The perfect image on which to end this MLK Day.

The fact that it was drawn by a Haitian just makes it even better.

Here is how perhaps our greatest President honored the man we celebrate today.

Dr. King was 26 when the Montgomery bus boycott began. He started small, rallying others who believed their efforts mattered, pressing on through challenges and doubts to change our world for the better. A permanent inspiration for the rest of us to keep pushing towards justice.

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) January 15, 2018

This from the People's President.

These words from Dr. King also come to mind today: pic.twitter.com/0qFK3RxBAF

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) January 15, 2018

And this from the man who Donald Trump fired to protect his friends and family from an FBI investigation.

On MLK day, I like to read his Letter From Birmingham Jail, which still resonates: “Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away... and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation...”

— James Comey (@Comey) January 15, 2018

By the way Donald Trump spent today, a day that his predecessors spent celebrating this great civil rights leader, golfing.

And we should not be, in any way, surprised that he did.

I cannot even begin to imagine how Martin Luther King Jr. would react to a Trump presidency, but I know that he would certainly be out on the streets protesting just about everything this shithole was doing.

And of course Donald Trump would be attacking him on Twitter. 

Mitch McConnell utilizes arcane Senate rule to keep Elizabeth Warren from reading letter written by MLK's widow criticizing Jeff Sessions.

Courtesy of the New York Daily News: 

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell resorted to a rarely-used Senate code to stop Sen. Elizabeth Warren from using the words of Dr. Martin Luther King's widow to question Trump's pick for U.S. Attorney General. 

The jarring rebuke prevented Warren (D-Mass.) from speaking after reciting Coretta Scott King’s 30-year-old letter opposing Sen. Jeff Sessions on his failed federal judge nomination.

In the thick of King’s letter, she was first warned that her prior use of Sen. Edward Kennedy’s decades-old remarks criticizing Sessions as “a disgrace to the Justice Department" had violated an arcane Senate bylaw that prohibits lawmakers from disparaging a colleague’s integrity on the floor. 

She was interrupted again, this time by McConnell (R-Ky.), while quoting a piece on sexual violence and slapped with a violation for "impugning the motives and conduct" of Sessions.He said Warren violated Senate Rule XIX a half hour earlier by quoting King, specifically the line “Sessions has used the awesome powers of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens.”

Well that was not very intelligent.

For Mitch McConnell to literally dredge up some out dated rule of decorum to shut down a woman reading aloud from the letter of a civil war icon on the Senate floor is unbelievably short sighted.

Not only did he just vastly increase Warren's number of supporters, and fire up the female and African American voter base, but he may very well have helped to choose the Democrat's 2020 nominee for President.

P.S. It should also be noted that Senator Tom Udall finished reading Coretta Scott King's letter.

I entered Coretta Scott King’s letter abt #Sessions into the Senate record and read it from the floor—her words should not be silenced.

— Tom Udall (@SenatorTomUdall) February 8, 2017

He was NOT told to shut and sit down. 

Donald Trump to visit National African American Museum on MLK day. Well that's nic...never mind it's cancelled.

UPDATE: Trump no longer to visit National African American Museum on MLK Day due to scheduling issues, transition officials tell @ABC.

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) January 15, 2017

Apparently Trump still plans to visit the museum but not until after his inauguration.

You know unless that's the day he's washing his hair that is.

From his Oregon jail cell Ammon Bundy says he misses his family, but says standoff was worth it.

Courtesy of Oregon Live:  


He hung his head and talked softly when he described how hard it is being away from his wife and children. 

"We are in here locked away and our families are trying to survive, and they're struggling out there especially when we were the primary breadwinners,'' he said. "My babies are at home. My beautiful wife is at home. Everything is at risk right now for us, as far as our income, our house. But we have to ask ourselves – was it worth it? I believe it was.''

Bundy says that he reads scripture each day and then shares them during his nightly 15 minute phone call with his family.

He also claims that he takes inspiration from the words of Martin Luther King Jr..

You know if he were really paying attention to the teachings of Christ and the words of MLK he might realize that what he did was against EVERYTHING they stood for.

While Jesus, as he is described in the Bible, might have been cool with a peaceful protest, it is highly unlikely that he would have given his blessing to allowing those protesters to bring automatic weapons to the standoff with them.

And as for Martin Luther King Jr., can we even imagine how differently the civil rights movement would have turned out if the marchers in Selma had been brandishing firearms?

We STILL would not have equal rights in this country.

No what Ammon and his idiot friends fail to understand is that showing up ready to kill, means that you are also showing up ready to lose your freedom or your life. And that after the fact the only people who will feel sympathy for your cause are the same ignoramuses who also read words of peace and interpret them as declarations of war.

Anti-abortion group hijacks MLK day to promote something they call "March for Life."

Okay perhaps it's just me, but I found that completely offensive.

For one thing Martin Luther King Jr. was a supporter of Planned Parenthood. And was even given the Margaret Sanger award in 1966.

For another thing MLK was dedicated to freedom, and that included the freedom for women to determine their own destiny and maintain control over their reproductive systems.

So you might ask at this point "Gryphen, in which dark recesses of the internet did you even find such a sacrilegious and disgustingly opportunistic video?"

And to that I would answer, "Well where else? I found it over on Brancy's blog of course.

Because apparently Nancy French did not get the memo that after given birth to her second out of wedlock child her client is no longer such a great spokesperson for responsible pro-life values.

Millenials love Einstein more than Jesus, and hate George W. Bush more than Joseph Stalin. Well good for them!

Courtesy of the Daily Mail: 

George W Bush has gone down in history as one of the world's most evil people, just behind Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden. 

The former president beat Stalin, Mao and Lenin as a figure of hate in a new study of history's biggest heroes and villains. 

Albert Einstein, meanwhile, beat Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King and even Jesus Christ to be crowned the world's biggest hero. 

This is according to the opinions of almost 7,000 students from 37 countries including Argentina, Pakistan, South Korea, Italy, and the US. 

The students, who had an average age of 23, were asked to give their opinions on 40 figures and significant events throughout world history. 

Interestingly enough the historical figures more despised than Bush were Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, and Adolph Hitler. Great company you keep there Georgie! (Can you believe his brother actually thinks he might be elected to the White House?)

Personally I was a little disappointed to see that Jesus beat out Buddha for biggest hero, and that President Obama was nowhere on the list.

I found this study particularly interesting in that the sampling was from all over the world, and that it was focused on a fairly young population.

This indicates to me that these young people are less religious, more inspired by science (Thomas Edison and Sir Isaac Newton also made the top ten.), and totally fed up with dictators and their wars.

In other words they are moving toward a more peaceful coexistence based on a love of logic, and away from the constant state of warfare dictated by an adherence to religious doctrines.

If true that is very good news indeed.

A graphic from one of our faithful readers.

Notice how completely sensible it sounds before Sarah Palin steals it and poops all over it.

Felon Dinesh D'Souza compares his conviction for violating campaign finance laws to the persecution of Martin Luther King Jr. by J. Edgar Hoover. On MLK day yet!

AN INTERESTING PARALLEL: MLK was targeted by J. Edgar Hoover, an unsavory character; I was targeted by the equally unsavory B. Hussein Obama
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) January 19, 2015

Holy crap! Just when I thought this guy could not be more of a douchenozzle.

I cannot even begin to fathom the kind of arrogance it takes to compare yourself to Martin Luther King Jr. on the day that we celebrate his memory. 

But then again I am not some weaselly pseudo Christian, Right Wing, flim flam man either.

Cliven Bundy: "If I say 'negro' or 'black boy' or 'slave" and people are offended "then Martin Luther King hasn't got his job done yet."

Courtesy of Talking Points Memo:  

Bundy was pressed by CNN's Chris Cuomo to acknowledge that he offended people when he mused about whether blacks were "better off as slaves, picking cotton" than "under government subsidy," which was first highlighted by the New York Times. 

In response, Bundy said King wouldn't have wanted the media to demonize him over those remarks and invoked the example of Rosa Parks to show he supported civil rights. 

"I thought about Rosa Park taking her seat at the front of the bus … What Reverend King wanted was that she could sit anywhere in the bus and nobody would say anything about it," Bundy said. "You and I can sit anywhere in the bus. That's what he wanted. That's what I want." 

"That's what he was after, it's not a prejudice thing but make us equal," he added. 

"I understand that Martin Luther King's message was one of peace and freedom," Cuomo said in a testy exchange. "When you suggest that you were wondering if blacks were better off as slaves, that's the opposite of freedom and very offensive to people. And I think you probably know that." 

"Maybe I sinned and maybe I need to ask forgiveness … but you know when you talk about prejudice, we're talking about not being able to exercise what we think and are feeling," Bundy eventually conceded. 

"If I say 'negro' or 'black boy' or 'slave,' I'm not -- if those people cannot take those kind of words and not be offensive then Martin Luther King hasn't got his job done yet," he added.

And yes those remarks were caught on tape.

So let's be clear, Martin Luther King Jr. has not done his job because racist comments are still condemned by society?

This asshole does realize that it was gun toting racists like him that stopped Martin Luther King Jr. from finishing "his job," right?

I have to imagine that right now there are Right Wing types slamming their heads against the wall in frustration and wishing that somebody would shut this son-of-a-bitch up before he says anything else that exposes the fact that behind closed doors they are all racists.

Look how angry he made poor addle brained Sean Hannity.

And Koch brother backed groups are trying to pretend they were not shaking their poms poms in support before he went all Archie Bunker on their ass.

Hey maybe they could convince George Zimmerman to come out of hiding and help explain what Bundy is really trying to say? At this point it probably couldn't hurt.

George Takei has written a letter addressing Arizona's "Turn Away the Gay" bill.

Courtesy of Liberals Unite:

“Dear Arizona, 

Congratulations. You are now the first state actually to pass a bill permitting businesses–even those open to the public–to refuse to provide service to LGBT people based on an individual’s “sincerely held religious belief.” This “turn away the gay” bill enshrines discrimination into the law. Your taxi drivers can refuse to carry us. Your hotels can refuse to house us. And your restaurants can refuse to serve us. 

Kansas tried to pass a similar law, but had the good sense to not let it come up for a vote. The quashing came only after the Kansas Chamber of Commerce and other traditional conservative groups came out strongly against the bill. 

But not you, Arizona. You’re willing to ostracize and marginalize LGBT people to score political points with the extreme right of the Republican Party. You say this bill protects “religious freedom,” but no one is fooled. When I was younger, people used “God’s Will” as a reason to keep the races separate, too. Make no mistake, this is the new segregation, yours is a Jim Crow law, and you are about to make yourself ground zero. 

This bill also saddens me deeply. Brad and I have strong ties to Arizona. Brad was born in Phoenix, and we vacation in Show Low. We have close friends and relatives in the state and spend weeks there annually. We even attended the Fourth of July Parade in Show Low in 2012, looking like a pair of Arizona ranchers. 

The law is breathtaking in its scope. It gives bigotry against us gays and lesbians a powerful and unprecedented weapon. But your mean-spirited representatives and senators know this. They also know that it is going to be struck down eventually by the courts. But they passed it anyway, just to make their hateful opinion of us crystal clear. 

So let me make mine just as clear. If your Governor Jan Brewer signs this repugnant bill into law, make no mistake. We will not come. We will not spend. And we will urge everyone we know–from large corporations to small families on vacation–to boycott. Because you don’t deserve our dollars. Not one red cent. 

And maybe you just never learn. In 1989, you voted down recognition of the Martin Luther King holiday, and as a result, conventions and tourists boycotted the state, and the NFL moved the Superbowl to Pasadena. That was a $500 million mistake. 

So if our appeals to equality, fairness, and our basic right to live in a civil society without doors being slammed in our face for being who we are don’t move you, I’ll bet a big hit to your pocketbook and state coffers will. 

George Takei”

Damn, that's a good letter.

And Takei makes a very powerful point. 

If Arizona wants to discriminate against gay people then perhaps all of them, and all people who support them, should avoid Arizona and leave it to the narrow minded folks like Sarah Palin and Jan Brewer.

You know ultimately it really doesn't matter, gay acceptance is coming. And these states that are digging in their heels and threatening to hold their breath until they are allowed to gay bash again, just show themselves to be stubbornly prejudicial.

Remember it was Arizona Senator John McCain who voted AGAINST declaring Martin Luther King Jr's birthday a federal holiday back in 1983, so the state has a long history of being intolerant and behind the times.

This is how President Obama "played the race card" yesterday while celebrating MLK Day.

President Obama and daughter Sasha volunteer at DC Central Kitchen charity.

Michelle and Malia rolling burritoes.

As you can see the entire family was spreading racism through the distribution of Mexican burritos to an ethnically mixed group of homeless, and under privileged people.

The gall!

On the complete opposite side of the coin Sarah Palin weathered a well deserved firestorm of anger and ridicule for her hateful remarks yesterday.

In fact I don't think I have seen such universal revulsion directed at Palin since her now famous blood libel video came out.

If I were the owners of the Sportsman channel I would have been sending Palin e-mail after e-mail telling her to shut up and sit down before she drives away every potential viewer imaginable for her new "I'm pretending I know something about hunting" show.

Not that it would have helped. Some people's hatred is simply too ingrained in their personality for them to ever let go of it.

(Photos courtesy of The Obama Diary.)

Sarah Palin uses Martin Luther King Day to accuse the first black President of the United States of practicing racism. So classy. Update!

This from Sarah "KKK" Palin's Facebook page: 

Happy MLK, Jr. Day! 

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." – Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Mr. President, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. and all who commit to ending any racial divide, no more playing the race card.

I swear the irony of this racist bitch to accuse our President of playing the race card is almost toxic to my system. 

This POS was one of the first to fan the flames of racism during the McCain campaign, and has continued to subtly, and not so subtly, do the same ever since.

Of course Palin's racism goes back much further than that. Back even to her snub of Alaska's Juneteenth celebration in 2007, and her proclamation that "Sambo beat the Bitch" from 2008. (Yes I know that supposedly this quote has been proven false, but Snopes was never so sure, and from what I have heard of Palin it certainly fits the pattern.)

As for the President, well he gave what has been heralded as the most important speech on race since Martin Luther King Jr. himself.  And has done much to further the cause of racial equality in this country.

Yet despite this the Right Wing has continued to call him out as a racist at every turn.

To my mind this says much more about them, and the depths to which they will sink, than it does about our President.

And when it comes to sinking low, there can be little doubt that Sarah Palin will be among the lowest.

Update: Well if she wanted attention she certainly is getting it.

Mediaite.

Politico.

Crooks and Liars.

Talking Points Memo.

HuffPo.

If you take a moment to read the comments you will find that the Right Wing supporters are spread pretty thin, and getting crushed under the deluge of negative comments.

Five great men, and one buffoon, all agree that Secular Education must be protected.

I have a very hard time understanding why ALL Americans, whether religious or non, cannot recognize why this is important.

Bill O'Reilly admits that he was wrong about no Republicans being invited to the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington. Quick somebody check and see which sign of the Apocalypse this falls under!

Courtesy of ADN:

Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly has apologized for incorrectly stating that no Republicans were invited to participate in a ceremony this week marking the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for civil rights and Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. 

In fact, Republican House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor were invited but did not attend. Former President George W. Bush sent a statement in commemoration. O'Reilly had made the incorrect claim on Wednesday, the day of the ceremony. 

"The mistake — entirely on me," O'Reilly said on his show Thursday. "I simply assumed that since all the speakers were liberal Democrats, Republicans had been excluded. So here's the tip of the day: Always check out the facts before you make a definitive statement and when you make a mistake, admit it." 

Okay what just happened here?

If Fox News really began to "always check out the facts" before making a "definitive statement," and then admitted when they made a mistake, they would essentially cease to exist as we know them.

Let's face it they would then simply be just another cable news channel. You know one that actually did factual reporting instead of spreading propaganda for the RNC and the Koch brothers.

And if Bill O'Reilly is REALLY going to start admitting mistakes that he has made in the past, then the content of his next hundred or more shows will be nothing BUT that. (Remember this is a guy who once claimed that nobody could explain how the tides go in and out.)

Well I personally look forward to Bill O'Reilly's upcoming Apology-a-palooza, however I somehow doubt that Roger Ailes is going to let that go on for very long. Simply put that is NOT the Fox News business model.

Sarah Palin may have used one unauthorized image too many.

So you all remember this image from yesterday right?

And some of you, as well as I, wondered if it was okay for Palin to use this image of our military personnel to raise money for SarahPAC.

And the answer? Hell no!

Use of DoD Personnel and Materiel in Advertising, Marketing or Promotional Material. 

Endorsement of a non-Federal entity, event, product, service or enterprise may be neither stated nor implied by DoD or DoD employees in their official capacities, including through use of their images. Additionally, titles, positions or organization names may not be used to suggest official endorsement or preferential treatment of any non-Federal entity, except in limited circumstances outlined in DoD Directive 5500.7-R. In all cases, Military Service-specific insignia must be removed from advertising, marketing or promotional material. 

The use of Department of Defense still and/or motion imagery that includes people who can be personally identified in the image is not authorized, unless the requestor contacts the person(s) and obtains written permission for the use of their identifiable image.

Now, do we think that SarahPAC bothered to ask permission to use that image? 

You know like they certainly must have asked to use this image?

Or this image?

 This image?

And of course this image?

Or did they simply Google the image, find it attached to this article, and then use it, with the SarahPAC logo attached, to attack the President while also begging for money that Palin can then use to go on vacations and pay her ghostwriters?

I'll tell you what I think.

I think that Palin is in a blind panic, over this:

As I reported before this was the first time that SarahPAC spent more than it raised, with $496,505 spent (Mostly on "consultants.") and only $460,537 raised from her few remaining dimwitted supporters, and as somebody pointed out early it appears that SarahPAC spent just about $1 for "fundraising" to every $2 actually raised.

THAT is a business model which is unsustainable. So apparently that has inspired somebody to start using images without permission to promote SarahPAC.

However THAT decision could end up costing SarahPAC dearly, since if ANY of these military personnel or celebrities decide to legally protest the use of their images it could end up costing SarahPAC the very last of their reserves and essentially shut them down forever.

I know, what a shame.

And hey, if any of YOU would like to help usher in the end of SarahPAC you know what to do.

Not one, not ONE, Republican elected official showed up to yesterday's 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. But hey, try not to read too much into that.

President Obama visits with Yolanda Renee King, granddaughter of Martin Luther King Jr..

Courtesy of the Washington Post:  

Not a single Republican elected official stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday with activists, actors, lawmakers and former presidents invited to mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington — a notable absence for a party seeking to attract the support of minority voters. 

Event organizers said Wednesday that they invited top Republicans, all of whom declined to attend because of scheduling conflicts or ill health. 

But aides to some GOP congressional leaders said they received formal invitations only in recent weeks, making it too late to alter their summer recess schedules. 

The Rev. Leah D. Daughtry of the House of the Lord Church in the District, who served as executive producer of the commemoration, said the organizing committee began sending invitations to top leaders of both parties “on a rolling basis probably four or five weeks ago.” 

“We had a very concerted effort, because this is not a political moment. This was about us coming together as a community, so we wanted to be sure that we had all political representations,” Daughtry said. “We attempted very vigorously to have someone from the GOP participate and unfortunately they were unable to find someone who was able to participate.”

"Scheduling conflicts?" Give me a fucking break!

This was a HUGE opportunity for the Republicans to tamp down the accusations of racism within their party, and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM chose to stay away.

I don't believe that moving forward they can legitimately claim that racism does NOT serve as the lifeblood of their party.

This was their moment. Missing it will seal their political fate.

(Photo courtesy of The Obama Diary.)

P.S. Of course Fox news felt obligated to cover it.

 You know, as only Fox news can.

Update: Oh, well it looks like Eric Cantor has a good excuse. He was too busy meeting with  oil lobbyists: 

Rather than attend the event, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R) instead met with oil and gas lobbyists in North Dakota, where he toured drilling sites in the North Dakota Bakken. According to the Grand Forks Herald, Cantor met with members of the lobby group, North Dakota Petroleum Council. 

After his tour, Cantor rebuked Obama for not making fossil fuel interests his top priority.

Yeah let's to chastise the President for not kissing the ass of Big Oil, instead of honoring an American hero, right you douchebag?

By the way thanks to fracking we have the highest oil reserves since 1985.

President Obama's full speech at the 50 year anniversary of the March on Washington.

Whether we always agree with this President or not, one thing is clear. He is the living embodiment of what our early civil rights leaders could scarcely imagine witnessing.

He is our first African American President, and he has done those who sacrificed so much to pave the way for him proud.

However it is important to remember that racism is not only NOT dead, it is back with a vengeance.

Yet I want desperately to believe that the violent convulsions we are seeing today from the racists of yesterday, signify the last death throes of prejudice. A prejudice that will fail to live on in the hearts of the Americans of tomorrow.

There are SOME events that Sarah Palin simply should not weigh in on. The 50th anniversary of MLK's speech is one of them. Update!

The above graphic was found over at "So Sambo beat the Bitch's" Facebook page.

As most of you know today is a huge event celebrating the historic "I have a dream" speech given by Martin Luther King Jr. on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial back in 1963.

Today it will be commemorated by the very FIRST African American President in this country's history.

The same African American President that Sarah Palin has ridiculed, insulted, and undermined, since the day he took office.

Sarah Palin was one of the first to try and link our President to Bill Ayres and suggest that he was "Palling around with terrorists." One of the FIRST to suggest that his association with Reverend Jeremiah Wright made him a racist who hated white people. One of the first to suggest that he was too inexperienced to lead this country. And one of the first to imply that he was actually working against American interests, not for them.

And she based these attacks NOT on any of the President's actual policies (She started her attacks before he ever even took office), she based them on the fact that she perceived him as unfit for the job due to something else.

And what was that "something else?" The color of his skin.

And her attacks, and those of other Right Wing nutjobs, fanned the flames of racism into such a white heat of outrage that this President has received more death threats than any other President in American history. And don't forget that four of THEM were assassinated.

No today Sarah Palin should simply, if you will excuse my language, shut the fuck up!

She has NO right to say anything on this historic occasion. In fact her very existence demonstrates how far we still have yet to go before achieving the dream that Martin Luther King Jr, so eloquently  described fifty years ago today.

I will give Palin the tiniest bit of credit for showing enough restraint NOT to paste the Sarah PAC logo on the graphic up above. But that is the ONLY credit I am willing to afford her today.

And like I said, for the rest of the day she needs to shut the fuck up!

Update: Holy shit! I totally missed the SarahPAC logo. 

She actually DID put it on there in order to use Martin Luther King Jr. to drum up more donations.

What a bitch!

Final thought for the day.

I simply could not allow that last story be how we ended today.

I think considering the occasion this is much more appropriate.

Sarah Palin's Facebook ghostwriter tries to get her some attention.

"No fair that all the black people are getting attention today! Somebody write something for me!"

Courtesy of the Creature from Lake Lucille's Facebook page:  

Today Americans honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It's been 30 years since President Reagan signed this holiday into law in 1983, followed by its celebration three years later. We continue to look to Dr. King’s teachings which show us that our efforts—though seemingly futile at times—really do matter, that one person’s faith in something greater than self can lift all mankind, and that character alone should be the means whereby a person is measured, rather than the external things on which our society fixates. 

This year marks 50 years since Martin Luther King stood before the Lincoln Memorial to proclaim his dream and remind the world that 100 years had passed since President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Now, 150 years after that historic signing, Americans still stand with both these men, ever committed to the freedoms that they worked to secure. They dedicated their lives for freedom, including freedom from stifling, overbearing governments. We will not squander what their efforts have wrought, we will not take for granted the blood that has been shed, and we will not fail to do our part to help preserve the freedoms that are uniquely American. In Dr. King’s own words, “Let freedom ring!” So, to these freedoms we cling so that future generations may know and love the America that those before us so sacrificially gave. 

I encourage you to take time to reflect on Dr. Martin Luther King’s efforts to secure freedom and true equality and what those efforts have added to our lives today.

A couple of things.

First, no mention of President Obama's inauguration?

How predictably classless.

Second, does she not realize that all of America knows that if the civil rights movement were just starting today that Palin and her ilk would be the ones sitting in their living rooms screaming "Ni**er!" at their television screens? (And I'm sure Todd and his pals would fantasize about taking MLK into the woods and beating him up for not knowing his place.)

And thirdly, she didn't write it. Not a bit of it.

In fact there is a good chance that she doesn't even know what it says.

I know this because it sounds fairly reasonable.

No playing the victim.

No unnecessarily irrelevant mentions of family members.

No weird nonsense phrases like "living vibrantly."

Nothing to indicate in ANY way that Palin had any hand in creating this post.

But if THAT doesn't convince you, then just remember how she looked the LAST time we saw her in public.

Does this look like somebody who stayed up all night writing the coherent, even handed, relatively non-partisan Facebook post above?

Not hardly. But hey, nice try RAM/Nancy French.