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The Wall Street Journal's Bret Stephens sheds some light on why 1976 Nobel Peace Price winner, Betty Williams, would announce to hundreds of Australian school children that she would love to kill George Bush.


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"The reaction was, of course, racial at its root. This was a majority-white, minority-Hispanic small town with very few black residents, which went for Barry Goldwater over Lyndon Johnson in the presidential election that same fall.
But the stated form of the objection concerned not King's race but his obnoxiousness as a man. He was a windbag. He was pompous and self-dramatizing, He was holier than thou. Plus, he had started getting involved where he didn't belong, in raising questions about the Vietnam War."
Mmm sound familiar?