Posted on 02/08/2006 8:45:54 AM PST by LouAvul
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Four U.S. presidents -- including President George W. Bush -- were among the luminaries at Coretta Scott King's funeral Tuesday. Among some speakers' accolades and tributes to the civil rights icon were criticisms of the current administration's actions -- the war in Iraq and domestic eavesdropping.
CNN senior analyst Jeff Greenfield talked to CNN anchor Miles O'Brien about politics raising its head at the funeral.
O'BRIEN: It was quite a funeral, six hours. And the full range of emotions as Coretta Scott King was laid to rest. There were songs, prayers, praise and a healthy dose of politics.
Former presidents Carter and Clinton, and civil rights legend Joseph Lowery used their time at the pulpit to take some jabs at the current administration with the man, as you see, seated a few feet away, President Bush.
Jeff Greenfield is here to talk about the implications of all of this.
Before we get going, we will share video of former President Carter making reference to wiretaps, which of course has historical parallels here to Martin Luther King Day.
(Video clip begins)
CARTER: It was difficult for them personally with the civil liberties of both husband and wife violated as they became the targets of secret government wiretapping, other surveillance.
(Video clip ends)
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Who was President when MLK was being bugged? Who was the Attorney General that did the bugging?
Sickening. The nerve to make any political statement in the House of the Lord.
Bush and Bush.
Somehow they will blame it on Eisenhower and Nixon
Criticizing the President at a funeral is repulsive. Most Americans will find it so. It all works to the President's political advantage.
Also, it appears that the Dems have learned nothing from the Paul Wellstone funeral fiasco.
My personal memory of the era is kinda dim, but I seem to remember the name "Kennedy" as being involved...
the infowarrior
Correction Junk Journalists, "with a sickening, wholly inappropriate interjection of political partisanship into what was SUPPOSE to be a rememberance of Mrs King.
LOL--! I've had second thoughts, myself...
I am still steamed at the lack of courtesy shown the President with the First Lady.
Lie and lie.
"civil rights legend Joseph Lowery"
A legend in his own mind.
I thought I could eliminate the inappropriate slang during a slag in the post...[blush]
Hi, Mamzelle! ;o)
The evil of the democrats knows no bounds. And they wonder why they can't connect with Christians...how about not personifying evil for a start...jerks.
Both Kennedy and Johnson. Under Kennedy the Attorney General of course would have been Robert Kennedy.
Only proving once again that, to a liberal, it's always just about politics.
I believe the name Kennedy was involved; two of them. :-)
Doesn't that diminish the Wellstone incident, and imply that while the booing of some attendees to the funeral may not have been ugly, it was later perceived to be ugly???? What's up with that?
The MLK wiretaps were court-approved.
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