Follow Glenn Beck to the Top of Mount MLK with Stephen Colbert

Martin Luther King has been to the mountaintop. And now, so has Glenn Beck! Follow Beck's summer-long trek up the mountain trail with this Colbert Report trail mix (or something)…

May 13: Glenn to the Mountaintop

More Glodly inspirational Beck/King clips after the jump.

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Caption Challenge: Glenn Becks

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Tags: 8/28 Rally, Caption Challenge, Games and Challenges, Glenn Beck, Tea Party

Tworld News: Week of August 23, 2010

All the fun and hilarity of listening to NPR plus all the fun and hilarity of something actually fun and hilarious…

Former GOP chairman Ken Mehlman came out of the closet: this is old news to anyone who was smart enough to play the award-winning film MILK backwards through their VCR.

Glenn Beck's 'restoring honor' rally served as the perfect reminder that amidst confusing diversity and unsettling social complexities, at least we can all agree on one thing: God roolz.

More Tworld News after the jump…

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Tags: 8/28 Rally, Arizona, Bristol Palin, Cocaine, Drugs, Energy & Oil, France, Glenn Beck, Gulf Coast, Haggard's Law, Iran, Iraq, John McCain, Ken Mehlman, LGBT, Paris Hilton, Primaries, Republicans, Senate, The Emmys, Tworld News, United Nations

The Obligatory Glenn Beck 8/28 Rally Post

So, that just happened, and I guess there should be a post about it. And this post seems a fitting choice, given the title I already wrote out. So, what the hey.

On Saturday, a bunch of white people and a smattering of not-white people — 87,000 by conservative accounts, a million billion by teabagging accounts — converged on the Lincoln Memorial to honor a fictional version of Martin Luther King that Glenn Beck and the other speakers of the 8/28 Rally invented specifically for the occasion. This Martin Luther King, for example, was a total war hawk who preached against the evils of social justice, urged the institutional disenfranchisement of some minorities and beseeched Americans to be satisfied with what they've got. (Bizarro Martin Luther King is presumably chillin' with Bizarro Thomas Paine up in Tea Bag Heaven right now.)

Beck seems to think that this moment will live forever in the American psyche, and maybe he's right, but I've seen no evidence of that. To me, it just looked like a bunch of angry old people spewing a lot of unprovable platitudes about God and Country, trying to sound calm and reasonable but seething with anger and intolerance just below the surface, and growing increasingly agitated that people are listening to their rants. This'll probably get wiped over in the American psyche the next time the country is forced to go to another family BBQ. At least there'll probably be some good pie at that thing.

And that, more than anything that happened at this event, is something I'd imagine Martin Luther King could have gotten behind.

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Tags: 8/28 Rally, Civil Rights, Glenn Beck, Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King, Sarah Palin, Thomas Paine, Washington DC

Quote Unquote: Unrestoring Honor

Redditor PShap on Glenn Beck's soon-to-be-historic Lincoln Memorial rally tomorrow…

"I agree that Glenn Beck has the right to hold his rally on the same steps where MLK gave his historic speech, I just think he should hold it somewhere that's less offensive to the civil rights movement."

We know he can do it, but should he?

Tags: 8/28 Rally, Civil Rights, Glenn Beck, Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King, Quote Unquote, Washington DC