The content of the character of his ’supporters’ would disappoint him
Despite the fact that the MSNBC story was essentially offering a transcript of the Ticker Carlson show and his coverage of the smears of President Bush at the Mrs. King funeral, check out this MSNBC website headline:
Lowery speaks ‘truth to power’ at King funeral
No bias there. And how does their “coverage” start?
“We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there. But Coretta knew and we knew that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance. Poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.” These were the words Reverend Joseph Lowery spoke at Coretta Scott King’s funeral on Tuesday in Atlanta in front of an audience of 10,000 including President Bush and former Presidents Bush, Clinton, and Carter.
Many have claimed the Reverend’s comments were a dig at the Bush Administration. Reverend Lowery joined Tucker Carlson to explain his comments.
Yeah, many have “claimed.” Has nothing to do with that thing called “obvious reality.” Sheesh.
And the Los Angeles Times has added another notch in their glowing record of finding columnists who like to spit in the face of its readers and Americans in general. Joel “I Don’t Support the Troops” Stein apparently isn’t enough for them. Now the Times (via Soros/Open Society flack Rosa Brooks) think it’s high time that civility is an idea whose time has come to an end:
When crass is called for
It’s time to take a stand against civility, decency and appropriateness.
As she bleats about how great Lowery and Carter were using a funeral to attack the attending president, Brooks ends her Lefty rant with this:
And if Bush was offended by Lowery’s and Carter’s remarks? Tough luck. If we have to choose between a civil tone and standing up for civil rights, I know which one I’ll take.
That’s funny. The last time I checked Mr. and Mrs. King were especially successful and revered specifically because they were civil in their effort to end a wrong. How sad it is that their modern-day supporters feel as though being crass, uncivil and repulsive is the new order of the day. So, let’s apply MLK’s standard to how we judge people like Lowery, Carter, Brooks and all their compatriots–let us indeed judge them by the ‘content of their character.’ With that expectation, all of these people have let even themselves down, let alone someone they would arrogantly consider their ‘hero.’.
At least George Soros must be smiling. While trying to trash American conservatives, he is making fools out of American leftists. Perhaps that has been his agenda all along–after all, to destroy a country you really must crush both sides.
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In defense of Tucker Carlson, he did ask the obvious question of the appropriateness of Lowery’s remarks.
“So why, when you can at any time, from your pulpit or any other place, attack the president‘s policies, why would you use a funeral to needle the president about weapons of mass destruction?”
And at one point he did say Lowery’s speech seemed rude.
I have a question though, what does “truth to power” mean?
“‘Truth to Power:’ [20th/21st Century phrase]
Any hysterical, ideologically-charged statement, sometimes muttered but usually screeched by a lunatic left-winger against anyone he or she disagrees with [from Aegil's Dictionary, 2006 edition]“
I’m disgusted at what happened at the funeral. But there is so much controversy that surrounds MLK, with a lot of evidence that if true only makes him a symbol of greatness and not truly great. Same to be said of Coretta. While I recognize both of them for the contribution they made to civil rights, I cannot ignore other things about them that I detest. And maybe, just maybe, the controversy that surrounds this funeral in fact is the last words of these two monolithic figures in our history.
LOL, gotcha Aegil. Thanks.
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