To the editor:

I read with interest and curiosity the article in last Saturday’s paper titled: “Langley family on the way home after Beck rally, history tour” and did what Mr. Bacigalupi had recommended, I watched the Beck rally video.

I couldn’t help but ask, “Is this the same Glenn Beck that has asked, no demanded, that his viewers and listeners leave any church where the pastor/minister/priest had the gall to preach about social justice or economic justice for our fellow human beings? Was he invoking the same God that made Jesus, a preacher of social and economic justice, say “that which you do to the least among you, you do to me”?

The same Glenn Beck that spews hate-filled rhetoric to his audiences?”

Another question I have of Mr. Bacigalupi: Is the Republican party of which he speaks the same Republican party that lied to start two wars? The same Republican party that has such luminaries as members as “wide-stance” Larry Craig, prostitute client David Vitter, pro golfer John Boehner doing the business of business instead of the business of his constituents?

The same Republican party that so idiotically nominated Sarah Palin, a nominee so limited that when asked what she read, so that the American people could learn something about her politics, famously said “Oh, lots of stuff,” and when pressed for specifics, just said, “I’ll get back to ya” and never did, the same Republican party that votes in a block to stop unemployment extensions for millions of people desperate to take care of their families, the same party that voted against taking care of 9/11 first responders, all the time explaining that “we have to be fiscally responsible and figure out how to pay for this,” while all the time referring to the long-term unemployed as bums.

This is the Republican party I see.

They vote consistently for tax breaks for the wealthiest people in America, the very people that own the Republican party, people like Glenn Beck. They vote consistently for war funding, and then borrow against America’s future to pay for these profit-driven conflicts all over the world.

Gore Vidal once referred to our country as “The United States of Amnesia,” and the Republican party banks on this as it keeps changing stripes. Which brings to mind Lincoln’s famous quote: “You can fool some of the people all the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time,” to which I would add, “unless you’re a gullible Republican.”

Dan Freeman

Clinton