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Tue Mar-18-08 01:06 PM
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Poll question: If Rev Martin Luther King was alive would MSM be vilifying him today |
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Tue Mar-18-08 01:11 PM
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4. they would treat him fairly unless he talked like wright, which he never did. |
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you obamanoids ought to read some history. the media was fair to mlk and the entire civil rights movement.
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Tue Mar-18-08 01:15 PM
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LOL, I won't even call you names in return.
This Obamanoid, thinks he would get a fair shot, only because there were those in the 60's that tried to vilify King, but he was such an upstanding person, they never could find anything to vilify him with.
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Tue Mar-18-08 01:11 PM
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5. He was always villified when he was alive |
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It is only a myth we've created that he was a beloved leader in his day. The people who supported him were the African American civil rights movement, parts of the white left, and parts of the international humanitarian community.
He was villified day in and day out, first for his positions on civil rights (it wasn't popular in the general media) and then for his position on the Vietnam war.
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Tue Mar-18-08 01:16 PM
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Some people here need to read Letters From a Birmingham Jail. Many white religious leaders wanted him to stop. They thought he was being a troublemaker.
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Tue Mar-18-08 04:55 PM
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23. MLK was the Michael Moore of the day |
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Tue Mar-18-08 01:11 PM
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6. He was an amazing person. |
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A man we have yet to see the likes of. He wanted more than anything, for all people to be of equal standing, regardless of race (and I am sure sex and sexual orientation these days).
Such a tragic loss for this country. I have to wonder if race issues would be better today if "they" had not murdered him.
I think he was such an amazing person, and speaker that the MSM couldn't have vilified him therefore they would have to embrace him.
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Tue Mar-18-08 01:12 PM
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7. His speech against the Vietnam War labeled him |
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as a traitor by the MSM back then, I think it was one of his most powerful speeches. Pat Buchanan, Hannity and others would be all over MLK
That's why he was assassinated because he spoke truth to power.
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Tue Mar-18-08 01:13 PM
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8. No doubt he would be villified. |
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He was anti-war fer crissakes. That alone would sink him. To imagine the MSM would have the clarity of vision to recognize a great man is unfathomable.
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Tue Mar-18-08 01:15 PM
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10. Bill Orielly, Hannity and Rush would call him an agitator. nt |
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Tue Mar-18-08 01:19 PM
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13. LBJ once called him a "hypocrite preacher." |
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Now put that in the context of Clinton's remarks.
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Tue Mar-18-08 04:50 PM
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18. and then pushed thru the civil rights laws that changed a generation... |
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They'd destroy him. Young people today have no idea how far to the right the media have gone in my lifetime.
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Tue Mar-18-08 01:27 PM
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15. they often did when he was alive |
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especially after he came out against the Viet Nam War.
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Tue Mar-18-08 04:50 PM
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17. Different times, different America. Same stupid post. |
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Edited on Tue Mar-18-08 04:50 PM by Texas Hill Country
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Tue Mar-18-08 04:51 PM
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19. They sure would - and if he wasn't on the HRC bandwagon her supporters would be trashing him here. |
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Tue Mar-18-08 04:54 PM
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21. not as bad as GDP would be |
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22. MLK would say things more controversial than Wright no doubt |
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Wed Mar-19-08 08:02 AM
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25. Not so much unless he were running for president. n/t |
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Edited on Wed Mar-19-08 08:04 AM by FlaGranny
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Wed Mar-19-08 08:06 AM
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26. The media vilifying him then |
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They just did not have 24/7 news channels
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Wed Mar-19-08 12:42 PM
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28. What, you don't watch the Boondocks? |
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They covered this... he would escape to Canada.
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Thu Mar-20-08 06:52 PM
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33. He was an adulterer and a Communist |
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I read it on FR so it must be true :sarcasm:
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