During the George Zimmerman trial, Tucker Carlson made the following comment about Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson on Fox and Friends:
“I am positive that people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton do not deserve to be called civil rights leaders–they are not– they are hustlers and pimps who make a living off inflaming racial tensions.”
The above speech by Dr. King was given at Stanford University on April 14, 1967. It's a speech no one talks about. In school we get the sanitized version of Dr. King's life--preaching in Atlanta, the bus boycott, the Letter from Birmingham Jail, the March to Selma, and only about 7 minutes of his speech from the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom; and they always skip the "jobs and freedom" part.
Anyway, if Fox and Friends were around back then, or if Dr. King gave this same speech today, as everything he said is still relevant today, he would be called exactly what Tucker Carlson called Sharpton and Jackson. King would be as reviled among the right--and some on the left--as those two.
Jump below the Chee-to for excerpts: