RADICAL RIGHT -- GLENN BECK CO-OPTS THE
ANNIVERSARY OF MLK'S 'I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH' FOR HIS MARCH ON WASHINGTON:
While promoting his latest book at "a
festive campaign-style rally" in The Villages in Florida on Saturday,
Fox News host Glenn Beck announced
that he was crafting a "radical" "100
year plan" that will "restore our nation to the maximum freedoms we
were supposed to have been protecting." "We need to start thinking like the Chinese,"
Beck told the crowd of 25,000 people. For weeks, Beck has been hyping
his big plan on radio and TV, with cryptic hints like, "Coming this
January, my
whole approach changes." On Saturday, Beck revealed that his "new
national movement" begins with a series of conventions across the
country where supporters can go to learn about "how to be a political
force in [their] own neighborhood and country." The conventions will
culminate in a new book by Beck called "The Plan" -- which will "provide
specific policies, principles and, m ost importantly, action
steps" -- and a
march on Washington to launch it. Hot Air's Allahpundit notes that the
date of Beck's march on DC "happens to be the anniversary of the 'I Have a
Dream' speech" by Martin Luther King, Jr. "Eschewing the title of 'leader'
is thus a curious display of modesty from a guy who
thinks his book launch is worthy of a modern-day March on Washington
with him in the MLK role," writes Allahpundit. Beck's 9.12
Project will also become involved in voter
registration drives and will co-sponsor a different march on Sept. 11,
2010 "to
voice unhappiness" with the progressive "agenda." Beck is often
overtly hostile to the entire political class -- he said Saturday that
both parties are complicit in creating a "socialist utopia" -- but as
Media Matters' Ari Rabin-Havt told the New York Times, "Beck sounded more
like a presidential
candidate than a pundit."
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