Good for Marcus
Human Events‘s falsification of Martin Luther King’s record on abortion, which Marcus exposes in his latest blog, struck me as the kind of willful, stupid lie that the current conservative movement perpetrates with remarkable regularity. From the pretense that the “move against Saddam Hussein” that William Kristol and Rich Lowry called for in 2002 in their Project for a New American Century (God save us from such a century!), was necessary for the “defense of Israel,” (there is no evidence that most Israelis thought this was the case) to the wholesale reconstruction of MLK as a classical Christian theologian and “conservative” moralist, there seems to be no depth of mendacity to which the movement will not descend. Unfortunately their lies are usually glaringly stupid, like the one that Marcus revealed without much difficulty. And they usually do zilch to advance the cause of Republican hacks at the poll. No one but an idiot or someone who is captive to neocon control and money would tell us that MLK opposed affirmative action programs or was against abortion or Planned Parenthood. Whatever black voters may believe about whites spreading HIV to decimate racial minorities, even they are too savvy to believe the implausible historical reconstructions being manufactured at Human Events and the Weekly Standard. And I hope black voters reward the preferred neocon presidential candidate this year in the same way they showed their support for the present neocon occupant of the White House. About 8% of the black vote seems just about right.
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Even Jesse Jackson, a King flunky in 68 was against abortion on religious grounds. He went secular when he started running in Democrat elections and ditched his beliefs.
King would have had the same religious view when alive. Our own prejudices can claim him from one side or the other but he was dead before Roe v Wade.
Southern Baptsits were pro-abortion before Carter began looking into their Christian schools where they had put their children to avoid mixing with negros. This led to them switching to Reagan and the Catholics.
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You need to fix that misplaced modifier in your first sentence: when I read it at the homepage I thought you were criticizing Mr Epstein.
***CHANGE HAS BEEN MADE, THANKS***
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Hey Everybody,
Let’s rally our army of purists with this cry; “no coalitions or alliances with...them.”
We could all comfortably fit into a minivan adorned with the bumper-sticker saying; Prolife - Anti-people” and giddily slap each other five in the broom-closet that hosts the Robert Taft Club.
Hooray!
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Kevin. It seems the minivan smashed into a house and stopped in the broom closet.
Next time, let someone else drive.
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@Spartacus,
That wasn’t me, but sorry about the damage to ranch. I’ll replace the Confederate flag. Promise.
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Southern Baptists were never “Pro Abortion” prior to the Carter Administration!....Hell, the “Yellow Dog Southern DEmocrats” of the Old South, migrated to Reagan over social issues, after watching in horror as the Democratic Party embraced homosexuality and every other sin at the Convention on TV!......Untill the TV started bringing the conventions into the homes of the Southern Democrats, they had no idea how screwed up Washington was from a moral perspective. Kennedy and LBJ had already ran many out of the party, which accounted for Nixon’s landslide victory!
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