Never forget that the Cons fought King every step of the way . . .

[MrsSmith]

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Never forget that the Cons fought King every step of the way . . .
William F. Buckley, Jr.

The foremost CON of his day, William F. Buckley started the arch-CON magazine The National Review in which he defended Joe McCarthy witch hunts. According to Wiki, In 1957, Buckley came out in support of the segregationist South, famously writing that “the central question that emerges . . . is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas where it does not predominate numerically? The sobering answer is Yes – the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race.”‘

James J. Kilpatrick

Widely published in thousands of US newspapers, you may remember Kilpatrick as the curmudgeonly old guy defending the position of the Reich on the 60 Minutes "Point-Counterpoint".

The Virginia campaign for Massive Resistance organized in response to Brown v. Board may have been avoided if not for journalist James J. Kilpatrick. Deemed a moderate voice in southern race relations, Virginia’s Commission on Public Education was expected to offer a reasonable plan for school desegregation that would serve as an example to other southern states. However, public condemnation from government sources such as the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, as well as the 1955 media coverage of the lynching of Emmett Till and the Montgomery bus boycott, fueled southern resistance. Kilpatrick initiated a counter media campaign, resurrecting the Doctrine of Interposition—the theory that states had the constitutional right to interpose themselves between the Federal government.

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Of course, those that look at all history see it differently:


http://exposethemedia.com/2012/01/15/mlk-fought-for-civil-rights-and-against-democrats-2/

MLK FOUGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND AGAINST DEMOCRATS

01/15/2012

By Frances Rice

As we honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., let us pause to reflect on who he was and why his struggle to obtain civil rights for black Americans was necessary.

First, Dr. King was a Republican until the day he died because he knew that the Republican Party, from its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party, championed freedom and civil rights for blacks.
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Second, the nemesis of Dr. King’s valiant and historic campaign to end discrimination and gain equality for blacks was the Democratic Party, the party of slavery, segregation and the Ku Klux Klan. Led by the former Senator and Klansman Robert Byrd, Democrats launched a despicable crusade to smear and undermine Dr. King.

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Prior to his death, Democrats bombed Dr. King’s home several times. The scurrilous efforts by the Democrats to harm Dr. King included spreading rumors that he was a Communist and accusing him of being a womanizer and a plagiarist.

An egregious act against Dr. King occurred on October 10, 1963. Democrat President John F. Kennedy authorized his brother, Democrat Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, to wiretap Dr. King’s telephone using the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

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Today, while professing to revere Dr. King, Democrats are still attempting to sully his image by claiming that he was a socialist. In reality, Dr. King was a Christian, guided by his faith and Republican Party principles as he struggled to gain equality for blacks. He did not embrace the type of socialist agenda that is promoted by the Democratic Party today, which includes fostering dependency on government handouts that trap blacks in generational poverty.

Frances Rice is a retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel, a lawyer and chairman of the National Black Republican Association.

[Ballygrl]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Kennedy leave MLK waiting for 2-3 years before he met with him? and what party voted for the Voting Right Act in the 1930's? and who vehemently opposed it? trying to think of the guys name, his son invented the internet, ran for President but couldn't win his own State to put him over the top, who uses more electricity in 1 month than the average family uses in a year, oh yeah, Al Gore Sr. voted agains the Voting Right Act along with other Democrats.

[GOBUCKS]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Kennedy leave MLK waiting for 2-3 years before he met with him? and what party voted for the Voting Right Act in the 1930's? and who vehemently opposed it? trying to think of the guys name, his son invented the internet, ran for President but couldn't win his own State to put him over the top, who uses more electricity in 1 month than the average family uses in a year, oh yeah, Al Gore Sr. voted agains the Voting Right Act along with other Democrats.

It wasn't as far back as the 30s, it was 1964.

[Freeper]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Kennedy leave MLK waiting for 2-3 years before he met with him? and what party voted for the Voting Right Act in the 1930's? and who vehemently opposed it? trying to think of the guys name, his son invented the internet, ran for President but couldn't win his own State to put him over the top, who uses more electricity in 1 month than the average family uses in a year, oh yeah, Al Gore Sr. voted agains the Voting Right Act along with other Democrats.

Contrary to popular belief, Al Gore Jr did win his home state in the 2000 election, he won the District of Columbia. 

I think that joke came from Rush originally.

[Ballygrl]

It wasn't as far back as the 30s, it was 1964.

      Yes it was a typo can't correct because I'm on the iPod now

[zeitgeist]

Contrary to popular belief, Al Gore Jr did win his home state in the 2000 election, he won the District of Columbia. 

I think that joke came from Rush originally.

And lets not forget that Algore vividly remembers bringing a sandwich to his black maid who was sitting in the car while the family dined on its way to Washington where his daddy was a Senator. 

Then too there is squalid conditions of Agore's share croppers.  And did someone mention Armand Hammer of which The Gore Family was a wholly owned subsidiary? 

[Rebel]

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Alfonzo-Rachel/54701331336

People are escaping your plantation, Dims. I know, I know, it frightens you.

[Airwolf]

They keep repeting the lie hoping it will stick, All one has to do is look at the voting records of the Senate on any issue at any time. True history sucks for you Dummies.

[Rugnuts]

apparently Rebel needs to post This at the DU instead of here at the CC

[miskie]

They keep repeting the lie hoping it will stick, All one has to do is look at the voting records of the Senate on any issue at any time. True history sucks for you Dummies.

Now-now.. the libs solved that problem years ago. All the Republicans they like are actually Democrats, and vice versa. They claim the parties flip ideology periodically, that way they are always on the correct side of any debate.

Abe Lincoln - Democrat.
Dr King, Frederick Douglas, Sammy Davis Jr, Harriet Tubman - Democrats.
KKK Democrats - Republicans.
Robert Byrd - Democrat, then Republican, died as a Democrat.
Bill Clinton after NAFTA - Republican.
Obama today - Republican.

[jukin]

The DUchebags are really going over the cliff and it is so early in this election year.

[NHSparky]

The DUchebags are really going over the cliff and it is so early in this election year.

That would be because even mouth-breathing d-bags like them know they're going to get their asses handed to them come November.

[miskie]

That would be because even mouth-breathing d-bags like them know they're going to get their asses handed to them come November.

Indeed - granted, their reasoning is 180^o off, as they believe its because the Great and Powerful O isn't far left enough for the electorate.. 

[MrsSmith]

Even if their reasoning did make sense, the fact remains that the left is still the racist haven.  They are the ones convinced that the color of a person's skin causes poor school performance, poor job prospects, and crime.  They are the ones that pride themselves on the "safety net" that destroyed the family, especially among blacks.  They are the ones that pride themselves on all the regulations that have choked cities and companies, making all necessities so much more expensive and sucking up more and more of what the poor can earn.  The Democrat Plantation is getting fuller by the day...

[GOBUCKS]

The moonbats would be appalled if they had access to the mass press, nearly all of which was solidly democrat, during the height of King's activity, .

Some were sympathetic, but the vast majority of coverage viewed him as a troublemaker who fomented riots and civil unrest everywhere he went.

The current generally-accepted opinion of him could not be more different from what it was during his lifetime. 

I suspect that's the case with a lot of historical characters and events.

[movie buff]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Kennedy leave MLK waiting for 2-3 years before he met with him? and what party voted for the Voting Right Act in the 1930's? and who vehemently opposed it? trying to think of the guys name, his son invented the internet, ran for President but couldn't win his own State to put him over the top, who uses more electricity in 1 month than the average family uses in a year, oh yeah, Al Gore Sr. voted agains the Voting Right Act along with other Democrats.

Gore Sr. and Robert "Senator Sheets" Byrd filibustered to try and keep civil rights legislation from passing.
It took the murder of Emmett Till to make JFK start to see the Civil Rights Movement as a moral cause.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Gore Sr. and Robert "Senator Sheets" Byrd filibustered to try and keep civil rights legislation from passing.

"The Conscience of the Senate" is what the dems dubbed him.