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James Taranto: It's Always Selma Again: On the cheapening of civil-rights history
"Jackson is not alone in seeking to trivialize civil-rights history.... Rep. John Lewis--who suffered a fractured skull when a racist mob beat him on Bloody Sunday--in 2008 scurrilously likened the McCain campaign's criticism of Barack Obama to the Birmingham church bombings." [rdbrewer]