Not Exactly A Scoop...

If you're like us and spend more than a reasonable amount of time reading news, political commentary, and nutritional information, you've already seen this. If so, very sorry to be part of the low-grade echo chamber. We're new to the business, and easily tempted by cheap self-gratification. Ahem. Renting a hall to eulogize a recently departed civil rights icon? $50,000. A picture of the Commander in Chief cranking a blaster while the First Lady shoots a death-ray at an Uppity Negro who has dared to make a political statement from the pulpit? Priceless.

If you haven't seen this image, it's from the funeral of Coretta Scott King, and it was taken while the Reverend Joseph Lowery delivered a few choice morsels of eulogy, including the following (now oft-quoted) lines:

We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there [standing ovation]... but Coretta knew and we know that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance. Poverty abounds. For war, billions more; but no more for the poor.

Finally some Christian palaver we can get behind. One-hundred-fuckin-percent. Thanks to JT for the spot-on.