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Glenn Beck joined "Fox News Sunday" for his only interview after the "Restoring Honor" rally that he headlined in Washington, DC on Saturday. The event was held on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and some reports have crowds estimated at between 300,000 and 500,000.
On what he hoped the attendees of the rally would come away with, Beck said, "If people awaken and turn around and see that we have lost our way, and they do something about it in their own lives, not through politics but in their own lives, then it's a -- it's an important day. Otherwise, it was just a nice day out in the sunshine."
Much was made this week about how Beck's rally fell on the same day as the civil rights movement's historic march on Washington, which included Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have Dream" speech. In response to some of the criticism he received, Beck said that he wanted to reclaim the civil rights movement, which he sees as being taken over by political forces.
"How about who is reclaiming? People of faith, reclaiming from politics. I read headline after headline after headline this week that -- the damage that I have done to racial politics... Race should not be in politics. Race is a -- is a negative that is a heart condition, quite honestly."
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