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Will you be protesting the Restoring Honor Rally in D.C. on 8/28?

Will you be protesting the Restoring Honor Rally?

  • Yes! I'll be there protesting!

    Votes: 1 4.8%

  • No! I'll be an audience member of the rally.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • No. I wish I could go!

    Votes: 12 57.1%

  • Yes! I can't go, but I'll speak out online or other ways.

    Votes: 8 38.1%
  • Total voters
    21
Mellie said:
So the children who have been helped and put through college are just actors?
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People often do good for selfish reasons. Sure he helped some children, but he is also helping himself.
 
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Mellie said:
So the children who have been helped and put through college are just actors?
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show me in my posts where I said that....
Note that SOWF is limited to Special Ops families. and that it has been around for 30 years, and that Glenn Blech is not the first to help raise funds for military related charitable organizations. He won't be the last either.
 
Restoring Honor - 8.28.10 go to his site and scroll to the bottom, you will find the following statement.

This rally is compliant with IRS Rules and Regulations found in IRS publication 557 and IRS publication 4221-PC. For tax purposes a gift to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation is deductible in accordance with Internal Revenue Service's tax laws. No goods or services were provided in exchange for your contribution. The purchase of Restoring Honor Rally merchandise is not a donation to SOWF, but all net proceeds from the sale of Restoring Honor Rally merchandise is being donated to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. All contributions made to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation (SOWF) will first be applied to the costs of the Restoring Honor Rally taking place on August 28, 2010. All contributions in excess of these costs will then be retained by the SOWF. Tax ID 52-1183585.

So we won't know what percentage of the take goes to SOWF until after all the rally expenses are paid. Of course, some of those expenses will be related to the care and feeding of one ego-testicle glenn beck...
 
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UtahBill said:
Restoring Honor - 8.28.10 go to his site and scroll to the bottom, you will find the following statement.

This rally is compliant with IRS Rules and Regulations found in IRS publication 557 and IRS publication 4221-PC. For tax purposes a gift to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation is deductible in accordance with Internal Revenue Service's tax laws. No goods or services were provided in exchange for your contribution. The purchase of Restoring Honor Rally merchandise is not a donation to SOWF, but all net proceeds from the sale of Restoring Honor Rally merchandise is being donated to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. All contributions made to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation (SOWF) will first be applied to the costs of the Restoring Honor Rally taking place on August 28, 2010. All contributions in excess of these costs will then be retained by the SOWF. Tax ID 52-1183585.

So we won't know what percentage of the take goes to SOWF until after all the rally expenses are paid. Of course, some of those expenses will be related to the care and feeding of one ego-testicle glenn beck...
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The rally has been paid for for about a month or two now. All other donations (including Jon Hunstman's $50,000 and the auction that went for $75,000) goes to SOWF.
 
UtahBill said:
How does either of those 2 clowns have anything to do with college tuition for veteran's children?
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Special Operations Warrior Foundation [New Window]
The Special Operations Warrior Foundation (SOWF) provides college scholarship grants, along with financial aid and educational counseling, to the children ...
Special Operations Warrior Foundation

After expenses all money from the rally goes here. All expenses have been met. SOWF stands to make out pretty good from the rally.
 
UtahBill said:
show me in my posts where I said that....
Note that SOWF is limited to Special Ops families. and that it has been around for 30 years, and that Glenn Blech is not the first to help raise funds for military related charitable organizations. He won't be the last either.
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In reply to my question if SOWF is just keeping the money, you said "No idea, wait and see."

Who said he was the first or the last? Jeez louise. A guy does something honorable and you do everything possible to NOT say something nice.
 
Mellie said:
The rally has been paid for for about a month or two now. All other donations (including Jon Hunstman's $50,000 and the auction that went for $75,000) goes to SOWF.
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THE JON HUNTSMAN? the billionaire or the politician?
 
And I believe that Glenn will be presenting SOWF with a check Saturday.
 
Mellie said:
In reply to my question if SOWF is just keeping the money, you said "No idea, wait and see."

Who said he was the first or the last? Jeez louise. A guy does something honorable and you do everything possible to NOT say something nice.
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Not a week goes by that I don't get contacted 2 or 3 times by charitable organizations. I don't donate to any group until I have checked them out.
 
I'm curious as to why a rally honoring our military personnel is called "restoring" honor. Does Beck believe that our military forces have somehow misplaced their honor under a rock in Afghanistan?

I mean, if this was TRULY a benefit for these kids, their names would be front and center, rather than the somewhat dubious and muddled theme of "restoring" honor that, IMHO, has never been lost.
 
UtahBill said:
Not a week goes by that I don't get contacted 2 or 3 times by charitable organizations. I don't donate to any group until I have checked them out.
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Okay....? You don't trust that they actually give the money to whom they say it's going to? So you disbelieve the people who say they have been helped by SOWF?
 
Mellie said:
Okay....? You don't trust that they actually give the money to whom they say it's going to? So you disbelieve the people who say they have been helped by SOWF?
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I think that the issue is that the charitable purposes for this event are running a distant second to the political motivations. Was that too subtle?
 
Catz Part Deux said:
I think that the issue is that the charitable purposes for this event are running a distant second to the political motivations. Was that too subtle?
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What are the political motivations?

What do YOU think the goal of this rally is?
 
UtahBill said:
THE JON HUNTSMAN? the billionaire or the politician?
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The very charitable Billionaire. He once went belly up and took out a loan to meet his obligations to charities he had promised money to.
 
Mellie said:
What do YOU think the goal of this rally is?
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To be at someone else's "Beck" and call.

He says jump, and his followers ask how high.

It's pathetic really. Protestors aren't even taking their own reasoning into this event, just what they've been fed.

I really wish people would learn to think for themselves.
 
Mellie said:
Okay....? You don't trust that they actually give the money to whom they say it's going to? So you disbelieve the people who say they have been helped by SOWF?
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I have read the SOWF website, looks to be creditable.
Still, I am a cynic about these things..
 
Mellie said:
What are the political motivations?

What do YOU think the goal of this rally is?
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I'm not sure. I have these questions:

Catz Part Deux said:
I'm curious as to why a rally honoring our military personnel is called "restoring" honor. Does Beck believe that our military forces have somehow misplaced their honor under a rock in Afghanistan?

I mean, if this was TRULY a benefit for these kids, their names would be front and center, rather than the somewhat dubious and muddled theme of "restoring" honor that, IMHO, has never been lost.
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Orion said:
To be at someone else's "Beck" and call.

He says jump, and his followers ask how high.

It's pathetic really. Protestors aren't even taking their own reasoning into this event, just what they've been fed.

I really wish people would learn to think for themselves.
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You are asking a bit much from the kind that worship at the alter of Beck.....
 
Catz Part Deux said:
I'm not sure. I have these questions:
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Would be nice if they posted how many they helped, and how much was donated to each of them, on average. No names, that would be an invasion of privacy.
 
Well, Catz, I would say to listen (it's being broadcast on radio stations all over the country) and decide for yourself. You can also go to Glenn Beck Program and search for "restoring honor" and you'll get many links to the radio show where Glenn spoke about the rally. That might help you understand.
 
Orion said:
I really wish people would learn to think for themselves.
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I agree. Like actually listening to what Beck says this rally is about instead of stupidly thinking it's a political rally or tea party.
 
Catz Part Deux said:
I think that the issue is that the charitable purposes for this event are running a distant second to the political motivations. Was that too subtle?
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Could be because the left stream media has been promoting it as a tea party rally?
They don't mention the charity.
 
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