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.
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.
Correction Junk Journalists, "with a sickening, wholly inappropriate interjection of political partisanship into what was SUPPOSE to be a rememberance of Mrs King.
I am still steamed at the lack of courtesy shown the President with the First Lady.
"civil rights legend Joseph Lowery"
A legend in his own mind.
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.
Only proving once again that, to a liberal, it's always just about politics.
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?
It's just a matter of time before they throw out the "Coretta would have approved- she would have said the same things herself" excuse, and their constituents will lap it up.
Amazing how these guys discuss it and act as if they're being objective, while giving the nod to the disgusting displays at the funeral. Typical CNN crap.
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.
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O'BRIEN: All right. Not so subtle a statement there .What were your thoughts on this as you watched this unfold? Did it surprise you, first of all?
GREENFIELD: Well, I can't say that, because she was such a symbol of a particular moment in American political history. We should mention, by the way, that Martin Luther King was wiretapped during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations at the direction of Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who was a hero of that movement.
But what struck me also was how quickly this became an item within the other side, within the political right. And within hours, I think when the funeral was still going on, this popped up as the headline on "The Drudge Report," which often begins the transmission through particularly conservative media.
On "Hannity & Colmes" last night on Fox, it was the lead item. And Rush Limbaugh on his Web site went off on Joseph Lowery, whose piece he played, and called it -- and this was really the key, as you mentioned in your intro to this, "a Wellstone moment."
O'BRIEN: Tell us about that. We're referring to the late senator.
GREENFIELD: Right.
Back in 2002, shortly before the election, Senator Wellstone was killed in a plane crash. And at the memorial service, a number of political people made the point to honor Paul Wellstone's memory, vice president -- ex-vice president Mondale who was running in the state should be elected. There were also -- there was some booing, apparently, not that much, directed at some Republican senators there.
It became an article of faith on the political right that this had become a real ugly moment, when partisanship replaced memorials. After the funeral yesterday, Kate O'Beirne, a prominent conservative writer, said liberals don't know how to keep politics out of their funerals.
And on the Daily Kos, which is a site from the left, the argument was these conservatives had nothing to do with civil rights, they have no right to lecture us.
O'BRIEN: Well, let's talk about this, because when you talk about a Wellstone moment, timing is an awful lot in politics. And the timing there very different than here.
GREENFIELD: Absolutely. That memorial service happened literally three or four days before the election. And there was a backlash to it that may have helped the Republicans take that Senate seat.
We're now in early February. The idea that this is going to have some political implication, you have to really be overcommitted to endless analysis.
I do, however, think that in a more subtle way, this actually rebounds to the credit of President Bush. I mean, he came to the funeral, changed his plans, made a gracious speech. And I think for people who are not politically committed -- I mean, if you don't like George Bush, this was fine. If you like George Bush, this was horrible.
I think for a lot of people the idea is, do you really do this at a funeral?
I was reading a "teen blog site" this morning (I check in off and on, just to find out what my son's seeing.)
Anyhoo, the teens often discuss political issues, and most of them are not conservative, but almost all the teens seem to have the sense that a funeral was not a place for all the politics.
I was surprised that even the teens had the sense to figure this out and the Dems are clueless.
Just when they were at their lowest. They take it yet that extra step. Utterly disgusting!
This mornings AOL Poll
Do you think some of the remarks at Coretta Scott King's funeral were too political?
Yes 69%
No 23%
I didn't follow the funeral 8%
Total Votes: 62,322
Sounds like Kos is clueless on history.
Article of faith? What, does this guy think he can paper over Wellstone's kid leading a "we will win" chant from the podium?