Fox News: Not so popular.
There was a small, nonviolent, "mild" anti-war protest in Denver today, timed to the upcoming Democratic convention. The protest organization is stupidly named "Recreate 68," but has specifically decried the violence at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. Fox News of course wanted to cover this boring thing in the most insane way possible, with race riots and burning flags and naked hippies on PCP. None of that was available, so instead Fox sent a nerdy correspondent to go right into the middle of a throng of protesters trying to march in the opposite direction. The protesters managed not to collide with the camera crew, so no one was hurt, but they refused to grant interviews and started chanting "Fuck Fox News," which means they are Censor Fascists who hate the First Amendment.
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I saw that somewhere earlier and wondered what that poor sap had done that Fox put him out there to ‘mix it up’ with all those dirty fucking hippies. I honestly don’t think I’ve seen a nerd like him since about, oh, 1963. Seriously. He’s lucky his own crew didn’t pants him.
“We’ll check back to make sure he’s alright.”
He wasn’t alright to start with. He makes Les Nesman look like George Clooney. What a stoopid idea for a news item. “Let’s go stir up a riot in a pacifist march!”" Fox came off looking even more ridiculous than usual. And the woman broadcaster back at the station was priceless. Her lip-biting concern was Oscar-worthy.
They live such an insulated existence that they can’t believe anybody doesn’t appreciate the opportunity to be on their teevee. Stunning.
Thanks for pointing me to the video.
If only his voice squeaked a little more, he’d’ve been the perfect embodiment of the ubiquitous pimply kid on The Simpsons…
I thought it was Rick Moranis
Funnier still that he tried to make it a freedom of speech issue because they wouldn’t talk to him. What a dork.
Watch for more of this. They are getting desperate about losing power.
KKK shocked by hostility during visit to NAACP meeting – film at eleven!
I was impressed by the Kombat Kamera video work–in the front lines with the crazed violent hippies, we jerk back and forth to the faces of hatred. At any moment, the rocks and bricks are ready to fly. My Gawd. . . the bravery of these journalists, out fighting for Free Speech!
Il douche was looking for confrontation. When you work for the GOP home shopping network, don’t be surprised when non-zombies treat you like the ass you are. I thought the response was appropriate.
It’s the greensboro anti-Klan march all over again. well recreated as a farce.
Can we now get Faux fined to death for obscenity? They broadcast the word “fuck” out over the airways to sully the pure whiteness of their audience’s virgin ears. It was fuckin’ incredible I tell ya! Jackson/Timberlake, nipples are GO!
Film at 11: Faux Snooze “reporter” waits in vain for hours for a VW microbus with Flower Power stickers to jump in front of in an attempt to recreate that Tiananmen Square photo; ignores suggestions that he “might have better luck in Boulder.”
I suspect that the Faux News mentality is unable to wrap itself around the concept of non-violent protest.
Worst. Ratfucking. Ever.
What kind of a country is this when even the dirty effing hippies won’t act like loons on cue for the cameras?
They’re scared. People have realized that this is serious. They’re losing the cover they need to be able to get away with shit like 2000.
The response of the marchers wasn’t bad, but I hope pretty much everybody in Denver, when approached by a Foxnewsperson, would say something like, “No, I don’t talk to Fox News, which isn’t a news organization, but is the paid propaganda organ of the Republican National Committee.” If I ever heard the last 8 words of that sentence on national TV, I could die happy.
John, I live here and I will be down in the potentially-interviewable area several times this week. I had already planned to say pretty much exactly what you wrote; maybe shorter and certainly louder than I usually speak. And since turnabout is fair play, I may go looking for them rather than wait for them to come to me.