Russel Brand owning Fox News

Haven't watched the clip op.

I think he's a douchebag though. Don't find him funny at all.

He's one of the most misunderstood geniuses to ever live. Every video of him is incredible. I'd love to meet him one day and have a chat.

evo2000 wrote: »

Wouldnt be the biggest fan now myself, but he does make an ass of fox news!

Ok, fair enough. Just watched it.

I agree. :pac:

Was that the Rubberbandits at the end?

ConstantJoe wrote: »

Was that the Rubberbandits at the end?

Yes, they wrote the shows jingle and have appeared on a few of the shows also.

I think he is an excellent comedian, seen him many times and will do again, hopefully, but imo, I think the guy also happens to be a moron.

An excellent vocabulary does not an intelligent person make.

Anyone that has watched all his videos (which I have) will know that the drum that this guy keeps beating is that people need to take as much power away from corporations and Government as possible and that we should not fear immigration, no matter what the numbers.

He regularly reads the YouTube comments while making a video and will just piss himself laughing when anyone mentions the immigration level (which they do, all the time) and say that the powers that be want you to fear them and focus on them to take your mind off what they are doing with all the money.

His idealistic views on world politics, are pretty much what you would find being bandied around any student bar but most people tend to grow up when they leave college and realize that the world can't be run border-less (as Brand keeps childish suggesting it should be).

Being 'right on' is what drives him. He opened the paper in one video a few weeks back and there was a picture of Stella McCartney and few models and he said something like 'Look at this superficial image where they just want to show you pretty women and are not at all concerned with anything else about the women other than that'. It was complete and utter nonsense as the picture was alongside a story. Would he say the same if it was George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Affleck, Damon etc, pictured in tuxes leaving the Oscars? Of course not.

Brand constantly, and nauseatingly, goes on and on about how the media all have their own particular narrative (and I agree, they do - of course they do) but nobody adheres to a particular predetermined narrative more than Russell Brand does. He sees EVERYTHING thorough his own narrow little pinhole on the world and refuses to see anyone else's point on issues, let alone take them on board. He uses his comedic skills to gloss over the occasions when he is owned and manipulates the viewer into laughing as he does it and so you get tricked into believing he was right but it's only later when you think back on what he actually said, that you realize that the guy was full of **** and that what he said made little or no sense.

Some issues he is right about, for sure, I'm not saying he is wrongheaded on every issue he has tackled, but 90% of the time he is just waffling and regurgitating the same old (at this stage) tired lines about how the people with all the money in the world need to be toppled and when they are, the revolution will set the poverty stricken free. As I say: idealistic student shite. With regards to Fox News, they are clowns at the best of times, but Brand had implied that the black guy was being a traitor to his race, in one of his videos, just by being on Fox News and airing the opinion that he did. They called him a racist and tbf.. they had a point.

Lost any respect I had for him (and Jonathan Ross) after the Andrew Sachs thing. Wasn't much respect there to start with in fairness.

The words 'attention seeking knob' spring to mind.

catallus wrote: »

Fox News is a pretty informative station, now that I think of it.

You've a unique way of spelling rubbish.

I'm watching the O'Reilly Factor right now, I'm learning alot!