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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 »

Take that, Obama. You probably didn’t even know you were black yet when Hillary was throwing Rosa Parks under a bus. (PS — Sorry about the Depends commercial before this clip.)

EARLIER: Did Hillary Clinton Really ‘Shake Hands’ With MLK When She Was 14?

Hillary Clinton just gave a speech exploiting the assassination of MLK somberly remembering the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and she added a (new to us) detail: Hillary claims she saw the Reverend King speak and even shook his hand, when she was 14 years old. Wonkette operatives “Gary & Marilyn” ask, “Doesn’t her attendance at such an event sound unlikely for a Goldwater Girl? I can’t find my copy of her autobiography, think that would have been a memorable event she would have written about at the time … so I’m putting this in your capable fact-checkers’ hands.” MORE »

On Martin Luther King Junior Day, Mitt Romney had more than a question about mangy curs to the African-American community. He also had some… advice. Yes, you know where this is going, and you know it’s a tragically dark place lined with Mormon insecurities: MORE »

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. [Washington Post]

So, now that everyone knows that there’s no way in hell George Romney marched with Martin Luther King or that the Mittster watched, he’s been forced to come up with another story. That story is that George Romney marched in a rally in Grosse Pointe that was sorta part of one that King spoke at in Detroit a few days earlier that Romney couldn’t attend because it was Sunday and Mormons spend practically all day in services on Sundays. Also, Mitt was “speaking figuratively” when he said he “saw” it. Whatever, dude. [Boston Phoenix, The Page]

So, you know how Romney’s all like, we’re not racist, I saw my my dad (pictured), march with Martin Luther King? Yeah, um, well, that may be more of a dream than a country in which people are judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin.

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Shame on you, Jesse Jackson! Martin Luther King would have condemned your anti-gun march, what with his well-known pro-gun stance! [CNSNews.com]

As Bono taught us, wrongly, Martin Luther King was assassinated in the “early morning, April 4″ of 1968 — 39 years ago today. (It was actually 6:01 p.m. There was no Wikipedia back then, so at least he got the date right.) Today is the real Martin Luther King Day. MORE »

* To sum up: guy accuses white house of bad intelligence practices, White House uses henchman for a white collar hatchet job on guy’s wife - thereby offending both legal and natural practice. You care because when Scooter Libby’s trial starts tomorrow the witness stand will be a virtual “Who’s Evil in Washington: 2003.” [WP, NYT]
* Dick Cheney gives the same answer to every question: “There’s nothing wrong with it or illegal.” [NYT]
* Troop surge was “the only option,” obv. [WP]
* And Democrats are against it, this they know for sure. [NYT]
* Government contractors in Iraq may soon add “take it to prison” to their already established “taking it to the bank.” [WP]
* Robert Gates enjoyed his evening with UK counterpart Des Browne, wants a second date. [NYT]
* Two more Hussein lieutenants hanged, coming soon to a theater near you. [LAT]
* Republican presidential contenders have a hard time finding where to sit on Iraq plan. [USAT]
* Martin Luther King so well loved that only 2 in 10 college students don’t have a clue who he was. [WP]