The American Spectator

Nancy in NC| 9.3.10 @ 6:32AM

Excellent article. I grew up hearing MLK and recalled some of his socialist rhetoric. But because I grew up in the South, was young at the time, I thought perhaps that I was coloring my memories regarding MLK with the paintbrush of racism that I heard from my peers and my family. At that time in history it was common to call someone a Communist.

It's brave of you to point our the inconvenient truth regarding MLK, as unpopular as it may be to some. Glenn Beck is fond of saying "hold to the truth". Recollections of MLK should do the same.

Alan Brooks| 9.3.10 @ 2:15PM

"What is that goddamn nigger preacher trying to do to me?" Johnson reportedly exclaimed.

LBJ took things personally, it seems. LBJ signed the 1964 Civil Rights bill, but then just 3 years later he calls King a "goddamned nigger"? What an asshole.

George True| 9.3.10 @ 4:20PM

Alan: For all his experience as a shrewd politician, LBJ seems to have been someone who did not fundamentally understand people's true motivations. He thought everybody had their price, and that everybody could be bought in one way or another. He crafted a way to buy off Ho Chi Minh to end the Vietnam war. He repeated was heard saying, "Old Ho can't turn this down". Well, old Ho rejected the offer out of hand, which left LBJ stunned.

Just like Ho Chi Minh, a true believer like MLK could not be bought off. MLK was "off the resevation" and Ho was never on it in the first place.

Jonathan M.| 9.3.10 @ 9:35PM

Well, at least LBJ got one thing right.

Worse (well, almost) than being an anti-white hate-monger, MLK was a Communist and collectivist, as Mr. Purple's analysis clearly shows. Can't wait until we can rid ourselves of any lingering respect for this human scum who is responsible for the violence, laziness, and dirtiness of our once-great city on a hill.

Yosemeti Sam| 9.4.10 @ 2:50AM

And, LBJ was a - Democrat!

Let us all remember that, and how blacks are strangely beholding to Democrats - come every election!

LOL.

Alan Brooks| 9.4.10 @ 10:26PM

Those at the bottom will take all the help they can get, when Reagan was president many centrist and conservative blacks understood he was more honest than 90 percent of politicians. But a few years later president "read my lips, no new taxes" brought them back to reality.

Margie| 9.5.10 @ 9:59AM

And your man Obama is the King of High Taxes sitting on his throne of dictatorship~ ruining, literally our economy with his Marxist policies, causing millions to remain unemployed, and yet you do not protest him!

Alan Brooks| 9.5.10 @ 8:47PM

I wont protest Obama until the GOP runs better candidates. I did not vote for Clinton, but I didn't vote Republican, either, because Dole, for instance, was clearly worse than Clinton.
Who did I vote for in in the '90s? in '96 I voted for a guy named Gunderson, who turned out to be a conspiracy theorist. But that is the last electoral mistake I intend to make-- the margin for error may be thinner than we all know.
The #1 reason I want Obama to be re-elected is the Tea Party saying it wont compromise, when they (the ones who aren't imbeciles) know p[olitics is ABOUT compromise. The gOP will do well in the midterms, but they'll screw up the general election as they have done every single time since at least 1992.
I'll leave '88 out of the equation, as the Cold War was still ongoing at that time, and it hadn't filtered down to the grassroots that-- compared to Reagan-- Bush was dodgy and weakminded. I trusted Bush 41 in the early '90s-- but such is the last time.

Margie| 9.5.10 @ 9:37PM

"I wont protest Obama until the GOP runs better candidates."

Well, you do sound like a lot of people when you say that. You know~ like the ones who like to pick on you because it's easy to, yet they say the same thing.

Here's the deal. It doesn't make sense. You are self defeating along with everyone else who says the same thing. Why is it that rather than defeat the enemy which is the Democrat party~ you'd rather punish the only other party who can beat them? I know all the supposed reasons that you & they have and they make no sense.

But when Alan Brooks says it~ people will call you crazy!

Nikki | 9.6.10 @ 3:15AM

This country is so bi partisian, it's not going to get anything done. The left and the right are so far apart it's opening the doors for others to start new groups, and new agenda. Divided we shall fall!!!!

Achilles Toejam| 9.6.10 @ 6:05PM

Also Yosemite Sam lets not forget that in 1957 when Eisenhower was president they tried to bring civil rights legislation but the leader of the Senate wanted to strike out a key provision which would have essentially gutted the legislation, Senate majority leader essentially killed the bill, that person was none other than LBJ. In 1964 as president he got credit for the civil rights legislation.
What a dirty little secret and that's just the tip of the iceberg, why blacks overwhelmingly throw their allegiance behind the Democrat party is insane it's as though the chains of slavery were removed from their bodies only to be replaced by the chains of slavery and ignorance in their minds.

What a con job!

cats1cowboy| 9.3.10 @ 6:39AM

I am saddenened that I must not honor Dr. King because I'm white.

Eric Cartman| 9.3.10 @ 1:49PM

Thank the likes of Jesse Jackson for that. And here is the funniest irony ever! Ever, ever!

http://www.detnews.com/article.....ripped-SUV

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 9.3.10 @ 5:50PM

Thanks for the link. That's so funny.

WayneH| 9.3.10 @ 10:48PM

Too funny!

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 9.3.10 @ 7:09AM

Martin Luther King's fight for civil rights is a fantastic piece of American history. Unlike Abraham Lincoln, he did it without raising an armed militia, printing currency and wrecking half the nation.

It's only the aftermath of Dr. King that proves he was ineffectual and the King Holiday has become part of an ever expanding celebration of blackness as opposed to equality or "oneness."

December starts with the phony Communist holiday Kwanzaa, started by a black criminal who mutilated someone, then January is focused around the King holiday which features mainly blacks on advertisements and news stories about the holiday, then February is black history month.

After King's foray into politics the U.S. Congress has passed one bill after another dividing the nation by race and gender, proving that nothing has been learned about civil rights or equality.

Since Obama has become president the trend continues with the Lily Ledbetter law, which allows women to sue for decades after an incident at work. Just another job killer really.

The financial regulations bill just passed, and voted for by three RINO's (Think Brown, Collins and Snowe) was loaded with more racial preferences and gender preferences for hiring.

In essence, Glenn Beck is right. The country has learned nothing and civil rights as hijacked by the left have become meaningless.

The federal government exists as a racial oligarchy and it's worse now then ever.

JimP| 9.3.10 @ 10:57AM

That criminal that invented Kwanzaa was a dupe of the FBI. It was the Bureau that planted the idea of it in his mind. So now, all the radical types celebrating Kwanzaa are celebrating something invented by J. Edgar Hoover in reality. The irony is too delicious for words.

Alan Brooks| 9.3.10 @ 2:10PM

"Unlike Abraham Lincoln, he did it without raising an armed militia, printing currency and wrecking half the nation."

King was able to do it because Lincoln had paved the way.

JimP| 9.3.10 @ 2:21PM

Why did you attach this reply to my comment? It's completely irrelavent to what I said. You should have attached it to Bill's comment. You've been here a long time Alan. Haven't you figured out how to work the thread replies yet?

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 9.3.10 @ 5:48PM

It's questionable whether Lincoln really needed the war. He needed it to win his point of view, but it's quite possible the politicians could have worked it out.

As far as King and Lincoln, if they paved the way, it was for collectivism which is all we have now, not equality.

Equality does not come from race and gender quotas and Washington is still passing them as fast as they can.

No, the way was paved for discrimination which is also a form of tyranny.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 9.3.10 @ 6:00PM

Actually, there is no evidence that J. Edgar Hoover had anything to do with Kwanzaa. Ron Karenga, who was raised in Baltimore, Md. started it. Interestingly enough, the principles of Kwanzaa were also the exact same principles of the SLA. The funny thing about it is that President Bush issued a proclamation that we should all respect the diversity behind it. What a farce!
http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/.....aa_fbi.htm
When Karenga was asked to distinguish Kawaida, the philosophy underlying Kwanzaa, from "classical Marxism," he essentially explained that under Kawaida, we also hate whites. While taking the "best of" — I'm not making this up — "early Chinese and Cuban socialism," Kawaida practitioners believe one's racial identity "determines life conditions, life chances and self-understanding." There's an inclusive philosophy for you.

Coincidentally, the seven principles of Kwanzaa are the very same seven principles of the Symbionese Liberation Army, another charming invention of the Least-Great Generation. In 1974, Patricia Hearst, kidnap victim-cum-SLA revolutionary, posed next to the banner of her alleged captors, a seven-headed cobra. Each snake head stood for one of the SLA's revolutionary principles: Umojo, Kujichagulia, Ujima, Ujamaa, Nia, Kuumba and Imani — precisely the seven "principles" of Kwanzaa.

With his Kwanzaa greetings, President Bush is saluting the intellectual sibling of the Symbionese Liberation Army, killer of housewives and police. He is saluting the founder of United Slaves, who were such lunatics that they shot Panthers for not being sufficiently insane — all with the FBI as their covert ally. It's as if David Duke invented a holiday called "Anglica," and the president of the United States issued a presidential proclamation honoring the synthetic holiday. People might well stand up and take notice if that happened.

Kwanzaa was the result of a '60s psychosis grafted onto black community. Liberals have become so mesmerized by multicultural nonsense that they have forgotten the real history of Kwanzaa and United Slaves — the violence, the Marxism, the insanity. Most absurdly, for leftists anyway, is that they have forgotten the FBI's tacit encouragement of this murderous black nationalist cult founded by the father of Kwanzaa.

Now the "holiday" concocted by an FBI dupe is honored in a presidential proclamation calling it a "holiday that promotes mutual understanding." A movement that started approximately 2,000 years before Kwanzaa leaps well beyond merely "promot(ing) mutual understanding" to say we are all equal before God. It is so inclusive, people get mad at it. That movement is also celebrated this week. But the Christian leaders at the forefront of the abolitionist and civil rights movements have been washed down the memory hole.

JimP| 9.3.10 @ 6:31PM

"... there is no evidence that J. Edgar Hoover had anything to do with Kwanzaa."

Respectfully, Bill, there also is no evidence that the FBI/Hoover didn't. The point I was making was that it was made up, and by a stooge of the Bureau. Suggesting or ecnouraging Karenga to creat a phony holiday is exactly the kind of thing COIN operatives would do. Yes it does match the marxist SLA. That's where they got it. That was all part of COINTELPRO. That is has morphed into something else isn't surprising. It ought to be embarrasing. As for the rest of the history you present, I am not sure if you are addressing it to what I said or just for general info for those unaware of these facts.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 9.3.10 @ 6:44PM

I was just posting it so that people could see that we are not progressing, we are regressing. Thanks for your comment.

Eric| 9.3.10 @ 7:13AM

Granted, King confusedly mixed progressive socialism with the conservative notion of pure legal rights equality.

But the main thrust of his appeal was to the core conscience of America, imbued at its founding. He believed in appealing to the latent, unfulfilled goodness of America. The true revolutionist doesn’t believe there’s anything good about America to keep. King succeeded because his appeal, though a mixed bag, mostly conservatively appealed to America’s conscience.

Nor is it true that the “African-American community chose” Du Bois’ radicalism over Booker T. Washington’s conservatism.” White tenured Marxists chose socialism for them. Black Americans were interested in a chance to work and earn equal pay, to form families and have an equal chance to raise families in decent neighborhoods (with lots of churches). President Johnson, though personally a patronizing racist, had the evil insight to capture this emerging voter bloc with big-government socialism. The tenured radicals helped wrap that big lump of welfare crack poison in a pretty equality wrapper. Within a decade African America’s academic, familial, and social progress went off the rails.

I believe if King had lived to see how the rise of African America was destroyed by the welfare crack offered to keep them on the progressive plantation his conscience would have demanded a change in course. His honesty would have compelled him to admit that revolutionary socialism did more harm than good. Had someone told King that government programs would someday help create the conditions wherein 70% of African American kids lack a married dad to guide them past social dangers, he would have been appalled. Had Martin Luther King been standing on the Washington Mall a few days ago deciding which rally to attend he would have seen on one hand a rally of racial hustlers selling out their people for positions in the white radical power structure, and on the other, Beck’s sea of common equality-minded people. I think he would have chosen the latter.

Vern Crisler| 9.3.10 @ 10:55AM

Good summary of why conservatives should honor King. Maybe he wasn't perfect, but his struggle for equal rights is a worthy chapter in our history.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 9.3.10 @ 6:02PM

Is it a worthy chapter in our history?

All it has lead to is gender and race discrimination by the collectivists in the federal government

That wasn't an improvement over what came before.

Believer| 9.4.10 @ 1:14PM

Eric- Well said.

gearjammer| 9.3.10 @ 7:43AM

I think MLK would have have been something of a social or cultural conservative. I can't believe he'd ignore forces that attacked basic family values. Or, be a stooge for an education establishment that is in the current mode of insanity. maybe I am to generous.

Steve A| 9.3.10 @ 10:08AM

Hey gear, I think you are correct. If he behaved so, he would not be treated any differently than Clarence Thomas by today's left.

gearjammer| 9.3.10 @ 4:05PM

My family of turn of the century immigrants was for his cause. I mean he was preaching the bible, he was preaching about Jesus. His words were not tricky or hateful. He was right and he did not hate us because we had made it up the ladder some. Or am I wrong ? Was it really just a big trick, the first phase of a total " transformation" of America ?" I give MLK and JFK a pass sometimes, hey, look how they died. Has Justice Thomas written about MLK?

Redstateboy| 9.6.10 @ 11:59AM

History is a funny thing. JFK and Harry Truman couldn't even pass a Democrat Primary for President - too Conservative, Mao T'tung, if he came back, would be in a Chinese Prison today for formenting workers and MLK would be derided for his Social pronouncements on todays Black Culture every bit as much as Bill Cosby was ripped for saying what he said about Black Culture in America.

NavyBrat| 9.3.10 @ 7:50AM

Eric. EXCELLENT post! I too agree that King would be dismayed at how his movement has been highjacked by charlatans preaching "social justice," with "social justice" being just another form oppression.

I heard this guy on Hannity last week. THIS GUY is what a civil rights leader SHOULD BE. When I saw this trailer, I almost cried. And I'll DEFINATELY see this movie when it comes out. If you haven't seen this, WATCH IT! You'll be AMAZED:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55aujTwuJY8

The pastor in this trailer, CL Bryant, should team up with Allen West & go on a speaking tour. I'd pay Super Bowl ticket prices to hear the 2 of them speak together.

Big J| 9.3.10 @ 8:08AM

Thank you for the link, NavyBrat. That was a fantastic video.

NavyBrat| 9.3.10 @ 8:22AM

You're most welcome, Big J! Thought some folks here would want to see this brilliant man!

Eric Cartman| 9.3.10 @ 9:34AM

I have to agree, NB - I think Eric added some needed observations. I think if you pick any city with an MLK Blvd, King would weep at what has happened to blacks. Liberal solutions always have disastrous unintended consequences that Liberals whistle past.

I wouldn't even want to show him Detroit - he would just make him want to run into a big rock and kill himself.

Eric Cartman| 9.3.10 @ 9:37AM

PS: Loved the video, too. Made me feel like Chris Mathews - got a tingle running up my leg :-)

NavyBrat| 9.3.10 @ 9:46AM

Thanks Cartman! I've posted Pastor Bryant's video for my brothers & sisters over on Townhall just to get the word about this guy out even more!

As for MLK Blvd's in our respective hometowns, the one in MY hometown of Memphis is also not a garden spot. Its downright tragic. Then again, so's my entire hometown. I saddens me to NO END that my beautiful hometown regularly vies with Detroit, Baltimore, & DC for highest per capita crime rate EVERY YEAR.

Eric Cartman| 9.3.10 @ 9:57AM

You're welcome! It's a powerful video. It has the perfect message - you don't get your rights from the scummy politicians.

I love Memphis! Been there a few times for the BBQ cook offs (I'm a foodie and have owned restaurants). Loved Rendezvous! They did a great episode on it on the Food Network.

Memphis is a high crime area, which always surprised us. I hope it doesn't end up like Detroit. Scary thought.

I'm sending that video to everyone, BTW. Can't wait to get there again and get some Rendezvous ribs!

NavyBrat| 9.3.10 @ 10:10AM

Cartman. I too am a foodie, having spent 8 years cooking in fine dinning kitchens. Lemme tell ya a secret: FORGET THE RENDEZVOUS!!!!!

Go to the ORIGINAL Corky's on Poplar Ave. & go the The Germantown Commissary in the suburb of Germantown (where I actually grew up). I PROMISE you, you'll never go back to the Rendezvous after you've eaten at those two places.

Websites:

Corky's:

Note: You should order their regular BBQ sauce, for sure, but what's even better is their Smokin Hot BBQ sauce. Its UNREAL:

http://corkysbbq.com/

The Germantown Commissary:

These folks have even BETTER hot BBQ sauce than Corky's. And their dry rub is FANTASTIC!

http://commissarybbq.com/

Enjoy, Cartman. Just had to impart a little native Memphian culinary wisdom on you!

Eric Cartman| 9.3.10 @ 10:25AM

LOL - I've been schooled! I think I've been to Croky's. I've heard of teh Germantown Commissary - great places. I'll do 'em all when I get there! See you next May!

PS - Are ya watching Ramsay's new show, Master Chef? The wife hates Graham Elliot, LOL. Says he likes everyone's food to much - "Oh, that was the best bacon wrapped fried Velveeta I ever ate! Here's your apron" LOL. . That 22-year old from Mississippi has some chops! (Great lookin, too!)

Bob K.| 9.3.10 @ 7:57AM

So far the only thing I've read is the blurb leading in to this article: "The complexity of a civil rights icon and why Glenn Beck isn't his heir."

My question before I read the article is "Who said Glenn Beck is his heir and why would anyone make a comment like this?"

Bob K.| 9.3.10 @ 8:27AM

OK, I read it and now I understand! It is a good lead in to a great article!

The first sentence in the next to last paragraph of the article says it all: "The most important way for conservatives to honor King is to understand him IN HIS ENTIRETY. not just through the soothing legend we've written for ourselves."

We can take that advice when considering the lives of all of our fore fathers who helped make America the world's beacon of freedom. It is called seeing the forest in spite of the trees!

Booger| 9.3.10 @ 8:14AM

What's ironic? Dr. King fought for the right of kids of all color to go to school together; so they celebrate his birthday by NOT going to school.

SC Mike| 9.3.10 @ 9:24AM

Blogger Lexington Green published what Beck’s called the best summary of what Beck is up to. Read it here: http://thewestislamandsharia.b.....doing.html

He’s instilling confidence in the great unwashed, encouraging folks to follow their own instincts and beliefs, and force an out-of-control political system to listen. That’s bold.

What’s bolder is his attempt end the racial grievance industry, to destroy the plantation by getting blacks to think of themselves as Americans and as individuals first. From Greens blog: “Beck is attacking the enemy at the foundations of their power, their claim to race as a permanent trump card, their claim to the Civil Rights movement as a permanent model to constantly be transforming a perpetually unjust society.” In so doing, Beck is taking on the Righteous Brothers (Sharpton and Jackson) by offering their sheeple a powerful alternative, self-actualization. His TV shows on revealing the lost history of blacks in America is but one ingredient, his inclusion of black religious leaders another and broadening of the King civil rights message is another.

martin j smith| 9.3.10 @ 9:57AM

It is for me not an equating of the Glann Beck organized rally as some kind of takeover of the meaning of MLK. Glenn Beck and others in the relatiovely conservative movement are catching on to the Left's methods. In that regard the use of symbolism is very important. I think Glenn Beack has caught on to something in the public mood. Part of it is a desire to the American Dream for Everyone. Currently this dream has gone to sleep in the political,economic and social divisiveness that exists. Glenn Beck in his own way in trying to find a way of Uniting many people. I am tired of the balkanization the race baiting, the hate mongers especially on the LEFT --as in the case of obama who I agree with those who assert that he is purposelfully creating these divisions. Class,race,gender,religious,ethnic, and economic you name it. So if one claims that MLK's dream included these elements then an an American Citizen this is not my dream. But, if his remark that people be judged oin their character not their skin color--then we are on the same page.

Louis Jenkins| 9.3.10 @ 10:02AM

We continue to argue that King would have been a conservative. While Beck's crowd and King's crowd may be at a meeting point, the two will just not mix. Hopefully I am proven wrong, but it just won't happen. King's crowd went on to buy into the cool aide of Leftism, and Beck's Bunch is asking for the opposite. The Lefties did this to ensure that the twain should never meet. From what I've seen there were a few blacks in Beck's followers, but the majority of them bought into the "Righteous Brothers" schtick. Get real folks, the welfare reciepents are for the most part black.

Eric Cartman| 9.3.10 @ 10:14AM

I think you have it half right. I don't thing MLK's followers bought into it, they were prevented from hearing the choices. The Lefty Aholes hijacked MLK's message AND his followers. Race pimps Like Jesse "JJ" Jackson, who smeared MLK's blood on his shirt to give the impression he was by his side when he was shot and held him as he died, saw a way to rig the game in his favor. The Left used MLK's death like they do all crisis - they exploit it for their own power and to make huge amounts of money for themselves.

Now we have teh race pimps like JJ and Al Sharpton telling us we're racists if we don't cough up more dough and Leftist aholes that back them up- ain't that great?!

scythe| 9.3.10 @ 11:01AM

"We can disagree with King's greater idea of economic revolution while still honoring his struggle to make America the very best that it can be." Your words, right? Well...a lot of us think that's pretty much what Beck did. And the resulting furor from the left is soooo gratifying to watch. Beck did what they have done for ages: take facts and faces, mix and match, conceal and reveal. He did it brilliantly and can teach the conservatives a things or two about propaganda, symbolism, images, and manipulation of public sentiment. We are engaged in a huge battle and if some of us have to take "poetic license" so be it.

JimP| 9.3.10 @ 11:03AM

King became increasingly radical over time. One of the reasons was the racism he encountered in the North. During the 1966 Open Housing marches in Chicago, King said on camera, "The racism and segregation in Chicago is worse than anything I have ever seen in the South." He characterized it as worse than in Selma or Birmingham.

I have heard that Chicago is still divided clearly along ethnic lines between Blacks, Asians, Poles, Germans etc. It helps explain Obama's world view, to me. It also shows that Obama wants to remain in that world since he chose to live in Chicago and refuses to let evidence from outside Chicago to change his point of view.

John II| 9.3.10 @ 11:34AM

Great piece on a fascinating topic. It's anyone's guess how Martin Luther King's thoughts would or would not have evolved if he were still alive (he'd be 81, by the way, and I know several people considerably older). My earlier fascination with King back in the sixties, however, started dissipating well before he was murdered. Amid all the radical-chic antinomianism of that era, his own intermittent foreign policy and socioeconomic rants highlighted his penchant for cliche embarrassingly, but what tore it for me, finally, was his monomaniacal denunciation of the space program. He really wanted every dime of the federal budget to be tossed into the welfare state. At that point, it wouldn't have surprised me if he had started taking potshots at the National Park and Interstate Highway systems.

Well, the 50-year seal comes off his rather chunky FBI records in 2027. That's only 17 years from now. My guess is that, for most historians and biographers, 50 years won't have been enough time for truly measured judgments of the quality already displayed by Mr. Purple. Time flies.

Anthony| 9.3.10 @ 12:08PM

In an otherwise thoughtful article, your last sentence, Mr. Purple, reveals your ignorance of what is really happening in America.
You claim that Dr. King and Glen Beck have diametrically opposed approaches to their respective goals. I submit you are wrong. Revolution is and always has been the crucble of the conservative movement. What you catagorize as Mr. Beck's "looking backwards" to our founding principles is, in reality, a "back to the future" senerio, if you will, as the first shot towards our rebellion against Obama's and the Left's counter revolution against America.
Our founders were radicals, and while Dr. King certainly moved in that direction, may I remind you that Dr. King was a reluctant radical, as he was being marginalized by the more violent elements of the Black Movement, ie Stokley Carmichael and others.
Regardless, it is indeed a sad day in America when Dr. King's eloquent demand, that we Americans be judged by the content of our characters and not the color of our skin, is deemed a radical and provocative concept.

John II| 9.3.10 @ 1:43PM

"Our founders were radicals . . ."

Not exactly, although there were indeed some firebrand commentators on the sidelines, such as Tom Paine. The really distinctive thing about the American Revolution, historically, was its restrained and preservative quality--as against, say, the maniacal and destructive French Revolution, which provides a kind of template for the usual pattern one encounters in such upheavals: frantic uprising, reign of terror, vicious persecution against religion (apparently the real sine qua non of modern revolutions), thermidorian reaction, absolute dictatorship, and the rest. Leave it to the Frenchies to give us a permanent vocabulary to describe the ghastly phenomenon.

There are few more depressing and reliably predictable patterns in political history than the violent replacement of one form of tyranny by a far worse form, and, although the pattern goes back much further, the past two and a half centuries are particularly studded with examples.

The reason for yet another instance of American exceptionalism in the American Revolution itself is principally the character of the revolutionaries, as reflected so vividly in the founding documents.

The Declaration of Independence, for example, is neither a manifesto nor a screed; it is a forcefully and elegantly sustained argument well beyond the interests or temperamental capabilities of your garden-variety power-hungry, narcissistic Jacobin.

By ordinary historical standards, thanks to the character of the Founders, the American Revolution is downright weird.

And now back to the original 1934 Alexander Korda production of "The Scarlet Pimpernel," starring Leslie Howard as the dashing Sir Percy Blakeney and Raymond Massey as the sinister (i.e., left-wing) agent of Ropespierre: the radical enforcer Chauvelin.

Boy, those were the good ol' days, when there was some moral clarity in Hollywood, at least among the writers and directors.

John II| 9.3.10 @ 1:58PM

Er, Robespierre, I meant. Pardon the typo.

Impeach Don't Wait| 9.3.10 @ 8:47PM

"The reason for yet another instance of American exceptionalism in the American Revolution itself is principally the character of the revolutionaries, as reflected so vividly in the founding documents....By ordinary historical standards, thanks to the character of the Founders, the American Revolution is downright weird."

Might that be precisely because they were Christian?... not in name only, I mean? The kind of character and moral vision they had didn't just come out of thin air. Hardly an accident, I'd think.

John II| 9.4.10 @ 12:11AM

Agreed. Even the freethinkers and Deists among them were thoroughly imbued with the Judaeo-Christian ethos, not to mention a fairly broad education in the Greco-Roman classics. They had a sense of history, of natural law, and of fallen human weakness and imperfectibility. In other words, they were not radicals.

Tex Expatriate| 9.3.10 @ 1:07PM

King deserves much credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but don't forget that without the broad support of white men and women and the Republican Party, the Act would not have come reality when it did.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 9.3.10 @ 6:06PM

And the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has lead to discrimination of millions of Americans by ever more expanding race and gender preferences.

What's there to celebrate? It's tyranny plain and simple.

wodiej| 9.4.10 @ 4:57PM

Blacks will never be successful as long as the government keeps coddling them. The majority of racism by whites has left society. It is mainly active due to the bitterness and hatred among black people. And why should black people get a jump start in the race ahead of whites? That was done and it certainly has not helped them. It has made them arrogant and they still aren't satisfied. You never appreciate something unless you have struggled and worked for it.

Everyone should have equal opportunity but everyone does not have the same intelligence, capabilities, skill sets etc.

Glen H| 9.3.10 @ 7:20PM

"Forty days before Du Bois would take his last breath, Martin Luther King was at Carnegie Hall honoring the newfound Ghanan's hundredth birthday."

I am not clear how this is possible, inasmuch as DuBois died at the age of 95.

linear| 9.3.10 @ 7:46PM

I've always admired Dr. King. After watching Obama and his leftists at work I think I need to do a lot of homework and reading before I decide to continue that admiration.

PCC| 9.3.10 @ 11:00PM

Nice article, but I've got a stone in my shoe.

W.E.B. Du Bois was born and raised in Great Barrington, Massachusetts (Berkshire County, on the New York and Connecticut borders).

Why does the author refer to it as "western New England"? Are the people or the climate or the political ideology different there than "eastern New England"? Is he implying that Du Bois was almost half a New Yorker?

I've never, ever heard or read the phrase "western New England" before.

What the hell does the author mean by it?

Stedes| 9.4.10 @ 8:45AM

The author is right on. Excellent article, but he doesn’t go far enough.

To the civil rights movement, equal opportunity under the law was not enough. Equal rights = Social Justice. They wanted full inclusion into society; culturally and economically. They expected the federal government to enforce civil rights laws on both the private and public sector as well as trump state rights. To gain equal rights, poverty must end. There must be federal programs and laws to bring African Americans into society (affirmative action for example). This was a revolutionary movement.

“You do not take a person who for years has been hobbled by chains and liberate him up to the starting line of a race and say you are free to compete with all the others. And still justly believe that you have been completely fair…This is the next more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedom, but equal opportunity – not just legal equity but human ability – not just equality as a right and theory but equality as a fact and a result”. – President Johnson speech to Howard University 1964

Conservatives today may celebrate King’s greatness, but he was not a conservative. I think Beck was out of line with his statement "We are the inheritors and the protectors of the civil rights movement". If Mr. Beck and his fellow conservatives were alive during King’s time, they most likely would have been against the 1964 civil rights bill and accuse King and the movement of being communists.

Historically conservatives have not been on forefront of civil rights. They have used constitutional rights such as “Freedom of Association”, “Property Rights”, “State Rights” and free markets to ensure the perpetuation of segregation. Goldwater voted against the civil rights bill, Reagan was against the 1968 Fair Housing act because it trumped private property rights.

The growth of the Republican Party from 1970 through 1990 was based on racial fear mongering. To galvanize white backlash against the racial integration code words like “Law and Order”, “Welfare Queens” and “Willie Horton” were used to stir white fear and prejudice against blacks.

An excellent book to read on this subject is “Race and the Making of American Liberalism” by Carol Horton. Liberalism in this book refers to “Classical Liberalism” as in Libertarianism.

gearjammer| 9.4.10 @ 9:47AM

When civil rights became a euphemism for statism, big government, socialism, communism well the American people saw through it-you call this racism. Tough sh-t. You manipulators make us sick making any contrary idea to your manifestos racist or evil. I wish you were here now in my backyard-I'd hurt you. Look out bub the hardguy America is rising up.

Nate| 9.4.10 @ 7:38PM

Mr Purple,

This is a pretty good piece. But I have to take issue with one point.

You write:

"Was this the sort of peaceful tolerance that characterized Dr. Martin Luther King's protests 47 years earlier? I'm not sure, but the incident brought King to the forefront into my mind."

The answer to your question is NO, NO, NO.

That Tea Partiers were polite and friendly on 28 August is nice to hear, but there tolerance of a few foolish counter-protestors is simple decency.

It's NOT the kind of courage, however, shown by civil rights protestors.

Tea Partiers were not UP AGAINST THE STATE. They were not being billy-clubbed by police; they were not being thrown in jail or sprayed with fire hoses. There is a HUGE difference.

Tea Partiers had a big, nice, peaceful picnic in one of this country's greatest cities. They saw our great monuments and (I hope) learned something about themselves and their country.

They did not defy the prevailing and dominant forces in their society; they did not brave beatings or even death on behalf of their fellows or their country. They had a nice day.

The One We've Been Waiting For| 9.5.10 @ 10:49AM

We're buying shrimp, Nate. This is the kind of off script stuff that drives me crazy.-

"Tea Partiers had a big, nice, peaceful picnic in one of this country's greatest cities."

That greatest of cities is a crime infested, education incompetent zone run by various crooks that frankly I have worked my whole career for. With teacher's unions and welfare induced poverty we have a voter climate that guys like you and me thrive in. Without the federal bucks it would look like Detroit. Fortunately we can afford lots of police to keep the monument zones artificially safe. Lets not get carried away. If the entire country was like this we would be in deep trouble. Lets face it the people that live there are a sacrifice for our egos. The rest of the city is a bunch of federal hucksters that live a nice life on the backs of their fellow citizens. I at least know that Michelle and I have lived an unbelievable life considering that we aren't really competent at anything other than complaining and striking Il Duce poses. Please get back on script and talk of the summer of recovery. Why if it wasn't for us we would have lost every job. People should be groveling at my feet. Also talk about wind farms and my own invention as CEO, the Chevy Volt. Off to golf. It is hard work being the top guy.

Nate| 9.5.10 @ 7:47PM

Your response to my post is incoherent, snarky, and not very interesting, isn't it? You don't seem to understand much about the many topics you seem to have strong, inchoate opinions about. I'm inclined not to take you very seriously, and you've given me no reason to do otherwise.

I tried to make what I think is a serious point. You wasted your time and mine with sarcastic nonsense. I'm not sure why you bothered. I know I'll hesitate before I bother to read what you've written next time.

The One We've Been Waiting For| 9.5.10 @ 8:55PM

We're buying shrimp, Nate. This is no way to talk to the boss. I get very tired while working for the poor and then I have to read your belligerent post. I shot a 150 today and I was out there all day long.

"I tried to make what I think is a serious point. "

We don't pay you make serious points. We pay you to rationalize the administration. Drawing attention to people that poll better than I do is causing me a lot of trouble. By the way that is just about everybody including W. Be the troll Nate, be the troll. I really like the formulaic responses. Make sure you don't use them if somebody wishes you a nice day.

Nate| 9.5.10 @ 9:55PM

Oh I get it. I thought you were just joking before. now I see that you're serious. Great, man. Awesome. You've made some good points here. Keep up the good work.

The One We've Been Waiting For| 9.5.10 @ 11:44PM

We're buying shrimp, Nate. Don't get sucked into a debate with Nick on 9/11. We are 9/10 people. So far you have handled it well by seeming clueless. Keep it up. When he least expects it call him an islamaphobe. That will take care of him.

The One We've Been Waiting For| 9.5.10 @ 11:59PM

We're buying shrimp, Nate. Thanks for acknowledging the critiques of your trolling effort. I wish you would put some of them into play. Stick to the daily talking points. You are not bright enough to get into debates.

Nick| 9.5.10 @ 10:00PM

Hey, Nate, why don't you turn on the National Geographic channel right now, remember what happened on September 11th, 2001, and see why liberals should never have been trusted to defend this country ever again.

Nate| 9.5.10 @ 10:54PM

Nick,

I don't recall liberals being in charge of protecting this country on September 11, but I'll defer to what is obviously your superior knowledge of history.

And yes, I agree. Liberals should be blamed for September 11. We caused it. We made it happen. We cheered when it happened. Hurrah! Hurrah!

Nice talking to you as always. I've learned a lot. You've given me so much to think about.

Nick| 9.5.10 @ 11:20PM

Nate the dazi,

As usual, you invent a straw man. I didn't write that liberals were "in charge of protecting this country on September 11," so why lie?

Since you can't seem to comprehend, my point is that after eight years of liberal rule, our country's defenses were decimated, allowing the attacks of September 11th to happen. It was Bubba the pervert's FAA that allowed Arabs to bring box-cutters onto jet aircraft.

President Bush was still trying to get his political appointments through Diablo Daschle's senate, thanks to Jumpin' Jim Jeffords, on September 11th. So, he can hardly be faulted for not fixing what Bubba had broken, can he?

And now, President Dither is weakening this country's defenses just like Bubba the pervert did. We've had four terrorist attacks since O'Bama took the oath of office.

Why did he take the oath? Like Ann Coulter has said, he is obviously an atheist.

p.s. Your post reminds me a lot of Marxist Reader. Was your Military Occupational STRATEGY (ha-ha!) in the Army, also, a "t.o.w." gunner?

Margie| 9.6.10 @ 12:12AM

Tis' the Marxist Reader indeed Nick! There's no mistaking him and his usual manner.

Nate| 9.6.10 @ 12:53AM

Nick,

Just one quick question.

You blame Clinton for the attacks of 9.11, which happened when Bush was president.

But you blame Obama for the attacks that have occurred while he was president, not Bush.

Just like Carter is blamed for the recession that happened in Reagan's first term, but Obama is blamed for the recession that happened in his first term, not Bush.

What gives?

Nate| 9.6.10 @ 9:38AM

New York City and Washington DC: nothing says "red state America" like those two cities.

Oh liberals, when will you ever learn the dangers of terrorism?

You liberals don't know anything about terrorism and violent threats!

JFK, shot by a communist. RFK, shot by a Palestinian terrorist. MLK, shot by a racist terrorist. 9.11 attacks in Manhattan, home of all things conservative and Republican!

What do liberals know about anything?

The One We've Been Waiting For| 9.6.10 @ 1:05PM

We're buying shrimp, Nate. I told you not to debate Nick. He can spot one of your ignoratio elenchis a mile away. I have tried to tell you that you need to stay on script. These people are much smarter than you. We have more important work which is to save my worthless butt and frankly you are not getting it done. Call him an islamophobe and lets get after Rasmussen before people discover that my core constituency group only amounts to about 20% of the population and that it is made of the dysfunctional, criminals and the mentally ill. You are a member of two of those key groups. Lets look after your own. Off to the golf course. I never tire in my efforts for the poor. Summer of recovery baby.

Nick| 9.6.10 @ 11:32AM

Nate the dazi,

More straw men to go with your quick question, I see.

I don't "blame [Bubba the pervert] for the attacks of 9.11," I blame the terrorists who planned and carried out the attacks of September 11th, 2001.

I hold Bubba the pervert responsible for making it as easy as it was for the terrorists to be so successful in their evil deeds. It was the eight years of his liberal policies and putting liberal, politically correct, bureaucratic lickspittles in charge of our defense that were to blame for not catching the terrorists before they acted.

And, if you think I am not critical of President Bush, you haven't read enough of my comments here at TAS.

Again, I don't "blame" President Dither for the terrorist attacks, I blame the terrorists. O'Bama is responsible for the incompetence that didn't connect the dots.

This is "[w]hat gives."

Nate| 9.6.10 @ 10:53PM

Nick,

It would be a lot easier to take your arguments seriously if you didn't use cartoonish names like "President Dither." It makes you sound like you're in the seventh grade. Be a man, for Christ's sake.

Now what substance I can find in what you've written here is gibberish, so in addition to neatening up your presentation, I suggest you work on both content and logic.

Margie| 9.6.10 @ 11:02PM

Now now Liberal Reader, there you go again using the Lord's Name in vain. A true man wouldn't do that. It makes you sound like an unbeliever. And by the way, why DID you change your handle to "Nate?" By doing that you make your arguments hard to take seriously and serve only to confirm that you are indeed a troll. Man up!

Nick| 9.6.10 @ 11:31PM

Nate the dazi,

What Margie said.

Only 17 year-olds think it is rebellious and cool to curse in public. Grow up and stop using the Lord's Name in vain.

How can "substance" be "gibberish?" You might want to look up these two words in the dictionary.

You have no rebuttal to what I wrote, so you try to be dismissive, thus losing the debate. Like all of the liberals I argue with, here at TAS.

If you stop using straw men to try and make your points, you won't have to admit defeat so often, Nate the dazi.

Nate| 9.7.10 @ 12:51AM

Nick,

You don't know what you're talking about. What you wrote is a collection of half truths and distortions of fact. A "rebuttal" is impossible because you simply assert things are true that suit the conclusion you support and deny anything that challenges that conclusion. You are intellectually dishonest.

I'm not using any "straw man." You don't seem to understand what that term means.

I will rehearse this issue one last time briefly and try to inject some sanity and information into this exchange.

Clinton, as he's admitted, is partially culpable for 9.11. If he'd been more aggressive against Al Qaeda, the attacks may not have happened. That's all pretty easy to say after 9.11.

Bush, who was in fact president on 9.11, also bears some responsibility for the attacks -- on account of the fact he was president of the United States.

Clinton's team briefed Bush on Al Qaeda; they attempted to impress upon him that Al Quaeda represented the greatest near-term threat to national security in the world. Bush wasn't all that interested in Al Qaeda, and to be fair, nor were many other people in government that should've been.

I'm not sure exactly why you're interested in painting Democrats as somehow carrying special responsibility -- however indirect -- for terrorism, although it's not beyond all surmise. Anyhow, you're clearly more interested in exchanging views and ideas with people who think exactly as you do, and getting your news from news sources biased as you are. And such a masturbative circular world seems to be all you're looking for. So good fortune to you! It's a free country. Do what you will.

Nick| 9.7.10 @ 10:47AM

Nate the dazi,

It should be easy to take a "half-truth" or "distortion of facts" and REBUT them, for someone who knows how to debate.

When you make up things that I didn't write, to make your point, that is the definition of a straw man argument. Look it up.

Bubba the pervert has neve admitted culpability in anything he has ever done. If you think he was "aggressive against Al Qaeda," may I sell you some beach front property?

It was Bubba the pervert's team who put up the Goerelic wall to stop the F.B.I. and C.I.A. from talking to each other, so that they could connect the dots. It was this same team who decided to treat terrorists, who were waging war against us illegally, as mere criminals, instead of unlawful enemy combatants.

They also allowed Arabs to carry weapons onto airliners. And, they were more interested in sending Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba and pardoning terrorists and crooks in the last year of Bubba the pervert's administration.

As was previously stated, President Bush was still trying to get his TEAM confirmed by Tom "Diablo" Daschle's Senate, when the attacks of September 11th, 2001 took place.

How was President Bush supposed to fix everything Bubba the pervert had destroyed in just 7 months?

President Dither is again treating the terrorists like criminals, by the way.

Nick| 9.6.10 @ 11:59PM

Also, you never answered my question: Why did President Dither take the oath of office?

Like Ann Coulter has said, he is obviously an atheist.

Nate| 9.7.10 @ 12:53AM

Is this a joke that I'm somehow not understanding? I can't tell, but it must be. You're not seriously asking me this question, Nick. Like I said. You're intellectually dishonest and childish.

Nick| 9.7.10 @ 10:53AM

Nate the dazi,

There are many things you do not understand.

But, yes, this is more of a rhetorical question, in that, why would an atheist swear an oath to a God he so obviously does not believe in?

Tenn Slim| 9.5.10 @ 9:57AM

A vet of Deep South politics, opine:
The MLK Museum sits today, in my city. We honor the man, his message, not his politics.
Beck is NOT trying to be another MLK, or any other prominent political figure.
Near as I can understand, his message, is Faith, Honor, Honesty, and remember our fore fathers history as it acutally occurred.
Not a bad message. Wish my kid had heard it.
We probably would not have such a Elected Mess as we have to contend with, today.
end
Semper FI

Margie| 9.5.10 @ 9:27PM

I will repost what I did last eve but it disappeared. I said~ Amen Tenn Slim. And that sums it up quite nicely.

Nate| 9.5.10 @ 9:59PM

I thought it was "Faith, Honor, and Charity," not "Faith, Honor and Honesty."

Anyway, it's a great message.

A scout is trustworthy, loyal, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.

On my honor, I will do my best, to do my duty, to God and my country, to obey the scout law, to help other people at all times, and to keep myself physically fit, mentally awake, and morally straight.

Does Beck have anything to add to this?

The One We've Been Waiting For| 9.5.10 @ 11:33PM

We're buying shrimp, Nate. Bandow is beating me up with poll results in the blog section and you are over here trying to make some inane point about the Boy Scouts. Those little turds booed me. We never mention them again. Our official position on the Beck rally is that we don't know anything about. You try to act like an expert over here. Get over and defend me in Bandow. What is wrong with you? This is supposed to be about me. You know that I worked my butt off at the golf course today. The whole team has to carry its weight.

Answers1| 9.6.10 @ 7:59PM

This proves Beck is a greater man than King.

Susan Grant| 9.6.10 @ 8:32PM

Matt,
Now I understand why are are Purple. The first rule of journalism is: DO YOUR RESEARCH, which you did not do on this one, bud.
Beck did not accidently have his rally on MLK days, it was the only day available to get his permit. Dr. King was a Conservative as most Dems in that point in time. I never heard him preach about socialism or communism, but he did preach about equality which the Liberals of today do not understand. To them they think equality is an entitlement generation that relies on Uncle Sam for EVERYTHING in their lives. This creates a generation who grow up not being able to provide for themselves because they don't have to. The rest of us work for a living, we do our research and we vote, and We, The People, will remember in November and WE WILL VOTE!

Nate| 9.6.10 @ 10:48PM

Susan,

You could use a little research yourself.

MLK was not a conservative.

He registered Republican in the 50s. The reason for this is simple. Many, many blacks registered Republican in protest of the segregation that was promoted and enforced by white racists in the south who were, by and large, Democrats.

As you will learn when you study a little history, the Democratic party was changing during these years, and by 64 was ready to move ahead on civil rights while the Republicans dug in. The DEMOCRATS passed the civil rights laws of 64 and 65 AGAINST Republican opposition, and from then on, blacks began voting Democrat in massive numbers while white racists fled the Democratic party and began voting Republican.

Now the term "conservative" is not really all that helpful, but if by claiming MLK was "conservative" you mean he was a right winger, or that he worshipped the free market, or any of that stuff, you're just plain flat wrong.

MLK supported policies that even in the sixties -- a more liberal decade in many ways -- were considered radically leftist policies. He was constantly accused of being a socialist by RIGHT WINGERS, that is to say, conservatives, and this was primarily how right wingers attempted to defame him in the public eye.

This is just a brief history of that turbulent period, but you need a good stack of books written by historians, not disc jockeys.

Try the LIBRARY.

The One We've Been Waiting For| 9.6.10 @ 11:37PM

We're buying shrimp, Nate. You are living in past. I have problems right now. If you keep talking about MLK, he will poll badly too. Just like me he needs to have his true views hidden. If the voting public finds out about guys like you and me we are finished. Especially you. We're closing gitmo baby.

The One We've Been Waiting For| 9.6.10 @ 11:40PM

We're buying shrimp, Nate. Maybe Susan won't realize that everything you know comes from our talking points and Wikipedia. Cap and Trade baby.

WAKE UP| 9.9.10 @ 1:48AM

I've never heard Beck personally claim to be the "heir" to anything - but he's saying WE can be, if we get it right.

Dennis| 9.15.10 @ 6:59PM

Americans need to wake up the fact that Beck is simply another opinion pushing charlatan who is a product of mormon cult theology and he mixes this with his personal make up as a dry alcoholic. And for the record, he is a Mormon and not a Christian. As someone with a graduate degree in religion, I can say with all qualifications that Mormonism fits all parameters of a cult and has none of the parameters of a religion. A cult is any group (regardless of its size) that interprets the doctrines of a religion in an unorthodox fashion. The problem here is the fact the most Christians do not understand the difference and they easily fall for the lies of Mormon missionaries when they come to one's door. On Beck's radio show and Fox Network program he consistent demonstrates all the unstable behaviors of a dry alcoholic which include grandiosity, judgmentalism, intolerance, impulsivity, ADD and indecisiveness. Alongside that reality, Glenn Beck does not possess a single ounce of journalistic integrity, has no college degree, has no qualifications and he is definitely not a true conservative. But then, what can anyone expect from someone who can't find anything filthier than their own personal reflection. Since people like Beck cannot survive on the basis of any personal merits, they survive by putting others down with lies and half truths in order to feel good about themselves. The truth about Beck is that he a dry mormon alcoholic who never got the counseling required for alcoholics. To further complicate things and confuse people, Beck flippantly throws around Christian terms like "God", "Jesus","Holy Spirit" as well as voices of other so called "Spirit Powers" on his radio talk show. Beck is a mormon in active standing with the mormon church and is not a Christian. Mormonism teaches many gods, that the god of the earth was once a man who attained godhood status, there is no trinity, the cross of Christ means nothing and that Jesus Christ and Satan were brothers. Because Beck does not possess a single ounce of journalistic integrity, he is the perfect abortion poster child for Fox Network. The people who love what Beck says are no different than the impressionable sheep who loved every speech made by Adolph Hitler in his early years when he brought Germany into an era of economic prosperity These same sheep also blindly followed Hitler into one of the darkest chapters of world history. Beck and the Fox Network both cater to the same lowest common denominator of demagoguery. Beck would not know the first thing about God as he is a mormon. Someone should ask him which of the many mormon gods he kept talking about during his argument with himself on Saturday on the square in DC. Like a typical dry alcoholic, Beck even lied on national television when he spoke about holding a document signed by George Washington. That event never took Place. Unfortunately, people who love being led around by the nose do not realize that Beck is talking about a different god than that of Christianity, Judaism or Islam and that he has been a product of mormonism cultism from the day he started doing a radio talk show as an opinion pusher. You don't have to have a degree in psychology to see that he exhibits all the signs of a dry alcoholic. The only reason this unstable impressionable idiot fell into mormonism was because the woman he wanted to have sex with would not do so unless they got first got married and from that point, they joined the mormon cult. Glenn Beck is as big a charlatan as Joseph Smith or that 5th grade graduate (Charles T Russell) who started the Jehovah's Witness cult. This is Glenn Beck in a very accurate and concise nutshell. Considering the fact that Becks personal views are extreme Marxist Libertarian, his form of patriotism is false and he is a person who has no real substance or depth. It will not surprise many of us when Beck’s next big thing is to come out of the closet and announce his homosexuality to the nation. Simply put…he is just another predatory neocon who is pushing the buttons of very ignorant & impressionable people who love being told what to think and believe. We live in a period of history where it has become very socially acceptable to be stupid and follow extremist idiots like Glenn Beck, Adolph Hitler, Sarah Palin, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh. Chicanery and lies are their middle names.

Jeff| 9.17.10 @ 4:55PM

Dennis is on the left wings payroll. He has posted his same rant word for word across the internet using different names in an attempt to slander conservative voices.

Jubal| 10.23.10 @ 5:34PM

I think it is interesting how some as "Dennis" find it easy to assail the character of other people who are honest and bold when speaking to the masses. Why is it "Dennis" you don't put your last name and maybe even your e-mail or better yet say this in public! Well we can infer from your actions that you 'Sir' and I use the word loosely are a COWARD OF THE MOST DESPICABLE KIND and you have full knowlege that a rant such as yours spoken publicly with witnesses would land you in a court of law, where you would fail miserably to defend your first amendment right to spout off in such a manner. Do America a favor. SHUT UP AND DON'T RUIN THE RIGHT FOR THE REST OF US TO SPEAK OUR MINDS! Insulting the masses will only keep your where you choose to slither like the worm you have become!

Joanna| 6.6.11 @ 5:33AM

I agree with most of these comments too.
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