After A Brief ‘Reagan Tribute’ On
The Couch, Thoughts Return To
‘Restoring Honor’
Posted on | August 28, 2010 | 30 Comments
by Smitty
First, one should offer some shouts to fellow bloggers:
- Sorry to the TD of the Washington Rebel that my phone battery ran out, and we couldn’t get back together. The informal gathering at the Army and Navy Club with Wombat Rampant, which transitioned to the ever-tasty Shelly’s Backroom, and a conversation that we should have recorded for a podcast. Truly great Americans, those two.
- Thanks to Dave C for the lift. He ignored every bit of my advice, with great results. Possibly, arriving an hour earlier would have been better, but we didn’t dare hope the event would be that well attended. His ‘future-swimmer’ daughter (he’ll have to explain), however, needs to be kept a safe distance from Stacy’s youngest, as that much cute in a small area could lead to a cuteness singularity. Safety, people.
- After the event we wound up across the street from Shelly’s at the National Press Food Court, where we met Adam Brickley of Draft Sarah Palin fame. Yet another podcast-worthy gumflap ensued. Until we get our techno act together, your attention is drawn to The Delivery. Back to lunch, Adam pointed out that the Special Operations Warrior Fund raised North of $5 million, and that the amount raised via texting could help estimate crowd size, at least for establishing a lower bound.
Around the blogosphere, Gateway Pundit points out that Al “Don’t mooch my intellectual raaaaacebait property” Sharpton was trumped in attendance at his MLK celebration by a couple orders of magnitude or so by Restoring Honor.
Al does make a handy position indicator, showing how far DaveC and I were able to advance towards the Lincoln Memorial:
Al Sharpton points to Dave C's and my location at 'Restoring Honor'
From the comments on on an earlier post, this Spiegel album has some fine shots. My German wife points out that Rechte in the title Demo in Washington: US-Rechte gegen Obama, “Demonstration in Washington: US-Right against Obama”, carries the connotation of the ugly racism/nationalism of a prior century. Thanks for nothing, Spiegel: you either haven’t taken any time to understand the situation, or you have, and you’re engaging in the propaganda you feign to decry.
The Temple of Mut has a superior post on the event. In response to the report of an incident of violence in one of the updates, the event appeared exactly as violence- and hate-speech-free as every single other event I’ve attended in the last two years.
Dan Riehl’s analysis on the lefty reaction is superb:
Any movement that can bring from 300 – 500 thousand men, women and children to Washington is a significant one – an American one. That was as true on August 28th, 1963, as it was today, even if it took time for all of America to interpret Martin Luther King, Jr’s Dream.But despite being American, today’s left can’t access the dreams of the majority of Americans. The news and events of the past year have identified them as the out of touch minority most of us always knew they were. They haven’t gotten near as much as they wanted to from Obama. Yet, America is already rejecting him for whatever amount he gave them at all.
Read the whole thing for the survey of Lefty blog outrage.
Picking over some thoughts that came up with Adam Brickley and DaveC at lunch, the struggle to protect MLK’s dream from the Orwellian Left is merely picking up steam. Restoring Honor was a fine event in its own right, but Glenn Beck’s closing point about individual renewal can neither be understated nor understressed.
The fear all of us shared while mowing down on bad American food, however, is that the awakened American giant, hearing the alarm clock of Federal overreach, debt slavery, racial divisiveness and statism, would restore enough honor to reach over and turn that alarm clock off. Why succumb to consciousness and face the fact that (a) the country is a giant, expensive mess, and (b) doing anything about it means a lifetime commitment to, you know, paying attention, or something boring like that. Our national Peter Pan/Rip Van Winkle syndrome is faced with the threat of responsibility! Restoring Honor has some distinctly non-shiny responsibility implications.
Thus, irrespective of the results in two months, the Tea Parties will have to double down for 2012, and continue to bulldoze their way through Ruling Class stupidity and the harsh cleanup realities of unwinding the Progressive Era. The Restoring Honor event, like so many other demonstrations and rallies since the 2008 election, was a necessary but not sufficient input for real reform.
Beck showed more pure, American leadership in 2.5 hours than the Administration has offered in 18 months of service. So let’s not let it die on the vine. In two weeks, there is a 9/12 March on DC. Start your sign boards!
Some concerns were raised about Beck’s religiosity at Restoring Honor. Sarah Palin, who endorsed John McCain and Carli Fiorina, is as much “far right” as she is “shrieking harpy”. As with Muslims, reactionary Baptists like your author, Jews, and any other distinct religious body, I suggest we move toward a doctrine of “share the microphone”. Let all share ideas in a brief, positive sort of way in public, and patiently learn about and internally ignore the ideas we consider daft. If I held the Book of Mormon in high esteem, I’d be a Mormon. Try not to projectile vomit on the antique English of my King James Version of the Bible.
If you cannot submit your point in a brief, calm, respectful tone and patiently, lovingly hold on when your audience ignores you, then maybe you need to re-examine your point. All of these affirmations remain between you and the Almighty, in any case (YMMV, YVHV, HAND).
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