With the solemn annual observance of Memorial Day just a few days away, MSNBC’s Ali Velshi welcomed columnist and SiriusXM’s Dean Obeidallah to his Saturday show to politicize the honoring of the nation’s war dead by claiming President Trump stands for the opposite of everything those men and women died for.
Obeidallah declared, “And I think the fact that it’s Memorial Day Weekend gives us a moment to pause. People made the ultimate sacrifice. They did it for something that you mentioned in your—in your monologue there. And that word is freedom.”
He continued, “And I’m writing an article right now. I was looking back at the very first speech in the modern day Memorial Day, which was Representative James Garfield before he was president, 1868 Arlington to Joe Biden’s. I looked at all different presidential speeches and…
