Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" Rally - Interviews With Participants

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On 8.28.2010, Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally was held on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The purpose of the rally, which Beck claimed to be "non-political" despite featuring Tea Party-favorite Sarah Palin as a speaker and its being attended entirely by conservatives, was unclear. The participants spoke abstractly about the need to restore "honor" and "pride" to a country that had lost it. When pressed for when our country had lost its honor, most cited the election of Barack Obama.

8.28.2010 also represented the 47th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech, and Glenn Beck has been criticized for by civil rights groups for trying to misappropriate the occasion.

Last year, Beck referred to Barack Obama—our country's first African-American President--as a "racist... who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture." When offered the chance to respond to Beck's statements, his fans either agreed with him or simply refused to believe that he had ever made them.

While the speaker list was diverse, the overwhelmingly white crowd expressed paranoid and conspiratorial fears of multiculturalism—that atheists or black liberation theologists or radical Muslims or "free-loading" Latinos were going to ruin our country. There was the constant suggestion that white Christians and their way of life are somehow under assault, and that the attendees of this rally were here to put an end to it and return the country to what it used to be.

Produced and edited by Chase Whiteside (interviews) and Erick Stoll (camera) with additional camera from Kasey Hosp.

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[MissTeenPregnancy]

Restoring Honor is a decent concept. Too bad Glenn Beck is a dishonorable lying sack of shit.

[sweetlolitacookies]

I loled at that tub of lard in the lawn chair.

[RTyp06]

Ignorance factor 8 sulu. Engage!

[AugDaDawg]

Wow these people are so misinformed

[dcrasta]

These Ignorant people are long on catch-phrases but short on specifics. They have no answer to secondary questions. Clowns need a clown car..

Fat clown in the Yellow shirt she is just mentally deficient.

[Staticnz]

Some of these people are so stupid it's like they're drunk.

[gracefulsoul]

Which one?! lol.

[jrrydha]

conservative Democrats

[GenevievesVindicated]

LIBERALS fought for civil rights.

[Rpleech1]

Democrats fought civil rights.

[c0p13dn4m3]

It takes nothing away from MLK that Beck chose this day, it just shows what a retard he is. If you want to make history do it by yourself, not by capitalizing on a great man's memory. But hey, maybe he is just a big, fat, phony liar who realized he could make a shit load of money by decieving a bunch of uneducated bigots whose idea of patriotism and christianity equal waving flags and wearing a cross in your neck, other than actually doing something beneficial to your community.

[DawgRaging]

Apparently a lot of youtubers are left, not that its bad i myself am independent.