Was talk radio heavily anti-MLK last week?

[jmowreader]

Why I ask: On Monday we had three significant instances of white supremacist activity in the Inland Northwest.

In Kellogg, there was a cross burning on public property.

In Coeur d'Alene, there was a white supremacist rally in front of the Human Rights Education Institute.

And most severely, in Spokane a backpack containing a command-detonated pipe bomb the FBI deemed powerful enough to kill people was planted along the route of the annual Martin Luther King Memorial March.

So I'm wondering...were our friends Glenn, Sean and Rush bitching about the "commie pervert" (the text on one of the two signs found at the CDA rally) Martin Luther King?

[Ozymanithrax]

1. No more so than the bombs at the Annual MLK day parade in Spokane. n/t

[customerserviceguy]

2. I do tune into it every once in awhile, just to see what the reich wing is upset about

and it seems that by selectively taking quotes from MLK out of context, they have tried to co-opt his legacy. They've had a few decades to get used to it being here, and they like to say nice things about Dr. King, while twisting his words to their purposes.

I have no familiarity with Kellogg, but the Idaho panhandle has been the last place in America where truly unrepentant white supremacists have been tolerated, hence, the Coeur d'Alene rally you mention. I remember seeing one African-American man in that city in 1990, and frankly, he looked like he was lost.

Let's see who the FBI finds responsible for the Spokane bomb before pointing fingers at the good people of the Inland Empire, the vast majority of which are good and decent people. It's their "live and let live" attitude that has been exploited by the Aryan Nations types, when they settle there.

[jmowreader]

5. Kellogg is a crazy place

I think it's all the lead in the soil from the 100 years of the Bunker Hill Smelter.

If you want the tale of the Kellogg Veterans Memorial, let me know--it's a good one.

[haele]

3. Doesn't need to have been last week.

If I remember from the board chatter, I think most of the dog whistles went out over the lame duck season, and the plans were set in motion then.

Haele

[H2O Man]

4. The week before,

there were articles in the news claiming that if Martin were alive today, he would support the US military policies in Afghanistan and Iraq. That was pretty sick.