Today Glenn Beck hijacked Dr. Martin Luther King's legacy. Assisting him were Dr. Alveda King (it's an honorary doctorate), Dr. King's right-wing niece whose claim on Dr. King's legacy more or less begins and ends with shared DNA, and Sarah Palin, right-wing shill, dumbfuck extraordinaire and half-term governor of Alaska who was nearly our vice president.
I haven't seen anything from it yet. I'm sure I will, but I know Glenn Beck. He's compared himself to Dr. King, Jesus, and Ghandi. Anybody who buys that Beck has anything in common with any of those people needs their brain examined. These people stood for love, understanding and unity. Beck stands for divisive politics, fear-mongering, and bizarre conspiracy theories (much like modern Christians).
In the hopes of minimizing the right-wing usurping of the anniversary of what may have been the greatest speech of the 20th century, I would like to remind everybody of what exactly Dr. Martin Luther King stood for. I'll let him do it himself. Please, watch this, not Beck, when deciding what Martin Luther King's legacy is.
"Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."
Glenn, THAT is why you don't get to claim his legacy.
And just for fun:
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