While campaigning for a couple of Democratic candidates over the weekend, President Obama urged voters to grab their friends, co-workers, and even get “Cousin Pookie” off of the couch and encourage them all to vote in the upcoming elections.
Obama has cited “Cousin Pookie” since at least 2008, as Mediaite explained, “as a means [of] energizing minority communities that may not be as inclined to vote as others” but this latest incident seems to have outraged Alveda King, who says she is “very disturbed” by it.
Speaking to J.D. Hayworth on his Newmax radio show today, King attacked Obama for apparently disrespecting the “educated, intelligent people in our nation who are concerned about the moral bankruptcy” of this country before bizarrely holding up a recent issue of Newsmax’s magazine featuring Al Sharpton on the cover, which then sent her off on some incoherent tangent.
“I think President Obama has anointed Al Sharpton. Well, for me, God has anointed Jesus of Nazareth,” she said. “And that’s who my uncle Martin Luther King, Jr. served and my daddy A.D. King and Daddy King, my grandaddy. Read ‘King Rules,’ my book.”
“So to bring up ‘Cousin Pookie’ as if that could give us solutions to these terrible problems, I’m very disturbed about that reference,” King stated:
