Charlie Brooker On British And American TV News

[@raithrover1976]

I remember the first time I visited America, I assumed that Glenn Beck was a liberal comedian doing a satirical impression of a conservatives nutcase. I was somewhat taken aback when the locals told me he was for real.

[@JennyCThree]

Glen Haig I thought the whole channel was like the Colbert report.

[@rbeck3200tb40]

+Xenuism Vice news now is horrible its full of propaganda especially in Ukraine. Vice is horrible They are paid off by the US government

[@chatteyj]

+rbeck3200tb40 yes but then alex Jones is sensational as well come on.

[@rbeck3200tb40]

NO Thats Just ALex's personality he is not doing this to get ratings He actually tried to repoert what really is going on in the world and interviews insiders who know

[@dogseggs2000]

+rbeck3200tb40 And sell you a load of pseudo scientific brain medicine, the modern day snake oil salesman if you ask me.

[@coolvideos8864]

Watching this in 2020 and nothing has changed.

[@robashton8606]

I disagree. It's got far worse. Now there's OAN, a "news" broadcaster so unhinged and borderline fascist that it makes Fox look like a paragon of stable, nuanced reporting. It's genuinely hideous.

[@sashaspano588]

@@robashton8606 agreed. it's amazing what we're seeing from the president too. he's pushing conspiracy and propaganda touting OAN to his supporters on social media (thus driving up their revenues), encouraging his followers to buy Liz Wheeler's shit book and "give her great reviews," etc. etc.

[@crazyfishmonster459]

British news has gotten far more dysmal, and in my view the BBC, where at once it could disguise its liberal bias, have brought in a young 'diverse' workforce that cares very little for impartiality

[@coolvideos8864]

DiLLy DaLLy oh then I’m terrible sorry. Please go on and try to have a great day.

[@jj_see_film]

It's gotten worse

[@MichaelLeroi]

How the hell has Bill O'Reilly never heard the phrase "to play us out" before!?

[@liamoneill7139]

Indeed - and how is he unable to work out what it means from the context? It really makes you ponder the multi dimensional nature of intelligence, as that man has serious qualifications coming out of his ass... but it seems anger shuts down his critical thinking - or he has a great ability to retain and recite facts that fit his worldview, but lacks analytical intelligence

[@Codex7777]

+Liam O'neill - He's not very bright, is the answer. He doesn't even understand how tides work...

[@rbeck3200tb40]

+MichaelLeroi He doesnt have a clue BIll Oreily was a high school teacher before he got a degree in journalism

[@no1raniuk854]

+MichaelLeroi Haha! Actually a great point that I didn't even cotton on to (probably another phrase O'Reilly hasn't heard of!).

[@fatsamcastle]

he doesn't know how tides work either

[@bucephalus1635]

Bob Odenkirk is such a versatile actor. His psychotic newsreader is both terrifying and satirically spot on.

[@banzaiboy1597]

Whenever I see anything of Fox News I always imagine it's a sketch show parodying Fox News.

[@oatnoid]

That's because you a brainwashed lemming.

[@alanreader4815]

I love watching this charlie brooker. but i really need to go for a dump. Sod it i'll do it live, i'll do it live.

[@venimusvidimus6684]

I'm actually watching this while shitting, so you're in good company.

[@AndrewWilsonStooshie]

Thank goodness somebody else noticed the intern/sugar daddy thing with news readers these days.

[@Sundog1985]

The next trend will be MILF and teenage adult

[@charlierose7153]

@@Sundog1985 Good

[@CitizynKing]

Gotta love when the far right wing media starts complaining that the media has too much liberal bias. I like the term Charlie Brooker used, "Hes angry with anything leaning left of Mussolini."

[@alexanderhunt8005]

Well this didn't age well

[@thecoderofyoutube]

@@alexanderhunt8005 How So?

[@popland1977]

@@thecoderofyoutube The media has become strangely far left leaning

[@CitizynKing]

@@reuben8140 Gonna totally ignore how they've continually treated the progressive candidate everywhere? Fuck off back into your echo chamber.

[@arubinojr5670]

The conservative literally cannot learn.

[@Mattrickz]

"A strong and clear message to everyone involved in protecting children in England, get on with it!" Classic English line haha.

[@chrisstehlik7927]

Thankfully, Glenn Beck went so far off that even Fox cancelled his show.

[@Barney-ii1no]

+Chris Stehlik lets hope bill is next

[@federalfinder]

+Chris Stehlik Yeah, and now he owns one of the largest media companies in the world... He's bigger than ever!

[@fionagregory5774]

igeto12 they're not their

[@ScoopMeisterGeneral]

+Barney Well, ya got your wish :)

[@ragerancher]

@@ScoopMeisterGeneral Who would have thought that 3 years from your comment Fox would be even more insane?

[@HighlandFoxx]

Our news in the UK may be boring but by fuck am I glad it's not anything like Fox..

[@Bedrinonen]

It's more subtle, but just as warped.

[@SophieCLRguART]

Bedrinonen Absolutely not. We have to pay for a TV licence for an unbiased news channel. For instance on of BBC's own Jimmy Saville was found out to be a kiddy-fiddler and BBC covered it. DO you think Fox would ever own up to and not try to cover up having a pedophile as a previous member of their staff? I think not. If you've never been to the UK or travelled out side of America I would certainly not judge the Media. You know the Invasion of Russia into the Ukraine? that wasn't even covered in American news! How warped is that?!

[@ItsRuthiee]

SophieCLRguART oh please, have you seen the bbc's coverage of scottish independence referendum? they are embarrassingly bias. just because someone is more prim and proper doesn't mean the stuff coming out of their mouth is any less bullshit.

[@markrooker9734]

ItsRuthiee Did you actually watch the video? Fox news has genuinely lost the plot, whereas the BBC at least tries to remain professional, even during a scandal within its own organization, they essentially criticize themselves :/

[@ExtensiveFieldCoverage]

You mean like SKY NEWS? All owned by our Dear Lord Murdoch.

[@DannyBoySmith1993]

"Bill gets wound up by virtually anything to the left of Mussollini" haha this had me in stitches

[@Raffini]

Ok, that guy at 3:43 couldn't look more American if he tried.

[@MythicSuns]

He looks like a satirical drawing of someone else.

[@KayAteChef]

@@MythicSuns Looks like Alfred E. Neuman.

[@Tea_and_Cake]

"distopian future si-fi satirical shouty porn sledgehammer channel fox news"

[@robertrayes4566]

TEA???

[@Tea_and_Cake]

Robert Rayes Up the 68th Durham light foot

[@thelixir715]

god, those brits are amazing

[@ellitho]

Amazing watching this in 2020, seeing the seeds of madness being planted that now are bearing fruit.

[@TheGodlessGuitarist]

I'll never forget watching 'V for Vendetta' for the first time. The Voice of London seemed like it was a transplanted Glen Beck show. Great film. Beck isnt frightening. The hoards that find him convincing are.

[@Jaxymann]

Agreed - Glenn Beck is the American version of Lewis Prothero

[@krashd]

Haha, that's the irony. If 1984, Brazil or V for Vendetta came to fruition it would happen in the UK, possibly why all 3 movies are based here. With our governments spying powers and the amount of surveilance we have your entire trek to work could be documented if need be because you are likely only out of CCTV reach for a minute or two.

[@TheGodlessGuitarist]

Rob Fraser True. Havent seen Brazil.

[@anonUK]

@@TheGodlessGuitarist Well, go to Amazon, buy it, relax in a panic-free atmosphere and watch it!

[@robashton8606]

@@krashd All of the scenarios in those films/books could happen _anywhere._ There is no irony, only possiblity. Right now, the United States looks to be reaching a point where _exactly_ that kind of nightmare could begin. People have begun to push back. Now we have to wait and see how hard _they_ will be pushed back and how violently. The UK is nowhere _near_ as close to unrest, or to the dangers that the US now faces. But that does not mean it could not happen here. CCTV cameras aren't the issue though. The issue is whether or not people start buying the bullshit the way many Americans have. A grip on reality, even if we don't particularly _like_ that reality, is what's important. The minute we start swallowing the bullshit without comment (or even with ecstatic cheers, à la the US) is when we'll be screwed.

[@tenseman08]

Back when Charlie really looked like Lawrence Fishburne

[@DoctorMooCow]

every couple years i have to do a screenwipe/newswipe clip binge. this shit rocked my world as a preteen lol

[@derriese290]

Not to mention that Glen Beck claimed that the video game Watch Dogs teaches players how to hack in real life AND claimed that Call of Duty drove a young boy to suicide because of "violent images of soldiers being killed". Fucking hell, Glen Beck -_-

[@MrBuch169169]

Fox is the number one reason I hesitate to live in the US. It's just... terrifying.

[@MarzioMasini]

It's not that it exists, but that people pay attention to it and don't react to Fox "News" programs with a resounding "Are you insane? Get the fuck out of my face" that worries me

[@71Tman]

You don't have to watch it bro...

[@arealhuman826]

@Gerry Berry don't watch! Don't worry about the TV lying and convincing people to hate and kill !

[@danielr3522]

+Gerry Berry Oh, I avoid it like the plague that it is, but it's still seriously disturbing and depressing to think that a lot Americans lap up this fear-mongering, persecution-complex bullshit with a spoon.

[@Penguin_of_Death]

The thing that makes me not want to live in America is...America...it's just so fucked up on every level

[@nitroslipperz]

My grandmother loves Bill O'Reilly, but she was an English teacher in Texas. Every time she would try to convert me to his way of thinking, I would say something like; Isn't he using this logical fallacy, or this one, or this? She would get so mad. SO understand that people don't watch the Fox extremists because they have a sound reasoning, it is because they want to reassure their current school of thought.

[@MattJames1958]

"Special interests and the media are surrounding us" He says, on the most popular cable news network owned by a billionaire

[@1DevilsDagger1]

The BBC is publically owned and is funded by the government.

[@MattJames1958]

@@1DevilsDagger1 I know, I was talking about Fox

[@1DevilsDagger1]

@Matt W Ahh, my mistake haha

[@curtismaize]

@@1DevilsDagger1 Yeah but whose got the government in their pocket?

[@theeelsman]

What does "I love my country" mean? Never been able to figure that one out.

[@SerBallister]

It means they like sharing credit for stuff they didn't do usually..

[@adeelsk4]

it just gives them a platform to build their bigotry on. countries are just made up things

[@danielr3522]

+Karasutengu Yep, nailed it.

[@garethh9440]

It's so they can claim their hatred is really just another kind of love

[@YourPalHDee]

What do you mean? It means they love the liberties and opportunities that they're afforded by their nation. Would you be confused it somebody said "I love my house", "I love my school" or "I love my town"?

[@kevlel9561]

For the americans trying to claim "americans aren't like this" Rush limbaugh's show gets over 20 million listeners a day. Sean Hannity's over 10 million. Over 2 million people watch fox each day. Sure not all americans are like this but between 40-50% are and agree with this kind of stuff. They really do argue like this.

[@rbeck3200tb40]

kev lel Whats wrong with "agreeing with this kind of stuff" Should we all be leftist communists or something ?

[@kevlel9561]

rbeck3200tb40 Really? Not being a jesus freak bitching about the potted up teens makes you a communist? Ask the people complaining about americans why this is wrong. This is fearmongering, yelling, opinionated crap. I'm not talking about left or right, because msnbc and the left does it too, but not nearly in the same scale or level as the right. If you want quality news with some right leanings go to stuff like the economist or business insider or the wall street journal, don't watch or listen to opinionated crap. He's not ripping on the wsj here, he's ripping on the yelling mental types.

[@Mithrasboy]

rbeck3200tb40 Leftist communists? Are there another kind? What is wrong with agreeing with this stuff is that if you had any critical faculty you wouldn't be asking the question.

[@tylerdurden786]

rbeck3200tb40 Strawman argument. Believe it or not, but you can hold views which are not extreme.

[@taragragg400]

What are we allowed to say at Lowe's? Who cares.

[@tonygarratt5832]

As soon as I saw Bill in the thumbnail, I thought eff it, we'll do it live.

[@pipsmith5000]

Shame not much has changed in 11 years.

[@starcitizen890j5]

I think you are giving “not much” too much credit. Nothing is closer to the truth.

[@s1050]

These batshit insane conservatives are now in power...

[@robashton8606]

@@s1050 They were in power before this. It began with Reagan and got steadily worse every time Republicans were elected (although, to be frank, the Democrats aren't totally wonderful either. They're just not as bad). Fanatical capitalists combined with right wing fundamentalist Christianity. Trump and Pence are the final distillation of the nightmare.

[@FortisConscius]

"...Leans more to the right than a man who's just had his right leg blown off." This, made me laugh out loud and I don't do that very often!

[@MyNameIsShelby]

I think it's cute that Brits find our news to be a novelty. This is every day life in the US and I think we Americans are just used to it now. It was probably ten times worse 5-10 years ago though.

[@kshinokevin]

Charlie Booker's observational viewpoints on American TV newscasters are spot on and funny as heck !

[@Celrador]

A look at the American news networks makes me love our German national TV news, even though they seem a bit dull and unentertaining, they are atleast on point and do their job properly.

[@jamegumbsmigraines.3501]

Germans are ''On point and do their job properly'' No way I dont believe it for a second.

[@MasterGhostf]

/s

[@davidmurphy9974]

+Gwil.i.am British sarcasm, dummy! Dumb name too!

[@davidmurphy9974]

+ameGumbsMigraines. "a bit dull and unentertaining" too. No way,,,,,,,

[@seanmcdonagh6237]

Brooker is the best, so happy he’s so successful

[@vanillaorchid]

Glenn Beck needs to be sectioned.

[@KevRyanCG]

Watching this today, wishing we could have Brooker's take on Shapiro and Tucker

[@MattJames1958]

7:41 That was "The Man" from the album "Bootlicker"

[@tysons9222]

anyone watching in 2023 and loving the succession music

[@TheGamingSucka]

Holy fuck, American patriotism is off the fucking chart.

[@Croz89]

"You don't need any guns for this revolution, you just need to stand up and find your voice". Damn, that actually seems quite a reasonable stance nowadays.

[@montesimpson7954]

Glenn Beck with Tangerine Dream (Phaedra) as the background audio. Sooo perfect.

[@Khonvicted]

It doesn't matter if you deleted it or not, you said the internet and the web is the same thing. That's all i needed to see.

[@savannahhizer2341]

a tortoise that has learned to enjoy the stink of its own farts-- a fantastic way to describe nearly any fart right ideologue

[@dcflake5645]

Huw Edwards will be forever known for being Welsh. And that is it.

[@glennwoddle8272]

Kay Burley: "Do you think if I wasn't controversial, anyone would notice me?" - NOPE!

[@judegradwell3712]

“The weather, here’s liam” and then *the turn* 😭😭😭

[@alexandercummins]

tangerine dream - phaedra

[@lewischerry3552]

does anyone really watch fox news apart from to laugh at it?

[@thegreenman4898]

+cybercurls MKII frighteningly large amounts of folk hang on every word.

[@lewischerry3552]

America has A LOT of problems I feel

[@salaciouscandy4006]

I think outside America, most people watch it for shits and giggles, but it's scary how large their genuine, homegrown fanbase is.

[@sherrybaby5672]

+Salacious Candy - I'm surprised that people outside of America do not realize that these morons are not TV News anchors. We have actual TV News channels with real news, weather, etc. These creeps have late night TV shows meant strictly to shock everyone.. Americans think they are morons too. Those who watch them , do so for entertainment, and not because they actually believe them to be doing the actual news. These morons don't even believe what is coming out of their own mouths, they do these rants for money and ratings. No one should ever take them seriously.

[@salaciouscandy4006]

No one should ever take them seriously, I agree. But I'm sorry, there are plenty of Fox News fans who completely and unquestioningly believe all the crap they spew out.

[@alastairsnook851]

That was actually fucking terrifying.

[@Hoppy5454]

Am glad you said it fella, I thought exactly the same thing...

[@peachrei]

What was terrifying?

[@Hoppy5454]

RachaelissoRawrsome1 Well the mainstream media has always been questionable but some of the American coverage is shocking. WTF is that Glenn Beck all about and how did he ever feature on a mainstream channel, the guy is a idiot that should be locked up and never allowed to speak again, the same would apply to Sean Hannity and Bill O'reilly. I have watched some of their shows and I was shocked at the distaste for minorities, liberals, women, anti war activists and anyone else who dare challenge the right wing POV. In Britain they would be challenged and hung out to dry, okay we have Sky News which is trash of the highest order but Fox News would do the Nazi's proud with their shallow, twisted view on life...

[@peachrei]

***** Ok, so you meant the American broadcasting. I just wasn't sure which side you meant but I completely agree with you.

[@Denji2006]

***** If you think the TV shows were nuts, there's a whole giant world of insanity called FOX talk radio you haven't discovered yet. Almost twelve hours of "what Obama did wrong today" with interchangeable show titles and hosts including Hannity. The last I've heard of Glen Beck, he was canned, turned into a martyr with his followers and now has an internet radio show.

[@fifagod1000]

Fox News generally leans more to the right than a man who's just had his right leg blown off! Hahahaha hat a legend

[@beefkilla]

9.12!!! That's my birthday! #UselessInfo

[@goonerinSP]

Halfway through this I thought I'd left the apprentice on in the living room.

[@MarxistKnight]

Watching Glenn Beck at the end acting badly trying to cry, I was thinking "ffs, what's he going to say next, 'oh God, I'm sorry I just love Amurica'?" Then he actually said "I just love my country". Wow, really wow. Exactly the same audience and idiocracy that means Trump is now president.

[@ozzyc969]

just heard the Tangerine Dream at the end.....kudos to the music editor

[@skipperson4077]

my biggest memory of Glenn Beck was he's the rigntwinger who believes in gold more than guns, his answer to everything always buy more gold!!

[@JamesEverett91]

We did appreciate the financial support yes, and were grateful that you did eventually enter the war.

[@MEKKANNOID]

I'm so glad I don't live in the USA

[@carterduchalard3019]

As a Canadian , it's like looking into the glass of our neighbors when we see the US

[@hugostiglitz6914]

Charlie has come a long way since this was uploaded!

[@Jwestcott5000]

I love the country singer who goes on about how we'd all be speaking German under the flag of Japan (?) if it wasn't for the lord and "the man." I had no idea Glenn Beck's viewers were such fans of "the man." They must love Obama and his government, then. Oh, wait, "the man" isn't the black man. Got it. This is nuclear level stupidity, right here.

[@DIECARS1]

that last background track is the same tangerine dream track used in Bandersnatch for the Colin drug scene

[@CC3GROUNDZERO]

Thomas Frank (_What's the Matter with Kansas?_) dissects that same Glenn Beck segment in his book talk for _Pity the Billionaire_. This inversion of Glenn Beck taking a leftwing image (the angry anchor from _Network_ and twisting it into an insane rightwing version is nothing new. Ayn Rand did essentially the exact same with _Fountainhead_, which is an inverted (or perverted) version of early 20th century workers' novels. Similarly, fascists are trying to actually trying to "dispose" of the Nazi legacy by claiming (with a somewhat straight face even) that "National Socialists" were, you guessed it, "socialists" and therefore the political left is to blame for the Holocaust. There is no logical end to this tactic, except the rise of fascism which is exactly what we're seeing all over the Western world. One point of disagreement with Brooker though: Beck and his ilk are not insane, ridiculous or stupid. They are calculating, sophisticated and rotten to the core.

[@cheekyboy5000]

100% bang on the money, sadly.

[@Eehonda_again]

I hope to god this was played 24/7 on BBC America!

[@jrw3349]

No we would be speaking German if it wasn't for the Brits the French the other countries I can't remember and a little bit of USA

[@drx3444]

it was mostly USA

[@JK_2998]

+Dr X No it wasn't, if it wasn't for Britain, Germany would have rolled over western Europe, there wouldn't even be a front for the US to fight from. Britain held the line with the French, then the US swept in for the final push and took the credit.

[@drx3444]

+Flying Spectacles good cause im British lol

[@christieryan2786]

+Jack White Actually it's a lot more likely we'd be speaking Russian. The Red Army broke the Nazi forces, severely weakening them, and allowing a much easier Allied victory on the western front.

[@krashd]

When we obliterated the French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir killing more than a thousand of our own allies rather than letting French battleships fall under German control the rest of the world took notice that even entirely alone we Brits wouldn't give the Nazis a sausage. Just the finger.

[@ChrisSmout]

Loving the continued use of Future Sound of London as the soundtrack

[@Barney-ii1no]

+Chris Smout seems like Charlie always has good music on his shows

[@joecook5689]

Would all be speaking German? Nope, Russia got to Berlin first

[@celticcomradelad1850]

Joe Cook Shhhhhh... Don't ruined their US exceptionalism boner.

[@urmum3773]

how's that relevant? the USSR didnt, and could never of beat the axis alone. you would be speaking german, commie

[@pickledegg1989]

@@urmum3773 Triggered.

[@joecook5689]

@@urmum3773 I think you meant "could've".

[@Malos_]

urmum fuck off yank, failed nation

[@RocStarr913]

Keith Olbermann is the man! He's not so much a celebrity-obsessed tabloid journalist but a like the equivalent of a kooky kid run loose in a candy store. Despite his rather off-kilter nuttiness, he has plenty of sincerity, nuanced facts, and humor to back it up. He's the best quality out of all of America's "talking heads".

[@rtsa4633]

The fact that people exist that watch fox news unironically scare me.

[@meow2u22]

I LOVE your sarcastic description of the so-called "fair and balanced,... dystopian..., sci-fi..., shouty...channel FOX News. You're spot/dead on!!

[@potrag8803]

3:03 "Fair and balanced news men of dystopian future sci-fi satirical shouty porn sledgehammer channel fox news" Accurate af.

[@prede89]

I thought he said shouty point.

[@draugrdraugr]

This was so true 10 years ago. And now it's gone. Madness.

[@MrCharlieTwist]

That blonde guy isn't a very good actor

[@The_Butler_Did_It]

+MrCharlieTwist Indeed. He can't even play himself very well.

[@SubtleFictions]

I really appreciate the eerie "montagues and capulets" looped behind FOX segments.

[@wolfbrosgames]

why is America so right wing?

[@msbuinov926]

Gawd n' Guns...

[@85Aheadstix]

Puritanism

[@85Aheadstix]

thesignsoflife7​​ Us gamers have been proven to be the most intelligent people on earth. Certainly more intelligent than you and more rational. And it's not complex at all... the fact is more guns do NOT make you safer... if it did that would make the US the safest country on earth. Not a complex question at all... just rational and logical. Something you lack. Go polish your gun cletus 😉 

[@msbuinov926]

I will be the first to admit it, I am a gamer. I will, however, never concede to being stupid. My point up there was satire, it wasn't clever or complicated satire, but it was still a satirical point. I didn't intend for people to take it seriously, however from your pretentious viewpoint I can see how you wouldn't notice that. Have a nice day!

[@jesa870]

Being a gamer is just an activity tons of different kinds of people can do. Different games for different amounts of time in between different other activities and careers aso. Wtf are you guys on about?

[@mrcuddles100]

i agree with you 100% I cant believe that guy has airtime on a national news channel.

[@LOCOMOTIONNUMBER1]

British news presenters tell the same lies but in a posh English accent compared to the U.S. It always sounds more convincing. Coming from a small English village US TV looks bloody cleesey to me.

[@AstonishingSodApe]

What’s playing at 8:51? Is that Tangerine Dream or Edgar Froese?

[@isacharaswatts2657]

what.. the... fuck... was that.... for news.

[@veraxplus4851]

Viewers ought to watch Charlie's segment on reality TV before watching this particular segment of his show.

[@DjAlanBarratt]

“We’d all be speaking German, living under the flag of japan” ..... 😂😂😂😂😂

[@snidelywhiplash]

"A wolf that's got his nuts caught on a coathanger." Sheer poetry.

[@josephmoriarty1693]

And the Oscar for best tear jerking moment in a "news" programme goes to................

[@alexkrycek3359]

LOL called into their office for some kind of bollocking. SO true

[@xenos82]

What's the electronic piece playing at the end when Glenn Beck is crying?

[@TheAlps36]

I drove myself almost crazy trying to find the music during the FOX segment. It's from "Romeo and Juliet" by Sergei Prokofiev called "Capulets and Montagues"

[@Imaginecat22]

Does anyone know the violin orchestra piece playing in the background of the second half? It's making me crazy trying to figure it out...

[@alexandercummins]

If your still interested I think Tangerine Dream - phaedra, is what your looking for.

[@MrWizardofozzz]

Shame on all you reporters that dilute and misinterpret the truth.. Before you say to yourself that it is ok, remember that you have also let your family, your co-workers and yourself down.. You are all guilty of failing your oath and you should all be fired and replaced with honest moral thinking people..

[@Lewa500]

I think you're confusing them with doctors.

[@MultiGillyb]

"We'd all be speaking German, living on the flag of Japan" That is just precious! Please be available on ITunes!! It would get some many laughs at parties. You know when I see this stuff it suddenly becomes clear why United States hegemony is declining.

[@theGhoulman]

Brooker well points out the utter silliness of corporate media news. It's interesting to see Glenn Beck, in the US, in his early 'Tea Baggers" performances. Twas the beginning...

[@SiskinOnUTube]

1:12 I am wondering if that that lady, is the same one who had the indiscretion to ask for "four coffees" live on BBC Breakfast TV? I could be wrong, but I can see a point in asking for that many coffees as often as possible.

[@Broadercasting]

Here I am twelve years later and consider GB News and Talk TV. Good Night and Good Luck.

[@danielgrant8654]

This is brilliant, American tv just drives me mad but then again so does most British tv

[@djAnakin]

The problem with Fox is that they're 90% opinion, passing themselves off as 100% news.

[@TankNMofo]

Yep, I think this is the reason that as an American I mostly watch BBC news. So much less drama.

[@TheDancingCrabby]

You know, after reading the comments for the last half hour I have come to a conclusion. This is by far the most polite flame war I have ever seen.

[@TheMogul23]

@elenasorana if that's the case, could you please explain to us what possible context could make Glen Beck's bizarre terrifying jabbering look remotely like the monologue of a sane individual?

[@TheZoRetro]

i don't know why i like this but I do!! I really like this music too!!

[@Sillmech]

@SeanSchecter This is an English television show. We don't use the Euro in the UK.

[@Khonvicted]

If anything that event made us stronger than ever. Not cripple us. We are a big country you know.

[@DarthJedi2005remixes]

"Dance of the Knights" by Prokofiev, from his ballet version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

[@amiclarehutton8689]

SO. how about the solar flares do they interfere with the wifi or what?

[@Daleksaresupreme1]

That doesnt change the fact that Bill Frost still flew further for longer 9 years earlier. Basically the Right Bros just called for a newspaper reporter right after the flight whereas Bill insisted that he could improve his design. Bill still won though ,as you've probably noticed, airplanes changed alot in design after WW2 thats because engineers started following the superior ideas of Bill over that of the Right Bros. So Bill is the grandfarther of the modern airliner. I hope that clears it up

[@lordsonnyxixi]

What is the creepy song playing during the Glenn Beck clip at the very end?

[@Doughty321]

lordsonnyxixi The Specials - Ghost Town, I think.