his own mother and maternal grandparents? Glenn Beck's hypocrisy and bigoted diatribes are the abomination.

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The "Restoring Honor" rally took place on the 47th anniversary and at the site of the 1963 March on Washington where Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. Unlike the vague and ambiguous "Restoring Honor" rally the complete name of the 1963 march was the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It is estimated that close to 200,000 Americans of various ethnicities and backgrounds came to Washington to demand that the Kennedy administration pass Civil Rights legislation, integrate schools, provide unemployment assistance, and pass the Fair Employment Act. As a result of this historic march, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed as well. The 1963 march was based in the principles of the American Dream and made America a better place.

Sarah Palin spoke at Beck's event stating, "We must not fundamentally transform America, as some would want. We must restore America and restore her honor." Restore America to what and how? Has America's honor been damaged more by the election of its first African-American president or by former President Bush 43' misleading America into war with false claims of WMD's, former VP Cheney's "yellow cake uranium" hoax, and the illegal release of the name of former CIA operative Valerie Plame as an attempt to silence critics of the Bush administration?