Posted on 12/31/2016 4:39:03 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
The subjects of a TV documentary series about the Ku Klux Klan abruptly canceled last week by A&E allege to Variety that significant portions of what was filmed were fabricated by the producers.
Some KKK leaders divulged that they were paid hundreds of dollars in cash each day of filming to compel them on camera to distort the facts of their lives to fit the documentary’s predetermined narrative: tension between Klan members and relatives of theirs who wanted to get out of the Klan.
The findings are based on an exclusive Variety investigation based on interviews with over two dozen individuals in and around the KKK who cooperated with the documentary in at least six U.S. states.
Originally scheduled to air Jan. 10, “Escaping the KKK: A Documentary Series Exposing Hate in America” was produced by Venice, Calif.-based production company This Is Just a Test.
The KKK leaders who were interviewed by Variety detailed how they were wooed with promises the program would capture the truth about life in the organization; encouraged not to file taxes on cash payments for agreeing to participate in the filming; presented with pre-scripted fictional story scenarios; instructed what to say on camera; asked to misrepresent their actual identities, motivations and relationships with others, and re-enacted camera shoots repeatedly until the production team was satisfied.
The production team even paid for material and equipment to construct and burn wooden crosses and Nazi swastikas, according to multiple sources including Richard Nichols, who is one of the featured subjects of the documentary series as the Grand Dragon of a KKK cell known as the Tennessee White Knights of the Invisible Empire. He also said he was encouraged by a producer to use the epithet “nigger” in interviews. . .
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ALL hate crime stuff and organization is ORCHESTRATED and the people baying most loudly about “fake news” are the very people making the stuff.
The question that comes to mind is, just why did they bother to hire real Kkan members? Cheaper than actors?
Reality Fake TV.
Shocked, just shocked.
Anyone who believes “Reality TV Shows” are real, also believe that WWF Wrestling is real.
When I saw this was a TV I knew it had to be faked.
film team shows they are bigger racists.
Liberal Democrat media creating fake stories, then breathlessly , slobberingly reporting on them. Dan Rather, Brian Williams, Katie Couric. There’s a pattern.
I’m so glad this was stopped. Imagine, spending all those hundreds of thousands of dollars on a complete lie. Worse yet, a lie that was constructed to confuse, agitate and enrage. Like Deputy Fife used to say’”This stuff has to be nipped in the bud!!”
Scum dealing with scum. Of course they’ll rat you out!
Dem actors gotta union.
A Moorian documentary, eh?
Fat Bastard set a bad precedent for documentary making.
The answer to that is easy. They wanted to be able to say "these are real KKK members." Once they establish that as a fact everything else they put out is beyond questioning.
If there were 6 people in the Klan meeting - 3 were doing TV shows about infiltrating the Klan, and 3 were FBI agents.
Agreed.
I’m imagining the film crew shouting “cut” during filming, and then walking over to the klan member and saying something like “You idiot! You call yourself a racist?! That’s not how a racist talks! You have to use the N word and say all sorts of disparaging things about black people. OK. Let’s do it again from the top, and be sure to use the N word at least 10 or 12 times. Quiet on the set. Annnnnnddddd, action.
To the Left, it's always 1961 and the KKK is millions strong and infiltrated in every level of government. Certainly not the gaggle of a few dozen unemployed trailer park meth-heads they've become. They were such perfect villains in their hey-day, with their pointy hoods and midnight rides, the Left is loath to give them up!
These new alt-right guys like Richard Spencer are boring in their suits and ties. They're not out there burning crosses and screaming "N***GER!" in TV interviews. That's why A&E is at this point basically paying actors.
“Originally scheduled to air Jan. 10”—
Right before the inauguration.
Smells like Obama/Soros.
I guess “Real Housewives of the KKK” is canceled too?
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