FOX AND FRIENDS DECIDED TO CELEBRATE MLK DAY BY BRINGING ON
MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR'S NIECE, A WOMAN BY THE NAME OF
ALVEDA KING.
WHILE THEY SPOKE TO HER, THEY DECIDED TO TOUCH ON AN ISSUE
THEY FEEL VERY NEGATIVELY ABOUT, BLACK LIVES MATTER.
DOCTOR KING, LET ME ASK YOU ABOUT THIS.
YOU LOOK AT BLACK LIVES MATTER AND THE WAR ON POLICE, AND
EVEN THE POLITICAL TONE IN THE NATION, WHAT WOULD YOUR
UNCLE THINK ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON IN HIS AMERICA TODAY?
MY UNCLE WAS A MAN OF PEACE AND REASON.
MY DADDY, HIS BROTHER, MY
FATHER, THEY WORKED TOGETHER TO BRING
ABOUT PEACE.
COMING TO THE TABLE WITH STEPS OF
NONVIOLENT CONFLICT RESOLUTION.
MARTIN SAID WE MUST LEARN
TOGETHER AS BROTHER.
WE NEED TO LEARN HOW TO COME TO
THAT TABLE IN THE BELOVED COMMUNITY AND PUT SOME SOLUTIONS
ON THE TABLE.
TEACHING PEOPLE TO USE THEIR WORDS, RATHER THAN BOMBS
AND GUNS, OR FISTS, AND USE THEIR WORDS TO HEAL RATHER
THAN TO DESTROY.
IN A NONVIOLENT WAY FOR SURE.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME TODAY.
HER ANSWER WAS A GOOD ONE, IF YOU ASK ME, BUT THEY WERE TRYING
TO GET AT SOMETHING VERY SPECIFIC.
FOX NEWS HAS BEEN
VERY ACTIVE AGAINST BLACK LIVES MATTER.
THEY KEEP ECHOING THE NOTION OF ALL LIVES MATTER, AND OF COURSE
ALL LIVES MATTER, BUT THE POINT OF THE BLACK LIVES MATTER
MOVEMENT IS TO RAISE AWARENESS TOWARDS THE PREVALENCE OF
SHOOTINGS AND ATTACKS THAT ARE
GEARED TOWARDS THE BLACK COMMUNITY.
THE REASON THAT IT CAME ABOUT WAS SITUATIONS LIKE ERICK
GARNER, TAMIR RICE, FREDDY GRAY.
THE LIST GOES ON AND ON.
THAT WAS THE END OF THE INTERVIEW, BUT THERE IS A
PART THAT WE ARE GOING TO GET YOU IN JUST A SECOND.
FIRST LET'S GET SOME INITIAL THOUGHTS.
THE INTENTIONALLY MISUNDERSTANDING
WHAT BLACK LIVES MATTER MEANS, THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE DOING.
EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE BEEN CORRECTED NUMEROUS TIMES.
WHEN SOMEONE SAYS BLACK LIVES MATTER, AND YOUR RESPONSE IS,
ALL LIVES MATTER, THAT IS THE
EQUIVALENT OF SOMEONE SAYING, HEY I WEAR A PINK RIBBON
FOR BREAST CANCER, AND YOU SAY, ALL CANCERS MATTER.
WE HAVE A PROBLEM THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SPECIFICALLY.
OF COURSE ALL LIVES MATTER, BUT WHITE PEOPLE AREN'T BEING
SHOT AT THE SAME RATE AS BLACKS, AND WE ALL KNOW THERE IS A
SYSTEMIC PROBLEM.
WITH FOX NEWS, YOU CAN'T PARODY THEM ANYMORE, THAT WAS
ALMOST HOW YOU WOULD WRITE A JOKE SKETCH FOR THEM.
WEIRD I KEEP GETTING IT WRONG NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES, AND
THEN YOU WANT TO JUST THROW IN BENGHAZI AND CLIMATE CHANGE AND
WITHOUT A FULL MORNING WITH
THESE GUYS.
YOU'VE GOT THEIR ENTIRE MORNING BREAKDOWN.
I THINK IT WAS A VERY BAD ANSWER BECAUSE SHE ACCEPTED
THE RIDICULOUS FRAMING.
HE SAYS, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT BLACK LIVES MATTER?
WELL I THINK YOU SHOULD USE WORDS INSTEAD OF BOMBS.
OKAY, BUT THEY ARE NOT USING BOMBS, OR GUNS.
SHE IS NOT USED TO THE SPIN, SO I DON'T BEGRUDGE HER FOR
HOW SHE ANSWERED THEIR.
SHE MIGHT HAVE PLAYED A FRAMING, BUT I THINK SHE
INTENTIONALLY DID IT.
BY THE WAY, I THINK IT WAS A DISASTROUS IDEA FOR HER TO GO ON
FOX NEWS ANYWAY, BUT I DO
COMMEND HER FOR HAVING THE BALLS TO DO THAT.
I HAVE READ THAT SHE HAS BEEN ON A FEW TIMES BECAUSE SHE
TENDS TO BE PRETTY CONSERVATIVE.
WHERE WAS THE MENTION OF, DON'T USE GUNS, BUT IF ANYONE WOULD
HAVE UNDERSTOOD THE LINGERING ANGER AND RAGE AGAINST THE
SYSTEM, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MY
UNCLE, AND THAT SAME SYSTEM EXISTS, SO OF COURSE SOMETHING
LIKE BLACK LIVES MATTER IS
INEVITABLE AND NECESSARY.
MARTIN LUTHER KING WAS TARGETED BY THE FBI, EVERY
PHONE CALL HE HAD WAS TAPED, ALL BECAUSE WIDE?
BECAUSE HE WAS STANDING UP FOR BLACK LIVES.
AND BELIEVE ME, THOSE TWO PHONIES OUT OF FOX AND
FRIENDS, YOU WOULD BE THE FIRST ONES TO CALL MARTIN LUTHER
KING AN AGITATOR.
IF THIS WAS 1963, YOU WOULD BE CALLING HIM AND AGITATOR.
FRIDAY THAT AGITATE EVERYBODY?
THESE WHITE PEOPLE ARE HAVING A NEW ñ A NICE COMMUNITY, WHY ARE
YOU COMING TO STIR EVERYTHING UP?
AND YES, I HAVE SEEN THIS NIECE OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, SO
SHE KNOWS WHAT SHE IS DOING.
IF THIS WAS HER ONLY APPEARANCE I WOULD CUT HER SLACK, BUT
SHE DOES THIS OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
THIS IS HER ONE CHANCE FOR FAME, SO SHE IS WILLING TO SELL
OUT THE TRUE MEMORY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING TO APPEAR ON TV.
I HAVE TO APOLOGIZE BECAUSE I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH HER PREVIOUS
WORK OR APPEARANCES, SO THAT CHANGES MY OPINION A LITTLE BIT.
BUT LET'S GO TO THE SECOND VIDEO WHERE THEY GO A LITTLE FURTHER
WHEN IT COMES TO A SO-CALLED WAR ON POLICE.
WE'VE GOT A FOX NEWS ALERT FOR YOU RIGHT NOW, A DAY OF
VIOLENCE AGAINST POLICE OFFICERS.
3 SEPARATE ATTACKS THIS MORNING.
ALL THIS AS WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE REMEMBERING THE PEACEFUL
MESSAGE OF DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU?
THAT TELLS YOU THAT THE SHOOTERS IN THE STORIES ARE ALL
BLACK, RIGHT?
LOOK AT THESE BLACK PEOPLE GOING AFTER THESE COPS AND SHOOTING
AND KILLING THEM, OF COURSE COPS HAVE TO SHOOT AND KILL
UNARMED BLACK INDIVIDUALS, LOOK HOW MUCH OF A THREAT THEY POSE.
HERE IS THE REALITY OF THE SITUATION, YES THERE WERE THREE
INSTANCES WERE POLICE OFFICERS WERE SHOT, UNFORTUNATELY
TWO INSTANCES WHERE POLICE OFFICERS WERE KILLED.
IN THE INSTANCES WHEN THE POLICE OFFICERS WERE SHOT AND KILLED,
THE PERPETRATORS WERE WHITE MEN,
NOT BLACK MEN, BUT FOX NEWS IS PURPOSEFULLY MAKING IT SEEM
LIKE THEY WERE BLACK MEN, AND THAT THEY WERE DANGEROUS.
HERE IS THE PERPETRATOR NUMBER ONE, PERSONAL JONES THE THIRD.
HE SHOT AND KILLED A POLICE OFFICIAL IN DANVILLE, OHIO.
THE SECOND SHOOTING WAS AN HOLIDAY, UTAH, AND THE POLICE
OFFICER WHO WAS SHOT DOWN WAS NAMED DOUG BARNEY, AND HE WAS
KILLED BY COREY LEE HENDERSON, WHO IS AGAIN A WHITE INDIVIDUAL.
THE THIRD STORY OUT OF ST.
LOUIS DID INVOLVE A BLACK MAN, WHO WAS APPARENTLY ROBBING
A STORE.
A POLICE OFFICER RESPONDED, AND HE GOT SHOT AT BUT DID NOT DIE.
BUT IT IS IMPORTANT TO GIVE YOU THE DETAILS, AND NOT BE
MISLEADING IN TELLING ABOUT THE ACTS OF VIOLENCE THAT HABIT IN
THE COUNTRY ON MLK DAY.
THEY ARE USING THESE INSTANCES AS A WAY TO EXPAND THEIR
RIDICULOUS OBJECTIVE AND AGENDA.
LET'S SAY THE KKK HAD A NEWS SHOW, AND FOR WHATEVER
REASON I COULDN'T BE A COMEDIAN AND THE NEED TO MAKE MONEY,
SO I GOT A JOB AT THE KKK NEWS SHOW.
HOW DIFFERENT WOULD THE KKK NEWS SHOW BE FROM FOXNEWS?
FOXNEWS IS TRYING TO BE SNEAKY
ABOUT IT, AND PULL THE
WOOL OVER YOUR EYES, BECAUSE THEY WANT TO KEEP THEIR
VIEWERS GET UP BY PEOPLE BECAUSE IT MAKES THEM MONEY.
YOU WOULDN'T FORGIVE ME FOR GOING TO WORK FOR THE KKK,
BUT WHY DO WE FORGIVE PEOPLE FOR GOING TO WORK FOR FOXNEWS?
THAT IS NOT OKAY.
THEY ARE JUST ACCEPTED IN
MAINSTREAM CULTURE, AND I
THINK WE HAVE TO STOP THAT.
THAT IS NOT OKAY THAT YOU CAN START YOUR CAREER AT
FOXNEWS, OR GO THERE IN THE MIDDLE, OR END UP THERE AT
THE END, THAT IS NOT OKAY, AND I THINK WE SHOULD SHAME
PEOPLE WHO NEED TO MAKE MONEY FROM RACIST ORGANIZATIONS
LIKE FOX NEWS, WHICH IS WHAT THEY ARE.
THERE IS A REASON WHY A AUDIENCE IS AGING.
THEY ARE IN THEIR 70S, THEY ARE ALL THERE, AND YOUNG PEOPLE
ARE NOT TUNING INTO FOX, OR CNN, OR EVEN MSNBC.
THAT IS BECAUSE THEY ARE GETTING THEIR NEWS ONLINE, FROM
DIGITAL MEDIA, AND I WOULD ARGUE THAT DIGITAL MEDIA HOLDS
THESE SO-CALLED REPORTERS OR ANCHORS IS MUCH MORE
ACCOUNTABLE THAN TRADITIONAL MEDIA DOES.
I THINK THAT IS THE SILVER LINING IN ALL OF THIS.