Watch ‘The Feed’ Perfectly Roast The Hateful Media Attacks On Yassmin Abdel-Magied
"YNN is the first 24-hour news network devoted entirely to criticising Yassmin Abdel-Magied. I mean, other than Sky News."
SBS Viceland’s The Feed has just beautifully skewered conservative media’s obsession with Yassmin Abdel-Magied in a parody video pitching a news network dedicated solely to tearing down Yassmin.
“YNN is the first 24-hour news network devoted entirely to criticising Yassmin Abdel-Magied,” the video announces. “I mean, other than Sky News”.
The two-and-a-half minute vid manages to thoroughly roast most of Australia’s conservative news outlets in one fell swoop. The Daily Mail is recast as The Daily Hate Mail, bland radio shock jocks broadcast “hate song dedications” on “Smooth AM (Abdel-Magied)”, and Mark Latham gets a shoutout for doing what he does best: offering inane commentary on Yassmin’s totally innocuous tweets.
There’s also a very timely roast about using virtual reality goggles to simulate hitting Yassmin with a car, following conservative commentator Prue MacSween’s comments earlier this week about being “tempted to run [Yassmin] over”.
The video spins some much needed laughs from the appallingly racist media campaign against Abdel-Magied, which started in April over a seven-word Facebook post. Yassmin herself has seen the video, and certainly seems to enjoy the reprieve.
Burst out laughing in a crowded cafe. ???????????????????????????? https://t.co/TZt8sucPKb
— Yassmin Abdel-Magied (@yassmin_a) July 13, 2017
You can catch the full video below: