Rev. Lowery to Hannity: "What'd you expect me to talk about, wine & roses"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Note: this is only an excerpt. Read the whole transcript at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,184470,00.html



HANNITY: Reverend Lowery, let's be honest here, the president of the United States goes to Coretta Scott King's funeral, and you knew what you were saying. I've known you a long time. You knew what you were saying and you knew you were taking a shot at the president. You're going to be honest here and acknowledge that, correct?

LOWERY: I'm always honest, and my speech was the same, whether the president were in Atlanta or Athens, Greece. It had nothing to do with the president. I was doing my job. I was carrying out my assignment. I was asked...

HANNITY: Reverend...

LOWERY: Listen.

HANNITY: All right.

LOWERY: I was asked by the family to give a civil rights and human rights tribute.

HANNITY: Well, it...

LOWERY: What did you expect me to talk about, wine and roses?

HANNITY: No, no, it was — look, I would never expect that. But it was a celebration of Coretta's life. Here's my position.

LOWERY: What was the...

HANNITY: The president — hang on. The president gave an incredibly touching speech, I thought. I thought he, rightly so, honored a great woman. I thought it was appropriate that he be there.

You know what, Reverend, there's a time and place for politics. You've been on my radio show and we've had a good give and take...

LOWERY: What you call politics, Sean...

[snowbear]

1. Hannity sounds like a wimpy weasle..

[SmokingJacket]

2. That man has more integrity and intelligence in him than stupid

Hannity can ever hope to have.

[understandinglife]

3. Lowery: "Let me tell you what else was said decades ago. It's not the ...

... appropriate time.

When we started the bus boycott in Montgomery, it was not the appropriate time. When we went to Birmingham to fight segregation and public accommodations and brutal oppression on the part of the police department, the preachers said to Martin, it's not the appropriate time.

And Martin wrote this letter from the Birmingham jail, which I brought as a gift to you, Sean, that will enrich your life.

HANNITY: Yes, sir.

LOWERY: In this letter from the Birmingham jail, he said to those eight preachers, rabbi, priests, Protestant, Roman Catholic. He said to them, "Gentlemen, they always told us it was not the appropriate time, but I say to you, it's always the right time to do what's right."

And I had to do what's right the other night. It's what I was asked to do and what God, I believe, wanted me to do in my conscience, in my heart, and I cannot recant.

Link:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,184470,00.html

Exactly.


Peace.

[spooky3]

6. Perfect response! Shut that idiot down.

[FreedomAngel82]

20. Now will they stop talking about it??

[BR_Parkway]

8. Thank you for posting - I needed the reminder and took it to a different

place in my thoughts:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=221x27529

[Surya Gayatri]

26. Perfect, just perfect--

smack him down with honesty & integrity. God, I love that Reverend L. What a ringing voice for justice, for the dispossessed. SG

[LoveMyCali]

4. I saw that last night

I loved how when Hannity accused him of just taking shots at the president when he was supposed to be honoring Coretta Scott King, Rev. Lowery said "Well, she used to take shots at the president." :rofl:

[Arkansas Granny]

5. I recommend that everyone read the entire transcript.

Reverend Lowery certainly held his own in that exchange.

[Surya Gayatri]

27. He had old Shamity by the short & curlies!

Who won that bout? Reverend L by a technical knock-out! He even looks a bit like a wizened ex-boxer. SG

[Carni]

7. What does that fat headed jock wannabe not get about this?

Hey Sean--

DUMB ASS...SHE WAS A CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND OPPOSED TO PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING A CREEP LIKE BUSH STANDS FOR... WHAT DO YOU NOT GET?

I'll say it again...since WHEN is a funeral supposed to accomodate the tastes of those who the deceased DIDN'T LIKE while they were alive?

Damn I feel like I am in the freaking twilight zone every time I read anything spewing forth from these shitheads!

[senseandsensibility]

16. Amen

The gall of these people is still mind boggling, even after all these years.

[Carni]

22. I am telling you I feel like I have fallen into a massive void

over the last five or six years--where in the hell are people's heads?

[Burried News]

9. Wanna support the Prez Sayawn? Sign up for Iraq ... hurry, last throes

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/iraq/

[Sparkly]

10. Thank you for the link to the transcript!!

Among the other great quotes you and others above cited, I liked this one too:

LOWERY: She took shots at the president. Coretta took shots at the president. I was in — I met with Coretta with Ronald Reagan when he was president. And Ronald Reagan said, "We think things are going pretty well."

Coretta looked him straight in the eye and said, "Mr. President, all is not well in our community."

I had conversations with Coretta about the war in Iraq...

HANNITY: I appreciate that.

LOWERY: ... about the weapons of mass destruction, about poverty. I was asked to talk on behalf of the civil rights, human rights community.

HANNITY: You have every right to say whatever you want. I am just saying that...

LOWERY: If you don't expect me to be true — if you don't expect me to be true to my assignment, I'm sorry.

K&R :kick:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

15. It was all about Coretta Scott King, not George W. Bush...

If you look at Dr. Martin Luther King's life, and the legacy carried on by his widow, Reverend Lowery was ABSOLUTELY honoring their memory, and (I believe) responding appropriately to the task he was chosen to do.

Mr. King WOULD NOT HAVE APPROVED of "the state of our nation." Mr. King WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN a "Bush supporter." Mr. King would have done everything in his power to encourage his supporters to RISE ABOVE the "agenda" of George W. Bush.

Coretta Scott King deserved what she GOT...that wonderful, heartfelt, powerful speech from Rev. Lowery.

:patriot:

[Beaverhausen]

11. I saw that. Hannity kept trying to say Bush has been good for Blacks...

...and of course Lowery countered most of what he said.


I hate Hannity :puke:

[onenote]

12. typical hannity bs to bring up bobby kennedy and mlk

I thought Lowery did a fine job answering Hannity's crap. But I wish, when Hannity pulled out the Bobby Kennedy wiretapped MLK bit, that Lowery had said: "Y'know Sean, Vice President Cheney was only one of 32 members of COngress to vote against the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1984. He voted against a resolution calling for the release of Nelson Mandela from prison. He voted against making Martin Luther King's birthday a holiday. I wasn't going to mention those things. But if you're going to bring up what the late Bobby Kennedy did 40 years ago, I guess its relevant to bring up what the current Vice President did a lot more recently."

That's what I would've liked to hear.


onenote

[Bongo Prophet]

13. "It's always the right time to do what's right. "

And the whiny fascists always howl.
Lowery has more integrity in his nail clippings than that asstool could ever hope for.

[stevedeshazer]

14. Ya know, Hannity is the worst of the worst.

Any jackass who would camp out with a satellite truck in front of a hospice where people and their families are trying to deal with death is at the least undignified and at worst just plain offensive.

The guy has no credibility, and his sinking ratings are evidence.

[AtomicKitten]

17. I have heard Hannity pegged (accurately) a GOP parrot ,

You can ALWAYS count on him to regurgitate GOP talking points.

The other day he referred to illegal domestic wiretapping as "wiretapping al Queda outside the country," which was wrong in so many ways.

[barbtries]

18. i clicked on the link

and read, "The impact continues to be felt tonight from political statements made Tuesday at the funeral of Coretta Scott King. With President Bush and thousands of mourners in attendance to honor the wife of slain civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, several speakers used what should have been eulogies as opportunities to attack the president and the administration. Let's take a look."

it was noted that the transcript was "edited for clarity"

ugh. just going to that page gives me the creeps, like i've been poisoned. they offer up propaganda and opinion and call it the news. what really blows me away is how many people really think it is the news...that hannity dude, he is rude and confrontational, and does he ever talk about anything that is not specifically meant to promote the neocons?

[FreedomAngel82]

19. Hannity is just an ass

He's trying to tell a black man at a funearl of a black civil rights leader how to speak. WHAT A FREAKIN ASS!

[OneTwentyoNine]

21. Again..ANYONE allowed to speak will kick Hannity's ASS--EVERYTIME!

That putz couldn't debate an ninth grader and win. His only power,much like all RW flaming hosts is the power of talking over the guest or killing their audio.

[Clark2008]

24. Ninth grader? You're aiming too high.

My first-grader has more cognitive and reasoned thinking than Sean Insannity.

[stickdog]

23. Lowery beat Inanity's Ass Purple.

Thanks for this. You really have to read it all to see the power of truth over lying points.

[Spike from MN]

25. Hannity loses the debate to Lowery, starts debating self.

On Dubya:

LOWERY: Some years ago when his father was president he stopped me in the airport and said, "Aren't you Reverend Joseph Lowery?"

I said yes. I didn't know who he was. I looked into his face. The minute I saw him, I knew who he was. He's an affable fellow. It's just that his policies, which may be developed by somebody else, I don't know. But his policies are not in the best interest of world peace.

HANNITY: That's fair. No, I disagree with that. :rofl:

Lowery kicked his ass and then some. I thought Lowery's tribute to CSK was great and, even though I'm an atheist, I could see myself attending a sermon or three to listen to this guy preach. I think that says a lot about him. Granted, I won't change my religious beliefs but I kind of suspect his sermons tied in religion with so many other things, like civil rights, justice for all, taking care of those who have less, etc. and those are all things I believe in strongly so there is a lot of common ground there. Plus if you read the whole transcript, he used to debate Hannity on the radio in Atlanta. Bwahahaha!! I bet Hannity got his ass handed to him every time and that's probably why Hannity left. A Reverend that will debate a right-winger on the radio is definitely someone I can get behind. The world is a better place because of people like Rev. Lowery. And CSK. And MLK. And so many others that stood their ground and fought the good fight regardless of the cost.