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I watched all of Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally this past Saturday morning with the intensity and pleasure of a pious church goer at his favorite church.

I was raised in church and have spent the better part of my life in same, but I’m not what you would call pious. However, Glenn Beck’s multi-denominational rally struck just the right chord. It struck a chord that I have not experienced in a long time. It was truly a blessing. If you were fortunate enough to be able to watch it on CSPANN or on Facebook, you know what I mean.

After, the usual suspects in the news media began their usual hatchet jobs. Some of the articles that were available on Saturday, post the rally, looked as if they were written before the rally. Indeed, they could have been.

Saturday afternoon, just after the 300-500,000 person rally ended, CBS News reported that exactly 87,000 people attended the Restoring Honor rally, which was less than the 100,000 that Beck had predicted. Too bad, Glenn.

Saturday night, Grrraldo rounded up the Rev. Al Sharpton, a Baptist Minister. (Where is Reverend  Sharpton’s church? Can someone tell me?)  Reverend Sharpton flopped around like a beached carp on the matter of the rally. You’ve seen his interviews.

Sunday, President Obama said he had not watched any of the Restoring Honor rally. He characterized the attendees as folks who are dissatisfied with the way things are going, and said that they are “easily led.” He dismissed them saying that you find them in any time of distress.  No big deal.

The Shine Is Off Our Imams

I expected the usual left wing media culprits to dismiss Beck and the Restoring Honor rally. More, I expected (but fervently hoped I would be proven wrong) the usual suspects on our side to do the same.

I’m disappointed beyond measure at the response of our own leaders, those people being Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Mark Levin.

I listened to the first hour of Levin and he did not mention the Restoring Honor rally. If later, he did, I”ll be more than happy to retract or revise.

Rush Limbaugh could not be contacted for his reaction, because he’s off on another golf frolic, this time for a week and a half. He also mentioned Thursday’s show that he’d be taking off in November for another. November? Tell me that I heard that wrong. Please.

Best of all, Sean Hannity said Monday to a caller that he hadn’t had time to listen to much of the rally Saturday because he was busy. That’s fair enough, because he had just come off his own tour.

But let’s be candid. It’s quite in line for the “mainstream media” to behave the way they did about the rally. We lament their behavior bitterly. But what about our own leaders?

Rush spends more and more time wheel’s up lately, so I wonder where his head really is at times. Levin gives the appearance that he hates Beck. Hannity shys away from anything Beck much as you or I would a poisonous snake.

I’m not calling for a love fest. I’m not even calling for these very competitive leaders to cooperate. But I am calling for common courtesy. When Levin and Hannity IGNORE something as massive as the Restoring Honor rally, they are also ignoring their own base. They, in effect say that we don’t matter.

When you ask our leaders, “What about that Restoring Honor rally?” and they respond, “What rally?” it’s time for an adjustment.

If the peril the nation faces isn’t enough to foster at least a courteous common cause among the people we look to for news and guidance, then their council must be tempered with the knowledge that they have agendas above what is apparent.

Frankly, I expect better, and more from these men. For example, Rush is in no position to make judgments about Obama’s multitudinous vacations. Rush has diminished himself, at least in my eyes, on this topic.  (Rush would have a belly laugh over what *I* think.) Likewise, I must filter whatever Hannity says through a petty filter.  And Levin… Levin most of all disappoints, because side by side, there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between his views and those of Beck.

So, please don’t think that is just me. Liberals the nation over take comfort when our leaders dis each other…and in the case of the Restoring Honor rally, the half million who attended and the untold others who watched on CSPANN and Facebook.

What in God’s name are these men thinking? Now is the time for unity. A nation of conservatives are in harmony. Is it not right to ask at least a portion from the men we turn to for advice and leadership in this, the most important political times in the last 150 years? I can’t take a man seriously who doesn’t return the favor.