The Yanks are Coming

That the Yanks are coming, The Yanks are coming, The drums rum-tumming Ev'rywhere. So prepare, say a pray'r, Send the word, send the word to beware. We'll be over, we're coming over, And we won't come back till it's over Over there. -- George M. Cohan, WW I Glenn Beck has transformed that stirring WW I battle cry to read "Over Here."

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At his behest about a half-million Yanks gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington last Saturday to hear their host urge them and all their fellow Americans to reassert their faith in God and acknowledge the role of Divine Providence in guiding and protecting this nation from its very beginnings. It was an extraordinary event, totally absent of the hatred and violence the despicable mainstream media assured their readers and viewers would accompany the rally. It was probably the best behaved crowd ever to come to Washington to express their hope for a new birth of freedom in our beloved nation. It was also a huge surprise for our would-be omniscient media . Glenn Beck, best known for his aggressive style, played the for-him unfamiliar role of a fervent revivalist urging his followers to follow Christ's admonition that we love one another as we love ourselves, and that we devote ourselves to reforming a nation under God but gone astray. Much to the media's disappointment he failed to point a finger at his usual villains - the "progressives," as he terms the ultra-left wing. He was instead St. Paul carrying the word of God far and wide, not the political rabble rouser portrayed by the media, and his vast audience was a congregation of genuine and peaceful Americans from all walks of life, not the angry crowd the media expected to come and tear up the turf. One journalist wandered around the scene after the crowds had left. He found not a single piece of trash in the huge, close-to-one-mile-long area previously occupied by Beck's giant audience. All he found was a faded piece of paper that had obviously been there before the crowd arrived. That in itself borders on the miraculous. One must be forgiven for feeling a little giddy over the media's disappointment but there is little time for that. Having done everything in their power to discourage the public from paying any attention to Beck's crusade last Saturday, they now turn to flat out lying about what occurred and savaging such personalities associated with the event such as Dr. King's niece whose own father, like her uncle, died as a victim of the struggle for equal justice for all, black and white. Beck and his rally associates such as Dr. Alveda King, Martin Luther King's niece, have received death threats they believe to be credible. Such disreputable groups as the Huffington Post put out the word that there was $100,000 available to anyone who could find a porn movie that might involve Beck. These are desperate people, terrified at the reawakening of the American spirit now underway partially due to Glenn Beck's proselytizing. And desperate people do desperate things. It won't work, Glenn Beck didn't light a blazing fire of reborn patriotism, it was already there and growing, but he sure fanned the flames. And those flames are not going to turn into embers until the cleansing fire has burned away all the litter left behind by a generation of cynical left-wing demagogues. The Yanks aren't coming. They're here. To stay. Thanks Glenn.