I found this on Daily Kos and thought it was worth providing to SG readers. I always liked Montel's style, though I surely do not always agree with him. But, this is very cool. For the record 37 soldiers have died this month in an increasingly violent Iraq. The Surge is a joke and is prolonging our decision to leave this country to the Iraqis, if that is at all possible.
For just over three minutes on Saturday morning, TV talk show host Montel Williams owned the hosts of Fox and Friends. A former Marine and Naval officer, Montel lectured the stunned hosts on the stupidity of spending air time on the death of Heath Ledger, rather than covering the war in Iraq. It was a spectacle rarely seen on live cable television, as Montel exposed and condemned both tabloid "news" shows and much of American culture for what they have each become: shallow and greedy.
Three minutes into this awkward segment on Fox, one host cut off Montel in order to go to a commercial. Montel did not return after the break. Four days later, after 17 years as a television host, Montel lost his job.
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excellent stuff, KR. Montel, unfortunately, when biting the hand that fed him, a putrid, infected hand at that, got slapped into an early retirement by a system that has lapped-up all the fake horror and false sympathy for an actor, and made tons of loot off it.
I can not remember the last story on mainstream TV about troops who didn't make it home. The argument made by one of the 'hosts' on the show that there is no way to talk about the 400 people that dies yesterday is assinine.
Montel is damn courageous to bring up such a poignant point in the midst of the circus that is the enterntainment industry.
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