,We haven't written much about Annandale toxic metal preacher Bradlee Dean much recently because he's been carrying about going to California to preach the Gospel Of Bradlee to "Rock Stars."
Boring.
This week, Dean appears to be avoiding the wrathful winter here with God's frozen people in Minnesota by conducting a swing through southern states.
While traveling through Memphis, he stopped at the site where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, then popped off a couple of tweets that confirm the judgement of Matt Labash's 2006 Weekly Standard article, What Would Jesus Rap?, Matt Labash wrote:
. . . He is also a gold-plated conspiracy theorist who will readily hold forth on the mysterious plane crashes of Paul Wellstone and John Kennedy Jr., how Oswald didn't act alone, how O.J. Simpson might've been framed ("He's driving down the freeway, all of the sudden there's this helicopter on his truck--how convenient!"), and how the moon-landing was faked in a television studio. We disagree so vehemently on this last point that he starts polling his assemblies on the subject just to settle the dispute. To what should be the chagrin of us all, apparently about 35 percent of public school students and teachers believe Neil Armstrong deserves an Oscar for his star turn in that NASA movie. . . .
Dean tweeted:
Just left the Loraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot in April 1968
— Bradlee Dean (@BradleeDean1) February 21, 2014
Now sitting in front of the building where they say James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King Jr. how stupid do they really think we are?
— Bradlee Dean (@BradleeDean1) February 21, 2014
The notion that James Earl Ray was framed by a conspiracy was first promoted by an attorney Ray hired in his appeal. From the New York Times obituary of the lawyer:
Ray grew disenchanted with Mr. Kershaw after he persuaded Ray to be interviewed by Playboy magazine and submit to a lie-detector test for the article. The results indicated that Ray was lying when he said he did not kill Dr. King and that he was telling the truth when he denied he was part of a conspiracy. Playboy said the results proved “that Ray did, in fact, kill Martin Luther King Jr. and that he did so alone.”
The last straw came when Ray learned that Mr. Kershaw had accepted $11,000 from Playboy. He fired Mr. Kershaw and replaced him with Mark Lane, a lawyer, author and conspiracy theorist.
Great stuff, Bradlee.
Bradlee Dean gained national attention when he questioned President Obama's faith in a prayer delivered as a guest chaplain for the Minnesota House; the prayer was redacted from the House record. He later unsuccessfully sued Rachel Maddow for defamation when she played part of his radio broadcast on her MSNBC cable show.
Photo: The iconic shot of the King assassination.
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