Some shit you just have to ignore. If I sat down and analyzed the premise of this event and actually tried to let it sink in, I would have to kill myself.

Glen Beck. Sarah Palin. Martin Luther King, Jr.

really? really?

Meh. It’s Promise Keepers rally with racial overtones. It will be forgotten in a month.

And by the way, half of the DC metro area is on vacation starting this weekend, so turnout might be a bit light.

I hope the breathless Sarah aspirates Becks vomit. These crowns of creation do have a way with words, don’t they?

Nice editing, but you hardly need to accentuate the inherent silliness and banality of Beck and Palin to show how historically inconsequential they are in comparison to MLK, how pretentious and tone-deaf they are to hold their Circus of White Fear at the feet of Lincoln, and how obvious it is that that this event is intended not to “reclaim” the Civil Rights Movement, but to “refudiate” it.

Beck and Palin are the Sonny & Cher of dumbed-down, slapstick lava-lounge Patriotism. The proper venue for “Restoring Honor” is the boardwalk at Atlantic City or a revival tent on the road out of Bakersfield.

I’m starting to get the impression that Beck, Palin, and the Teabaggers are really close to jumping the shark, if they haven’t done so already.

Of course, the media is in their cheering section, and they’d never report that the party was over, even if the sane people are staying away and calling the cops…

@ Strange—Robert Greenwald did a MUCH better job!

@ Scott—I sure hope you’re right. I guess a lot depends on how the upcoming elections play out.

Robert Greenwald did a MUCH better job!

Nah, he just did it different. Plus, it’s his job.

Greenwald’s email flopped into my mailbox right after I posted my first comment. Looks like another day of crazy synchronicities. Obviously, there’s a Wave on the Wire.

They will officially declare Dr. King property of the Republican party, everyone will point and laugh, FatwahNews will declare it a stunning success.

Man, I hope those assholes can behave themselves in an environment filled with all of their favorite boogey men. I do not want their blood all over my city’s sidewalks.

I’d still like to see the residents of DC turn out en masse on Saturday to surround the Lincoln Memorial and stand as silent witnesses to the travesty.  Say nothing, do nothing, just stare and watch.

I wonder if the New Black Panther Party is busy this weekend…

prediction: Beck will claim a million people attended, cite an anonymous source at the Park Service, the Park Service will (once again) state that they don’t do crowd estimates, and the Teabaggers will claim it’s all a conspiracy.

Beck has been scrambling to get local organizers to submit bus registrations, which the DC Park Service uses to calculate the number of Port-O-Johns you’re allowed to erect.

Depending on the actual attendance, this event could turn into the world’s largest-ever German Scat Movie.

I’d still like to see the residents of DC turn out en masse on Saturday to surround the Lincoln Memorial and stand as silent witnesses to the travesty.  Say nothing, do nothing, just stare and watch.

That would up the crowd count and cause Beck and Palin to run about screaming “See! Black people do too love us also!” But really, after seeing the Mosqueteers mob that one guy, I have a not happy feeling about this event.

Depending on the actual attendance, this event could turn into the world’s largest-ever German Scat Movie.

We’ll need a tanker of TidyBowl to clean out the Tidal Basin.

Mary, why isn’t Gramps still working? If John Boehner had his way, he would be!

Oblamova, it’s worse than that.  Gramps is 93 so he’s been collecting social security for nigh onto 28 years!  Why, he should be funding Cynthia’s trip himself.  Although I can certainly understand why Cynthia wouldn’t want to touch a penny of that socialist nanny-state lucre and would prefer to make money the honest way.  By cadging from total strangers.

Mary, it was hard to find the post between the ads for MAKING MONEY FAST and the obviously sponsored posts lacking disclosure of same, save the artless transparency of the lady’s shilling technique.

This headline made me laugh:

A Conservative Lesbian endorses Mattie Fein for Congress — no charge, Mattie, this one is on the house!

That won’t be happening again.

Quite aside from the ads which are almost impossible to see around, everything on her blog is up for sale. I bet I could buy her bassoon.

She’s also another speciman of the “When I was a liberal, I was an asshat, therefore all liberals are asshats” fallacy. Wingnuttia is welcome to the sorry mendicant.

Cynthia does seem focused on the “How can I get paid for this?” angle, doesn’t she?  I see that her success in collecting for Send a Conservative Lez to Camp has so inflamed her that she plans to ride the gravy train to another one (do they hold these rallies every week now?). 

She’s also become a tad defensive about Awesome Nephew getting his cut, claiming that he only charges half what a professional caregiver would earn for looking after his very own grandfather.  Based on the rest of her blog, you’d think she’d be proud of the little punk. Going for the bucks seems to be a Yockey family tradition.

Cynthia does seem focused on the “How can I get paid for this?” angle, doesn’t she?

Goodness, judging by the pre-event photos of the scooterized elderly and obese scouting out their spots, I’m starting to think “Restoring Honor” is really a mass revirginization ceremony—and the uglies are there just pretending they need to be revirginized.

Now is it really necessary to hate on the fat people? We Pollies like to think of ourselves as adorably round, but we’re a wide-angle lens away from being mistaken for the Jefferson Memorial, and being swarmed by Teabagging marshmallow people could be dangerous to our healths.