Another high tech lynching
Only instead of a pube on a Coke can, this guy snorted the coke and kicked America in the pubes.
And the tongue-lashing he’s getting is nothing compared to the words he’ll get when the legislative and judiciary branches overcome their fear of the terrorist, Karl Bin Rove, and start earning the salary we pay them to represent the US, democracy and justice.
Also see Mahablog, Liberty Street, This Modern World, John Aravosis and, of course, Digby, for the final words.
And may I ask, where were Condi Rice and Clarence Thomas, the two most public ’self-made’ representatives of Republican Black America ? They’re part of a caucus of about 25, if you count Armstrong Williams and Colin Powell, and the other handsomely paid handmaidens of the Bush Hotown Project:
The Time Line of Corruption shows just how far the GOP has traveled in the decade since the Bradley Foundation devised its faith-based and voucher strategy and sold it to the national Republican Party. Back in 1993, Republican hit men like consultant Ed Rollins bribed Black clergy to quietly discourage their congregants from voting, as reported by a contemporary issue of the Columbia Journalism Review:
€At a November 9 Sperling breakfast, Rollins, boasting about how he had just helped win a governorship for New Jersey’s Christine Todd Whitman, said the campaign had spent about $500,000 to suppress the black vote. He said GOP operatives had made payments to Democratic precinct workers in black areas on condition they sit on their hands on election day. And he said the Whitman campaign had contributed to church charities in return for black ministers keeping mum on the virtues of Democratic incumbent James Florio.€
Coretta Scott King and her husband stood with unionized labor, antiwar activists in the last big war of aggression the US was wrong to escalate, the poor, the downtrodden, the victims of injustice marginalized by the majority and the government.
Reverend Lowery and President Carter merely overturned the merchants’ carts in the temple yesterday, following a tradition the Kings lived, and the King of the Jews did before them. The Right can express their outrage till they’re red in the face, but they can’t overcome the facts of the very real lynchings men like King and Christ experienced for standing with the weakest with the greatest weapon of all: the truth.
I just hope Coretta Scott King’s spirit enjoyed hearing it once again, and may she rest in peace.
February 8th, 2006 at 5:27 am
I just watched the entire CSK funeral on C-Span and realized that you can’t get a sense of it from a few isolated quotes or sound bites.
It was a marvelous tapestry of art, full of nuance and richness. More important it was evocative of a time when we actually had decent people in the White House and Congress. In the succession of speeches there was poetry, there was soul-stirring song, there was historical context. There was spirituality, and humaneness, and love and hope.
Contrast all that with what these pathetic Republicans did immediately afterward. They seized upon tiny fractions of the event, the ones where allusions were made to Republican failures and criminal acts and lies. It shocked them. But what was more shocking was that these Republicans came away thinking the whole thing was about them.
It wasn’t.
But the Republicans were not content to just leave those few TRUTHFUL fractions stand. No, fascist Karl Rove was compelled to immediately send his whores and pimps and slime merchants to try to tear it all down.
That’s all they know how to do, they know nothing else. They got into power in Washington on slime and lies and misrepresentations and smear tactics, and they used their illegitimate power to sully everything good about America, most especially by lying us into an unnecessary war. And looked the other way when all those Black folks huddled in New Orleans and begged for help.
And like a poisonous leitmotiv or a lingering putrid smell, there was George Bush, sitting behind the speakers. As usual he was ill at ease and totally out of