The Wellstone Funeral Wasn’t the Wellstone Funeral

Given the way that many people will attempt to “Wellstone” the funeral of Coretta Scott King, it’s worth nothing that the Wellstone meme itself is based on on a series of lies. The objectionable “politicization” of the Wellstone funeral was the way in which many people who despised everything Wellstone stood for distorted it for nakedly political ends.

And, of course, as Eric points out there’s also a staggering degree of presumptuousness involved in other people telling her family and friends what kind of funeral they should have. But we know what’s going on; in addition to the obvious, it’s also part of an ongoing enterprise by complacent reactionaries like Glenn Reynolds to retroactively strip the Kings and the civil rights movement of any political content. Just appalling.

…Dave Johnson has a good roundup of the various swiftboaters. Particularly precious is seeing the reaction of Michelle “Our Blessed Lady of the Concentration Camps” Malkin. Lesse, CSK’s friends and supporters saying things consistent with her beliefs (and that her family hasn’t objected to) is “twisting her legacy” and “unhinged,” but writing a sixth-rate book arguing in favor of stripping people of their property and shipping them to concentration camps solely because of their race, now that’s what the Civil Rights movement fought for! What a disgrace.