On Sunday’s Good Morning America, during a report which focused on FNC host Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally and the hostile reaction from civil rights activists like the Reverend Al Sharpton, ABC correspondent Tahman Bradley asserted that “the crowd was almost all white, giving critics an open door.” After noting that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s niece – Dr. Alveda King – was a speaker at the rally, Bradley noted the racial makeup of Beck’s event: TAHMAN BRADLEY: Dr. King’s own niece, Alveda King, spoke. DR. ALVEDA KING, NIECE OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: We need to rebuild America. BRADLEY: An obvious effort to try to show inclusion on this historic day, but the crowd was almost all white, giving critics an open door. REVEREND AL SHARPTON, CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST: We’re not giving them this day. This is our day, and we ain’t giving it away. And similar to reports on the rally that aired on GMA on Friday and Saturday, ABC used such labels as “controversial” and “conservative” to label Beck or his followers, but did not use ideological labels to refer to Sharpton, nor was the left-wing activist’s own controversial history mentioned. In the opening teaser, substitute host Ron Claiborne asserted that the rally was “led by controversial conservatives Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin.” Below is a complete transcript of Bradley’s report from the Sunday, August 29, Good Morning America on ABC, with critical portions in bold : RON CLAIBORNE, IN OPENING TEASER: And rallying cry: Thousands descend on the Washington Mall for a rally led by controversial conservatives Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin . Is this new conservative movement gaining new momentum? … BIANNA GOLODRYGA: Turning to politics now and the competing rallies in Washington, D.C., on the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech Saturday. At one, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin. At the other, the Reverend Al Sharpton. Tahman Bradley was there. TAHMAN BRADLEY: Conservatives and Tea Party supporters came to the National Mall in droves, a rally cry from Fox News commentator Glenn Beck.
