The HISTORY CHANNEL ON DR. MLK: SHAMELESS PANDERING!
The TOM BROKAW SPECIAL ON Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is regrettably tainted by shameless pandering by The HISTORY CHANNEL.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a remarkable man in all ways. He has been and will always be a hero to all thinking people around the entire world.
Shame on The HISTORY CHANNEL for the way they promoted this important T.V. special. Their radio commercial evoked how Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s words resonate to this day.
AND, REMARKABLY, USED A SOUND CLIP BY BARACK OBAMA QUOTING DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. TO ILLUSTRATE THAT!!
Could The HISTORY CHANNEL not find any original audio of Dr. King?
Did they think that Obama quoting Dr. King would somehow make Dr. King's words more relevant?
SHAME ON YOU! All you did is diminish the memory of Dr. King, a genuinely accomplished, thoughtful leader and man of vision.
Shame on you!
Sound Off!
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Grizz ( 454 posts / 14 fights ) from Alexandra, Otago (New Zealand) on 04/12 at 08:26PM PT
Something that has puzzled me for a while is WHY do most of the American Reality and Doco channels (History,Nat Geo,Discovery etc) make these shows that point out the worst of America?? If these people are to be believed the U.S. is home to a group of mindless murdering thugs chase by a bunch of ego fueled cops ...
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Grizz ( 454 posts / 14 fights ) from Alexandra, Otago (New Zealand) on 04/12 at 08:40PM PT
...What about the good things that happen there.It's no wonder no one really trusts the US. If I hadn't actually lived there for 6 years I'd believe the place was a land of evil, where you are liable to be shot and killed by a trigger happy cop or a psycho killer at any time.
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christopher ( 23 posts / 0 fights ) from Manhattan, New York (United States) on 04/07 at 06:16PM PT
BARNS IS SO AFRAID OF OBAMA HE DOESNT KNOW WHAT TO DO!! HAHA SO HE GETS JEALOUS AT TV PROGS THAT SHOW SOMEWHAT OF A POSITIVE PUSH FOR OBAMA, HIS WAY OF THINKING AND HIS GOALS ARE SOMEWHAT COMPARABLE TO MLK, EVERYONE KNOWS THAT. SO I AGREE SOME OF YOU NEED TO GROW UP :)
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from Den Of Ubiquity, California (United States)
on 04/08 at 07:02AM PTYou may want to cut back on the Kool Aid.
Everybody knows what?
Nobody knows what Obama is likely to do other than wonderful speechmaking.
Barns IS AFRAID ... of people who are mindless followers of ANYBODY or ANYTHING.
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Grizz ( 454 posts / 14 fights ) from Alexandra, Otago (New Zealand) on 04/12 at 07:50PM PT
HE"s back new name but the same HAHA s And the same mindless ranting complete with the stuck shift key Ladies and Gentlemen I present jwriter4 Reincarnated as christopher BUSTED FOOL!!!
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from Den Of Ubiquity, California (United States)
on 04/13 at 05:02PM PT
Indeed, 'grizz'
Say goodbye to 'cristopher' ...
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from Den Of Ubiquity, California (United States)
on 04/13 at 05:06PM PT
You are juvenile.
It is beneath the intelligent members of Ctoads to have to deal with your infantile and imbecilic rants.
YOU ARE NOW BANNED.
If you can work on a good reason to be let back in, try posting it in the BEG BARNS CORNER
Barns will evaluate it and decide to keep you out or let you back in.
It will take some doing on your part .......
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Dougman ( 11 posts / 0 fights ) from Redondo Beach, California (United States) on 04/07 at 05:14PM PT
poor judgment on the History channel. Possibly in an effort to get more viewership from a younger audience, the history channel used sound bites from Obama rather than the original speeches. Kids now days don't understand TV that is not in color.
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palmero ( 24 posts / 0 fights ) from Chicago, Illinois (United States) on 04/07 at 04:44PM PT
you people need to grow up.
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from Den Of Ubiquity, California (United States)
on 04/07 at 04:47PM PT
There goes a mindless grunt.
Give a shot at a meaningful sentence or two next time.
If there IS a next time.
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christopher ( 23 posts / 0 fights ) from Manhattan, New York (United States) on 04/07 at 06:15PM PT
this site is an amatuer compared to other bigger and better sites barns haha!!
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from Den Of Ubiquity, California (United States)
on 04/08 at 06:59AM PT
Frankly, I am puzzled.
1. What is up with the childish "haha" stuff? Are you perhaps related to 'jwriter4' who was banned for being a childish imbecile?
2. If you think so little of this site, why are you spending so much time reading it and why have you bothered to make 20 posts on it?
Granted ... this one hardly qualifies as a post.
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chem ( 60 posts / 0 fights ) from Palo Alto, California (United States) on 04/07 at 04:40PM PT
Sorry for what I am about to write. So many of you come across as political virgins. What new do you see in a TV network promoting a political agenda? Are NBC, MSNBC, CBS, FOX and the rest any different? This is not any different.
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from Den Of Ubiquity, California (United States)
on 04/07 at 04:43PM PT
You are on point, 'chem'.
This just struck Barns as particularly distasteful. And even more so having just spent a bushel of night-time hours re-reading Dr. MLK's speeches.
Was also somewhat troubled by some assertions made by MLK, 3rd. He did not serve his father's memory entirely well. A bit of fact checking might have gone a long way....
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GMc ( 34 posts / 0 fights ) from Helena, Montana (United States) on 04/07 at 04:18PM PT
It sounds like the History channel was promoting Obama. What exactly is wrong with that?
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from Den Of Ubiquity, California (United States)
on 04/07 at 04:23PM PT
You know ... a [NON] equivalency comes to mind.
Try this on for size ...
"You, Senator [Obama], are no Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Can anybody make a parallel between Dr. MLK, Jr. and Barack Obama?
The same Barack Obama that had to be dragged kicking and screaming to [not really] repudiate the racist, separatist, hate-the-white-U.S. Reverend Wright's oft "sermons?"
The same Barack Obama who made 1 (ONE) speech on race, strictly as self-defense?
Shamefully diminishes Dr. MLK, Jr., a genuine American hero.
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Spinner ( 131 posts / 3 fights ) from Sherman Oaks, California (United States) on 04/07 at 04:02PM PT
I agree with you Barns, the promotion was done in very poor taste. Almost seems like the producers were too lazy to look thru the archives for the appropriate background. Or should we all misconstrue that the station is promoting Obama for the democratic nominee. Hopefully the powers that be at the station have a conscience about it and reprimand the appropriate staff. They owe an apology to the King family!
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Harm ( 116 posts / 0 fights ) from Alexandria, Virginia (United States) on 04/07 at 04:15PM PT
You may be right. I don't think that. The History Channel is not some ordinary cable outlet. They have plenty historical context. What they don't have is any sense of propriety. It is a shame that they take the anniversary of Dr. MLK's passing to campaign for Obama. My post has nothing to do with Obama. Shame on the History Channel.
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THIS TOPIC IS NOT ABOUT BARACK OBAMA. It is about a cable network who took the most callous opportunity to promote Obama.
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