Mystery undercover DUer makes FoxNews look more like an ass than usual!

[Surya Gayatri]

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Gretchen Carlson Tries To Salvage Incredibly Awkward Interview With ‘Former Obama Supporter'

An anti-Obama "interview" goes hilariously awry on "Fox and Friends"

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/gretchen-carlson-tries-to-salvage-incredibly-awkward-interview-with-former-obama-supporter/

ETA: YouTube video embed

[CatWoman]

1. hahahahahahahahaha

[Surya Gayatri]

10. This is one of the funniest (unintentionally)

TeeVee moments I've seen in a long time!

[Submariner]

2. Was that MFM off his meds?

[Surya Gayatri]

11. Submariner, what does MFM mean, please?

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But, yes, he was off his meds!

[pinboy3niner]

13. DUer MiddleFingerMom

For more info, visit the Lounge--if you dare.

[Surya Gayatri]

16. Thanks pinboy, you always come through!

[pinboy3niner]

19. Thanks, Surya

"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."

[dixiegrrrrl]

66. Off his meds referes to , perhaps,

the fact that our dear MFM has had quite a few serious hospitalizations recently, many of us have been worried about him.

[Surya Gayatri]

69. Sorry to hear about MFM and his health issues. The crack about him being

off his meds wasn't mine! I didn't even know MFM stood for MiddleFingerMom.

[dixiegrrrrl]

71. I know it was not you who said anything about meds.

I was expanding the answer you received,offering a bit more info. about the person you had asked about.

[Surya Gayatri]

74. Point taken...thanks!

[RoccoR5955]

52. Gee, I thought it was Mostly Flagilatting Moron. n/t

[rbrnmw]

3. That was funny as hell nt

[Heather MC]

4. posting to watch later

[unc70]

5. She's an honors grad of Stanford

Getting her on the Miss America vs Miss USA thing was sure to unsettle her.

GS's bio has never quite connected with her performance on F&Fs. Makes one believe in developmental psychology sine Michele Bachman was supposedly one of her "nannies".

[pinboy3niner]

8. Which hurt her on her job interview

Fox overlooked those deficits because she'd been Miss America.

[Surya Gayatri]

12. So delicious seeing her get flummoxed while

trying to spew her anti-Obama agenda.

Stanford notwithstanding, she's sold her soul to Fox.

[SDjack]

6. The interview seemed to be loaded with more facts than usual. nt

[RandiFan1290]

7. That was beautiful.

I hope we find out how he got on the show.

[Surya Gayatri]

9. I was lucky enough to see it in real-time!

I literally ROFLMAO!

[tanyev]

14. Somebody please tell me Stewart and Colbert will be back with new episodes this week!

[Indpndnt]

26. Thankfully, yes, they will! nt

[tanyev]

29. Sweet. Bet at least one of them uses this.

[bongbong]

76. It'll be Jon

He loves making awesome rips on the professional liars of "Faux & Fiends"

[BumRushDaShow]

15. WTF?

Wasn't sure whether he was a budding comedian punking them by purposing shifting his eyes back and forth and back and forth between the chortling deer-in-the-headlights moments to mimic being "nervous" or whether he was paid and trying to read cue cards (badly) held up by too many staff off camera or whether he was on some sort of drug... And then he went on to say that he first met Obama when he was in 3rd grade... ?

Guess they needed to fill a couple minutes of airtime?

[Surya Gayatri]

17. Whatever...it was worthy of the best performance art!

[BumRushDaShow]

18. True!

And she kept retorting about him obviously not being serious about the interview.

[radhika]

98. Worthy of the Yes Men!

[oberliner]

60. Budding comedian

In fact, he is in charge of a stand up comedy club at his university.

Also, the meeting Obama in third grade is quite possibly true as he grew up in Illinois, outside Chicago.

[BumRushDaShow]

64. So he's still in school?

He should be glad he didn't have Raygun (near the end of his first term) in there like I did while in college when the unemployment rate was 10.1%.

[oberliner]

65. Yep

He is a sophomore at UT Austin.

And didn't vote for Obama in 2008 as he was only 16.

He said they didn't even bother to check his DL to see how old he was.

As to his job prospects, he is studying creative writing so...

[BumRushDaShow]

68. Well let's hope that Faux will now cease the "young voters" meme

lest they suffer from the popular Bushism -

[oberliner]

70. Or they can just hire actors

Save everyone a lot of time. Give some kid a script, tell him what to say, then they can get their talking points out there more smoothly.

[BumRushDaShow]

72. They've done that already using their own people

to fake being "former Obama supporters". Don't even need to pay them!

[oberliner]

75. That doesn't surprise me

Perhaps they are learning that they need to stick to that model.

Did you happen to see when they tried to interview two little girls running a lemonade stand as a way of attacking the whole "you didn't build that" thing?

It's all so ridiculous.

[Odin2005]

20. OK, which one of you folks totally trolled Carlson???

[Surya Gayatri]

21. Somebody suggested it might be MiddleFingerMom

off his meds!

[JoePhilly]

22. Now that was hilarious!!!

[Surya Gayatri]

23. I saw it in real time and rushed over to mediaite to see

if it was up. Just had to share with DU!
Worthy of Colbert!

[Lint Head]

24. This is funny!

[malaise]

25. Fraking hilarious

[luvspeas]

27. The best part for me is that GC thinks she is in "prime time"!

bah dum dum

[Frustratedlady]

28. Great spot. That will throw them off center for every interview from now to the election.

Good on you!

[OnlinePoker]

30. I hate not having access to video

Elections have the greatest gag reels of any 4 year cycle and I'm missing them.

[Surya Gayatri]

32. Sorry you can't view it, OP. This one's a classic!

Are you on dial-up? Is that why you can't see videos?

[OnlinePoker]

38. Navy ship in Indian Ocean

No streaming media of any kind allowed.

[Surya Gayatri]

49. Go Navy! My brother is a retired Navy doctor.

Can't the US Navy provide decent internet access? Scandalous! Or is it a security issue?


Thanks for your service!

[OnlinePoker]

53. Canadian Navy, not U.S.

From what I've heard, U.S. Navy has great connectivity on their ships.

[Surya Gayatri]

55. What's wrong with those Canucks? Budget restrictions?

[OnlinePoker]

84. For the number of ships we have in this region (normally one at a time) a dedicated satellite...

...isn't practical. We contract with providers for a certain bandwidth and the ship has to share that amongst all the workstations onboard.

[Surya Gayatri]

85. So, you're not allowed to use band-width gobbling video streaming. Makes sense.

[JBoy]

99. You on HMCS Regina?

I was in Victoria this summer when she departed to relieve HMCS Charlottetown.

Thanks for all that you do!

[OnlinePoker]

104. Yes, and thank-you. n/t

[Liberalynn]

77. Thank you for your Service

in helping to defend North America as a whole.

[southernyankeebelle]

31. Well I know this may sound dumb but what is the difference between USA or Miss America?

Aren't they in the same country? Was this guy pranking her? It sure looked like it.

[pinboy3niner]

33. Two different pageants

Miss USA and Miss America. That part wasn't the prank.

[southernyankeebelle]

34. Gee, live and learn. Thanks. Of course am not a pageant watcher ever.

[Surya Gayatri]

39. They're two very different "beauty contests"...

The emphasis in "Miss America" is supposed to be more on talent, accomplishments, etc. with beauty only a secondary consideration.

The "Miss USA" and "Miss Universe" (world level) pageants are more skin bazaars.

[southernyankeebelle]

78. What a waste of time. I would say most of the girls have fake boobies, fake colored hair, and fake

eyelashes and to much makeup and fake tans. That isn't natural beauty. The sad thing you see the same thing with little girls now. What do we get a Honey Boo Boo who I am ashamed for the family because they don't even realize they are being laughed at not laughed with.

[Surya Gayatri]

88. Wasteful and pernicious--the objectification of women

and the sexualization of girls.

[southernyankeebelle]

96. Your right. It's disgusting.

[Richard D]

90. And duct tape . . . .

. . . lots of it. No joke.

[southernyankeebelle]

97. LOL your right.

[Robb]

35. I'll be the party pooper:

I don't think this guy is anyone we want to carry through the streets.

http://www.youtube.com/user/younghotmeat?feature=watch

See "Fun with Perverts" for the short answer to why I think this.

[Surya Gayatri]

41. The "DUer" label was just for fun--the real journalistic shame is that

Fox would put him on the air just because they expected some sort of anti-Obama rant. Scandalous ethics!

[Lucky Luciano]

36. Marking for later

[bigtree]

37. funny stuff, SG!

. . . funny because so much of it rings true.

[Surya Gayatri]

43. A parody of a parody!

[IDemo]

40. "Max Right"?

Good name for a Faux pranker.

[Surya Gayatri]

42. "Rice", not "Right"...

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

44. And a Fox Producer just lost his/her job....

Funny stuff.

[Surya Gayatri]

50. Boy, howdy, I wouldn't want to be that producer

when "Thunderface" Carlson got ahold of him/her after the show.

[HopeHoops]

45. We need more people to do that, but dead-pan seriously. The giggles don't work, not even for rMoney

[Rosa Luxemburg]

48. OK, whose first?

I'm sure we have some great actors here?

[sinkingfeeling]

46. I doubt he's a DUer, but had as much 'on the ball' as the average Rmoney voter.

[Surya Gayatri]

51. Either high or drunk, maybe? Or just acting like a

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sophomoric jackass?

[oberliner]

47. Just a goofy college kid trying to be funny

1. He is not a college graduate - he is only a sophomore.

2. He didn't vote for Obama in 2008 - he was only 16 at the time.

3. He is president of a stand up comedy club at his university.

The comments about losing the basketball game and therefore having to vote for Romney and meeting Obama when he was a kid both appear to be true.

He also claims they just put him on the air without asking too many questions (or looking at his DL to see how old he was).

[PA Democrat]

54. LOL. I'm shocked that FOX failed to check their "facts"

[Surya Gayatri]

56. Facts? Facts? We don't need no steeenking facts! LOL!

[oberliner]

59. Yes - it is pretty hilarious!

I wonder how his booking on the show came to be.

[warrprayer]

57. Great start to my day!

thanks for posting this!

[Surya Gayatri]

62. When Fox f*cks up this bad, it's always worth a laugh!

[Baitball Blogger]

58. AWK-ward

I think that kid was serious. I don't think that was a prank. And, yeah, it backfired royally.

It will be interesting if they give him another chance, because you know, they'll have coached him.

[oberliner]

61. Nah, it was a goof

He's only a sophomore in college and so the entire set-up was BS.

No one even bothered to check his DL he has said.

[Baitball Blogger]

63. Precious!

[gateley]

67. Delicious!

[arcane1]

73. Replying to watch later

[stanwyck]

79. do the math, Gretchen. He wouldn't have been old enough to vote in 2008

math never has been a strong point for Fox - where percentages often add up to more than 100%

[Surya Gayatri]

82. "We will not allow our operation (campaign) to be dictated by fact checkers!"

[Cleita]

80. Is that the same Max Rice who wants to be a comedian?

Looks like Gretchen got punked!

[Surya Gayatri]

81. It would seem so...but, was he trolling or just being a dick?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014233977#post17

[Cleita]

83. He certainly was being a dick to Gretchen.

[librechik]

86. It was Gretchen who never got serious. She never asked him a pertinent question

beyond the setup, when she lost it for some reason. Paranoia? wow, she pushed the eject button a bit early, IMO

lol

[Surya Gayatri]

87. Well, the "You're Miss Universe to me" schtick

may've been the give-away. She seemed to be a bit off her game from that point on! LOL!

[pnwest]

89. I'm going to take serious heat for this, but I think she

handled him nicely. She was on to him early, never lost her cool, remained polite, and shuffled an incoherent guest off the air quickly. HE was the idiot. He wasn't funny or witty, just juvenile. He blew a great opportunity. What I saw was a jackass, and an adept tv personality pointing out his jackassery.

[Surya Gayatri]

91. The question isn't whether Gretchen Carlson

is a professional journalist or not. One would hope she is, for christ's sake.

In her high-profile media position, she ought to be able to field any curve balls thrown her way.

The irony is this "parody within a parody". FOX sets up what they expect will be a staged moment to "get" Obama and they "get taken" for fools instead.

Their blatant propaganda operation was
revealed in all its splendor.

Bad vetting, bad production = major embarrassment.

ETA: They didn't even bother to check how old the kid is. He's only 20 and has never voted for Obama. He was 16 in 2008. Anything to get an anti-Obama rant on air!

[WI_DEM]

92. Is he really a DUer?

[Surya Gayatri]

93. Not that we know of. The "DU" label was just for fun,

hence the "mystery undercover" qualifier.

Max Rice is a 20-year-old college sophomore at the U. of Texas-Austin, who does some stand up comedy.

He was 16 in 2008 and has never voted in a presidential election, let alone for Obama.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021359894#post35

[Alduin]

94. Hahaha.

Faux News is so damn stupid. This proves they don't do their homework on their guests. The guy was later interviewed and admitted they cast him on the show and were giving him talking points.

[Surya Gayatri]

95. Color me shocked! Fox daring to prompt

their interviewees with talking points?
No, say it ain't so!

[Warren DeMontague]

100. It would have been funnier if he'd started talking to an empty chair

still, classic.

[JI7]

102. i was thinking if Clint EAstwood was being interviewed it would probably

have gone in a similar way.

[JI7]

101. that's too funny

[spooky3]

105. Levi Johnston, is that you?

Shouldn't you be home taking care of baby Gun?

[Hutzpa]

106. That was Fucking- A

he is supporting Rmoney because he lost a basketball game...

[Zax2me]

107. This guy is a DU hero!

He should be, promoted or something!