The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.
- Tom Clancy
Some things you just can't make up. A month ago, Glenn Beck organized a rally that attracted some 500,000 people, where they proceeded to talk about God and honor, which are apparently radical concepts considering the hostile response it attracted.
Now, the latest outraged response is a counter-rally, occurring this coming weekend, and organized by Democratic campaign organizations. So who is answering the alarm? National Review's Dan Foster:
Confederacy to Descend on Washington
September 27, 2010 1:52 A.M.
By Daniel Foster
A confederacy of liberal groups, that is. They plan to host on Saturday a sort of ‘counter-demonstration’ to Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally and, according to the New York Times “make the case that they, and not the ascendant right, speak for America’s embattled middle class.”
Who’s going to be at the march, representing the embattled middle class?
Why, the NAACP, the AFL-CIO, the SEIU, the American Federation of Teachers, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and the National Council of La Raza.
And that’s just the organizations that the Times sees fit to mention in the article. More telling still is the ranks of those left out. Among them:
–Chicago Democratic Socialists of America
–Code Pink
–Committee of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
–Communist Party USA
–Democratic Socialists of America
–International Socialist Organization
–Planned Parenthood
A veritable tapestry of America’s embattled middle class.
The sarcasm is Foster's, but I don't think it misplaced.
If you planned such a set-up in a novel, you would be laughed out of the editors' office. My high school English teacher would demand better plotting in a short story.
But here we are.
