Paul Haunted by His Newsletter’s Disparaging Remarks About Martin Luther King

Fox News ^ | Monday, January 21, 2008 | Fox News

[lormand]

With popularity comes notoriety. That’s the lesson Ron Paul is learning as the nation observes Martin Luther King Day and the GOP presidential contender bears the burden of disparaging comments, made in a newsletter bearing his name, about the slain civil rights leader and the national holiday that honors him.

[bcsco]

Check post #99 above yours. Couldn’t be more clueless.

[ejonesie22]

Adorable little idiots aren’t they...

Need to teach them to use a Kleenex...

[bcsco]

Need to teach them to use a Kleenex...

They don't make enough to handle the spittle.

BTW, you've got mail...

[ejonesie22]

It the eating of the boogers that gets to me...

[bcsco]

It the eating of the boogers that gets to me...

It probably compliments the bongo...

[ejonesie22]

When you have the munchies i guess it’s any port in a storm...

So to speak....

[puroresu]

A charge of “racism” can usually shut a debate down faster than an armed gestapo. When it fails to do so, the person howling “racism” usually gets pretty frustrated. It must be like dropping a nuclear bomb and finding out it didn’t go off, and it was the lone weapon in your arsenal.

[gondramB]

I would think that just China and India with 300,000,000 people on the net would skew international site rankings in a way that are not particularly important to us.

I've been keeping an eye on the Quantcast rankings for Freep and (except for some higher spikes) it shows a pretty consistent 800,000 - 1,000,000 uniques a month. With about 3.5-4 million visits a month.



Sadly, it says the visitors show a lot of Romney but I guess that is better than Rudy.
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Freerepublic.com is a top 5,000 site that reaches over 833K U.S. monthly uniques. The site attracts a very slightly male biased, more educated, skewing older following.The typical visitor reads realclearpolitics.com and follows Mitt Romney.

http://www.quantcast.com/freerepublic.com

[gondramB]

>>Why ARE we honoring MLK when we now know he was a plagiarist and was repeatedly unfaithful to his wife?<<

Because when someone has done something significant we tend to acknowledge that even if he did other not so great things.

Suppose George Washington turned out to have plagiarized something and cheated on his wife - would we stop acknowledging the good he did?

[TypeZoNegative]

The fact that Rosa Parks couldn’t sit anywhere on a bus where she felt proved that we were another South Africa. White-Black marriages were also verbotten.

If the USA, especially the South wasn’t another South Africa, then why the hell were people denied to marry who they wanted to marry and sit where they wanted to sit on the bus? The only thing that was different between South Africa and the Southern US was that hurricanes hit the deep south. Well, that and token voting rights that were fought against tooth and nail by the establishments in those towns.

At times, it wasn’t a regionalized issue either. A former police chief of Saint Paul, a town that’s hardly in the south, Bill Finney, an African American, and a Conservative, couldn’t even go to parts of his city growing up because of racial violence.

So please don’t tell me how racial tensions were easy in our country back then. If it wasn’t, again, why couldn’t white-black couples could marry.

If it wasn’t for MLK and his message of peaceful (Although collectivist and therefore somewhat flawed) protest, the USA would have either been:

A: Boycotted by other foreign countries due to human rights violations.
B: Invaded and “liberated” by foreign countries that were effing sick of the US’ treatment of blacks. When we liberate countries, we try to introduce libertarian philosophy in their countries constitutions. When other countries do it, they impose socialism. In case you didn’t know, socialism is evil.
C: Had a large section of the population of the US simply betray us during wartime, and thereby losing a war. (Which is what may have been a contributing force in the Vietnam loss)

And don’t take this as me siding with our enemies, but the reason why there was even an opportunity for our communist enemies to win against us during the cold war was because they played the segregationists like a fiddle and cleaved the blacks and the whites in the country apart like a hot knife through butter. A people united cannot be defeated. The USA was not united, and ergo, could have been easily defeated.

If it wasn’t for MLK’s peaceful, intergrationist message, we would have had a race war fueled by the Soviets. The Soviets were not about to leave a fracture in American society heal itself.

Re: Lincoln’s birthday. Lincoln’s birthday wasn’t eliminated with MLK day.

http://www.snopes.com/holidays/presidents/presidents.asp

Read it and weep. The first Presidents day was created in the 1960’s. The first MLK day wasn’t instituted until the 1980’s.

The left are many things, but time travelers, they are not.

>Take a look at today’s South Africa, a violent, horrific nation dominated by a Marxist gang of thugs known as the ANC and maybe you’ll see some irony in your statement.

The reason why SA is so violent isn’t because the blacks have freedom. Other black-dominated nations have gained independence without too much violence. Jamaica and the Caymans are perfect examples. SA’s violent because the government had the wrong idea after it became integrated, which was to attack the former oppressors rather than the attitude of working with the former oppressors to make sure the country didn’t become poor. Integration didn’t fail the South Africans, collectivism did.

>This is the Clinton tactic. Tear down other people from American history to build someone else up. None of us are perfect, but to the best of my knowledge none of the above people supported the enemy in wartime.

Ummm... Keller was a communist. Commies hate the USA. Didn’t you get the memo?

>Nor is anyone suggesting that there should be a national holiday named after them. Nor that we should set aside a portion of each year to reflect on how perfect and deserving of worship they are.

Actually, there’s a Helen Keller day. It’s not as widely known because schools are out of session during her birthday but if schools were in session during her birthday, yes, you would probably get Keller worship.

The reason is that despite her being a leftist lunatic, overcoming blind-muteness is a great achievement. Some things are more important than politics.

>It took a fight to get an airport named after Ronald Reagan. And he never sided with the enemy or mistreated women. And Reagan brought down the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Empire. And only he could have done that. King was just a charismatic guy who got in front of the TV cameras faster than his associates, such as Abernathy. Yet, imagine the firestorm of opposition if someone suggested that we should have a Ronald Reagan day and a huge monument to Reagan in Washington.

And both men were great men. One destroyed an evil threatening to destroy the country from the outside and one destroyed an evil from destroying the country from the inside. They both made sure all Americans would be free, just in different ways.

But still, why not cherrypick other leaders foibles? You know, the great Abraham Lincoln. And another question, WTF does Ronald Reagan have to do with MLK Day?

[the OlLine Rebel]

You’re pasting comments in that I didn’t make, incidentally.

Still, the cruelty and blatant every-day ramshackle living to blacks in South Africa had every mark of being far worse than whatever on the whole you can think of in the US. In the ‘80s much less e.g., the ‘50s.

You’re likely talking exceptions that prove the rule. Yes, there was hatred, and yes, violence, but I’ve never gotten the impression even in the “horrid” South they were the level of constant deliberate policy repression endemic to South Africa. Racism seemed to be in the bones of South Africans of white extraction, where they kept tight hold on where blacks were and if they could work even. Look at pictures of whole “towns” that were nothing but shanties and camps.

Sorry, in my observations, I just don’t see the similarities. I didn’t live then, and it sure wasn’t perfect, but even 2nd-hand accounts from my parents (well, my mother - my Yankee backwoods father never SAW a black growing up then) and grandparents don’t indicate much in the way of real animosity at least mid-Atlantic. They knew about the segregation, but violence and blatant hatred/suspicion/ridicule/etc? Mom would tell you she and the family just didn’t “think” so much about blacks even though they knew some and employed them sometimes directly for contract work.

I think the comparisons are unfair.

It’s clear South Africa was a racist hell-hole. It’s not clear the US or the “south” specifically was “getting worse”. Generally, it seemed to get better, even if no-one really gave it much thought. Which would’ve been the real key. I don’t think enough whites were *obsessed* with the “permeation” of blacks.

[the OlLine Rebel]

“Actually, there’s a Helen Keller day. It’s not as widely known because schools are out of session during her birthday but if schools were in session during her birthday, yes, you would probably get Keller worship.”

Yeah, right. That’s absurd. What we get are parades, speeches (look at Bush) at all levels - city to nation - and school contests that are publicized on local news to best describe King and/or the Civil-Rights movement, etc. Our small paper the other day had several editorials and articles referring to King as subject. Never mind the next day where they seem to need to follow up, at least to tell us how the parade went and how the speeches all over went. And maybe what child won the contest.

This doesn’t happen with Washington, for sure, any more. Nor much for Lincoln if at all. I assure you Helen Keller would not get parades and people editorializing left and right about her even on her single day, much less the rest of the year.

BTW, with all your apparent sophistication in writing, why the veiled vitriolic rage with “WTF” and “effing” and “hell” thrown in with the scholarly writing?