Rev. Lowery DOES NOT back down from Hannity

[CatWoman]

as a matter of fact, it makes Hannity look like a whimpering, whining idiot.

Watch the video:

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

on the right hand side, where Lowery's picture is, click "video".

It's 2 parts.

[rodeodance]

1. will these be on tonights show? (i am on CT)

[CatWoman]

2. they took place last night.

[rodeodance]

4. ok thanks

[EFerrari]

3. Thank you, CG! I will watch later.

:kick:

[WorseBeforeBetter]

5. Good. I don't have the stomach to watch just yet...

but I wonder if he refers to Reverend Lowery as "my brother" as he does with Dr. Cornel West when he's a guest.

[wildeyed]

6. Lowery won that debate.

Hands down.

[Dunvegan]

7. Like Lowery told Hannity, "What did you expect..."

I expect that Lowery will never back down for anyone.

Lowery is secure in his righteousness because it does not come from a place of hypocrisy or self-enrichment.

[ClintonTyree]

8. I feel like I need a shower........

or maybe a chemical peel after going to the FAUX News site. :puke: Reverend Lowery certainly DID hold his own against Sean, the asshole.
And Alan Colmes spoke! :wow: And here all these years I thought he was nothing but a cardboard-cut-out! Why do they insist on having him on that show? To show how, "fair and balanced" they are? :eyes:
Thanks for the link. It was nice to see someone on Hannity's show that fought back for a change.

[Synnical]

9. Here's the transcript

Worth watching though, Lowery was great.

http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100007214&docId=l:353898357&start=7

My favorite part in relation to the "controversy"

COLMES: Welcome back to "Hannity & Colmes." I'm Alan Colmes.

We now continue with the chairman of the Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda and president emeritus of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, civil rights activist, the Rev. Joseph Lowery.

You know, this is an invented controversy, Reverend, by Republicans who are so sensitive about President Bush in a time he's not doing very well.

I'd just like to put up on the screen, since we're honoring Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King, what he said in his famous drum major speech about what he would want said during his own funeral, his own eulogy.

He said, "I want you to say that day that I tried to be right on the war question. I want you to be able to say that day, that I did try, in my life, to clothe those who were naked. I want you to say, on that day, that I did try, in my life, to visit those who were in prison. I want you to say that I tried to love and serve humanity. I want you to say I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice; a drum major for peace; a drum major for righteousness."

These issues of poverty, of war, they didn't start with the Bush administration. What you said, what Jimmy Carter said could have been said decades ago, because the same fight continues. They're making it about Bush when it wasn't.

LOWERY: You're exactly right. 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.

COLMES: What did the family ask you to do? What did they say they wanted you to say and do on that day?

LOWERY: It's written on the program, civil rights and human rights tribute, Reverend Dr. Joseph Lowery, co-founder and president emeritus of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, co-founded with the husband of the woman we honored of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. I was the linear successor to Martin. Martin served from 60 -- from '57-'68. Ralph served from '68-'77. I served from '77-'98.

COLMES: So how do you not talk about those things? How do you give a eulogy and not mention the things you're now accused of politicizing? How do you not -- how do you do it?

LOWERY: I couldn't. I wouldn't know what to say. What was I to talk about, wine and roses?

[OneBlueSky]

10. Lowery made a great point -- that he would have said exactly . . .

the same thing if Bush had been there or in Athens, Greece . . .

I'm sure Jimmy Carter would say something similar . . .