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More Democrat demagoguery
While many people spent Monday remembering the legacy and ideals of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, many on the Left took advantage of the day to score political points.
Nothing new. But disgusting, nevertheless.
The Political Teen listed a few examples:
Oliver Willis uses Martin Luther King Jr. to further his hate against conservatives and big bad old whitey.
Juan Cole uses Martin Luther King Jr. to further his stance on Iraq. He even has the audacity to say what he thinks MLK Jr. would say.
The ACLU uses Martin Luther King Jr. to advance agenda of hating President Bush.
Not to be outdone, Hillary Clinton used the pulpit of Rev. Al Sharpton’s Harlem church, Canaan Baptist Church of Christ, to take a swipe at Republicans, comparing them to (I kid you not) slave owners on a plantation: (The Political Teen has the video here)
The House “has been run like a plantation, and you know what I’m talking about,” said Clinton, D-N.Y. “It has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard.”
“We have a culture of corruption, we have cronyism, we have incompetence,” she said. “I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country.”
I bet she sincerely hopes that’s true, so it’ll take some of the stench off of Bill Clinton’s current ownership of that title. That second paragraph sounded like an apt summation of the Clinton years.
Captain Ed had some insights on the carpetbagging Ms. Clinton:
Perhaps the descendants of Harriet Tubman will recreate the Underground Railroad and shuttle the poor Democratic wretches from the “plantation” on which they toil in DC to, say, Canada. I don’t think they’ll find much resistance — until they actually cross the 49th Parallel. I know most of us won’t miss them a bit.
The New York Times quotes a few others: (h/t: Michelle Malkin)
Although several Democrats did not return calls seeking comment, Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-Queens) said “the only card anybody was playing with today was the joker, because as she rightly stated, that’s who’s in charge of the people’s House and that’s who’s stifling the progress of the last century, progress that led to civil rights.”
And since Senator Clinton was grabbing the spotlight in his church, Rev. Al Sharpton was eager to be Hillary’s bitch (which is an odd redundancy):
“Any time you have a situation where, because of seniority and cloakroom politics, the bosses make the decision – that’s tantamount to plantation,” Sharpton told reporters.
“I absolutely defend her saying it because I said it all through the ’04 elections,” added Sharpton, referring to his failed presidential run that year.
And Gateway Pundit had a roundup of many other Lefty anti-Bush events planned for MLK day:
* New York Martin Luther King Day Events, Realizing the Dream: A Call to Conscience, actors Susan Sarandon and Jeffrey Wright will read select works of Dr. King.
* United for Peace and Justice provides handouts for your anti-war, Anti-Bush MLK events.
* On Monday, January 16, at 7 PM at Steppenwolf’s Upstairs Theater, some of Chicago’s outstanding theater artists will present scenes/readings in a performance that they hope will inspire you to assume your birthright as citizens of the world in this moment of political upheaval. Readings from Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, Martin Luther King, Jr., Naomi Wallace, Margaret Atwood, Harold Pinter and recent testimony from the Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration.
Donations at the event will benefit World Can’t Wait – Drive out the Bush Regime, a national movement calling on Bush to step down and take his whole program of immoral war, bigotry, intolerance, and suppression of science with him.
* Monday, Jan 16 – Martin Luther King Day, support Black Voices for Peace in kickoff of nationwide speaking tour by four mothers whose children died in Iraq. Special meeting place: Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ, 5301 N. Capitol St, NE from about 2 – 6pm. (Peace Majority Report)
* Sen. Edward Kennedy will join the LET JUSTICE ROLL Living Wage services and/or events on the Martin Luther King Holiday Weekend in order to inspire, educate and mobilize congregations and community organizations to support an act for raising the minimum wage at both the Federal and State levels.
* In Fort Lauderhill — Singer Harry Belafonte is featured speaker at the fifth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day program, 7 p.m. at Diamante’s Banquet Center, 6501 W. Commercial Blvd., Lauderhill. Cost is $50 per person. 954-730-4218.
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UPDATE: It seems like Harry Belafonte was busy this weekend. Duke University used campus money to invite the Left-wing nutjob to be its Martin Luther King Jr. Day keynote speaker – the same Harry Belafonte who recently called President Bush “the greatest terrorist in the world”; the same man who defended Stalinists and called Colin Powell and Condi Rice “black tyrants” and “house slaves.”
Calypso’s king of hate paid tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. by comparing President Bush to AlQaeda:
“What is the essential difference in quality…between those who would do the cruel and tragic deed of flying an airplane into a building and killing three thousand innocent Americans and those who would lie and lead the nation into a war that has killed hundreds…thousands…”
A far cry from Dr. King’s words: “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
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12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
