Truly Despicable

I don't hate George Bush. I do hate people like Michelle Malkin who twist a funeral eulogy into a means of spreading hate.

After Lowery made his remarks at the memorial service for Coretta Scott King yesterday, Bush gave him a hug.  Michelle and her bile-spewing cohorts gave him a knife. LJ Strata called him an "egotistical, self serving preacher," and said "He stood in front of her casket, rhetorically on her dead body, to make a name for himself and nothing more. He wanted to make this about him, and not about the Kings."  The 84 year old Lowery has been a friend of the King family for more than 50 years. He co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Dr. King.  He has received many honorary doctorates, including ones from the University of Alabama and Alabama State. This man has spent his whole life speaking about opposition to war, preaching of the need to help the poor, in church ceremonies of all types. (Kind of like what Jesus would have done.)

The faux outrage over politics in a eulogy is despicable: Here's a few lines from a eulogy given by MLK Jr at the funeral service for three young girls who had been murdered in a church bombing in Birmingham, 1963: "The girls "have something to say to every minister of the gospel who has remained silent behind the safe security of stained-glass windows. They have something to say to every politician who has fed his constituents with the stale bread of hatred and the spoiled meat of racism. They have something to say to a federal government that has compromised with the undemocratic practices of southern Dixiecrats and the blatant hypocrisy of right wing northern Republicans." (His speech was interrupted many times by shouts from the audience and applause.)

King wanted his own eulogy to be 'political'. He didn't want them to mention the Nobel Prize, nor where he went to school. He wanted them to say that he had "tried to be right on the war question",  that he had tried, in his life "to clothe those who were naked."

Since 1963, the Dixiecrats have joined forces with them - otherwise King's description of the 'blatant hypocrisy of the right wing Republicans' is surely proven by the hate-filled blogs of today.

The Republicans basic racism is underscored by their complaints as to the decorum, the crassness at yesterday's service.  The Right simply didn't like the way the black folk behaved. Lowery was way too soft on the bastards. Their ignorance of the history of civil rights in this country is surpassed only by their hypocritical outrage at "Politics in a Black Church! - how Dare They?"

You see the real mistake the King family made was in thinking that the King being honored yesterday was Coretta. It was supposed to be George.

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Strata-Sphere

Michelle Malkin

mlkonline

susiepie "All Crass, No Class"

ohhowilovejesus "despicable, disgusting" sounds like a real lover of Jesus.

captains quarters "using the corpse of King as a soapbox"

Polipundit's Lorie Byrd "what is about democrats inability to control their hostility"

Socalpundit was "sickened"

Comments

[Rick]

"Republicans basic racism"? Indeed. Racism is the last thing a cornered fool can think to shout. Do you forget that you so recently inferred that I am brown skinned simply because I disagree with your world views.

Your revision of history is not unsurprising.

You might recall that Wellstone's political funeral likely cost you folks a Senate seat. Don't stop. Keep up the good work.

Lowery, as do many in this country, sides with the Imams.

[Kevin D. Korenthal]

What an indefensible position to take. Bush hugged the man who stabbed him in the back because Bush has class. He did not hug ham as a show of support for his racist, hatred-filled views. Tell me something: Have you ever heard of such bashing at the funeral or memorial for a Republican? How many times were Democrats bashed at the funeral of Ronald Reagan?

You need to find a new hobby. You are far too stupid to run a blog. Only a total partisan moron would try to defend the wholesale partisanship that some people decided to display at the funeral of an American hero.

[bbbustard]

Sorry, but racism is the first thing an honest person should shout when confronted with the hideous comments in the right wing blogosphere.
Whether or not "I inferred that you were brown skinned" is certainly debatable - what is not debatable is your conclusion that it is an insult.
Your comments about Wellstone's funeral also are totally inappropriate, and quite vicious.
It is similar to the reaction to Coretta Scott King's - you seem to believe that the motivating principles of one's life should not be mentioned at ones funeral.
I'm disappointed.

[bbbustard]

I'm not sure what you mean by saying that someone showed "class" yesterday, but I think we agree that Bush's reaction to Lowery's speech was not the problem.
The funeral was not all about you, nor about Bush. It was about Mrs King. Lowery spoke of issues that were important to her. There used to be Republicans who believed in civil rights, who fought to unify this country. It's not about who said what at whose funeral. It's about respecting the person whose funeral you attend - and what they believed in.
Rush's comments about the funeral being about picking up women, his office pool that tracks bets on how many children will be born 9 months from yesterday is pretty sick, pretty racist, stuff.

[rick]

So, for no worldly reason, you suggest that I am, perhaps, of Indian sub continent origin. What, pray tell, could you mean? Are you not calling me a little brown man with a funny little accent and a dirty white cloth wrapped around his head who uses his left hand for toilet paper? I am not calling you a racist. I simply toss your own words back to you to illustrate the enormity of your hypocricy. And you write on and on and on about racism. Pathetic.

[bbbustard]

But I am declaring you a racist. Your description of people from India is sick.
Thanks for proving my point.