At a comedian's funeral, would you expect jokes in the eulogy?

[MercutioATC]

At a union leader's funeral, would you expect statements about organized labor?

At a pastor's funeral, would you expect religious references?



Why, then, it it innapropriate for the eulogy of a political activist to contain political statements?

[immoderate]

1. Right!!!

This is a political event.

--IMM

[malaise]

8. Amen n/t

[redwitch]

2. who says it is?

It isn't, I don't think so anyway.

[MercutioATC]

4. Sorry, I assumed everybody had heard about the uproar in the MSM...

...there's a big deal being made of it.

[WinkyDink]

7. Let'em talk. Keep those issues up front!!

[redwitch]

12. I was listening to it on cspan in the car

haven't watched or listened to anybody else today. guess I'm glad. :hi:

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. Very, very good point

It would be a grave (pardon the pun) disservice to the legacy of Mrs. King not to bring up the issues to which she has devoted so much of her life. That many of these issues were against the current political structure is irrelevant.

[LisaM]

5. It's not, and don't let anyone tell you it was

If anyone says anything to me about this, I plan to fight back.

[BlueEyedSon]

6. OH NO, THEY ARE POLITICIZING MARTIN LUTHER KINGS MEMORY!!!!

:sarcasm:
:evilgrin:
:rofl:
:puke:

[qanda]

9. They aren't upset about political statements

They are upset about political statements that were against Bush.

[BlueEyedSon]

10. good call

[qanda]

17. Think about how many political statements were made at Rosa Parks' funeral

The only difference is that Bush wasn't there to hear them all. They're upset that Bush had to sit there, hear the truth and watch the reaction of the community that sees straight through him.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

11. I believe she would have wanted it so

and so did her family.

[MercutioATC]

14. It's what she spent her life doing...and what her husband died for.

I don't think there's a doubt that she would have approved.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

20. Freeps should fuss any more than

secular types fuss that it was a religious service! We need to get real.

[AnneD]

13. They can't co opt it

like they did at Wellstones so this is their way to get controlling spin on it. The DEM's trump them on this issue.
By God, when I die, I want folks to laugh, drink, eat a ton of good food and talk about my union work, lobbying for kids and healthcare (like I'm rolling in the bucks here) and hear some good music.

[hang a left]

15. This is one of the very few times I have ever agreed with you.

[MercutioATC]

18. I would say that the sun will rise in the East tomorrow...

...but I wouldn't want to push things...

:)

Thanks

[MnFats]

16. I get livid when they 'compare' this to Paul Wellstone's memorial service.

....Goddamn it, that was NOT a campaign rally. It was a memorial and a collective outpouring of grief.
I was there, you stupid freeper fucks. Three to five minutes of one speech goes over the top and the right latches on THAT like fucking lampreys. Assholes! you weren't there.
....Now LAY OFF Coretta Scott King, too!
....God will punish you!

[librechik]

19. oh, lord what a Johnny Carson flashback I just got

that great bit, where he does the eulogy for Roget, the author of the Thesaurus? ("defunct, deceased, at rest, croaked..")

The Pukkkes hate all our rituals. Of course they will use every opportunity to smear us, even at this time. What else is new?

[hopeisaplace]

21. Amen

[LisaM]

22. Y'know, when I think of Ronald Reagan being flown all over in his coffin

I don't think I have to listen to anyone talk about inappropriate. Funeral after funeral for that clod, eulogies full of egregious hypocrisy and lies, and yet somehow it's wrong to talk about our civil rights at the funeral of a civil rights leader.

[sandnsea]

25. Or tear down that wall

or any of the other piles of political bullshit that was spewed during that week. But because it fit with the corpo-media view, it was just speaking truth of Saint Ronnie. And Bush trying to ride the tails of Reagan, that was just being a patriotic Murican.

[EFerrari]

23. I got to attend a comedian's wake last October.

His friends and admirers rocked the house for hours in his honor.

[Critters2]

24. I'm a pastor

and just want to be clear....Religious references will be fine at my funeral. So will political ones. But none of those "a priest, a minister, and a rabbi" jokes. I've never heard one of those that was really funny. And I have priest and rabbi friends who might be offended ;-)

[The Flaming Red Head]

26. I've seen everything from cops serving warrants to drunk impromptu eulogies

and then when my dad died in the 1980s he had 5 1955 T-birds escort his hearse to the grave. (prettiest thing you ever saw, people pointed laughed and waved as the procession went by/ he'd have loved it) He was a charter member of the 55 T-bird club and also very Irish.

[genie_weenie]

27. The Graham Chapman Eulogies were comedic and heartwarming

Of Course, Monty Python rules...