Posted on 01/15/2017 5:58:04 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
In 2010, days after returning from Selma, Ala., Mike Pence went on a GOP website and gushed about my friend John Lewis.
Then a congressman from Indiana's 6th District, Pence said he was honored to walk beside a man personally recruited by Martin Luther King Jr. He talked about how an officer had bashed a younger Lewis in the head during the fight for voting rights. Lewis, he said, was an integral part of the American story in our nation's unrelenting march toward a more perfect union.
Now Vice President-elect Pence is one of many leaders picking sides between Lewis and President-elect Donald Trump. Lewis recently called Trump an illegitimate president and Trump responded that the civil rights icon is all talk.
In the past year, Trump has gotten into public disputes with a beauty queen and the Muslim parents of a dead soldier. But on the eve of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Trump went back and forth with a man whom John McCain once called one of the most respected men in America.
It's a widely held opinion. For a lifetime of civil rights work, Lewis was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. Last year, the Navy announced it would name a ship after him, making Lewis one of just a few " to get that honor.
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Is that the same Policeman in all three photos?
Lewis deserves the great distain and disrespect for his comment from each and everyone! He slanders our democracy.
We no longer will put up with the propaganda that a degenerate marxist like Lewis spewed!
The difference in quality in the U.S. House of Representatives between the democrats and the republicans is stark. The republican representatives are extremely superior in every positive category imaginable compared to the democratic representatives. john lewis could be a poster child for the dem reps.
Why isn’t the Post publishing that dossier about Lewis and King sharing a prostitute?
I think John Lewis bears investigation. People with his disdain for honesty, willingness to attack others and who have such obvious anger issues generally have some serious dirt in their closet. Does JL have a thing for little children; does he receive illegal favors from constituents or lobbyists? The possibilities are astounding.
“Respected” by whom? He’s a race pimp.
“As I remember it, Lewis started the conversation.”
This the same John Lewis who praised Senator Sessions for the work he has done with equal rights? The same John Lewis that linked arms with Sessions during the 50th anniversary of the Selma march?
John Lewis, islamist facilitator.
John Lewis pulled the same crap in 2008, calling Sarah Palin and John McCain “The George Wallace ticket” he also said that tea party members spit on him when it NEVER happened..this guy is a mega douche bag..but the left and Commie media adore him so he can call anyone names and not have to answer for it
John who?
lol
oh a democrat!
BAHAHAHAHA famous? respected?
BAHHAHHAHA right!
when all your supposed “accomplishments” are in black and white... you have been irrelevant for decades!
I have NO RESPECT for John Lewis. He is a hack and a fraud. His “civil rights icon” status is so old that even HE has forgotten it. Trump was right in calling him out on his FAILURE of his district! He doesn’t get immunity for being black and being a so-called “icon”.
The guy has ridden his association with King right the hell into the ground.
Lewis is nothing more than a broke ghost from long, long ago.
TWICE!!!
John Lewis is a dishonorable, lying, professional race baiter. I have zero respect for him.
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