Somebody Give Glenn Beck a History Lesson!
Dear Glenn Beck, for the record: Forty-five years ago Georgia congressman John Lewis, then a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, got his skull fractured by racist Alabama state troopers when he linked arms with other peaceful voting rights protesters and tried to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in an incident that has since been known as "Bloody Sunday." When it comes to civil rights icons, Lewis is the real deal. Got that? No, we bet you don't....
By now, it's clear that Glenn Beck has invented an entire alternate history of the United States, in which the evil Progressives seized power from the Founding Fathers sometime in the 1920s, and everything went downhill from there. Still, it wasn't until Monday -- a day after the House passed sweeping healthcare reform legislation -- that the vastness of the gulf between Beck's history and reality became obvious.
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