Whitestock

I’m in California, so I’m a little behind many of you, catching up to the current event(s), but just the same…

I’m trying to avoid Whitestock, but it’s all over the place. So, I’ll cover it despite my instinct to avoid it altogether. Here are few random impressions that I’ve picked up:

If you erect an enormous set complete with gigantic video screens, a sound system, and a stage, they will come. That kind of spectacle attracts curious onlookers the way a car crash creates rubber necking. It doesn’t matter who the host is. The earlier visitors are most likely the die-hard groupies, the others may very well be lookee-loos.

Paddy reported in that someone on Twitter labeled the rally in DC today “Whitestock”.  They were right, and I have borrowed that brilliance for the title of this post.

I have looked and looked at the crowd. I have seen one black face. One. That doesn’t count the props that were displayed on stage: A rabbi, a Native American, an African American. Sorta sounds like a set-up for a joke, doesn’t it? “A rabbi, a Native American, an African American walked into a bar….”

Paddy also made a great observation. The voiced-over segments of the rally accompanied by video are reminiscent of a Disneyland attraction, a la The Hall of Presidents. ‘Nuff said.

Paddy also mentioned that she has never seen her RSS feed look this empty. She attributes that to the devotion of the news media to Whitestock. Perhaps they’re waiting for something stupid, or stupider to happen, she said.

One more great Paddy quote, who is on East coast time and is filling me in on what I’ve missed: “Do you thing any of these Chistians know he’s a Mormon and doesn’t think  Jesus is Christ, and would happily baptize their dead relatives into his religion”?

Now Paddy is seeking out a pile of hippies to jump into, bathed in Patchouli, to get the stench of Whitestock off of her.

I overheard (paraphrased) this while in the other room, from the host of the event himself: “God, I’m one of your dumbest followers. Speak slowly.” That was the first time I’d ever heard the truth come from his big, phony, pandering mouth.

I rarely, if ever, compare anyone or anything to the horrors of the 1930s and ’40s, but the tenor of this event struck me that way.  The followers are blind, the “leader” is batcrap crazy.

Former Half-Gov Shrilly Mc$$$$$ has one of the most annoying, grating, ear-splitting voices in political history.

The Native American speaker mentioned only looking forward, never looking back.  I’m surprised he wasn’t mobbed and stoned for sounding suspiciously like our Muslim Kenyan Marxist terrorist president. He also called Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speech the “I HAD a Dream” speech, if I heard right.

People are leaving already. Mc$$$$ screeched, they had their thrill up their collective leg for the day.

The remainder of the prayer meeting is even more of a major bore. I can’t help but gather that the speakers at this shindig are looking down their noses at a whole lot of us, and the holier than thou odor is wafting strongly from my Tee Vee Machine.

Here’s a quote from an earlier post in which there is an audio of Bill Press’s account of this freak show:

And finally, he’s exploiting a charity by soliciting contributions to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. But see, the fine print says all contributions will first be applied to the rally, the one with Sarah Palin. All contributions in excess of the costs will go to the troops.

Here’s an idea: To “restore honor” to this country, STFU, Whitestockers. Stop perverting and revising Martin Luther King Day for your own small-minded, selfish, self-serving interests.

Your exploitation is not only an affront to this country, it is a colossal bore.

UPDATE (H/t: TexBetsy): Glenn Beck “restores honor” with Abramoff-linked rabbi