Even though he was a hardcore liberal, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. surely would be embarrassed if he were to return from the grave today, 42 years after his assassination.
Whether he turned on the television or opened his favorite newspaper, Dr. King would observe, with a wry eye, a rogue’s gallery of vulgar low-brow liberal black and white commentators who nearly strangle themselves supposedly defending his golden legacy. Like addicts who can’t help themselves, these puerile liberal boys and girls have a peculiar way of presenting themselves as latter-day warriors for the causes that made you one of the two or three most important persons of the last century.
Without your extraordinary courage, Dr. King, modern slavery, the post-Civil War remanding of blacks to second- and third-class status, never would have ended.
Two generations after your death, the correlation between your victories over the white establishment and latter-day liberal scribblers/commentators is non-existent.
Advancing the cause of political equality for the black community is too bland, too esoteric, truthfully too scholarly for them.
Soberly studying the extraordinary Presidency of Barack Obama is beyond their intellectual ken.
If They Only Hated Terrorists as Much as the GOP
Instead of conducting themselves as mature, reasonably objective chroniclers of fast-shifting history, they act, wink-wink, like high school boys who sneak out back to swallow an illegal beer. They stoop to conquer instead of rising to honorable challenges.
Instead of evaluating the daily performances of the hundreds of Democrats who have been leading our country for the past year, they blindly character-assassinate the enemy, the Republican Party. Liberals suffer from a sickness. They can’t stop talking about The Other Guys, how much they hate them because of the way they foul the air they breathe.
The five most vilified persons in America, daily, are Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Dick Cheney and Michael Steele, even though none of the five hold elective office.
Liberal essayists act as if it is illegal to comment critically about Democrats, who hold every key office in America. These anti-erudite liberals act as if they never have heard of the daily doings of the most vibrant organization in America, Whores for Obama — a not-exclusive coterie of appointed, elected and wannabe Obama stooges who have dedicated their lives to fending off all who would inspect His Oneness.
Two phenomena presently are flowing like parallel poisonous streams through the formerly honorable craft of journalism.
One despicable habit is to either ignore or rush to defend offensive remarks by all members of the Democrat Party.
The other is to instinctively treat all Republicans and conservatives as if they were child-abusing, wife-beating, tax-dodging outlaws elusively on the lam.
In spite of encouraging signs — such as tomorrow’s Senate race in Massachusetts, where the Republican has a fair chance to snatch Teddy Kennedy’s old seat — Republicans, nationally, have less power and influence than the gas jockey who fills your tank at the corner service station.
To read the newspapers or tune into any television channel except Fox News, though, you would think that Mr. Beck and Mr. Limbaugh are the main causes of the recession scandals, that Mr. Cheney drugged Mr. Bush to start the present wars, and that Ms. Palin has slept with all men over 18 in Missouri, Ohio, Iowa and Indiana.
Who Has Achieved More?
By objective yardsticks, Ms. Palin’s oldest child, in the military, has accomplished more in the last 12 months than Swish Obama, who, many Americans are figuring out, is a repetitious, cloudy-speaking, frequently disengaged and notably unimaginative leader. Terrorists feared President Bush. They knew he would strike them. Terrorists do not fear Swish. Look at the way the Smiling Dwarf in Iran has treated Swish like a yo-yo, made a fool of the American President, who does not know when he is being mocked. Fully one-third of the terror attempts against America were engineered after Swish took office.
As President Obama marks his first-year anniversary on Wednesday, and his first time as President on Dr. King’s national holiday, his ratings are abysmal. They range between 46 and 53 percent, depending on the poll you favor, a cataclysmic fall for a virginal hero adored last January by every black and many whites.
No matter whether your primary reading preference is the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times or the Washington Post, one year after his coronation, you scarcely have read a single critical thought about the President.
You would think Swish still was a late 40s virgin with, miraculously, 10 children.
How can that be? ordinary Americans want to know.
Swish’s ratings are swimming with the fishies, at or near historic all-time lows.
The American people recognize him as a shell of a man, empty of meaningful contents, seemingly incapable of making a decision that will stick even if commentators continue to lambaste powerless Republicans instead of evaluating the performances of Democrats. This is like watching an exciting baseball game and then writing about a parking lot attendant 50 miles away.
I am sorry, Dr. King. At least among liberals, no one has emerged to carry on your crusade. Even if one did, heaven knows there would be no honest liberal man or woman to fairly chronicle it. You might have to hear about it first on Fox News.
