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True: Julian Assange Really Does Star in an Anti-U.S. Rap Video

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, video surfaces of Julian Asssange starring in a news rap video bashing the U.S. Yes, you read that right.

The video’s Australian creators–a university researcher and an English teacher–put together the video as political satire. It’s called “News World Order: War on Journalism,” and it mocks Donald Rumsfeld, Bill O’Reilly, and Fox News while building up Wikileaks. It’s just one of their many episodes raping the news and also featuring the whistleblower site. Apparently, Assange saw a previous episode and was impressed. From the AFP:

The Melbourne-based pair had made a previous episode about Wikileaks and told AFP via email: “He really felt that we’d nailed it, so the possibility of going to London and collaborating on a new episode in the lead-up to the Iraq War Diaries was mooted.

“We jumped at the chance and were on planes within a fortnight.”

The pair filmed the episode in London in October, just before Assange released leaks about the Iraq War. When they arrived, they convinced Assange not only to collaborate, but to star. He fell for it:

Once there, Farrant said it seemed logical to offer Assange a role in their parody and, despite some initial raised eyebrows, the WikiLeaks boss was “totally up for it”.

It took several takes (”not as many as you’d expect”) but Assange managed to get the rhythm down and chime in with the rap performed by Farrant.

“He was full of creative ideas for how to act and time the entrance, and he really enjoyed lampooning his own image,” Farrant said.

“It was fantastic — we’re still pinching ourselves,” added Nanni. “He’s a preternaturally calm person, but with a great sense of humour.”

Here‘s the video’s description from YouTube:

Who let the Logs out!? Wikileaks drops 400,000 classified documents shedding new light on the Iraq war—the biggest leak of classified military documents in history—sending shockwaves across the Fourth Estate. Rap News marks the occasion by inviting into the studio the former US Secretary of Offense, Donald Rumsfeld. But what starts out as a conventional Rap News interview soon descends into mayhem as the live feed is hijacked by News World Order, eager to spin the record like a disc jockey on crack. Enter Bill O’Really, the champion of Fair & Balanced journalism, dragging us screaming into the No Spine Zone. Only divine intervention can save us now, from a fate worse than death. But beware of imitators; not all is what it seems to be! Join us for a rollercoaster episode of Rap News, featuring a very very special guest appearance.

The two men tell AFP the goal is “to provide a meaningful contribution to the media discourse around certain issues.” The video doesn‘t necessarily show they’ve achieved that, especially since it paints Donald Rumsfeld as an over-the-top war criminal. That doesn’t appear to be “a meaningful contribution”:

[WARNING: Contains some swear words]

(H/T: Mediaite)

Comments (82)

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  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on December 23, 2010 at 3:18pm

    *
    Soros’ Minions. Doing the bidding of the dark overlord for carbon exchange credits. What else could pussibly explain these Groupthink puppets?

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    • iluvignorance
      Posted on December 24, 2010 at 5:51am

      keep drinking that kool-aid you deranged fool – Obama has done more for this country than any president in the last 25 years…

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    • iluvignorance
      Posted on December 24, 2010 at 5:52am

      yeah right and Rupert Murdoch is such a fair and balanced man – by the way it’s Gandhi not Ghandi you moron.

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  • Randyrocker
    Posted on December 23, 2010 at 3:15pm

    Add your comments

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  • Randyrocker
    Posted on December 23, 2010 at 3:14pm

    Americans would prefer to remain blind, deaf, and dumb to what has been going on in their name.
    Preferring to remain intellectually stupid instead, one can now hear echoes in their vacuous heads.
    Nothing can awaken their slumbering sleepy minds, they love it when their government kicks their behinds. Amazing it is when it’s to Lady Gaga they vomit and pray, but to someone who’s trying to inform them like Assange is they like mice run away. For the truth they can’t face, their media heroes have told them it’s better to be lied to so the government can then control them. And just like the sheep they are, they‘ll soon be allowing themselves to be felt up by TSA agents before they’re allowed to get in their cars. But never mind the commercials will tease them and Janet Napolitano and Obama will please them, as Julian Assange once again briefs them of all of the wrong doings of government’s plans to seize and control them, but like all good monkeys they won’t want to face them, so they will hold their paws over their eyes, ears and mouths never to receive them. For after all they can find safety in being known as a dumb American.

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    • Lucy Larue
      Posted on December 24, 2010 at 6:15am

      A much better rap than that disgusting, amatuerish, video that I just watched.

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  • Glenn is my hero
    Posted on December 23, 2010 at 2:53pm

    Is it just me or do others see links with Obama and Assange?
    Obama said we have too much information = Wiki Leaks is too much information = Assange
    Obama hates America = Assange hates America
    Obama said there is too much vitriol with Fox News = Assange doesn’t like Fox
    Obama signs bill to allow gays to openly serve in the military = PFC Manning who also hates the American military is openly gay (is this bill a ‘reward’ for Manning)?

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    • William_Wallace
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 3:18pm

      It IS just you. Sorry…

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    • EqualJustice
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 5:56pm

      NO, it’s not just you… I remember Asssssange saying he ran this by the U.S. BEFORE anything was leaked. I guess it was okay while it was leaks about the previous administration. (The libs DID want to get them and how convenient!) Now that BO’s administration is getting hit, different story! ps: 10 seconds in.. off with it. They suck.

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    • Scaz
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 8:45pm

      Thought the same thing. Just as the FCC is talking about taking new powers over the internet in the name of “neutrality”, this whole wikileaks thing breaks wide open. Good excuse to seize control over the net. Wouldn’t want the American people to get too much information and get all confused, right?

      Also, this video did prove one thing, Australians suck at rap!

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  • William_Wallace
    Posted on December 23, 2010 at 2:31pm

    Here is another good one …

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3adw9oLBkBI&annotation_id=annotation_445092&feature=iv

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  • William_Wallace
    Posted on December 23, 2010 at 2:22pm

    Wow, great video. I will be passing that address around.

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  • warner
    Posted on December 23, 2010 at 2:21pm

    These cowards wouldn’t defend their own Mother from an attacker yet alone understand fighting for freedom! Yellow-bellied cowards…. give your smack to all the vets who had the balls to man up! See what happens then…bunch of girlie-men!

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  • Cake
    Posted on December 23, 2010 at 2:06pm

    Do none of you get it? He didn’t leak the documents, that PFC did. Sure, he may be a liberal, and if he did sexually assault someone, he should be prosecuted for that. But I see so many of you calling to silence this man up to and including assassination. If he releases documents that cause harm to our fighting forces, sure, prosecute him for that. Fortunately though, we cannot prosecute people for what “might” happen. You go locking up everyone that one day commit a crime, you will lose your democracy or republic along with it.

    I am a conservative, and I for one, will not call for the prosecution for people that have yet to commit a crime that I can see. Once one is committed, sure, go ahead and arrest him, but until that point he is free as is right.

    I don’t like the guy, it just disgusts me to see so called conservatives here so willing to strip another human being of his rights because of what “might” happen some day.

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    • FreedomAdvocate
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 5:54pm

      The reason is because he clearly is facilitating espionage in the USA. He may not be the citizen who released classified documents when he was in a trusted position, such as did PFC Manning (and he should be executed for treason). However, if some other organization was helping steal classified document to provide them to our enemies, they should be atttacked with the full zeal of our nation because it puts us at risk. Just because he released it to EVERYBODY, does not mean that he should be excused from the fact that he also released it to our enemies as well.

      The simple truth is that a nation must do what it needs to do to protect its existence, the USA (and any other nation) must do what is in its self-interest, and preventing such a thing from happening again is clearly so, both as a deterent and to close up the loopholes in our system that allowed this to happen in the first place.

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  • fishhead2x
    Posted on December 23, 2010 at 1:35pm

    I dont agree with their message but the look like their enjoying themselves…many of our responders dont sound like they enjoy life..why would others want to be like us?

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    • republitarian
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 1:47pm

      I don’t think they watched it. It’s just great fun.

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 1:48pm

      Uh, so if I don’t like rap music, repettitive stories and enemies of the country I don’t enjoy life??? Try ‘splainin that one Lucy.

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  • FreedomAdvocate
    Posted on December 23, 2010 at 1:29pm

    While it may do some damage in the short term, perhaps the US should figure out what Assange has, and release the same information to other news organizations. At least it would render Wikileaks obsolete. And make sure that Private Manning pays the full penalty of the law for treason, to make sure others don’t think this is an action to emulate without consequences.

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  • xm-1774u
    Posted on December 23, 2010 at 1:26pm

    so sick of hearing about him….. puke

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  • BRIX 66
    Posted on December 23, 2010 at 1:22pm

    I think thats his bi sexual son with him, the apple doesn’t fall………………………………..far from the sissy stick

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  • matt708
    Posted on December 23, 2010 at 1:11pm

    so his true colors come out he’s against the USA not the world. Soros must b eproud of him.

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  • ChiefGeorge
    Posted on December 23, 2010 at 1:09pm

    It only indicates further too me that Americas enemies are lining up. We are quickly becoming the scourge of the rest of the world and must be dealt with. Our endless Wars, our bringing down the worlds economies while still spending money at home, our morally bankrupt values being spread to other nations through our illustrious State dept, our arrogant attitude that we think we are so much better than everyone else…maybe this is true but it won’t gain us any good friends and the list goes on. America will be attacked soon and we will lose this War. We are Babylon reincarnated and Babylon goes down in the end times.

    Be very prepared.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 2:38pm

      We are bringing down other economies? I thought we were giving them ours? Our morally bankrupt values? Yours maybe, but I follow a good and just God. I do not kill in the name of Him. I do not maim, stone, nor kill women.
      Our arrogant attitude? What was the apology tour for? True, Hollywood has spread it‘s filth on the people who will let it in through their TV’s, but you are painting with a broad brush.
      What’s this “we” stuff, white man? :-)

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  • sjohn70037
    Posted on December 23, 2010 at 1:01pm

    I‘m sure somewhere on the gov’t payroll we have some people capable of crawling up this guys history for display to all. Think Julie-baby has something to hide? Turnabout is fair play, no?

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  • moreteaplease
    Posted on December 23, 2010 at 12:59pm

    Yaaawn

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on December 23, 2010 at 12:57pm

    I am really worried about Julian, did you see that guy next to him? That is one seriously messed up dude. Julian and Bawney Fwanks ought to get together for an all nighter.

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  • Alvin691
    Posted on December 23, 2010 at 12:52pm

    If our government wanted him dead, wouldn’t he be dead right now? He is a Progressive-Liberal cloaked as an Anarchist.

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    • wesleyapril
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 1:35pm

      you got that right – the reason they don’t have him dead is because he leaked what they wanted leaked – end of story – :)

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on December 23, 2010 at 12:47pm

    This video will sure help him in his vision to be a journalist. Yep, I wanna grow up and be just like him. What a dumb butt. I would imagine that Soros is funding him to bash AMERICA. Julian is a lot of things but one thing he is not is a journalist.

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    • DimmuBorgir
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 12:54pm

      and with net neutrality you’ll get links and pop-ups to these crappy videos anytime you want to read some news

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  • drattastic
    Posted on December 23, 2010 at 12:41pm

    Didn’t watch video ,can’t stand to hear rap especially from some old white guys ( I presume).This guy is a criminal but some of the stuff coming out is exposing left wingers too so its not all bad .

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 12:44pm

      I didn’t watch it either for the same reason. Reading the story was enough.

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    • Lantern
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 12:54pm

      Can’t wait until, like some rappers, he goes to jail. Then watch him cry and whine like the liberal weenie criminal he is. When will someone bring Al Gore up on perpetrating fraud charges?

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    • republitarian
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 1:41pm

      You all are missing out. I don’t agree with the politics but I loved every bit. Brilliant work.

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on December 23, 2010 at 12:41pm

    And Ron Paul supports this guy because???

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  • J.C. McGlynn
    Posted on December 23, 2010 at 12:38pm

    Leftie nutzos doing what they do best by mocking those who don’t agree with them. If he falls off a bridge in front of hundreds of people the CIA, FBI and FOX News and the right will be blamed.

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    • NikMar
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 1:12pm

      Um, I am willing to take the risk. We of the “Right Wing” are blamed for so many things already that I am ready to tolerate the scrutiny for something so very, very worthwhile…

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  • DashRipRock
    Posted on December 23, 2010 at 12:38pm

    14 minutes 58 seconds
    14 minutes 59 seconds

    and his fifteen minutes are up

    NEXT!

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  • Muslim in Chief
    Posted on December 23, 2010 at 12:37pm

    it is funny to see him cry like a liberal on November 3rd now that people have released information on him.

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 2:27pm

      Whats funny is how all of you have turned on him since the interview where he bashed Fox News – before then you thought he was some sort of hero for telling tales on the government. ROFL Make up your mind! http://maboulette.wordpress.com

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 2:39pm

      They need to stop treating him as if he were someone to be celebrated. There’s a difference between famous and infamous.

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    • DimmuBorgir
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 4:04pm

      @ WALK

      no i pretty much hated the guy from the begining.

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  • untameable-kate
    Posted on December 23, 2010 at 12:34pm

    I’m sick of hearing about this a-hole. Just tell me when he gets convicted of espionage or whatever .

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    • cubber
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 12:37pm

      I’m with you Kate. BE PREPARED,

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    • CatB
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 12:39pm

      Didn’t need a video to know he was anti-American … if Michael Moore supports him that is enough “proof” for me.

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    • DimmuBorgir
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 12:50pm

      that was just pure liberal crap

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    • stephenb.net
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 1:07pm

      If I had the money and the resources I would be doing the same thing to produce videos that slam the left. These people are brilliant! This is the most effective propaganda ever because it reaches out to the next generation of voters. How many young people think Fox news is reputable? Now how many of those people have EVER watched Fox News. Get it? We lose if we refuse to fight back using the same tools.

      If you have money get off your butt and start using it to fund opposition to this propaganda or quit complaining when the progressives usurp your freedoms.

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 1:08pm

      Agreed Kate; hope they can use the videos against him during any trial for conspiracy to possess classified documentation. So let him find out just what the inside of a jail looks like, if he is found to have broken the law in accordance to the standing statues.

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    • expatinontariocanada
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 1:31pm

      I’m just as sick hearing about no WMDs in Iraq. Saddam was himself a WMD, just ask the Iraqi Kurds! Give that a REST!

      “As He died to make us holy, let us die to keep men free…”

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    • wesleyapril
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 1:34pm

      With the person that commented – that we need to fight with information like this – I have to agree- but why are we still talking about Rumsfield? Isn’t he not working there anymore? Sheesh.

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    • Jezreel
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 1:38pm

      I am still thankful to God for my parents leaving Australia in 1968 to come back to the United States. As a child, all I witnessed when I lived there was a bunch of drunken abusive anti American adults who had big chips on their shoulders toward not only the U.S., but Britain also. I know that there are a decent handful of good australians but there are not many and I have not wished to go back and visit not one time since I have been back here. I am so thankful for being an American citizen. The United States IS the greatest country in the world and by gosh, we will not allow it to fall into the hands of the commies and socialists without a fight.
      If it was not for the United States, most people in Australia would be eating rice because Japan would have invaded in the 2nd world war. The United States saved Australia.

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 2:05pm

      Assange didn’t rap very much. I’m disappointed.

      Anyway, Assange is wrong about Iraq for the same reason the Weather Underground was wrong about Vietnam. If the enemy is hiding amongst civilians, and the civilians aren’t protecting them, then the enemy is using the civilians as shields, but they can’t be allowed to continue their opression, and so, in an effort to attack the enemy, some captive civilians are caught in the crossfire.

      America doesn’t target civilians. Muslim extremists will use them as shields – litteral personal body shields.

      Besides, Saddam wanted us to believe he had WMD’s:

      Saddam Hussein Said WMD Talk Helped Him Look Strong to Iran
      Hussein Pointed to Iranian Threat
      Specter of Arms Allowed Him to Appear Strong, He Told U.S.
      http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/01/AR2009070104217.html

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    • Bum thrower
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 2:17pm

      He better learn to sleep with one eye open!!

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    • HillBillySam1
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 2:19pm

      He won’t be convicted of anything. The Progressives are just using him now to portray themselves as the “true patriots”. They claim that he is being unfairly maligned and mistreated because he had the “courage” to to the “right thing”. They are the curators of truth, justice, and the Progressive way! Only haters, bigots, and war-mongers could be against Assange. It is simply a sick and sad fantasy that they are playing out. They love him because he is un-ashamedly a first-class America hater…..just like them.

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    • CatB
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 2:42pm

      I understand that the government has come up with a “Wikileaks Task Force” … YES! WTF … You can’t make this stuff up! WTF is our government thinking?!!! They are dense.

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    • CYCLONE
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 3:31pm

      WTF …. yeh…. WTF… you F-in’ ********….

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    • pajamash
      Posted on December 23, 2010 at 5:36pm

      WTF and I don’t mean Wikileaks Task Force.

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    • constable80
      Posted on December 24, 2010 at 12:41am

      Wow what a retarded response. Typical ****** moron.

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