Meet the Press Panel on MLK's Legacy
David Gregory asked his panel to reflect on Martin Luther King's lesson of non-violent protest in the aftermath of the shootings in Arizona. Peggy Noonan couldn't resist trying to paint Dr. King as some lofty figure that was above the fray of talking about "small and petty things" although I'm not quite sure just what ideas she thought were too "small and petty" for Dr. King have concerned himself with. The Rev. Al Sharpton's response was a nice reminder of just what specific issues Dr. King did stand for -- issues we could use more people standing up for today.
GREGORY: Peggy?
NOONAN: I think Dr. King's manner as a leader, his lovely gravity and seriousness, and his adherence to talking about big things, not small things and petty things, was an unknown and per-- almost unnoticed contribution to his age. Lemme say quickly on education, I would be optimistic about it, too, because the biggest thing that has happened in the past year on education is the extraordinary success of two documentaries, Waiting for Superman and The Lottery.
The reaction to those films made leaders on both parties and leaders on the right and left come together in agreement that we can move forward on the schools if we do specific things. I think Obama should use it as his Nixon to China.
GREGORY: And-- and State of the Union, Arizona, education, these are big themes.
BROOKS: Yeah. And there's something we can all do. My-- I'm for a quota system. If you talk to a liberal, talk to a conservative. If you read a liberal, read a conservative. If you find yourself gettin' outta whack, correct it.
GREGORY: Reverend?
SHARPTON: I think that-- we must use Dr. King's message of non-violence, yes. But also remember, he had concrete goals. He used those methods to get specific civil rights bills, specific voting rights act. So I think we can't just operate 40,000 feet in the air. We have to think high and then come to concrete resolutions. Education, protecting of the unemployed, we got to be concrete. Otherwise, Dr. King would have just been a dreamer. He was more than that. He changed reality.
GREGORY: And we'll making that the last word. Thank you all very much.
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Diabolus est Deus Inversus
"Obama should use it as his Nixon to China"
I say:
When Nixon went to China, it "began the start" of when China secretly declared long term economic war on America and began their slow steady ascent to finally where they are today...(kicking our asses).
which is not that great of a moment. (It's actually a terrible moment in fact)
I say "bad analogy Peggy" (unless she secretly meant it)
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How come it's always war when we don't like it. Nixon Shock. Milquetoast = Tea Party
"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master." - Hunter S. Thompson
Noonan and Brooks are utterly clueless about the legacy and life of Dr. King. But that's because they are small and petty people. Personally, I can't stand Peggy Noonan and her Marie Antoinette like condescension. Fortunately, Rev. Sharpton gets it better.
But Dr. King said it best himself in the excerpt from his "Drum Major for Justice" sermon--just 2 months before his death:
"If any of you are around when I have to meet my day, I don’t want a long funeral. And if you get somebody to deliver the eulogy, tell them not to talk too long. (Yes) And every now and then I wonder what I want them to say. Tell them not to mention that I have a Nobel Peace Prize—that isn’t important. Tell them not to mention that I have three or four hundred other awards—that’s not important. Tell them not to mention where I went to school. (Yes)
I'd like somebody to mention that day that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others. (Yes)
I'd like for somebody to say that day that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to love somebody.
I want you to say that day that I tried to be right on the war question. (Amen)
I want you to be able to say that day that I did try to feed the hungry. (Yes)
And I want you to be able to say that day that I did try in my life to clothe those who were naked. (Yes)
I want you to say on that day that I did try in my life to visit those who were in prison. (Lord)
I want you to say that I tried to love and serve humanity. (Yes)
Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. (Amen) Say that I was a drum major for peace. (Yes) I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. (Yes) I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind. (Amen) And that's all I want to say.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
Perfect! That superior tone of hers makes me crazy!
I just wish that Noonan would lay off the mimosas until after the show.
More likely boilermakers.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
this and as usual speaking like a woman with a forked tongue.
"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master." - Hunter S. Thompson
...because I DON'T GIVE A DAMN about what Ms. Peggy Noonan has to say about ANYTHING. When I see her face on TV, I turn it OFF. I just don't understand why she is held in such high esteem by cable news talking heads.
I did, however, read all of your comments on this thread, and am pleased to see that some of you feel the same way. bmw 528 NAILED her with "... Marie Antoinette-like condescension." Couldn't agree more.
W.E.L.
... always seems to be talking to little children who have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar.
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If you need funds to pay for frivolity, you have a spending problem
Did Peggy Noonan really just refer to Dr King's "lovely gravity"?
She disgusts me. I mean like seeing something really gross disgusts me. She affects my stomach, my digestive system. I have to carefully avoid her on TV because seeing her will put me off my feed for the rest of the day.
What could have happened to her to make her this way?
She comes across as a self righteous and better than though. I can't stand listening to her either.
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