Matthews: "Hoover Was Wiretapping Dr. King," Compares to Bush Wiretapping

NewBusters.org ^ | 2/8/2006 | NewsBusters

[popdonnelly]

You can't equate the wiretaps of Dr. and Mrs. King with wiretaps of Al Qaeda agents and sympathizers.

[p23185]

Lest we forget: the guy who ordered the wiretapping was this guy,

I recently heard some LLL trying to say it was Nixon. The LLL does not take kindly to history, do they. Everything has to be revisionist history to suit their agenda. Kinda like Nixon's Viet Nam war also . . . .

[Gordongekko909]

King was assassinated in 1968. April 4, to be exact. This was before Nixon took office. I'm sure the wiretapping happened before that. Silly libs.

By the way, what's an LLL?

[CyberAnt]

ROTFLOL!! You're probably right!

[BW2221]

It sounds like half of "Slimeball's" 300 viewers were FReepers.

[CyberAnt]

You are correct! It was Kennedy who ordered the spying on King - not Hoover.

Chris is doing this because the left's mantra is DOMESTIC SPYING! And .. Hoover was a Republican ..?? At least I see the connection there - repub is bad - dem is good.

And .. Chris' fable isn't related to the NSA's computers listening in to FOREIGN TERRORISTS who are calling people in the USA.

[syriacus]

Bush's sending the troops to Iraq should be compared to Eisenhower's sending the troops to Little Rock in 1957

Telegram from parents of Little Rock students to Eisenhower, thanking him for sending 101st to protect kids integrating the High school.

[Kozak]

The ultimate irony of ol Peanut Jimmy bringing up the wiretapping at the funeral was the Kennedys were trying to get evidence of the Reverends infidelity. Nice thing to bring up at the widows funeral.

[p23185]

By the way, what's an LLL?

I have seen some posts on FR referring to Loony Left Libs, or Left Loony Libs. I have also noticed as of late people are starting to replace MSM (Main Stream Media) with Antique Media. Wish the MSM would just die and go away - they are the propaganda arm of the DNC.

[Gordongekko909]

Ah. Thanks for the explanation!

[p23185]

King was assassinated in 1968. April 4, to be exact. This was before Nixon took office. I'm sure the wiretapping happened before that. Silly libs.

Also see A former attorney general remembers the bugging of Martin Luther King Jr. just posted.

[syriacus]

Note to Democratic speechifiers:

Jesus said, "Love thy neighbor"

Jesus did not say, "Love thy abstract idea of a neighbor."

[CyberAnt]

Well .. somebody has to keep tabs on the enemy!

[My2Cents]

ROFL

[lawnguy]

You know, I guess there's no way to avoid this, given what we do here, but it occurs to me that whenever Chrissie says anything, no one really hears it until we mention it ;)

[svcw]

I think he was the chief of staff for Tip O'Neil.

[AmeriBrit]

Thanks for the great link Fedora, a definite keeper.

[tkathy]

JFK and RFK were wiretapping MLK

[Cincinna]

It was the Democrats who spied on Rev King. JFK.RFK and LBJ.
Spying on your political enemies and spying in a time of War on terrorists who present a clear and present danger to the US is not the same thing.

[Mike Bates]

You may well be right. Gotta work on that.