I enjoyed reading Dana Milbank rip of Glenn Beck's huge "civil rights" rally being staged at the Lincoln Memorial here in DC today. It just so happens to be the 47th anniversary of King's "I have a dream" speech in the same location. The breathtaking gall of this is something Alexander Zaitchik discussed on my previous hosted episode of Point of Inquiry; now here's Milbank:
Let's review Beck's history as a civil rights pioneer, a history I've studied while writing a book about Beck. When Beck was a radio host in Connecticut in the 1990s, his station apologized for an on-air skit in which Beck and his partner mocked an Asian American caller and used their version of an Asian accent. As a CNN host a couple of years ago, Beck interviewed Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), the first Muslim elected to Congress, and challenged him to "prove to me that ...
