A Follow-Up to ¡Obamanos!
You know how I admitted that I didn’t know that Martin Luther King, Jr Service Day was an annual event?
Well. Stephen Colbert didn’t know either. On his show, aired January 19, 2008, he began with a celebration of his 500th taping. Afterwards he mentioned, and I quote:
Of course it is also Martin Luther King Day which President-Elect Obama has declared a national day of service. The President-Elect himself painted walls at a youth center today while Mrs. Obama assembled care packages for the troops. And I spent the day tending the grounds at the Stephen T. Colbert Goose Sanctuary at LaGuardia Airport.
Stephen Colbert has a staff of many. And not one of them checked the facts on this? People, I work alone and I found out that this wasn’t Barack’s idea just by chance.
This from the MLK Day website:
Make it a Day On… Not a Day Off!
During the 1950s and ’60s, civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. recognized the power of service to strengthen communities and achieve common goals.
Initiated by Congress in 1994, King Day of Service builds on that that legacy by transforming the federal holiday honoring Dr. King into a national day of community service grounded in his teachings of nonviolence and social justice. The aim is to make the holiday a day ON, where people of all ages and backgrounds come together to improve lives, bridge social barriers, and move our nation closer to the “Beloved Community” that Dr. King envisioned. With thousands of projects planned across the country, the 2009 King Day of Service on January 19 promises to be the biggest and best ever!
I’m not ratting SC out, per se, I’m just saying.
January 23rd, 2009 at 10:08 pm
sc clearly needs to hire an nyc based internet fact checker!, I’m just saying.
January 23rd, 2009 at 10:09 pm
and pay her well