Former President defends son from attacks at King funeral

DallasBlog.com:

“Former President George H.W. Bush was so upset by the critical remarks made about his son by some speakers at Mrs. King's funeral that he made the following statement to CBS News White House correspondent Peter Maer: ‘In terms of the political shots at the president who was sitting there with his wife, I didn't like it and I thought it was kind of ugly frankly. Anybody that shoots at the president of the United States at a funeral. I just didn't appreciate that.’ The former President apparently was unhappy with critical remarks made by former President Carter and the Rev. Joseph Lowery about his son.”

Ed Cognoski responds:

A lot of Republicans went nuts over that funeral. Speaking truth to power has a way of doing that. Anyone who expected truth to take a holiday at the funeral for one of America's civil rights icons, famous for speaking truth to power, is either naive or is faking umbrage for political purposes themselves. President George H.W. Bush is not naive.

P.S. President Carter made no critical comments about President Bush. If Republicans read it that way, it must be because they see some similarity between the unjust wiretapping of the Kings four decades ago with the current President's own illegal domestic spying program today. President Carter himself did not draw that parallel.