Fox News hacked big time—maybe
A video appeared on YouTube yesterday (May 31) purporting to show the Fox News ticker on New York’s 6th Avenue as it's being hacked. Rather than informing the Big Apple in its conventional style that radiation is good for you and that we’ve always been at war with Eurasia, the ticker blinks momentarily before the following message appears: “We are being lied to. Rightwingers are destroying the middle class and trying to kill our unions. The country is not broke. We are the richest country in the world. USA is twice as rich as China. Our economy is bigger than most of Europe combined. We are not broke. We are being lied to. We will rise up. We will fight back. We will spread the truth.”
Whoever posted the video writes, “I accessed the Fox ticker basically to get your attention. Also because Fox deserves it: they're the 24/7 mouthpiece of the right wing. They are huge perpetuators of the big lie.
"This country isn't broke. Question is: where is the money going?
"Americans have a right to know their pockets are being fleeced by corporations and tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and we can no longer tolerate the deceit FoxNews is perpetuating.
"For the record, I am not connected to Anonymous or any of the recent attacks on the PSN, PBS, Nasdaq or So-net.”
So, is it real? Results from the Straight’s in-house Optical Fakery Lab are still pending, but Mediaite has this to say: “There is no evidence that the display can show colors besides amber, but the display flickers with reds and blues,” and, “This isn’t a TV. It’s likely a series of LEDs. Meaning that such a switchover effect is highly unlikely – more likely that it would simply switch off and then back on with new text.”
Comments
6 Comments
Say No to Corporate America
May 31, 2011 at 2:55pm
People need to wake up, but to be fair, it's not just the "Rightwingers", the federal gov is taking everything they can from the worker and giving it to the rich and the corporations- we now have 3 wars, hello, there's a Dem in the White House. But this was FOX so understandable it was only addressed to "Rightwing" viewers.
GOV Inc lies- both parties have delivered the Police State we are in. Regardless of Left or Right in DC, they are UniParty Inc. and/or War Unlimited
How about giving more details and warnings- The banksters at the Federal Reserve are missing $9-trillion of YOUR money; the Gulf of Mexico is NOT Safe, it is POISON; google NWO and Chemtrails; Fukushima is Chernobyl X 50... too many to list here, but you get the idea. All the wealth is just owned by the top 2%, so clarify that when saying America is not broke- the debt would not be $14trillion if GOV Inc would END ALL WARS and tax the rich and the corporation. Main-stream-media lies so stop taking the chloroform and wake up!
Say No to Corporate America! http://saynotocorporateamerica.blogspot.com/
You
May 31, 2011 at 8:01pm
Damn you Emmanuel Goldstein!
rewinn
May 31, 2011 at 9:19pm
If this was 100% fake, then it is roughly as true as Fox News in general
Barney Fife
Jun 1, 2011 at 9:40am
Check out John Carpenter's movie "They Live", there are some undeniable parallels to the media that we have today.
You
Jun 1, 2011 at 1:13pm
...and I'm all out of bubblegum.
cosmicsync
Jun 1, 2011 at 4:16pm
Speaking of Emmanuel Goldstein, one way to find out whether this really happened or not would be to call in to <a href="http://www.2600.com/offthehook/">Off The Hook</a> and ask. If they don't know, I'm sure one of their listeners will.