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Julian Assange To Host Talk Show
An anonymous reader writes "Julian Assange has announced he will host a talk show: 'Through this series I will explore the possibilities for our future in conversations with those who are shaping it,' Assange said in his announcement late Monday. 'Are we heading towards utopia or dystopia, and how we can set our paths? This is an exciting opportunity to discuss the vision of my guests in a new style of show that examines their philosophies and struggles in a deeper and clearer way than has been done before.'"
Assange seems to know lots about kinky Nordic sex!
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
Will he really be able to ask the REAL tough questions, and expect these to be broadcast over the mass media ?
i really don think they would just allow that. maybe over the internet.
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'Through this series I will explore the possibilities for our future in conversations with those who are shaping it. Are we heading towards utopia, or dystopia and how we can set our paths? This is an exciting opportunity to discuss the vision of my guests in a new style of show that examines their philosophies and struggles in a deeper and clearer way than has been done before.'
Woah, woah, woah. Way too many words. I was like "What?" and then I was like "Huh?" and then, uh, I got a little bored.
-- "In order to have power, I must be taken seriously." -Mojo Jojo
It's sad, but my first thought about this was whether he's doing it for the money, to pay for his legal expenses.
Yes, I do absolutely consider a talkshow to be "selling out". I still consider his manifesto that lead to the creation of Wikileaks extremely interesting and insightful.
While I think it's somewhat of a good idea, he sort of has the same energy and excitement level as if they instead just placed a marshmallow in front of the cameras. There would be very little difference actually. Aren't talk show hosts supposed to be outgoing and energetic and all that?
Budweiser bikini team and lots of techie jokes. and J-walking.
Anyone with half a brain knew Julie was doing this for the publicity.
I remember watching the interview with John Pilger some time ago, Assagne is certainly a compelling speaker.
"I bless every day that I continue to live, for every day is pure profit."
Whoever let this man onto mainstream media made a huge mistake for themselves.
For the rest of us, potential win.
I would love for him to spread his perspective and morals to a larger audience, because, from what I know of him (and being under the impression of the fallacy of his alleged rape charges), he represents a truly free, government-agnostic (am I using that right?) way forward for human kind. Our governments should not do evil unto others, and that should be apparent from it's own historical evidence.
Dystopia, and the best thing you can do is not be a party to the whole thing.
this needs modpoints.
In Guantanamo tonight?
I'm still waiting on that Bank of America file dump
"Dr. Noam Chomsky, Clay Shirky, Stephen Fry and Mr. David Bowie."
Now, for something completely different!
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
What we really need is "The Assange Monologue Hour" - wherein the audience is drawn into the mind of Julian the rebel, the 'outsider', the shining knight fighting the 'black ops' and 'cigarette smoking men' of the world, who spend their every waking hour hiding the truth from us, the voting public. This is the show I want to see. The producers could just film the show with a single head shot, zoomed into Julians' perfectly symmetrical face and hypnotic greyish eyes. The face of truth!
You expect people with that kind of dogma to be sensible and focus on the facts?
You must be new here.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Max Keiser, and Bill Maher walk into a bar...
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
my guess is that he's on deep cable on Jupiter, top tier plus $20 a month.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
Really, until he says which station will be broadcasting it he's not hosting a chat show. Or does he believe that talking to people is all that it takes?
I don't know if his head will be able to fit in the camera shot.
Then again, maybe he can have a show with Bill O'Reilly to determine who the bigger arse is.
Oh, is he still around?
Have you been paying attention? It's a brand new Swedish law applied on a doubtful edge case and being used for extradition when nothing similar has while looking a hell of a lot like it's just a pretext to get him somewhere so something different can be done. That looks complex to me, and if I were him I'd be looking for people that can handle such complexity.
benjamin franklin had the habit of stripping naked, throwing a stool in the middle of the corridor that ran through his mansion in the upper floors, open all windows on both sides of the mansion and sit there naked in the wind.
he would get arrested for it today.
and yet, he is one of the people who gave us what we have today.
tesla hated fat people and even fired a fat assistant. he openly scolded fat people in public. for being fat or eating too much.
i can go on and on with examples from important and beneficial figures in history, who shaped this current times with their very important contributions to society. ..................
unfortunately, as of today, speaking against governments not doing stuff against their people behind their back, exposing them, has become a greater evil to face than inquisition. with inquisition at least, all the people knew that you were stirring up something that was wrong, and approved you silently. but look at this discussion now - the persons who are braving the perils of going against the very bastards doing stuff behind our back, are being villified, by LITERATE and intelligent people. ..............
i dont care about 'jerk'. what i care about is, what he is doing. something we needed, and nobody was doing it.
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Wikileaks does not pay his personal legal bills. He needs the money, and yes he needs the publicity.
I doubt he has the skills to make this a winner, but at least he is approaching the problem with some kind of integrity.
Looking forward to it.
Very much what we in the UK think of the US bias in the formation of the current extradition rules. Yes, I know "we" signed them without thinking how the US would manipulate them, but that was Tony "poodle" Blair doing what he does best. Never mind, the laws and legal process in Sweden are as fair as in any other Western Democracy. He's got nothing to fear if he's innocent, hasn't he?
-- Socialism is slavery.
did you look at his sig before you replied to him ? he lives in 1950.
1850.
Is change better effected through union or through cult of personality?
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No, it doesn't. "Cool" sounding, but barely articulated opinions, never do.
I'm in favor of unions, if by that we're speaking of sexual relations between consenting adults. Babies are wonderful things and excellent examples of change. There's no way to tell if that's what's being spoken of here. He's just acting "hipster" from what I can tell, and from there I can easily segue stage right into Apple's Reality Distortion Field and the Now Divine Steve Jobs cultism.
See how words can be misused by someone intent on doing so?
Say what you mean and nail it down so far it cannot possibly mean anything other than what you mean. "A man's a man who looks a man right between the eyes." -- Neil Young?
Oh, and hyperbole doesn't work all that well on the net. There's too many out there who'll take it literally.
"Tongue tied and twisted, just an Earth bound misfit
Let's hope his show is better than Sam Rothstein's "Aces High".
It is truly frightening how effective the campaign against WikiLeaks and Julian Assange has been. You have to think twice before you say anything in favor of them, on *any* platform.