“I don’t want my guys to be party poopers, but we have a job to do… They’re not bad people, but they like to use drugs.” –Mark Pirtle, BLM special agent, explaining the police presence at Burning Man. [AP/Raw Story]

Drudge Jr.’s Big Journalism, Paragraph 1:

In an era when satellite imagery allows one to count cars from space, and in a country fascinated with numbers (weekly box office take, home runs, calorie counting, etc) the MSM is having a difficult time with the math on Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally held on the Mall in Washington yesterday. By all reasonable estimates, nearly half a million people were in attendance, and yet, confusion (or perhaps subterfuge) rules the day.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs9etDCc0Fk

Salon reports that “a Beck-narrated video displayed on the massive screens attempted to co-opt King’s story, calling attention to the supposed similarities between King’s struggle and Beck’s own vision for the future.” We don’t know whether this is the video in question, but it fits the description.

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Oddly enough, he looks like Reagan.  This is what Glenn Beck hath wrought:

And please – if any of you hears of a white cracker baby that’s been killed by a black guy, let me know. I’ll put up a post right away.

At The Hill, Brent Budowsky has a good piece up on what will happen if the Republican/Teabagger party takes over the House:

The Republican plan is to abuse the power of multiple Congressional committees, abuse the power and the process of subpoena, by hiring a fleet of partisan Republican lawyers and partisan Republican staff at taxpayer expense to pursue a politics of vendetta and persecution.

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The New York Times this morning reports on the rise of an ultra-nationalistic, ultra-xenophobic, far-right movement in Japan:

The demonstrators appeared one day in December, just as children at an elementary school for ethnic Koreans were cleaning up for lunch. The group of about a dozen Japanese men gathered in front of the school gate, using bullhorns to call the students cockroaches and Korean spies. Read more »

Title: “Crimes Against Liberty: An Indictment of President Barack Obama”

Author: David Limbaugh

Rank: 2

Blurb: “American voters might have been naïve when they went to the polls in 2008, but New York Times bestselling author David Limbaugh wasn’t.”

Review: “Obama cockily brought a gun to a knife fight only to realize too late that Rush’s Little brother was standing behind him with a baseball bat of truth that leaves him and his administration lying blooded, bruised, and battered on the floor.”

Customers Also Bought: “Why Coolidge Matters: How Civility in Politics Can Bring a Nation Together,” by the National Notary Association.

Footnote: Rush’s Little Brother also wields the Catcher’s Mitt of Wisdom, the Strike Zone of Righteousness, and the Infield Fly Rule of Justice.

Crimes Against Liberty [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]