WASHINGTON — Glenn Beck says it is just a coincidence his Restoring Honor rally Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial will take place on the anniversary and at the site of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. But he is hardly apologizing for the connection.
“This is going to be a moment that you’ll never be able to paint people as haters, racists, none of it,” he said of the event. “This is a moment, quite honestly, that I think we reclaim the civil-rights movement.”
Civil-rights veteran the Rev. Al Sharpton said, “If you read Dr. King’s speech, it just doesn’t jell with what Mr. Beck or Mrs. (Sarah) Palin are representing.”
Beck, a popular figure among Tea Party activists and a polarizing Fox News Channel personality, is headlining the event, and Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, will be a prominent speaker. The Associated Press
