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Memo to Snyder: Don’t stop the radical reforms now!Beck’s big blowout: Seriously, you people have a problem with restoring honor?
August 28th, 2010 | 
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Tina Trimble Belliston
The Restoring Honor rally that took place in Washington D.C. today was, by all accounts, a smashing success. While the “official” head count hovers at around half a million people, some mainstream media outlets are reporting the numbers in the “tens of thousands”.
Wellllllllll, technically that’s not wrong because one can multiply “tens of thousands” enough times to get to half a million, but it is misleading. But then, what else is to be expected? It seems so many in the media these days have a tendency to significantly downplay the numbers for any events that revolve around anything remotely patriotic or, as they like to say, “right wing”.
Huge.
Perhaps reporting the turnout as “hundreds of thousands” might have been a schoch more appropriate, but hey… maybe I’m just being nitpicky here.
The venom-mill has been churning in regard to this event for weeks now, but it’s been in overdrive today, and Glenn Beck and those who turned out for the rally are being mocked. No real surprise there. Personally, I think anyone who can find anything to mock in the sentiment of restoring honor to our country and its leaders must be one sad sack of a person.
Seriously? There is something to be mocked about restoring honor? One would think that restoring honor to this country and the people we’ve chosen to lead us would be something that we could all agree is a step in the right direction, regardless of where you may fall in the political spectrum, or hell, even wherever you fall on the Glenn Beck spectrum – love him or hate him. Apparently there are those who still live for petty name-calling and high school drama even though their high school days are far behind them. Yeah, that’s a shout-out to all you guys in your underwear clacking away at your keyboards from the basement of your mothers’ homes.
Of course, there are those who are claiming that Beck was attempting to “hijack” the meaning behind this day from 47 years ago – the deliverance of Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have A Dream” speech. Urban League president Mark Morial claimed that Beck’s plans were to “poke a finger in the eye of the civil rights community.” What an absurd claim, and just one more example of the race card being carelessly whipped out. Actually, the race card is dog-eared, creased, and crunched up.
In other words – overused and severely abused.
Now, perhaps I’m looking at this from the wrong perspective, but after some discourse today with several people on this issue, something was made blatanly clear to me – there are those in the black community who believe that Martin Luther King Jr. and celebrating his legacy is somehow “reserved” strictly for the black community. I am in no way trying to imply that all blacks feel this way, because I know they don’t. For those who do, may I remind you that King dreamed of a color-blind society. Where is the color-blindness in reserving him as a symbol of freedom and hope purely for the black community?
King has long been one of my heroes, and was a hero to many whites during the civil rights era as well. That sentiment carries through right up to today. As far as I’m concerned, the man was a national treasure, and his legacy will remain long after we have all passed into dust.
As I recall, in that famed speech given 47 years ago today, King also spoke of judging men by the content of their character, not their color. I would say that it seems, unfortunately, that many have completely missed the entire point of what Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream was all about.
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Your title is misleading. That’s like talking to an anti-abortion group and asking “why do you hate choosing?”
These titles are loaded. Whether or not you agree with Beck’s ideas you have to at least realize that many do not and that it does not relate to them “hating honor.”
And you, my dear friend, apparently miss the entire point. One would think that whether you hate Glenn Beck or you love him, or whether you are a “bible thumper” or an atheist, the idea of restoring HONOR is universal. Guess that concept is lost on some.
Tina, that’s an excellent article about a very worthy cause. My biggest question is what are people like Tom thinking? Where are their heads? Are they blind or are they just plain stupid to not see how this present administration in Washington has tried to ruin our country from within? I believe it was Nikita Kruschev who once said the United States would destroy themselves one day and it surely looks like he was correct. The only problem with that is that we have too many people who love this country to let it happen.
Fantastic article, Tina! Thank you for expressing what so many of us are feeling with respect to MLK, Glenn Beck and the rally. Keep up the excellent work!
Nicely Done Tina. Those without honor will never understand what Beck has done and is doing. Keep up the good work.
Gary Wellings, Chief Editor
The Courant
Abolition and later the Civil Rights Movements was about ensuring Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness for ALL its Citizens.
To the degree that is achieved is the degree to which honor is restored to the promises of Liberal documents such as the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution.
In order to make progress in the area of Abolition and Civil Rights, American had to overcome Constitutional interpretations on Property Rights and States Rights. In order to make progress in the are of Civil Rights for ALL of its citizens and make that the Law of the Land, We The People had to invoke the power of the Federal Government to first end Slavery, then segregation and Jim Crow as a matter of Public Policy and Law. In each case, successful resolution required successful challenge by the Federal government to the perceived rights of property owners and their State/Local governments.
The constituency represented by Glenn Beck,Tea Party, and the GOP represents a true conservative desire to return “honor” to conditions of absolute property and State’s rights sovereignty that existed for Slavery in the 19th Century as well as segregation and Jim Crow, Middle 20th Century.
While the GOP, Tea Party and Glenn Beck would like to decouple the history of their Anti-Federal, Private Property, State’s Rights mantra from the history associating these with racist Public Policy and Law in the past, it is unlikely that will occur. And if it does, it will be unfortunate for America, and have little or nothing to do with honor.
Wow, Ghost Dansing – you could’ve summed that up much more succinctly by just saying “You’re all a bunch of racists!”.
Never a shock to me when someone has to pull out the race card and flash it around.
Tina, there is nothing at all wrong with restoring honor to the country. The problem is in the definition of “honor”. Is it “honorable” that some people in the richest country on earth do not have access to health care? Is it honorable that large banking conglomerates were able to trash the economy and then spend millions weakening financial regulation? Is it “honorable” to compare the President of the US to Hitler, Stalin and claim that he wasn’t born in the US? Is it honorable to torture suspected enemies and spy on US citizens? Is it honorable to claim First Amendment rights for yourself but deny them to those of a different faith? Beck is not about honor, he’s about making a buck for himself and deluding millions of followers into believing that it is all about “honor”. What a sham.
Craig –
Is it “honorable” that our gov’t will STEAL from some to give to others & justify it by calling it “social justice” after they’ve nurtured a sense of entitlement and lack of personal responsibility into the populace by rewarding poor behavior and punishing responsible behavior?
There is no one in this nation who does not have “access” to healthcare – the fact of the matter is that Obamacare will NOT eradicate this “issue”. It is nothing more than a power grab & a new massive tax base. There are far more productive ways to help those that sincerely need it – and they do not require a complete takeover of our healthcare system & choices.
Is it “honorable” that our gov’t will now tax us on benefits we receive from our employer as INCOME? Yes, if you receive benefits from your employer, the gov’t will now tax you on them as income, in spite of the fact that we do not see a penny of that benefit unless we actually use it. This alone will put my husband & I (and I’m sure MANY more Americans!) in a whole new tax bracket. All in a time when many Americans are so financially strapped they are wondering how they will make their next mortgage payment or feed their children…. and many more who can’t even find WORK.
Is it “honorable” the way our gov’t is cramming every possible piece of controlling legislation down our throats that they possibly can in spite of the overwhelming public outcry?
If you want to talk about torture & spying on American citizens,is it “honorable” to sit by when we have a sitting American president who finds it acceptable to target American citizens for assassination without so much as a trial?
Is it “honorable” when we have a sitting president who openly mocks the American people & their outcry over fiscal irresponsibility?
Is it “honorable” to continue to blame a previous administration two years into the new one, when Obama himself helped CREATE the “mess he’s cleaning up” by voting FOR big gov’t spending & bailouts when he was the most liberal US Senator in congress?
I’m scratching my head over the denial of 1st amendment rights for others… you got me on that one. The only attempt at denial of 1st amendment rights I see is the constant hatred & propaganda spewed from the progressive left. They are so tolerant and accepting – as long as you agree with them.
If questioning the motives of big gov’t & the thugocracy in the White House makes me “dishonorable” by your standards, then so be it.
Restoring this nation to an actual place that once again guarantees LIFE, LIBERTY, and THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS is not a sham. Big gov’t & over-regulation & oppressive control of every aspect of our lives is what is DISHONORABLE. It’s sad that so many are blind to this.
hon·or /ˈɒnər/ Show Spelled[on-er] Show IPA
–noun
1. honesty, fairness, or integrity in one’s beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
2. a source of credit or distinction: to be an honor to one’s family.
3. high respect, as for worth, merit, or rank: to be held in honor.
4. such respect manifested: a memorial in honor of the dead.
5. high public esteem; fame; glory: He has earned his position of honor.
It is sad that there are sooo many Americans these days who really have No Clue what HONOR is all about.
If they did, we wouldn’t have the children being molested by their own family member’s, or the killing of parents by their children, or husbands/wives seeing other people on the side…etc., etc., etc.
And it all started a LONG TIME AGO.
Our job NOW is to EXPOSE it and try to educate others (again) about what is wrong and what is right. You’d think it would not be that hard, right? Sadly, it’s a HUGE undertaking…
Meant to say GREAT ARTICLE, TINA! Kudos to you!
I didn’t hear race mentioned anywhere, and I saw some amazing black performers.
We do live in the greatest, richest country in the world, and we are blessed to be here. Even poor people are blessed to be here.
Everyone has access to health care here, some people just have to pay for it out of pocket. When they don’t pay, it can’t be reflected on their credit reports. When a child is sick, the community rallies. I don’t know how many pasta dinners I’ve been to, I don’t know how many dollars I’ve put in the coffee can next to the cash register. My friend, who is an ER nurse, has never sent someone away because of their insurance or economic status. Everyone is treated, and treated with dignity.
You don’t even need to be a citizen to get health care here! How can you say that people are denied health care? It’s a big difference between that and not having insurance. And it’s not anyone else’s responsibility to see that somebody has health insurance. It’s his own. It pisses me off when I see someone in a BMW, in a McMansion, with all of the latest gadgets complaining that he can’t afford health insurance. He can afford an $800 a month car payment, and a $5000 mortgage, though. Why am I going to buy health insurance for that guy?
It was the housing bubble that caused the economic collapse, and that can be laid right at the feet of the Clinton Administration, and Fannie and Freddie Mac. Don’t come at me with the banking industry corporate greed garbage. If banks weren’t forced by the federal government to give mortgages to people who couldn’t afford their payments, it wouldn’t have happened, even with corporate greed. The “corporate greed” to which you refer is bankers wanting to be sure that they are going to get their money back. They are not in the business of giving away houses. You can thank CountryWide Chris Dodd for that, and all of the geniuses in CT that kept voting for him.
Credit card companies got rich by the greed of middle America, not Corporate America. If we could learn to live within our means, it would put them out of business. Don’t blame the Capitalist, blame the guy that gets addicted to his services.
Any “religion” that sees fit to beat women, kill them for their own good, and marry off their 6 year old daughters isn’t a religion, it’s a cult. Any “religion” that advocates human rights violations is not a religion, it’s a cult. We don’t allow for cults that advocate human rights violations in this country. The Q’aran, as it is written, directly conflicts with the laws of the United States of America, and our basic Constitutional rights, as endowed by our Creator and guaranteed by our Constitution. When they can get that sorted out, I will welcome them with open arms, but as long as their primary goal is to subvert our way of life, I will not support their agenda.
I do believe that there are Muslims in this world that want to just go about their business and not kill the rest of us for not being believers, but I do not believe that these are the Muslims who are in the forefront of the political part of their movement. I believe that these people are extremists, that they were installed in their positions by extremists, and that they are setting up these cultural centers to be able to grow a cancer in our society. I wish the “other” Muslims would stand against them, and demand full accountability of where their funding is coming from, and a host of other things, but since they don’t, I have to assume they are part of the ultimate goal. If you are confused about what that ultimate goal is, then read the Q’aran.
Where is this “official” headcount……
and who are the media outlets saying “tens of thousands”- please site these.
From what I’ve seen, >Estimates< put the count at around 300k( which is "nearly" 1/4 mil away from 500k).
And a silly question I have is- Who are we restoring this honor for? Ourselves? Other countries? Both?
I am an American and I proudly say so now.
But, how I honor my country is for me to say, not you or Glen Beck. That is what makes this country great and ensures that I do honor it.
As to Darla's definition, I think all of these already apply and did long before yesterday.
If you want to stand up and honor America, do so.
If you want me to stand up and honor America "your way", well, I don't think that is very honorable at all.
and by site, I meant cite.
Test. My comments from this morning did not appear so this a test.
Very well done! We should remember all of Dr King’s speech.
Would you care to tell us all what “honor” Newt Gingrich displayed when he served his second wife divorce papers while she was lying in a hospital bed battling cancer (so that he could be with his mistress)? Or when Newt was getting a blow-job in a car while his daughter was approaching?
A right-wingnut like yourself will vote for Newt in 2012 in a RED HOT MINUTE.
You’ll ignore his despicable personal moral character and find a way to dismiss it, rationalize it, or otherwise simply not deal with it. That’s what partisan-zealot hypocrites like you who blather about “honor” do.
Ditto for the quitter ex-governor of Alaska. Since when did “honor” include QUITTING on the very populace that entrusted you with office?
Unless and until you can produce legitimately moral and honorable beyond-reproach candidates for the 2012 presidential election (and right now you CANNOT), shut your piehole, you hypocrite.
Tom – I feel sorry for you. Glen Beck’s event had nothing to do with the Republican party. The personal events in Newt’s life nearly 15 years ago are no more relivant than those of Bill Clinton. Saturday was a tribute to God.
As to your last paragraph. If this is your standard there will not be a candidate from either party on the ballot. If you think it will be Sara or Newt then you are clueless as to what is going on. That is a good thing.
Ken C said:
Tom – I feel sorry for you.
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Don’t bother. I live a great life, and unlike you, I hold candidates for the highest office in the land to high standards of honor and integrity. It’s a pity you do not.
Ken C said:
The personal events in Newt’s life nearly 15 years ago are no more relivant than those of Bill Clinton.
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Really? So you’re just fine with what Bill Clinton did while in the White House?
I call bullshite.
Ken C said:
As to your last paragraph. If this is your standard there will not be a candidate from either party on the ballot.
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Really? So what is your “standard”? Let me guess – you have two different ones. One for the guys/gals with the “R” next to their names, and one for the guys/gals with the “D” next to their names.
It’s pretty pathetic that you believe that America can’t elect a president who hasn’t engaged in sexual immorality/adultery in their lifetimes. So what you’re saying is “everybody does it” ??
Ken C said:
If you think it will be Sara or Newt then you are clueless as to what is going on.
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So who’s it gonna be, oh intellectual one? Polls show Palin as the front-runner, with Romney a distant second. But please, enlighten us all as to who the GOP-puppet is going to be….
Heh. When one reports one’s own numbers, the headcount can magically multiply.
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