Jon Stewart was curious last night about Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. this weekend. “We have to restore the Lincoln Memorial’s honor?” Stewart asked. “Has he been banging the Statue of Liberty again?”
The rally, or as Stewart called it, Beck’s “I Have A Scheme” speech, takes place on the same day and in the same location as Martin Luther King, Jr’s “I Have A Dream” speech. But that doesn’t mean it’s inappropriate, Stewart said, “because Glenn Beck does have a dream. Unfortunately, it’s the kind of dream you have when you eat four pepperoni Hot Pockets before bed.”
Stewart also noticed that between all of Beck’s advice to viewers and instructions for how they should live, he “should just be running his own university.” Jon realized that Beck had, in fact, started an online “Beck University,” but noticed that it had an eerily similar curriculum to the TV show Tool Academy. “If you come straight from Tool Academy to Beck University can those credits transfer?” Stewart asked.
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