Hot on the heels of its coverage of Anonymous and its commentary on Suicide Girls, Fox News goes where only mainstream news outlets the Boston Globe and Newsweek have gone before - coverage what they call the “SteamPunk Underground.” This morning, Fox made associations between steampunk and Columbine, describing the burgeoning movement as a “trenchcoat mafia for adults.” Concerns were raised by a team of “analysts” about the disturbing elements of steampunk fashion (rayguns, gas masks) and Steampunk Magazine’s unpatriotic attack on the TSA. Watch the clip below:
April 1st, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Wow, just when i thought Fox News couldn’t get any lower. The comment around 1:45 really pissed me off.
April 1st, 2008 at 3:15 pm
This is all Marilyn Manson’s fault. Again.
April 1st, 2008 at 3:24 pm
ugh. when will fox news leave the interweb alone.
April 1st, 2008 at 3:49 pm
You bastards. Got me. Heh.
April 1st, 2008 at 4:45 pm
HURRR thanks.
April 1st, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Haha, nice one guvnah.
(though it’s April 2nd here, and has been for quite a while, I will accept my foolery)
April 1st, 2008 at 5:11 pm
My favorite (and by favorite I mean most absurd) part was when the shitty shill of a sociologist they interviewed claimed that the Victorian-period-esque aspects of steampunk were probably a targeted satirical attack on conservative culture and values.
April 1st, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Well played.
April 1st, 2008 at 5:22 pm
DARNIT! i was fooled.
at least this reminded me to fool my friends today :D
April 1st, 2008 at 6:13 pm
…..The hell? I mean, what is it with these people and counter culture? Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel. We don’t understand it, so let’s make up random garbage to make it look bad.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:11 pm
It’s about time light was shed on these dangerous individuals…look at em all in their smug attire and dangerous ideas about “Science”. Not only are they always dusty and into that “old soundy music” but all they do…ever do really…is sit around drinking, engaging in conversations about topics other than American Idol and the latest TMZ gossip, and worst of all not holding racial and social class against people. Is that the world we want?! I think not.
Thank you Fox for being ever vigilant in these dangerous times and for being the beacon in the WAR ON FREEDOM.
Someone send this link to the bobble headed Glenn Beck!
April 1st, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Yay, I’m a terrorist! Again! Let’s have another cocktail!
April 1st, 2008 at 7:38 pm
I can’t even bring myself to watch the clip. >.< The descriptions and comments alone make me furious!
April 1st, 2008 at 7:50 pm
How does Fox News always find the most incoherent jackass to be the proponent of whatever they’re picking on? Sergeant-Major Jesephian Cogspat? Really?
I bet that guy isn’t a Sergeant-Major at all.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Well I know who’s getting the first liberal (heh) helping of airship-mounted deathray
April 1st, 2008 at 8:16 pm
The video clip is astonishing.
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:52 am
WOOHOO! I pissed off the Fox News fearmongers! Always a sign you’re doing something right.
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:23 am
Hopefully this is a 1. of April joke…
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:16 am
Hot DAMN I can’t wait to get out of work so I can actually watch this thang and be righteously outraged.
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:57 am
Infuriating as it may be, you really must click on the video clip. It kind of puts it all in perspective.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:09 am
nicely played
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:43 am
Damn, and here I was scared of bad victorian cosplayers who don’t know what the -punk suffix is for.
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:31 am
Someone needs to get out the Pillow of Tollerance, place it over Foxes face, and then follow up with the Revolver of Learning
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:00 am
On closer investigation, that’s not what the play button tells me at all!
Damn your black oily hearts to a darkened hole, filled with all the maggots and scavengers of hell!
Or something.
You guys had me going for a minute
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:49 am
Oh, what-EVER
Now pour me a klaproth and put the cat out.
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:00 am
I’m so sorry! this is all my fault!
I was in a very bad mood when the Fox reporter called, having just singed my eyebrows off with that damned torch trying to take some more self-portraits. He kept trying to ask the same old questions about SteamPunk and I guess I got a bit bored with it all and started pulling stuff out of my ass. I’m so sorry!
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:23 am
As I have interviewed Steampunk Jake von Slatt, I can state without reservation that steampunk is dangerous and subversive. Imagine the chaos if everyone decided that common household items, consumer goods, and even trash were canvases for their personal creativity (and occasional application of steam). Think of the poor marketers and Madison Ave executives!
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:45 am
damn you.
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:00 pm
I’ll get you next time, Steem Punque….NEXT TIME!!!
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Oh man, you pwned me good on that one.
Top drawer!
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:35 pm
I knew it! John Beard hasn’t been working at FOX since December. I miss that guy…
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:16 pm
omg! epic luls at this one
April 19th, 2008 at 9:21 am
I thought for a second I was gonna have to append my Top 5 Fox News Journalistic Masterpieces
http://www.klintron.com/brain/archives/2008/03/29/fox-news-journalistic-masterpieces/
August 2nd, 2008 at 6:21 pm
oh you got me!