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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[hstg98]

It's like you found literally the dumbest people in America, put them all in one place, gave them lawn chairs and a microphone, ...and this is the result. God, it's embarrassing that we share the same country with these people. This is willful ignorance. They seem to celebrate anti-intellectualism.

[mozfan2436]

This is exactly why the founding fathers didn't want to give the average man the vote.

[mindfuck2001]

thanks to god, allah and buddha i dont live in the last bastion of hope.

i like my commi, faithless, health caring country that provides a proper schoolsystem which taught me to deal with a thing called reallity.

so i could develope my own view on the world and dont fall for retards like fox, palin, gingrich or all the other fuckers you have.

[VITRUVIANMANNOLA]

"The greatest argument against a democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter"--Churchill.

[jozing4368]

6:38 he's trying to shoot web out of his left hand.

[YourPalHDee]

@hstg98 You are making the same mistake as they are, in judging yourself and others by the country you live in. We are all human beings, there is no "pride" based in what your own country is.

Why are you embarassed to be from the same country? I live in the same World as them so what's the difference? We shouldn't be segregated the way we are, with this population we need to all be united.

[NeoConNation]

@whbon73 they are patriotic Americans

[whbon73]

@NeoConNation Great entertainment, indeed!

[NeoConNation]

the tea party is great

[justmeblaine]

I am a huge horror movie fan, and very rarely do I get nightmares. After watching this, I'm not sure I can sleep tonight. These people follow what Rush and Bill tell them too, all because they're Christian. Sad.

[tallyhoman911]

HOW DOES THIS GUY KEEP A STRAIGHT FACE THROUGH ALL OF THIS?!?!?

[fuckinswear]

at 5:15 the creepy lady in the background taking pictures