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Glenn Beck rally attendance: calculations & contradictory figures
30 August, 2010
Glenn Beck rally attendance: calculations & contradictory figures. So how many people participated in Glenn Beck rally. This question is still being asked as higher and higher estimates of attendees numbers are being dished out.
It was a rally that they said was meant to take America forward, but in my view, it was trying to take the nation at least hundred years backward, when there was intolerance, racism and discrimination.
We have overcome that age and now it is the age of freedom. We know how Sarah Palin and Beck represent. They represent a miniscule part of the US whole that is for freedom of religion, tolerance, that also stands against discrimination against all.
Beck is trying to raise questions about the President Obama’s religious beliefs. If the question raised more powerfully at the time of election some two years ago by a better orator Senator John McCain couldn’t make any difference, there is no point in thinking that it can make any difference.
A reader says, “Seems to me honor and patriotism have to do with honoring your commitments such as, for example, completing your term in office and respecting religious freedom such as, for example, not bashing one of the worlds popular religions for political gains”.
But another reader says, “I feel there is a hint of jealousy that so many showed up for their beliefs in restoring America to greatness and there are many places where we’ve fallen. Who wants an “entitlement” country? Who wants unfettered immigration? Who wants a runaway government? Someone has to stand up against all these things and more. In many ways, they represent the way most people in America think, and that is difficult for hard core liberals to stomach. It is the abortion-loving, universal health care-thumping, gay marriage-bugling types who are vastly in the minority in this country, and it’s time to set the record straight”.
Meanwhile in a letter they had submitted for permit of the rally they had said that the attendance will be around thirty thousands. It turns out that the number was substantially lower than the expectations.
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