PDA

View Full Version : Kennedy, Matt Welch to Launch New Nightly Fox Business Show 'The Independents'




jct74
12-03-2013, 05:43 PM
this is pretty cool, sounds like a win for libertarians...


Kennedy, Matt Welch, Kmele Foster to Launch New Nightly Fox Business Show Called The Independents

Matt Welch | Dec. 3, 2013 6:10 pm

As scooped over at Reason 24/7, Fox Business Network has announced a brand spanking new television show featuring some familiar faces! From the press release:


FOX Business Network (FBN) will debut The Independents, a new primetime program hosted by Lisa Kennedy Montgomery (Kennedy), on Monday, December 9th announced Kevin Magee, Executive Vice President of the network.

The program, which will appear Monday through Wednesday and Friday nights at 9PM/ET, will feature a roundtable discussion on the news of the day with a special emphasis on the protection of economic and civil liberties. Each evening, Kennedy will be joined by her co-hosts, Reason magazine's Matt Welch and America's Future Foundation's Kmele Foster, as well as a rotating panel of experts. FBN's Stossel, hosted by John Stossel, will continue to appear at 9PM/ET on Thursdays.

Kennedy joined FBN as a contributor and special correspondent to Stossel in 2012. She is the author of two books; The Kennedy Chronicles: The Golden Age of MTV Through Rose-Colored Glasses and Hey Ladies! Tales and Tips for Curious Girls. She is also the host of Music in the Morning w/ Kennedy on 98.7FM Los Angeles Alternative radio and serves as a contributor to Reason.com.

A graduate of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Kennedy holds a bachelor's degree in Philosophy. She got her start in television as an MTV video jockey (VJ) in 1992.

See the Reason.com archives for material from Kennedy, Kmele Foster, and moi. The three of us will be on Stossel tomorrow night at 9 PM ET (get used to that time slot!) talking about the show and other issues.

http://reason.com/blog/2013/12/03/kennedy-matt-welch-kmele-foster-to-launc

jct74
12-03-2013, 05:47 PM
I'm not sure who Kmele Foster is but he is a contributor at Reason apparently.

http://reason.com/people/kmele-foster/all

Root
12-03-2013, 08:09 PM
Sounds like controlled opposition/propaganda. I'll give check it out anyway and hope they bring on Judge Nap often.

Snew
12-03-2013, 10:42 PM
hmm

VoluntaryAmerican
12-03-2013, 10:45 PM
Sounds like controlled opposition/propaganda. I'll give check it out anyway and hope they bring on Judge Nap often.

The media is free of government intervention more than most industries.

jct74
12-03-2013, 10:48 PM
Sounds like controlled opposition/propaganda. I'll give check it out anyway and hope they bring on Judge Nap often.

I can't really imagine that it will be a bad thing but admittedly I'm not too familiar with Kennedy's politics besides the fact that I know she identifies as a libertarian. Matt Welch I do like and am glad he is on the show. Looking forward to seeing an episode or two... I agree they better have Judge Nap on as a regular guest.

Austrian Econ Disciple
12-04-2013, 05:50 AM
Welch is good. Don't really know too much about the others, but Reason has some flakes there so we'll see..

Luciconsort
12-04-2013, 06:18 AM
I love Kennedy!!! the thing about her is that everyone that doesn't already know she's a libertarian thinks shes a liberal. boy, are they gonna be surprised.

better-dead-than-fed
12-04-2013, 07:03 AM
FOX, that network that doesn't hold FBI agents accountable when they steal all your property (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?434044-FBI-Guilty-Of-Theft-Evidence-Shows).

Matt Collins
12-04-2013, 07:41 AM
Sounds like controlled opposition/propaganda. I'll give check it out anyway and hope they bring on Judge Nap often.

lolwut? :confused: :rolleyes:

Matt Collins
12-04-2013, 07:42 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fzNrTzNGic

Matt Collins
12-04-2013, 07:45 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtTPrKiereo

Peace&Freedom
12-04-2013, 08:21 AM
Kennedy is of the standard John Stossel-Gary Johnson-Reason mold, very sound on most issues, but thinks pushing the social liberal dogmatic position on homosexuals (they're born that way, they're civil rights victims, it's okay to use government marriage licenses to impose normalcy of gays on the social right) is identical to being 'libertarian.' Supporting personal liberty and endorsing/embracing an activity are two different things, but left-libertarians don't see the distinction.

gwax23
12-04-2013, 09:43 AM
Theyre fine. Theyre libertarians, maybe not Rothbardians but good enough. They push gary johnson too much though..its obnoxious.

Bastiat's The Law
12-04-2013, 12:36 PM
Kennedy is of the standard John Stossel-Gary Johnson-Reason mold, very sound on most issues, but thinks pushing the social liberal dogmatic position on homosexuals (they're born that way, they're civil rights victims, it's okay to use government marriage licenses to impose normalcy of gays on the social right) is identical to being 'libertarian.' Supporting personal liberty and endorsing/embracing an activity are two different things, but left-libertarians don't see the distinction.

She ain't a left-libertarian. If anything she's a conservative libertarian.

Bastiat's The Law
12-04-2013, 12:41 PM
There fine. There libertarians, maybe not Rothbardians but good enough. They push gary johnson too much though..its obnoxious.

I like Reason and most of the people associated with them. Nick and Matt always do a good job no matter the forum, which is usually in an unfriendly venue to libertarian ideals. Pushing Gary Johnson like he's the best thing since sliced bread is weird. Pushing the Libertarian Party is worthless and a waste of time.

Peace&Freedom
12-04-2013, 03:06 PM
She ain't a left-libertarian. If anything she's a conservative libertarian.

Perhaps on abortion, she is. But if on every issue sensitive to social liberals, one takes a position that is identical to that of social liberals, one is a social liberal. The last time I heard her speak in New York (at a Johnson event) she spent half of her podium time pushing gay marriage.


I like Reason and most of the people associated with them. Nick and Matt always do a good job no matter the forum, which is usually in an unfriendly venue to libertarian ideals. Pushing Gary Johnson like he's the best thing since sliced bread is weird. Pushing the Libertarian Party is worthless and a waste of time.

Beating up on major elements making up the liberty movement is worthless and a waste of time. The constructive approach is for the grassroots to remain cooperative with each other, and independent of both major and minor parties, although drawing from both to accomplish goals.

PS: Simplified (for Bastiat): Liberty people in both the GOP and LP should stop knocking each other, and work together, regardless of party.

Teenager For Ron Paul
12-04-2013, 03:13 PM
http://www.jeffbullas.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/How-To-Facebook-Like-Your-Google-Search.jpg

Austrian Econ Disciple
12-04-2013, 05:53 PM
Perhaps on abortion, she is. But if on every issue sensitive to social liberals, one takes a position that is identical to that of social liberals, one is a social liberal. The last time I heard her speak in New York (at a Johnson event) she spent half of her podium time pushing gay marriage.



Beating up on major elements making up the liberty movement is worthless and a waste of time. The constructive approach is for the grassroots to remain cooperative with each other, and independent of both major and minor parties, although drawing from both to accomplish goals.

That's funny because they think they're some tolerant civil rights warriors, but they're still for the outlawing of polygamy, the feminist dominated family court system, and a bunch of other groups left out of these 'licenses'. Giving the State authority to determine who shall and in what arrangement / contract they shall be confined to is not justice, it's control and authority. The real fighters are those saying no licenses and let consenting PEOPLE determine their own arrangements and contracts for themselves. The courts are there to enforce the agreed upon contracts, not to make up their own damned laws or rulings. So, there's two prongs here, one attacking the licensure non-sense, and one attacking the courts non-sense. That's the libertarian position, which is pretty distinguishable from the social liberal position. That's why when people say libertarianism = conservative economics and social liberalism I can't, but chuckle at the idiocy because neither one of those things are remotely correct. We have our own foundation and policy which are distinct from either of the two birds.

Bastiat's The Law
12-05-2013, 03:53 PM
Beating up on major elements making up the liberty movement is worthless and a waste of time. The constructive approach is for the grassroots to remain cooperative with each other, and independent of both major and minor parties, although drawing from both to accomplish goals.

I have no idea what that blather means.

Keith and stuff
12-05-2013, 04:20 PM
This has got to be the best national news for liberty folks in at least a week. Thanks for posting. +Rep

Bastiat's The Law
12-05-2013, 04:28 PM
Now we just have to get the Judge to have a weekly show again.

eduardo89
12-05-2013, 04:59 PM
Now we just have to get the Judge to have a weekly show again.

A show on Fox Business is pretty worthless, IMO. Most people who would tune in are already on 'our' side.

green73
12-05-2013, 05:07 PM
A show on Fox Business is pretty worthless, IMO. Most people who would tune in are already on 'our' side.

Keynesian rightwingers don't watch it?

eduardo89
12-05-2013, 05:11 PM
Keynesian rightwingers don't watch it?

Nobody watches Fox Business.


Six-year-old Fox Business Network remains on a long-term growth trajectory, but its average total daytime audience has declined from last year—to 58,000 from 71,000—and has fallen short of some media buyers' expectations.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303332904579224390854395388

58,000 daily viewers on an entire network. Pathetic.

Natural Citizen
12-05-2013, 05:12 PM
A show on Fox Business is pretty worthless, IMO. Most people who would tune in are already on 'our' side.

Well. That depends upon who you're talking about when you say "our". "Our" doesn't include everyone.

I was watching a discussion there a while back where the drone was talking about agribusiness and propping it up like it was just the bees knees and I almost blew chunks, I was so disgusted. I disagreed with the entire narrative. They didn't even touch on the world wide revolt against these companies and what they are doing to the health of people...how they were influencing not only our policy but foreign policy as well.

And that's just one thing that plucked me.

I'd be content if everyone just unplugged these weapons of mass distraction for good.

eduardo89
12-05-2013, 05:22 PM
Well. That depends upon who you're talking about when you say "our". "Our" doesn't include everyone.

I was talking about people who watch Stossel or used to tune into Freedom Watch. If the new Kennedy/Welch show is like them it will only be preaching to the choir. No one else will tune into FBN to watch.

Bastiat's The Law
12-05-2013, 05:24 PM
A show on Fox Business is pretty worthless, IMO. Most people who would tune in are already on 'our' side.

I agree. Fox Business isn't available to everyone. Better than nothing though.

Bastiat's The Law
12-05-2013, 05:25 PM
I was talking about people who watch Stossel or used to tune into Freedom Watch. If the new Kennedy/Welch show is like them it will only be preaching to the choir. No one else will tune into FBN to watch.

So post good clips on your Youtube channel to get them more views. Start asking yourself how you can help instead of asking how you can be more cynical.

Natural Citizen
12-05-2013, 05:28 PM
I was talking about people who watch Stossel or used to tune into Freedom Watch. If the new Kennedy/Welch show is like them it will only be preaching to the choir. No one else will tune into FBN to watch.

Oh. I haven't watched this show but had thought about it because I do share a lot of stuff with different people who typically aren't political in any way just to get them out to the polls.

eduardo89
12-05-2013, 08:05 PM
So post good clips on your Youtube channel to get them more views. Start asking yourself how you can help instead of asking how you can be more cynical.

Oh I definitely will post clips if they have good guests or segments, just like I do with Stossel whenever Ron is on or he does a great segment.

jct74
12-07-2013, 01:06 AM
TUNE IN: 'The Independents' Premieres Monday on Fox Business Network


http://foxnewsinsider.com/sites/foxnewsinsider.com/files/styles/780/public/FBN_Independents_AdAge_Crop.JPG?itok=q_CvKvci


Are you fed up with the endless partisan bickering between Democrats and Republicans?

Beginning on Monday December 9, Fox Business Network has the new primetime home for the frustrated majority. Because what's wrong with America isn't Americans, it's the people in charge. On both sides.

Former MTV star Kennedy and her co-hosts, Matt Welch and Kmele Foster, tackle the day's news with one thing in mind: maximizing freedom for all Americans in all areas of their lives.

Whether talking politics or pop culture, social issues or international affairs, Kennedy and her crew answer to no one and are ready to call it like it is.

They're not on the left and they're not on the right. They're not liberal and they're not conservative.

Don’t miss The Independents, airing Monday-Wednesday and on Fridays at 9p ET on Fox Business Network.

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/12/05/tune-independents-premieres-monday-fox-business-network

jct74
12-07-2013, 01:20 PM
follow on twitter:

https://twitter.com/IndependentsFBN

jct74
12-07-2013, 01:20 PM
here is a promo that is airing for the show:

409009035837333504

jct74
12-08-2013, 06:22 PM
409778354707898368

T.hill
12-09-2013, 12:59 AM
Isn't FBN on the same station as Fox News?

jct74
12-09-2013, 01:14 AM
Isn't FBN on the same station as Fox News?

FBN is a separate station.

jct74
12-09-2013, 01:21 PM
facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/IndependentsFBN

jct74
12-09-2013, 01:23 PM
Lisa Kennedy Montgomery on Her Path From MTV to Fox Business

By Lloyd Grove
December 9th 2013 5:45 AM

http://cdn.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2013/12/09/lisa-kennedy-montgomery-on-her-path-from-mtv-to-fox-business/jcr:content/image.crop.800.500.jpg/1386585964857.cached.jpg

The former VJ Kennedy, famed for her raunchy outspokenness, launches ‘The Independents,’ her show on Fox Business, on Monday. She talks about her Quayle obsession, dildo-cams, and more.


“Do you have a dildo-cam?”

The more things change, the more Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, better known as just plain “Kennedy,” stays the same. Having just raised the possibility, albeit in jest, of a probe of her nether parts—this, during a discussion of the political viability of legislatively compelled transvaginal ultrasounds—it’s clear she continues to enjoy a talk on the wild side.

As a 22-year-old VJ for MTV, in the days when MTV still had VJs, Kennedy was at once transgressive and unpredictable. When I profiled her for Vanity Fair back in 1994, she called herself an ardent Republican, professed an obsessive, stalkerish love for former vice president J. Danforth Quayle, advertised her status as a virgin on Howard Stern’s radio show, and yet—in a notorious appearance as a presenter on the 1994 Video Music Awards—simulated oral sex on her microphone. This, while an unsuspecting Rudy Giuliani, then mayor of New York, stood beside her on camera and, oblivious to Kennedy’s lewd sideshow, blathered on about how great it was to have the awards show back in Manhattan.

That prank, along with her raunchy reply-in-kind to VMA emcee Roseanne Barr’s on-air “joke” that Kennedy had been backstage fellating Rush Limbaugh, nearly got her fired. Miley Cyrus had nothing on the Kennedy of 1994.

...

read more:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/09/lisa-kennedy-montgomery-on-her-path-from-mtv-to-fox-business.html

Matt Collins
12-09-2013, 02:26 PM
wow lolz I bet that video of her doing the prank with Rudy is hilarious. I couldn't find it, could anyone else?

jct74
12-09-2013, 03:06 PM
Kennedy on Imus this morning discussing the new show

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/2913649516001/fbns-kennedy-on-her-new-show-the-independents/

jct74
12-09-2013, 07:00 PM
here's the show page on the Fox Business website:

http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/the-independents/index.html


starts in one hour

jct74
12-10-2013, 01:12 AM
here's some clips from tonight's show including the beginning introduction


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJrwJTHD1lg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJrwJTHD1lg

Matt Collins
12-10-2013, 07:16 AM
I watched it, it was ok. I think after a few months they will get into a groove and know where they will want to go with it. It was refreshing that they would beat up both parties. The first segment was boring, the others were a bit more topical to my tastes. Kennedy's wit worked well at times, at others it didn't. They both need to lose the dorky hipster glasses, they look like schmucks lolz :-P

I've hung out with Welch before, he's a pretty good guy.

My take? Let it simmer a while and I think it'll be a good product after some growth and discovery.

surf
12-10-2013, 11:09 AM
I miss freedom watch, but will give this show a chance. first episode was a bit too much like the other shows in its setup and appearance.

eduardo89
12-10-2013, 11:17 AM
Why did no one tell me Jedediah Bila was on?!?!?!?!

Bastiat's The Law
12-10-2013, 11:30 AM
Why did no one tell me Jedediah Bila was on?!?!?!?!

Who?

eduardo89
12-10-2013, 11:36 AM
Who?

The woman in the clip posted by jct. She LOVES Rand.

Barrex
12-10-2013, 12:03 PM
Fox tries to bring in those who dont watch TV and get their information from internet.... not sure that it will work.

Natural Citizen
12-10-2013, 10:46 PM
Meh. I think that if I absolutely must turn on the tv I'll just stick to the shows I regularly watch on RT.

milgram
12-10-2013, 11:30 PM
A few more clips.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92_U60cYqV0


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VeKO-u6EFc


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYnyPtB0G_0

jct74
12-10-2013, 11:55 PM
A few more clips.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92_U60cYqV0

interesting... I didn't know Stossel was the highest rated show on Fox Business. maybe it has something to do with it being a once-a-week show though.

Natural Citizen
12-11-2013, 12:10 AM
Milgram, those clips were actually much better than the first one. They did actually touch on some specifics. That show may very well do OK with some time. Who knows.

something is wrong with this particular thread so I couldn't quote you specifically. Wants me to allow some security risk or something.

eduardo89
12-11-2013, 12:16 AM
interesting... I didn't know Stossel was the highest rated show on Fox Business. maybe it has something to do with it being a once-a-week show though.

I always thought Lou Dobbs was.

ONUV
12-12-2013, 02:22 AM
first stossel, and now this. i'll support them.

milgram
12-28-2013, 07:24 PM
I haven't been watching too much, FBN goes to infomercials somewhat early.

But here's a new(?) clip posted at RCP where The Independents gang up on an NSA apologist:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmRHAvw43aQ

Anybody know if Nick Gillespie has been on the show yet? He's not on TV half as much as Welch, but I find his appearances to be much more memorable. I've re-watched that Maher-Maddow clip at least a dozen times. :D

Natural Citizen
12-28-2013, 07:32 PM
Something is wrong with this particular thread. It keeps acting up.

speciallyblend
12-29-2013, 01:02 AM
I see the purists are out flocking.

ONUV
01-10-2014, 08:17 PM
kennedy talks about marijuana/drug legalization a lot. sure, i agree with her, but talking about it or mentioning it in every show is bordering on annoying.

jct74
01-15-2014, 04:03 PM
Judge Nap makes his his first appearance on the show tonight, Stossel will be a guest as well.

423565418096107523
423513685802242048

HOLLYWOOD
01-15-2014, 04:05 PM
They need to move that Statist horseshit called the "THE FIVE" over to FOX BIZ and put "The Independents" FOX NEWS Channel nationally.

jct74
01-15-2014, 04:17 PM
Father of Kelly Thomas reacts to verdict on last night's show:

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/3058147208001/kelly-thomas-father-reacts-to-not-guilty-verdict/

HOLLYWOOD
01-15-2014, 04:47 PM
But here's a new(?) clip posted at RCP where The Independents gang up on an NSA apologist:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmRHAvw43aQ

Matt Welch, near the end, brings up an excellent point about former Attorney General JOHN ASHCROFT and his fabricated 'propaganda tour' across the U.S. called "Baseless Hysteria". The tyrannical tour was created to counter all those that brought up or opposed questions about the newly rammed through PATRIOT ACT by voice vote. Ashcroft's Baseless Hysteria Tour, was a closed, by restricted invitation only, a twenty-city tour and Ashcroft appears to have tailored his remarks for these selected audiences, it is unlikely we will know what was actually said. But this big push crafted tour, went to big government NEOCONs, Law Enforcement agencies, and the like. Judge Napolitano covered this crap and the 2 elderly librarians charged with violations of the Patriot Act, only to drop the charges after the DOJ got wind that the Judge and Court were going to rule the PATRIOT ACT unconstitutional and violation of the bill of rights.

“Baseless Hysteria”: The Controversy between
the Department of Justice and the
American Library Association over
the USA PATRIOT Act
**Katherine K. Coolidge**


Here's a link covering this and it's a DAMN GOOD read: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCgQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aallnet.org%2Fproducts%2Fpub_ llj_v97n01%2F2005-01.pdf&ei=_wnXUr7gHMy1qQGKh4G4Cg&usg=AFQjCNF76Uxa4FRjr6GAk49HWlKTfNNsEA&bvm=bv.59378465,d.aWM

PS: Remember slimy John Ashcroft receiving the 'Defender of the Constitution' Award at CPAC in 2010? ...then in 2011, the next conman, CPAC awarded Donald Rumsfeld received the phony pomp and ceremonial plaque. Disgusting!

Defender of the Constitution... YEAH, RIGHT, :rolleyes:


Ashcroft Mocks Librarians and Others Who Oppose Parts of Counterterrorism Law

By ERIC LICHTBLAU

Published: September 16, 2003

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 — Attorney General John Ashcroft today accused the country's biggest library association and other critics of fueling "baseless hysteria" about the government's ability to pry into the public's reading habits.