Who the Hell?

All the news today is about the poor manners of blacks and Democrats at the funeral of Coretta Scott King. “How dare those animals not behave themselves in the presence of such classy folks as George W. Bush?”

Jimmy Carter (former Democratic President, peace activist and Georgia native) and Rev. Joseph Lowery (former aid to Martin Luther King) eulogized their *personal* friend Coretta Scott King by promoting her legacy of non-violence and her opposition to war. She spent 50 years -- not enough of them at the arm of her husband because of the bullet of a) a maniacal racist who she was able to forgive or b) a vast government conspiracy involving the CIA, FBI, LBJ, RFK and KFC -- promoting non-violence.

And useless runts like Tucker Carlson, Ken Mehlman, Don Imus, Joe Lieberman and the rest of them think they know a better way to honor Coretta Scott King. Well, here's the deal Joe Lieberman. When you are invited to honor your toothless lover, er, friend George W. Bush at his funeral, you do it any way you like. Tucker Carlson, when Pat Robertson passes, you can write whatever eulogy you want. We level-headed, erect-walking men and women promise not to interfere. Ken Mehlman, when the insurance industry and tobacco industry and gun lobby and Haliburton pass away -- you know, all your closest friends -- you have free reign.

But don't you dare place ownership on President Carter and Rev. Lowery and think you can speak for a woman you never met, a woman whose legacy you've worked to subvert, a woman who would never turn to your for anything. Let President Carter and Rev. Lowery mourn their friend in the way they see fit. Let them politicize a political figure. Let them be activists around an activist figure. Let them remember her the way they knew her.