Later this afternoon, we'll probably have a post up from The Big Con's newest weekly guest blogger (introducing....Cliff Schechter!!!" [1] Later tonight, I'll have a post up on how the right is using the Community Reinvestment Act—one of the great progressive policy triumphs of our generation—to lie about the true reasons for the subprime crisis, a subject very much in the spirit of King's social democratic message. Until then, to tide you over, here are some links.
I fully endorse what Spencer Ackerman [2] writes here about David Brooks and all such right-wing punks attempting to march behind Martin Luther King's banner.
Indeed, I thrashed about at great length on that subject here [3].
Or save your time a just note what Spencer says. It's very simple: "Had King not been martyred, the right would treat him like it treats Jesse Jackson -- as nothing more than a 'hustler' or a "huckster.'"
Links:
[1] http://agonist.org/schecter/
[2] http://toohotfortnr.blogspot.com/2008/04/showed-me-how-to-be-man.html
[3] http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/perlsteins-greatest-hits-6-conservatives-and-martin-luther-king