Most Conservative Blog – Restoring Honor – Glenn Beck
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.
Who is Show Prep for Rush?
Rush, as we all know IS show prep for the rest of the news industry, or should be. However, this begs the question. Who is show prep for Rush? Nobody you say? Not so fast…
This is something I have been pondering pretty much since founding the AlabamaTeaParty.org blog, but more so lately. What I’m about to say ought to stir up a little controversy…
Study the chalk board…
The other day, Rush said something interesting. He said that he is THE Conservative. Therefore, the rest of the talking heads could only be niches built off the word conservative. Get it?
Niche was a man who I think lived back in the 1800′s somewhere in Germany or somewhere else and wrote some really strange books. Stuff like that.
Today the word “niche” means “subset.” Subset means, “kinda like, but not exactly the same…Complimentary.”
As an example, in my world, if the word jelly is already taken as a website name, then I might look for a jelly niche word like… grape jelly. That’s a subset of jelly, but it still packs plenty of jelly goodness.
Not to belabor the point, in the talking head circles, if Rush is Conservative, then the others out there can only be niches of Conservative. That’s what’s left. Point well taken.
That being the case, if you want to be a conservative talk show host, you have to pick a subset or niche talk show host description and gig. The chalkboard illustrates what I believe to be the current subsets of the superstars.
After Rush, there is the second tier.
Taking nothing away from less well known conservative talk show guys, the bottom row on the chalk board illustrates my take on the Fox evening lineup, excluding Greta. I would have included her, but I ran out of room.
Anyway, can you guess who I’m talking about on the old chalkboard up there? Hmmn?
Not to get the wrong idea. I like them all. But some are…exasperating at times. That’s my opinion.
On a completely different topic, I’m completely taken with Glenn Beck. It is not arguable that watching him is like taking a college course. Some of us (AlabamaTeaParty.org) even have homework. The AlabamaTeaParty.org website is my homework.
Rush says, and well he should, that he is show prep for the rest of the media…but show prep for Rush should be Glenn Beck.
Rush seemed to have been quite pleased with Beck early on, but that seems to have worn off. Witness that occasionally Rush will toss out something as news that we learned on Beck days earlier.
I lamented recently that I longed for the days when we didn’t have to know so much about the inner workings of the socialist radical mind. At the same time I marveled at how far we have come in only two short years, thanks to Beck. Were it not for him, most of us would be oblivious to the hows and whys of the radical things going on around us.
Beck has lain down a master level study of the mind of the liberal/radical/progressive for us all to see and learn from. Countless times he has dropped a dime on the friends of darkness.
Beck has almost single-handedly carried all of us back to school. In comparison, Rush speaks in Cliff notes. Which is NOT to take away from Rush.
But Rush’s brilliant mind is not on biz sometimes… On Thursday July 15th, Rush spent most of the show belly aching about his Ipod or Padeye cellphone. It was vital and important information for us all. Of course, at the end of the show Rush allowed that he would not be there Friday, for he instead would be on his G5 jet drinking wine and champagne at 51,000 feet. Rush is a party kind of guy any more.
If Rush is the high octane fuel in our engines, then Beck is nitrous oxide that makes us race cars. Dumb analogy unless you’re a NASCAR fan. Then it all becomes very clear indeed!
