Partisan Politics at the Ali Memorial
By Bernard Goldberg June 10, 2016
http://bernardgoldberg.com/a-laundry-list-of-liberal-grievances-at-the-ali-memorial/I was watching the memorial for Muhammad Ali when a political rally for liberal Democratic causes broke out.
We can thank far left Rabbi Michael Lerner for that who after a few words about Ali began channeling Bernie Sanders or some other progressive pol, delivering a fiery speech lambasting all the usual things progressive Democrats find wrong with the country.
“Tell the 1% who own 80% of the wealth of this country that it’s time to share that wealth,” the rabbi said. “Tell the politicians who use violence worldwide and then preach nonviolence to the oppressed that it’s time for them to end their drone warfare and every other kind of warfare, to close our military bases around the world, to bring the troops home.”
And a memorial seemed just the right place, for Michael Lerner anyway, to demand a guaranteed income for all Americans and to attack those he, and many on the Left, sees as bigots.
“Tell those who invented mass incarceration that it’s time to create a living income for everyone,” he said. “Tell judges to let out of prison the many African-Americans swept up by racist police and imprisoned by racist judges.”
The audience loved it. The applause was loud and sustained.
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