Posted on 08/25/2013 8:28:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This weekend's promotion of the legend of Rev. Martin Luther King offers a reminder that the liberal media can blatantly state that it is their job to "print the legend," and not report on a historic figure's flaws.
In the fall of 1989, King's longtime lieutenant Ralph Abernathy wrote a book titled "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down." Abernathy told the tale that Rev. King committed adultery with two women on the night before he was murdered. Bryant Gumbel, then a co-host of NBC's Today, lectured: "When the truth collides with a legend, print the legend." Our November 1989 newsletter MediaWatch reported the exchange:
Bryant Gumbel, in the Dan Rather tradition of respectful interviewing, recently assaulted Rev. Ralph Abernathy for his new book, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down. Attempting to downplay Abernathy's revelations of Martin Luther King's sexual adventures, Gumbel first taped, but never used, an Abernathy interview without once discussing the sex controversy.
Then, after black leaders began renouncing Abernathy as the 'Judas' of the movement, Gumbel conducted a live interview on the October 17 show which focused entirely on those four pages. He repeatedly tried to get Abernathy to renounce or apologize for his accounts, running over the next two planned segments in order to get enough time to continue his line of questioning.
When Abernathy noted that King's exploits were "common knowledge," Gumbel retorted, "It would better stated, perhaps, to say that it was common accusation." He claimed that those pages "just as easily could have been left out...one could argue that your writings prove nothing." Abernathy explained that he included the unflattering sections because, "our Bible tells us very, very clearly, 'he shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free'...
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Maybe. But, I am more interested in his supposed Commie links.
But we can wonder if Lincoln was gay and if Tommy Jefferson had an affair with his slave...
Don’t you know St Marxist Luther King is an AA icon.
Pray for America to Wake Up
Bryant Gumbel? Is that POS, MFer still around?
He and his dad were born “Michael King”, dad changed their names to honor Martin Luther (and make the family preachin business more marketable) when Jr. was a little kid.
Authors who are all sympathetic and full fledged supporters of MLK have all been honest in their descriptions of the sex life of MLK, which I sincerely believe was compulsive and addictive.
King had a real fetish for white women.
Three former FBI audio technicians told author Taylor Branch (”The King Years”) about his January 1964 encounter in a DC hotel room with two prostitutes.
The FBI men say they heard Dr. King saying “I’m f***ing for God” during the tryst.
Snopes is an old hippie couple in a trailer in California. But you knew that, right?
Have all the fun you want about JFK, and forget the legend.
But not so with MLK and Bryant Gumbal.
Bryant Gumbal — NOT A LEGEND!!!
Don’t you just love it when internet junkies use snopes as their ground truth?
LOL - two ultra liberals playing judge and jury on the internet.
I just meant to suggest that’s maybe where you read it.
I don’t always post near a keyboard, sometimes I just copy links (lazy butt on couch syndrome)
And no, I didn’t know that - but I don’t really put much stock in snopes anyway.
Rev. King committed adultery with two women on the night before he was murdered. In some towns he is a Legend.
Wonderful thread and comments.
BTTT
IIRC, Hoover even threatened to go public with them if King didn't pipe down. He was convinced King was a commie and a degenerate.
K...
He was a legendary adulterer
I think the FBI records are still classified, until 2030 I believe. However, they will probably never come out, per Bryant Gumball’s instructions.
Of Lincoln I am sure the story is blatantly mendacious revisionism.
Concerning Mr. Jefferson, I feel certain it is the truth because it happened in my family.
I first realized it was possible when I put a photograph of my father next to the very prominent Black person that has the same surname as my family. There was a very strong resemblance and I have learned just this year on a family genealogy website, it has been confirmed through DNA testing. By a strange coincidence, one of my colonial relatives owned property adjoining Thomas Jefferson's. I suspect, in early Augusta County, Virginia, the practice was more common than many would like to believe.
Bryant Gumbel...The guy who said during the winter Olympics in South Korea on international TV that South Korea’s greatest export was it’s own orphans... Almost single handedly stopping all adoptions of orphans to the U.S.!
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