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Political Smears in U.S. Never Change: the NYTs 1967 Attack on MLKs Anti-War Speech
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Intercept
Posted: April 12th, 2015
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/07/political-rhet...
John Olivers Monday night interview of Edward Snowden ... renewed all the standard attacks in Democratic circles accusing Snowden of being a traitor in cahoots with the Kremlin. Whats most striking about this aside from the utter lack of evidence for any of it is how identical it is to what Nixon officials said to smear the last generations greatest whistleblower, Daniel Ellsberg. I defy anyone to listen to any Democratic apparatchik insinuate that Snowden is a Russian agent and identify any differences with how Nixon apparatchiks smeared Ellsberg (or, for that matter, how todays warnings from Obama officials about the grave harm coming from leaks differ from the warnings issued by Bush and Nixon officials). The script for smearing never changes. One of the most illustrative examples of this: an April 1967 New York Times editorial harshly chastising Martin Luther King for his anti-war activism. That editorial was published three days after Kings speech on the Vietnam War at the Riverside Church in New York City, which ... denounced the U.S. government as the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today, as well as the leading exponent of the deadly Western arrogance that has poisoned the international atmosphere for so long. The attack of the NYT editors on King for that speech is ... identical to how anti-war advocates in the U.S. are maligned today [by] Washington smear merchants.
Note: The media smear campaign against Dr. Martin Luther King was followed by his government-sponsored assassination, as a 1999 trial in Memphis, TN ultimately revealed. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles about government corruption and the manipulation of mass media.
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