By Baseball Newstalgist, Bill Chuck
According to Joe Strauss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Albert Pujols and Tony La Russa will be attending Fox News talk show host/mad man Glenn Beck‘s rally at a highly publicized and politically charged morning rally tomorrow morning expected to draw more than 20,000 followers and 20,000 media outlets to The Mall in Washington.
Organized by Glenn Beck and featuring “The Refudiator” Sarah Palin, the “Restoring Honor” rally is scheduled to take place at the base of the Lincoln Memorial on the 47th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King‘s “I Have a Dream” speech.
Beck, who met Pujols at Busch Stadium before a June appearance at Chaifetz Arena, is promoting the event as an apolitical celebration of the First Amendment and the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, scheduled to introduce Pujols, insisted Thursday that he and Pujols are attending only after receiving assurances that the event is not a thinly disguised political rally.
“I made it clear when we were approached: I said, ‘If it’s political, I wouldn’t even approach Albert with it.’ I don’t want to be there if it’s political,” La Russa said.
La Russa created a minor stir last month when he publicly supported an Arizona statute calling for heightened enforcement against illegal immigrants.
“I made the point several times: What is this about?” La Russa said Thursday, noting an understanding that invitations were ‘sent out across party lines, different disciplines, all kinds of stuff.
“I don’t know who’s going to be there, who’s going to accept it. But the gist of the day is not political. I think it’s a really good concept, actually.”
The rally is expected to include a faith-based message, something that squares with Pujols’ commitment to his faith as well as his Pujols Family Foundation.
Now that you have read La Russa’s blind faith, perhaps you might seek a saner perspective. Here is Jon Stewart:
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Check out Jerry Malitz’s report from the event today.
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Too bad LaRussa didn’t catch J. Stewart’s piece. I’m know it’s much better than anything Beck could put together. On the other hand LaRussa never seemed to me to be a fun loving type of guy. In fact I doubt anyone attending that rally has much of a sense of humor. Charles Blow of the NYT had a piece called appropriately, “I had a nightmare”.