Via Roger Ebert, I just learened tha Glenn Beck is set to hold an event in Anchorage, Alaska this September the 11th.  I was able to confirm that tickets are on sale for the event here.

Ebert points to this article in Vanity Fair and speculates about the likely inclusion of Sarah Palin at such an event and speculates about a possible announcement of a run for the Oval Office.

I was unable to verify, as Ebert has written, that Beck stated he "chose that date without realizing its significance."  I know that he said this about the date for his recent DC piety-fest, but that's just a bridge too far with a date like 9/11.  Nevermind that it was the event that defined the last decade of American culture and politics and helped to launch two wars, but isn't claiming to have forgotten the significance of 9/11 like claiming to have forgotten the significance of 12/25 for a self-proclaimed Christian conservative?  Hell, how can anyone who lived through the candidacy of Rudy Giuliani ever forget that date.  For so many reasons, it's permanently seared into the brain of every American.  To put a finer point on it, Glenn Beck is also the same guy who launched the "9/12 Project" in order to, as he described it, reclaim the feeling we all (he thinks) had on September 12th, 2001.  Again, I wasn't able to confirm that Beck actually made that statement about this upcoming event, but if he did he must really think he can say anything at this point.

Seriously.  Didn't realize the significance of 9/11?  Shouldn't there be a price to pay for that?

As for what the event will actually entail, details appear to be scant at present, but the date is only ten days away.  Stay tuned.

UPDATE: As acanuck points out in comments below, I had misread Ebert's article.  Ebert was in fact referring to Beck's statements about having picked the date for his recent DC rally, which coincided with the anniversay of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, without having realized its significance.