Fox's Doocy learns the hazards of not vetting guests
March 26, 2010 11:33 am ET by Brooke Obie
In typical Fox & Friends fashion, Steve Doocy hyped the Tea Party Express's cross-country tour that is kicking off in Searchlight, Nevada this weekend, with the stated goal to "kick Harry [Reid] out of the Senate" in the November mid-term elections. Following a segment with Bernie Goldberg -- who discussed how the mainstream media "tarred the entire [Tea Party] movement" unfairly -- Doocy set out to portray the Tea Party movement as being unfairly "marginalized" and discredited. He challenged this "mainstream media biased coverage" by hosting "former 'Saturday Night Live' star" and Tea Partier Victoria Jackson.
Unfortunately, Doocy appeared to be unaware of what Jackson has been up to since she left SNL in 1992 -- you know, how she's said that Obama "bears traits that resemble the anti-Christ" and shares "so many similar qualities" with Adolf Hitler (i.e.: "Obama's current attitude toward Israel is in question. Hitler did not support Jews.").
Not surprisingly, the interview went south in record time:
DOOCY: So, are you ready to join the tea party people?
JACKSON: I am the tea party people. We're beginners at this political activism and it's all new to us and it's kind of cute 'cause we're shy, we hold up our signs like this, you know, despite what they say about us, I have never done anything like this, but we have to because the president is a Communist.
Panic! What to do, what to do? It's not like she's called Obama a Communist before on national television. How could we have seen this coming? Oh, wait, right.
Doocy did what he could to recover, though, saying that Obama "is not a Communist," and quickly tried to change the subject to how the Left has tried to "diminish" the Tea Party as something illegitimate. But Jackson just refused to play ball, explaining that she had learned about Obama's communism from Doocy's Fox News colleague Glenn Beck:
DOOCY: Now, he is not a Communist. But you just pointed out that you hold up signs and stuff like that and people make fun of you. What do you think about how some on the other political side have tried to diminish or, you know, or marginalize the Tea Party people?
JACKSON: Well, I guess they're afraid of the power of our passion and our numbers and, you know, you might not say Communist, but I watch Glenn Beck and he's taught me well. Progressive is the new word for Communist, but it's the same goal as government control of everything and it's very obvious that Obama is trying to do that. And I don't want to brag, but I sort of called it before he was elected and when I was on O'Reilly and I said he was a Communist and I got a lot of hate mail, but I got some that said I was a prescient which means "a prophet."
Doocy tried again to change the subject, but Jackson got in a final jab: "Our government is all evil right now and someone's got to do something." Doocy ended the interview with an awkward wave to Jackson. But only Doocy's facial expression can sum up this interview appropriately:
For Fox's attempt to paint the Tea Party as the epitome of credibility using Victoria "I am the Tea Party People" Jackson: epic fail before 9 AM.
Yes, Mr. Doocy, these are the people you and your network are leading off a cliff. Yes, Mr. Doocy, they believe, thanks to your network, that the President of the United States is an islamofascicommunosocialist Kenyan born muslin. Are you getting a glimpse of the monster, Mr. Doocy? Do you see it stirring on the slab? Are you prepared for what will happen when the townsfolk realize that you are not the chief of police, warning of the dangerous work the doctor is doing, but in fact that you are Dr. Frankenstein himself?
I could almost feel Doocy thinking to himself,
"Say Socialist, Socialist you Moron, Say Socialist"
"Stick To The Script"
Mr. News
I just emailed my pals here at work.
That's frikkin' funny.
And, Brooke Obie has revealed something quite a bit deeper and more disturbing: the degree to which sites like MMFA want to stifle debate. Her posture isn't to support evaluating whether BHO is a Commie or not. (He certainly has had some associations, but he's not like, say, ClarkKissinger). She doesn't want someone to enumerate the differences between BHO and a Commie in an intellectual, fact-based fashion.
No, Brooke Obie's mindset is one of the censor: silence those who disagree rather than discussing whether they're right or wrong.
I admit to my generalization. Equally true is that everything I have seen about 'Tea Party' people very much supports that generalization. If there are people among their ranks who are capable of substantive policy discussion, I have not seen them. If there are people among their ranks capable of telling the difference between simple government regulation, communism, and socialism, I have not seen them. If there are people among their ranks who were aware last April that they were out protesting tax hikes that their bosses would have to pay, I have not seen them. Is it a fallacy?
It doesn't seem so, based on this (wiki) definition. I believe there is more than sufficient evidence to paint the Tea Party folks with a very broad brush indeed.
I am not here to stifle debate. However, calling the President of the United States a 'commie' is not debate in any meaningful sense. To allow it to go forward unchecked and unchallenged is to tacitly agree with it, and this I will not do.
If Steve Doocy or FOX Propaganda (a name they have worked hard to earn) thought that Victoria Jackson was typical of the Tea Party movement, their shock at realizing just how unintentionally true this was is illuminating to say the very least.
I have visited your site, and read your arguments about the Tea Party movement, The Lonewacko Blog. I agree with some of what you say there. But as for MMfA, and specifically my posts here, I am open to debate on any and all topics. Do go and find some member of the Tea Party movement capable of a rational explanation of their beliefs, if you can. I would LOVE to hear it.
The thing that really p1$$es$ me off about these people is that very few of them have any literacy at all so it's impossible that they understand what they are saying. How is the progressive movement which has been around since the early 1800's even before Marx & Engels' pamplet "The Communist Manifesto" (1848), be considered "communist"? I know - I'm speaking to the choir.
For her safety, please do not relay this information to anyone within the Tea Party!
this is satire right?!
Caution: Your ears may be bleeding profusely by the time you get halfway through this (what with that voice of her's)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAxAGDF2doc
I was wondering the same thing.
To the Tea Party, she's what some would call a self-inflicted wound...
I remember seeing Jackson years ago on SNL. She sang a piece about how "I wanna be a s***." I'm like "Well, um, okay, but...why?" There was no comedic reason offered. We were simply expected to find it hilarious that that was her ambition in life. Yeah, the segment left me completely cold.
Palin is not in politics. She is a reality show person. A celebrity. Yes, she was a vp candidate but, how many failed vp candidates are being touted all the time. The press goes crazy and blares out every little nonsense she writes on Facebook. Like it's real news.
And now, they are treating this like it's a campaign rally for her. She quit politics. hello!
I can see why the conservative end, like Faux and Doocy would report on it but, the mainstream??
Besides, most people do not care for Palin.
Every poll shows that people don't like her and yet the press shovels their obsessive fanzine teenybopper fantasy on us.
1. Will she or won't she step down from the governorship of Alaska?
2. Will she or won't she take a job at Fox.
3. The book tour.
4. The fact that she responded to her daughter's ex-boyfriends comments about her.
5. Her response to the "retard" comments...
She has a small but very loyal following from the Right Wing which she has played expertly. It is difficult for the mainstream press to ignore her.
She is sort of like the little kid standing in a room full of adults yelling "pay attention to me, pay attention to me" but there is no one adult enough to take her out of the room an scold her.
I also like her story claiming that Al Franken once asked her why she didn't speak up more in production meetings for SNL and she replied that she was too busy thinking about how everyone else at the table was going to Hell. Interesting gal...
Oy.
Fox will continue hyping it, but really seeing such stupidity and nonsense it puts out is not likely to make people identify with it: no one wants to see themselves in its 'mirror'.
I know Democrats think it would be fine if the teapartiers primaried moderate Republicans but really, do we need this retrograde discourse at all in our politics? And whose brainchild was it--Dick Armey's?
See, she's one of those unbalanced folks who takes your hero literally.
Then I started thinking about it, Victoria used to be on SNL alongside some of the greats like Phil Hartman, Mike Myers, and Dana Carvey...she starred as "Weird Al" Yankovic's love interest in the classic comedy film UHF. Perhaps she has absorbed as much comedic knowledge as possible and become the perfect satirist!
Just kidding, obviously no one, not even Yankovic or Colbert could pull off satire this well!
And Fox repeatedly features her "comedy"?
Compared to Stephen Colbert, she does leave that little bit of doubt, you know? It is an amazing performance - World Class in fact.
That baby talk voice is her natural voice, don't let it throw you off.
perhaps she breathes helium? :)
Very perceptive of you, MC. Of course, we have known that about Victoria Jackson for quite some time.
And we don't even claim to be prophets.
November, 2008.
I mean, I don't spent much time trying to foster new conspiracy theories, but she is the best thing that could happen to progressives (that includes me). When something looks like it's too good to be true, it usually isn't. Look, there is nothing about her performance that I would want changed. Could we get this lucky? I feel the wind of change, dude!
(http://www.cbn.com/700club/features/amazing/mw115_victoriajackson101608.aspx).
Mag - Why can't you admit that this tea party movement is full of uneducated, racist individuals? When confronted with the facts of their racism, and stupidity associated with these tea party people, you try to defend it, and I have to ask why?
BTW: Time and time again I hear the talking heads at Fox constantly criticize Hollywood for getting into politics. However, I guess this instance is okay because said Hollywood actress is aligned with Fox's political views? Before anyone claims she is no longer currently acting, please remember that she carries a SAG card, and is a lifetime member because of her previous work.
I often have differences with MagCynic but it is good to here general agreement sometimes without pulling the level of the conversation down.
They are going to take over the Tea Party from the inside and then institute the death panels.
Victoria's secret is that she gets to pull the switch.
OMG!!!!!
I can understand your thinking that, but no, she's for real and she's all yours.
More like Glenn Beck, don't you think?
And who wouldn't thoroughly enjoy overhearing a Palin-Jackson conversation?
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
The poll reflects badly on the Republican Party and Fuchs Noose. The damage is done, and it's too late to put the genie back in the bottle now. Frum was right, and it cost him his job at AEI. Fuchs Noose and rw radio entertainers run the Republican Party. Personally, I hope Fuchs continues to run the party. It's a win-win for the Democratic Party and sane Americans.
my ears are still ringing with the high pitch 'look-at-me-I'm-just-an-innocent-girl).... voice.
If I didn't know she was actually that stupid, I would have thought Jackson was punking him.
I'd like to be kind and say I feel sorry for Doocy, but naaahhhh - he deserved every painful second of that train wreck of an interview.
I'd have enjoyed a food fight even more and it's precisely what these folks are suited for!
Hey, I think you've just given Fox "News" their new slogan: "We fail more before 9 AM than most people do all day."
I AM A CIVIL SERVANT THAT WORKS ON A MILITARY INSTALLATION AND I MAINTAIN THE FIRE ALARM SYSTEMS. I ASSURE THE SYSTEMS ARE WORKING PROPERLY SO OUR SEVICEMEN AND WOMEN CAN SLEEP AT NIGHT. I AM SO EVIL.
Cannot find this clip on YouTube. It should be EVERYWHERE and easier to SHARE!