4.18.2007

Time for a Riot

Sir chad sent me this link the other day, and I had to share the fury. Yes, it's Fox News and it's bad and you'll want to look away. But, seriously, don't turn it off before the final line.

So it goes.

6 comments:

TJ said...

"Irrelevant"? FOX News, as dystopian a TV network as you can imagine, calls Vonnegut irrelevant?

And why the hell is John Podhoretz the "expert" on Vonnegut? It's like getting the neighborhood bully to comment on the life of Gandhi.

Jane said...

So according to Fox, brilliantly criticizing the status quo makes someone an "unhappy man."

Yeah, that sounds about par for their pathetic, anti-intellectual course.

TJ said...

Here's a nice response to the FOX piece in CJR. Stick around for the last line, er, symbol.

Grendel said...

Fox News isn't worh Kurt Vonnegut's fignernail! I mean, come on!

Grendel said...

John Irving tells some funny Vonnegut stories in this Entertainment Weekly piece...

Grendel said...

2007 was the Year of Vonnegut in Indianapolis. Nuvo magazine, the Chicago Reader/LA Weekly of Indy, did an interview with KV shortly before his death. KV was supposed to come visit Indy at the end of April for the celebrations. Instead, all we have is this...