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WATCH: Democrat Rep. Hilariously Compares John Kerry To MLK

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Flattery appears to get one far in Washington, DC. Representative Madeleine Dean (D-PA) compared Biden’s Special Presidential Envoy for [the] Climate John Kerry to Martin Luther King Jr, the famed civil rights advocate. Representative Dean said of Kerry that “at some point, someone called you – that you were carrying a far-left radical agenda. I have to admit to you that if anybody thinks it is radical to care about the protection of this planet for future generations, sign me up.”

She then said what this line of attack on Kerry reminded her of. “It reminds me of Martin Luther King in the letter from the Birmingham jail when he was called a radical and an extremist. He said wasn’t Jesus a radical for love. So I embrace the term radical whenever I am attacked that way when I am focused on something so worthy.”


The Democrat who embraces the term “radical” as a positive term, however, re-tweeted a tweet by Turn PA Blue that called Trump-supporting Republicans “radical” as a pejorative.  The tweet in part read that one should thank a politician for “saying no to the radical MAGA rank-and-file.”

Her statement about Martin Luther King being labeled as an extremist was also apt given her throwing of the term against those who had issues over abortions and over the sending back of that issue to the states by the Supreme Court. She wrote on that occasion, “Right-wing extremists and republicans put us in this position. We’re fighting like hell to reverse their damage and protect the rights of women. I do this for my granddaughters, daughters in law, women and girls across the nation.” The positive attributions to and pride in certain terms appear to flow only one way for the Congresswoman.
When Martin Luther King Jr. penned his famous letter from a Birmingham Jail in 1963, he declared, “We [the American black community] have waited for more than 340 years for our constitutional and God-given right” and predicted that “[o]ne day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judaeo Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.”
King in his letter, which expressed that hope for the future, used tradition – both religious, historical, and constitutional – as a means to base his claim for equal rights. John Kerry complains that if people do not radically transform their economy because he thinks it might be good for the planet that they are bad people. Kerry says that those who do not heed his words are dooming the planet. Kerry also has flown in private jets while complaining about air pollution.


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