Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor Rally & American Obedience to God
By Jared Law -- Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Glenn Beck's 8.28: Restoring Honor Rally and the leadup thereto, including America's Divine Destiny, Glenn Beck's program the night before at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which is available on Glenn Beck's Insider Extreme, along with many 8.28-related video clips (and Beck University, which includes Faith 101, 102, 103; Hope 101, 102, 103, and Charity 101, 102, & 103, in addition to many history lesson-video clips), constitute the greatest assortment of exhortations to do the right thing, to turn to God, to be righteous, outside of any official church function or event, that I have ever witnessed, not to mention a great honoring of America's military heroes. It is a cultural masterpiece, reminding us of the role that Christianity played in the founding of this nation, while at the same time, applying the principles embodied in Natural Law and Nature's God to our current state of affairs in 21st Century America.
The United States of America is the greatest nation on Earth, and no rational, unbiased observer can effectively dispute this fact. We have contributed more to mankind's liberty, to human comfort and actual progress, than any other nation on Earth. Obviously, credit for this goes to God, since HE blessed us with such an inspired form of government as that outlined in The Constitution of the United States of America. God is the One who embedded the Principles of Freedom which are enshrined in the Constitution of the United States of America therein. True, our Founding Fathers share the credit, since they obeyed God, and did what they were inspired to do, but it all goes back to God.
But back to America; I agree with all who argue that Glenn Beck has been inspired by God; he has, by listening to the still, small voice of the Holy Spirit, organized something that the enemies of freedom, embodied and otherwise, simply cannot dismiss, nor can they criticize it, not without condemning themselves as being in open rebellion against God and The United States of America.
Now, after having a few days to ponder what Glenn Beck has accomplished, with Providential Aid, I have come to the conclusion that the Restoring Honor rally an absolute miracle (in this day and age, what Glenn Beck was able to pull off, both in terms of our attendance, the program, the symbolic/historic location and the symbolic/historic date, was unquestionably a miracle). However, it was short-lived if the only thing that happens was a good time had by all, some tears shed, the spirit felt, and a great sigh of relief that we're restoring America.
We MUST continue to work at self-control (self-government), we must continue to become a more truthful nation, we must continue to be more honest with ourselves and our families, our friends, neighbors, and other peers. We must be loyal to our oaths, and more true to our covenants. We must pray more, and for those of us not praying, we must begin to pray multiple times a day. Never eat without blessing your meal, even if it's at Wendy's, In-N-Out, Ruth's Chris, or a local Mexican or Chinese restaurant. Don't be afraid to pray, even in public.
We must do our best to attend our church, if we have one, and if we don't have one, find one. If we attend a church, pay a full tithe. If we don't find one. When you pray at home, with or without your family, pray on your knees. Humble yourselves before your creator. Turn to God, America! If we fail to do so, we will fail to qualify for the Providential Aid we so desperately need!
Remember, we must act as if it all depends on us, and pray as if it all depends on God!
And if we can make the Restoring Honor rally the BEGINNING of a real, deep, broad, complete Third Great American Awakening, then we will have God on our side, and we will have won the battle, on the way to doing our part to win the war. Let's be on God's side; He's on ours if we will let him in!
Now some of you (very few of you, based upon what I've seen so far on our network) don't believe in God. Some of you tolerate us religious folk, and you just don't understand why we choose to believe in a God we cannot see. The answer is Faith. Faith is:
Heb. 11: 1
1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
What that means is that faith is something we hope for, that we cannot see evidence for. In other words, faith is a choice. It's as simple as choosing to believe that you are more than the product of evolution, more than a descendant of apes and an evolutionary accident, and that there is life after death, and that God does, in fact, exist, and he created the heavens and the Earth, and that you he created your spirit body, and there's more to life than mere accumulation of money and power.
It also means that our Heavenly Father loves us, just as all good Fathers here on Earth do, and that he expects us to do good, he wants us to be happy, and that his commandments are more than a bunch of aphorisms; we will actually be judged based upon how we live our lives, how we strive to keep His commandments, and if we choose to repent and ask to be forgiven our sins, so we can be clean at the Judgment Bar of God after this life.
And since he wants us to be happy, it stands to reason he wants us to be free. It means the Constitution of the United States of America is an inspired document, and it was meant for the protection of ALL MANKIND. Meaning that it was created not only for us, but for all, if their country will, as a nation, choose to adopt a written constitution something like ours, to guarantee their freedoms, as ours are guaranteed.
Our Founding Fathers knew, also, that only a righteous people can be governed by such a Constitution. In fact, John Adams said, on October 11, 1798, that:
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
And so it is.
The more a nation's people refuse to govern themselves (self control), the more need they have of tyrannical constraints. That is why it is best if we are a moral and a religious people; if we have the constraints that religion and morality place upon us, the Constitution is perfect. If not, more laws, regulations, etc. are required to preserve the rights of potential victims, but then the liberty of all is constrained. Eventually that leads us to where we are now. We never would have allowed ourselves to get in it so deep had we been a more righteous nation before now.
Thank the Lord Almighty for repentance! Now if only...if only every American who had heard of the 8.28 Rally would hold this sacred: Restoring Honor Starts With Me!
May America Turn Back to God, and may God Continue to Bless The United States of America!
Jared Law is the founder of The 9.12 Project Network, located at http://www.the912project.us/
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Friday, September 3, 2010
Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor Rally – August 28, 2010
Please read this beautiful reflection of the Restoring Honor Rally, written by Diane Rufino. Diane is affiliated with Eastern North Carolina Tea Party!
Her blog site: http://forloveofgodandcountry.wordpress.com/
I would also like to share this note from Diane,
"Today I read some very disturbing news. On Monday, Aug. 30, the Huffington Post posted a vile piece offering $100,000 for a sex tape or other incriminating information on Glenn Beck so they can permanently remove him from the airwaves.
The post went something like this --
Beau Friedlander, a Huffington Post contributor and former editor of the failed liberal radio network Air America offered $100,000 for a sex tape or compromising phone conversation, etc, featuring Glenn Beck. "Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers are happy to throw money at the rising tide of right wing lunacy," wrote Friedlander.
Glenn Beck is the most widely-watched news show on TV. Viewers trust they will get the truth from him. He is helping to re-educate Americans with their history and their heritage. Thanks to him, the #1-selling books these days are the Constitution and books on our Founding Fathers. An educated electorate is the best chance we have to remain vigilante to abuses against our Constitution and system of government. He just organized a rally to honor God and our military, and raised over $5.5 million for fallen Special Ops soldiers. His followers represent the best in human character, dignity, and integrity. Their intentions represent the best for this country, in line with what our great and foreward-thinking Founders envisioned. Jon Voight once said, addressing the charges of racism in the Tea Party by the NAACP and other such groups, that the caliber of the people who follow Glenn Beck and have joined the Tea Party movement is so high that they themselves would rat out any instances of racism. They themselves would not tolerate it. If there were any such outbursts, the media would know about it immediately and concretely (rather than mere baseless allegations) because the Tea Party members themselves would out them for what they are. The average member of the Tea Party movement has more intelligence, greater moral character, greater respect for the law, greater respect for the Constitution, is more patriotic, and has a greater sense of duty than our President or any Democratic member in Congress.
So you have to ask yourself why would anyone want to slander or discredit Glenn Beck. Well, Friedlander's answer was just as offensive as his despicable offer: "Because he and and those who support him stand to make a lot of money off the anti-black president movement, and they are rich enough to imprint their beliefs on the American sheeple... Glenn Beck is a Mormon. It matters. His religion typifies the noble lie that the neocons originally set out to defend against the counterculture--Archie Bunker's America--where a woman's place was in the home and with baby, and an African American's place was in a ghetto. Mormons revere women much like Hindis do the cow, and they didn't accept African Americans in their ranks at all till 1978-- so draw whatever inferences you like. "
His vile piece went after "Tea baggers" (as he calls them), as well:
"In cultural terms, the original neoconservatives who birthed the baggers were way more frightened by the Broadway musical "Hair" than the film "Rosemary's Baby" (both from 1968). A mock ad might go like this: "Afraid your daughter might hook up with a black guy (or the nation may choose one to be president)? Have a problem with that homosexual and or promiscuous son or daughter? Does your son need a haircut? Do you often find biblical characters charred into your toast? Then do we have the movement for you!
It is time to pop the tea baggers' favorite balloon (so what if it will be replaced by another?), and with that in mind I hereby offer to negotiate a $100,000 payday to the person who will come forward with a sex tape or phone records or anything else that succeeds in removing Glenn Beck from the public eye forever. I am not offering the cash myself, but I will broker the deal and/or raise the money for what you bring to the table. (And it better be good.)
If you have the goods, or if you want to contribute to a slush fund to buy more takedowns (probably not tax deductible), please contact me at: glennbecksextape@gmail.com.
Welcome to modern day liberalism: if you can't beat 'em, smear 'em! "
This is the newspaper that our President and our members of Congress swear by. This is the newspaper of choice for Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama. This is the newspaper they cite for their facts and their news. This is the newspaper that Obama cites in his speeches.... "If you don't believe me, just read the Huffington Post."
Glenn Beck got word of Friedlander piece, and addressed this attempt at liberal lynching on his radio broadcast.
"If you don't believe me that your religious liberties are at stake, that there are progressives who are bigots and hate-mongerers when it comes to religion, just read what Friedlander wrote. They will stop at nothing." (Then he quoted what Friedlander wrote about his Mormon faith; see above).
"You can say what you want about me, but leave my wife out of it. You can say what you want about my faith, but when you begin to diminish the role of women in our lives... How dare you. As a member of a faith that is the only faith in American history to have an actual governmental enactment calling for the extermination of people based on religion, I take this attack seriously. Mormons are the only people in the history of America that the government (in the 1800's) targeted by legislation that made it OK to kill a Mormon simply because he was a Mormon. Period. U don't hear Mormons crying about that. You don't hear Mormons asking for reparations; you don't hear them asking for anything. But we understand. We have seen it before (the Holocaust).... targeting one religious group for extermination.
Just leave my wife and my family out of it."
Later that day, the post was removed by the Huffington Post. Very simply, this is what was noted:
"Editor's Note: This piece was published directly to the Huffington Post by its author. It didn't meet our editorial standards and has been removed from the site."
And even later that day, Friedlander offered an apology.
As one blogger wrote: "This is the problem with with allowing the communists and socialists in our free society. There is the problem of showing 'tolerance' to certain groups who if they had their way, if they were in power, would deny tolerance and liberties to you."
Reference: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/08/30/huffington-poster-offers-100-000-glenn-becks-sex-tape#ixzz0yI8UKSaC
Her blog site: http://forloveofgodandcountry.wordpress.com/
I would also like to share this note from Diane,
"Today I read some very disturbing news. On Monday, Aug. 30, the Huffington Post posted a vile piece offering $100,000 for a sex tape or other incriminating information on Glenn Beck so they can permanently remove him from the airwaves.
The post went something like this --
Beau Friedlander, a Huffington Post contributor and former editor of the failed liberal radio network Air America offered $100,000 for a sex tape or compromising phone conversation, etc, featuring Glenn Beck. "Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers are happy to throw money at the rising tide of right wing lunacy," wrote Friedlander.
Glenn Beck is the most widely-watched news show on TV. Viewers trust they will get the truth from him. He is helping to re-educate Americans with their history and their heritage. Thanks to him, the #1-selling books these days are the Constitution and books on our Founding Fathers. An educated electorate is the best chance we have to remain vigilante to abuses against our Constitution and system of government. He just organized a rally to honor God and our military, and raised over $5.5 million for fallen Special Ops soldiers. His followers represent the best in human character, dignity, and integrity. Their intentions represent the best for this country, in line with what our great and foreward-thinking Founders envisioned. Jon Voight once said, addressing the charges of racism in the Tea Party by the NAACP and other such groups, that the caliber of the people who follow Glenn Beck and have joined the Tea Party movement is so high that they themselves would rat out any instances of racism. They themselves would not tolerate it. If there were any such outbursts, the media would know about it immediately and concretely (rather than mere baseless allegations) because the Tea Party members themselves would out them for what they are. The average member of the Tea Party movement has more intelligence, greater moral character, greater respect for the law, greater respect for the Constitution, is more patriotic, and has a greater sense of duty than our President or any Democratic member in Congress.
So you have to ask yourself why would anyone want to slander or discredit Glenn Beck. Well, Friedlander's answer was just as offensive as his despicable offer: "Because he and and those who support him stand to make a lot of money off the anti-black president movement, and they are rich enough to imprint their beliefs on the American sheeple... Glenn Beck is a Mormon. It matters. His religion typifies the noble lie that the neocons originally set out to defend against the counterculture--Archie Bunker's America--where a woman's place was in the home and with baby, and an African American's place was in a ghetto. Mormons revere women much like Hindis do the cow, and they didn't accept African Americans in their ranks at all till 1978-- so draw whatever inferences you like. "
His vile piece went after "Tea baggers" (as he calls them), as well:
"In cultural terms, the original neoconservatives who birthed the baggers were way more frightened by the Broadway musical "Hair" than the film "Rosemary's Baby" (both from 1968). A mock ad might go like this: "Afraid your daughter might hook up with a black guy (or the nation may choose one to be president)? Have a problem with that homosexual and or promiscuous son or daughter? Does your son need a haircut? Do you often find biblical characters charred into your toast? Then do we have the movement for you!
It is time to pop the tea baggers' favorite balloon (so what if it will be replaced by another?), and with that in mind I hereby offer to negotiate a $100,000 payday to the person who will come forward with a sex tape or phone records or anything else that succeeds in removing Glenn Beck from the public eye forever. I am not offering the cash myself, but I will broker the deal and/or raise the money for what you bring to the table. (And it better be good.)
If you have the goods, or if you want to contribute to a slush fund to buy more takedowns (probably not tax deductible), please contact me at: glennbecksextape@gmail.com.
Welcome to modern day liberalism: if you can't beat 'em, smear 'em! "
This is the newspaper that our President and our members of Congress swear by. This is the newspaper of choice for Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama. This is the newspaper they cite for their facts and their news. This is the newspaper that Obama cites in his speeches.... "If you don't believe me, just read the Huffington Post."
Glenn Beck got word of Friedlander piece, and addressed this attempt at liberal lynching on his radio broadcast.
"If you don't believe me that your religious liberties are at stake, that there are progressives who are bigots and hate-mongerers when it comes to religion, just read what Friedlander wrote. They will stop at nothing." (Then he quoted what Friedlander wrote about his Mormon faith; see above).
"You can say what you want about me, but leave my wife out of it. You can say what you want about my faith, but when you begin to diminish the role of women in our lives... How dare you. As a member of a faith that is the only faith in American history to have an actual governmental enactment calling for the extermination of people based on religion, I take this attack seriously. Mormons are the only people in the history of America that the government (in the 1800's) targeted by legislation that made it OK to kill a Mormon simply because he was a Mormon. Period. U don't hear Mormons crying about that. You don't hear Mormons asking for reparations; you don't hear them asking for anything. But we understand. We have seen it before (the Holocaust).... targeting one religious group for extermination.
Just leave my wife and my family out of it."
Later that day, the post was removed by the Huffington Post. Very simply, this is what was noted:
"Editor's Note: This piece was published directly to the Huffington Post by its author. It didn't meet our editorial standards and has been removed from the site."
And even later that day, Friedlander offered an apology.
As one blogger wrote: "This is the problem with with allowing the communists and socialists in our free society. There is the problem of showing 'tolerance' to certain groups who if they had their way, if they were in power, would deny tolerance and liberties to you."
Reference: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/08/30/huffington-poster-offers-100-000-glenn-becks-sex-tape#ixzz0yI8UKSaC
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Sun Journal, New Bern--Op-ED
OP-ED: Thanks for the reminder, Glenn--by Michael Reagan
August 30, 2010
Michael Reagan
Glenn Beck’s remarkable rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial Saturday was a wake-up call for his beloved America. This nation, he reminded us, is and has been since its founding a nation under God. Failure to recognize our absolute dependence upon God, he said, has put this nation in peril.
His warning echoed what my father once delivered when he told Americans, "When we stop being a nation under God, we will be a nation gone under.”
For a long time we have been slowly drifting away from that reality, acting as if our destiny were solely in our own hands — it’s as if we were saying to the Almighty, “Thanks for the ten suggestions, and such trivial admonitions as the Sermon on the Mount, but we’d rather do it our up-to-date modern way.”
I don’t need to remind you that doing it our way: slaughtering the innocent unborn by the tens of millions; now defying the integrity of marriage, that most ancient of institutions; allowing our government to be profligate not only with our own resources but those of generations to come has led us down the road to ruin for us and our children and our children’s children.
We have allowed our government and our representatives in Congress to squander not only our financial resources but those of future generations of American so that we can enjoy all those wondrous benefits Washington offers us, now and allegedly free of charge.
We have replaced the old adage that God proposes, man disposes. Now it’s solely man proposes. And what a mess we’ve made.
In his book, “The God that Did Not Fail” (Encounter Books), Robert Royal warns that the movement toward “progressive irreligion” encourages ignorance of religion’s unparalleled importance in the development and maintenance of western culture.
Glenn echoed that explanation of our current condition.
Prior to the Glenn Beck rally Saturday, our newest deity, the all-knowing mass media, predicted that Beck would rant and rage about politics and the current administration and perhaps provoke violence on a frightening scale.
It never occurred to the atheistic media that Glenn’s message would be about God’s love and our solemn obligation to love one another even as we love ourselves.
Much to their astonishment, instead of dwelling on the political differences that divide is, Glenn beseeched us to acknowledge our absolute dependence upon the Divine will and our obligation to love God and our neighbor, no matter who he is.
A friend of mine complained to me the other day that when he went to confession, the priest told him that he was obliged to love his neighbors, all of them. When he almost jokingly asked if that meant he even had to love Barack Obama, the priest said an emphatic “yes.”
Sometimes, he complained, God demands the impossible. The priest reminded him that with God’s help, all things are possible.
That, in a nutshell, is what Glenn Beck was telling us last Saturday: Love of God and love of neighbor, not political rhetoric and dissension, is the sole solution to our national woes.
My Dad, Ronald Reagan, warned us that a nation that shuns God is on the road to ruin.
Thanks again for the reminder, Glenn.
Michael Reagan is the elder son of the late President Reagan and a syndicated talk-radio host. E-mail him at Reagan@caglecartoons.com.
http://www.newbernsj.com/articles/glenn-90228-beck-reminder.html
August 30, 2010
Michael Reagan
Glenn Beck’s remarkable rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial Saturday was a wake-up call for his beloved America. This nation, he reminded us, is and has been since its founding a nation under God. Failure to recognize our absolute dependence upon God, he said, has put this nation in peril.
His warning echoed what my father once delivered when he told Americans, "When we stop being a nation under God, we will be a nation gone under.”
For a long time we have been slowly drifting away from that reality, acting as if our destiny were solely in our own hands — it’s as if we were saying to the Almighty, “Thanks for the ten suggestions, and such trivial admonitions as the Sermon on the Mount, but we’d rather do it our up-to-date modern way.”
I don’t need to remind you that doing it our way: slaughtering the innocent unborn by the tens of millions; now defying the integrity of marriage, that most ancient of institutions; allowing our government to be profligate not only with our own resources but those of generations to come has led us down the road to ruin for us and our children and our children’s children.
We have allowed our government and our representatives in Congress to squander not only our financial resources but those of future generations of American so that we can enjoy all those wondrous benefits Washington offers us, now and allegedly free of charge.
We have replaced the old adage that God proposes, man disposes. Now it’s solely man proposes. And what a mess we’ve made.
In his book, “The God that Did Not Fail” (Encounter Books), Robert Royal warns that the movement toward “progressive irreligion” encourages ignorance of religion’s unparalleled importance in the development and maintenance of western culture.
Glenn echoed that explanation of our current condition.
Prior to the Glenn Beck rally Saturday, our newest deity, the all-knowing mass media, predicted that Beck would rant and rage about politics and the current administration and perhaps provoke violence on a frightening scale.
It never occurred to the atheistic media that Glenn’s message would be about God’s love and our solemn obligation to love one another even as we love ourselves.
Much to their astonishment, instead of dwelling on the political differences that divide is, Glenn beseeched us to acknowledge our absolute dependence upon the Divine will and our obligation to love God and our neighbor, no matter who he is.
A friend of mine complained to me the other day that when he went to confession, the priest told him that he was obliged to love his neighbors, all of them. When he almost jokingly asked if that meant he even had to love Barack Obama, the priest said an emphatic “yes.”
Sometimes, he complained, God demands the impossible. The priest reminded him that with God’s help, all things are possible.
That, in a nutshell, is what Glenn Beck was telling us last Saturday: Love of God and love of neighbor, not political rhetoric and dissension, is the sole solution to our national woes.
My Dad, Ronald Reagan, warned us that a nation that shuns God is on the road to ruin.
Thanks again for the reminder, Glenn.
Michael Reagan is the elder son of the late President Reagan and a syndicated talk-radio host. E-mail him at Reagan@caglecartoons.com.
http://www.newbernsj.com/articles/glenn-90228-beck-reminder.html
Monday, August 30, 2010
CNSNews.com -- The Real Glenn Beck Restoring Honor Rally!
CNSNews.com
Tell the Truth and Turn to God, Glenn Beck Tells Hundreds of Thousands at His Restoring Honor Rally
Monday, August 30, 2010
By Susan Jones, Senior Editor
The crowd attending the "Restoring Honor" rally, organized by Glenn Beck, is seen from the top of the Washington Monument on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. In the foreground is the National World War II Memorial.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Washington (CNSNews.com) – Americans may disagree on their politics, and that’s okay, Glenn Beck told a crowd numbering in the hundreds of thousands on Saturday. But for the sake of the nation, Americans must agree on their values and principles.
Change for the better begins in each one of us, Beck said, as he urged Americans to turn to God – just as the Founding Fathers did. Your country needs you, he said.
Under warm, sunny skies, Americans from across the country trooped to the National Mall for Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally.
From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the crowd rolled back to the World War II Memorial, and beyond that to the sloping lawn of the Washington Monument. Trying to reach the Mall from all sides, some people were too far away to clearly hear what was being said.
Near the end of the rally, a U.S. Park Police helicopter made several loops around the Mall, prompting Beck to joke that the crowd must be huge since the chopper was violating restricted air space to count it.
Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally filled up the National Mall on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. (Photo by Penny Starr/CNSNews.com)
The crowd, as large as it was, was quiet and respectful. There was some flag-waving, but there were few, if any, signs visible on the Mall – in keeping with Beck’s request not to politicize the rally. Some people wore T-shirts with political messages, but many more people wore clothing with no message at all.
This was not a tea party event. Unlike the Al Sharpton rally, which took place Saturday afternoon at a nearby location, people did not come to the Mall to vent their frustration. Many at the Restoring Honor rally seemed to be seeking inspiration.
This was the kind of gathering where the frequent mentions of God, far from causing offense, drew applause.
Sarah Palin spoke as the mother of an Iraq war veteran at Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally on the National Mall on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. (Photo by Penny Starr/CNSNews.com)
With its theme of faith, hope and charity, the rally resembled an old-fashioned religious revival. And certainly the message was one of reviving a nation in turmoil.
Beginning around 10 a.m. with Sarah Palin’s call to honor the troops who defend us, the rally continued with various speakers handing out medals to three unsung heroes who exemplify the kind of faith, hope and charity that inspired the rally.
The Rev. C.L. Jackson of Houston, the longtime pastor of the Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Houston, was honored for his faith; St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols, introduced by team manager Tony La Russa, was honored for inspiring hope through his family foundation that helps children with Down Syndrome; and billionaire philanthropist Jon M. Huntsman Sr. of Utah was honored for his charitable work in funding cancer research.
While Beck honored three living heroes at his rally, he also invoked patriots long dead.
Glenn Beck speaks the "Restoring Honor" rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. (Photo by Penny Starr/CNSNews.com)
He recited Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address to make the point that what is said at the Restoring Honor rally matters little, if it produces no action afterward on the part of those listening. (“If people awaken and turn around and see that we have lost our way, and they do something about it in their own lives, not through politics but in their own lives, then it's an important day. Otherwise, it was just a nice day out in the sunshine,” Beck told Fox News Sunday after the rally.)
Beck talked about George Washington’s many personal sacrifices for the good of the country. He also expressed the hope that somewhere in the crowd there is another George Washington: “He may be 8 years old,” Beck said, but “this is the moment that he dedicates his life, that he sees giants around him.”
Beck also talked about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s message that the content of one’s character should count more than skin color. Of all the patriots he invoked, Beck said he could relate the most to Martin Luther King – “probably because we haven’t carved him in marble yet.”
The crowd applauded after one of the several large screens set up on the Mall showed clips of MLK making his “I Have a Dream” speech exactly 47 years ago – at that same place.
Interviewed after the rally, Beck told Fox News Sunday the message he tried to convey was to “be your highest self” and to “stand for those things that are right.”
“I think every American has a role in saving this country,” Beck told Fox News’s Chris Wallace. “Whether you're Democrat, Republican, independent, it doesn't matter. We all know the country's in trouble. We may disagree on how to solve it, but we all know the country's in trouble.”
Beck, responding to a question, said the size of the crowd at his rally sends two messages to politicians: First, “a good number of people are not happy with the direction we're going,” he said.
And second – “We want the truth. Americans just want the truth. And that's why I said [at the rally], demand the truth from yourself first before you demand it from someone else.”
Tell the Truth and Turn to God, Glenn Beck Tells Hundreds of Thousands at His Restoring Honor Rally
Monday, August 30, 2010
The crowd attending the "Restoring Honor" rally, organized by Glenn Beck, is seen from the top of the Washington Monument on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. In the foreground is the National World War II Memorial.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Washington (CNSNews.com) – Americans may disagree on their politics, and that’s okay, Glenn Beck told a crowd numbering in the hundreds of thousands on Saturday. But for the sake of the nation, Americans must agree on their values and principles.
Change for the better begins in each one of us, Beck said, as he urged Americans to turn to God – just as the Founding Fathers did. Your country needs you, he said.
Under warm, sunny skies, Americans from across the country trooped to the National Mall for Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally.
From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the crowd rolled back to the World War II Memorial, and beyond that to the sloping lawn of the Washington Monument. Trying to reach the Mall from all sides, some people were too far away to clearly hear what was being said.
Near the end of the rally, a U.S. Park Police helicopter made several loops around the Mall, prompting Beck to joke that the crowd must be huge since the chopper was violating restricted air space to count it.
Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally filled up the National Mall on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. (Photo by Penny Starr/CNSNews.com)
The crowd, as large as it was, was quiet and respectful. There was some flag-waving, but there were few, if any, signs visible on the Mall – in keeping with Beck’s request not to politicize the rally. Some people wore T-shirts with political messages, but many more people wore clothing with no message at all.
This was not a tea party event. Unlike the Al Sharpton rally, which took place Saturday afternoon at a nearby location, people did not come to the Mall to vent their frustration. Many at the Restoring Honor rally seemed to be seeking inspiration.
This was the kind of gathering where the frequent mentions of God, far from causing offense, drew applause.
Sarah Palin spoke as the mother of an Iraq war veteran at Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally on the National Mall on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. (Photo by Penny Starr/CNSNews.com)
With its theme of faith, hope and charity, the rally resembled an old-fashioned religious revival. And certainly the message was one of reviving a nation in turmoil.
Beginning around 10 a.m. with Sarah Palin’s call to honor the troops who defend us, the rally continued with various speakers handing out medals to three unsung heroes who exemplify the kind of faith, hope and charity that inspired the rally.
The Rev. C.L. Jackson of Houston, the longtime pastor of the Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Houston, was honored for his faith; St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols, introduced by team manager Tony La Russa, was honored for inspiring hope through his family foundation that helps children with Down Syndrome; and billionaire philanthropist Jon M. Huntsman Sr. of Utah was honored for his charitable work in funding cancer research.
While Beck honored three living heroes at his rally, he also invoked patriots long dead.
Glenn Beck speaks the "Restoring Honor" rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. (Photo by Penny Starr/CNSNews.com)
He recited Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address to make the point that what is said at the Restoring Honor rally matters little, if it produces no action afterward on the part of those listening. (“If people awaken and turn around and see that we have lost our way, and they do something about it in their own lives, not through politics but in their own lives, then it's an important day. Otherwise, it was just a nice day out in the sunshine,” Beck told Fox News Sunday after the rally.)
Beck talked about George Washington’s many personal sacrifices for the good of the country. He also expressed the hope that somewhere in the crowd there is another George Washington: “He may be 8 years old,” Beck said, but “this is the moment that he dedicates his life, that he sees giants around him.”
Beck also talked about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s message that the content of one’s character should count more than skin color. Of all the patriots he invoked, Beck said he could relate the most to Martin Luther King – “probably because we haven’t carved him in marble yet.”
The crowd applauded after one of the several large screens set up on the Mall showed clips of MLK making his “I Have a Dream” speech exactly 47 years ago – at that same place.
Interviewed after the rally, Beck told Fox News Sunday the message he tried to convey was to “be your highest self” and to “stand for those things that are right.”
“I think every American has a role in saving this country,” Beck told Fox News’s Chris Wallace. “Whether you're Democrat, Republican, independent, it doesn't matter. We all know the country's in trouble. We may disagree on how to solve it, but we all know the country's in trouble.”
Beck, responding to a question, said the size of the crowd at his rally sends two messages to politicians: First, “a good number of people are not happy with the direction we're going,” he said.
And second – “We want the truth. Americans just want the truth. And that's why I said [at the rally], demand the truth from yourself first before you demand it from someone else.”
Sunday, August 29, 2010
OBAMA IGNORES BECK RALLY! Randy's Right
Obama Says He Ignored Beck Rally "Restoring Honor"
“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,” he said. But “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.”
http://randysright.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/obama-says-he-ignored-beck-rally-restoring-honor/
“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,” he said. But “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.”
http://randysright.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/obama-says-he-ignored-beck-rally-restoring-honor/
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
AMERICAN THINKER
August 24, 2010
Black Conservative Supports Glenn Beck Rally
By Lloyd Marcus
These are the same hypocritical so-called black leaders who demanded that white America honor the memory of the civil rights icon with MLK Boulevards across America. But when a "white boy" chooses to embrace Dr. King's vision and dream by holding his "Restoring Honor" rally on the same day as Dr. King's historic speech, the Black Civil Rights Mafia, the race profiteers, yell, "How dare you? MLK belongs to us!"
READ THE ARTICLE: http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/08/black_conservative_supports_gl_1.html
Black Conservative Supports Glenn Beck Rally
By Lloyd Marcus
These are the same hypocritical so-called black leaders who demanded that white America honor the memory of the civil rights icon with MLK Boulevards across America. But when a "white boy" chooses to embrace Dr. King's vision and dream by holding his "Restoring Honor" rally on the same day as Dr. King's historic speech, the Black Civil Rights Mafia, the race profiteers, yell, "How dare you? MLK belongs to us!"
READ THE ARTICLE: http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/08/black_conservative_supports_gl_1.html
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Restoring Honor
Jillian Bandes: Restoring Honor
Glenn Beck says that this Saturday’s 8/28 “Restoring Honor” rally is about far more than just politics.
“This isn’t a rah-rah USA kind of thing. This is a sacred reflective spot in our nation… the Reflecting Pool,” said Beck, in an exclusive interview with Townhall.com and Townhall Magazine. “I think if you stand between Lincoln and Washington, spiritually, mentally, morally, we will heal our country.”
Healing his country is at the top of the agenda for the media mogul, who has recently introduced a prayer to his daytime radio show and frequently touches on his spiritual background during his top-ranked cable program. Restoring Honor is one way to propel his talk into action, and to provide a platform for agenda items that he plans on releasing at the rally.
“We have worked very, very hard on something that is extraordinarily delicate and fragile. It will be announced at the end of this, as the beginning of something that I believe will have restorative change as a result,” said Beck. “I don’t mean restore it back 2000, or George Bush, I mean restore us back to where we belong and where we should be as a nation and where we have been very few times in our nation’s history.”
The rally will take place between 10 and 2pm, Beck said that he had been working on something for the past eight months that had not been done in 240 years. He did not say if that was a reference to the Badge of Military Merit, issued in 1780, or has something to do with our nation’s founding, in 1776. What he did say was that the event will be of historic proportions.
“There is a revolution coming, whether you like it or not, whether that be a hot revolution or a cold revolution. A revolution is already underway in America,” said Beck. “Now who’s going to win? Is it going to be those who understand the Constitution and our founding principles and know that we have gone off those principles decades ago? Or are we going to throw this baby out with the bath water and say “we have got to try something entirely new”? That’s the question of our age and we better decide which side you are on.”
It’s clear which side Beck is on. Through a mix of Christian theology and political evangelism, he’s established himself as a man who is nothing if not dedicated to our Constitution and a religious order.
“I see this as a George Washington said, ‘Meet me on the battlefield of ideas.’…Does man have a right to decide his own destiny without the coddling of the collective? Does man pay for the sins of the mistakes of his father or for the grandeur of his father does he get reward? Or does a man have to stand on his own two feet and live and die in his own merit with the understanding that there are some, some, in our society that just can’t stand on their own two feet and we have a responsibility to take care of those. Is that where we are headed?”
Perhaps another option is an oligarchy, said Beck. He is especially concerned about the intersection of politics and power. “Or are we headed towards… some sort of controlling government that will only allow man to expand, succeed, and fail just so much. That’s the first battle and that’s the battlefield of ideas,” he said.
Beck has received scores of criticism from those who say the timing of his event – on the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s "I Have a Dream" speech – seeks to overshadow the civil rights movement in a negative or demeaning way. For example, Media Matters has titled the event Glenn Beck's 8-28 "reclaim the civil rights movement" rally. But Beck is nonplussed.
“I’ve read Martin Luther King’s speeches, I’ve read his sermons, I have listened and respect the words he said, I take him at his face value and that is to follow God, listen to God, be peaceful, but stand for the right of man to be equal and have an equal shot,” said Beck. “That it is not about the color of skin, it is about the content of character. I don’t know if there is going to be a word on stage that Martin Luther King would disagree with.”
One-thousand buses have reserved space in D.C. for the event. By comparison, there were about 3000 buses for President Obama’s inauguration. Stay tuned for a full transcript of Beck's exclusive interview with Townhall.
Jillian Bandes's Biography Jillian Bandes is the National Political Reporter for Townhall.com
http://townhall.com/columnists/JillianBandes/2010/08/22/restoring_honor/page/1#
http://townhall.com/columnists/JillianBandes/2010/08/22/restoring_honor/page/1#
Glenn Beck says that this Saturday’s 8/28 “Restoring Honor” rally is about far more than just politics.
“This isn’t a rah-rah USA kind of thing. This is a sacred reflective spot in our nation… the Reflecting Pool,” said Beck, in an exclusive interview with Townhall.com and Townhall Magazine. “I think if you stand between Lincoln and Washington, spiritually, mentally, morally, we will heal our country.”
Healing his country is at the top of the agenda for the media mogul, who has recently introduced a prayer to his daytime radio show and frequently touches on his spiritual background during his top-ranked cable program. Restoring Honor is one way to propel his talk into action, and to provide a platform for agenda items that he plans on releasing at the rally.
“We have worked very, very hard on something that is extraordinarily delicate and fragile. It will be announced at the end of this, as the beginning of something that I believe will have restorative change as a result,” said Beck. “I don’t mean restore it back 2000, or George Bush, I mean restore us back to where we belong and where we should be as a nation and where we have been very few times in our nation’s history.”
The rally will take place between 10 and 2pm, Beck said that he had been working on something for the past eight months that had not been done in 240 years. He did not say if that was a reference to the Badge of Military Merit, issued in 1780, or has something to do with our nation’s founding, in 1776. What he did say was that the event will be of historic proportions.
“There is a revolution coming, whether you like it or not, whether that be a hot revolution or a cold revolution. A revolution is already underway in America,” said Beck. “Now who’s going to win? Is it going to be those who understand the Constitution and our founding principles and know that we have gone off those principles decades ago? Or are we going to throw this baby out with the bath water and say “we have got to try something entirely new”? That’s the question of our age and we better decide which side you are on.”
It’s clear which side Beck is on. Through a mix of Christian theology and political evangelism, he’s established himself as a man who is nothing if not dedicated to our Constitution and a religious order.
“I see this as a George Washington said, ‘Meet me on the battlefield of ideas.’…Does man have a right to decide his own destiny without the coddling of the collective? Does man pay for the sins of the mistakes of his father or for the grandeur of his father does he get reward? Or does a man have to stand on his own two feet and live and die in his own merit with the understanding that there are some, some, in our society that just can’t stand on their own two feet and we have a responsibility to take care of those. Is that where we are headed?”
Perhaps another option is an oligarchy, said Beck. He is especially concerned about the intersection of politics and power. “Or are we headed towards… some sort of controlling government that will only allow man to expand, succeed, and fail just so much. That’s the first battle and that’s the battlefield of ideas,” he said.
Beck has received scores of criticism from those who say the timing of his event – on the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s "I Have a Dream" speech – seeks to overshadow the civil rights movement in a negative or demeaning way. For example, Media Matters has titled the event Glenn Beck's 8-28 "reclaim the civil rights movement" rally. But Beck is nonplussed.
“I’ve read Martin Luther King’s speeches, I’ve read his sermons, I have listened and respect the words he said, I take him at his face value and that is to follow God, listen to God, be peaceful, but stand for the right of man to be equal and have an equal shot,” said Beck. “That it is not about the color of skin, it is about the content of character. I don’t know if there is going to be a word on stage that Martin Luther King would disagree with.”
One-thousand buses have reserved space in D.C. for the event. By comparison, there were about 3000 buses for President Obama’s inauguration. Stay tuned for a full transcript of Beck's exclusive interview with Townhall.
Jillian Bandes's Biography Jillian Bandes is the National Political Reporter for Townhall.com
http://townhall.com/columnists/JillianBandes/2010/08/22/restoring_honor/page/1#
http://townhall.com/columnists/JillianBandes/2010/08/22/restoring_honor/page/1#
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