The Ed Morrissey Show: Kevin McCullough
posted at 1:00 pm on January 19, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Kevin McCullough joins us again to discuss the intersection of faith and politics. On Martin Luther King Day, it seems like a good moment to discuss the intersection of faith and politics. Have we achieved Dr. King’s dream? Yesterday was Sanctity of Life Day, and we’ll talk about the Bush administration and the pro-life cause. Did Kevin and Stephen Baldwin convince the E-Bay Virgin to end the auction? I’m certain I’ll squeeze in a mention of the Steelers victory last night, too. We’ll also talk about BMX Radio Now, Kevin and Stephen’s exploding success in independent talk radio, as well as Kevin’s book, The Kind of Man Every Man Should Be: Taking a Stand for True Masculinity.
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Imus played “I Have A Dream Speech” you can listen here.
http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/01/abraham-martin-and-john.html
Dr Evil on January 19, 2009 at 1:38 PM
Let us not forget that many of our friends in the south will be celebrating Robert E. Lee Day, today.
RightWinged on January 19, 2009 at 1:40 PM
“I know something for a sure thing,” Hitchens continued. “The demand for torture and other methods I would describe as illegal, the demand to go outside the Geneva conventions — all this came from below. What everyone wants to say is this came from a small clique around the vice-president. It’s not educational. It doesn’t enlighten anyone to behave as if that were true. This is our society wanting and demanding harsh measures.” Therefore, he went on, the demand for prosecution or other measures against Bush administration officials would likewise have to come from below, via the grassroots. “Otherwise it’s just vengeful, I suppose, and partisan.”
Christopher Hitchens
Hitch is right on this. I disagreed with these methods, but they did come from demand from below. And the idea of prosecuting the Bush Administrtion for it is wrong becuase if it did come from below, a change in attitude would be really over the economy tanking not the use of these techniques.
Mr. Joe on January 19, 2009 at 2:39 PM
Martin Luther failed.
He proclaimed that his “dream” was that
(people would be) “judged by their character and not the color of their skin.”
Ninety-five percent of Black voters just voted for
Barack Obama, presumed to be, also, “Black.”
“America’s first Black President,” so he’s called today,
and about what most of those ninety-five percenters
with the pariticipation of others or similar affect
of other “colors” are all excited about this week in D.C.
Race. Black race, at that.
So Martin Luther King’s dream remains unfulfilled.
Sorry, MLK, it was a sweet dream, hope someday it
reaches fruition but I think that’d be in the hereafter
and never on Earth. Mankind makes evaluations that
suits self and that’s not likely to change any time
soon, if ever.
S on January 19, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Excellent point, S. Countless blacks openly admit that they voted for him because he’s black. Many others, black or otherwise, simply said “it’s time” for a black president (Hillary supporters said the same of a woman president). Then you’ve got all the stupid college kids who think they’re so awesome and progressive by voting for a black guy, and aged hippies trying to cure their white guilt, etc. etc.
I’ve yet to hear a single person articulate any real reason why the supported or voted for Obama, so beyond the open admission by man, we’re left to conclude that he was judged on the color of his skin, not the content of his character.
If he had been judged on the content of his character, he’d never hold any public office. Terrorist friends, terrorist sympathizer friends, 20 years in a black separatist conspiracy theory anti-American church, leaving a half brother to live on a $1/month in a shack in Africa, playing the race card in his campaign, claiming courts should work towards redistributing wealth, a wife who clearly has anti-American views which he’s okay with, picking tax evaders to head the economy, and filling most other positions with Clinton people while shouting “Change”. If we look at his character, we’re justifiably terrified to see him becoming the most powerful man in the world.
RightWinged on January 19, 2009 at 4:18 PM