Happy MLK Assassination Riot Day, Washington!
Friday, April 4th, 2008
Forty years ago tonight, Washington burned, baby, burned — just as so many other cities burned after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. And it only took about 40 years to fix up some of the destroyed neighborhoods along H Street NE, 14th and U, and various other chunks of the District that ended up looking like Hiroshima after the Bomb. And now Wonkette’s own Liz Glover says the National Guard actually burnt D.C. to the ground, not the freaked-out rioters. MORE »
Forty years ago tonight, Washington burned, baby, burned — just as so many other cities burned after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. And it only took about 40 years to fix up some of the destroyed neighborhoods along H Street NE, 14th and U, and various other chunks of the District that ended up looking like Hiroshima after the Bomb. And now Wonkette’s own Liz Glover says the National Guard actually burnt D.C. to the ground, not the freaked-out rioters. MORE »








On Martin Luther King Junior Day, Mitt Romney had more than a question about
Barry Obama is the first serious black candidate for president since Bill Clinton or Alan Keyes or whoever. But does he know about Martin Luther King Jr.? Yes, he does! He knows you need to go to the church and do the thing and talk all Southern. Even Al Gore could do that, back when Al Gore was about to be elected president, back in 2000. [
So, now that
So, you know how Romney’s all like, we’re not racist, I saw my my dad (pictured),