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Dob Bole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 06:45 PM
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WTH??? Martin Luther King Poll.....
On the News for change website, there was a link to an article. I clicked on it. On the page was a poll, which asked this question: Do you think Martin Luther King was a great American?

54% said NO!

So, what kind of publication is Insight, and who are these people that voted. They would obviously be people with internet access. I sort of thought that all Americans respected King, even Republicans. So what gives?

http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=results
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 06:48 PM
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1. Don't know about the site
but I do know that racism is alive and well in this country, sad to say.
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DuctapeFatwa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 06:50 PM
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2. If he were alive today, Dr King would be declared a terrorist

Seized and locked up without charges or trial or counsel, for an indefinite period or until he died, whichever came first, as an Enemy of the State.
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 07:34 PM
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10. It'll be fun. . .
to hear you explain that assinine bilge. And make it easy for yourself: List me any reasonably comparable American (a preacher, or a civil liberties advocate) who is presently locked up, without charges or counsel, awaiting death as an Enemy of the State. Which prison is Jesse Jackson incarcerated within? Where is the Rev. Cecil Murray rotting away at? When was Dr. Maulana Karenga swept into the Night and Fog?

There's no doubt the civil situation is deteriorating in this nation, but irrational hyperbole serves no useful purpose. Far better to keep ourselves grounded within the nightmare that is and hope to effect change than to take arms against the demons of our delusion and thereby lose whatever credibility we may enjoy.
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LeftPeopleFinishFirst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 06:50 PM
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3. whoa what?
Some people are incredibly ignorant, it scares me...
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kainah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 06:50 PM
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4. Isn't Insight a Moonie publication?
I think it's a magazine that's published in association with the Washington Times. I think.........
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KC21304 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 06:52 PM
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5. It's a right wing rag.
I don't remember who runs it but I've seen it listed as one of the rights mouthpieces.
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Doctor Pedantic Donating Member (210 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 06:55 PM
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6. Go To The Site And Vote Now!
It's a right-wing rag...look at some of the article titles. Yeesh.

Everyone go to the site now and vote "yes" on this question! Let's give them the opposite of the result they clearly wanted for this poll.
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w13rd0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 06:56 PM
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7. Right wing rag...
...check out the bios...

http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=87131

Clinton's penis is the root of all evil. Clinton, clinton, clinton, clinton. Although it's quite illustrative of the caliber of these sorts that the poll results came out as they did...
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MrBenchley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 06:56 PM
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8. It's one of Sun Myung Moon's propaganda outlets
Notice that the cover story for the issue is thoughts from Toesucker Dick Morris...
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Dob Bole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 07:11 PM
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9. It just seems that where I live...
King gets seat #2 or 3 at God's table. But that's probably a regional thing.
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