I don’t want to talk about the actual comments at the funeral. Some people criticized many of the comments made at Mrs. King’s funeral Including Kate O’Beirne on Hardball last night. King Moonbat Digby of Hullabaloo took issue with her comments and led the charge with this salvo:

If you haven’t read about it elsewhere, President Bush apparently looked a bit sheepish at Coretta Scott King’s funeral service today. Why? Because two speakers had the gall to talk about the values the Kings stood for: fighting poverty, fighting racial division, standing up for working Americans.

Yes, it had to be unpleasant for poor little President Bubble Boy having to deal with something other than his hand-picked sycophants. He’s probably never even

Typically, his supporters’ knee jerk response is to rhetorically lynch African Americans.

He is obviously all broken up over Mrs. Kings death.

This was the cue for his commentors to cut loose:

I thought that the Anti-war sentiments were very appropriate for the funeral of a civil-rights leader. Fuck anyone who feels the need to tell someone how to grieve! I thought that it was a great occasion (especially in front of Bush) to show disapproval of the bullshit that’s going on. No doubt the Kings are spinning in the grave.
Dee

The GOP: not satisfied in just controlling our lives–now controlling our funerals.
Halfdan

Kate and those like her took the fun out of erals a long time ago.
old gold

Some Freeper (white, no doubt) talked about how it ‘demeaned the teachings of MLK’.

Such as, y’know, ‘know your place, boy’.

Kate the Hate is just reading the script.
pseudonymous in nc

Was I the only one hoping Bruce Campbell would summersault onto the set with a 12-gauge double-barreled Remington and say: “Shop Smart. Shop S-Mart!”?
Rotilam

when, OH WHEN? ???? ? is the march on MSNBC?

the scumbags in the MSM need a lesson.
sockmonkey

Any red blooded aryan employee of the Rethuglcan screech machine knows that you never ever pass up an opportunity to insult a Democrat. Social Darwinists attack non-stop. They are lizard brains. That’s what they do They don’t hold discussions with the proles, after all. They aim to take us out.

And they did score big with the Wellstone service, didn’t they?

It is time to ignore them and the propaganda ministry that puts them on the air. The system is rigged.

Mad King George III is back, just like in 1776. Somebody is trying to tell us something. It is time for revolution. It’s the American way.
Anonymous

Oh boy, it sure is get the niggers day here in good ‘ol Naziland USA. First McCain on Obama, and now this nonsense. Talk about solidifying the base. I’m surprised the two Bush zombies didn’t come out wearing white sheets.
Pechorin

UA Yes he really said that

Dem’ Bushies, dey’ sure do love dem’ some dead black civil rights leaders, don’t dey’? Pity dey’ don’t give a !@#$ ’bout dem’ while dey’s alive, eh?
darms

At hers someday, the most fitting
-mourner will be the one who brings
-the stake.
Peanut

Actually I’d just bring a full bladder to Katie’s funeral. Just
like at the end of dubya’s funeral
I’d like to be there to piss on the grave.
Anonymous

Oh and I love to piss on Poppy’s grave to along with that alien harpy “Bar”.
rondea, ghost

Given that this is the man who used the Willie Horton ads in 1988 and who used the most sordid forms of racial politics in his runs for the Senate and congress, who was Ronald Reagan’s VP and who elevated that most prominent hater of black people - Clarence Thomas- to the Supreme Court, the sentence is too generous.

George H. W. Bush might not be a racist himself, though I believe he probably is, but he’s sure willing to make common cause with them if he thinks it will get him what he wants.
EPT

Why can’t they have good Negroes there? JC Watts jr., Condoleeza, Lynn Swan, or Colin Powell. There not like those other uppity coloreds. They show the dignity and respect that George Bush and HW Bush have for the plight of Negroes today.
Kate Walsh

Hey *Kahn*, or maybe I should say “Kahane”, you are in no fucking position, eh Shylock? The grand Skull and Bones white boys of the RNC are never gonna give YOUR KIND any real power, except maybe to do a “Roy Cohn” for them. So shut the fuck up.
secondharmonic

So was our President ambushed or bushwacked? What an amazing episode for the entire country: someone with the moral authority and brass to take President Spoiled Brat out behind the woodshed. Maybe it will be remembered as the turning point in the second American revolution. Let’s hope the GOP Brownshirts make a big issue out of this, as big as Dean’s scream, then everyone who missed it, will see.
Brian Jackson

Yes Brian we shall see. Every time I think the Democratic Party has hit bottom, it finds a new low.

Bloggers on both sides are talking about the funeral, and the reaction to the funeral and the reaction to the reaction. Here are a few of them:

Decision08 recognizes the new President of the NAACP for his comments.

As we’ve been discussing in other threads, there is some disagreement over whether the activities at King’s funeral yesterday were disrespectful, inappropriate, meanspirited, or any and all of the above. For the record, at least one prominent black leader praised Bush for attending:

“President Bush was where he should have been,” said Bruce S. Gordon, the new president of the NAACP. “Coretta Scott King is a very important figure in black American history and American history. I thought it was appropriate for the president to be there to honor her.”

Expose the Left calls the service Wellstone II.

Outside the Beltway thought President Bush gave an elequent tribute.

The Political Pit Bull asks to imagine the reaction if President Bush had made a political statement in his remarks at King’s funeral today.

Stop the ACLU takes particular issue with Jimmy Carter’s comments.

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