FOX News PORN: Video Compilation of Prurient Prigs & Hypocrisy
“Oh the internet; What they’re going to do with this one.”
Those courageous souls who choose to delve into the Pandora’s box that is Fox News could of seen this one coming. Fox News Porn, a new website and video, have been released highlighting the hypocritical penchant of Fox News to broadcast risqué and sultry images while proclaiming an air of high-minded morality.
Can the obvious even be called news? Perhaps not, but faux-political videos are the recent rage as they are quite entertaining and add to the multifaceted layers of political theater.
of Boing Boing described Fox News Porn as follows:
The site is the creation of filmmaker Robert Greenwald, whose documentary Outfoxed is a masterful takedown of the Murdoch empire. Fox News Porn created a brief but spectacular net-storm when an overzealous moderator for Digg took the site off the Digg front page and threatened to suspend Greenwald’s account for violating Digg’s Terms of Service.
Kevin Rose the founder of Digg wrote the following the next day:
Digg: foxnewsporn.com Unbanned
Hey everyone, we temporarily banned this last night. We flagged it as a potential TOS violation, but after looking into it further we promptly unbanned it. Our fault. Digg on. -Kevin
Kevin Rose: Best Person in the World
This is not the first time Fox News has been targeted for broadcasting unnecessary, lascivious images during the news. In 2005 a News Hounds article entitled ‘Sex & Porn, the Fox News Way‘ documented the innumerous dates and times “[Neil] Cavuto worked sex into his “business” show.”
Now, near the end of 2007 comes more evidence of Fox News smut in the form of a faux-porn video.
Here is how Cliff Schecter of Brave New Films describes the video. From The Smirking Chimp:
This week I come bearing more gifts than than a coal/oil/auto/baby seal poacher lobbyist meeting with Mitch McConnell. It’s more of your favorite Fox fun! Yes, we at Brave New Films, after our Fox Attacks Decency video went over so well, used the remaining, 457,927 hours of smutty Fox coverage to embark on a more sober project.
It’s called Fox News Porn!, and the video is hot (well, not as hot as Rush-Limbaugh-with-a-cornucopia-of-little-red-pills-in-the-red-light-district-of-Bangkok hot, but of ample degree). In fact, it is so risque, apparently, that Digg flagged it as porn (or could it be that they are in takeover talks with News Corp.?), YouTube makes you promise to be 18 and spam filters in emails across the land are working harder than Pat Robertson to justify his lusty-lipped love-in with Rudy Giuliani.
So let’s go to the videotape! And as a side note, we promise no “wide stances,” prostitutes with the same name as your wife or acohohol-blamed, Congressional Page binges. Fair is fair, and the GOP has already staked their claim to this territory. We do, however, give you the video that over 167,000 peole watched in one day: Fox News Porn!
Cliff Schecter
Brave New Films
As the man says, “let’s go to the videotape!” Here it is, folks.
Fox News Porn
Robert Greenwald the director of Outfoxed–a 2004 documentary critical of the Fox News channel–appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann to discuss the video.
Robert Greenwald on Countdown
Greenwald also wrote about the purpose of Brave New Films’ Fox News Porn on AlterNet:
Brave New Films’ recent release of a video and related website (viewable in the box on the right of this screen) exposing Fox News’ smut peddling was originally considered too hot to be linked to on the popular news aggregator Digg and Google-owned YouTube. Brave New Films’ Jesse Haff explains that his company has created a new site, FoxNewsPorn.com, which contains images and videos broadcast only from Fox News, “in the hopes people will ask advertisers to stop showing their ads on Fox” for its nearly pornographic content. Haff continues:
Once the site launched, I submitted it to various social bookmarking sites, including Digg. The submission quickly appeared on the Digg’s homepage, only to be deleted and our account banned. I emailed Digg, thinking the submission was mistaken for a real porn site, only to be told the site is “adult content,” and is against their terms of service, “even though it was broadcast on Fox.” See the details with images here.
So Digg bans what Fox News broadcasts. It’s hard to believe that’s all there is to it, considering there are often sites with content that could be considered “adult” on Digg. As I write this, the submission “The Top 20 ‘Side Boobs’ of All-Time (Kinda Not Safe for Work),” a completely gratuitous website with adult content, is No. 4 on Digg.
Hmm, this couldn’t have anything to do with Digg partnering with the Wall Street Journal and looking to be acquired by Rupert Murdoch, could it?
Even those who aggressively support the Fox News channel are opposed to its hypocritical ways. Conservative radio clod Laura Ingraham ranted about the Fox’s behavior on the O’Reilly Factor.
Laura Ingraham & Bill O’Reilly
The insanity of two dolts arguing about fake news channel smut is ridiculous enough, but round it out with a reminder of just who Laura Ingraham is…
A moment of zen
…and you realize just how bad it must be if she is actually making sense.
So is Fox News really as hypocritical as most everyone thinks it is? That’s your call. Here are a few Fox excerpts to help you decide.
“We all know sex sells”
“I’m still waiting for you to call me. Why haven’t you called me yet?”
Serial killer updates and bouncing spring break bodies round out the news
The legs of Fox News
Sometimes even the anchors get confused
“You’d think I would of wanted to ride it”
Fox News pride
Very little indeed.
In an email announcement of Fox News Porn, Brave New Films founder Robert Greenwald explained the purpose of the video and website and how you can get involved:
“Can you quote us so not giving a shit?”
That was Fox’s classy response to the half million viewers who saw our Fox Attacks: Decency video.
Looks like we got to Fox this time, and it wasn’t a debate about policy in Iran that did it, or a video displaying their racism, or even our coverage of their abject hypocrisy on environmental issues.
No, what got the attack dogs at Fox hungry and looking for flesh was none other than an exposé of their smut peddling! It makes sense in a way, because advertisers tend not to like their products being promoted between segments of soft porn. And a large part of their conservative base hates this as well, which might be why one Christian organization compared the way women were dressed on Fox to the manner in which “hookers” are attired.
So what did we do?
With the Fox News Hounds’ help, we found enough Fox lasciviousness for a whole porn site!!
Really, we did. And it wasn’t that hard to do. In fact, if you thought Fox Attacks: Decency was a glimpse into the lustful thoughts of your favorite Fox anchor, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Satire and parody aside, we think this is extremely objectionable, misogynistic content. We still don’t understand how Fox is allowed to call this “news.” So let’s make this campaign count and hit Fox where it hurts — their fair and balanced sheet.
Many of you have been helping to create a massive database of local Fox advertisers. Now it’s time to start calling them. Pick one or two to call, and ask them to please not advertise on a channel that shows Girls Gone Wild during prime time, and exploits women 24/7. Let them know in very personal terms why this matters to you.
And please let us know how it goes! When you click on the “call” or “email” advertiser link, you’ll get an example script and a form where you can describe what happened. Fill it out so we can all share information on how advertisers are reacting to the campaign. Plus, others will be inspired to act, and we can keep the pressure on these merchants of immorality. Be creative, make it personal and express how you feel.
Click here to find a list of Fox advertisers near you.
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