{"id":300874,"date":"2010-02-10T04:30:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T09:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=66237"},"modified":"2010-02-10T04:30:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T09:30:40","slug":"and-lionel-ritchie-also-had-an-%e2%80%98awesome-dream%e2%80%99%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/300874","title":{"rendered":"And Lionel Ritchie also had an \u2018awesome dream\u2019\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_66238\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 121px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2010\/02\/10\/and-lionel-ritchie-also-had-an-awesome-dream\/obit-mauldin\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-66238\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/02\/lincoln-palmface-111x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"OBIT MAULDIN\" width=\"111\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-66238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">And 47 Years later, this will now be the Lincoln Double-Palm Face<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King delivered what is arguably the greatest address in American History, the &#8220;I have a Dream Speech&#8221;.  Forty-Seven years later, Will Bunch notes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/blogs\/attytood\/Glenn_Becks_plan_to_save_Americawith_Christian_pseudohistory.html\">Glenn Beck aspires to deliver his Nightmare<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>He&#8217;s working on something called &#8220;The Plan&#8221; (which seems to involve a book, although I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s donating the profits back to &#8220;the cause) that will be unveiled at what he hopes will be a massive rally on Aug. 28 at the Lincoln Memorial, on the 47th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King delivering his &#8220;I Have a Dream&#8221; speech at or about the same sport. But to work up to what he says will be a 100-year plan, Beck is starting out with a series of what he initially called &#8220;educational seminars&#8221; and he&#8217;s now calling &#8220;American Revival.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s as offensive as it is stupid &#8212; so it will undoubtedly be given as much coverage as possible.  <\/p>\n<p>The Plan, is so much more than sounding like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MxxIFOEKyws\">the plot of Battlestar Galatica<\/a>.  As you know by now, &#8220;<em>the Plan<\/em>&#8221; is entirely based on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/blogs\/attytood\/Glenn_Becks_plan_to_save_Americawith_Christian_pseudohistory.html\">re-writing of American history<\/a> by a composite of John Birchers and pseudo-historians who, among other things, <a href=\"http:\/\/gunnyg.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/16\/meet-the-man-who-changed-glenn-becks-life\/\">think slavery was rather awesome<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All commemorated on the same sacred Lincoln Memorial spot that gave us the vision of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k_NGkWyoCrM\">Marian Anderson<\/a> and Dr. King.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=66237&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_66237\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And 47 Years later, this will now be the Lincoln Double-Palm Face On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King delivered what is arguably the greatest address in American History, the &#8220;I have a Dream Speech&#8221;. Forty-Seven years later, Will Bunch notes, Glenn Beck aspires to deliver his Nightmare: He&#8217;s working on something called &#8220;The Plan&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}