Americas KNOWS who is really color-blind!!
What is this part doing in this story? “victims of secret government wiretapping” — echoing Bush’s domestic spying program.
Echoing?????? As if President Bush is echoing exactly what the Kennedy's were doing in the 60's?????? This is unbiased reporting?????
I AM FURIOUS. I AM NOT EVEN SURE WHO TO CONTACT OR TO YELL AT ABOUT THIS LINE IN THIS STORY!
"Carter ...also noted that the Kings once were “victims of secret government wiretapping”...but Mr. Peanut forgot to mention that Bobby Kennedy ok'd the tap.
Funny that I voted for Carter in 1976.
By 1992 I could spot a bum a mile away.
On 60 Minutes on the night of the Super Bowl in 1992 I recognized another bum and bumess.
As much as I begged my wife to see ......she still voted for the bum.
But she didn't vote for the bum in 1996.
For what was supposed to be a funeral, they sure spent a lot of time not talking about the deceased.
Not sure that was his intention, but then again, Jimmu''s daddy was an Unreconstructed Confederate. Hated America almost as much as his son.
I have never posted before but I am so furious I can't see straight. I have emailed, called, and will write every single moron involved in the disgraceful attack today at the funderal.... as soon as I get my puke cleaned up after watching this sickening garbage and reading tonight's press.
Letters to the editor are always good.
The complete article with the crAP writers is on the AP wires. It was written by Errin Haines and Nedra Pickler whom is known as writing anti Bush stuff for crAP.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2006/feb/07/020706327.html
Presidents Join Mourners at King Funeral
By ERRIN HAINES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LITHONIA, Ga. (AP) -
Ten thousand mourners - including four U.S. presidents, numerous members of Congress and many gray-haired veterans of the civil rights movement - said goodbye to Coretta Scott King on Tuesday, with President Bush saluting her as "a woman who worked to make our nation whole."
The immense crowd filled the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church - a modern, arena-style megachurch in a suburban Atlanta county that was once a stronghold of the Ku Klux Klan but today has one of the most affluent black populations in the country.
More than three dozen speakers at the funeral took turns remembering the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who worked to realize her husband's dream of equality for nearly 40 years after his assassination. She died Jan. 30 at age 78 after battling ovarian cancer and the effects of a stroke.
The president ordered flags flown at half-staff across the country.
"Coretta Scott King not only secured her husband's legacy, she built her own," Bush told the crowd. "Having loved a leader, she became a leader, and when she spoke, Americans listened closely."
Former President Clinton urged mourners to follow in her footsteps, honor her husband's sacrifice and help the couple's children fulfill their parents' legacy. Former President Bush said the "world is a kinder and gentler place because of Coretta Scott King." President Carter praised the Kings for their ability to "wage a fierce struggle for freedom and justice and to do it peacefully."
The funeral at times turned political, with some speakers decrying the war in Iraq, the Bush administration's eavesdropping program, and the sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina in mostly black New Orleans.
The Rev. Joseph Lowery, who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr., drew a roaring standing ovation when he said: "For war, billions more, but no more for the poor" - a takeoff on a line from a Stevie Wonder song. The comment drew head shakes from Bush and his father as they sat behind the pulpit.
The lavish service stood in sharp contrast to the 1968 funeral for King's husband. President Lyndon B. Johnson did not attend those services, which were held in the much smaller and older Ebenezer Church in Atlanta, where King had preached.
Johnson did not attend because he was meeting with advisers and Cabinet officers at Camp David to discuss Vietnam War peace talks. There were also security concerns because of rioting that followed King's death, according to Betty Sue Flowers, director of Johnson's presidential library in Austin, Texas.
Instead, Johnson declared a national day of mourning and sent Vice President Hubert Humphrey to the ceremony in Atlanta.
Two hours after Tuesday's funeral, Coretta Scott King's coffin was placed in a tomb near her husband's at the King Center, which she built to promote his memory. Her tomb is inscribed with a passage from First Corinthians: "And now abide Faith, Hope, Love, These Three; but the greatest of these is Love."
Over the past several days, more than 160,000 mourners waited in long lines to pay their respects and file past King's open casket during viewings at churches and the Georgia Capitol, where King became the first woman and the first black person to lie in honor.
"She made many great sacrifices," said Sean Washington, 38, who drove from Tampa, Fla., with his wife and children from a disability center to attend the funeral. "To be in her presence once more is something that I would definitely cherish, no matter what."
Stevie Wonder and Michael Bolton sang, giving soaring, gospel-infused performances. At least 14 U.S. senators attended, along with members of the House.
Among the civil rights veterans at the funeral were Dorothy Height, longtime chairwoman of the National Council of Negro Women; Rep. John Lewis, former head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee who led the "Bloody Sunday" march in Selma, Ala.; and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition.
The youngest of the Kings' four children, Bernice, delivered remarks that were part fiery sermon and part eulogy. She was 5 when her father was assassinated, and was famously photographed lying in her mother's lap during her father's funeral.
Bernice King, a minister at the megachurch, yelled at times as she preached against violence and materialism, saying that her mother's purpose in life was to spread her father's message of peace and unconditional love.
"Thank you, mother, for your incredible example of Christ-like love and obedience," she said.
Poet Maya Angelou called Coretta Scott King "a study in serenity" and challenged the audience to carry on the King message of nonviolence.
"We owe something from this minute on, so that this gathering is not just another footnote on the pages of history," said Angelou, a former U.S. poet laureate who sang some of her comments in a traditional style of the Southern black church.
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin - who spoke immediately after the president - injected politics into her remarks, describing how Coretta Scott King spoke out against "the senselessness of war" with a voice that was heard "from the tintop roofs of Soweto to the bomb shelters of Baghdad."
Carter brought up the government response to Katrina, saying, "We only have to recall the color of the faces of those in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi" to know that inequality exists. He also noted that the Kings once were "victims of secret government wiretapping" - echoing Bush's domestic spying program.
Outside the church, the lines to get into the funeral and to attend the final viewing of King's body started forming before 3 a.m.
"It's good to finally see her at peace," said Robert Jackson, a 34-year-old financial consultant from Atlanta whose 10-year-old daughter, Ebony, persuaded him to take her to the church.
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Associated Press Writer Nedra Pickler contributed to this report
Jimmy Carter is a classless individual.
Jimmy Carter and his cronies can go straight to hell.
Sorry to be disrespectful about the whole Coretta thing, but in my house she was known as "The Professional Widow." I never saw her when she didn't have that pained, aggrieved, martyred expression on her face. I think Bush was crazy to show up at all at her funeral.
Political undercurrent seen at King funeral
By Andrew Ward in Atlanta
Published: February 7 2006 23:56
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/9cf2b1e8-9834-11da-816b-0000779e2340.html
When Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968, Lester Maddox, the governor of Georgia, refused to attend his funeral in Atlanta, branding the civil rights leader “an enemy of the country”.
So it was a sign of how much the US has changed over the past four decades that the funeral of his wife, Coretta Scott King, in the same city was attended on Tuesday not only by the state governor but also by four presidents.
George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter were among about 10,000 mourners at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, an arena-style megachurch in suburban Atlanta.
Most of the six-hour ceremony was dedicated to celebration of Mrs King’s life, with President George W. Bush leading the tributes to “a woman who worked to make our nation whole”.
But there was a strong political undercurrent, with several speakers making veiled and in some cases open criticism of the Bush administration from a podium situated just feet from where the president sat.
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin recalled how Mrs Scott hadspoken out against “the senselessness of war” with a voice that was heard “from the tin rooftops of Soweto to the bomb shelters of Baghdad.”
In an apparent swipe at the domestic eavesdropping programme authorised by Mr Bush as part of the war against terror, Mr Carter recalled how Mrs King and her husband had been the targets of secret government wiretapping.
“It was difficult for them personally with the civil liberties of both husband and wife violated, and they became the targets of secret government wiretapping and other surveillance,” he said.
Mr Carter also referred to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as evidence that the struggle for civil rights was not complete. “We only have to recall the colour of the faces of those in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi who are most devastated by Katrina to know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans,” he said.
Mr Clinton was joined at the podium by his wife, Hillary. When he said how pleased he was to be in attendance with the current and former presidents a voice in the crowd shouted, “and the future president”, provoking first laughter and then applause.
Rev Joseph Lowery, who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Mr King, drew loud applause from the largely black congregation when he said in verse: “Millions without health insurance. Poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.”
Have you ever seen a more self-serving loathesome bunch? Clinton, pianolegs, peanutbrain and the rest of the race hucksters were right at home.
The only difference between the gruesome ghouls at the Wellstone funeral is that this was the sainted widow of the God of Civil Rights. If you respect her, respect the event. But no. Cheap people will ALWAYS behave cheaply.
Wellstone all over again.
As for Martin Luther King, I'm sick of hearing Republicans praise him. It wasn't that long ago that Republicans like Dick Cheney opposed the affirmative action lobby's push to create a national holiday in King's honor. Republicans rightfully resisted such a holiday because they knew that King was a fraud who had mistresses in every city he went to. Clearly, he didn't take Christianity too seriously and only used it as a stalking horse for his political agenda. Now Republicans rush to praise King out of fear of being called racist.