Daily Wire host says Martin Luther King Jr.'s “fake pastor voice” sounds “phony and ridiculous”
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From the May 11, 2026, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): It's the same playbook all over again. Activist theater is presented as a profound spur of the moment stand against oppression to create an emotional superstructure for radical change. That's why Pearson has spent most of the last week pretending to be a low IQ ghetto revolutionary. Watch.
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Every aspect of his behavior is an act. None of it is real. And if you doubt that, now's a good time to play the clip of Pearson from when he attended a small, extremely expensive liberal arts school in Maine. And then we'll contrast how he sounded then to what he sounds like now. We played this clip a few times before, but it bears repeating just to emphasize how truly shameless these fake civil rights leaders are. Watch.
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Now we could laugh at him all we want, and we should. He's a total clown. Should not be taken seriously, but he's still doing it. And he still got a lot of supporters. None of them care that he's completely fake, and they all excuse it. They say, oh, that's just code switching. So if you put -- if you could put -- if you could, you know, use a term to describe it, code switching, that makes it OK. Yeah. He's code switching, which is another word for being fake and dishonest and phony.
And indeed, Martin Luther King Jr did the exact same fake pastor voice. No one cared that he was a phony either. People still listen to his speeches with that absurd way of speaking and pretend that it sounds profound. But we should just be honest, like it sounds ridiculous. It sounds phony and ridiculous. And it sounded that way when Martin Luther King Jr did it. Now I guess Noam Chomsky might qualify as an exception. He went on the record saying that while he admired MLK, he couldn't stand to listen to his fake voice. Watch.