Why I Called Fox News "Propaganda" While Live on Fox News

[Ichingcarpenter]

As most of you have seen, I ripped into Fox "News" while on a Fox "News" morning show this past Saturday. If you haven't seen it, the clip is to your right. I didn't say what I said in order to get attention. I figured that my statements would piss off a few hundred Fox viewers (or maybe help them question the "facts" they're getting from their sacred channel) and that I would show the clip to a few friends. As it turned out, within a day the clip had been viewed around 300,000 times on various sites, and I was getting interview requests from national radio shows. Apparently I struck a nerve.

I thought I'd answer a bunch of questions people had about the incident. Many have asked what happened before that moment to make me say those horrible things about such a lovely news network. (Isn't it sad that when someone speaks the truth on TV, we all ask "What caused it???") Well, nothing really happened in the interview - A right-wing comedian and I told some lame Huckabee jokes. The anchor, hard hitting journalist Clayton Morris, asked the necessary questions while seeming completely unaware that I was a fellow human being, and that was about it. But in a broader sense, what "happened" to make me call Fox "News" a "festival of ignorance" was the past twelve years of knowing this festering pile of propaganda coated with drivel and wrapped in the American flag has been spewing its poisonous eggs into the brains of average Americans. Now THAT's desecration of the flag - watching it flap back and forth behind a Fox "news" program.

What happened after they cut to a commercial? Clayton Morris was visibly furious but didn't say a word. Neither did anyone in the main studio. I got up, took my microphone off, and walked silently back to the greenroom, itching to the get the fuck out of that sixth circle of hell. Back in the greenroom I saw the female co-host, who was wearing her normal business skirt that is only half an inch away from illegal in 23 states. Even though there are three TV's back there showing nothing but Fox "News" (and we act like water boarding is torture?) she apparently had not watched the segment. She looked at me and said, "GREAT JOB!! We need more humor on the show. It's all so serious!" She did not get to the natural conclusion of her thought, "Now excuse me. I have to go interview strippers wearing Star Trek outfits designed for three-year-olds."



...more of the story here : http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/78148/

[THUNDER HANDS]

1. who is that?

[EFerrari]

2. What is this stand up's name again? I saw the clip but can't remember.

Billing is everything, Ichingcarpenter. :)

[rurallib]

4. Lee Camp isn't it?

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. Lee Camp

He also writes on the Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-camp

Over the past five years Lee Camp has performed standup comedy at over 300 colleges nationwide, but we don't hold that against him. Seventy-five percent of his jokes go over the audience's heads even though he's not that smart. (He has had more than one audience member yell out 'Who's Karl Rove??') He was named one of the best New Faces at the 2006 Montreal Comedy Festival and has also performed endless shows with Laughing Liberally.

[SalviaBlue]

3. You are my HERO!

That was sooo enjoyable.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

6. Good for him. K & R. His blog's great. Thank you for posting.

:kick:

[Echo In Light]

7. Aside from what it is, FOX is likewise a red herring:

In that it serves to make people think they're getting actual "fair and balanced" from other mainline media sources when in fact they are not. At all.

[EFerrari]

9. Faux News makes the New York Times look like the ten commandments

in the original stone. It's the visible proof that television should come with a Surgeon General's warning.

[Echo In Light]

10. Both fulfill their role to cover up the crimes of the favored state. One is on steroids though

[EFerrari]

12. NYTs whoring is covered up by the market they pretend to service

and by the whores on the other side. I forget the scientific name for this arrangement. :)

[seabeyond]

8. wow..... thank you dude. and isnt that the jest of it. i have my 15 yr old niece, fox news watchin

niece. i have had her under a week and now i just spout and that is the stupid republican foxs news watchin..... bullshit. she has already mouthed off at least 4 fox news proganda bullshit that i have called her on. her father is programming her and each time i get her she is more and more blinded by this crap.

[samdogmom]

11. Another American HERO! Way to go Lee!

Clearly you were dealing with those > 19 "percent-ers"--Or people just worried about their paycheck in our dismal economy. I salute you!

[seabeyond]

13. anyone have a link to video fox is a porn channel. it went around du

a couple months ago.

[Metta]

14. Thank you for telling truth to lies.

Points in heaven as well as here on earth. Nothing beats a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. Bravo.

[seabeyond]

15. had republican campaigning for judge knockin on door last week.

he told me, "they say obama......" i told him i was damn tired of "they say" and i prefer to listen myself than to they. that all the fox news (he interupted and told me the only channel i watch)was full of propaganda and lies to promote the repulican.

and the dude agreed.

even with it being the only news channel he watches

asked me what new i watched. told him, i dont, i go to the source thru internet and interpret myself.

every republican i know that watches fox admits it is rw propaganda channel adn still they continue to watch, and spout out bullshit.

[John Kerry VonErich]

16. Anyone who is TRUE to beliefs....

would not go on Fox News PERIOD. IMO