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Holy poo poo]quote:“We wanted to investigate how does someone like Harvey Weinstein gets away with doing what…get away with criminality, essentially. And the network that surrounds him. We decided that Gio would interview a concierge in Las Vegas,” Baron Cohen describes.
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# ? Dec 22, 2018 00:35 |
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quote:...According to Baron Cohen, the FBI decided against pursuing the tip. what
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# ? Dec 22, 2018 01:04 |
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results of pursuing hot tip... you are fired? well at least I won a free lunch
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# ? Dec 22, 2018 01:12 |
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Yowza.
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# ? Dec 22, 2018 01:26 |
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Jesus loving Christ. That's just... That's, uh... WHAT??? How do you literally pimp children and not go home and blow your loving brains out with a shotgun? PT6A fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Dec 22, 2018 |
# ? Dec 22, 2018 01:54 |
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Yikes.
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# ? Dec 22, 2018 03:11 |
PT6A posted:Jesus loving Christ. Sociopathy.
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# ? Dec 22, 2018 03:27 |
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chitoryu12 posted:Sociopathy. might be some chief special agent is part of the Lolita Express crew i guess
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# ? Dec 22, 2018 03:29 |
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Eh, that kinda thing isn't really all that impressive. I remember a few or more years back there was some snot-nosed, dipshit conservative e-journalist/youtuber who got semi famous secretly taping outrageous conversations he'd prompted with staff in a few liberal orgs. I think he did it with Planned Parenthood and some voter registration non-profit. He would show up or call in and pretend to be a pimp or a racist and then get some random volunteer to try and talk around his obvious lunacy. It was a big jerk off waste of time and the guy who did it literally has the most punchable face ever. I mean realistically, I'm totally sure that this bellhop routinely provides advice on how to hide a body to random hotel guests that he met 5 minutes ago, and that the FBI are just too lazy to catch pedophiles. That scenario seems much more likely than the possibly that he was just humoring a guest that was either drunk, playing a joke, or crazy, something I doubt he's unfamiliar with in Vegas.
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# ? Dec 22, 2018 05:40 |
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Yeah everything's probably fine, no need to worry.
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# ? Dec 22, 2018 07:42 |
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-Blackadder- posted:Eh, that kinda thing isn't really all that impressive. I remember a few or more years back there was some snot-nosed, dipshit conservative e-journalist/youtuber who got semi famous secretly taping outrageous conversations he'd prompted with staff in a few liberal orgs. I think he did it with Planned Parenthood and some voter registration non-profit. He would show up or call in and pretend to be a pimp or a racist and then get some random volunteer to try and talk around his obvious lunacy. It was a big jerk off waste of time and the guy who did it literally has the most punchable face ever. I agree, but also outside of Vegas.
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# ? Dec 22, 2018 07:50 |
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-Blackadder- posted:Eh, that kinda thing isn't really all that impressive. I remember a few or more years back there was some snot-nosed, dipshit conservative e-journalist/youtuber who got semi famous secretly taping outrageous conversations he'd prompted with staff in a few liberal orgs. I think he did it with Planned Parenthood and some voter registration non-profit. He would show up or call in and pretend to be a pimp or a racist and then get some random volunteer to try and talk around his obvious lunacy. It was a big jerk off waste of time and the guy who did it literally has the most punchable face ever. You're talking about James o'keefe who is the most obvious con in existence, who also selectively edits his footage.
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# ? Dec 22, 2018 08:22 |
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Origami Dali posted:You're talking about James o'keefe who is the most obvious con in existence, who also selectively edits his footage. Yeah, that's the guy, although apparently he's not the only jackass who's tried that poo poo with Planned Parenthood.
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# ? Dec 22, 2018 08:49 |
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im not kidding. louis ck is going for the "handsoem im too drunk to spell correctly but can you please fire guns into his head?
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# ? Dec 22, 2018 12:00 |
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https://twitter.com/alissacaliente/status/1076512416819826688
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# ? Dec 22, 2018 19:09 |
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-Blackadder- posted:Yeah, that's the guy, although apparently he's not the only jackass who's tried that poo poo with Planned Parenthood. Oh hey... its David Daleiden who also selectively edits footage to further his goals, just like that shitlord James O'Keefe. So, I'm not sure what your point is trying to compare O'Keefe and Daleiden to Baron Cohen, unless you're trying to imply that Baron Cohen would have turned over edited footage to the FBI.
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# ? Dec 22, 2018 20:07 |
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My point is exactly what I posted above.
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# ? Dec 22, 2018 22:09 |
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# ? Dec 22, 2018 22:18 |
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As evidenced by his scripts, Joss Whedon's brain just can't stop his hands from typing the most horrible garbage imaginable.
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# ? Dec 22, 2018 23:27 |
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Darko posted:White straight males who have no real cultural things used to say they are lesser than other people may not realize it, but people who aren't that might just not like daily reminders of that, via the words that were/are used to tell them they are poo poo. I'd say it's just western male culture as a whole. Beat Street came out in the 80s and has a great Christmas rap song unfortunately punctuated by homophobic slurs, but at the same time, it is spoken in the voice of a legitimately downtrodden, economically poor community, which really exacerbates how much capitalism teaches us to fear and hate each other rather than those imposing their classist rule. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph6hXpPbl0s
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# ? Dec 22, 2018 23:51 |
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What the hell indeed. I mean, the FBI sets up sting operations to catch pedophiles all the time, in fact they just used an FBI agent posing as a 13 year old boy to catch some actor from a Disney show. Why wouldn't they follow up on what seems like a golden opportunity here? There's go to be more to this. ....Maybe the FBI didn't follow up because this concierge person themselves called the police/FBI about the incident? Or maybe that's just hopeful thinking on my part.
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# ? Dec 23, 2018 08:55 |
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garycoleisgod posted:The worst thing for me about Dushku explaining her side is not the poo poo Weatherly pulled, but this quote about the writer-producer Caron dude: Weatherly and the producers of Bull are skating by way, way too lightly from this incident. They should all lose their jobs over this. CBS needs to clean house. I guess it's not surprising they won't though, considering who their CEO was.
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# ? Dec 23, 2018 09:03 |
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Sucrose posted:Weatherly and the producers of Bull are skating by way, way too lightly from this incident. They should all lose their jobs over this. CBS needs to clean house. I guess it's not surprising they won't though, considering who their CEO was. Difficult to just declare you're summarily dissolving an entire network out of moral obligation, if for no other reason than the number of investors who are not going to take that bath. Also on a relative scale, Les Moonves is like a thousand times more powerful than Weinstein.
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# ? Dec 23, 2018 09:58 |
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Sodomy Hussein posted:Difficult to just declare you're summarily dissolving an entire network out of moral obligation, if for no other reason than the number of investors who are not going to take that bath. Uh, I was suggesting that CBS fire Weatherly and Caron, not "dissolve the network". Where the hell did you get that?
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# ? Dec 23, 2018 10:20 |
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Sucrose posted:Uh, I was suggesting that CBS fire Weatherly and Caron, not dissolve the network. Where the gently caress did you get that? Out of a canon into the sun hopefully.
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# ? Dec 23, 2018 10:21 |
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Sucrose posted:Uh, I was suggesting that CBS fire Weatherly and Caron, not "dissolve the network". Where the hell did you get that? I think I naturally extrapolated what cleaning house at CBS would entail, since god knows how much of the executive leadership was aware that Moonves is a tenth-level sex pest and it seems to have drained down into production staff and on-air talent. In addition to the accusations against Moonves growing worse by the day, he is fighting them tooth and nail, including by attempting to lie and destroy evidence. That doesn't happen unless you have allies everywhere. quote:In one case, Dr. Anne Peters, who saw Mr. Moonves for a consultation in 1999, told the lawyers that he had tried to kiss her and masturbated in front of her. Dr. Peters said she had later told Arnold Kopelson, a film producer who was a friend, about the incident in an attempt to dissuade him from joining the CBS board in 2007. I mean if you need to know what would enable an unimportant television star to survive being caught on tape sexual harassing another star--a tape that would likely torpedo the entire show and cause even more brand damage if it became public--there it is. These people don't even practice the mathematical cynicism of "What would cost more, canning this shithead or a settlement that could eventually be dug up by a news agency?" They don't care.
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# ? Dec 23, 2018 10:45 |
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Keep in mind, the only reason Dushku and her lawyers (and by extension us) know that tape exists is CBS's lawyers showed it to them because it also shows Dushku cussing and they thought that exculpated them. You don't have people like Weatherly and Caron getting to their levels of success without executives who also actively participate in that sort of cultural misogyny.
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# ? Dec 23, 2018 15:53 |
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Sucrose posted:Right. We shouldn’t ban or remove old things just because if their exact wording was written today, it would be offensive due to shifts in word meaning or cultural connotations. If anything I think it’s infantilizing to think that an offended person is incapable of realizing that an old thing is old and doing more research on what it meant at the time it was written. 2018 and people still don't get that saying a thing is inappropriate for certain audiences isn't loving censorship.
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# ? Dec 24, 2018 19:12 |
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Surely someone can come up with two, two-syllable, rhyming vulgarities to put into the song instead. rear end in a top hat? Dickhead? Fuckbag? Shitboy? Cuntnerd?
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# ? Dec 24, 2018 19:23 |
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Shot: https://twitter.com/kevinspacey/status/1077263549326651392?s=21 Chaser: https://twitter.com/thr/status/1077269094766919685?s=21
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# ? Dec 24, 2018 20:16 |
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That video is really loving creepy.
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# ? Dec 24, 2018 20:32 |
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Go away forever, Kevin Spacey, and be glad you aren't sitting in a jail cell (which you might be sometime in the future).
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# ? Dec 24, 2018 20:32 |
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Rhyno posted:That video is really loving creepy. I think he’s deliberately trying to play it like a villain, as though anyone would forget he’s a rapist.
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# ? Dec 24, 2018 20:40 |
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"Because I can promise you this, if I didn't pay the price for the things we both know I did do, I'm certainly not going to pay the price for the things I didn't do." WTF is wrong with this guy? Is this how the brain of a serial sexual assaulter works?
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# ? Dec 24, 2018 20:43 |
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Sucrose posted:Go away forever, Kevin Spacey, and be glad you aren't sitting in a jail cell (which you might be sometime in the future). so many great roles the shipping news... midnight in the garden of good and evil lost like tears in rain time to die
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# ? Dec 24, 2018 21:06 |
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Kevin Spacey seems to have confused how movies work with real life. People like fictional villains, Kevin, because THEY'RE NOT REAL. That was the creepiest loving thing I've seen all day, and not in a good way.
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# ? Dec 24, 2018 21:29 |
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Kevin Spacey ruins Christmas Eve.
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# ? Dec 24, 2018 22:39 |
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what in the high holy gently caress is that Kevin Spacey video. Jesus Louisus.
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# ? Dec 24, 2018 23:13 |
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Fart City posted:what in the high holy gently caress is that Kevin Spacey video. i mostly remember him from stuff that is not his prestige show but yikes
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# ? Dec 24, 2018 23:19 |
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I burst out laughing at that music sting at the end. What the gently caress is this video?
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# ? Dec 24, 2018 23:20 |