Open Thread: Comedian Rips FOX: 'a parade of propaganda'
By bluegal Friday Feb 22, 2008 10:30pm
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(John Amato): Comedian Lee Camp was on Fox & Friends Saturday morning and was discussing the lameness that is the Mike Huckabee campaign with a conservative comedian. Yes, they do exist. As the short segment came to a close, he broke from the topic and slammed Murdoch's operation as ignorant.
Camp: Can I just ask a question?
H: Sure.
Camp: What is FOX News---it's just a parade of propaganda isn't it? It's just a festival of ignorance. A million people are dead in Iraq. Come on this is ridiculous....
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I...uh...er....perfect. What can I say?
GREAT Clip! Tell it like it is!
Um, so are the other broadcast channels just as much propaganda networks. Fox is just more blatant about it so that the others look more mainstream by comparison.
google CIA Operation Mockingbird and be amazed.
"a festival of ignorance - there's a million dead in Iraq.' Awesome.
Who's the guy?
"festival of ignorance" sums up more than just Faux News
Who is that guy?
Who let the realist into the studio?
Too true, not funny. I love to see pravda choke when the truth pops out of the closet, although ever too seldom.
that guy nailed their fauxnewscrap to the floor
That was great, and we also got another taste of how Fox News plays both sides of Rupert Murdock's fabricated "culture war" with some nice scantily clad ladies to entice and titillate the jack-off mouthbreathers that watch the 24/7 right wing propaganda network.
I love that guy.
Exactly the point I made earlier today-- What is Fox news?? It's hilarious. How can anyone think it's news? Captain Kirk and the leggy crew of the "Enterprise"? C'mon. So a mob of brain-dead hicks in fly-over states, immoral GOP diehards, and Bush watch it-- the idiot 29%.
After hearing about Fox on here for two years (never having seen it in my life) I finally saw it last month, on vacation (my hotel room had Fox on satellite). I laughed my head off. I thought, "Oh, come on, these guys are kidding. No one can believe this." That so many do watch, doesn't say much for US education. A fifth-grader could shoot down half their crap, that's why they don't invite them on the air-- ONLY Kool-aid drinkers allowed.
Absolutely hilarious!! Segue to Cap'n Kirk boning the local groupies, did Faux News plan the whole thing??? Or were they caught with their pants completely down? I'm betting on the latter because the collective intelligence at Faux wouldn't be able to outwit a box of rocks.
Dear C&L posters and others:
Tonight on HBO at midnight, HBO will be presenting the film and documentary about the life of legendary boxer, Joe Louis. Here is a story from the Detroit News, which discusses the film to begin in five minutes. I hope you can all watch it. Thanks and have a great Saturday night!
Saturday, February 23, 2008
'Joe Louis' on HBO examines a legend
Mekeisha Madden Toby / Detroit News Television Critic
Joe Louis defeated Max Schmeling in the first round of the world heavyweight boxing championship and became an American hero in 1938 and the first African American to attain that sort of mass appeal.
He later enlisted in the U.S. Army and visited 5 million troops, forcing the military to integrate their audiences whenever he made sparring appearances on bases all over Europe.
But when Louis returned to America and civilian life, his debts and a hefty bill from the IRS were waiting for him, and he would spend most of the rest of his life trying to pay off the government.
Witness this boxing legend's amazing but tragic life story in the heartbreakingly touching HBO documentary "Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed," which airs tonight.
The film follows Louis' humble beginnings in Detroit as a factory worker at auto plants such as Ford. Shy and soft spoken, Louis found his confidence in boxing despite his mother's wishes that he pursue the violin, according to several sports historians interviewed in the film, including Randy Roberts.
More telling are the interviews with those who were alive at that time and recall what Louis' victory over Schmeling meant to Americans, specifically African Americans.
"The race needed him to do something white America held on a pedestal," says comedian Bill Cosby. Similar statements of admiration in the film come from Maya Angelou, Dick Gregory, Berry Gordy and former President Jimmy Carter.
Gordy, Gregory and Cosby also lend a voice when recalling Louis' painful and very public fall.
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080223/ENT10/802230380
"festival of ignorance" is good....i like my "cult of stupidity" better though.
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redjalapeno @ 5:
You got that right.
Scotty, beam me someplace else, ANYPLACE else!!!!
I just wanted to say one more time, I love that guy.
brilliant clip...someone track down who that comic is, i gotta see him when he comes to los angeles
as for joe lewis, the government fucked him
turning his charity work into income was absolute bullshit, and forced him to fight well beyond the time he shouldve quit
the fact that not one rep...not one senator...not one politician stood up for him against the irs, still makes me want to cry
Nice clip. Who/when? Priceless!!!! Now, on to the ST whores!
The pile-on has begun. Now Frank Rick is saying Hillary is basically sunk.
The Audacity of Hopelessness
Kept me laughing for a week! *Harsh language yet artfully dubbed, I love these guys. Baked sandwiches more you people for shit's sakes.. Heaven!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea5Yrmnheh4
Montel Williams did a similar thing recently.
I THINK it's a young comedian named Lee Camp. He's got a thing going on Comedy Central this month. I found this on his myspace page and am pretty sure it's him..
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=286...
That's correct! Lee Camp, confirmed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJQRJpLqLCk
I betcha he's not invited back! Priceless!
Lee Camp is now in Gitmo Camp.
Putrid parade of propaganda.
Healthnet gets successfully sued
for dropping a cancer patient. Why Our Burgers Still Aren't Safe. Gates admits Turkey won't help with northern Iraq. The British government gives up on a DNA database. Can your information ever really be private?
Another civil rights icon passes away.
bilhelm-X @ 21:
omg.
you made me laugh out cereal all over my keyboard!
I love it . . . "Parade of propaganda."
That's great how he snuck that in there . . . great job. Made my day.
"Go hug your children." You gotta love those Family Values.
Who is that guy, first of all, and I know why it's StarTrek --
The guy on the couch and the Evil Version of him in the upper pane with the beard must be eternally kept separate, or the series will be destroyed.
This explains why all the artificial forms of life on FOX have such limited understanding of the half of the universe they think they inhabit. They are being held captive by a polar Geek with a beard.
I sometimes get a feeling that Fox News is a clever form of parody and we are all just missing the point.
Lee Camp, and the Evil Lee Camp are only allowed to interact through the reality filter at FOX--they only equipment powerful enough to hold their universe together.
The anti-Camp was clearly trying to escape from his cell.
Well, because this is an open thread....
Has anyone noticed that "Visit Orlando" could be "Visitor Land o"
I love that movie "Forrest Gump."
Have a wonderful night everyone...
--Gene
I just love watching that limp dick talking head try to spew the faux news tagline while trying not to crack up at the same time.
"Ugh, what, can I just ask some questions? What is FOX News? It's just a parade of propaganda, isn't it, it's just a festival of ignorance. What? Why a million people are dead in Iraq, c'mon, this is ridiculous, what's the point of this? This is insane."
nyhmr at [32]: I had wondered that myself too. Is Bill O. (sort of) like Stephen Colbert, but just a very very very bad comedian? He plays like one. I don't take him seriously. He gets $10 million a year to go on the air and blather away about anything he wants, because people watch. He's a showman, not a newsman. He plays a role on TV for big bucks. Truth or fiction don't enter into it-- do people tune in, is all that matters? That is the "American way": profits trump truth.
Hahaha, outstanding. I loved the ensuing fluster-fest. "There's plenty of a...buh ba um....news....err.....you can get all yer news....mmm uhhh...."
Scott Horton Interviews Daniel Ellsberg on Antiwar Radio
February 22nd, 2008
http://antiwar.com/radio/2008/02/22/daniel-ellsberg-2/
Daniel Ellsberg, famous leaker of the Pentagon Papers, and Chris Deliso, of Balkanalysis.com, discuss the case of FBI translator-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds and the international crime rings she exposed
MP3 here. (49:08)
Balkanalysis.com director Christopher Deliso has lived and traveled widely in SE Europe and has a master’s degree with distinction in Byzantine Studies from Oxford University (1999). His two new books, The Coming Balkan Caliphate: The Threat of Radical Islam to Europe and the West and Hidden Macedonia: The Mystic Lakes of Ohrid and Prespa will appeal to readers interested in, respectively, the major security issues involving the region today, and travel in one of Europe’s most fascinating but least visited areas.
Daniel Ellsberg is the author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. He was born in Detroit in 1931. After graduating from Harvard in 1952 with a B.A. Summa cum Laude in Economics, he studied for a year at King’s College, Cambridge University, on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship.
Between 1954 and 1957, Ellsberg spent three years in the U.S. Marine Corps, serving as rifle platoon leader, operations officer, and rifle company commander.
From 1957-59 he was a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows, Harvard University. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard in 1962 with his thesis, Risk, Ambiguity and Decision. In 1959, he became a strategic analyst at the RAND Corporation, and consultant to the Department of Defense and the White House, specializing in problems of the command and control of nuclear weapons, nuclear war plans, and crisis decision-making. He joined the Defense Department in 1964 as Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs) John McNaughton, working on Vietnam. He transferred to the State Department in 1965 to serve two years at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, evaluating pacification on the front lines. On return to the RAND Corporation in 1967, he worked on the Top Secret McNamara study of U.S. Decision-making in Vietnam, 1945-68, which later came to be known as the Pentagon Papers. In 1969, he photocopied the 7,000 page study and gave it to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; in 1971 he gave it to the New York Times, Washington Post and 17 other newspapers. His trial, on twelve felony counts posing a possible sentence of 115 years, was dismissed in 1973 on grounds of governmental misconduct against him, which led to the convictions of several White House aides and figured in the impeachment proceedings against President Nixon. Since the end of the Vietnam War he has been a lecturer, writer and activist on the dangers of the nuclear era and unlawful interventions.
Listen to Daniel Ellsberg on Antiwar Radio @:
http://antiwar.com/radio/2008/02/22/daniel-ellsberg-2/
I hope he wasn't summarily executed.
Wonderful, just wonderful. And what a perfect following "news" segment.
Nice!
Anyone know when this was aired? I have never seen anyone not only bash fox news as bad as this, but to do so in such a "gleeful" manner made it 20x better (or worse if you're fox news).
only on Sat morning TV is this possible. If you have a small child, you can relate, Sat morning TV is the least polished, least prepared TV infotainment, and so moments like this are possible. People should start recording this more. Thank you to this guy.
Hulk @ 7:
We all know that the truth has a distinct, liberal bias!
Great clip!
When's the next time reality dude will be on Fox? lol jk
Billo is right now sending over staff to deal with that Liberal, and if that don't work he may call out another party!
here is lee's youtube page
http://www.youtube.com/user/leecamp
subscribe....if you arent a member, join up just to subscribe...blow up his subscribers list....this guy could be the next will durst
The most informative 5 seconds ever broadcast on Fox News.
How is Iraq going? Want the truth or the continuation of lies told to you daily by the American media/press and the politicians who mouth the words of "withdrawal" all the while Iraq is turned upside-down. The United States has destroyed Iraq and its once proud culture and is the main reason for the ongoing insurgency.
The war party thinks it is going really "swell." So, are you really, really, tired of the lies and how wonderful Iraq has been since the "surge is working" crap? For regular Iraqis and the overall environmental concerns, all is not well in Iraq. There is a humanitarian and environmental disaster happening in Iraq which the American media/press and the criminal politicians ignore and not talk about. Here is a story which you will never see in the American press/media about the awful conditions in Iraq among Iraqis:
Risk Of Cholera Multiplied By
Sewage Collapse In Baghdad
By Oscar Grenfell
21 February, 2008
WSWS.org
With the northern summer approaching, fears have been voiced that the dysfunctional state of the Iraqi sewerage system will cause a major outbreak of cholera or other water-borne diseases in Iraq’s desperately poor working class districts. Cholera is an acute intestinal infection that causes severe diarrhoea, vomiting and dehydration and can lead to death if untreated. The disease spreads by the ingestion of water or food that has been contaminated by the waste of infected people.
At a press conference on February 3, US Brigadier General Jeffrey Dorko and Tahseen Sheikhly, a spokesman for the Iraqi government, described a public health catastrophe-in-waiting. Dorko reported that one of the three main sewage treatment plants servicing Baghdad had been “damaged over time” and “is just totally out of commission”. The waste pumped to the plant “does go untreated”, he said.
Two other treatment plants are functioning, but not at full capacity due to a range of maintenance problems. Across the city, blockages and damage to sewerage pipes means that raw effluent continues to flow into the streets. One major sewerage trunk pipeline through the city’s south is so blocked that a “sewage lake” has formed due to the mass of waste leaking out...Sheikhly told journalists: “If you look at Baghdad through Google Earth, you can see that there is a black spot in southern Baghdad due to the accumulation of the sewage there.” Ultimately, a large proportion of the city’s sewage ends up in the Tigris River or, worse, finds it way into the city’s water system. Millions of Baghdadi’s are forced to treat all their water with purification tablets or buy bottled water if they can afford it...The crisis is by no means confined to the capital. Approximately 70 percent of Iraqis do no have access to clean drinking water, in part due to the contamination of water sources. Only around 20 percent of families outside Baghdad have access to some sort of sewerage service.
Claire Hajaj, a spokeswoman for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), told the British Guardian last December: “Iraq’s water and sanitation networks are in a critical condition. Pollution of waterways by raw sewage is perhaps the greatest environmental and public health hazard facing Iraqis—particularly children. Water-borne diarrhoea diseases kill and sicken more Iraqi children than anything except pneumonia. We estimate that only one in three Iraqi children can rely on a safe water source—with Baghdad and southern cities most affected.”
Read the entire article @:
http://www.countercurrents.org/grenfell210208.htm
The most informative 5 seconds ever broadcast on Fox News.
Fair and balanced for 5 seconds too.
Right on!
On the road again?
There is just no other way to describe it.... fuckin awesome!!!
Finally someone WITH BALLS to TELL IT LIKE IT IS!!!!
I am trying to figure out when will we get that we are the butt of an incredibly sick joke that the people who control the media laugh at every day.
Roger Ailes choked on his Triple Bacon Cheese Whopper while watching that bit.
Count down to the swift boating.
who was the ping head whose come back was "you should worry about Hillary Clinton being President" ... even the Faux guy said "... ah yeah right ..."
xoites defends Constitution Says:
I am trying to figure out when will we get that we are the butt of an incredibly sick joke that the people who control the media laugh at every day.
They have been laughing all the way to the bank.
“We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view.”
-Roger Ailes
If you don't see it or hear it on the news, is it news. Fox producer in Orwell rolls in his grave. Google it.
Once we get past this election and get the Republicans out of the White House we are going to have to turn our attention on getting the corporations out of the news business and put it back into the hands of the people.
I like that Fox brings Lee Camp on every so often and he always manages to mock them. I remember seeing him before and his YouTube page shows that this was not his first Fox appearance. I like the Fox Red Eye clip he has up there.
here's a link.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1925114769515892401
I would love to see a "viewers' picket line" in front of all (or even one) Fox News studios attempting to keep them from being able to produce a "news" show.
nyhmr @ 32:
you have spent too much time at the "creation museum"
Gene Morrison @ 34:
is that visitor lando molari? from babylon 5
uncle joe mccarthy @ 18:
But at least they learned their lesson and the GOP stood up for Roger Clemens - a true American Hero!
Fool some of the people, but not all. I gave up news from the three media giants a long time ago ,others will continue to follow ...kpfk baby,,,,
Another thing we could do is have a watch list of people who go on their talk shows to hawk their wares, be it books, movies or electric vibrators that glow in the dark and let them know, en mass: "Hey, dude, we are not going to buy you shit until you go back on Fox and make fun of them or otherwise publicly denounce them."
send the link to this video to EVERYONE in your address book. spread the word. HIGH 5 TO LEE CAMP BIG TIME !!!!!
btw, did he say "bones just wrote a new book"? deforrest kelly died years ago.
fox "news" loaded with brainless twits.
dadams @ 65:
I wonder if the museum will display some of the "fake" dinosaur bones used by god to test their faith.
xoites defends Constitution @ 64:
I'd be up for that. Though, when the homeless vets did it there's was almost no coverage of it. They're located near Times Square which is in all reality a total police state. Not very open to public demonstrations or other such things like democracy. Things like free speech and free assembly really put a damper on the fat f*ckin' tourists dropping their dollars at ESPN Sportszone and the WWE Theme Restaurant. Can't let a trivial thing like political demonstrations get int he way of unbridaled Capitalism.
what happened before that made him say that???
No, i think he said, "Just boned a new hook," but i could be wrong.
Fantastic.
Who was that great American?
72 Stupid Git Says: xoites defends Constitution @ 64:
I would love to see a “viewers’ picket line” in front of all (or even one) Fox News studios attempting to keep them from being able to produce a “news” show.
I’d be up for that. Though, when the homeless vets did it there’s was almost no coverage of it. They’re located near Times Square which is in all reality a total police state. Not very open to public demonstrations or other such things like democracy. Things like free speech and free assembly really put a damper on the fat f*ckin’ tourists dropping their dollars at ESPN Sportszone and the WWE Theme Restaurant. Can’t let a trivial thing like political demonstrations get int he way of unbridaled Capitalism.
They have local stations all over the country and they can't continue without them.
xoites defends Constitution Says: Another thing we could do is have a watch list of people who go on their talk shows to hawk their wares, be it books, movies or electric vibrators that glow in the dark and let them know, en mass: “Hey, dude, we are not going to buy you shit until you go back on Fox and make fun of them or otherwise publicly denounce them.”
Do you think anyone actually buys Mann Coulter's books? There has been rumors that right wingers will buy the books at sharply reduced prices and then turn around and send them to the landfill, but she still gets on the best seller list.
Local stations getting struck with acts of non violent resistance would cost Fox a lot of money. The sponsors would become very nervous as well.
I am not just talking about Coulter, Ron. I am talking everybody who goes on. Writers, entertainers, the works.
If word got out that if your product is associated in any way with Fox it will be boycotted, Fox will go down.
xoites defends Constitution Says: I am not just talking about Coulter, Ron. I am talking everybody who goes on. Writers, entertainers, the works.
Oh, I know. I was just using her as an example. How you doing otherwise?
People don't want to do business if it takes a big project to sell what they want to sell, they just want to make money.
Anyone else notice the guy said, "You get all the news you can at Fox News"??
Is this all the news we can HANDLE, all the news they'll ALLOW us to have, or what?
I am doing fine Ron. I would be doing better if Fox went out of business.
smo Says: Anyone else notice the guy said, “You get all the news you can at Fox News”??
Is this all the news we can HANDLE, all the news they’ll ALLOW us to have, or what?
He didn't know what to say. He must be a new guy. I don't watch too much Fox, my stomach can't take it.
I don't watch Fox at al, not even the Simpsons, which i like a lot.
xoites defends Constitution Says: I am doing fine Ron. I would be doing better if Fox went out of business.
Wouldn't the whole world?
xoites defends Constitution @ 77:
True. I could get off my lazy ass and take a train to Long Island or something. Take a cue from the "Pro-Life" movement and make a daily point of being obnoxious while holding up graphic images of Iraqis killed, American soldiers killed and the likes with text saying "The Blood is on Your Hands" or something of the likes. Do you know of any groups good at organizing this stuff? I truly don't know where to turn for organizing this stuff and really don't have the skills to pull off a demonstration of more than a few friends and myself.
88 Ron Says:
"xoites defends Constitution Says: I am doing fine Ron. I would be doing better if Fox went out of business.
Wouldn’t the whole world?"
Yes, that is why i think we should get started, already.
I think you just found one friend, Stupid Git, but i might suggest a name change for press purposes. :)
xoites defends Constitution Says: I am doing fine Ron. I would be doing better if Fox went out of business.
Got any ideas for stupid git 72?
You don't start a movement with ten million people. Movements don't start big, they start small. Shutting down Fox News will take a lot of work and a lot of time. Nothing quite like fighting one of the most powerfull and distorted news organizations on the planet.
Bet his next gig is Countdown.
Here is an idea. We could copy the concept of "Web Event" that is not the right name but a few years back there were several with people who were connected online all showing up at a particular place at a particular time and doing some silly things. We could do something similar but maybe not in the same place. The same time would work though. Planned simultaneous, quick short demonstrations. An hour of our time here and there and it could be kind of fun and creative.
And to think the Reich wing tried a comedy show that failed {The half hour news}. All they really had to do to have a smash comedy hit was to add a laugh track to faux News
Stupid git #73
Hey you just keep doing what you are doing and try to get more people involved and educated. Bush's ratings are down to 19%. People are getting it.
97 Necadawg Says:
"And to think the Reich wing tried a comedy show that failed {The half hour news}. All they really had to do to have a smash comedy hit was to add a laugh track to faux News"
In my younger days i was with a group of people who went into a City Council hearing and added a laugh track by turning on "laughing boxes," leaving them under their seats and walking out.
And stupid git, why not change your logo to stupid not.