King's Dream

Today is the 47th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech delivered during the historic March on Washington. In 2010, we are improbably presented with a shock jock turned conservative cable television commentator, the doofus Glenn Beck using the occasion as a call to action in restoring America's honor. I personally despise everything that Beck stands for and, whenever possible, deliberately ignore the pronouncements made by this numbnut. That said, I wonder how many folks have taken the trouble to read what King said in 1963 and how far it is removed from what Beck is saying today.

Beck Overreaches

The simpleton Glenn Beck urges Christians to abandon their churches if they hear the words "social justice" or economic justice" - terms he regards as code words for Communism and Nazism. "Am I advising people to leave their church? Yes! If I am going to Jeremiah Wright's church," this numbnut said. "If I have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop." Beck's little proclamation has aroused opposition from Protestants, Roman Catholics, black congregations, Hispanic congregations, and evangelicals.

Honorary Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan

This asshole richly deserves the title for saying of Barack Obama: "This president, I think, has exposed himself as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture. I don't know what it is."

"I'm not saying he doesn't like white people. I'm saying he has a problem. He has a -- this guy is, I believe, a racist."