Glenn Beck is Saruman in this one.

So, you thought all the noise was just? 

You know that scene in the second Lord of the Rings movie where Saruman goes out onto the balcony of his tower with Grima and looks out over his massive army of orcs that he has created to conquer Middle-earth, and if you look closely you can see Grima shed a single tear, but it's not clear whether he is overcome with awe, or has just realized he helped destroy the human race?

Well, that was pretty much this weekend in Washington when Glenn Beck came to town for his public anger conclave/suburban block party, where he and a hundred thousand (after CGI)  friends appropriated the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech to Take Back America for conservative anger bears.  If Sarah Palin shed a tear, it was for the first reason.

Highlights and photos after the jump, hooray!


City Danger's highlights-of-the-weekend include:

• a handy blog post for/by Maine's tea-baggers on how to avoid poverty/danger while in DC
• angry tea-baggers who refused to pay DC's 5 cent plastic bag tax
• and tea bagger hanky-panky!  

I took a couple pictures of the event with my phone. The first one is blurry, but if you squint, you can see that the crowd went all the way to the monument. I must have forgotten the flash for the second.