MARY LYON FROM THE LEFT: Truth Hurts, Doesn뭪 It, George?

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MARY LYON FROM THE LEFT: Truth Hurts, Doesn뭪 It, George?

By Mary Lyon -- World News Trust

They뭨e trying to 밯ellstone� us again. The republi-CONS and their media machine tools are busy trying to spank some of us for speaking our minds at the memorial for Coretta Scott King. They뭨e moaning and groaning and gnashing their teeth about the audacity of President Jimmy Carter and the Reverend Joseph Lowery, among others, who dared to slam Dubya in their eulogies. They whine about how these impertinent so-n-so뭩 dared to put politics into such a stirring, purportedly apolitical event. So let me apologize � in language they can understand: Bushian style. I뭢 SO sorry IF you were offended! 밫o the extent that� they MAY be guilty of some faux-pas, they should 뱓ake responsibility.� THERE! How 멳out that? An apology in true Bush post-Katrina alleged mea-culpa form.

How dare they complain? Perhaps they felt some compassionate conservatism rearing its ugly head from some deep nether region in their consciences. After all, wasn뭪 it such a terrible shame that poor dear George had to sit there like a pinned bug in a specimen collection, and take it? He was stuck � strategically positioned in a prime seat up on stage within a yo-yo뭩 arc of the podium from which the anti-Bush fire and brimstone emitted. An ironic, latter-day twist on the Scriptural passage that warns 뱓he last shall be first and the first shall be last.� Furthermore, Bush had to know he was on camera the whole time, even while he smirked, grimaced, tried to fake a congenial good-sport smile, and flipped through his program hoping all the unpleasantness might just go away if he didn뭪 look directly at it. La-la-la-la-la, I can뭪 hear you! I뭢 busy reading my little magazine here. And so뭩 my wife! What page you on, Laura honey? Sorry, George. Even the all-powerful don뭪 dominate everything. Or shield you from what you have coming to you.

What a shame that he had to sit there and remain calm while the smart remarks and snide comments pummeled him. The Reverend Lowery hit one rawther large bull뭩 eye: "We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there. But Coretta knew, and we knew, that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance. Poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor."

If that wasn뭪 stinging enough, by itself, Jimmy Carter threw a beauty of a one-two punch � at two of Bush뭩 tenderest vulnerabilities: "This commemorative ceremony this morning and this afternoon is not only to acknowledge the great contributions of Coretta and Martin, but to remind us that the struggle for equal rights is not over꿞e only have to recall the color of the faces of those in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, those who were most devastated by Katrina, to know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans." Not only that, but "It was difficult for them personally, with the civil liberties of both husband and wife violated as they became the target of secret government wiretapping, other surveillance, and as you know, harassment from the FBI."

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