Crooks and Liars:
Bill Moyers gives his perspective on the “tempest in a teapot” of the Hillary vs. Obama media brawl over LBJ and MLK:
As the pressure intensified on each side, Johnson wanted King to wait a little longer and give him a chance to bring Congress around by hook or crook. But Martin Luther King said his people had already waited too long. He talked about the murders and lynchings, the churches set on fire, children brutalized, the law defied, men and women humiliated, their lives exhausted, their hearts broken. LBJ listened, as intently as I ever saw him listen. He listened, and then he put his hand on Martin Luther King’s shoulder, and said, in effect: “OK. You go out there Dr. King and keep doing what you’re doing, and make it possible for me to do the right thing.” Lyndon Johnson was no racist but he had not been a civil rights hero, either. Now, as president, he came down on the side of civil disobedience, believing it might quicken America’s conscience until the cry for justice became irresistible, enabling him to turn Congress. So King marched and Johnson maneuvered and Congress folded.
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Any one with a brain knows the Civil Rights Movement couldn't be law with a Presidents support. Hillary was right if people had bothered to read about the Movement which started long before Dr. King. Like a Super Bowl win it takes a team not one person. But this just showed how little the American people and the Media knows about the Civil Rights Movement. It's sad as I hear people saying they have Monday off for Martin Luther King's Birthday, yet their clueless about who he was and what he fought for. What's also sad is Senator Obama knows much about the Civil Rights Movement as Hillary does.
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