The Speech Glenn Beck Meant to Give

[babylonsister]

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_speech_glenn_beck_meant_to_give_20100830/

The Speech Glenn Beck Meant to Give

By Arthur Blaustein


I was inspired by Glenn Beck’s speech at his “Restoring Honor” rally in Washington to write the speech he intended to make:

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all mega-corporations with legions of lobbyists are created more than equal to anybody.”

I have a dream that the Yalie son of a Houston oil magnate can walk hand in hand with the daughter of a Wall Street hedge fund operator on the white sands of Southampton while evading inheritance taxes.

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I have a dream that all our children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the content of their character, but by the size of their stock portfolios.

I have a dream that the former lily-white golf clubs of Georgia and the lily-white boardrooms of Halliburton will not be tainted by people of different races or religions.

May corporations get the American people and “government of the people, by the people and for the people” (Lincoln had it wrong) off our backs.

From the newsroom of Fox to the boardrooms of our corporate masters, let freedom ring.

Thanks to Justice Roberts Almighty, the tea party and the GOP, we’ll be free at last!

Arthur Blaustein is the chair of the editorial board of the Progressive Book Club and author of “The American Promise—Justice and Opportunity.”

[The Wizard]

1. I don't know if anyone noticed

Beck gesticulating like Hitler and saying his movement went far into the future. He just didn't call for a thousand year reich. Next he'll host a book burning followed by a torch light parade, followed by a call for a final solution to the non Christian problem. Hell, he already makes Goebbels look like a rank amateur, but Goebbels didn't have TV.
It's time for the leader of Glennbeckistan to get back on the flying saucer that delivered him and return to his native Universe.

[Fumesucker]

2. "It sounded better in the original German"..

-Molly Ivins

[babylonsister]

3. Aww, she was so right. I miss her. nt