Posted on 02/11/2006 9:56:37 PM PST by Jacob Kell
Neither man lied. Indeed, the reverend and the former president on Tuesday both spoke several obvious and undeniable truths. That they were jaw-droppingly uncomfortable truths - the current president, after all, was seated directly behind them - was, you just have to figure, the whole point.
(Excerpt) Read more at rockymountainnews.com ...
Apparently a deluded Lib.
I don't know who Bill Johnson is, but I did see that def comedy jam/funeral on c-span and it was disgusting. Little truth was spoken - most of it was some version of "Wow look how things haven't changed. Blacks are still oppressed and Republicans are still evil, vote democrat", and so on...
One has to wonder about the King family. To allow the funeral to be turned into such a circus shows they don't have any moral authority on any issue, they are just house slaves of the Democrat Party. If it was my family I would have thrown those idiot Democrat louts out of the building for playing petty politics at a time when it should be about a life that was lived and honored, but no not the King family, they obviously have no scruples.
Bush: "Corretta Scott King worked her whole life to defeat racial discrimination written into law by the Democratic Party. Her tireless struggle to overcome the Democrat Jim Crow Laws will forever be remembered."
"But what will we will all remember most is her endless perseverence. When Democrats bombed her home in Alabama, she persevered. When KKK members like Democratic Senator Robert Byrd marched in support of segregation and filibustered the Civil Rights Act, she persevered. When John and Robert Kennedy tapped her phoneline to spy on her husband, she persevered. When Jimmy Carter ran for Governor on a segregationist platform, she persevered."
[hat tip: mightysamurai]
Of the remaining members of the King family...they are mostly immature adult "teenagers". They bicker about the foundation, the money, the glitter, and the media attention. There is no doubt that they approved the speech by the minister in question. I doubt that Jimmy Carter asked permission...he just delivered his. The amusing thing here...is that Jimmy sure must be hoping he doesn't have a heart attack in the next two years...because GW will be giving a speech at his funeral, and I can already guess what GW will be saying. There is a terrific statement which Jimmy ought to know in this whole mess...he who is without sin, may cast the first stone. Jimmy screwed up an awful lot....and its hard to see him really knowing right from wrong.
WHy don't you tell Johnson that?
I emailed him right after I posted that :)
If GW were to give a speech at Carter's funeral, he would be a LOT classier than ol' Jimmuh.
You posted his article. On the same page, there's a brief bio of Bill Johnson, along with a photo fo him.
Every word of that sentence is factually and historically accurate.
Every word is true what is left out is that it was a Democrat, Robert F. Kennedy, in a Democratic administration that wiretapped MLK. I wonder what the response of the attendees and the MSM would have been if Bush 41 would have stressed that point in his eulogy?
Amen!!!!
Whatever . . . but at a FUNERAL? It ain't the place for it. Except if you're talking about dems, that is. Republican should be wary of attending funerals of any kind where democrats are gonna be allowed to speak.
Using a person's death for political points is something you expect from a dictatorship. "The brave glorious heroes of the revolution" and such. The Nazi's made a pimp storm troopers death into political theather and even wrote a song about him they made famous ("The Horst Wessel Song").
Every word is true what is left out is that it was a Democrat, Robert F. Kennedy, in a Democratic administration that wiretapped MLK. I wonder what the response of the attendees and the MSM would have been if Bush 41 would have stressed that point in his eulogy?
They would have berated him mercilessly for politicizing a funeral. The MSM/left sickens me more and more each day.
It is beyond contemptible to use a funeral as a platform to insult the leader of your country who has come to pay respects to the recently departed. If anyone things that the King funeral was a good occasion to insult the president, that person is an ignorant scoundrel. Bill Johnson appears to be that scoundrel.
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