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Martin Luther King Day 2011: Most Americans See Progress, but Won't Celebrate Holiday
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsAre we closer to the mountaintop? A new AP-GfK poll finds that 77 percent of respondents believe America has made "significant progress toward Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of equality," roughly equivalent to the percentage of those who responded in 2006, more than two years before President Barack Obama became president. Twenty-two percent of those surveyed said that there has been "no significant progress" in reaching racial equality. At the same time, however, 69 percent of Americans said they did not plan to do anything to commemorate Dr. King's national holiday, while 30 percent said ...
Why Is It So Hard to Estimate Crowd Size?
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 30) -- Size matters. At least it does when it comes to reporting crowd estimates. Take Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally, held Saturday on the Lincoln Memorial -- the anniversary and site of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream Speech." Besides being an important illustration of the scope of Beck's popularity, the number of attendees also poses a test for mainstream news operations. Will they be able to stand by their figures, or be forced to retract them? (As has been the case countless times when crowd-inflation or miscounting has been exposed.) Plus, at least in this ...
Opinion: Conservative Character Actors
By Tim Wise - AOL News(Aug. 30) -- It has been said that even the devil can quote Scripture for his purposes. So too, apparently, can conservatives quote Martin Luther King Jr. for theirs. To wit, Glenn Beck, who has perfected the craft of cribbing from Dr. King, thereby debasing the majestic prose of the latter and distorting King's intentions to the point where they would have been unrecognizable to him. And so, after Beck's weekend rally, which coincided with the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, Beck explained that while he disagrees with the part of the civil rights movement that was about social ...
Sarah Palin at the Beck Rally: Speaking as a Soldier's Mom
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailySarah Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, speaking to tens of thousands of people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday, called on Americans to rise to meet the tough challenges the nation faces today just as men and women in uniform face terrible odds yet endure. The former Alaska governor said she was speaking not as a politician but as the mother of a soldier (her son Track served in Iraq), Palin kept mostly to the patriotic theme of the rally, "Restoring Honor." "Say what you want to say about me, but I raised a combat vet, and you can't take that away from me," ...
Al Sharpton Leads Counter-Rally on King Anniversary, Answering Beck Group
By not in system - AOL NewsBlocks away from a huge rally by conservative activists, civil right leader Al Sharpton led a counter-protest to honor the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who galvanized the civil rights movement 47 years ago with his "I have a dream speech." ...
Al Sharpton Leads Counter-Rally on King Anniversary, Answering Beck Group
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyBlocks away from a huge rally by conservative activists, civil right leader Al Sharpton led a counter-protest to honor the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who galvanized the civil rights movement 47 years ago with his "I have a dream speech." Sharpton and some other African American leaders took umbrage at conservative commentator Glenn Beck's decision to state his "Restoring Honor" event on the anniversary of the 1963 King speech at the spot where he delivered it -- the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Sharpton's group started at Dunbar High School in Northwest Washington and ...
Glenn Beck's 'Restoring Honor' Rally Draws Thousands
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 28) -- On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, at the spot Martin Luther King Jr. spoke 47 years ago, conservative commentator Glenn Beck told a huge "Restoring Honor" rally Saturday that the United States has "wandered in the darkness" for too long. ...
Glenn Beck and the Big Shoes of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Glenn Beck Rally in D.C. Saturday: Honoring MLK's Legacy -- or Hijacking It?
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyForty-seven years ago today, hundreds of thousands of Americans joined the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and witnessed the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech, which summed up the hopes of generations. Today, crowds are repeating that trek – by bus, train, car and plane -- to the nation's capital, with their own hopes and dreams about what America should stand for. Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin -- two conservative stars known more for their divisive political views than for their King-like stands for social justice -- will lead Beck's ...
What's the Glenn Beck Rally All About? Opinions Vary
By David Knowles - AOL News(Aug. 26) -- Racist hate-mongering or the second coming of the civil rights movement? Restoring honor to American society or a shameless display of self-promotion? Depending on whom you ask, Glenn Beck's rally in Washington, D.C., on Saturday may well be any of those things. Taking place on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, Beck himself has dubbed the day "Restoring Honor," and on a website promoting the event has described it as follows: Throughout history America has seen many great leaders and noteworthy citizens change her course. It is through ...
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