Montel turns the tables on a Fox Morning Television show

[Bright Eyes]

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Montel Williams berates Fox "News" for speculating about Heath Ledger's death while ignoring troop deaths in Iraq.

Well done Montel!

[zanne]

1. And Blondie says the usual...

"We're just feeding the beast". Well, they CREATED the beast!

[ryanmuegge]

16. Exactly. It's all intentional and diversionary.

It is all designed to keep us from institutional analysis of government and private corporations or political activism.

[frog92969]

19. And it's not only FOX

It's a full infestation that even effects PBS to a noticeable degree.

[ryanmuegge]

20. Yes, by no means is it only FOX.

[Ken Burch]

37. That should be their network slogan

"FoxNews: FEEDING THE BEAST!"

[Atman]

2. I love it. He completely ate up their Heath-fest time. Good on ya, Montel.

By contrast, I was watching E's The Soup today (if you're not familiar, it's a hysterical weekly run-down of all the idiocy which took place on various other tv shows, picking out the clips that highlight the worst of the worst), and the host ended the show by saying (I'm paraphrasing from memory) "And of course, actor Heath Ledger was found dead in apartment this week. If you'll look back through all the years this show has been on the air, we've never once had a clip featuring Heath Ledger. So all you people out their scouring and searching for some dirt to air about the guy, just remember that. We'd prefer to remember him as a gifted and talented young actor that he was, and he'll be missed."

Now THAT's class.

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[Bright Eyes]

10. Yes, I saw The Soup last night.

Joel McHale (the host) called them vultures.

A good word to describe them.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Notice how, at the end, they ignored the soldiers

and talked of the death of the actor again. They were sweeping the deaths of soldiers under the rug. And don't feed me this garbage about "feeding the beast". I don't listen to celebrity gossip shows, and that is what the news has become. We don't know about Iraq because the MSM doesn't want us to know. Look at Brittany Spears and buy our products and ignore reality!

[Sam Ervin jret]

4. Throwing pearls before the swine Montel. You might as well be whistling in the wind

[cboy4]

5. Montel is chewing out people for going for the salacious

and the accompanying ratings? :eyes:

Do we not talk about anything else, period, until all of the troops are home?

I think there's room to talk about both.

Listen, I'm glad he raised the issue, but I just find it a little hypocritical coming from Montel -- considering what I used to see on his talk show.

[Kixel]

33. His show isn't about news

That's the difference. He's not being hypocritical. He wasn't on ET bashing them for talking about Heath-he was on a news program asking for news.

[NOLALady]

6. That was great.

If only more would take his lead and refuse to "feed the beast".

[Ken Burch]

38. Can somebody get some "Don't Feed The Beast" buttons going?

Even if you just have the slogan, people will stop to ask about it and it gives you a way to start the talk on what we should and SHOULDN'T be paying attention to.

[FATCATs]

7. Good Job Montel

Good post as well. We are not alone !

[Spiffarino]

8. No fan of Montel Williams, PhRMA shill

Anybody who takes money from PhRMA to sell their lies doesn't deserve much respect.

I give him credit for putting the focus on Iraq war dead, though it was pretty much limited to American soldiers and not the many others who have died because of Bush's stupidity and arrogance. But I'm not ready to canonize Montel for being right about Iraq while getting fat off an organization that values fleecing the poor.


Edit: I will K&R, only because it was beautiful to watch the morning FoxTarts get their asses handed to them.

[ryanmuegge]

17. I'm with you there.

[pop goes the weasel]

18. Phrma shill?

I'm not a big Montel fan, but that's because he gives a forum to Sylvia Brown. But on the shows of his I have seen, I have never seen him shill for big pharma. He's come out strongly for medical marijuana and for increased funding for medical research. Not once did he ever give any impression of being in big pharma's pocket. So I'd like to know the basis of your charge.

[ryanmuegge]

21. He isn't on his shows, but he does commercials for PPA

Which is a good thing in that it helps people, but many see it as a way for the big pharmaceutical companies to say, "look we're taking care of all of the uninsured privately, there is no need for government intervention." Of course there are millions of people who do not see that big bus pulling up in their driveway to give them their needed prescriptions.

At any rate, The intentions are questionable, not the work.

[pop goes the weasel]

39. so he's a shill because of that?

Because he is helping publicize a program that most people don't know exists? I found out about that program a couple years after I had taken myself off my $70/month medication that I couldn't afford. Even though I had gotten diagnosed and prescribed through the county health clinic, no one said anything to me about that program. Knowing about it would have been a blessing for me.

[Spiffarino]

42. He most certainly is.

The PPA is a cover for the giant pharmaceutical companies. They put it together to blunt criticism of their piratical corporate practices and to prevent a demand from the public to lower drug prices by allowing Medicare and Medicaid to become a large buying bloc.

They garnered billions and billions of extra dollars from that addition to the 109th Republican-controlled congress' heinous corporate welfare bill. Now, Montel Williams is helping them keep it on the books by making PhRMA look like it's kind and caring.

In order for him not to know what they're up to, he'd have to be an idiot. He's not an idiot.

[pop goes the weasel]

44. so what do you recommend?

That rather than letting people know about a stop-gap measure offered to blunt criticism but that also does deliver assistance to at least some, that what little help there is be kept quiet? Are we playing "heighten the contradictions" here? I don't play that game. People always end up dying. Seriously, what do you suggest be done, using the resources we have right at this moment, so that no one misses not a single dose of the meds they need, not those resources that might come into being next year or the year after? People with life-threatening illnesses don't have the luxury of time, you might have noticed. Maybe you've never had to quit using a prescribed med because it was too expensive, but I have, and I would have been glad to know of this program.

[Spiffarino]

47. I spent seven years without any kind of health insurance

Several years ago I was self-employed and making about $20,000 a year. The only money that I spent on health care went for my two young kids except once when I blew $200 to get stitches after a car wreck. I removed them myself to save the extra cash. I had double pneumonia during that period and didn't get antibiotics because I was broke.

You know what I wanted? Health care. You know what I want now for every American? Health care. As long as the US continues to make it a for-profit affair, millions more will lay awake at night wondering when their turn will come to get sick and become bankrupt or worse, watch as their child gets sick and can do little about it until it reaches crisis stage.

I'm not your nanny. Go figure it out. Vote. Bitch. Complain. Scream. Post here, there and everywhere. Write your Congressperson. Make your voice heard, especially to enablers like Montel Williams, who are more than happy to take money from the vultures that prevent Americans from getting universal care by making all shiny and happy with the privateers who milk every possible dollar from an underserved public.

[Spiffarino]

41. Follow the link

http://www.phrma.org/news_room/press_releases/humanitarian,_author,_talk_show_host_montel_williams_to_help_educate_americans_about_drug_assistance/

[pop goes the weasel]

45. I followed the link

I don't see where he is being paid to be spokesman.

[Spiffarino]

48. Sure. He's doing it for free.

:eyes:

[pop goes the weasel]

49. it isn't unheard of

Celebrities have been known to donate their face to things they consider a worthy cause. Is Montel? Well, he has for other things, so maybe this one, too. I don't know, and apparently you don't either.

I am not a Montel fan. His continuing support of Sylvia Brown is a decided negative, and I'm not big on celebs threatening small town reporters, either. On the other hand, he is very open with his own use of medical marijuana, and is a well known advocate of its legalization. That is hardly in keeping with the Big Pharma playbook. So, unless you have some real evidence aside from your cynicism, I'll give him a pass on his motivation for having the audacity to publicize a free/discounted medication program. I can dislike the other stuff without having to think the worst of him in every situation. And I applaud him for refusing to gossip about a dead actor and demanding that a news program actually talk about the news.

[cloud75]

9. good job montel we need more of this as the election comes up

the voilence in iraq will go down as the electon nears to take that issue off the table.

[Josh]

22. I remember Montel shilling for the invasion BIG TIME in 2003

He was all over Fox and Friends saying we needed to invade Iraq. And they said "well that's interesting coming from someone who's actually served in uniform." Which he has. Just not in an actual war.

My how the years change people.

[Truth2Tell]

27. He didn't say we should end the war,

he just wants more attention on the fallen heroes.

[wundermaus]

11. Montel - Thank you for shifting the focus where it belongs

The (M$M) media's obsessive compulsive celebrity distractions are ridiculous. American Men and Women are being killed for lies and greed everyday. Montel did a noble thing to shift the drone of media diversion back to the real tragedy - The wasted deaths of America's finest.

http://icasualties.org/oif/prdDetails.aspx?hndRef=1-2008 (28 dead in January 2008 so far)

Date Total Name Place of Death - Province Cause of Death
25-Jan-2008 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US NAME NOT RELEASED YET Baghdad Non-hostile
22-Jan-2008 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant Michael R. Sturdivant Kirkuk - At-Ta'mim Non-hostile - vehicle accident
19-Jan-2008 4 | US: 4 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Staff Sergeant Justin R. Whiting Mosul - Ninawa Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Lance Corporal James M. Gluff Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Specialist Richard B. Burress Arab Jabour - Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Specialist Jon M. Schoolcraft III Taji - Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
18-Jan-2008 0 | US: 0 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
16-Jan-2008 3 | US: 3 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Private 1st Class Danny L. Kimme Balad - Salah Ad Din Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire, grenade
US Private 1st Class David H. Sharrett II Balad - Salah Ad Din Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire, grenade
US Specialist John P. Sigsbee Balad (died in Pallouata) - Salah Ad Din Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire, grenade
12-Jan-2008 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Private 1st Class Keith E. Lloyd Tall Afar - Ninawa Hostile - hostile fire - IED
11-Jan-2008 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Lance Corporal Curtis A. Christensen Jr. Al Anbar Province Non-hostile
09-Jan-2008 9 | US: 9 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Specialist Todd E. Davis Sinsil - Diyala Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack (house borne)
US Staff Sergeant Sean M. Gaul Sinsil - Diyala Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack (house borne)
US Sergeant Christopher A. Sanders Sinsil - Diyala Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack (house borne)
US Sergeant 1st Class Matthew I. Pionk Sinsil - Diyala Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack (house borne)
US Staff Sergeant Jonathan Kilian Dozier Sinsil - Diyala Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack (house borne)
US Sergeant Zachary W. McBride Sinsil - Diyala Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack (house borne)
US Sergeant David J. Hart Samarra (died in Balad) - Salah Ad Din Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
US Private 1st Class Ivan E. Merlo Samarra - Salah Ad Din Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
US Private 1st Class Phillip J. Pannier Samarra - Salah Ad Din Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
08-Jan-2008 0 | US: 0 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
07-Jan-2008 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Private 1st Class Timothy R. Hanson Salman Pak - Babil Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
06-Jan-2008 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Specialist James D. Gudridge Baghdad (southern part) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
05-Jan-2008 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Private 1st Class Jason F. Lemke Ibrahim Al Adham - Diyala Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
04-Jan-2008 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Petty Officer 2nd Class Menelek M. Brown Arabian Gulf - NA Non-hostile - drowning
03-Jan-2008 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Major Andrew J. Olmsted Sadiyah - Diyala Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
US Captain Thomas J. Casey Sadiyah - Diyala Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
02-Jan-2008 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Staff Sergeant Ryan D. Maseth Baghdad Non-hostile
US Private 1st Class Joshua R. Anderson Kamasia - Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
Total 28 | US: 28 | UK: 0 | Other: 0

[jjr5]

40. Thank you for posting this.

Why?

[defendandprotect]

12. Rather, THEY create the appetite for this garbage and then blame the public-!!!

Whether "girls gone wild" or brutal police shows --- or simple other nonsense that's been going on since the tube was invented -- it's all about distracting people from reality.

And, that's includes sports, of course --- hey, wrestling and boxing are back on TV!!!
Oh, joy!!!

Males in America are so used to being lulled by this sports garbage, I don't know if they can ever see thru it!!!????

Except that, we did see with election 2000, they knew where the ball was and it wasn't on a golf course or in Giants Stadium!!!


Good job, Montel!!!

Jon Stewart has led the way on pointing to corporate-media --- and let's keep at it!!!

[Plucketeer]

13. Montel nailed it!

It's ALL about ratings. Screw the news. It's the same shallow scene with the Demo race - it's the American Idol aspect. The only guy talking specifics on the issues is ignored. We only worthy of coverage of the cat fighting of the other two. Disgusting. Not that I'd ever watch Fox anyway, but I'm turning to the other "news" outlets less and less. They're all turning into the airwave emulations of the National Enquirer. Heh - I've got a brain and it's adjudged to have a fair amout of intelligence capability. I give a shit about this dead actor or Briteny or Tom "doofus-brain" Cruise or ANY of those paper puppet luminaries! When they start sending out FAN APPRECIATION checks, I'll start caring about what they do.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

14. awesome. n/t

[ryanmuegge]

15. Great job of blasting these tabloid reporters.

[dace1]

23. Getting Message Out - Daily Show and Colbert Report

I thought the Montel Williams segment on Fox News was GREAT -
and the only problem is that fact that it was aired on Fox
News.  Thus - it wasn't being seen by the many who SHOULD see
it.  I sure hope the Daily Show and/or the Colbert Report
decide to air a segment and discuss it -- If anyone knows how
to get info communicated to Daily Show or Colbert Report --
please do so - I couldn't find a good blog for that.

[LynzM]

26. Welcome to DU

:hi: I actually disagree, I think that the people who watch FOX are the ones who *most* need to be reminded of the war, and its consequences. What Stewart and Colbert do is fantastic, and important, but I think they're preaching to the choir, more.

[muyojoe]

24. BOOOOYYYYAAAHHHH!!!

Montel nailed it. That was good, and he deflected the morons great when they tried to trivialize his point.

[TooBigaTent]

25. Fantastic!!!!!!!!!! Can we get him to give lessons to our nominee about how to

take control of an interview and get your point across?

If only.....

[Truth2Tell]

28. So much for Montel on Fox nt

[dschmott]

29. New Respect for Montel Williams

[rzemanfl]

30. Second that. n/t

[Spiffarino]

43. No way. Only when he quits taking money from PhRMA.

Until then, he's just another prostitute working for the bad guys.

[DeeDeeNY]

31. When is the next time Montel will be invited back to that show?

Probably never, and he's obviously okay with that, which speaks highly of him.
Thanks for posting this. I don't watch any Fox shows and would never have seen it otherwise.

[kevinbgoode]

32. One wonders why Fox doesn't get fined $1.4 million for indecency

/eom

[imax2268]

34. not a big fan of his...

but he always amazes me, and this was one of the times that he has grabbed my attention and said something that is so true...

Way to go Montel...!

[RoccoR5955]

35. "Fox News" should rename themselves to...

"Faux News," because their version of "news" is not news, but entertainment. This organization is, part and parcel, part of the Bushco, Inc. propaganda machine, and don't you forget it!

WTG Montel!

:patriot:

[aikoaiko]

36. There's nothing stopping Montel from dedicating every airing of his show to fallen military

But he finds a lot time to discuss a lot of other topics.

Throwing rocks in class houses is fun.

[soulcore]

46. Man they look SO pissed right before they cut to commercial. Hee hee!