Posted on 06/28/2014 2:51:07 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Comedian Russell Brand condemned Fox News as a “fanatical terrorist propaganda organization” during a heated, 10-minute tirade recorded on video and uploaded to the web this week.
The 39-year-old British stand-up comic-turned-actor is now making headlines for the video footage, which was uploaded to his personal YouTube channel on Tuesday this week under the title: Is Fox News More Dangerous than Isis?
Throughout the duration of the clip, Brand responded with sheer outrage to recent remarks made on-air by Fox host Jeanine Pirro, a former prosecutor, who said during a broadcast of her program last weekend that the United States should bomb Iraq en masse in order to eliminate the growing insurgency there that has cause an international crisis.
“When they do these bombings, it creates more insurgents, that’s what creates them,” Brand responded. “Don’t think of a bomb as going down there and destroying stuff, think of it as like a seed that goes into the ground, and grows insurgents out of it, it creates more terrorism, doing it.”
From there, Brand continued to counter Pirro’s claims by juxtaposing clips from the broadcast in question with his own responses. Whereas the Fox host said that any agreement reached between the US and Iran to remediate the insurgency would be on par with cutting “a deal with the devil,” Brand blasted her for alleging as much.
At one point, Pirro says during the episode that the group credited with the recent string of attacks across Iraq, ISIS, is a “fanatical religious terrorist organization.”
“So is Fox News,” Brand fired back. “It’s a fanatical terrorist propagandist organization. This isn’t reasonable, is it? Like the way she’s talking? ‘Bomb them! Bomb them!’ She’s worse … She’s the savage, she’s totally espousing savage values.”
“It’s invective, just incendiary language, just volatile combative, angry language. That – I’m not being sensational – that is more dangerous than ISIS,” he added. “That’s attitude. That’s far-reaching. That’s affecting millions and millions of people.”
Some, including Fox commentators, quickly came to Pirro’s defense as Brand’s remarks began to go viral.
“If he feels that ISIS is harmless, he should go there and hang out with them. They would behead him faster than you could say Arthur. His worst movie,” Greg Gutfeld responded during a recent episode of Fox’s The Five program.
Days earlier, RT caught up with Brand during an anti-austerity rally in London in which he again condemned the mainstream media, that time targeting BBC.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
I’m wasting my time and giving aid and comfort to the mentally deranged but lets just say the facts; Brand is a brat! His intent is to keep his name in the public in the truism, “The only bad publicity is NO publicity!” The best way to handle them is to ignore them and let them go away. I have little doubt that this dubious character will come to a bad end without better control of his life, so I bid him an unfound adieu from my cognizance!
Well then this idiot should be all for the bombing of brain dead progressives. Because according to this brain dead leach, it will only create more progressives.
Katy Perry came to her senses eventually..
one more dope on a mission
Russell, call Mom.
your bottle is ready.
Dude, it’s a TV SHOW!!!
Flip the channel. Power off.
Fox News will NOT lob bombs into your town, nor send suicide bombers, nor hijack the jet you travel around in.
Get a grip, pal. Drugs are a bad thing.
What will these nuts on the left do with the rise in right leaning media? There is The Blaze, One America News, NewsMax TV and The Next news Network out there. I wish all four outlets could pull their resources together and create one network. But I’ll take what I can get.
Fox News is still decent. But there was a void for more right leaning channels.
What will these nuts on the left do with the rise in right leaning media? There is The Blaze, One America News, NewsMax TV and The Next News Network out there. I wish all four outlets could pull their resources together and create one network. But I’ll take what I can get.
Fox News is still decent. But there was a void for more right leaning channels.
This is yet another example of the pure idiocy of the far left.
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