Right Wing Pundits Challenged to "Live Like Immigrants"

[NYCGirl]

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA607118.html?display=Breaking+News&referral=SUPP

Pundits Challenged to Live Like Immigrants

By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 6/8/2005 10:15:00 AM

Bill O'Reilly selling oranges on a freeway off-ramp or Tucker Carlson cleaning the bathrooms in a posh Beverly Hills palace? It could happen if one cable net has its way.

Si TV has challenged Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Rush Limbaugh and other conservative media types to spend a weekend in its "Urban Jungle" house.

The English-language, Latino-targeted cable and satellite net is trying to generate some buzz for the second installment of the show, Urban Jungle 2: South Central.

The show's premise is to transplant privileged urban kids to the barrio. “It’s easy to take an anti-immigrant position from an ivory tower,” said Sí TV Co-founder and Chairman Jeff Valdez in a statement. “We want to give these journalists a chance to find out what it’s really like to live in the hood and see if they come out with an appreciation of immigrant issues and challenges.”

[ret5hd]

1. man, FINALLY some "reality tv" that i would watch! (nt)

[JAbuchan08]

2. The frickin' Democratic leaders should do this, maybe they'll find a spine

actually I'm smiling right now thinking of Howard Dean pushing oranges by the freeway with everything he's got.

[TlalocW]

4. Heh

"Want to buy some oranges? You do? YEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGH!"

Car peels out with scared driver frantically clutching the steering wheel.

TlalocW

[JAbuchan08]

6. Actually in my mind he was doing pretty good....

Maybe wishful thinking, but he does know how to raise money.

[TlalocW]

12. I'm sure he'd do good too

But you have to admit, what I typed would be a funny scenario.

TlalocW

[4morewars]

3. Journalists ?

“We want to give these journalists a chance to find out what it’s really like to live in the hood and see if they come out with an appreciation of immigrant issues and challenges.”

Mr. Valdez is either very ignorant or very generous.

[NYCGirl]

5. I think he just wants to get them to do it. NT

[smoogatz]

7. I had a similar idea for a reality show--"Queer Factor"

In which the most reprehensible of the gay-baiting Republicans--Santorum, DeLay, Rove, Bush et al--would have to spend the night in a West Village leather bar.

[DBoon]

9. They'd love it!

They are all closeted gays, so I imagine them walking in an being on a first name basis with all the other patrons.

[smoogatz]

11. The phrase, "you like that, don't you, bitch!" springs to mind. n/t

[devilgrrl]

8. I'd watch that!

Too bad O'Really, Hannity, Carlson and Limbaugh are such gutless pussies, it'll never happen.

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. An interesting idea, but it is NOT reality TV.

Reality is not doing that for a weekend, but doing it for a minimum of, say, three months. In that time they have no access to their bank accounts, must live on the minimum or less wages they earn while paying exorbitant rent on a rundown apartment in a neighborhood that requires bars on the windows, where there is no grocery store within five miles, and they do not have a vehicle.

That's the show I'd like to see.