MLK Celebration Plays Out as Predicted

RUSH: One thing here about that parody. That was "white comedian Paul Shanklin" doing the impersonation of our first African-American president, Barack Obama. When he said in this bit here, "Along the way, Martin Luther King endured unprecedented government surveillance," who did that? That would be the Kennedy brothers that did that. It would be Robert Kennedy, who was the AG at the time (the attorney general), and the president, JFK.

They were surveilling. They were wiretapping. They were monitoring Martin Luther King. They had collected all the information that he was having affairs with numerous women, and they were stockpiling this stuff along with J. Edgar Hoover over at the FBI. It was a bunch of Democrats collecting all of this surveillance, conducting the surveillance. (interruption) "Caroline Kennedy's dad." Exactly.

Caroline Kennedy's dad, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s dad were monitoring, were wiretapping -- bugging, if you will -- the hotel rooms of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King. You know, one of the amazing facts of history is that the real segregationists in this country leading up to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 were Democrats, particularly southern Democrats in the Senate. Of course they had their fair share of southern Democrats in the House of Representatives as well.

But they're the ones that were surveilling, wiretapping, bugging, and all that. When does this thing start? (interruption) Well, I know it started already. (interruption) Okay, when does Obama show up? Because the news media... I called this yesterday. I mean, every news story is about what Obama is gonna do, and how is Obama gonna do, and how's Obama gonna turn this into something in his favor.

RUSH: What was that I just heard? Andrew Young, the former mayor of Atlanta, has just proclaimed Trayvon Martin Luther King a martyr. You're gonna hear that name a lot today, Trayvon Martin Luther King. Okay. From CBS Eyeball News in Washington: "Would Martin Luther King Jr. Support Obamacare? The president believes so." We've got sound bites of this. This is Barack yesterday on the radio with Tom Joyner in the Morning talking about the MLK event.

Joyner said, "What do you think [Martin Luther King Jr.] would say about Obamacare?" Now, here's the thing. Martin Luther King Jr. can now be used to promote anything. And in the process, I think if these people on the left are not careful, they're gonna end up diminishing this man. They're gonna commercialize this man and this speech, and they're gonna turn him and what he stood for into a commodity. I mean, they're dangerously close to commoditizing this now.

But I think this is the height of self-absorption, to have the president of the United States asked, "What would Dr. King think of Obamacare?" You know, based on what I have read of Dr. King... (sigh) Let me just say something here. Dr. King said a lot of things besides this speech. Erick Erickson quotes him at RedState.com. Erick, in a post today, cites his favorite Martin Luther King quotes. I'm just gonna paraphrase it here. I don't have the thing in front of me.

But he said that, in one of his favorite Dr. King speeches, Martin Luther King made the point that no matter what you do, you do it the best it's ever been done. If you're the street sweeper, if your job is sweeping the streets, you sweep those streets the way Michelangelo used a paintbrush! You be the best you can be at it. That is your job here, and you meet up on the right side of God at the end of your life.

You live your life in a productive, be-the-best-you-can every day kind of way, and you meet up with God at the end of your life. And that should square the deal. Now, I have to tell you... I think a man who believed that, that no work was illegitimate, no work was beneath anybody, and that all work was such that it should be done the best it can be, I do think that kind of guy would sit there and be open to the idea of the government taking care of everybody.

If I were a devout follower of Martin Luther King, the question alone would bother me. Why stop there? What would Dr. King say about Benghazi? What would Dr. King think of Obama's golf handicap? What would he think of black unemployment today? We kind of know that because his son, Martin Luther King III, has weighed in on it, and he's not happy about it. What would Dr. King think of Barack Obama stripping African-American students' school vouchers in Washington within the first six months of his presidency?

What would Dr. King think of Michelle Obama trying to determine everybody's lunch menu at every school in America and traveling on her own government jet to Spain with her own entourage for a vacation? What would Dr. King think of Reverend Wright? What would Dr. King think of President Obama sitting in a pew in Reverend Wright's church for 20 years and then saying, "I didn't hear him say that!" They're commoditizing this man. They're turning him into a billboard, an advertisement.

So here's Obama's answer to Tom Joyner's question, "What do you think [Martin Luther King Jr.] would say about Obamacare?"

OBAMA: Oh, he'd like that! Well, because, uh, I -- I -- I think he understood that, uh, health care, health security, uh, is not a privilege. Uh, it's something that [in] a country as wealthy as ours, everybody should have access to.

RUSH: I think he'd probably think it's something everybody should try to provide for themselves. If Martin Luther King is a man who can say, "If your lot is life is to sweep the streets, then you do it the best you can. You sweep the streets the way Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel. Whatever your job is, if it's taking out the garbage, you just wherever you're taking out the garbage the cleanest place in the world."

A man who could tell people that, that no work was beneath anybody; there was no dishonor in any work, to do the best you can every day, max out and then square up with God at the end of your life, what would this man think of everybody being given a telephone? What would he think of 50 million Americans on food stamps? And look at what's happening. Whatever question the Democrats want to ask about Martin Luther King, guess what?

He would totally support whatever the Democrat Party's doing and believes. What would Dr. King think of 95% of black high school graduates unable to pass a standardized test? What would he think of the African-American dropout rate in New York City being 50%? What would he think of the fact that 73% of African-American kids are born to a single-parent family? "Oh, he'd be all for this, Rush! He'd understand why it's happening. He'd understand the Republicans are making this happen."

What would Dr. King think of all of the African-American babies being aborted every year? You know, I really think it's a near crime what is being done here, to take the occasion of this man's great address and what he stood for and basically hijack it for President Barack Obama. I would think, if I were President Obama, I'd be a little embarrassed I can't stand on my own. I'd be a little embarrassed that I have to have a bunch of people out there say, "Oh, yeah!

"Dr. King would be all for this. Oh, yeah, Dr. King would be a hundred percent in on this. Oh, yeah." It's just amazing to me. I don't know. What would Dr. King think of Obama's election year support of gay marriage? Dr. King was the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King. He was, among many other things, a man of the cloth. So he's being hijacked, and people who cannot possibly answer these questions are presuming to know. This is no different than the Wellstone memorial or hijacking a funeral or what have you.

I wonder if The Bamster realizes MLK was a Republican. Probably, but he will never acknowledge it. Someone should ask him why, in the Deep South, Condoleezza Rice's parents were registered Republicans. The answer is: the Democrats wouldn't register Blacks for voting. There is so much history that has been bastardized that the information our children receive in the public schools is frequently WRONG.

MLK’s Dream Vs. The Reality

Multi-generational Moocher culture is the norm
Most blacks are racist whiners who blame their failures on others
More than half of all black pregnancies are aborted every year
Around 10 million black babies have been killed in then womb by abortionists since 1973
More than 70% of black children are born as fatherless bastards to unwed mothers
Black music celebrates and idolizes black whores, sex, drugs, gangsters and freeloaders
Black gangsta’ youth culture is responsible for the majority of crime in the entire country
Most black youth can’t speak English intelligibly - MLK himself wouuldn’t be able to communicate with them

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