HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES -- "Selma" star David Oyelowo first met Oprah Winfrey on the cast of "The Butler." He told her his dreams of playing Martin Luther King, Jr. and she told him she would help.

It was only a matter of time before The Daily Show and company got on the Glenn Beck bandwagon — really, Beck’s “Rally to Restore Honor,” pompously delivered from the same place and on the same day as ...