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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 05:37 PM Feb 2017

FOX 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 Carlson’s request for an on-air debate with Olga Lexell — a co-organizer of the national Not My President’s 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 Carlson’s 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 bad—and for Tucker Carlson’s team to go along with it—is 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 OP
Sue them. KittyWampus Feb 2017 #1
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