  My reply to Mr. Rutlidge: stewart-- a few things... first, my points were not -- as you say -- "hate filled". the comments I made in criticism of the conservative right were clearly mired in cynical humor, but "hate"? because i made the comment that our president has a 4th grade reading level and relies on the guidance of a shady political strategist, that means I "hate" him?
i don't "hate" george w. bush. i just think he's a fundamentally incompetent person who's managed to ride the momentum of his last name to a position of leadership that was indented to be reserved for our country's best and brightest. as far as his "ivy league" education, do you really think he attended those schools based on his academic merit? he had just under a c average upon graduating from high school. yeah, all non-Bushes with a C average go to harvard. wake up... regarding the facts you clearly spent to much time researching in the the hopes of detracting from the accomplishments of MLK, there is still not one single point in any of those statements -- even if we were to assume they were all completely true (which they aren't entirely). his name is meaningless. his political affiliation is meaningless. his academic record is meaningless. his sexual habits are meaningless. the change he brought to this country will forever overshadow any petty mudslinging perpetuated upon him by brainless automotons like yourself.
if you think the worth of a man's life can be added up and measured by only his mistakes, i have pity for the world, as we will all pass as failures. the original e-mail sent out purporting to state facts about MLK was generated by a hate group in hopes of stopping MLK day as a federal holiday. you can find this and more information at the following website: http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/mlklies.html while my own statements in the last e-mail were off-the-cuff and un-researched, for the sake of argument i'll admit that i shouldn't generalize and refer to all southern conservatives as "rednecks". however, if you cannot see how inane your comments -- and the comments of the original author of this e-mail are -- then i'm sure nothing i say will make a difference.
i don't hate anyone, especially not based on trivialities such as the color of one's skin. our world is slowly moving in a direction of progressive peace and equality, whether people such as yourselves like it or not. ignorance and blind hatred will be extinguished sooner or later and people like you will have little bearing on the outcome. martin luther king, jr. was much more than a man. he was -- and is -- an idea. an idea of a world where "all men are created equal and will be judged not be the color of their skin, but by the content of their character". again, read "letter from a birmingham prison", THEN try and make your silly points.... in pity, Alex C. Blagg 
