Posted on 02/07/2006 4:43:50 PM PST by george76
What is it that makes Democrats incapable of controlling their hostility, even during funerals?
Especially during funerals.
Rush Limbaugh just played a clip of today’s “Wellstone Funeral moment” from Rev. Joseph Lowry in which he raised the issue of weapons of mass destruction in the Coretta Scott King funeral, then talked about how not enough money is going to the poor.
I know I have seen figures that indicate that Bush has spent more on some programs for the poor than Clinton did, but it wouldn’t matter if he had spent ten times more.
Facts don’t matter.
This is pure theater, folks.
Can you imagine how the media would have reported a Republican using the Reagan funeral to make the point that Democrats were wrong about communism and that they are just as wrong on terrorism?
Fortunately we have a President with more class in his little finger than the entire Democrat party.
Following the Lowry comments, Bush gave him a hug.
(Excerpt) Read more at polipundit.com ...
Buffalo News
Commercialism mars King legacy
2/4/2006
By LEONARD PITTS
I interviewed Coretta Scott King once. It cost $5,000.
In 1985, I approached the Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta seeking that interview and permission to use old audio of Coretta's husband for a radio documentary. I was told it would cost five grand for the audio rights, and it was made clear that unless that money was paid, there would be no interview.
The ethical constraints of a radio production house are different from those of a news organization; we made the deal. I didn't like it, but I rationalized it by telling myself it was an honor to contribute to the upkeep of a legendary legacy.
Amazing what you can make yourself believe.
Coretta Scott King died this week, five months after suffering a heart attack and stroke. She is being widely and lavishly eulogized. "A remarkable and courageous woman," said the president. "A staunch freedom fighter," said the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
The praise is deserved. There was majesty and grace in Coretta Scott King, a strength of heart that was displayed nowhere more clearly than at her husband's death. Like Jacqueline Kennedy before her, she mourned inconceivable loss with awesome dignity. Since then, she has been a tireless defender of the dream her husband articulated in August of 1963.
She shielded it against racism, pessimism and defeatism. She was less successful against commercialism.
And I don't mean the piddling $5,000. That's a small symptom of the larger malady. I refer you to the King family's 1993 lawsuit against USA Today for reprinting the "I Have A Dream" speech and their subsequent licensing of King's image and voice for use in television commercials, one of which placed him between Homer Simpson and Kermit the Frog. Then there's the attempt to sell his personal papers for $20 million. Perhaps most galling was the family's demand to be paid to allow construction of a King monument on the Washington Mall.
Yes, it's all legal. But if Dr. King's life taught us nothing else, it taught us that legality and morality are not necessarily the same.
I don't mind the King family making money. But not at the cost of Martin Luther King's dignity. Granted, dignity is subjective, and you might draw the line in a different place than I. But I suspect most of us would agree that when a martyr, minister and American hero becomes a TV character hawking cell phones with Homer Simpson, that line has been well and truly crossed.
Coretta Scott King founded the King Center, and it has always been controlled by the family. So it seems plain that she approved this money-grubbing or at least tolerated it. And as a result, her kids have lost their minds.
Particularly the sons, Martin III and Dexter, recently seen publicly feuding over which one will have the six-figure job of running the King Center. Meantime, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution tells us the facility is in need of $11 million in repairs and that $4.2 million of center money has been paid since 2000 to a company Dexter owns. This would be the same Dexter who, in 1995, visited Graceland for tips on how to exploit his father's image as Lisa Marie Presley has exploited her father's.
Martin Luther King, it seems necessary to say, was not Elvis Presley. He was a man who stood for something and died for something. That something was not profit. That something belonged to all of us. One wonders if the loss of their mother will shock his children into understanding this.
I'd like to think so. But had you visited the King Center Web site three days after Coretta died looking for a tribute, here's what you'd have found: a press release, a quote from Dr. King, and a request for money. "Make an online donation in loving memory," it said.
You can do it if you want. Me, I gave at the office.
btw. Leonard Pitts is black
This is like a gang funeral. Really it is. In recent years,
1. MLK day has become a National Holiday to race-bait and hate-monger in his remembrance by the worst of the bunch like Sharpton, Jackson and people that pimp Black people like Mrs. Bill Clinton.
2. Democrat funerals are the place be if you want to dance on the grave of the dead person, yukking it up and spewing vile things like a pagan ritual- before even pagans got it right.
3. The NAACP has louder and more frequent and violent racial speech than the KKK ever had; and it has federal tax exemption.
4. Black Americans are no longer the biggest minority if you consider Spanish/Portuguese-speaking people a minority. These new people consider themselves to be white and they are accurate. I was in Spain and Portugal and know people from SA and our civilizations are very similar historically.
All AmAIRicans have to do is learn ~500 words in Espanol or Portuguesa. And all they have to do is learn ~500 words in English, and everyone will be just fine together.
The NAACP doesn't like this and they are screwing the pooch by looking stupid to everyone other than themselves. Sort of like Muslims burning embassies over stupic cartoons on a smaller scale.
5. If Democrat funerals are bad, stay away from their marriages if you are white heterosexual man or woman.
6. If your relatives are a bunch of democrats, state in your will that you want to be cremated and your ashes spread in Ted Kennedy's favorite body of water. That will fix them.
Mary Jo?
Arkancide victims?
Playing to their base. Just go to DU for five minutes and you'll quickly understand how brainless, tasteless, and immoral these droolers truly are. It's beyond belief.
It doesn't hurt. Did Wellstone I significantly affect the votes in the 2004 Presidential election? A lie pounded over and over again becomes conventional wisdom. The Left knows it, the Right doesn't. It's the language, stupid! Pederasts are not 'gay' and abortion is not 'choice', you and I know, but check out the terminology used on this very forum. I'd better end the rant, I'm waving at windmills again. By the way, necrophiliacs are 'merry', aren't they?
They are the enemy within and need to be stopped from ever being in power. In fact, it would please me if they were all loaded on a big ship and sent to Cuba. They are liars, crooks and dispicable low lifes who prey upon those who are ignorant of the truth. They have no class, no shame and no patriotism. They have no right to be in this country. Zero.
I pray Coretta's funerally will backfire BIGTIME on the dems. They're too stupid to have learned the Wellstone lesson.
The GOP needs to follow the lead of the outraged conservatives in middle America and get REALLY PISSED OFF AND VOCAL ABOUT THEIR DESPICABLE BEHAVIOR. I don't ever again want to see my President treated so shabbily when trying to pay his respects at a funeral on our own soil.
It was despicable and we should all call a jihad against the dems!
Not me. I am very careful about what sites I visit. If you have the appropriate prophylactics to go there, encourage them to an even higher level of excellence, if you have the time, imagination and patience for that. These are the kind of people that are getting arrested for environmental terrorism. Make them do something stupid, if you have time for this sort of thing.
They kill babies, don't they? No surprise to me.
Ask Walter Mondale if it helped...
It helped Norm Coleman.
One more Senate seat for the good guys...us.
It is hard to argue that the Wellstone funeral did not give us that seat.
Thanks for the ping.
BTW -- I've captured your video clip and put it near the bottom of my page at http://freedomkeys.com/slimeball.htm
Hope you don't mind!
> What a disgrace! They behave like communists!
What do you mean? They ARE communists!
I like your website.
The video looks good with your other quotes.
the only person who in any way diminished the Reagan funeral with a political slap was Ron Reagan
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