CNN: "Some people say" MLK was a conservative [View all]

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Your lib'rul media in action, folks.
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Look, we have found a single “article” that is a great example of everything wrong with journalism and a lot of things wrong with conservatism, ALL AT THE SAME TIME! Pretty amazing, right? It is not often that we get to make fun of CNN, contemporary American journalism, and conservatives all in the same post, so this is a rare treat! Ready? In but a few moments, you will be exposed to a torrential downpour of idiocy, and forced to examine the possibility that American journalism has basically turned into community theater.

As the nation celebrates King’s national holiday Monday, a new battle has erupted over his legacy. Some conservatives are saying it’s time for them to reclaim the legacy of King, whose message of self-help, patriotism and a colorblind America, they say, was “fundamentally conservative.”
But those who marched with King and studied his work say that notion is absurd. The political class that once opposed King, they argue, is now trying to distort his message.

Look at all the stupid things that happened just in these first couple paragraphs. There are so many, we will just discuss a few of them. So here we have Peter Schramm, a “conservative historian,” who is presented alongside people who “marched with King,” and people who “studied his work,” i.e. actual civil rights activists and bona fide scholars. This is to avoid the appearance of “bias,” and so instead of treating Peter Schramm’s ridiculous argument as a ridiculous argument, which it is, and Peter Schramm as kind of ignorant about the Southern Freedom Movement, which he seems to be, he is accorded authority equal to that of ACTUAL scholars and historians, and presented alongside them as though his credibility is equivalent to theirs, which it is not.

http://wonkette.com/497759/cnn-was-martin-luther-king-jr-conservative-some-say-but-others-dont#cCO538ctgxMEyrG8.99

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Naturally, the Freepers have a thread up today to push this.

So, just to review, conservative history tells us:
1. Hitler was a dyed-in-the wool liberal
2. Communism and Nazisim are interchangable, and all lib'ruls are both
3. MLK was really an Ayn Rand-er
4. The civil war wasn't about slavery and the south wasn't racist
5. The founding fathers were all Reaganists and members of the religious right
5. Obama was not born in the U.S. and Jimi Hendrix was his dad (seriously, they really have tried that line)

and these folks accused Howard Zinn of being a revisionist...