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Sir Tonk posted:I don't get the Lewandowsky hiring, is CNN going to get half a million worth of new viewers because he's on the air, or is there something I'm missing? CNN is run by Jeff Zucker these days. Zucker used to run NBC, where he commissioned and oversaw the show The Apprentice.
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Sir Tonk posted:I don't get the Lewandowsky hiring, is CNN going to get half a million worth of new viewers because he's on the air, or is there something I'm missing? he is a trump expert and has first hand knowledge that is insightful.
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Sir Tonk posted:I don't get the Lewandowsky hiring, is CNN going to get half a million worth of new viewers because he's on the air, or is there something I'm missing? They are fair and balanced too!
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Joementum posted:CNN is run by Jeff Zucker these days. Zucker used to run NBC, where he commissioned and oversaw the show The Apprentice. Also remember that when Zucker took over CNN, he said their biggest problem was that they show too much news and that was what he was going to change to make it successful.
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Joementum posted:No, we don't agree. I don't read his quote as patting himself on the back, though the follow-up quote from a book critic goes there, that's not his problem. More to the point, while I'm sure this dude's schlocky sci-fi novel ain't Huckleberry Finn, I don't see the point of haranguing someone for attempting to write earnestly about a problem they see in society, even if they're not the one directly affected by it. Yup. The same discussion happens in history and the humanities constantly. It's a sensitive issue, and rightfully so, but the arguments against non directly-affected authors always fall flat. And not that it should necessarily matter, but enormous and insightful contributions are made by those looking from the outside in in all kinds of arenas. It's not the late 60's or early 70's on campuses anymore and the worst a historian will face might be some rudeness by a questioner at a conference. Nothing a reasonably thick skin can't handle. You got to be conscious of the controversy though. Not that this doesn't make the proposed book not obnoxious. Even so, I bet it's a more nuanced take than the unbelievable Max Landis screenplay in the works that basically replaces "black" with "orc" and considers itself insightful social commentary.
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duz posted:Also remember that when Zucker took over CNN, he said their biggest problem was that they show too much news and that was what he was going to change to make it successful. Was he the reason CNN got Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown?
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Sir Tonk posted:I don't get the Lewandowsky hiring, is CNN going to get half a million worth of new viewers because he's on the air, or is there something I'm missing?
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Jeff Zucker replaced Larry King with Piers Morgan. Just in case you were having trouble understanding the Lewandowski thing.
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Also Jeff Zucker was the principal character behind all that Conan/Leno shitshow several years back. Like there are basically not many aspects of media and entertainment that Jeff Zucker has not actively moved his bowels upon.
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Joementum posted:Jeff Zucker replaced Larry King with Piers Morgan. Just in case you were having trouble understanding the Lewandowski thing. Ok that's all I needed to know. I love how easy it is to fail upward in the US.
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i'd rather white dudes write about race than either get defensive or run skittering from the room like cockroaches when it gets brought up.
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Town fireworks entertainment for the night: I took my young daughter and wife to watch the town fireworks display. We met up with some of my coworkers and watched from the parking lot of my school. This is what I was able to witness tonight: Right before we got there I missed one lady recite the pledge of allegiance to the confederate flag. This woman along with another drunk lady yelling USA! USA! at each other from across the street. A family shooting fireworks off in the middle of a street while cars tried to drive by. Lady came over and offered money to the young kids of our group if they could recite the pledge. 4 boys took her up on this offer and probably received boob or crotch sweat money. Lady started crying while singing the national anthem at the fireworks. The other lady started yelling "Hallelujah amen!!!!!!" At the fireworks. "I will praise that there is no Isis tonight. No Isis tonight. " was said because the fireworks would scare them off. One of the ladies kept her hand raised in a black power salute through the entire fireworks. Stood up when Toby Keith Stars and Stripes came on a radio Said Toby Keith sang God bless the USA. When we went to leave after the fireworks were done, one of the ladies started yelling to us that this was not over and that we needed to be more patriotic. Happy 'Merica Day
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I'm a not entirely unpatriotic dude and I consider the pledge to be extremely unsettling and ominous, along with literal worship of the flag and constitution as immutable (the immutability generally mentioned at the same time as the amendments)
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:Town fireworks entertainment for the night: i'm going to guess...arkansas?
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Epic High Five posted:I'm a not entirely unpatriotic dude and I consider the pledge to be extremely unsettling and ominous, along with literal worship of the flag and constitution as immutable (the immutability generally mentioned at the same time as the amendments) Yeah but loving deal with it today.
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Abel Wingnut posted:i'm going to guess...arkansas? Southern/Central Illinois
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Bip Roberts posted:Yeah but loving deal with it today. settle down bip
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Bip Roberts posted:Yeah but loving deal with it today. Oh I'll deal with it by attacking anybody who desecrates the flag!!!! FLAG BIKINIS? BURNED! FLAG BUMPER STICKERS? CAR PUSHED INTO A LAKE! FLAG PINS? OKAY FOR NOW, I NEED TO THINK ABOUT THOSE
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Marlows posted:Even so, I bet it's a more nuanced take than the unbelievable Max Landis screenplay in the works that basically replaces "black" with "orc" and considers itself insightful social commentary. So Max Landis is rewriting Lord of the Rings?
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Where's the fantasy novel that has chattel slavery but with the races reversed?
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Freakazoid_ posted:Where's the fantasy novel that has chattel slavery but with the races reversed? Farnham's Freehold, the black people are cannibals too.
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John Cena delivers a message about love and patriotism and diversity in America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MdK8hBkR3s
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gradenko_2000 posted:John Cena delivers a message about love and patriotism and diversity in America I know Cena's talking but I can't stop staring at his roid veins. 
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Sir Tonk posted:I don't get the Lewandowsky hiring, is CNN going to get half a million worth of new viewers because he's on the air, or is there something I'm missing? They get access to Trump, which is worth money to them. Ya gotta admit, Trump's strategy of going full Nixon with the press is pretty loving effective for the folk who don't go out and actively seek news.
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gradenko_2000 posted:John Cena delivers a message about love and patriotism and diversity in America It seems to be a good message and the gay couple at the end is the icing.
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John Cena is a weird obsessive-compulsive wrestle-robot, and also a Super Cool Dude. and yes nationalism is a disease, remember when there was significant public outcry at anyone who didn't wear a flag pin why aren't they wearing flag pins, why do they hate america????
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gradenko_2000 posted:John Cena delivers a message about love and patriotism and diversity in America That is pretty nice. 
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gradenko_2000 posted:John Cena delivers a message about love and patriotism and diversity in America This popped up as a trending story on facebook earlier today, so I clicked it expecting to find all manner of idiots and morons posting their dumb opinions for me to laugh at but surprisingly there were hundreds of positive posts by people agreeing with the message and I could only find a single asshat going on about how divisive John "FAKE MARINE" Cena's video was. 
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Freakazoid_ posted:Where's the fantasy novel that has chattel slavery but with the races reversed? Are you talking about the movie White Man's Burden? Edit Lion's Blood?
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I drank several cans of  today. Happy excuse for a cookout and federally mandated day off, everyone 
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Epic High Five posted:Oh I'll deal with it Yeah! Get rid of that flag bikini. Awwww yeahhhhh.
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gradenko_2000 posted:John Cena delivers a message about love and patriotism and diversity in America This is surprisingly great. I watch WWE with my roommate sometimes and they also did a tribute for the Orlando victims that I was totally on edge for, expecting something lovely or tasteless to happen... but nope, they did a long solemn moment of silence with a big-rear end rainbow flag in the background and it was actually kind of moving, despite involving a bunch of oily dudes in superhero costumes. Wresting is pretty chill.
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showbiz_liz posted:a bunch of oily dudes in superhero costumes There's your answer right there.  Seriously though, that's awesome.
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Does John Cena abuse PEDs? He seems too cool to Chris Benoit himself. 
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Munkeymon posted:I drank several cans of Whenever I'm up in Minneapolis, their Coffee Bender is my poison of choice. So good.
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Bip Roberts posted:Don't forget the gauche cube thing. Make the Kaaba tent again!
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Noam Chomsky posted:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/wikileaks-publishes-more-than-1000-hillary-clinton-war-emails-a7120011.html Rapist goes flaccid years too late
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