February 7, 2006
Hannity & Colmes played a few clips from the Paul Wellstone “funeral”.
Compare and contrast this video to Lowery and Carter’s ‘speeches’ today.
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Independent Conservative sent in some audio of the Wellstone funeral that played on The Sean Hannity Show this afternoon.
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NOTE: If you have video or know where video can be found of the funeral service please let me know.
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12:01 am [ Quote ]
http://exposetheleft.com/2006/02/07/paul-wellstone-ii-the-coretta-scott-king-funeral/
posts 16 & 17.
What is wrong with these people? But I guess a publicly covered funeral is a cheap way to campaign and not use your own $$, which apparently they are having trouble managing.
12:51 am [ Quote ]
Visit and read your site multiple times a day ~ keep up the fantastic work, Ian.
God speed!
1:12 am [ Quote ]
RIP: Rest in Politics…
I’m sure behind all the politicking and partisan jabs, the Democrats truly wanted to thank Mrs. King—not for her civil rights’ struggles—but for dying in an election year so they could kick off their campaign season… or as it’s become affect…
1:15 am [ Quote ]
Dems Hijack Coretta King Funeral…
Liberals just cant keep from stepping in it. Who could forget January 16, 2006, when Democrats used Martin Luther King, Jr. Dayto divide the country and bash President Bush by using racially inflammatory iconography?Hillary Clinton said to a mostly….
1:38 am [ Quote ]
i don’t understand the problem with the wellstone funeral (full disclosure: i live in minnesota). he was a man who dedicated his life to politics and gathering support for the causes he believed in. the folks whose speeches were the most controversial were his family and close friends. who are you to say its disrespectful if they don’t?
very few people who were wellstone supporters when he was alive complained about the memorial service. my only complaint was that it caused possibly the worst bus ride i’ve ever taken, with all the people headed to pay their respects apparently deciding to board the no. 6 bus at the same time i did.
1:38 am [ Quote ]
I dare say they run a funeral like a plantation.
2:08 am [ Quote ]
The depths that republicans go to gain political advantage know no bounds. I was at Paul wellstone’s memorial and rick Kahn was the only person to politicize the service to any degree. Republican scumbags made it sound like it was a rally when in fact it was just a memorial service.
2:10 am [ Quote ]
FIRSTHAND ACCOUNTS ALERT
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(sorry)
2:38 am [ Quote ]
Chris, political ranting rarely appears in memorial services.
4:53 am [ Quote ]
Coretta Scott King Funeral…
President Bush gave an eloquent tribute to Coretta Scott King at what has to be the longest funeral I have ever seen. He was talking when I was getting read to leave for the airport and the procession of speakers and performers appeared not to be win…
7:05 am [ Quote ]
The Wellstone Memorial Revisited…
The Coretta King funeral seemed like the 2002 Wellstone Memorial fiasco. The Democrats put on quite a show at King’s funeral. Jimmy Carter was the most offensive in his partisan diatribe.Bill Clinton was promoting his wife for the 2008 run…...
9:17 am [ Quote ]
Ok maggotstatues brings a good point. “who are you to say its disrespectful if they don’t?? I see your point.
However, that is a place I would never gamble my chances. I would never have the indecency to ask the survivors if I could use their lost one’s funeral for my own political platform. And I most certainly would not just do it in hopes that the crowd would not be upset about it.
A funeral is supposed to be a funeral. If you want to use that person as a prop, idol, whatever, for your later political pep rally, then get permission from the family and have at it. But a funeral is a funeral. And I still think it is a disgrace to this country.
The more times things like this happens, and the more I research Mike Moore, Dean, Hillary, Kennedy, etc, (and go back to college), I become more and more confident that I made the right choice in switching to conservative-republican (from conservative-democrat). Republicans are far from perfect as well, but as of late, they seem to be operating with a lot more class and professionalism than the Democrats.
And Chris, he criticized the way Wellstone’s funeral turned into a political pep rally. Complaining about someone else exploiting a funeral like this is not politicizing it. Making political speeches and blatantly asking for support is politicizing it.
9:26 am [ Quote ]
Elevators are for slow people.
9:47 am [ Quote ]
Has Hannity apologized to Abner Louima yet, for publicly accusing him of being a liar and a homosexual? ‘Cause if he hasn’t, then Sean needs to stay out of black people’s business.
12:52 pm [ Quote ]
The Kings’ Nightmare…
That Was the Coretta Scott King Memorial Harangue.
Contrast this cartoon with the “I Have A Nightmare” memorial that was the funeral service for Coretta Scott King. Martin Luther King had a dream, however after thirty years, his dream has…
1:30 pm [ Quote ]
I just wanted to emphasize again that the outrage seems like a cyncical smokescreen to distract from and Mrs. King’s leegacy , paint democrats as deluded and out of touch, and imply that the work of advancing civil rights is over.
And, for those who thing it was unfair to bring up criticisms of the modern American situation in a setting where the president couldn’t respond: He’s the FREAKING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES! How much larger a platform for response can you ask for?
2:17 pm [ Quote ]
lonelone: You are nuts!
Jimmy “The Crown Prince of Appeasement” Carter and the welfare pimp Lowry turned Coretta’s funeral into a partisan political event and verbally attacked the President of the United States; then when conservatives, Republicans, moderates and even some leading Democrats complain about their boorish, disrespectful behavior, you charge them with creating a “cynical smokescreen.”
So in your bizarro liberal fantasy world the perpetrators of these crimes against decency are actually innocent victims, of their intended victims of these verbal attacks. That is insane!
The President was subjected to demeaning, ad hominem attacks by men without class, decency and honor; and he could hardly defend himself during a funeral service to honor Mrs. King. So, he had no platform on that day to defend his policies!
Lastly, no one would assert that all work on civil rights are over in this country; on the other hand, it is the left that has denied minorities the opportunities to succeed in this country, because they want to keep them enslaved to the welfare state and dependent upon the generosity of the left, with other peoples money, to support their irresponsible lifestyles. It is your side that has made excuses for minority failures, instead of giving them the tools and the responsibilities that will enable them to truly prosper. If there is any lingering racism and poverty in this country pal, it is your side of the political fence that is fueling the fires in your lust for political power in order to establish a socialist utopia in the United States.
Either you should stop drinking the liberal kool aid and think for yourself, or immediately check into a mental hospital because your have lost your cotton picking mind!
7:27 pm [ Quote ]
I agree with, partially, with assessment your of what welfare has done. Partially. I also agree that social programs should act as tools for success, instead of the european-style dependency programs. Don’t start this crap about sides. There are enough idiots in my own party. I know that.
The attacks were not ad hominem. That doesn’t mean what you think it means. They didn’t mention him by name or impugne his character – they criticized his policies and decisions. And, “Crimes against decency?” Whose decency? Where would the world be if no one had ever pepetrated a crime against someone’s arguably nonsensical sense of decency?
Also, “men without class and honor”? What is your standard? How impossibly high is it?
8:07 pm [ Quote ]
Lone: According to the dictionary Ad Hominem means– “Appealing to people’s emotions and beliefs rather than their ability to think.? Both Lowry and Carter were not dealing in facts, they were engaging in verbal attacks which were meant to appeal to the emotions of those listening versus presenting facts and engaging in reason. You then said, “They didn’t mention him by name or impugn his character – they criticized his policies and decisions.? There was no doubt in anyone’s mind in that audience or those watching by television that both men were directly attacking President Bush, as they assume everyone believes Bush is a racist, a war monger and an idiot! You can, in fact, attack a person without ever directly mentioning their name. These were verbal attacks on the person of President Bush, cloaked in allusions to policies.
Yeah, I have set an impossibly high standard! It has always been accepted among that small college of ex-Presidents that, you do not engage in verbal attacks on a sitting President in time of war, especially outside the United States. Carter has attacked the President in virtually every country he has visited, and spoken out against the United States and its policies, giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States. Both men used a solemn occasion of a funeral, as their party did during the late Senator Wellstone’s funeral to launch partisan attacks on the Republican Party and President Bush. I could list many other offenses of both men, but the point is no person of class would use the dead body of another for partisan political purposes, which both men did on this occasion. When a person is willing to give aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States in a time of war that, it is to act dishonorably, absent all honor and decency.
Had either man kept their comments limited to honoring Mrs. King and then after the funeral made public speeches saying the same things, then that would have been acting in the spirit of a loyal opposition and while I still disagree with their loose use of the facts, that would have at least been an honorable way to oppose President Bush and his policies. Why did they use the funeral for such partisan purposes? Because they cannot win at the ballot box, because most of their ideas are limited to attacking the other party and they have no policies to offer that would be acceptable to the public. So they used the only public forum available and if that meant standing on Coretta’s dead carcass, they didn’t care, it was their chance to attack Bush and they were not going to let it pass them by.
8:15 pm [ Quote ]
What’s the point with any of this “outrage” at the speakers at both funerals? Unless you’re a family member of the deceased, then what right do you have to say what should or should not be said at their funerals? Both King and Wellstone were very involved in politics and of course the speeches at their funerals will reflect that.
You disagree with their politics? That’s fine. I disagree with 90% of the stuff that was said at Coretta’s funeral but who am I to be outraged? Am I her relative? No. The republican party has not one single black congreessman so who the heck are they to complain about how they conduct a funeral of one of their own? Pretending to be “outraged” or calling the speakers “hateful” is ridiculous. They weren’t hateful. The speeches certainly disagreed with Bush’s policies and direction for the country but that is no where near close to hate.
Umm, I actually agree with at least some of your opinions on civil rights today. Attacking the speakers for their ideas is perfectly ok, but claiming they are hateful is just plain rubbish. In fact, this “outrage” by conservatives and republicans is not going to do anything to bring the two sides closer to dialogue and discussion, but instead further polarize, dividie and incite people.
9:24 pm [ Quote ]
The Robot: I can absolutely assure you that the hate and heated, hate filled rhetoric will only grow worse in the coming years. There is a great moral/spiritual divide in this country and I believe political paralysis and fear will rule this country because neither side wants to give up their most cherised ideals for this country.
We are now engaged in another great (social) civil war. Not with weapons or war or with neat geographic boundaries, but nonetheless it is a war for the very heart of America and I cannot see any hope for change absent a great national catastrophe that forces people to set aside their divisions and seek a better solution to our problems. Yet, even then one side will win and the other will lose, just like in our last Civil War, and I cannot predict which one will prevail.
As to the funeral, I remain convinced the words of Lowery and Carter lacked class and decency. On the other hand, I wish now I had focused more on the lovely words and gracious manner of President George W. Bush during the funeral, and left the hate mongering Lowery and Carter to their own bitter ends.
2:08 pm [ Quote ]
Take it from a Minnesota conservative, that isn’t what happened at the Wellstone funeral.
One of the workers and or son got up and highjacked the funeral. Then another got up and did the same. His, Wellstone’s campain director (friend of sister and brother in-law) had no idea they were going to do that. In fact the next day the poor boy was in complete shock because he knew these scum had politisize the funeral and any chances they had of winning were sunk.
“Win for Paul Wellstone” chant got to be a sad joke here.
Just setting the record straight. I was there.
Carter at the King funeral is another matter. Who the heck was his wife anyways? What’s next a politisize funeral for King’s gardener when he passes?
9:23 pm [ Quote ]
Poor ol Jim Carter. What a grouchy old man. Bah..humbug. Eat some worms.
6:01 pm [ Quote ]
Coretta King’s funeral was a side show. What else would one expect from the leaders of a movement bent on restoring welfare benefits through extortion of the American taxpayers, this time through current slave reparation lawsuits? And, they are getting away with it! Is this what Mrs. King would have wanted? Let’s hope not.
The criminal mindset that supports the above type activity, to me, is generated by like individuals that would cover up the good deeds of decent folks as they have always done. When I was growing up in the deep south, it was a common practice for people like me to give up their seat in the white section of a crowded bus to elderly folks, “no matter the color,” long before Rosa Parks, or Mr. or Mrs. King came along. However, this is not what these individuals will admit, and it is not what you will see or hear about, because it will die with folks like me instead of being taught as historical fact, unless we get rid of activist judges, and get more people with commonsense in our educational systems as well. Would Mrs. King want this to happen? Sadly, we will most likely never know.
The above example is a method of operation which attempts to hide the truth through censoring the goodwill of the majority of Americans for the benefit of a minority. This same type of censorship fueled by one-sided reporting is also commonplace with hate crimes. Take the dragging-death of the black man in Texas: This event will be broadcast by them and the media, like the Holocaust, for generations to come on a frequent basis, not just because it is horrific, but because its fits their profile. However, the white man who was pulled from his semi-truck in Los Angeles while stopped at a red light, and had his face “crushed” by a black man, remains hushed. The same media exposure can be said for all the innocent white victims maimed and killed in drive by shootings in the rioting across America during the 1960s and 1970s, which were “black led.” These people became victims of violence simply because they walked down the street, or was standing on the street corner in the middle of their town! Where are all these murdering militants today? Why have these victims gone to their graves without constant media coverage like those in the events aforementioned?! Is this an example of good journalism? Consider the rapes, murders, and other horrific crimes perpetrated by blacks against white citizens of all ages that get little, if any, exposure at all; such is their method of operation, and such is justice to those of us in America who are not black. Consider the fact that these same people do not believe that blacks can be racist, that it is a trait of other people, but not them! Is this what Mr. and Mrs. King, and Rosa Parks stood for? Is this the legacy to the individual who took something that had been a common phrase since ancient times like, I have a Dream, and made it famous? If it is not what the civil rights movement represents, then why does this same movement reap such poison fruit each and every day in our country? This, plus the criticism our President and First Lady received for the benefit of America’s enemies, and those whose aims are self-serving, at a time “normal people” would dedicate to mourning the passing of another human being.
Thank God for the internet, but regrettably so for the sad circus at Mrs. King’s funeral. This which brings to mind another example of an old plain truth: Give a man enough rope and he’ll hang himself. Well, the true face of the leaders behind the civil rights movement may not ever be in our post offices, but it is burned in the minds eye of decent people all around the world…along with the ugly movement they represent which is saturated with greed and extortion. It is not what decent people want in America. I think Mr. and Mrs. King, and Rosa Parks would regret what the civil rights movement has done to people of all colors.