Why can't they understand it?

I happened to see a portion of "The Situation Room" on CNN as well as of "The Ed Show" on MSNBC tonight. Both of these segments dealt in part with Glenn Beck's rally of last Saturday. Both were very troubling. On CNN, the rally was described by the reported to Wolf Blizter as ostensibly being about restoring a belief in God in America, but the reporter said that it was clear that something else was going on. After some further discussion, the reporter (sorry I do not mention his name, but he was the typical CNN non-entity) said that he had no idea what Beck's true message was or what was really happening. It was amazing; Beck had said during his rally exactly what he was espousing. It was non-political and pro-American. Apparently, the leftist media is so sure that no one could believe in God or espouse that belief that there has to be some other motive at work here. How sad.

On the Ed Show, there were clips of Ed Shultz speaking at the rally organized by Al Sharpton to coincide with the Beck rally. Shultz got the crowd of nearly 200 who showed up pretty worked up. Unfortunately for Shultz, the crowd at the Beck rally was at least 2500 times bigger. One wag has said that Sharpton turned the Million Man March into the Hundred Dude Dud. On his show, Ed then went on to discuss how Beck had called at the rally for the curtailment of unemployment benefits and why this was wrong and evil. There is a substantial problem with Ed's position, however, it is a lie. Unemployment benefits were not discussed at Beck's rally. Even Shultz knows this, but it seems that he is not one to be limited by the truth. In fact, although Shultz's audience is remarkably small, I bet that most of them know that he was not telling the truth. Shultz apparently believes that they will not care about this.