![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() by the man who changed Beck's life, and that helps explain why the movement is not the nonpartisan lovefest that Beck first sold on air with his trademark tears. In reality, however, the so-called 912ers were summoned to D.C. The masses were summoned by Glenn Beck, Fox News host and organizer of the 912 Project, the civic initiative he pulled together six months ago to restore America to the sense of purpose and unity it had felt the day after the towers fell. It was also ample testament to the strength of a certain strain of right-wing populist rage and the talking head who has harnessed it. The male-skewing, nearly all-white throng had come to denounce the president and what they believe is his communist-fascist agenda.Įven if the turnout wasn't the 2 million that some conservatives tried, briefly, to claim, it was still enough to fill the streets near the Capitol. ![]() 12, the day after the eighth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, sporting the now familiar tea-bagger accoutrements of "Don't Tread on Me" T-shirts, Revolutionary War outfits and Obama-the-Joker placards. Up to 75,000 protesters had gathered in Washington on Sept. On Saturday, I spent the afternoon with America's new breed of angry conservative. ![]()
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