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Glenn Beck Cult Holds Creepy Revival at Lincoln Memorial in DC

Posted by admin ⋅ August 29, 2010 ⋅ Leave a Comment

Andrew Steele
America 20xy
August 29, 2010

People gathered Saturday in DC at the Lincoln Memorial as part of an event that Glenn Beck was hosting. The rally was a hybrid neocon pep rally/religious revival, consisting of pictures on a giant TV screen of famous moments from American history, along with inspirational music, waving flags, and talk of destiny and God from a loudmouth Fox News preacher who hides the insincerity in his eyes behind a thick layer of glasses while weeping in breathy sobs to mask his laughter.

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Students Silenced for Singing Anthem at Lincoln Memorial

Posted by admin ⋅ August 12, 2010 ⋅ Leave a Comment

In 1939, the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to let Marian Anderson perform before an integrated audience at Constitution Hall. The Board of Education of the then-segregated District also refused to let her perform in the auditorium of a white public high school. So Anderson turned to a symbol of freedom: the Lincoln Memorial.

That April, Anderson held an open-air concert on the steps of the monument to the end of slavery and the ideals of the Republic. Stepping up before a racially mixed audience of more than 75,000, Anderson began with “My Country,

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