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The Controversial KKK Series Is Canceled After A&E Discovered Klan Members Were Paid
Business Insider ^ | 12-27-2016 | Michael Schneider

Posted on 12/27/2016 9:31:46 AM PST by blam

Michael Schneider
December 27,2016

Just a day after the cable network hoped to silence criticism on its Ku Klux Klan-centric docuseries “Generation KKK” by changing the title, the network has now canceled the show all together.

In a statement, the network said it scrapped the series (which had been renamed “Escaping the KKK”) after discovering that participants on the show, including Klan members, were paid to participate by production company This Is Just A Test.

“A&E learned last night from the third-party producers who made the documentary that cash payments — which we currently understand to be nominal — were made in the field to some participants in order to facilitate access,” the network said on Saturday. “While we stand behind the intent of the series and the seriousness of the content, these payments are a direct violation of A&E’s policies and practices for a documentary. We had previously provided assurances to the public and to our core partners – including the Anti-Defamation League and Color of Change – that no payment was made to hate group members, and we believed that to be the case at the time. We have now decided not to move forward with airing this project.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ae; agitprop; democratscandals; fakenews; hatersforpay; hollywood; kkk; klan; payola; thisisjustatest
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Most Klan rallies never materialize. They are like Westboro.


21 posted on 12/27/2016 9:52:58 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Maybe some actual ART and ENTERTAINMENT from A&E..................


22 posted on 12/27/2016 9:57:20 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?............)
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To: AppyPappy

When I lived in south Mississippi in the late 70’s the klan would on occasion(in full costume) be on the main street of town looking for money and recruits. Just north of town there was a field with a gas powered cross in it. And, yes I did, on one occasion, see it ablaze as I drove by. Talk about make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. Probably good dementocrats all.


23 posted on 12/27/2016 9:58:02 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

They used to collect money on the roads heading to the beaches in NC.


24 posted on 12/27/2016 9:59:31 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

More than a few people believe many KKK members are FBI or other gubmint plants.

Infiltrators.

LEO buddy of mine says the only thing keeping the Klan solvent is all the plants paying their dues.


25 posted on 12/27/2016 9:59:47 AM PST by CrazyIvan (Fidel and Che are together again, and it ain't on a t-shirt.)
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To: blam

I am highly suspect on any show about the KKK. Today, despite the efforts of the Southern Poverty Law Center and MSM to turn it into some force in the Republican Party, the KKK is a non-entity. It is filled with losers, kooks and cranks. It has zero influence or credibility other than among the very disaffected. If they want to dive into a time when the KKK was a force, they’d have to go back oh, about 70 or 80 years — back to the 1950s and before when it still was the paramilitary / terrorist arm of the Democratic Party and pretty much every Southern Dem politician, including Jimmy Carter and Al Gore’s daddy, catered to it. But you’ll never see that on A&E.


26 posted on 12/27/2016 10:00:15 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: a fool in paradise
Reality television is FAKE.

Or as Rush put it, "reality television is just scripted television with non-union writers".

27 posted on 12/27/2016 10:00:25 AM PST by SeeSharp
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Remember the story of the founder of the American Nazi Party? He had several toadies with him wherever he went.

The story was there was ONE nazi(him), and the rest were FBI informers and agents pretending to be nazis.


28 posted on 12/27/2016 10:12:47 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Personally I refuse to believe that there are more than a couple hundred actual KKK members still alive on this continent.

And most of those are undercover FBI Agents.

29 posted on 12/27/2016 10:13:57 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Anyone remember back around 1969 when PLAYBOY did an in depth article on the klan? I remember the art work showing the Statue of Liberty with a rattlesnake wrapped around her neck.
One of the few times I bought Playboy for the articles. REALLY! HONEST INJUN! CROSS MY HEART!
Pay not attention to the slobber on the other pages!


30 posted on 12/27/2016 10:17:55 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: blam

There is no Klan.

They pulled this because they got busted lying and fabricating.


31 posted on 12/27/2016 10:21:53 AM PST by Romans Nine
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I agree with you. If they have a nationwide dues-paying membership of 1000 I would shocked.

My guess is about 40% inbred rednecks and 60% FBI informants.


32 posted on 12/27/2016 10:25:06 AM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: blam

The current KKK is probably kept afloat by the membership fees of paid Federal informants...
How do you tell the informers? They’re the ones that pay their dues on time!


33 posted on 12/27/2016 10:27:00 AM PST by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: blam

Oh, puleeze. All these “reality” show participants are paid. It’s all faked.


34 posted on 12/27/2016 10:33:56 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: blam

So, we’re they fake Klan members


35 posted on 12/27/2016 10:34:52 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: blam

We need a documentary on how documentaries are made.
Does anyone believe that this is the first time people were paid to appear in CNN or anyone else’s documentaries?

Does anyone believe that the words coming out of alleged ordinary people are their own words and not the words of the script writer?

Does anyone believe that a documentary is any more reliable than the NYT or National Enquirer?


36 posted on 12/27/2016 10:48:12 AM PST by spintreebob
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To: Skooz
I agree with you. If they have a nationwide dues-paying membership of 1000 I would shocked.

Anonymous tried to out Klansmen on Twitter a couple of years ago, and I believe the number was less than 1000, with a good number being questionable or fake accounts. Epic fail. The Left needs to keep the specter of the KKK alive to keep the minorities hating on whitey.

37 posted on 12/27/2016 10:58:09 AM PST by Major Matt Mason (Those that can, do, those that can't, work in the Beltway.)
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To: blam

38 posted on 12/27/2016 11:20:17 AM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: blam

Will they now do a documentary about the Black Panthers?


39 posted on 12/27/2016 5:46:09 PM PST by tillacum (I've been a Great Deplorable, from the beginning of DJT's entrance into politics.)
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