Exactly! (And for the record, I DO like Rogan and that was before he got into politics. His show is very interesting and he's not afraid to talk about things that are a bit beyond the norm.) Tucker Carlson is doing his best to emulate that.
The Decline of the American Media III
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So both South Park and Stewart both just dared Paramount to do the same to them as they did to Colbert in more raunchy and directed attacks at Trump and Paramount. South Park was far more vicious by literally comparing Trump to Sadaam Hussein, calling him fat, and portraying him as having a romantic relationship with Satan.
I say…. Bully for them. If Trump is starting to threaten litigation to force media outlets cooperation over softball insults towards his regime then hit him harder and force your bosses into a real corner after they cowered to the most insecure man in history.
I say…. Bully for them. If Trump is starting to threaten litigation to force media outlets cooperation over softball insults towards his regime then hit him harder and force your bosses into a real corner after they cowered to the most insecure man in history.
Just a reminder, everyone, you can never hate the media enough.
This article popped up on my Facebook from eight years ago today. They are savaging Mitt Romney for water skiing while healthcare was being debated.
Except Mitt Romney was not the senator from Utah or anywhere else in 2017. He had no reason nor obligation to be there, but hey, this is the Boston Globe so you can figure the rest.
ETA: here's a piece from The Hill mocking this insanity at the time:
Boston Globe mocked for ‘bizarre’ story about Romney waterskiing during healthcare debate
This article popped up on my Facebook from eight years ago today. They are savaging Mitt Romney for water skiing while healthcare was being debated.
Except Mitt Romney was not the senator from Utah or anywhere else in 2017. He had no reason nor obligation to be there, but hey, this is the Boston Globe so you can figure the rest.
ETA: here's a piece from The Hill mocking this insanity at the time:
Boston Globe mocked for ‘bizarre’ story about Romney waterskiing during healthcare debate
Opinion | Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad reflects a darker side of pop culture trends
Advertisements are always mirrors of society, and sometimes what they reflect is ugly and startling.
I don't care how much you hate the media, it isn't enough. I'd bet a fiver that whoever wrote this **** has blue hair, a nose ring and a thorough contempt of Capitalism. If you can actually read the whole thing, it comes off as a jealous screed.
I spent a couple of minutes reading this and it's unfortunate that I'll never get that time back. What a load of crap. So it's not OK to display your beauty or sexiness, or whatever related to physical appearance, if you are white since that would be trying to capitalize on your "whiteness" but put a member of another group in the ad who is also taking advantage of their beauty to help sell a product and it would be fine. Not not just fine but celebrated as an oppressed person turning the tables on Racist America.Opinion | Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad reflects a darker side of pop culture trends
Advertisements are always mirrors of society, and sometimes what they reflect is ugly and startling.www.msnbc.com
I don't care how much you hate the media, it isn't enough. I'd bet a fiver that whoever wrote this **** has blue hair, a nose ring and a thorough contempt of Capitalism. If you can actually read the whole thing, it comes off as a jealous screed.
Crabs in a bucket.Opinion | Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad reflects a darker side of pop culture trends
Advertisements are always mirrors of society, and sometimes what they reflect is ugly and startling.
I don't care how much you hate the media, it isn't enough. I'd bet a fiver that whoever wrote this **** has blue hair, a nose ring and a thorough contempt of Capitalism. If you can actually read the whole thing, it comes off as a jealous screed.
It's just someone trying to stay relevant and writing a safe piece of "journalism" that they know will be fully accepted by the mainstream. It's like ordering cheese pizza at a kids birthday party, you can't go wrong by doing that. You can't go wrong by insulting white people for being...well..white in America. Its about as "American" as you can get nowadays.
Not a news article. It's an opinion piece and clearly labeled so.Opinion | Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad reflects a darker side of pop culture trends
Advertisements are always mirrors of society, and sometimes what they reflect is ugly and startling.
I don't care how much you hate the media, it isn't enough. I'd bet a fiver that whoever wrote this **** has blue hair, a nose ring and a thorough contempt of Capitalism. If you can actually read the whole thing, it comes off as a jealous screed.
That doesn't matter. MSNBC published it and editorial or no, I find it highly unlikely it would have been published without at least some assent. An article this dumb could only appeal to a MSNBC viewer.Not a news article. It's an opinion piece and clearly labeled so.
Yep.Not a news article. It's an opinion piece and clearly labeled so.
If this was being touted as a news piece that's one thing. But it IS clearly labeled.
Doesn't really matter. A half-wit idiot posted a ridiculous opinion piece on the MSNBC website and we made fun of it. Are we not allowed to add our own opinions to the ether when someone is gracious enough to share theirs with us?
The fact that the social "rules" of our society have reached a point where something like this can be "written"/published about one race but not dared to be written about any other race on the planet, and no one bats an eye, is amazing to say the least. I'm not an NBA fan, but I was channel surfing and (for whatever reason I don't know) stopped on an NBA show. I'm not sure if it was post-game or pre-game, but basically they were criticizing a player and as part of the criticism pointed out that the player "got beat" by a "white guy" and the entire panel busts out laughing. I've heard on ESPN's First Take Shannon Sharpe (and he's not the only one) talking about how it was an embarrassment if a white player got the best of him while covering him.
Could you imagine if black players were being talked about like that on nationally televised shows? The show wouldn't even make it through the next commercial break without people being yanked off the set. Broadcasters have been forced to make on-the-spot public apologies (and fired afterwards) when simply making a comment that could be construed as referring to someone's race (other than a white person). But bashing "whitey" has not only been accepted by our society but glorified. If we're going to do it, let's do it the "Dave Chappelle" and "Bill Burr" way. They spare no one; not one race gets spared. They light them all up, and everybody gets to sit back and laugh at everybody.
Could you imagine if black players were being talked about like that on nationally televised shows? The show wouldn't even make it through the next commercial break without people being yanked off the set. Broadcasters have been forced to make on-the-spot public apologies (and fired afterwards) when simply making a comment that could be construed as referring to someone's race (other than a white person). But bashing "whitey" has not only been accepted by our society but glorified. If we're going to do it, let's do it the "Dave Chappelle" and "Bill Burr" way. They spare no one; not one race gets spared. They light them all up, and everybody gets to sit back and laugh at everybody.
You can have the opinion all you wish.
It's just when something is clearly marked OPINION, it doesn't exactly solidify the case for media bias when it's clearly marked.
I saw the video he was mortified when he realized what he did.
This is a stupid controversy, as was the controversy back when Brooke Shields was doing ads for Calvin Klein Jeans. Sex has been used to sell stuff for as long as there has been advertising; this one's just a little more blatant than most. I see this not so much as a "contempt of capitalism" as "ignorance of history".Opinion | Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad reflects a darker side of pop culture trends
Advertisements are always mirrors of society, and sometimes what they reflect is ugly and startling.
I don't care how much you hate the media, it isn't enough. I'd bet a fiver that whoever wrote this **** has blue hair, a nose ring and a thorough contempt of Capitalism. If you can actually read the whole thing, it comes off as a jealous screed.
As you know, the controversy is not about her beauty, it's about her "whiteness" and how somehow having a word play between "jeans" and "genes" means you are a Nazi war criminal in disguise. We all also know that if the ad had featured Hallie Berry or Michelle Rodriguez or any other beautiful non-white person (with the same word play in the ad) then we wouldn't even be having this conversation.
The problem isn't because she's beautiful. It's because she's white. We've "progressed" as a society that the simple act of having an attractive white person in an ad by themselves is an act of racism, microaggression, and promotes white supremacy. That's what the author got out of that ad. Mental illness runs wild in our country.
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