Beck's Critics Proven Spectacularly Wrong

Nile Gardiner, writing for the UK Telegraph, proves that he understands what happened at the Restoring Honor rally in Washington yesterday better than just about any of the US press:

The large numbers who turned out defied an intensely hostile and negative media campaign that attacked the decision to hold the event on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” as a cynical political gimmick. They proved their critics spectacularly wrong. Significantly, Dr. King’s niece, Alveda King, spoke at the rally, which she described earlier as “a celebration of who we are as a nation and a chance to stop for a moment, reflect, reorganize, and re-energize. It’s a chance to think about character; both our character as a nation and our character as individuals.”

Yesterday’s Washington rally was in many ways an historic event, one that successfully honored the patriotism, sacrifice, and the principles that have made the United States the great nation it is. It was a symbol of the strength not only of conservatism but of democracy and freedom in America, and a powerful salute to the men and women of America’s military who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan and the wider war against al-Qaeda.

While the US media concentrated on the color of the participants, Gardiner knows that this event was about much more than just superficial skin tones.  It would be nice if journalism in the United States could get over their blatant cheerleading for liberal causes and politicians and start reporting what actually happened, rather than what they hoped would happen.