Fox News attacks Chris Crocker

Remember that Chris Crocker video defending Britney Spears? The one where he's wailing and crying about how people are making fun of her? It's made it around the world and back, and even onto Fox News. I can't find video or transcript their discussion of Chris Crocker. (If you do please send me the link!) But Chris saw it and responded here:

Fox News apparently has a problem with gender non-conformists, which shouldn't come as too big a surprise considering the station is set up to help people follow lock-step the Bush Administration. But you'd think that they'd at least have the decency not to play a video that they knew they couldn't handle respectfully.

This whole thing comes down to just accepting that some people don't feel like they can express themselves with what society labels as "male" or "female" and are out there creating something significant and fabulous for themselves. So then others have to smack it down because it's threatening to their gender privilege, threatening to conformity in general, conformity that makes them feel safe, and challenging to their own gender identification. But they really didn't have to make fun of a teenager who just likes Britney Spears, however big it might make them feel.

But Keith Olbermann also gave a sarcastic "really" when Michael Musto tells him that Chris is a man:

sigh

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And if you want to see it, here's Chris Crocker explaining it all when it comes to gender (audio's possibly NSFW):

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•  It was bizarre.

  Not the fact that Chris is actually a male, but that he carried on like that.  

  by nupstateny on Thu Sep 13, 2007 at 02:29:58 PM PDT

  •  I heard these

    were "performance art" and Chris is just joking.

    by MadAsHellMaddie on Thu Sep 13, 2007 at 02:35:12 PM PDT

  •  Attention whore.

    I doubt that he meant any of what he said.  It was just a publicity stunt that went better than he could've ever imagined.

    Also, I didn't know until now that he was a he.

    by KansasLiberal on Thu Sep 13, 2007 at 02:36:25 PM PDT

    •  well he was totally joking with the Britney

      meltdown.  

      Notice how calm he is when talking about that asshats at faux news?

      by MadAsHellMaddie on Thu Sep 13, 2007 at 02:39:44 PM PDT

      •  No..he wasn't joking..

        As he stated repeatedly in several interviews yesterday that his "Leave Brit alone" video was the ONE TIME that he wasn't doing "performance art".

        by Morgan Sandlin on Thu Sep 13, 2007 at 03:13:28 PM PDT

    •  seriously?

      How could you not know that is a man?

      by MadAsHellMaddie on Thu Sep 13, 2007 at 02:41:03 PM PDT

      •  I didn't pay much attention.

        Whenever I saw a "news program" start to play his hysterical rant I immediately changed the channel, so I really have absolutely no idea what was said in the video.  The only part that I've really seen is when he's screaming about leaving Brittney alone, and that was more than enough for me.

        by KansasLiberal on Thu Sep 13, 2007 at 02:48:13 PM PDT

        •  Hardball.

          I was just watching 'Hardball' and Chris Matthews introduced the video by referring to Crocker as a female.  I'm not sure if it was just a slip on his part or if he's paid as little attention to it as me.

          by KansasLiberal on Fri Sep 14, 2007 at 04:30:43 PM PDT

      •  I was surprised

        by how many people couldn't tell he was a guy. I thought it was pretty obvious.

        by VaBreeze on Thu Sep 13, 2007 at 04:47:10 PM PDT

•  The guy claims to be intimate with his brother...

  http://www.youtube.com/...

  He's acting or extremely disturbed...

  Well then again, I think its pretty disturbing either way...

  by rbm7528 on Thu Sep 13, 2007 at 05:13:56 PM PDT

  •  he mentioned a goat in that video

    perhaps he has another "confession" in his future.

    by alizard on Thu Sep 13, 2007 at 06:57:55 PM PDT