When Stephen Colbert devoted much of his program last night (enough for not one, but two morning vids) to
mocking Glenn Beck's self-importance, the
Huffington
Post was overjoyed. Colbert skewered Beck for planning a rally on
the exact date and location as Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have A Dream
Speech." While Beck claimed "divine providence" that the location and
time coincided, he also declared that it was time to "restore and
finish" the now-"distorted" dream of the great civil rights leader.
"Finally, someone is bringing Martin Luther King's movement back to its
conservative white roots," quipped Colbert. "It's a little known fact:
they only turned those firehoses on to cool down the black protesters."
The
tomfoolery begins in the first clip at 2:25.
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