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Got Hypocrisy? Brian Kilmeade Uses Children For GOP Political Agenda

Posted by Priscilla -25.80pc on July 24, 2012 · Flag

Let's do the Fox News time warp again and flash back to August of last year. The Fox & Friends curvy couch potato heads had their nice white (the principal hue on Fox & Friends) panties in a bunch because MoveOn did an ad which featured children to "push a welfare state." The children in the ad articulated ideas for what government could do for the people. Gretchen Carlson said it was "offensive" and the kids didn't know what they were talking about. Fox friends and Maltese Knight, Peter Johnson Jr, said this was a "new low in using children in a political message." Flash forward to this morning's Fox & Friends during which Brian Kilmeade interviewed two little girls whose lemonade stand, for the purposes of Fox & Friends, is an example of  Obama's egregious statement about how businesses aren't built in a vacuum. So when MoveOn utilized children in a TV ad, that was "using" children for "a political message" - and this isn't? Really?

The propaganda messaging of the "script" couldn't be clearer and more obvious. Kilmeade frames the message in his question about what they thought of Obama's comment and the little girl says it was "rude." I'm sure there was no pre-coaching for this spontaneous reaction, chortle, sputter...And the funny thing is that the "business" was assisted by parents and friends.

While Fox & Friends thought that the MoveOn ad was "offensive," they have no problem with using kids to advance their own anti-Obama meme. Ironic, don't ya think!

3/1/18 UPDATE: Video no longer available.


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mj - the same one commented 2012-07-24 19:43:03 -0400 · Flag
No surprise Fox is flip-flopping on the use of kids for political gain — they’re the ones who praised 13-year-old Johnathan Krohn when he addressed CPAC . . . then turned on the 17-year-old Krohn when he talked about his recent political reversal . . .

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Thx4 Fish commented 2012-07-24 19:25:26 -0400 · Flag
Usually when kids are interviewed its cute. A good interviewer can get them talking and even get a laugh or two. This was just awkward. Kilmeade is not good with kids. And the kid was so scripted there was nothing spontaneous, just another kid parroting their right wing parents.
Bo Dillingham commented 2012-07-24 18:10:48 -0400 · Flag
Was the water the kids sold tapwater? Cleand and tested for mercury and led and made safe to drink and delivered by the government? That would mean 99% of what the kids sold was a government product.
Joseph West commented 2012-07-24 16:16:42 -0400 · Flag
I’m really not going to dignify a FoxNoise report by watching the clip so perhaps someone can explain to me how it supported the FoxNoise meme of how Obama was wrong in what he said?

While the notion of a couple of kids operating a lemonade stand sounds cute, I seriously doubt the kids did it “all on their own.” At least one of their parents had to have “loaned” them the cash to start up the business (lemon and sugar don’t exactly come free, and it’s a pretty safe bet that the kids aren’t paying the family’s water bill). Then, of course, there’s the stand itself. I’m sure the kids got a little help in putting it up (even if it was no more than a parent’s inspecting the stand to make sure it wasn’t going to fall apart from the weight of the lemonade pitcher).

Wait. What’s that you say? It’s one thing for parents to help out but an entirely different thing for others (ie, government) to help? Well, most of these little stands are set up near a road or alongside a sidewalk, and those things are rarely—if ever—built by “parents” by themselves (that’s a case for others—or, the government). So, if the road or sidewalk didn’t exist, how would these kids attract their customers?

Then, there are the customers. Unless all the customers are relatives of the kids, I’d guess the kids would be out of business without “others” coming around to buy the product.

So, all in all, it sounds like the report simply proved Obama’s comment to be true. (Then again, the right-wing took Obama’s comment completely out of context. If FoxNoise reported the actual facts, instead of the facts they want to report*, they would’ve had to find some other way of attacking Obama.)

*FoxNoise’s REAL motto: We report (what we want to report), you decide (if what we report is even close to the truth).
truman commented 2012-07-24 14:37:19 -0400 · Flag
@vfsitor55. Brain don’t know much, but he does know that IOKIYAR.
Aria Prescott commented 2012-07-24 14:09:23 -0400 · Flag
I couldn’t stop laughing when Kilmeade got owned by that kid.

That said, they’re the same way on the politicizing of Aurora- they’ve ran so much finger pointing, pity partying and pro-gun rhetoric that if you run them back to back, the sum total is longer than The Dark Knight Rises. And I don’t mean just a couple minutes…

Yet, they can’t stop crying about how this is being oh-so-politicized by anybody else.
RoyalRain commented 2012-07-24 13:43:02 -0400 · Flag
It was repulsive to look at. Yes and clearly scripted. I feel so badly for the 2 little girls. What’s lower than a “snake in the grass”? something tells me I’ll find out soon enough.
Antoinette commented 2012-07-24 13:24:30 -0400 · Flag
Nothing these Fox “News” frauds do surprises us. Their third-rate, amateur executives, senior producers and producers are 100% responsible for this action-and they know who they are.

President Obama knows exactly how these frauds operate, and we applaud him for publicly smacking them down.

NOTE TO KILMEADE

If Roger Ailes told you to pimp your children, nieces and nephews for the GOP cause, would you do it? Of course you would.








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