If Rev Martin Luther King was alive would MSM be vilifying him today

[cooolandrew]

Poll question: If Rev Martin Luther King was alive would MSM be vilifying him today

[polichick]

1. They'd crucify Jesus!

[cooolandrew]

2. I hear that.

[krawhitham]

3. anything for ratings

[DemBones DemBones]

4. they would treat him fairly unless he talked like wright, which he never did.

you obamanoids ought to read some history. the media was fair to mlk and the entire civil rights movement.

[againes654]

9. Obamanoids?????

LOL, I won't even call you names in return.

This Obamanoid, thinks he would get a fair shot, only because there were those in the 60's that tried to vilify King, but he was such an upstanding person, they never could find anything to vilify him with.

[sorrybushisfromtexas]

12. Obamoids

You are ignored.

[HamdenRice]

5. He was always villified when he was alive

It is only a myth we've created that he was a beloved leader in his day. The people who supported him were the African American civil rights movement, parts of the white left, and parts of the international humanitarian community.

He was villified day in and day out, first for his positions on civil rights (it wasn't popular in the general media) and then for his position on the Vietnam war.

[M0rpheus]

11. Exactly right!

:thumbsup:

[ellacott]

20. I agree

Some people here need to read Letters From a Birmingham Jail. Many white religious leaders wanted him to stop. They thought he was being a troublemaker.

[uponit7771]

23. MLK was the Michael Moore of the day

[againes654]

6. He was an amazing person.

A man we have yet to see the likes of. He wanted more than anything, for all people to be of equal standing, regardless of race (and I am sure sex and sexual orientation these days).

Such a tragic loss for this country. I have to wonder if race issues would be better today if "they" had not murdered him.

I think he was such an amazing person, and speaker that the MSM couldn't have vilified him therefore they would have to embrace him.

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. His speech against the Vietnam War labeled him

as a traitor by the MSM back then, I think it was one
of his most powerful speeches. Pat Buchanan, Hannity and others would
be all over MLK

That's why he was assassinated because he spoke truth to power.

[stillrockin]

8. No doubt he would be villified.

He was anti-war fer crissakes. That alone would sink him. To imagine the MSM would have the clarity of vision to recognize a great man is unfathomable.

[Cali_Democrat]

10. Bill Orielly, Hannity and Rush would call him an agitator. nt

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

13. LBJ once called him a "hypocrite preacher."

Now put that in the context of Clinton's remarks.

[Texas Hill Country]

18. and then pushed thru the civil rights laws that changed a generation...

[Beregond2]

14. King

They'd destroy him. Young people today have no idea how far to the right the media have gone in my lifetime.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

15. they often did when he was alive

especially after he came out against the Viet Nam War.

[cooolandrew]

16. kick

[Texas Hill Country]

17. Different times, different America. Same stupid post.

[apocalypsehow]

19. They sure would - and if he wasn't on the HRC bandwagon her supporters would be trashing him here.

n/t.

[matcom]

21. not as bad as GDP would be

[uponit7771]

22. MLK would say things more controversial than Wright no doubt

[cooolandrew]

24. kik

[FlaGranny]

25. Not so much unless he were running for president. n/t

[krawhitham]

26. The media vilifying him then

They just did not have 24/7 news channels

[cooolandrew]

27. kick

[Milo_Bloom]

28. What, you don't watch the Boondocks?

They covered this... he would escape to Canada.

[backscatter712]

29. Old, I know...

http://www.upcheer.com/images/foxnews/

[cooolandrew]

30. kick

[cooolandrew]

31. kick

[cooolandrew]

32. .

[sudopod]

33. He was an adulterer and a Communist

I read it on FR so it must be true :sarcasm: