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@Gloria, Brooklyn, NY
There are few in the "news" positions who are not seen as political.
Charles
"Rest assured many Americans of all colors would not remember the date. No big deal"
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No Big deal?? It is an important date and place to many Americans. You are selling them short!
@ Dana Loesch,
You're clearly losing the argument so you had to talk over him. Why don't you try listening for a change or is that too foreign a concept for you?
Your attempt to portray the Glenn Beck event as religious is absurd. Both Glenn and Sarah Palin were trying to hide behind the Bible, while throwing every political weapon they could at the Democrats. Please!!!
A promisekeeper event is a religious service, so if the rally had that outlook it was more nonpolitical. The restoring honor pt is something that applies to both political parties. Hard for me to comment any more as I didn't see the rally and have heard only two brief clips of the speeches tonight.
Hurricane Earl is tracking more to the west then expected and this is lining it up for a direct hit on New York not since 1938 since hurricane Hughes made a near hit scientist have predicted that because of New York's subway systems and New York being below sea level that the city's pumps could not hold up to hurricane force surges and inland drainage and that New York will submerge .
I use to follow Glen Beck when he was on CNN and occasionally I still watch his show. I find it offensive the way him and Sarah Palin have gained up on President Obama from day one. I know things are pretty bad in our country,,but to me they seem to be causing more division among the people.
@Casey Jones, she has the First Amendment right to speak.
Hurricane Season shows no signs of slowing down it seems...
If it wasn't political how did she take away those political ideas of "getting out this upcoming election and maybe 2012"?
@ Nina...I would describe Dana as smug and smirk, asserting a superior posture, with little desire to interact.
Watch out for hurricane Earl is coming few days on Atlantic Coast......... Be prepare get ready, Chad Myers will explain where hurricane Earl path goes.
That Dana is really scary. Both by her views and the thought that she probably represents a sizebale chunk of American society.
Alveda King is very anti gay marriage and she doesn't preach Dr. King's message of love, compassion.tolerance and equality at all. I guess Glenn Beck was too wary to give Alan Keyes the mic.
why thankyou, heather!
The NWO ss Republican party and Glenn Beck are affraid of losing the Evangelic vote because of the gay Republicans coming out of the closet.Not only that gay republicans that were against gays and worked in the Bush Regime. The Glenn Beck rally was to try to keep the Evangelic base in rank. But its time to create a real third party INDEPENDENT not a tea party.But a "REAL" independent party.John Quincy Adams ran on a third party a Anti-Mason party ticket and won his seat ......! IT CAN BE DONE
@Ron form PA, "This event could not have been more political!"
Really? What was "political" about it?
@Mike, formerly from syracuse. The crowds are just computer enhancement like they do in movies like Titanic. There was really only about 1000 people there
If one is going to be a news person, report the news and not be a undercover politician, Beck!"
@Jo Ann,
"Beck should have made it more political. He should have left out the religion and Palin."
I agree...I think that either one that you hold, it gives it more credit if you focus on one, instead of mixing them; you can really focus in on 'the point' you want to make. (just politics or religion).
Dana won on points.
"Beck's rally was more diverse than Sharpton's."
I agree with the guest, I don't know whether to laugh or cry!
@JoAnn,
I agree with you. His having Palin there led some to believe it was political but it was not; rather benign really.
@Nina,
Rest assured many Americans of all colors would not remember the date. No big deal. If people don't like Beck, they should not watch him. He's not a politician so he doesn't report to us.
"Dr." King speaking IS offensive. She, specifically, does NOT support equal rights which is truly shocking considering her family lineage.
Dana cuts him off and over talks him... how sad, he can not get a word in
@ Dana Loesch
Your comments are so disingenuous. Quit trying to portray conservatives as the victims!
Beck's rally was more diverse than Sharpton's.
Robert Stroney
Good point.
If the Tea Parties are going to "kill the Republican Party" then why are the Democrats so worried about them?
@ Jo Ann
This event could not have been more political!
Why would he (Beck)back track the statement of Obama being racist after he gives his great "speech" on tv the next day? the time to address this would of been saturday
that's what she took away from it, I thought she just said there was nothing about politics
@Cicly-"so sorry, but all i think of right now about beck is, in the words of the great bugs bunny- "what a maroon'
haha, nice!
"What was the purpose of that march if it was not political. Why even have the march on that day!"
Lisa in Louisville, KY
TSA didn't know that was serious........ I think that TSA had missed some during flight to Netherlands..........
that is a day that will be remembered for a very long time as significant – i still think that religion and faith are two very different things – and unique to the individual's interpretation.
We have all contributed. We need new leadership in the our house and senate.
@ Emily "What did Palin just say?"
as if no one else is American.
Beck should have made it more political. He should have left out the religion and Palin.
If this event was not political – then I don't knowwhat this word could mean.
@ Dana Loesh
If the Glenn Beck event and the Tea Party aren't hate-mongers, then why did Glenn Beck disallow any signs?
It seems to me that the leaders of this event were attempting to conceal the real sentiments of the attendees of this event and of the Tea Party and and other conservative groups.
Well stated... why on the date of the "I have a dream" speech? Beck bashes President Obama every day and even apologized for it and now we are to think it is not political?
This is a very old problem. Back in the Stone Age when I was in High School, scholarships went to the kids who knew the right people, not due to their school work . It's sad to learn that the practice continues.
I think the Beck rally was a mixture of both, when you invite someone like Sarah Palin to something like that it becomes political
Fox's Restore Honor Gig? Yes they should, and please do so quickly.
Fox's pundits can start to restore the honor with, "no more doctored videos."
Please keep it going:
Anderson – Promise Keepers?
My bad for the caps Anderson...Whats up with Glen Beck wearing a bullet proof vest? LOL! Thanks man
ALL rallies have white people
@Megan,
It's great that it was not a "real bomb", yet eerie that they were traveling with that, and glad that they were stopped from doing so!
It's very good that no one was hurt, etc.
I hope that their motives are gotten to the bottom of.
Possibly what the congresswoman from Texas did was not right...giving educational scholarships to kids who obviously could not have afforded them otherwise angers those who believe Blacks shouldn't be educated in the first place! If they were white kids being educated they would never have been investigated, certainly wouldn't have made national news! You, Anderson Cooper, while you're so involved in this investigation for several thousand dollars, be sure you get involved in investigating all the charities, including Red Cross, that have collected billions of dollars from the generous people of this country as well as other countries, for Katrina, and not only are most of these monies unaccounted for, but most never reached its designation of the poor people of New Orleans.
Lets hear from you on that one, Mr Cooper!!!
Are Glen Beck and Sara P. employed by the Fox Network or the RNC or both? Seems strange mixing politics, religion, media. Some religious groups can be block voters.