"A guy on CNN earlier today said it's arguable that it began with Martin Luther King, Jr. He was arrested for, literally, driving while black, and the Kennedy family stepped in to help him, while Richard Nixon didn't."
The MLK Jr that the JFK administration was secretly wiretapping, and all thewhile the JFK administration wouldn push civil rights bills for fear of upsetting Democrats in Congress? Uh huh.
Yeah. That one. :-)
I can't remember the man's name but he was the conservative guest (the other guest was Donna Brazile). He was the editor of some magazine. It's all perception, of course. The fact that the JFK administration was full of crap is a given.