If Mr Cronkite’s coverage were not the most riveting, perhaps you can tell me the name of NBC’s and ABC’s commentators for those few days? I sure don’t recall, and I was 17, and a college freshman, although we didn’t rely too heavily at the time on television for news. People who watched television and listened to the radio and read the newspapers passed on the news in the Student Union and the Dormitories. Remember when this was.

Tyro, your complaint is meaningless. It was mostly “cut and paste”. What it gets down to, Tyro, is that Oliver is occasionally inaccurate, but you are always an ass.

One, why the quotes around “Kennedy assassination?” Are you suggesting he wasn’t assassinated? Or that it wasn’t Kennedy?

And two, all three networks went to all-Kennedy, all the time after the assassination, not just CBS. I know, I was there, too. Only nine, but I remember that weekend very well.

was adding some contemporary perspective to the event. Remember, this was supposed to be how FOX would have covered the event. I was attempting to make it “fair and balanced”.

Frank, you’re a shitty writer, and your attempt to imitate Oliver came across as more of a poor attempt at imitation, rather than a stylistic homage. And it’s really just about impossible to say what your point really is.

nor would FOX have profiled the unknown Rev King,

Apparently he was so unknown that John F. Kennedy personally called his wife to intervene and ensure that he would be released safely. I suppose you could be arguing that Fox would have been at the time completely unaware of anyone involved in the civil rights movement. You yourself seem to think that the march had nothing to do with civil rights, instead being about “voter unity.”

What it gets down to, Frank, is that Oliver is a good writer, and you’re a shitty one.

Who said it was [about MLK] ?
The introduction to the ‘blog entry, and by about 1965, nearly everybody. Randolph and Rustin were virtually forgotten.

the speech made him a “star”
And rightly so.

Therefore, he was not a star either before or during the event.

So, the event would not have been “[l]ed by domestic terrorist Martin Luther King”, nor would FOX have profiled the unknown Rev King, or suggested that he was “Coming For Your Daughters”.

I didn’t learn about this myself until 2002, when I saw a movie about the life of A Phillip Randolph.

Sheesh. Tough crowd.

The March was not about MLK
Who said it was?

the speech made him a “star”
And rightly so.

And, yes, there were conservatives in the civil rights movement. I was very young, but I sympathized with the movement, from the standpoint of personal freedom. When, in 1964, Sen Humphrey promised that there would never be affirmative action or quotas, many of us believed him.Having made many visits down south, I was aware of what it was like down there.

As a result of the groundwork laid 22 years earlier for the 1941 March on Washington, A. Philip Randolph was prepared for the leadership role he held in the 1963 March on Washington. With Bayard Rustin as the main organizer of the march, Randolph was able to unite the many groups and leaders that comprised this national call for masses of people to take action.
On August 28, 1963, 250,000 people attended this monumental march which set a precedent demonstrating the power of unity and action. After the march, Randolph, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Whitney Young, Roy Wilkins, John Lewis and others met with President Kennedy. Within a year, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed. Randolph’s leadership influenced many leaders including Dr. King, and Malcolm X.

The March was not about MLK, the speech made him a “star”. The Communist connection? A ruse by Hoover to assemble a dossier on King.

I do, because it affected so many of my friends and classmates. It happened just after I graduated from the only high school in my county with a significant proportion of Black students, about 20%. The student body president in my senior year was Black. Racial issues were a hot topic in our school, but there was very little racism, and MLK was an icon of the times.

It was a CIVIL RIGHTS march. There were white participants, but anyone who suggests that the march was not about civil rights is either crazy, never read history, or didn’t live through those times.

Interestingly, it was Walter Cronkite, who just recently died, who blurred the line between “news” and “entertainment” in November of 1963 when CBS launched “continuous coverage” of “News” from the “Kennedy assassination”, fueled by the search for Oswald and the subsequent shooting by Jack Ruby.

I guess there was a huge sale at WalMart on scare quotes, huh? Too bad they weren’t having the same sale on anti-psychotics.

Though some would argue that the folks in the Civil Rights Movement (white and non-white alike) were conservative and not liberal. Those people are stupid buffoons of the highest order. I’m talking Gabriel McKee order, here.

But if you’re going to argue that MLK’s agenda somehow wasn’t civil rights, that he somehow co-opted the March from those honest, moderate white folks who just wanted, what was it you said, “voter unity”? Whatever the hell that means.

And, for the record, some of us were around back then.

Here are the “Leaders of the March” from a Life Magazine Aug 28, 1963 photograph :

http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/b9b5646123329785_landing

Want to see some real history?

Go to Google Images …
Once you get there, type in whatever you are searching for, then add

source:life

You will get pictures of your searched items from Life magazine.

I totally did not know that. Thanks, Robert!

Well, Judge Sotomayor was a ‘liberal activist’ for obeying precedent. So yeah, no doubt in my mind whatsoever. Also mainly because ‘activist’ is another way to say ‘rules against the conservatives’ preferred political outcome.’

Not true. They need non-whites to raise their children, mow their lawn, change their oil, clean their toilets.

Well actually they only want priveleged white people to live but they’ve gotta start somewhere….

Well, it’s not like he can write about how well the stimulus is working or any other economic news, so flinging racism poo is pretty much the only trick he has left.

And those are the sorts of people whom Fox News takes their cues from today and the sort of accusations they make about those who disagree with movement conservatives.