D'Souza Blasts Obama, Compares His Own Struggle to MLK

Conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza used Martin Luther King Jr. Day to lash out at President Barack Obama, and even compared his own plight with that of King.

D'Souza took to Twitter on Monday to make several statements.

WE LAWBREAKERS GOTTA STICK TOGETHER: I'm excited to celebrate the life and legacy of my fellow lawbreaker & jailbird Martin Luther King Jr.

— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) January 18, 2015

HOW FAR WE HAVE FALLEN: For all his flaws MLK was a great man, larger than life; by contrast, Obama is a hollow man, smaller than life

— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) January 19, 2015

King was jailed multiple times for his civil rights activities, and his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" is still read by students. D'Souza is serving eight months in a halfway house for illegal campaign contributions to his longtime friend Wendy Long's unsuccessful run for Senate from New York. He also received five years probation and a $30,000 fine.

D'Souza and many legal scholars say his sentence was more harsh than normal and have speculated that his conservative politics may have influenced his prosecution by the Obama Justice Department.

Several of D'Souza's tweets directly targeted the president:

AN INTERESTING PARALLEL: MLK was targeted by J. Edgar Hoover, an unsavory character; I was targeted by the equally unsavory B. Hussein Obama

— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) January 19, 2015

SOUL BROTHERS: Obama gets along so well with guys like Holder and Sharpton because they are all shakedown artists of one sort or another

— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) January 19, 2015

 

MLK's best legacy: the color-blind ideal; his worst legacy: Obama

— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) January 19, 2015

D'Souza also tweeted that he will appear on Fox News Channel's "The Kelly File"  Monday night to discuss "how we went from MLK to the current crop of race hustlers."

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