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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFOX NEWS has now sunk to doing fake interviews with impostors and wannabes...
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/busted-foxs-tucker-carlson-berated-an-actor-who-he-falsely-portrayed-as-an-anti-trump-organizer/After Fox News Tucker Carlsons request for an on-air debate with Olga Lexell a co-organizer of the national Not My Presidents Day protests on Monday, Feb. 20 was turned down, the conservative pundit instead booked an actor and casting agent from Los Angeles, the Daily Beast reports.
Lexell repeatedly turned down Carlsons invite to appear on the segment, which prompted him to hire someone who Lexell said was not affiliated in any way with our rallies and was not an organizer.
Shane Saunders, the hired actor and casting agent, was referred to on the segment as an organizer of the event, both on the screen and by Carlson.
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Lexell added, For a man who knows nothing about the protests to go on TV unprepared, misrepresent our message, take credit for our weeks of hard work, and make us look badand for Tucker Carlsons team to go along with itis just disappointing.
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Lexell said Saunders is a friend of some friends who was not involved in any of the organizing
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Well, if RT can book conspiracy-theorists, alt-right celebrities, disgraced ex-officers of the US-military and Breitbart-contributors, and pass them off as experts on US foreign-policy, then Fox News may as well book impostors.
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FOX NEWS has now sunk to doing fake interviews with impostors and wannabes... (Original Post)
DetlefK
Feb 2017
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KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)1. Sue them.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)2. Fox ......... Fairly UnBalanced
fake news ........ Trump will eat this up
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)3. Fox ......... Fairly UnBalanced
No.
Mentally unbalanced.