Fox Host Offers Her ‘Take’ On Baltimore Unrest By Quoting MLK (VIDEO)

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Fox News host Gretchen Carlson told viewers on Tuesday that in lieu of her own “take,” she would address the unrest in Baltimore with a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

She decided not to opt for his famous statement that “a riot is the language of the unheard.”

“I found myself frequently wondering what Martin Luther King Jr. might do right now if he were still alive,” she said on her show, “The Real Story.”

Carlson quoted instead a passage from his speech, “The Quest for Peace and Justice,” which King gave after he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

She read aloud part of the address:

Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends up defeating itself.

“Oh, how we need Martin Luther King Jr. today, as we wait for another day, and night, in Baltimore,” she said.

Monday’s night of unrest came after days of protests over the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who died of a spinal injury that he suffered police custody.

Watch Carlson’s take:

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  1. She doesn’t need to make sense, or quote history in context, She’s there to make my TV set show beautiful blond women, that’s half of what Fox News is all about. The other half is to make sure only angry white men decide who gets elected to make sure only angry white men get richer.

  2. Oh please! If MLK were alive today you (and the rest of Fox) would be bemoaning him as a “community organizer” and “race hustler” who’s “stirring up hatred in minority neighborhoods”.

    P.S. really enjoying Fox taking out of context quotes of King. Someone who understood that a “riot is a language of the unheard”, but who denounced it as it gave oppressors an excuse to continue their oppression.

  3. Concern troll says what?

  4. “Oh, how we need Martin Luther King Jr. today, as we wait for another day, and night, in Baltimore,” she said.

    I call BS – you people would literally shit your effing pant(ie)s if you had to contend with Martin Luther King, Jr., today (so would that “reverend” Alveeda King, but that’s another story).

  5. How quaint. Using select quotes by MLK to support her position.
    Curious about the other quotes of his - particularly with regard to income inequality and redistribution of wealth. Did she get a chance to read those on air???

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