Wonkette
Behold the bathetic tragedy of (former!) Fox News liberal-ish analyst Marc Lamont Hill, who found out that he had been fired via Google Alert. How nightmarish! So last week at some Fox shareholders meeting, someone asked Rupert Murdoch why this Marc Lamont Hill loves nothing more than when cops are killed. Puzzled, Murdoch knew not! “Oh… ha. Marc. Yeah he’s… fired. Marc is fired,” “said” Murdoch. Thing is: Marc had not been fired—in the sense that no one had approached Marc and told him he no longer had a job—but the Internet printed the story anyway!
So then Marc went on the Steve Malzberg radio show to talk about how fucked up this is:
“Yeah I eventually – I got a Google alert at 11 o’clock [a.m.] that it had been announced that I’d been fired. After that, I guess someone followed up later in the day, you know because I was sort of trying to figure out what was going on. … I found out that it was true but other than that I don’t have any other information. … I haven’t had any thorough conversation with anyone.”
He later Twittered: “You ever had anyone break up with you by text?” which is even understating the case a bit. It’s more like finding out you’ve been dumped by reading on your Facebook Mini-Feed that you’re no longer “in a relationship.” Ugh, except it’s actually even worse than because the person you were “in a relationship” with was Rupert Murdoch. 1,000 Google Alerts for “sympathy” for Marc Lamont Hill.
He’s lucky they didn’t just put a noose on his dressing room door knob.
Heyo, Madonna Constantine reference!
Marc was Bill’s favorite person to debate when sticking me up himself for Fair & Balanced sodomy. I just hope Marc is replaced by someone Bill uses me while talking to as frequently as Bill used me when talking with Mr. Hill; knowing Bill as intimately as I do, I’m sure he will.
Does getting fired by Murdoch immediately turn into a job offer as Olbermann’s fluffer?
This is Barry’s fault for trashing nice Faux News. Now all the libruls have to go.
Hill knew he had been fired when he found Glennda’s used tampon at the foot of his bed.
From The Live Feed article you link to:
Though Hill bills himself as an expert on hip-hop culture, he also drew fire for serving as a liberal foil for various Fox News personalities on subjects far from his stated area of expertise.
Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot does that mean?
“a liberal foil” is what they call a doormat at Fox News?
the public option: And what would the “various Fox News personalities” stated area of expertise be, hmmm? Bullshit, perhaps?
It means the job security of Satans fluffer corresponds roughly to the length of Satans orgasm.
After that, he wont even put cab fare on the dresser, he just tosses your ass to the curb and starts looking for the next pretty mouth.
I suggest he wipe his chin and change his name, though how he’s going to get that smell off his breath is anybodies guess, perhaps gasoline….
Juli Weiner: Give your service these month during SKS’ extended stay in rehab (aka ‘maternity’ leave; hah!), we do no longer view you as a intern, Juli. We see as an internette.
Fox had a liberal? Well good thing Murdoch got rid of him — surely that makes the accusation that they’re an arm of the Republican party look ridiculous.
the public option: On Fox, if you don’t know your hip hop, you can’t be their token person of color, Michael Steele excepted. Hill’s daring to discuss anything else, however–what an insult to his masters! Well’ he’s put in his place now….
Johnny Zhivago: “a liberal foil” is what they call a doormat at Fox News?
I think the doormat’s actually called ‘Alan Colmes’.
Could be worse Marc. Foxnews could have text you that they have an STD.
Fox News threatens to fire another black analyst every hour until the White House meets its demands.
Good thing calling the president a treasonous Kenyan cyborg is patriotic. The rest of Fox News’ employees are safe and the country can rest well.
Could you take Jake Tappers job?
His sister was like the heat coming off the back of an old TV.
Great SJ lyric! Keep ‘em coming, Juli.
PS: Silver Jews broke up via blog post (because) Dave Berman is son of Dick. And the west has made a deal with the sun.
Now that they’ve taken away Marc’s badge he can get tough and start cleaning up the streets for real!
“Why do we have a real liberal Negro when Juan Williams, a fake liberal Negro, has been sitting there in front of us all along?”
Darkness: Shep Smith called him a “duplicitous” Kenyan cyborg, so I think he’s on our side.
Gosh, who’s tv image is gramps gonna throw his slipper at now?
geminisunmars: Tapper’s. Anyway, take his job, puhleeze.
OReillysVibrator: Your sentence structure left me drooling, in the fetal position, on the floor of my office. And Google alerts is telling me I’ve now been fired. Thanks.
Godot:
Should be a really short stand off then.
Unemployment - man can boost cred by bein’ on the street, for real.
Next!
Meanwhile, “Uncle” Juan Williams continues slurping happily at the Fox Teat, kneading the Fox Scrotum, stroking the Fox Shaft, and lapping up the Fox Cream. Apparently, Mr. Marc was not good enough at multitasking.
Juli, you are the only human that can make me laugh with strategic use of punctuation. Marry me.
norbizness: “Because, Rupert, Juan’s Uncle Tom ass needed him as a sort of living instruction manual. Now, next time he’s on screen, he’s going to let slip his love of both Michael Boltons, and our illusion fo racial diversity will be broken. Alan Keyes will stop sending fruit baskets, for fuck sakes.”
I smell… LAWSUIT!
So, Ru turned on the telly, found he had mistakenly hired a black man, and fired him? Without doing the paperwork. I guess we’re a ways from Murdoch’s word being law.
StoneAge: The line for Juli matrimony forms to the left!
So now, the only “foil” at Faux News would be the material found on top of the heads of their wingtard commentariat? Got it.
Don’t forget they’ve still got Mara Liasson as a token liberal. I mean, FOX thinks she’s liberal due to her NPR affiliation. She proves you don’t have to have sex to be a slob-knobbing slut.
Firing people on your news team due to shareholder complaints reflects a top-notch dedication to editorial independence.
In right-minded person can clearly tell that this guy worked for ACORN.
Glenn Beck: Marc Lamont Hill.
Rupert Murdoch: Who’s he?
Roger Ailes: You know, Negro-looking guy, uncomfortable with minorities being convicted on questionable evidence. On the air.
Rupert Murdoch: Oh, yeah.
Glenn Beck: Yeah, we can’t actually find a record of him being a current employee here.
Roger Ailes: I looked into it more deeply and I found that apparently what happened is that he was laid off five years ago and no one ever told him about it; but through some kind of glitch in the payroll department, he still gets a paycheck.
Glenn Beck: So we just went ahead and sent a Google Alert about the glitch.
Rupert Murdoch: Great. So, uh, Marc has been let go?
Roger Ailes: Well, just a second there, professor. We, uh, we fixed the *glitch*. So he won’t be receiving a paycheck anymore, so it’ll just work itself out naturally.
Glenn Beck: We always like to avoid confrontation, whenever possible. Problem is solved from your end.
It’s still less traumatic than the method Wonkette used on SKS, which involved impregnation. (I’m betting Juli had to do the dirty work on that one, being an intern.)
Aflac Shrugged: Fox was running heavy the other day with the story that Gov. Corzine had made contributions, from his charitable foundation, to one of the churches which endorsed him recently - outrage and shock!!!
Negelcted to report that Roger Ailes, while campaign manager with Christie Todd Whitman, had given an average of $10,000 “wlaking around money” to dozens of inner city churches and asked the pastors not to remind the congregation to vote Sunday before the election.
Whtman won the election by 8,800 votes and, at first, Ailes thought he was as slick as greased shit, but when investigated by New Jersey, he denied everything and denied the Fox News report was accurate.
Whitman’s Attorney General nominee conducted the ‘interview’ and less than a year later Fox hired Ailes.
Aflac Shrugged: Now all we have to do is wait for Marc to set the FOX studios on fire.
Dude is hot, IMHO.
Lamont Hill may be most recognized for his Fox punditry, but he’s also a rising star in Literacy Studies in the academic world, such as rising starts in academia are.
I wondered how he balanced his professor/pundit roles, but this firing just goes to show that you can’t listen to Ice-T while collecting a paycheck from Rupert Murdoch.
AbstinenceOnly Ed: I love Juli to the max. I love her to the max. I love her to the max. I love her to the max.
Oh, .. Its been Brought-en.
S.Luggo: Fuck Yea! (America)
repost\
also …
butsecks
CapnFatback: Non-Baucus, of course.
Just in case I/ feel the need to puke.
SayItWithWookies: Fox had a liberal?
That stud Shep Smith just has occasional seizures where he sees reality, right? He’s not really a liberal.
Godot: My mind is already recapping to me how this White House/Fox New feud will play out, in the days/weeks to come:
White House suggests that maybe Fox News isn’t credible because it’s run by crappy old white people (i.e. Republicans), and is just pretty awful, you guys.
Fox News bitches, moans, cries foul.
Fox News feverishly works to confirm these scurrilous rumors, by firing black people, ignoring actual news in favor of “OMG u gaiz, WAR ON FOX NEWS! Which is also a war on AMERICA!”
AbstinenceOnly Ed: I was an intern at NPR in 2000 during the election - right at the time when Juan Williams had some obnoxious book coming out. This other Black kid, who was interning at the US Chamber, a housemate and a good friend of mine, loved Juan Williams and when he found out my desk sat only a few feet from his, begged me to get his book autographed. Aware of how all the on-air “talent” at NPR were such huge fame whores (and how I loathed saying more than five words to any of those prima donnas – eat shit Robert Siegel!), I told him it would be no problem for him to just come in, get introduced and get his own damn book signed.
Problem was, although I had been working and fetching for NPR staff for two months, apparently my ass-kissing wasn’t sufficient enough to have registered me as a “person” in Juan’s mind. So after I had nicely introduced my friend to Juan and they had slobbered all over each other and the dumb book, Juan starts berating me. He claimed he didn’t even know I was an intern (despite me being the only other Black person in the building besides him, the security and one sound engineer) and said I should have introduced myself earlier, dress in nicer clothes and in general be more ambitious and friendly like “this nice young man here.” He then had the nerve to make some comment about me being an example of a problem with “our people.”
So yea, to me, calling him Uncle is an insult to shucking-Toms throughout history.
Well obviously they didnt need a hip-hop expert. O’Reilly has dined in the black section of town.
Look at it as a promotion Marc.
The root word of analyst is?
As Glen Beck once observed, power is delivered at the end of a Google Alert.
But, heck, if they need an expert on Hip-Hop Culture, they can just turn to DJ Rove.
problemwithcaring: Apologies to Uncle Tom & Ms. Beecher Stowe. Bill Cosby, Juan Williams, Michael Steele, Armstrong Williams, Clarence Thomas, Alan Keyes, JC Watts and their ilk are not worthy of the appellation. They are more like the Black Cop from Boyz N the Hood or “Clayton Bigsby” from Chappelle’s Show, except more self-loathing and opportunistic. Though I think Alan Keyes might just be completely insane.
problemwithcaring: And, as a man with a mustache, Juan Williams makes me feel ashamed for all my people, so I kind of feel your pain.
AbstinenceOnly Ed: Yea, and as it probably reads in my overlong post Juan was equal parts sexist as he was sell-out. So if you have any daughters, keep ‘em away from that plantation-esque, lawn jockey, talking android of a House Negro.
Guys, they did this for his own good. Surely, they can now drop the n-bomb every other commercial break without having to worry about offending him. His presence surely created a hostile work environment in that they had to avoid be totally racist in public. It’s not you, Mr Hill; it is us.
“Asked about the White House’s recent suggestion that Fox News is acting like an arm of the Republican Party, Murdoch simply said at a shareholders meeting that the criticism has “tremendously increased their ratings.”
I’d call Murdoch “such a whore”, but we already know that. There are simply no words to describe this kind of shit. This is cartoon/comic book-level evil.