This is too hilarious to wait for Friday. Gretchen Carlson thought she had a big score when she brought on someone she told her viewers was a young, out-of-work former Obama supporter who was now backing Mitt Romney. Watch what happened next.
UPDATE: The young fellow in question, whose stand-up comedy routine on YouTube is startlingly unfunny, explains what he was doing to Raw Story.
Speaking to Raw Story on the phone Monday morning, the man who pranked Fox News said he’s always believed “Fox News is a fake news organization,” and explained that he wanted to shame the conservative television channel for being “stupid” and looking for interview subjects as if they were “casting a part in a show.”
Rice said that the opportunity to go on national television “kind of fell into my lap” when “a friend of a friend” got a text message asking if anyone knew a recent college graduate who can’t get a job and is voting for Mitt Romney. “I’m like, hell yeah I’m a college graduate. Eff Obama!” he said. “20 emails later with the producer at Fox, they’re telling me what to say. It’s such bullshit. It’s so ridiculous.”
shillelaghlaw says
Fox News is contemptable, but this kid’s performance is one step away from “Don’t Tase Me Bro!” Weak.
He pissed away a chance to call out Fox News. He could have hit back at the “are you better off now” canard, but chose to speak in non-sequitirs. That kid isn’t even Andy Kauffman, let alone Dick Tuck.
Mr. Lynne says
“That kid isn’t even Andy Kauffman…”
But then again, who is? We’re not likely to see his kind again in my lifetime.