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MLK’s Daughter on Abe Lincoln: He’s Known for Signing Declaration of Independence

At the dedication for the new Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial in Washington, D.C. on Friday, the civil rights leader’s daughter made an interesting mistake regarding Abraham Lincoln. According to her, Lincoln is best known for signing the Declaration of Independence.

“But as I close, I close with the recognition that daddy is standing, Lincoln is seated,” Bernice King said. “Lincoln remembered for signing the Declaration of Independence. Daddy being remembered as standing up for truth and standing up for justice and standing up for righteousness and standing up for peace and standing up for freedom. Daddy is now standing on the National Mall in our nation’s capital.”

Watch it below:

The historical mistake could be simply an honest one that happens all the time when people speak in front of crowds. She probably just meant to say “Emancipation Proclamation.”

But it’s curious that Bernice — who has been labeled a conservative on some issues — would draw the juxtaposition that her father is now immortalized as someone who is standing while Lincoln is immortalized as someone who is sitting. It seems she wants to draw a distinction, and may even want to go as far as to point out her father‘s legacy is grander than Lincoln’s — and their memorials now recognize that.

Comparing legacies is difficult. But her seeming attempt to do so begs the question: Is Bernice King saying that MLK stood for civil rights while Lincoln just sat around? And if she is, would that mean the simple case of misspeaking is something more? Is it actually a misguided attack on Lincoln, trying to lump him into the group of Founding Fathers who signed the Declaration and who are often ridiculed as being racists?

Maybe. If so, it would seem to go against how MLK viewed Lincoln. According to his writings, he saw Lincoln as standing for equal rights:

We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule.

The spirit of Lincoln still lives; that spirit born of the teachings of the Nazarene, who promised mercy to the merciful, who lifted the lowly, strengthened the weak, ate with publicans, and made the captives free. In the light of this divine example, the doctrines of demagogues shiver in their chaff.

America experiences a new birth of freedom in her sons and daughters; she incarnates the spirit of her martyred chief. Their loyalty is repledged; their devotion renewed to the work He left unfinished. My heart throbs anew in the hope that inspired by the example of Lincoln, imbued with the spirit of Christ, they will cast down the last barrier to perfect freedom. And I with my brother of blackest hue possessing at last my rightful heritage and holding my head erect, may stand beside the Saxon–a Negro–and yet a man! [Emphasis added]

Or maybe it was just a simple mistake. That’s possible.

(H/T: NewsBusters)

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  • On The Bayou
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:09am

    Just a little history mistake. The King Family are not in bed with the redistribution of wealth team. In MLKs day he was fighting a true struggle, true racism. The fight to be equal was real. The race pimps of today claim they are fighting for equal rights when the truth is whites are now in a reverse racism cituation which no one has a problem with.

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:19am

      You are 100% correct abt contemporary racism — it’s abt making “whitie” pay for the sins of his fathers and g’fathers. The same can be said of the Southwest where it’s Hispanics v Anglos (gringos).

      As Rodney King wisely put it — “Why can’t we all just get along?”

      Because I’m white does not mean I participated in the denial of service to those who were not! Stop punishing me for someone else’s sin.

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    • Applehead
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:27am

      I love her niece that has been on Glenn’s show many times! She’s the epidomy of a true Christian!!!

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    • thomasdaddy
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:33am

      Elena,

      “Because I’m white does not mean I participated in the denial of service to those who were not! Stop punishing me for someone else’s sin.”

      I agree with this and have argued this point at great length recently. You shouldn’t be judged based on the actions of other that happen to share your skin color, no more that I should be judge based on the actions of some teens in a state I’ve never set foot it. I think we can both agree that individuals should be judged on their own actions. I do have a question though. How have you personally been punished because of the sins of another?

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:42am

      MLK’s career did not end with the I Have a Dream Speech or the civil rights legislation of 1964-5. In the last 3 years of his life he most emphatically did call for redistribution of wealth.

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    • The Constitution
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:45am

      I don‘t think today’s racial issue is about reparations at all. I think it is the liberal left manipulating minorities to get more power. They know from history, they can always dupe black leaders into wealth envy and racial unrest. So, you want to pass a bill that raises taxes? Just tell black leaders it is to help the poor and unemployed and they will follow. You want government control of health care and end of life decision-making? Just tell black leaders it is about making health care affordable to the poor and elederly. Any increase in federal government power comes at the expense of individual rights. But black leaders always choose the federal government to fix their problems. Instead of seeking to empower the individual black citizens, black-owned businesses and individual black investments, they always sell out their community to Big Government Liberal Democrats. The black community is the Democrats favorite little piggy bank that never seems to run out of money or support.

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    • AlansTigg
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:47am

      what exactly is “reverse racism”????? Extreme love of other races??

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    • GrannyATL
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:52am

      Wait! Wait!! For those of us who live in Atlanta, it is well known that the children of MLK are race baiters of the highest degree. Their infighting regarding the estate of MLK has been legendary.

      Dr. Alveeda King is MLK’s niece. She is cut from a different cloth and is a conservative. That is the woman who was on stage with GB on 8/28 last year. She is the type of woman who MLK would be proud to hold out as his legacy — not his children, who are an embarrassment.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:53am

      @thomasdaddy

      Wow, we agree. You should not be judged by what some teens did in a state you don’t live in, and I shouldn’t be judged by some redneck who still believes blacks are less than whites. I try my hardest to also not judge based on what someone is wearing. fads come and go. Someone all tatoo’d up could be the nicest person you ever met. I know bikers who would give you the shirt off their backs, even though they look really rough.

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    • fastfacts
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:55am

      REMEMBER THAT IT WAS JESSE JACKSON AND MLK’S DAUGHTER THAT USED HIS MEMORY FOR CLASS WARFARE…

      Jesse Jackson said that MLK’s deam is under attack by Republicans: http://www.americanparchment.com/video/2011/jan/jackson_king_dream.html

      But that is not what MLK’s dream was all about, listen to it from his own words: http://url2it.com/hdpm

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    • VegasGuy
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 12:04pm

      Imagine how the press would report this if it had been Michelle Bachmann who said Lincoln signed the Declaration of Independence. They would scream like scalded cats.

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    • Strait Talk Express
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 12:14pm

      To explain her similar misstatements, Representative Bachmann correctly notes that the eldest son of Founding Father John Quincy Adams was never comfortable with Slavery as an institution (keeping in mind they were Massachusetts Lib ta r ds) so maybe the idea that Honest Abe was a founder.

      Maybe she is thinking everyone on Mount Rushmore was a founder.

      Maybe it’s just revisionist History.

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    • JLGunner
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 12:18pm

      Well put. Unfortunantly I no longer trust anyone that says they are in persuite of equality. It’s the reverse discrimination caused by affirmative action and baracks new Dept. of Diversity. I , as a white man, look at all of us legal citizens as “we the people”. We can enjoy each others culture as long as American culture is first. Sadly enough this is not the way it.

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    • Edct
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 12:43pm

      Why are there so many ignorant angry negros in front of microphones today….we are all really really getting tired of this crap….get a job, shut up, and for God’s sake take a history lesson.

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 12:45pm

      @ Bayou
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:09am
      Just a little history mistake.

      Very well said Bayou, I believe you are correct..

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    • jimmycv
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 1:01pm

      Along those lines Obama even refused a bust of Winston Churchill as a gift from England at his inauguration. Why? Because his grand farther was supposedly discriminated in WW1, so he is holding a grudge against England and their national hero.

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    • UH60L13
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 1:11pm

      MLK didn’t stand for everyone to be Equal, he fought and stood for Everyone to have an Equal Chance. He want’t everyone to be able to have the same shot at The Amercian Dream. He wasn’t for everyone to being Equal with the same Equal stuff.

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 1:22pm

      I would direct people’s attention to a very well written book by Tammy Bruce called “The New Thought Police”. She makes a strong case for direct ties between MLK, other civil rights leaders, and the Socialist/Communist Parties.

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    • Sleazy Hippo
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 1:32pm

      I agree the speaker seems misinformed and uneducated in historical facts of the Civil War (only 150 years ago) and the American revolution.

      (By the way, of all the Blaze threads, the racist topic threads have the most horrible spellers possible on them. Just saying.)

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 2:19pm

      Affirmative Action has allowed the black community to get away with being stupid. I mean if you know that you are going to get a job no matter if you are qualified or not, just because you are black, then you don’t try as hard in school. Lincoln was not even BORN YET when the Declaration of Independence was signed.

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    • marybethelizabeth
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 2:19pm

      Hold on a second
      On his radio show today the reactionary Mr. Beck bristled at the suggestion that a black man could be more in favor of civil rights than President Lincoln.
      Mr. Beck said that it didn’t make any difference what Martin Luther King thought.
      Mr. Beck then went on to read a few sentences that Dr. King wrote.
      For Mr. Beck, all that matters is statements that support his agenda.
      Mr. Beck‘s keys don’t have to think for themselves. He will tell them what to think

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 2:32pm

      .
      “Is Bernice King saying that MLK stood for civil rights while Lincoln just sat around? ”
      Don’t give her that much credit.

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    • KickinBack
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 3:01pm

      At least Lincoln’s statue was constructed by the chinese.

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    • KickinBack
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 3:02pm

      “wasn’t” …darn coffee lag.

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    • BlazingPatriot
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 3:52pm

      As far as I’m concerned, Bernice King’s remark about her late father standing and Lincoln sitting was totally inappropriate. The Blaze’ analysis in regards to this is right on the mark!

      Had she not insinuated the distinction between the two and had left Lincoln out rather than equate their greatness as to the way their statues were designed, perhaps it may have been a noteworthy speech.

      Having said that, wouldn’t it be better to be be immortalized as *sitting* in power and authority rather than to be left *standing* ?

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    • robert
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:35pm

      “Is Bernice King saying that MLK stood for civil rights while Lincoln just sat around?”

      It’s hard to know what she means, since she‘s so moronic she doesn’t understand much.

      Here’s a good example of the type of people who are part of the Lincoln legacy which caused the deaths of untold hundreds of thousands of people, simply because he refused to allow states to secede.

      The war between the states was a matter concerning states rights, not slavery.

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    • avenger
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:46pm

      why did the feds seal mlk file for 50 years,till2027 ??

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    • darkloch
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:05pm

      if she made a comment like that then she is labeling herself a racist. each did what they were sent to do by god. that is all.

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    • AContinentalFarmer
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:44pm

      King supported reparations, demographic quotas for private sector hiring, and government-guaranteed income. He gave a good speech, but why were there often riots after he spoke?

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:02pm

      Just a little history ‘mistake’? r u nuts? this is epic stupidity!

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:29pm

      Well Darn!!!…and here I thought for years that it was Al Sharpton that signed the Declaration of Independence!!…….

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    • Hobbs57
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:50pm

      @ Texaspilot – No you idiot – That was the hon Jesse Jackson !! -

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    • hillbillyinny
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:40pm

      @ THE CONSTITUTION:

      You are so on track it’s scary! Why can’t those being manipulated see what is being done to them. Are they so star-struck and thrilled to be “consulted” that they don’t realize they are being used!?

      The need for power is a terrible thing! When, in the end, they finally realize that GOD holds all the power, they will be on their knees!

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    • Pujols
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:55pm

      Bernice, Put the crack pipe down.

      MLK is standing and Abe is sitting because the people who made them did it this way you MORON.

      P.S. If Abe was standing He wouldn’t fit and would be 10 feet taller than MLK. Just saying.

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    • I Stand With Israel
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:22pm

      MLK was sincere, his children are not. Their father’s words would not be on display if his children had not been paid for them. Martin spoke of Jesus often, very often. Please go back and do some research on the King Children, and the Reverend’s Sharpton and Jackson and you will see that for men and women of God, very little is said about Him anymore.

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    • Pujols
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:44pm

      B i t c h

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:34pm

      @APPLEHEAD: Yes, I loved Alveda King as well. The daughter needs to read a well written History Book that contains the truth of America’s beginnings, and being a descendent of Abraham Lincoln, I obviously know she was wrong.

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    • 408 CheyTac
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 12:11am

      Another product of public education

      dumbass with a big mouth.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 1:00am

      Yeah, sure they aren’t.

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 1:32am

      A Public School graduate no doubt!

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    • jzs
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:20am

      She meant the emancipation proclamation. She made a mistake. Gift it a rest.

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    • HKS
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 9:15am

      Well, lets see now, it looks to me like if your are a liberal, it’s a little history mistake, or if you are a conservative, your an idiot unworthy of life on this planet. Is that about right?

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    • Doris Carman
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 11:51am

      I am sorry to disagree.It is not a little mistake. It is a directed mispeak.She doesnt know any better.There is a world of difference in what LincolnStood for and what she remembers lof him. not even close. This is the problem when people try to rewrite history or plain lie, or just leave it out of the book all together.

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    • afellowpatriot
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 12:35pm

      Well said On The Bayou!

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on August 31, 2011 at 4:19am

      @ Elena2010, who Posted: “You are 100% correct abt contemporary racism — it’s abt making “whitie” pay for the sins of his fathers and g’fathers. The same can be said of the Southwest where it’s Hispanics v Anglos (gringos).”

      Did you not hear Obama stand up and urge the Hispanics to “punish their enemies”? Apparently it’s the fashionable thing these days to hate and want to punish white people for just about everything, when even the POTUS is urging people to do it!

      As for MLK’s daughter, my take on what she said was that Lincoln was seated, but her father stood–in humility and respect for Lincoln, as he stood for equality and justice for his own people. There was a real need for his message when he said it. The people who are now standing up and demanding not equality but privilege at somebody else’s expense are simply trying to milk that moment in history for all it is worth and all they can get out of it.

      I’ve read that Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and others of their ilk had no use at all for King in those early days of the Civil Rights movement. They thought he was “too soft” in his message, decried his call for non-violence, and sneered at King and called him “De Lawd” behind his back–which sort of shows you where those ethically-challenged race-baiters are coming from, doesn’t it? I hope neither of them attended the dedication of this memorial, because their presence there would have been a travesty and an insult to all that King st

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  • wordweaver
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:07am

    Don‘t be trashin’ Abe, woman.

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    • thomasdaddy
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:34am

      Lol….

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    • AlansTigg
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:48am

      word!

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    • Hula Calhoun
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:50am

      She seems to think it has meaning that her father is standing and Lincoln is sitting. How does she interpret the presidents on Mount Rushmore that only have heads?

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    • loriann12
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 1:04pm

      Maybe MLK was standing because there wasn’t a seat on the bus….I’m sorry, that was a really bad joke and I blame my PET scan and the radiation they put in my bloodstream.

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    • Sleazy Hippo
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 1:34pm

      I guess if MLK’s daughter were on medication, there would be no story? Just saying.

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    • M100Spiral
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 1:51pm

      Last April was the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War. Both sides believed the war would end quickly. And, neither side conceived the number of lives that would be lost. At Fort Sumter, the war’s first battle, the Southerners behaved as if they were attending a World Series Game. They brought picnic baskets and liquor, and they cheered during the battle. The Southerners won this battle even though nobody was killed by the enemy. The only casualties were two union soldiers who were killed by a misfired canon. The first several battles of the Civil War gave the impression the South would win. The Southerners saw it that way, and the Northerners fear it would end up that way. The war’s first casualty was President Lincoln’s acquaintance. The man had even worked at Abe’s law firm. So you see, President Lincoln was not “SITTING” during the Civil War! Not knowing if the United States would become two or more nations or remain as one, President Lincoln was under great stress while more than 620,000 Americans lost their lives fighting for their beliefs. The Civil War went on for four long, bloody years, and President Lincoln was never very far from a telegraph machine. He was in constant contact with the war fronts. He would often walk alone to the nearest telegraph machine or station—depending where he was at any given moment—in order to keep up with the latest war results. Any historian—and I am not one—will tell you that Abe wa

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    • M100Spiral
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 2:01pm

      Any historian—and I am not one—will tell you that Abe was not a “SITTER!”

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    • pavepaws
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 2:48pm

      She should have paid more attention while in school.

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  • COASTIE90
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:07am

    That’s ok for her to miss-speak, the liberal media won‘t report it because it doesn’t support their agenda. Remember, Al Gore invented the internet and Eli Whitney invented cotton so he could use a machine he designed. How stupid are people in this country? I travel overseas frequently and have learned that others know our constitution and history better than we do. God Bless Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, both of them have influenced US society greatly.

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    • junkmaninohio
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:15am

      Never underestimate the stupidity of the American voter…after all…they gave us Obama. Americans do tend to be stupid, naive, gullible and typically don’t mind being the laughing stock of the world. I mean, who else would fight a war in Afganistan and misplace $60 billion dollars (stolen) they can’t account for…not to mention all the American dead and maimed…and for what?

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    • Hula Calhoun
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:48am

      “Misspeak”? She was reading from a speech. If she was misspeaking, what did the speech say that she mixed up?

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    • AMERICA4EVER
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 12:21pm

      Most of the liberal media and probably 90% of the population wouldn’t catch that mistake. We’re toast!

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    • Sleazy Hippo
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 2:30pm

      You are right, of course. It is a scandal and true American tragedy that so many ungrateful and unqualified citizens were allowed, even encouraged, to vote in 2008.

      We were doing quite fine, thank you very much, without millions of useful idiots voting. Now look where we are!

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    • oto1
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:10pm

      You are right hippo….we were doing absolutely GREAT with 8 years of George Bush! It’s not like we were involved in 2 wars, sinking into debt, a housing industry in shambles due to a lack of regulation, bailing out auto companies…..you are right! We were doing so well that we should ignore one man, one vote! Because you feel that people were unqualified to vote? What exactly made them unqualified? Is it because they didn’t vote the way you wanted them to vote????

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    • riverdog1
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:04pm

      sorry junk but it was gw that brought us iraq and afganistan and lost billions (trillions).

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  • NeoKong
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:06am

    How’s that Gee E Dee working out….?

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  • lel2007
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:05am

    “We must rewrite history … ” ~ Michelle obama 2008
    (It’s all in the plan for “The Transformation of America”)

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    • Strait Talk Express
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 12:20pm

      It could be that she was home schooled and has a degree form Liberty University or Hillsdale College, and other not for profit liberal arts schools who sometimes provide unique perspectives on United States History, to ensure Biblical Truth is achieved.

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    • Sleazy Hippo
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 1:42pm

      When those schools modify some minor technical details, it is ALWAYS to make a point!

      What? You never heard of parables!

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    • Lamarr01
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:56pm

      We need to undo history from 2008 – 2012. The repeal of ObamaCare and all of Cass Sustein’s regulations could be a rebirth of freedom. All that will remain of the Obama regime will be a few trillion in debt.

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  • stanw909
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:05am

    I sometimes wonder if Dr. King would have turned into a money grubbing race hustler like the right honorable mushmouth reverends Jackson and Sharpton.I hope he would not have.

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    • thomasdaddy
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:13am

      WTF does this have to do with anything? Unreal!

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:24am

      I Much protest.

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    • Xkiller
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:29am

      I think Dr. King would be appalled at the way jackson and sharpton use race and his name to line their pockets still at the expense of thier own people. I think she maybe just made a misstatement maybe due to the moment.
      I’m sure Dr.King would be the first to denouce these two as the race baiting money grubbers they are. They do nothing but distort and misuse his image and thoughts for self gain.

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    • sWampy
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:38am

      Of course he would have, he was they typical speak peacefully while in public, spew hate and incite violence when you think only your followers are watching. Those who win write history, truly America didn‘t win in the 60’s.

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    • thomasdaddy
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:40am

      “I Much protest.”

      Does anyone else get the mental picture of Lurch from the Adams family after reading that response?

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:42am

      The “wonder if” and “what if” crowd scare the hell out of me.

      What if a rock falls on your head. pfft.

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    • AlansTigg
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:49am

      I much protest this must

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    • loriann12
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 1:06pm

      No. I truly believe that MLK wanted equality, as in remove the race question from job applications and let the best applicant win. I don’t think he would have liked affirmative action either.

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    • BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 1:36pm

      Thomas-

      I think it is a legitimate query considering the damage the two main spokesman for today’s people of color has caused. Personally, I like to think that MLK would be above race baiting. He had legitimate racial problems. And, while some racism against people of color does exist today. It has improved a great deal since MLK’s day. But, Sharpton and Jackson are a disgrace to the MLK movement.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 3:10pm

      MLK would have voted for Obama. That simple.

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    • Lucy Larue
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:07pm

      STANW909,
      Dr. King was a man for his times. We needed him in the 60′s. We did. He changed so much.
      The sadness is that he was a hero that died too soon.
      All the wrong people hijacked his goodness.
      The mediocrities..,to include his wife and children, have cheapened his legacy for filthy lucre.
      Dr. King was NOT for redistribution of wealth. It is the King Pimps who perpretrate that rumor.
      Martin Luther King was for EQUALITY not REDISTRIBUTION.

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    • DytchWytch
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 10:40am

      perpetuate, don’t you mean?

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  • DMSNC
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:04am

    No mistake here – rewrite history if you don’t like it. The fact that they are putting this statue (made in China) up is an insult to everyone. This guy was NOT the ‘leader’ they make him out to be; he was for a Plagiarist that had a LOT of priviledge he didn‘t work for and much more so than the ’people’ he supposedlly represented. In the end, he was in fact, a big supporter of re-distribrution of wealth – as in whites giving it to blacks. Not to mention, people should be judged by the company they keep – lest we forget Jesse Jackson was one of his Lieutenants.

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    • Bullcop34
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 1:06pm

      Oh how correct you are. It is amazing that people quickly forget that in his later speeches, he was pushing for redistribution of wealth. Whites owed it to the blacks. BS! But again, the “winner” gets to write the history books.

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  • Hemingway in Cuba
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:03am

    Martin Luther King Jr was greater than Lincoln.

    As much as no one wants to hear it, Lincoln tore the country apart and then held it back together at gunpoint. He is the embodiment of Washington overstepping power. The Emancipation Proclamation was a political move. It was symbolic and achieved nothing.

    Martin Luther King Jr peacefully brought about real change. He chipped away at the soft-racism that is entrenched in government at all levels. This should be the model for conservatives everywhere.

    Give Ms. King a break. I am sure it was an emotional time for her. Easy mistake.

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    • NotFooled
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:24am

      The Republican Party was created by anti-slave abolitionists. The Democrat party started a group called the (RED SHIRT LEAGE 1876) whose job it was to suppress the vote of the newly freed slave. NO ONE KNOWS OUR HISTORY ANY MORE, WHY!!! Drives me nuts.

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    • NotFooled
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:30am

      FYI, The Democratic Red Shirt League is the Grandfather of the KKK.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:41am

      It wasn’t Lincoln who tore the country apart, it was southern secessionists overreacting to his election who did that.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:52am

      Notfooled: the Republican Party was started by people who wanted to keep slavery out of the territories, not by people who wanted to abolish it in the states where it already existed.

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    • BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 2:08pm

      I am sick and tired of people trying to correct history by rewriting it. I am also tired of people placing blame where it does not belong.

      Bottom line- our founding father’s gave us a Republic. Not a democracy, a republic. Over the years it has been hijacked and subverted. Our forefathers allowed the principles for which this country was founded to be so diluted and amalgamated its hard to know what the truth is anymore. But, I do believe this. We have to get back to preSocialistic times. Before we allowed entitlements to take root. Unfortunately, few people are willing to accept the fundamentals that this requires. Be responsible for not just yourself, but your ailing mother, father, sister, brother, and even in laws. Be content in your station. Stop trying to keep up with the Jones because the Jones are broke. Slavery is an unfortunate blight on the American psyche. BUT- no one is entitled to anything. And the longer this goes unrecognized the greater the chance that WE WILL ALL BE SLAVES.

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    • NotFooled
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 3:30pm

      Thanks for making my point LLOYD. LOL

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:15pm

      Notfooled, I’m not sure how to take that!

      That secessionists rather than Lincoln “tore the country apart” can be disputed, but it’s indisputable that the Republican Party was not originally an “abolitionist” movement.

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    • Da Kingfish
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:58pm

      Then why is it these oh so great blacks have their records sealed, I would love a logical explanation, just one, the only ones that do this are hiding something, and she was so excited they screwed the american taxpayer out of 800k for some dumb ass catchy wording, that’s why she screwed up, had that tingle from the jingle.

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  • LIBERALSBEDAMNED
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:00am

    It is very easy to understand, Bernice King is plainly a simpleton. That is all she dont understand big words. That’s all.

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  • Dr. Insane O
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:00am

    “Comparing legacies is difficult”???
    Are you serious ? Without a solidified country kiss civil rights goodbye.

    But we all know that Lincoln hung out with communists and had white prostitutes.

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    • LIBERALSBEDAMNED
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:14am

      And we all know that he was a STAUNCH REPUBLICAN.

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    • Xkiller
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:32am

      yeah and everybody seems to forget that the KKK was started by southern democrats to suppress the blacks in the south.

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    • Da Kingfish
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:02pm

      At least he didn’t hang out with the black prostitutes, he had class!

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  • Nations
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:58am

    Our National KISS UP to those who do not attempt to educate themselves and opt out of doing the real work that makes them better or are being positioned by the Liberal Media against the basis of what our nation means, needs to be reexamined. I am so damn tired of not being to speak out against gays, blacks and Mexicans who spit in the face of what many of us tried to do with our educational and religious lives. To Hell with those who KISS UP TO BEING POLITICALLY CORRECT. I think it is about time to tell it like it is. The National “Kiss Up” Syndrome is over. LIBERALS, YOU STINK!

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    • blowback
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:02am

      Amen. The daughter apple did not fall far from the tree. MLK’s history is being rewritten, revised, and whitewashed. Just ask the FBI.

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    • blowback
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:17am

      Why are Martin Luther King’s Records of Information Sealed ?

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 12:04pm

      Blowback: no doubt the FBI has a lot of stuff on MLK’s sex life and his associations with Communists that would embarrass a lot of people as well as blowing up his carefully crafted image. J. Edgar Hoover was obsessed with sex, Communism and the civil rights movement, so King was a veritable trifecta for him.

      BTW, do you know if there is any set date for the release of material relating to MLK?

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    • AMERICA4EVER
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 12:29pm

      You’re right. I don’t how a group that is so clearly wrong, being protected so as not to hurt their feelings. Are we nuts?

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  • eyestoseeearstohear
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:57am

    Ya know…it seems to ME…that IF you PLAN for a speech,
    YOU SHOULD KNOW YOUR FACTS BEFORE OPENING YOUR TRAP, RIGHT?

    AND….the DAUGHTER OF MLK….CERTAINLY SHOULD KNOW THAT HER EVERY
    WORD IS GOING TO BE TAKEN TO HEART….AND SHE SHOULD BE CAREFUL OF HER WORDS……BEFORE…..SHE SAYS THEM.

    A SLIP of the tongue, a brain fart or WHATEVER, she SHOULD BE CONSCIOUS of her
    words and MAKE THE CORRECTION WHEN AWARE OF THE MISTAKE.

    OTHERWISE, IT BECOMES THE INTENDED MESSAGE AND PERMANENT RECORD.

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  • Banned on the Blaze
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:55am

    ARE YOU KIDDING ME! first off lets all get a few things straight, this memorial should be in Memphis, not the national mall. Lets keep things in perspective here folks, he was not God, he was not a president, and if he were here today i truly believe he would be no better then Jesse or Al. So get off the high horse your sitting on and come down to realville.

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    • Bluefish49
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:09am

      I agree with you whole heartedly…It should be in Memphis or wherever he’s buried (don’t know…don’t care) He was not a president or a founding father. It would have been a great spot to honor our Middle East war dead.

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:24am

      He’s buried in Atlanta.

      He does deserve a place in the Mall. He helped us look at ourselves in a way that we had refused since the end of the War Between the States. He helped us find our conscience again — esp in the midst of the tumult of the Vietnam era. He did it w/o violence! We are a much better country for his life and work.

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    • Bluefish49
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:39am

      @elena2010…girl get your head out of the clouds..he was just a man that happened to speak for the black people of America…nothing more. He didn’t free the “country” of tyranny or use slavery as a method to win a war that was started because the federal goverment couldn’t keep its greed paws out of state coffers. its not your fault…you grew up in the lets change history to our liking decade.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:59am

      King’s memorial should be in Montgomery, right on the spot where Jefferson Davis was inaugurated.

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    • Seede
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 12:43pm

      All MLK amounts to a guy who made his living off other people’s pocket books. He loved the high roller living along with other rumored vices which the FBI is said to have noted. He would attend a meet and soon after he left that meet you would see another riot. He was another Obama community organizer who used race as his occupation.

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  • NeoFan
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:55am

    Don’t worry no one that went to public school will know the difference.

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  • Giveitrevolution
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:54am

    and here we go again ugh

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  • 13th Imam
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:54am

    Barry Obummer, His wife and ALL DEMOCRATS have never seen much less read the United States Constitution. I bet Lincoln knew he didn’t sign the Declaration of Independence, but he did Read and Understand it and the Constitution.

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    • thomasdaddy
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:08am

      LMAO!! Hilarious how you people manage to put Obama in every situation regardless how removed he is from the story! Simply hilarious, in a sad way! LOL

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:27am

      Who cares what You People think.

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    • gallinipper
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:39am

      Obama puts himSELF in EVERY situation of his removal. Where have you been for the last 3 yrs. Now you can EL O EL

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    • Rayblue
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 1:41pm

      Uh oh….Eric Holders “people” are back from the slog.

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  • RabidPatriot
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:54am

    It‘s too bad that MLK’s family is as dumb as a box of rocks. They got the civil rights torch their father carried in the 60′s and dropped it right in the toilet.

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  • powhatan
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:51am

    Oh brother!

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  • Oh My God
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:50am

    Remember — Michelle said we will change history, etc. . . . ..

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  • UlyssesP
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:50am

    Obama’s peeps must have hijacked her teleprompter.

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  • I.Gaspar
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:50am

    Everybody knows Lincoln signed the Declaration of Independence.
    That’s where the expression “Just put your Abe Lincoln on the dotted line” came from.

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  • Strait Talk Express
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:50am

    This revisionism cannot be tolerated. She is implying that the Founders worked tirelessly to end slavery. Everyone knows Washington signed the Slave Recovery Act to prevent slave owner escaped property from becoming free men.

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    • smokegray
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:19am

      yes but he also.signed the Northwest Territory Act that banned slavery in the Northwest Territory in 1789.
      After the war, Washington often privately expressed a dislike of the institution of slavery. In 1786, he wrote to a friend that “I never mean … to possess another slave by purchase; it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this Country may be abolished by slow, sure and imperceptible degrees.“ To another friend he wrote that ”there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see some plan adopted for the abolition” of slavery.

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    • Xkiller
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:43am

      I wonder how many blacks know that the first “slave” in this country was in about 1640 in virginia, made so by the court in a lawsue brought by the mans’ owner….another black man. So you see kiddies, blacks owned blacks first and set the president for it to be legal.
      It might also interest you to know that in what I’ve read before that, blacks were not very often called slaves, but were indentured servence, lke alot of whites. The slave trade didn‘t really kick off untill the early 1700’s because now they had a LEGAL path to buy them.
      You might also want to know that whites didn’t go to africa and capture blacks, they bought them at coastal cities….from other blacks and arabs….ckeck it out.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:57am

      Xkiller: interesting trivia, but not very relevant to the overall history of the US, where slavery was almost exclusively a white-over-black relationship.

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    • Sleazy Hippo
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 1:48pm

      Like Rick Perry, in criticizing President Obama last week, Glenn courageously said, “actions speak louder than words.”

      George Washington bequeathed more than 300 of his finest slaves to Martha when he died of a throat infection in his Mount Vernon plantation estate house, stipulating that they be freed only after her death.

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  • usmc1063
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:49am

    And the feeding frenzie starts.

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    • RabidPatriot
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:58am

      Why shouldn’t the frenzy begin. MLK’s family seems to know less about him and the plight of African Americans than the average American. Yet they would like to be recognized as the royal family of civil rights.

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  • BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:49am

    Actually- MLK is rolling over in his grave.

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  • sWampy
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:47am

    You can worship an idiot, but you can’t make an idiot smart.

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