How was your week? Glenn Beck’s was pretty good, thanks. On Saturday he stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and faced a crowd conservatively estimated at one million people (but liberally estimated at 87,000). "Something that is beyond man is happening," Beck said. "America today begins to turn back to God."
Two days later, Beck launched an Internet news website, The Blaze. ("The flame of freedom is dwindling," he told a different crowd last week. "If you don’t want it to go out on our watch, then you must stand in the blaze. The fire of truth that does not burn those who stand in it, but consumes everything that is not.") As I write this, The Blaze’s front page has three stories about the "Ground Zero" mosque, one about the "ballooning welfare state," four about Glenn Beck and three about how Al Sharpton’s simultaneous Washington rally wasn’t as good as Glenn Beck’s.
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