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Tom Coburn Is Exactly Like Martin Luther King

by Tim F|  October 18, 20099:33 am| 11 Comments

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…in that people criticized MLK too.

That’s some quality hoekstroika right there.

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  1. 1.

    zoe kentucky in pittsburgh

    October 18, 2009 at 9:45 am

    First they compare Obama to Nazis/Hitler and now they’re comparing right-wing politicians to MLK?!??!

    That’s just deranged. If MLK were alive today they’d take him as seriously as they take Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

  2. 2.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 18, 2009 at 9:50 am

    Why stop with MLK? They criticized Jesus too, didn’t they?

    I rest my case.

  3. 3.

    Roger Moore

    October 18, 2009 at 10:27 am

    They just can’t help themselves, can they?

  4. 4.

    Tony J

    October 18, 2009 at 10:44 am

    Yeah, but consider:

    a) If you say Tom Coburn can’t be compared to Martin Luther King, you’re clearly just focusing on the colour of their skins, and so prove yourself an out-and-out racist.

    b) By comparing Coburn to King, the GOP are proving to the satisfaction of all reasonable people that they can’t possibly be racist themselves. After all, would a racist compare one of their own to one of ‘them’?

    You might think that there’s some kind of racially changed argument going on right now in which the GOP would like to be able to point to quotes proving how colour-blind and post-racial they are. But that’s just me being cynical.

  5. 5.

    Lou D. Jones

    October 18, 2009 at 10:53 am

    “If MLK were alive today they’d take him as seriously as they take Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.”

    Which is exactly what they did while he was, um, alive. Except he wasn’t a joke- he was a deadly serious threat to the American way of life.

    It just floors me how they are now all on the King-and-Lewis bandwagon (nice try, McCain), when the wingers all hated them back in the day.

  6. 6.

    superluminar

    October 18, 2009 at 10:54 am

    talking about persecution, I just came across this on RedState:

    Posted by Erick Erickson (Profile)

    Saturday, October 17th at 7:05PM EDT
    11 Comments

    No doubt it was a leftist who did it, but somebody just tried to register me, with my personal email address, at that Stormfront Neo-Nazi website.

    Nice try. Luckily those people have you confirm your email address, which came to me.

    Try, try again morons.

    BTW, no doubt if they had done this successfully, MSNBC would have run breaking news throughout the day that I’m a member there — just like using the fake Limbaugh quotes to ruin his chances of buying the Rams.

    Teh Awesome. I’m surprised he’s not already a member though.

  7. 7.

    Fergus Wooster

    October 18, 2009 at 11:11 am

    @Lou D. Jones:

    They still hate King and Lewis now. When they think they’re safely among their own and unrecorded, they refer to MLK day as “Ni**er Day”, and still bitch that it’s a federal holiday. (“He didn’t set me free”.) Sometimes if they’re really frisky, they’ll speculate about the “Obama Day” we’ll have in the future, leaving unspoken the martyrdom that implies.

    These same people will insist in other company that they’re not racist, and they’re just “concerned” about Obama’s ties and policy positions.

    If I thought them capable of irony, I’d say their comparing themselves to MLK is a deliberate smear of MLK.

  8. 8.

    Warren Terra

    October 18, 2009 at 11:13 am

    @ superluminar
    Even granting Erick’s delusion that MSNBC would care enough about him to report it, how’d MSNBC know what email lists he’s subscribed to? He thinks MSNBC reads his email or something?

  9. 9.

    Warren Terra

    October 18, 2009 at 11:17 am

    The “fake Rush quotes” is also funny. It’s like when the Starbursts crew insist she’s a genius and we’re all responding to Tina Fey’s prformances, and Sarah herself always spoke perfect wisdom.

  10. 10.

    asdf

    October 18, 2009 at 11:42 am

    Dr. King was murdered for his efforts to bring equality to Jim Crow America. He was assassinated!

    That’s a big difference right there.

  11. 11.

    Mike

    October 18, 2009 at 1:26 pm

    If MLK were alive today, he’d be a Republican who opposes affirmative action and anything else that might help poor people as “reverse racism”.

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