Celebrity broadcaster Glenn Beck got Al Sharpton to show up on the mall with tens of thousands of people to counter rally showman's Beck's own rally. for personal publicity for Glen Beck and his various profit making enterprises, though he billed it as a civil rights rally, then a religious rally.

Mr. Beck didn't get the numbers that he and his Tea Party pals promised. No serious person would have believed. they would, though the Beck rally featured Fox media star Sarah the half governor Palin. I wonder how much he paid her for her appearance.

Mr. Beck's rally served it purpose,. It got Mr. Beck all that free publicity in the general media. As a publicity stunt, the event was brilliant. Who would have thought that a right-wing, race baiting, fear mongering, religious bigot would hold a rally on the anniversary of the historic 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, and claimed that he was following Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream? Knowing that would only bring him more attention? That takes marketing brilliance.