I'm a couple of days late on this but just did some research after hearing about it on the Mike Malloy Show.
Montel Williams was being interviewed by the schlubs over at Fox & Friends to discuss the tragic death of Heath Ledger. What they got instead was unexpected. Here's the video.
And let's not forget that Montel Williams is a 22 year veteran of the Marines.
After the break, Montel Williams was not on the set. Four days later, after a number of Fox stations decided not to renew his television show for the next season, CBS announced that it would cancel The Montel Williams Show after 17 years. Not only that, it's not going to produce any new shows. CBS will air the "best of" Montel for the next full year. After all, they wouldn't want to give him a platform to shed light on what's been happening in the Middle East that 98% of the American population doesn't know about because we're being inundated with Ledger or Anna Nicole or Britney or Lindsey or Paris or O.J. or Mary Kate & Ashley or Jessica and Tony Romo... and the list goes on and on.
I don't know if the cancellation was in the works and Montel knew about it before his Fox interview, and therefore felt like he could put it out there without repercussion, or if he thought that enough is enough and really wanted to open a discourse of why the media isn't covering the loss of our military and the occupation and escalation in Iraq as diligently as it should. Either way, Montel said was has been desparately needed to be voiced for far too long.
(H/T to Manila Ryce at The Largest Minority)
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I just listened to sylvia browne and her latest podcast when she mentioned Montel being canceled. I think that it is very sad. I feel that it is very telling of the media and news industry in this country. I will pray and ask Azna, mother god, to find a way to reverse this. Montel Williams got blackballed.
I like the one "black" girl who was on the show when Montel talked about politics this last month. One of the things that this young women said was how anybody who tried to change things in this country were killed. Those who push too hard should really watch their backs. It is sad.
That is all I can say.
Thanks fox and CBS. Please Kiss my Rectum.
Well done Montel, down with fox etc etc. ...but...
Can anyone tell me how many Iraqis died during the same period?
You know, the folks our boys (I'm a Brit, so it's our mob as well) are supposed to be rescuing from tyranny and violence?
A soldiers life includes, necessarily, a risk of death. That goes with the territory. The commanders job is to make sure that those deaths are not meaningless, are not unnecessary and are as few as possible (you can take the USgov to task over this, of course).
The killing of civilians, on the other hand, is an unambiguous atrocity.
Well I agree to a point, my Brit reader (cool). When someone signs up for the military, yes, danger comes with the territory, but a National Guardman (national being the operative word) did not sign up to get dropped into the middle of a civil war 8,000 miles away.
National Guard members spend two weekends a month training for disater relief at home, not urban warfare abroad.
Consider the fact that this administration has depleted its Reserve to try and sustain the occupation and escalation in Iraq at the cost of our well being and protection at home, and we realize how truly broken our military has become under this administration.
"Free Speech?"
Not when speech is controlled by the corporate media...
...Food for thought.
Yay --- Go Montel!
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