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"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 2.25.2003 ::
:: Berating Janeane Garofalo ::
Janeane Garofalo made her way to FOX News again, this time on the morning show Fox & Friends. I only caught a brief clip shown on Studio B where Brian Kilmeade berates Garofalo. How anomalous. Here's my own imperfect transcript of the clip:
Brian Kilmeade: We're still missing 100 tons of Anthrax and VX gas. Where is it?
Janeane Garofalo: OK. That's what you say. There is no proof or evidence that we are missing 100,000 tons of nerve gas.
BK: It has never been declared, and even Hans Blix himself has said that that Arab country kept better records than any Arab country that he's ever seen, let alone Iraq itself. If you...
JG: It's guys like you that are FOX. You. You're combative...
BK: No, I'm not gonna' let you sit there and get off because you're a celebrity.
JG: Why am I... What the hell does the fact that I'm a celebrity have to do with anything? What does my occupation have to do with anything?
BK: That's the only reason you're here.
JG: Exactly. Then why don't you book somebody you have more respect for in the anti-war movement.
That's all that I saw. Typical FOX guest treatment (well, typical for anyone who isn't capable of the "right" way of thinking, that is). She's been ridiculed by quite a few right-leaning folks (and others) online. I understand that there's resentment about celebs taking a political stance, I'm just not down with it. I'll recall a quote from an earlier post that, quite simply, makes some sense:
"We are not experts. What we are is citizens in a democracy. We are using our patriotic rights and our ability to get the attention of the media." -television producer Robert Greenwald, founder of the fledgling Artists United to Win Without War
You can watch a vid clip at the FOX & Friends page.
Garofalo also taped a segment on FOX News Sunday. I had heard it would air @ 6pm EST, so I tuned in. When introduced, however, she only made her way through part of a sentence before being interrupted by a live news conference. It possibly aired at another time. In any case, here's more related information (Also, here's the transcript).
posted by fairly imbalanced me ;)
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