During an interview Thursday with Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece, “Fox & Friends” ran text and footage suggesting the protestors in Ferguson, Mo. are “forgetting MLK’s message.”
Fox’s morning crew was interviewing Alveda King, director of outreach at the pro-life organization Priests for Life, and decided to introduce the segment with footage of MLK himself.
“Violence creates many more social problems than it solves,” the civil rights leader said in a clip, as Fox overlayed the words: “Forgetting MLK’s Message, protesters in Missouri turn to violence.”
The interview itself focused on Alveda King’s urging of nonviolence, as well as her criticism of liberal civil rights figures such as Al Sharpton — who gave a press conference Monday with the parents of Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old who was shot by a Ferguson police officer on Saturday.
“I think this is tragic. We must pray, but we must be peaceful. We must be nonviolent,” she said.
“There doesn’t seem to be a leader to step up, like your uncle and dad did,” host Brian Kilmeade said as he concluded the interview.
Alveda King has appeared on Fox News in the past, for instance arguing that Martin Luther King would have supported pro-life values.
She has also contributed to FoxNews.com, penning two op-eds in support of GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, as well as one urging the federal defunding of Planned Parenthood. In 2010 King spoke at former Fox host Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” in rally in Washington, DC.
The image of Fox News wrapping themselves in the mantle of MLK is beyond nauseating. They weren’t invoking MLK when they were covering (and pretty much lauding) Cliven Bundy, now were they?
Unless you’ve read AT LEAST one of Dr. King’s writings (we can start with Letter from a Birmingham Jail) you have no business ever invoking his name, especially in any current events contexts. These people know the I Have a Dream speech (and probably that one line about character towards the end) but I bet 10 out of 10 of them don’t know the full name of the rally where he gave that speech.
Fox whine: The Ferguson police are faithfully playing the part of MLK’s contemporary opponents, so why aren’t the 2014 protestors playing an equally authentic reenactment of the late 1950s and early 1960s?
Good FSM, King was all for non-violent protest, which is what almost all the people protesting the cops are doing in Ferguson.
The stupidization of Fox and their viewers marches ever onward.
“Fox: Ferguson Protestors Forgetting MLK’s Message.”
Shorter Foxwhistle: Nothing a few fire hoses and attack dogs wouldn’t cure.