Drudge Report Transcript: "Today's memorial service for civil rights activist Coretta Scott King -- billed as a 'celebration' of her life -- turned suddenly political as one former president took a swipe at the current president, who was also lashed by an outspoken black pastor!
The outspoken Rev. Joseph Lowery, co-founder of Southern Christian Leadership Conference, ripped into President Bush during his short speech, ostensibly about the wife of Martin Luther King Jr.
'She extended Martin's message against poverty, racism and war. She deplored the terror inflicted by our smart bombs on missions way afar. We know now that there were no weapons of mass destruction over there,' Lowery said.
The mostly black crowd applauded, then rose to its feet and cheered in a two-minute-long standing ovation.
A closed-circuit television in the mega-church outside Atlanta showed the president smiling uncomfortably.
'But Coretta knew, and we know,' Lowery continued, 'That there are weapons of misdirection right down here,' he said, nodding his head toward the row of presidents past and present. 'For war, billions more, but no more for the poor!' The crowd again cheered wildly.
Former President Jimmy Carter later swung at Bush as well, not once but twice. As he talked about the Kings, he said: 'It was difficult for them then personally with the civil liberties of both husband and wife violated as they became the target of secret government wiretaps.' The crowd cheered as Bush, under fire for a secret wiretapping program he ordered after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, again smiled weakly.
Later, Carter said Hurricane Katrina showed that all are not yet equal in America. Some black leaders have blamed Bush for the poor federal response, and rapper Kayne West said that Bush "hates" black people.
Can anyone tell me what the subject of Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction have to do with a funeral for the widow of a slain civil rights leader?
Next, Carter mentions wiretapping, but who was it that ordered the wiretapping of Martin Luther King? Why none other than revered Democratic icon, the slain Robert Kennedy, brother of Senator Edward Kennedy, who also spoke at the "funeral."
Talk about behaving with NO CLASS and in BAD TASTE! Democrats will politicize even a FUNERAL to make absurd and stupid points that find no relevance outside the narrow circles of their hatred for President Bush.
And people wonder why President Bush refuses to speak before the N.A.A.C.P. whose Chairman recently suggested the GOP fly the Swastika next to the American Flag?
What message does it send when hatred is so openly expressed at a FUNERAL?
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