Posted on 01/20/2015 5:08:39 PM PST by Libloather
'I haven't heard him talk in a while...': Californians caught in Jimmy Kimmel prank seem to think Martin Luther King is STILL ALIVE... and gave a speech on MLK day
He may have been judged a significant enough political figure to warrant a federal holiday - but some Americans seem not even to know Martin Luther King Jr is dead.
A string of pedestrians tracked down on a California street on Martin Luther King day Monday claimed they had seen seen a speech they were told the civil rights leader gave that morning in Washington, D.C.
Speaking to a cameraman for Jimmy Kimmel Live, seven of fourteen people who were asked whether they saw the supposed speech - despite King having been assassinated 46 years ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
We're in big trouble.
We are swamped with stoopid people. We’re totally screwed!
Yeah he’s pretty quiet these days and seldom speaks in public.
The saddest part is that they know they don’t have a clue but feel comfortable answering any way.
They’re buffaloed by the camera and microphone, of course. That’s not much of an excuse, really, but it does seal the deal. I’ll bet half of them would claim they knew better, but “just couldn’t think” or some such.
And of course, we don’t get to see the ones that got away.
His son was also named Martin Luther King. Did Kimmel rule that out in some way other than by saying Jr.
This kind of stupidity caused us to get Barack Obama not once but twice..they sit at home, collect welfare and food stamps, and don’t have a clue about anything going on in the world
Probably showed up on a number of voting registries in the last election!
Sadly, many people in this country don’t know the difference between news footage and news.
These are the same people who believe there’s a spagheti harvest in Italy every year.
I had to double that it was Italy, because I remember it as Switzerland.
It's Southern Switzerland [that has the spaghetti trees...]
There are low info voters. These are negative info voters.
I was telling a guy one day at work about the show I had seen the night before about the spaghetti harvest in Italy. I told him there were people who actually believed it grew on trees and he said “It grows on bushes, doesn’t it?”
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