So, Just How Many Attended Beck's Rally?

Announces 'Restoring Courage' plans on radio show

(NEWSER) - Glenn Beck went to Washington last summer to restore honor; now, he’s planning to bring courage back to Jerusalem. Beck made his promised “big announcement” today on his radio show: Sometime in August, Beck will head to the city for another rally. “I invite you to join me in Israel this summer to stand together and show the world what living a life of faith and honor really means. I invite you to join me in my quest to restore courage,” he said. More»

Nativist demonstrators voice anxieties of the coming white 'minority'

(NEWSER) - What was it like to be at Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally? Like visiting a political event in the not-so-distant future when white people are a minority in America, writes Christopher Hitchens for Slate . The prescriptions offered by speakers and attendees for restoring "honor"—and exactly what honor means in this context—were fragmented, but some themes remained constant: the sense of a white Christianity under siege in schools, at Ground Zero, and in the White House. More»

Thousands attend his rally in Washington

(NEWSER) - Some highlights from the Glenn Beck rally, as rounded up by the Times , Post , Politico , and AP :

• Beck: "For too long, this country has wandered in darkness. ... We have had moments of brilliance and moments of darkness. But this country has spent far too long worried about scars and thinking about the scars and concentrating on the scars. Today, we are going to concentrate on the good things in America, the things that we have accomplished—and the things that we can do tomorrow."
• Beck again: “America today begins to turn back to God.”

Mostly because he says so

(NEWSER) - It's the dawn of Glenn Beck's much-debated Restoring Honor rally on the anniversary of MLK's Dream, and Washington Post scribe Dana Milbank—the author of a forthcoming Beck biography—takes a somewhat incredulous look at the white guy with the borderline racist track record and his bid to co-opt the civil rights movement. Beck, he writes, "apparently has determined that the best defense is to be patently offensive." More»

Stephen Colbert joins in on the fun, too

(NEWSER) - The Daily Show is going on vacation for the next 10 days, so Jon Stewart took the opportunity last night to take down Glenn Beck and his “Restoring Honor” rally —or, as Stewart called it, “Beckapalooza, Beckstock, Beckchella, Becketh Fair, Becking Man.” The epic 10-minute rant moves from Beck’s plans (“Wow, so Glenn Beck didn’t realize that that was an important day in African-American history! I find that totally plausible.”) to the advice Beck’s always giving America to, of course, Goldline and the Glenn Beck University. More»