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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Returning more or less to the original topic, something that fastens the albatross that is Jeremiah Wright around Obama's neck.

Originally Posted by Bozell

Pardon me if I can’t exactly remember Walter Cronkite vilifying Martin Luther King for opposing the Vietnam War.

Maybe not Cronkite, who was also opposed to the war, but

Originally Posted by wikipedia

King also was opposed to the Vietnam War on the grounds that the war took money and resources that could have been spent on the War on Poverty. The United States Congress was spending more and more on the military and less and less on anti-poverty programs at the same time. He summed up this aspect with "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
King was long hated by many white southern segregationists, but this speech turned the more mainstream media against him. Time called the speech "demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi", and The Washington Post declared that King had "diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people."

It was a pretty incoherent article. It starts off by sneering at the idea that King was vilified for his views on Vietnam, then spends several paragraphs vilifying King for his views on Vietnam and equating King and Wright, which is not a comparison that is likely to turn many people off to Wright. If you want to pile on, saying "he's just like MLK!" doesn't seem to be the greatest strategy. Unless you're Bozell's target audience, I guess.