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Sep. 17, 2012 11:12am Becket Adams

Wow. Just, wow.

It looks like “Fox & Friends” co-host Gretchen Carlson on Monday interviewed a prank guest and she’s clearly not in on the “joke” (though she seems to pick up on it pretty quickly).

The guest, who the show says is named Max Rice, is introduced as a recent college grad and former supporter of President Obama who claims he is voting for Gov. Mitt Romney.

But Rice seems more interested in making the interview as awkward as possible than he is in telling his supposed “conversion story.”

We’d try to describe how odd their exchange is, between Rice telling Carlson she’s “Miss Universe” in his books (Carlson, as we’re sure you know, is a former pageant queen) to him talking about supporting President Obama when he was in third grade and referencing someone stealing his basketball, but it’s best if you just watch for yourself:

Who’s Max Rice anyway?

Well, it didn’t take a lot of digging, but as it turns out, he is a recent graduate — from high school. He’s still in college and recently transferred from UT-Austin to Columbia College Chicago, according to POLITCO.

He also happens to be an aspiring “comedian.” You can watch one of his videos by clicking on the picture below [WARNING: Extremely objectionable language and subject material]:

UPDATE: FOX News said they are “investigating” this morning’s bizarre incident.

“We are still examining the situation, but it will be addressed with the appropriate parties involved,” Bill Shine, Executive Vice President of Programming FOX News told the Washington Examiner.

UPDATE II: The Raw Story was able to hunt down Rice and get his side of the 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.”

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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.”

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“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 added.

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(H/T: Mediaite). This story has been updated for clarity (and as info became available).

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Comments (143)

FEMALL
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:19pm
Saw this live.Try ‘n Get a job now. What a dolt.

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- drphil69
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 2:05pm
  No worries, he will fit right in on MSNBC… maybe after Matthews gets a psych eval he can have his spot…
  
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- jzs
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 2:18pm
  He sounded to me like a typical Romney supporter.
  
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- michael48
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 2:53pm
  naah..jzs head…he’s typical dem-wit…crap full of stupid and willing to prove it..24/7…have a “hoax and chains” day….
  
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- DarkJello
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:02pm
  Curious that he happily lied, but it is Fox’s fault for not being more thourough?
  
  Apparently this young man is emulating Obama’s rise to fame by improving his lying skillz.
  
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- chalkdust
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 5:34pm
  Way to go captain obvious. Future looks bright for this one. Thanks for pointing out that a television news network is highly produced. Wow, you really exposed them to be just like the rest, highly produced. We are doomed if this kid is reflective of our education system.
  
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- Servant Of YHVH
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 6:29pm
  @drphil69
  Perhaps this kid and Matthews will see each other and both of them get a “tingle up their leg” looking at each other.
  
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- seresmary
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 7:02pm
  This guy is obviously not very smart, and doesn’t know that finishing college doesn’t depend upon your age but on how smart you are, and if I were him i’d really stay away from College or Universities as basically his I.Q. isn’t that high, “oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive”,
  that has been the basic strategy of the Obama Administration all along, and obviously this man’s i.q. has fallen under the bus of stupid mind games. Goes to show how far the left will stoop to deceive as well.
  MaryS, CA
  
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- AndySchmandy
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 7:23pm
  I also saw this live… not going to lie, I laughed my ass off! Of course I had been up all night drinking… Knew as soon as he started he was a prankster. Cant believe they ran with it for so long before cutting it off! Oh fox and friends…
  
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- TangoMike79
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 8:13pm
  Or…. You can look at it another way… The producers and fact checkers trusted him and he blatantly lied to them to get on…
  
  There is a difference between being being a comedian and telling lies to get on a television show!!!
  
  I guess it’s okay to lie your arse off and deceive others at the beginning with the intent to eventually explain yourself and get a few laughs… His moral code is quite twisted IMHO.
  
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- DenverKitty
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 8:24pm
  What an idiot…a complete waste of space, air, and time.
  
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- FEMALL
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 8:35pm
  @ Enicnom So, are you saying a beauty queen can’t be brilliant or that you are not in favor of affirmative action/equal opportunity for women? Typical beta envy.
  
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- RightThinking1
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 10:45pm
  JZS:
  You seem to have missed an underlying irony, i.e., this is the same way that Obama got his job.
  
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- Palter
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 11:46pm
  yep, Gretchen just got punked. Cheer up guys, it’s funny, no need to barter insults for this. Take it as entertainment, it’s just a morning show with Gretchen and the other 2 guys….
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on September 18, 2012 at 1:16am
  This kid is a complete tool. Have him go worship his idols on MSNBC.
  
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- Sci
  Posted on September 18, 2012 at 12:36pm
  you’re right!
  
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- acer561
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 9:21am
  I was wondering why they say must be the last rotten apple from the tree.No wonder the younger generation loves Obozo no change!
  
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BlueStarMom
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:19pm
It wasn’t Gretchen who was punked, she caught on immediately and ended the interview. It was the producers who found the guy, pre-interviewed him, got him to a remote location, prepped him, mic’d him, made him up, set up the satellite feed, so he could make a fool of himself on natl tv. You know, those producers who probably got fired today. They’re the ones who got punked.

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RIGS
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:15pm
Just another left wing liberal dumbcrat who voted for the liar and cheat.

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- theaton
  Posted on September 18, 2012 at 12:46pm
  The kid graduated High School in 2010. Unless he flunked a couple of times he didn’t vote for Obama in 2008. Now you got punked by the same kid.
  
  It is a shame that Fox didn’t do a better job of checking him out. I’d want the credibility of liberal checked out before I’d let them on air. Alas, he is being honest, they were just casting for a television show and not news.
  
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Marcia
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:12pm
Gretchen didn’t get punked – the guy got punked! He clearly was an idiot for trying such an obvious stunt as that with some as smart as Gretchen. She was on to him from the “wassup?”. Gretchen was cool and calm and showed pure class during the whole stunt.

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- JRook
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:17pm
  What did someone provide her with the real news as it actually occurred, rather than the typical Fox News biased selection and presentation. Or was it worse and they actually tease her with the facts on how many lies Romney has told so far.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:22pm
  Gretchen is not smart enough find her way out of a paper bag, she is just another blonde bimbo that Fox News hires to read cue cards.
  
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- momrules
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:43pm
  MARCIA………..I was watching the segment this morning and I agree. Gretchen caught on immediately.
  The little twit trying to be funny……..wasn’t.
  
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- bb8689
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 1:12pm
  Encinom-Yeah right, Gretchen is just a dumb blonde, like all those other Stanford graduates. Where’s did you get your degree?
  
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- Pat Magroin
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 1:18pm
  You’re right. Gretchen dumped him like a democrat dumps a tax reduction. She didn’t put up with his crap. Looks like he has a HUGE following based on the audience in the picture. It looks like a room full of Eastwood Obamas, nothing but empty chairs.
  
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- Pat Magroin
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 1:20pm
  JROOK– try again. That response didn’t even make sense for a liberal. If you are seeing three keyboards on your computer use the one in the middle.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 2:27pm
  bb8689
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 1:12pm
  
  Encinom-Yeah right, Gretchen is just a dumb blonde, like all those other Stanford graduates. Where’s did you get your degree?
  _______________________
  Doesn’t say much about the the standards at Stanford, if the let this airhead in.
  
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- ALittletotheRight
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:24pm
  Encicom and Jrook, you guys are great…. Anytime I need to feel better about myself I look to your comments to remind me how much smarter we all are compared to you.
  
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saneromeo
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:07pm
senkaku heating up…
http://saneromeo.wordpress.com/

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jrcess
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:06pm
What is scary is you have village idiots like this guy that votes.

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- Joe_The_Patriot
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:33pm
  this guy is a prime example of the kind of useless idiots that our public schools and colleges are releasing on the rest of us, like a plague of stupidity.. I fear even if we manage to keep our country for a few more years eventually these turds are going to give it away for the promise of an ipad and a nissan leaf….
  The education system needs an enema
  
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Hammerdown
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:04pm
“Problem is, she’s clearly not in on the joke.”

I think she did well and knew what was going on, what was the Blaze watching?

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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:48pm
  She did have just enough brains to cut his mike right before he pointed out that she wasn’t on prime time.
  
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buyundbuy
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 11:59am
I saw the interview.
Gretchen was quick to catch on with the lack of sincerity from the guest.
She politely dismissed the poor guy who wasn’t “ready for prime time.”

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Tri-ox
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 11:58am
Well, this aspiring “comedian” didn’t do himself any favors – he certainly wasn’t funny – he just looked and sounded like a strung-out drug addict. Gretchen Carlson handled herself just fine – but, whoever booked this guy should be fired immediately. Weird.

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historyguy48
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 11:54am
Now here is another fine product of the American educational system. This guys a college graduate that has trouble stringing ten coherent words together.
He should go back to his college and demand a refund and instead of “thanking a teacher” perhaps he should curse them out because they never taught him anything.
So why wouldn’t we want to do away with “free public education” and privatize it? We aren’t getting squat for our money with the current system even though we’re paying through the nose for it.

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48Straight
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 11:48am
This was deleted once by someone:

Why is “The Blaze” turning into readers digest? All the stuff going on in the world and all the Blaze reports is garbage.

Meanwhile headlines over at Drudge:
LIBYAN OFFICIAL WARNED USA ’3 DAYS BEFORE ATTACK’…
Ambassador Rice: Attack Spontaneous…
Libyan president: ‘Completely unfounded and preposterous’…
Video Purports To Show US Ambassador Dragged; Cheers From Crowd…
Pakistanis Try to Storm U.S. Outpost; 1 Killed…
POLITICO: Romney campaign infighting… DEM CONVENTION SETBACK IN HOST STATE: ROMNEY +6 IN NORTH CAROLINA… ‘Occupy’ To Hit 40 ‘Corporate Targets’ For Anniversary Protests…
Disguised In ‘Business Attire’…
Plans to Surround NYSE…
4 US soldiers die in weekend ‘insider’ attacks in Afghanistan… Sudan rejects U.S. request to send Marines to guard embassy…
Israel: America ignored Arab wrath…
Ryan Criticizes Obama on Foreign Policy…

Not that you would know any of this if you read “The Blaze” tabloid.

I thought “The Blaze” was set up to disseminate information important to us that follow Glen Beck, not Lady Gaga.
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- woodyee
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:02pm
  I, too, agree somewhat. What I(w/emphasis) often do when I find a story I think is newsworthy, is I write a VERY brief synopsis, enter it in the box at the lower right of this page marked “Have A Tip”, along with the URL, and click submit.
  
  Having done it quite often, I think it’s a dead link…
  
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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:08pm
  @ mpgibbssr
  Well you could pay nothing and get fed a load of BULL !!!
  
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- Detroit paperboy
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:08pm
  I understand the lighthearted and human interest stories on the Blaze, but I agree, they do miss a ton of serious stories, for which I go to drudge or Brietbart…but I still love the Blaze too….
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:20pm
  @WOODYEE
  I have submitted a lot of stories to that box and have seen them run a couple of them, so it’s not a dead link, or it could be that they were going to run those stories anyway and my submittals were just a coincidence :-)
  
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- dsm
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 2:39pm
  The Blaze did cover 2/3 of those stories you are referring to. If you think it is a tabloid, then don’t visit The Blaze and keep your inaccurate posts to yourself.
  
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- 48Straight
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 6:27pm
  Count the number of serious news stories here and count the number of news stories on drudge. Drudge has them beat 10-1. Also if you notice there are not endless links to Saturday Night Live. The Blaze concept started great. now they are no better than Readers Digest”.
  
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- 48Straight
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 6:46pm
  DSM, how could The Blaze have covered the stories earlier if they happened today? Do yourself and everyone else in America a favor and question everything you hear even if it is Glenn beck telling it to you.
  
  Educate yourself and always ask things like “why did The Blaze and Glenn Beck quit reporting world events”? Is it mismanagement or has The Blaze joined the MSM by distracting its readers by reporting on the shiny thing over there while America and the Middle East burns over here.
  
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Kelly Henderson
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 11:47am
So this guy is supposed to be a comedian??? Did you all cut out the funny part? Looked more like a bored-dork.

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- LadyLibertykicksASS
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 7:15pm
  I thought he was a druggie…..Go get a real job you jerk !!!!!!
  
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chips1
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 11:47am
Flush!!! There went two minutes of my life.

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woodyee
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 11:47am
This is what happens when you don’t vet a guest. We know what happens when you don’t vet a candidate…

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gbfreak
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 11:47am
He looked like a performer from word one. Waste of time. Hope he enjoyed his 2 seconds of fame. Gretchen cut him off….that was the funniest part of the interchange.

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JoeInAlbany
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 11:45am
A producer somewhere needs to be fired.

If you going to hold yourself up as a reputable news organization, these mistakes can’t happen.

The Left will have a field day with this.

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- fuzzy20841
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:15pm
  Joe,
  With all due respect, Fox and Friends is not a hard news show. I’ve been watching as long as they have been broadcasting. Just another entertainment show albeit right leaning! Steve Doocy is a weather guy and Brian is a wannabee sports guy!! On the other hand Juan Williams, Tamara Holder, Bob Beckel and others who ho;d themselves out as political gurus need to go! Not be cause of there politics but because of there intellect or lack thereof.
  
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- firstHat
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 2:22pm
  @fuzzy20841
  You may have a point, but if you want to talk about intellect you may want to sort out the difference between the words “there” (as in they’re over THERE), “they’re” (as in THEY’RE over there) and “their” (THEIR stuff is over there). Good luck!
  
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KickinBack
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 11:45am
Looks to me this “not so aspiring” comedian decides he can’t make it (for lack of talent) and so pulls a potential youtube stunt on national tv in hopes to garner internet fame. Epic Fail.

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- joe.r.piehole
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:11pm
  Do you even know what “aspiring” means?? LOL blaze readers are so fn dumb its unreal.
  
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- Atrain1966
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:30pm
  Piehole.
  
  How you get so smart? Me wish my brain smart like you
  
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- ALittletotheRight
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:17pm
  I feel fn dumber now. thought I was making progress until dillhole, I mean piehole straightened me out.
  
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whatthecrazy
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 11:43am
snore pppppp snore pppppp

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00gabooga
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 11:42am
People who get their news from The Daily Show will think this is hilarious and chalk it up as a victory over Fox News.

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disque-0-duc
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 11:36am
This is Occupy, this is Occupy on drugs. What this bozo didn’t count on is that Gretchen is a smart woman who comes from a family of business owners and is a Stanford grad. Reverse Punk’d!

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- joe.r.piehole
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 11:47am
  Gretchen Carlson is a smart woman LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
  
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- Atrain1966
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:35pm
  She no so smart Piehole?
  
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- ALittletotheRight
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:29pm
  Piehole, I am glad you agree with how smart she is. I still dont know what LOLOLOLOLOLOLO? I guess I am too fn dumb to figure it out. LOL
  
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- Sci
  Posted on September 18, 2012 at 12:43pm
  you’re right
  
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huey6367
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 11:35am
That was a useless prank if it was. Poorly rehearsed. No more need be said. I can’t believe I said this much.

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paulwbrown
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 11:33am
She is not sure that he is being serious. Really? How sad. First that her producer let this idiot on and then she did not immediately cut him off.

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WINNEBAGOMAN
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 11:29am
This is news. This is how they are trying to discredit a news organization that has the seemingly unthinkable idea of running an opposition view point from the MSM. This is an attempt to blatantly discredit FNC and thereby censor them. Not censor in the sense of they will no longer be a network, but more of, if Fox and Friends would have not handled this situation properly, clear-thinking individuals wouldn’t watch them any more.

I actually do have some reservations already about FNC, for not vetting a person over an important topic. The way Romney is going to win is by taking some Obama “converts”. So this does matter. You did make a list of items that ARE important, but don’t dismiss this.

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- Sci
  Posted on September 18, 2012 at 12:35pm
  I don’t believe your post at all – you are posing – more of the Obama internet bloggers trying to keep real opinions about Obama off the news – now it’s time for you to tell me that I am uneducated and stupid which is the usual liberal attack – go ahead – I’m a retired college prof – taught in many countries – taught a few of these smart-Alecs like the video jerk – typical of the Colberts and the Mahers who think they are so funny with egos that match Obama’s.
  ROMNEY 2012
  
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- WINNEBAGOMAN
  Posted on September 19, 2012 at 12:39am
  SCI: Read more of my posts. Still think I’m posing?
  
  I’m a libertarian. I am for Liberty and for non-interference by the government. Period. Based on my learning experience (I’m not a college professor) I’ve laid out my honest assessment of how I believe the Progressive forces are going to censor their opposition by discrediting the most popular opposition voice out there.
  
  I’m not going to insult your intelligence SCI… I’ll just take your word for it.
  
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matt708
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 11:22am
hey 48straight, why aren’t you complaining about the main stream media instead of the blaze, you sound like a liberal drone.

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- Shasta
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 11:49am
  After I read 48straight’s post, which was the only post at the time, I hit reload to see if anyone responded, and there were two new posts but 48straight’s post was gone. I waited 5 minutes and tried again. No sign of his post. I hope this is a glitch, or my misunderstanding, and not censoring just because 48straight was critical of the blaze.
  
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- 48Straight
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 6:37pm
  Yea all of my posts mysteriously disappeared very quickly after I posted them. It took all of five minutes and they still are gone. The Blaze is very disappointing. I thought it was set up by Glenn Beck to bi-pass the main stream media’s censorship, looks like that is no longer the mission and it now as Rush Lindbaugh would say “has been chickified”
  
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watashbuddyfriend
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 11:19am
Skit was not worthy of my time, nor further comment!

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