Mr. Beck Goes to Washington

I have never before beheld anything quite like Glenn Beck’s massive rally on the National Mall today. It was epic! If there is another instance of a super-star national political commentator leading a revival meeting, I’m unaware of it. CNN captures the crux of Beck’s impassioned address…

There were several instances where Beck grew tearful. This man!… just… wow… Incidentally, the lads at Inside Cable News caught CNN with their proverbial trousers down over some issues with their live broadcast of the event.

Another remarkable facet of the rally was that Sarah Palin was upstaged. With Beck holding forth, Palin was relegated to the under-card. Here’s what Sarah Barracuda had to say…

There was so much going on at once out there today. You had Beck tearfully calling us back to God, the angst of the Al Sharpton / MSNBC crowd believing Glenn was sullying and stealing the memory of MLK Jr., and then you had the Tea Party movement seemingly reaching its massive apex. Man.

I’m really pleased to hear a high profile call for faith to return to prominence in our national life. Cold secularism and political correctness has too oft held sway in these past decades. Honoring the troops is tremendous too. And getting people excited about our history and motivated to being better citizens is fantastic as well. There was just so much going on that I’m really not sure what happened.

Wow.