Anti-Beckapalooza

Anybody who regularly listens to Glenn Beck's morning radio program has long since been acutely aware that his Restoring Honor rally at the Lincoln Memorial last Saturday was not about politics, not about policy, but was about restoring the Judeo-Christian cultural roots of our country by proclaiming how far We, The People have strayed from them. Indeed, the political content of his show has, over the past month or so, dwindled down to virtually nothing.

So it comes as no surprise that the Left (1) didn't understand it and so, inevitably, (2) projected their own psycopathic pathologies on it like it was just another leftwingnut Rorschach test. Actually, they would have done (2) whether they understood it or not. They didn't give a moment's thought to what Beckapalooza was actually about because they pre-emptively rejected taking it at face value, probably not even at a conscious level.

The end product is more of their same tiresome arrogance and condescension, from no less than King Hussein himself, shrimp be upon him:

I — I do think that it’s important for us to recognize that right now, the country’s going through a very difficult time, as a consequence of years of neglect in a whole range of areas. Our schools not working the way they need to, so we’ve slipped in terms of the number of college graduates, you know?

A financial system that was not, you know, operating in a way that maintained integrity and assured that the people who were investing or who were buying a home or were using a credit card weren’t getting in some way cheated. We had a health care system that was broken and that was bankrupting families and businesses. All those issues are big, tough, difficult issues. And those are just our domestic issues. That’s before we get to policy issues in two wars. And a continuing battle against terrorists who want to do us harm.

So, given all those anxieties — and given the fact that, you know, in none of these situations are you going to be fix things overnight. It’s not surprising that somebody like a Mr. Beck is able to stir up a certain portion of the country. That’s been true throughout our history. What I’m focused on is making sure that the decisions we’re making now are going to be be not good for the nightly news. Not good even necessarily for the next election. But are good for the next generation. And I’m very confident that those decisions are the ones that we’ve made.

Translation: "Y'know all those bitter clingers I told ya about a coupla years ago? Well, they're still clinging to their guns and their racist Constitution and that J.C. guy, and now they're also clinging to that bloated albino wretch Beck, who's turned them into angry ingrates as well. And after all I've done for 'em, too."

Barry wept.

"Know what Rahm calls him? 'Blind Mormon Shitlin'" I'm gonna miss that mother[BLEEP]er around the West Wing."

Parenthetically, Eeyore can't really be confused about The One ascribing the huge turnout at a quasi-civic revival to "economic anxieties." What other interpretation would an orthodox Marxist come up with? Which, ironically, ought to help settle the question of what "religion" Lucifer truly follows.

That mouthy old bastard Bill Press certainly left nothing of his religious leanings to the imagination:

Well, it seems obvious to me: BIll Press worships Martin Luther King, and doesn't want talk of that Jewish carpenter usurper desecrating MLK's "sacred" temple, in which sits the statue of, um, the white Republican who, er, freed the slaves.

Oh, c'mon, it was incoherent at the mention of Press "crusading" against Beckapalooza. Everything after was senility.

There was also the usual Fun With Crowd Size Estimates, with the half million or so-strong crowd "estimated" by the Obamedia as less than a fifth of its actual number. Speaking for myself, I'm happy to settle on this commenter's compromise: