Sounds like a really big bust to me; no clear message, from anyone.
http://www.truth-out.org/anger-floods-mall-along-with-glenn-beck62758Anger Floods the Mall Along with Glenn Beck
Saturday 28 August 2010
by: Deb Weinstein, t r u t h o u t | Report
Washington - The crowds that descended on the Mall Saturday for the Glenn Beck "Restoring Honor" rally were clear about several things: what they wanted to eat (sandwiches brought from home, chips), that they wanted to be in the shade and that they wanted a dry place to sit.
Beyond that, specifics - such as why they came to Washington or what they hoped would come out of the rally - were elusive. My questions about why these families had traveled from Louisiana, Oklahoma and New Jersey for a baking day in the DC sun were treated like a hostile act.
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A visitor from outside Hershey, Pennsylvania, was uncertain whether locked Porta-Potties near the Washington Monument were locked for a reason or to spite the crowd.:rofl:
Even those who were willing to talk didn't drill down into specifics. Darryl Postelo and Mike McKinney from southern Virginia came the closest to expressing their objectives. Both wanted greater government accountability and less government regulation.
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Despite the uproar over the overlap between Glenn Beck's speech and the 47th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech, there was little acknowledgement of the timing once the rally started. Beck ignored it, and
former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin tried to appropriate the moment, awkwardly tossing in King references and attempting to smooth things over with language from the Gettysburg Address, saying "Two score and seven years ago...":rofl:
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An hour after the rally officially began, another group of dissenting voices emerged. Gathering at the spot the Sojourners had abandoned, a group of 10 to 15 teens held signs saying, "Glenn Beck is a bigot," or, in the case of Eagle Scout Eric Klein, "DC does not hate." Klein said his goal was to show that "DC does not approve of what they're doing here by desecrating this site and this date."The day continued on, with slogans and stickers taking the place of engaged conversation and talking points, the crowd uniting behind its sense of confused, pent-up rage. Passing a fellow protester, a visitor noted that his favorite sights so far were two t-shirts: one that said, "Don't make me come here again," and another that read, "We came unarmed. This time."
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