Just a reminder to Glenn Beck fans who are planning on attending tomorrow's lawn concert: "restoring honor" and all of the inspirational poster slogans found in this video are merely incidental.
When Beck first announced the August 28 event, it was meant to launch "The Plan," which is also the title of his forthcoming book.
And that's what it's all about. It's very likely a big promotional event for his book. It's like those car dealership mailers announcing that you've won up to a $1000 -- but it's actually just a scam to fish you into the dealership, and the up to $1000 is just a rebate on a purchase.
UPDATE: It turns out I'm mostly correct here. Via Linkins:
(The event was originally billed as the unveiling of a new Beck book called "The Plan," which would outline steps to take over the next 100 years to "restore our great country." That was later scrapped for a vague focus on restoring honor.)
And -- whoops -- "The Plan" evidently has another meaning in DC's black community.
In their 1981 book "Perspectives of Political Power in the District of Columbia," Charles W. Harris and Alvin Thornton write that many blacks believe that at some point around the mid-1970s, whites made a decision to return to the District. "Some blacks refer to the situation as 'The Plan' -- a strategy by whites to 'repossess the city,'" they wrote. "Again, whether or not any such overt decision was made by whites in this regard, the result was the same -- a gradual uprooting of blacks, circumstantially forcing them out of the District."