On "Fox News Sunday," he preached that the president "understands the world through liberation theology, which is oppressor and victim. . . . It's a perversion of the gospel of Jesus Christ as most Christians know it."
Now that's the Glenn Beck we have come to know and, ahh . . . . Well, anyway, we know him.
His real messianic mission is to lead his people back to an America that all of them seem to remember wistfully, if inaccurately. Whenever I hear one of these sign-waving, anti-Obama zealots say that they want to take their country back, my question is: How far?
What is it that they want to go back to: a simpler time when "real" Americans all worshipped the same way on the same day, or to those longed-for days of yore when men who looked like Barack Obama knew their place, which was not in the Oval Office.
Doctor King had delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech exactly 47 years earlier on the same spot where Beck showcased his brand of patriotism and Christianity Saturday.
You would have thought that one of his legion of researchers would have stumbled upon that coincidence before the date was settled. But Beck at first claimed that he didn't know about the anniversary. His willful ignorance didn't keep him from perverting the March on Washington for his purposes.
Beck urged his crowd to "reclaim" the civil-rights movement, which he said had nothing to do with seeking government help for people in need. The coup de grace was Alveda King, an obscure twig on the King family tree, whose pro-life views put her in league with many Beck followers. He and she conveniently ignored that the marchers went to Washington to make specific demands on the government.
In a purposely overlooked portion of the "Dream" speech, King made it clear that they were there to demand economic programs to help lift poor people of all races and national origins from the deprivations of poverty.
