SELF-PROCLAIMED “RODEO CLOWN” GLENN BECK CLAIMS THE CIVIL RIGHTS MANTLE OF MARTIN LUTHER KING ? ? ?

Check-it-out: Bob Herbert has a fantastic column in the New York Times titled, “America is Better Than This” about Glenn Beck’s rally today on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.  Beck is claiming the King mantle for Civil Rights, and holding his rally in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial.

For Beck to try to position himself alongside Lincoln and King — historical American giants — is both egotistical and absurd.

Herbert writes, “Consider a brief sampling of their rhetoric.”

Lincoln: “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

King: “Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter.”

Beck: “I think the president is a racist.”

NUFF SAID.