This is impressive, even for the Confederate Yankee. In fact, this is so impressive I am hoping the Poorman comes up with a whole new category for his annual awards (and for some reason I can not find last year’s winners/losers). At any rate, the rundown:
First, he accuses Anderson Cooper of “making things up” in regards to a Rev. Wright speech, without a shred of evidence that he is in fact, you know, “making things up.”
Then he asks his readers to prove Cooper is making things up, because, as we have noted, he doesn’t have a shred of evidence to back up his claim.
His readers, dedicated souls that they are, inform him that Anderson Cooper didn’t make any claims, it was Roland Martin posting at the AC360 blog. The Yankee changes the name in the title, and charges forward.
Then his readers cough up the video in which all of the things Martin claimed are actually said by Rev. Wright are, you know, actually said. He then condemns Roland Martin FOR BEING RIGHT ALL ALONG:
Wright does indeed invoke Peck, and in particular, where Peck invokes the specific Malcolm X speech cited above.
In short, Martin is being duplicitous when he claims that Wright was citing Peck, he was instead citing Malcom X through Peck.
You wouldn’t get that from Martin’s blog entry, but then, I don’t think you were supposed to
Who needs the mainstream media when you have citizen journalists, I say.
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