Beck, Palin, and hundreds of thousands of tea baggers defile MLK legacy

Despicably insipidly empty.  It's pathetically obvious that this rally restored no one's honor, that it accomplished absolutely nothing at all, except stroking some already titanic egos.  My first thought was of the people standing with MLK on that day, his comrades all around him, how they struggled with him and how we've heard so much from them in the years since then, how they were able to kill King but they couldn't stop the movement because it was larger than any one person.  And then Beck of course is standing there alone, metaphorically and literally, except for some people he brought in occasionally as props.  There is no movement which this represents, only a media spectacle.  I don't blame Beck, he's obviously quite sincere, he's just rather ignorant and got drawn into a cultish foolish religion.  I blame the people at the top at Fox who have made a conscious business decision to ride his messianic wave to as many dollars as it will bring them to. 

It's funny how in the wide shots almost everyone is white, but every single crowd close up contains just one black person.  It's more disturbing to me how they brought up people supposedly of various faiths to try to make it seem like an interfaith gathering-- and then continue prattling on about "God" and "Jesus" as if those were universal ideas.  That seemed quite disingenuous.  These are the same people who are agitating against the construction of mosques, and yet they dare to find a few Muslims who will stand on their stage and parade them as evidence of their broadness.  I'm inclined to forgive them everything, though, because I find it impossible to believe that they have any understanding of the meaning of any of their actions.  Beck genuinely didn't know he was scheduling his rally on the I Have A Dream anniversary; he just didn't bother to change it when he found out.  It's not hatred or guile, it really is just monumental ignorance, stupidity and laziness. 

I'm still trying to figure out exactly what this speech was about...

Points I can decipher:

1. America is great

2. Men fought hard and risked their lives for America

3. America is a nation under god (though, conspicuously, not the "Christian" god)

4. America is in trouble (but from what?)

What seems to be completely lacking is any kind of explanation of what it is they are standing up against.  Their does seem to be some vague reference to his TV show as a place one could go to find out what the real injustices are, but he certainly doesn't mention them in the speech (presumably he would sound like too much of a racist or a lunatic for FOX to stomach it).

King's speech (like any good speech), was a response to a very specific injustice: The legal treatment of colored people as second class citizens (e.g. voting rights and police brutality, which he mentions).  Beck's speech is about fear of...something...the nature of which goes totally unstated (perhaps, as his innuendo suggests, the enslavement of white people.

Perhaps Beck is concerned that if he were to say anything as extreme as what he is implying, he may actually be obligated to prove it, lest people simply deny his existence like they do their racist tea party brethren.

And even though he would not have been faulted for leaving it out, King is sure to mention that the WHOLE country would benefit from the advancement of non-whites.  I heard no mention of any concern in Beck's speech for anyone other than himself and people like him.

Also, at the time of King's speech, there were actual laws on the books substantially limiting the rights of black people.  The persecution and loss of freedom that Beck speaks of are only just imagined (or feared) by his fans.