From the Glenn Beck's "Rally to Restore Honor" to Jon Stewart's upcoming "Rally to Restore Sanity," it may feel like this election season has become something of a joke. We talk with Allison Silverman, former executive producer of "The Colbert Report," about the age of populist anger and negative ads.
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Glenn Beck held his "Restoring Honor" rally this past weekend, on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream," speech, in Washington, D.C. Beck quoted from King's speech, invoking his memory, and called on God and American values to lead the way in Beck's movement.
We asked you: What is the takeaway from the "Restoring Honor" rally? You weighed in with some very strong feelings, and had plenty of different perspectives to offer.
The Tea Party movement has billed itself as "grassroots libertarian," and has focused on government over-spending and attention to the Constitution in its rallies to date. Glenn Beck's ostensibly non-political "Restoring Honor" rally this weekend turned to religion, invoking God as a force of change. How will religion play a role in the movement from here on out — and will it be a force of growth or a dividing line?
At Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington, D.C., this weekend, Beck, Sarah Palin and niece of Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Alveda King, invoked King's speech and memory, while calling on God and American values to lead the way in their movement. While they were gathering in the National Mall on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Reverend Al Sharpton and the National Action Network was holding a separate rally in the city to commemorate King's "I have a dream speech", held on the same day, 47 years ago. The NAN and the NAACP say Beck and like-minded conservative groups have co-opted the civil rights movement and King's memory.
What would Martin Luther King have thought about Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally this weekend? And is this the beginning of a new religious movement?
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