Left-Wing Radio Host: MLK Assassinated by U.S. Government

Photo of Tim Graham.

Some Martin Luther King birthday events happened this week (the real birthday is January 15), and the official ones take place Monday. But on the 14th, wacky leftist radio host Mike Malloy charged that King was murdered by the government (then headed by Lyndon Johnson):

"The argument has been made that one of the reasons that the US government assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. was because of his speech at Riverside Church in New York, I think it was Riverside Church, where he came out fully against the war in southeast Asia and fully against the policies that were being perpetuated against the American people in general. He left his little safe niche of, oh, well, he's a spokesman for the Negroes, and stepped outside that and started taking on greater issues and so the United States government said, well, it's time to get rid of this guy."

Malloy's angry government must have been on a really slow burn, since King's Riverside speech was on April 4, 1967 -- in fact, exactly one year before he was shot in Memphis.


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Wacky Leftist Mike Malloy.

Wacky Leftist Mike Malloy. You've summed it up, my friend.

Lyndon Johnson

Lyndon Johnson, a sourthern Democrat who battled his own party to pass the Voting Rights Act, was President. Detroit and Newark erupted in riots after the assasination.

A person making that ascertion has a tenuous ability to discern reality.

There is no "Man." The Man

There is no "Man." The Man did not kill MiLK

The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy

Sure there is...he's right

Sure there is...he's right up there Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy.

 

without him it's alot harder to be a "victim".

 

 

"Get off the phone you big dope!!!!!!!!!!" Mark Levin

Detroit and Newark riots

There may have been riots in Detroit and Newark after the MLK assasination. The riots that made nationwide news happened the year before in 1967.

 I was stationed at Fort Dix, NJ in a riot control  company in 1967. 

Correct

You are absolutely correct. The famous Detroit and  Newark riots ocurred in 1967. Following the death of Martin Luther King in 1968, rioting broke out in Washington, DC, Chicago and 120 other American cities.

 

Newark riots

Not to be nit picking allanf, but the Newark riots occured in the summer of '67, almost a year before MLK was murdered.

MIKE MALLOY...

GregE,

Wacky leftist does'nt even come close to summing it up, have you, or anyone else listened to Mike Malloy? He makes BathTubBoy look normal, seriously. I tune in to the guy once & a while on XM & laugh my @$$ off at this man's loony rants. The only people who come close to his level of insanity along with BathTubBoy are Randi Rhodes, Robert Kennedy Jr, & Alex Jones. Mental illness on display on the airwaves, unbelievable.

 

"Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise"  Mark Levin

Wow!

I bet they used the same guy wo was on the gressy knoll too. Must have taken them a year to come to an agreement with him as to payment and other details. And, in order to divert suspicion, Lyndon Johnson used up almost all of his political capital to get the Civil Rights Act passed. Oh, wait. They did that in 1964. Uh.... yeah, they passed it first so that no one would suspect. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Now, lets talk about those UFOs in Texas...

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.

Did Malloy discuss just how

Did Malloy discuss just how this was a big conspiracy between LBJ and the Bush/Cheney/Rove/Halliburton cabal, and it was instigated by W? Surely the King assassination was W's idea so that the attention of the people would be diverted away from his nefarious activities to initiate global warming.

"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan

This is not surprising at

This is not surprising at all. Another thing that wouldn't surprise me would be if some liberal loon, like this knucklehead, came up with a story that said Bush had a top-secret time machine built (by Halliburton, of course) and used it to back in time and personally lead the attack on Pearl Harbor.

For those of you

For those of you who don't already have one, I'll provide you with a useful website.

Stultus est sicut stultus facit

OldSailor, lol, awesome

OldSailor,

lol, awesome link! I'm surprised Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich don't have the market cornered on AFDBs!

The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy

You're welcome wiwf!

My wife showed me that website last week, and I'm still laughing aobut it. If you surf around there you'll be amazed. The people that created the site are serious. That's the funniest part about it.

Stultus est sicut stultus facit

Time to "Toy with Malloy"

I consider it a safe bet that only about five people heard Malloy make this outrageous charge, and two of them were his call screener and board operator.

This perpetual loser once had a local radio show in my area. I am not certain, but he might have been the first radio talk-show host in history to draw negative ratings.

Malloy could not attract flies at a barbecue.

None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. -J.W. von Goethe

Mike Malloy and Art Bell

Mike Malloy and Art Bell vieying for the nut job radio show prize.

And, the winner is . . .

Mike Malloy!

I was living in the D.C. area...

...during the big Civil Rights events.

King wasn't even on the radar. He was a moderate, a peacenik, a Gandhi among many in a field of fire-breathing fist-shakers.

No 'punch' on the evening news. Sneered at for his conciliatory tone and mild, uplifting message of respect, dignity and mutual understanding.

No bleed. No lead.

The rhetoric of the movement at the time was heated and Black America was fired up. His reasonable voice was not welcomed in general, except by the fearful.

The sainthood that has been bestowed upon him following up his assassination is a construct. If you are the government in power and want to calm the fires, his was the persona you would promote, not the Panthers.

Note the lack of fame for Malcolm X and the others who died in the same cause and, at the same time. Here is a list of forty others who died in the cause of Civil Rights. No less brave, or worthy:

http://findarticles....

There is no national day of tribute for them or any of the more radical civil rights activists. They are largely ignored, forgotten, even trivialized. It is almost as though Dr. King was alone in his leadership of the movement, and nothing could be further from the truth.

The government not only didn't compass Dr. King's death, they had good reason to see him live. He never was "...a spokesman for the Negroes", he was an unheralded voice for reason at a time when anger was boiling over and others were far more of a threat to peace and security.

It was only after his murder that he was made the point man for peaceful racial equality. It was long after that the tributes and holiday came about.

Somewhat unfairly I think, it homogenizes a movement that had a lot more going on than MLK, and the notion that "...the United States government said, well, it's time to get rid of this guy", is complete, ridiculous, pandering rubbish.

Considering the source, that's no surprise, though.

Unlike Malloy-

Here's an article that actually presents some evidence for consideration:

http://prisonplanet....

And here's an interesting op. ed. suggesting that the deed was done by those of the Communist Party with whom King had ties:

http://www.newswithv...

"Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them." -Matthew 7:20