"What Really Happened!?"

Everyone who has read my blog knows I like baseball. There are countless stories of baseball legends doing amazing things on the field; some of these stories have almost become super-human in their description. Probably the most famous story in baseball is Babe Ruth's "called home run" against the Cubs. There have been countless accounts of the telling of this event from hundreds of sports writers and biographers of the Babe. In the movie "The Babe Ruth Story", the Babe, played by William Bendix, stood firm in the batter's box, looked directly at the pitcher, and pointed straight out to center field, thrusting his finger three times! This was very dramatic, although it probably wasn't true. The account I heard that sounds the most plausible was, as the Babe stepped into the batter's box, the sun was shining brightly in his eyes, he raised his left hand to get a better look at the pitcher, and someone in the stand said "Look he's calling his shot!" After that, Ruth hit a tremendous blow into the bleachers. Upon being interviewed after the game Ruth, the consummate showman, heartily agreed that he pointed to the stands and called his, now legendary, home run. Tens of thousands of people said they were at the park that day, in fact many more people than Wrigley Field could accommodate; yet, they all swore they were there. Truth and reporting is not always the same thing.

Saturday, Glenn Beck had his rally in Washington D.C., at the Lincoln Memorial. I, along with millions of people watched the event. It had been billed by the media as a conservative, tea party gathering. I'm sure most of those in attendance were of conservative philosophy; yet, the event was apolitical in nature. The main message was to restore honor, through faith, in our nation. There were no political signs that I could see, and the cameras scanned as much of the crowd as possible. There were American Flags, a virtual sea of American Flags that stretched along both sides of the Reflecting Pool to the Washington Monument. The crowd was mostly white people along with other Americans of other colors. This was not a racial event, it was a spiritual event. The speakers were all well respected men and women who gave a message of faith and hope for America. President Obama's name was never mentioned, as I said this was an apolitical event.

Yesterday, I began reading media accounts of this rally and I was flabbergasted, the words "false patriotism and hypocritical religiosity" jumped off the pages like flaming arrows. Character assassination seemed to be the order of the day in an overwhelming number of the articles. Beck made no money from this event, even though many critics said this would be used to enrich his bank account. On his show yesterday, he admitted to wearing a bullet-proof vest at his wife's request, as hate mail was, and still is, quite abundant from far left lunatics. The Washington Post said the crowd was around 87,000 people. I'm sure they would like to change that estimate, as photographs have shown, conservative estimates of 300,000, and as high as 500,000 people in attendance. Is it possible the Washington Post has a political agenda?

We must ask why is the left after Glenn Beck like a pack of attack dogs? Does he pose a threat to them? Why was it important to them to down play the number of Americans who attended this event? Why was the term racist alluded to when discussing this event? Is demonizing Beck so important that factual reporting doesn't matter anymore? I'm hopeful that those who didn't see this event will get an opportunity to view it at another time. See if "The Babe" calls his shot. Find out the truth for yourselves, obviously, the media isn't giving it to you!!