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I watched the video earlier, after I rolled around laughing my a.. off...I then had to wonder, why would anyone get on National Television and make a fool out of themselved, then I thought We have Politicians doing it every day.
My favorite Fox & Friends moment (it's usually on in the breakroom where I work) was when Steve Doocy earnestly explained that the financial collapse in September 2008 was very good news for John McCain...
The kid who pulled the prank seems to be a totally immature moron, but I guess that's all it takes to outfox (hehe) the producers on that channel...
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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 bull****. It’s so ridiculous.”
Rice told Raw Story that he in fact dropped out of the University of Texas, but lied to Fox News about being a graduate just to see if they’d do their homework.
“The first thing that shocked me is that they were that desperate to find someone that fit that category,” he added. “What they were seeking is someone who voted for Obama in 2008, then somewhere in the last four years got disenfranchised and now is a huge Romney supporter. But I feel like anyone who fits that mold would also dis Romney at the same time. So, they just couldn’t find anyone. They’re in New York City, so they had to go find a kid in Chicago.”
Rice went on to say that he initially convinced them to do “a three person interview” with two of his friends, but a Fox News producer nixed that plan upon hearing a voice mail recording by one of the other guests that mimed the pedophile character from Fox’s “Family Guy.” They considered that to be “a liability,” Rice said, noting that they apparently didn’t see his vulgar, incendiary stand-up routine on YouTube. “[The producer] obviously had never seen ‘Family Guy’ before either,” Rice added.
“They were so happy that I fit the mold and that I was Caucasian,” he continued. “They were just casting a part in a show. They were so stupid… I’m a kid messing around. They had 10 days to ask for my driver’s license. They saw my [high school] commencement speech video, but they’re too stupid to realize that if I graduated in 2010, I wouldn’t graduate college until 2014. That’s why I was so awkward in the interview. I wasn’t going to lie.”
“I want this story to get out because I think it’s bigger than just me,” he concluded.
He may be immature, but it's pretty clear he outsmarted the tools at Fox without breaking a sweat.
It was priceless.
It is priceless, and his interview afterwards really drove the point home.
Fox was so eager to advance this meme that they didn't even bother to perform the basics of TV journalism - prep your guest. Know what they're going to say.
Stupid, stupid network. They got what they deserved.
well, that was pretty lame for being promoted as the 'best prank in history'
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Some Backstory on this Delightful Incident:
