He's something else, too.
He's a Republican.
We're watching the "Eleventh Commandment" play out. Bushie is not going to "speak evil" of another Republican. It's just not cricket. They train 'em to be gentleman at the Country Club.
Did King commit an unspeakable horror?
Well, maybe. But that's neither here nor there. He's a Republican, so we won't speak ill of him.
It's a pathology.
The same pathology that destroyed a continent, and almost a world.