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Restoring Honor (But Not, Apparently, Dignity)

August 28th, 2010

Because if anyone can restore honor, it’s Glenn Beck.

Wait, didn’t somebody promise to restore “honor and dignity” some eight years ago? Oh yeah, him. Well, I suppose that if Beck is now trying to restore honor, then Bush must have only been able to restore dignity.

Don’t you just love it that in explaining his “Restoring Honor” rally, Beck lies rather transparently? His rally is not only being held at the Lincoln Memorial, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his historic “I have a Dream” speech, but it is being held on the 47th anniversary of that event. But Beck claims that it’s “only a coincidence,” and that the date was chosen to fit people’s schedules only. Yeah. And he claims that the rally, featuring him and Sarah Palin, with the Tea Party in large presence, is “nonpolitical.” Again: yeah. Very honorable there, Beck.

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  1. Troy
    August 28th, 2010 at 15:20 | #1
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    One thing I’ve noticed coming from the right a lot of brazen character assassination and smear jobs — even extending to your own comment section on occasion, LOL, but on other sites I see other commentators repeating the same crap.

    Beck’s “Restoring Honor” is par for the course here.

    The rabbit hole here kinda goes deeper tho, and this is pretty scary stuff really, in a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can't_Happen_Here way. “Ehre” was not an under-used word in Germany in the 1930s.

    Honor is also dog-whistling to white supremacy via this connection.

    We The People certainly have an interesting choice this November. I expect we will largely fail this test. Too many stupid people here. Way too many.

    I felt extremely negative about the US in mid-1992 when I was finishing my degree — the LA riots, the Perot stuff, but I balied too soon as Clinton’s center-right administration did an OK job I guess putting things back together. Far from perfect in retrospect, but the country was doing OK in late 2000.

  2. Troy
    August 28th, 2010 at 15:25 | #2
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    ^ . . . so maybe wanting to leave now like I do is also premature. I don’t think so, though. I think the US is fundamentally screwed.

    Then again, I also think Japan is fundamentally screwed too, and will be even more so if the US goes into the ditch.

    If you’re looking for some iPad readin’ this guy’s stuff:

    http://spikejapan.wordpress.com/

    is more than awesome.

    It is possible that no matter how bad it gets here, it will be better than Japan. Tough to see the future, tho.

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