CNN- Bush coordinated "extensively" with MLK Family for trip - is it true?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

Anyone have info on this?

[elfwitch]

1. I read that he invited himself

n/t

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

3. do you have a link?

[elfwitch]

8. there was a thread about it in LBN and here in GD too, I think...

n/t

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

11. thanks

[cthrumatrix]

13. i read the same...he called -- he said he was going-- would they be togeth

[Sagan]

2. Sure it's true!

Chimpy -- I'm coming down for the ceremony.

MLK Family -- well, we'd rather you didn't. The security arrangements will be a huge pain and people won't be able to pay their respects as we'd like them to.

Chimpy -- Great, I'll be there at 3. Glad that's settled. Make sure no darkies are protesting, ok?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

4. LOL

that was sweet! :)

[Catfish]

6. Very funny

Thanks!

[FreeperSlayer]

7. Yep

There was a thread up this morn.

[One Taste]

23. hahaha that was great!

[leftchick]

5. it is a LIE!

as with everything else this misadministration says assume it is a lie. They decided yesterday on this photo op and pissed off the organizers in Atlanta over it. Check out LBN for the thread from yesterday. :grr:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

9. Why is there almost 0 coverage about this?

[leftchick]

15. because the protesters are interrupting chimpy's photo op

can't have the rest of murica think people don't love heir shrub.

[Disandra]

24. There is Coverage!

At least here in Atlanta-metro area. This is their lead story for the 5 o'clock news and the 6 o'clock news, and they are showing "ads" (for lack of a better word) promoting their newscasts.

Quote:
"President Bush is in town to celebrate MLK..but he isn't receiving the attention he wants. Hundreds turn out to protest. Watch Fox 5 at 5!"

They also did a segment last night on their 10 o'clock newscast broadcasting a rally condemning Bush.

There is also a great article on the AJC newspaper site:

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/0104/15kingvisit.html

Hundreds of protesters greeted President Bush in Atlanta shortly before 4 p.m. as he placed a wreath on the grave of Martin Luther King Jr. on what would have been the slain civil rights leader's 75th birthday.

Buddhists chanting, students beating African drums and others shouting "Bush go home" burst past barriers but were driven back by police who, in an attempt to corral the protesters, parked four MARTA buses between the protesters and the grave site.

{...}

Police had said they planned to keep the protestors 500 feet away from Kings crypt but the protesters, teeming just across Auburn Avenue, were much closer and could see the president as he placed the wreath.

[proud patriot]

10. The organizers of the event today said he invited himself

I heard it on KPFA radio Democracy Now this morning.

[Terwilliger]

14. Now to watch the "evening news" reaction...see if their story...

mentions anything about the controversy

Maybe with the protests, they'll have to! :bounce:

[Disandra]

25. I know for a fact that FOX 5 is.

AJC has has article on it. (See my above post)

wOOt!

/way to excited that the media is actually acting like the media

[tom_paine]

12. Lie--CNN is the official organ of the Busheviks

No, that's not right. That's Faux. CNN just lazily follows in it's wake while repeating and laundering many lies for them.

[David Zephyr]

18. Ah, Tom...You Know That Bush Has Four Organs.

Murdoch News (Fox, Weekly Standard & NY Post) , Corporate Cable News (CNN), and General Electric News (NBC & MSNBC) and the Moonie Times (Washington Times).

:hi:

[nostamj]

16. Coretta is giving the POS a 5min meeting

or, the chimp will only spend 5 minutes with her.

drop the wreath, blather blather blather, and off to the REAL fun... $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

i despise that POS more and more with each passing day

is quoted as saying he was "NOT invited"

[leftchick]

19. I wish she would refuse to meet with him...

:grr: she knows what a fucking hypocrite he is...

[ElsewheresDaughter]

17. heard on MSNBC and CNN earlier.....Coretta King said"Bush invited himself"

[ewagner]

20. If Bush* "coordinated extensively" for this trip

then how come:

They didn't have the barricades back far enough to keep the early protestors out and had to move buses in to block view of the pResident?

How Come: They didn't coordinate with the people in the church in advance about security arrangements and not have ot lock them in until after the visit?

coordinate? my ass

[dweller]

21. one link from today

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=30011

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[skypilot]

22. The fact that they came up with...

...this particular "coordinated extensively" lie shows that not so deep down they know what a shitty thing it is for him to deign to show up there on the way to his little fundraiser, even when he is clearly not wanted. I read in another thread about a despicable incident in which Mrs.King gave * a portrait of Dr.King and * made a joke about how he couldn't wait "to hang it". He supposedly had a smirk on his face and the audience laughed. If this incident really happened then Mrs.King is being more than gracious in not telling him to keep his sorry ass away.

[cliss]

26. That's what I read, also.

I read that the BuschMeister invited himself to the MLK ceremonies in order to secure for himself a wonderful Photo-Opportunity, considering that it's an election year and all that.

I also heard that there was some resentment about it, considering what the Old Boy moving in and trashing the ceremony. Also, he was not invited.

Maybe they bribed the family with $cash$, but I have a feeling the King family is more principled than that.

[banana republican]

27. He had to do something "Official"

do you have any Idea how much it costs to fly a 747 around the country??? We can't have him spending all his campaign money on jet fuel now can we????

[Nazgul35]

28. Considering what he did last year...

using the Michigan case to push back on Affirmative Action on King's birthday...this is just a photo op top fool the great unwashed masses that he's a compassionate conservative....

Not a total prick

[nostamj]

29. considering that disenfranchising 10s of thousands

of mostly black voters was one of his schemes for stealing the FL vote... Coretta should have slapped the smirk off his face and told him to stuff the wreath up his white ass.

but, she has too much class i suppose.