Alveda King Throws a Spanner into the Left's Spin - updated

Alveda King, politician, activist and Martin Luther King's niece, has joined Glenn Beck at today's rally. I'm waiting for Sharpton and Co.'s pirouettes around that inconvenient fact. I will post the left's reactions as I find them.




Update: It's a matter of honor, states Ms. King. She explains why she will be speaking at the event here.

Americans are hungry to reclaim the symbols of our liberty, hard won by an unlikely group of outnumbered, outgunned, underfunded patriots determined not to live in servitude to the British Empire. If we want to sing the national anthem at a memorial to the man who led this fledgling nation out of slavery, and made my people free, we should be able to send our voices soaring to the heavens.

Glenn Beck’s “Rally to Restore Honor” this Saturday will give us that chance, and that’s why I feel it’s important for me to be there.

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Though critics see it as partisan, Beck’s rally is not a political event, per se. Instead, it is designed to be a refreshing exercise of freedom of speech.

The rally will be a celebration of who we are as a nation and a chance to stop for a moment, reflect, reorganize, and re-energize. It’s a chance to think about character; both our character as a nation and our character as individuals.