From Twitter 08-27-2010

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I Have A Dream

Forty-seven years ago today, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered one of the most famous speeches in American history.

I understand some privileged white guy is going to attempt to co-opt the time and place for his own purposes.

(Back in June, he said, "It was not my intention to select 8-28 because of the Martin Luther King tie. It is the day he made that speech. I had no idea until I announced it." Ergo, Glenn Beck is a lying sack of shit.)

There are reactions dramatic and hilarious across the political spectrum, but I have my own thought.

Glenn Beck has described himself as a rodeo clown. The job of a rodeo clown is to distract the nasty, dangerous beast that has caused injury and has not yet been corralled. This is done so that others may help the fallen.

In this case, the nasty, dangerous beast is the Tea Party. But this rodeo clown isn't trying to distract it. He's trying to focus it. He's trying to aim it.

Gonna be an interesting day.