Meanwhile in Louisiana, police exchange gunfire with Eric Derell Smith during a car chase — despite knowing he was holding his infant son while driving and shooting. Wonder why people might have a stereotype that cops are trigger happy asshole that blaze away recklessly without a care in the world at who they might…

When police dictacte public education policy, it’s still not really a police state, right?

Also seems weird to pass the blame for the old article to “a former writer,” instead of the usual “we at the AV Club.”

I know, it’s confusing. The whole child bride thing is actually *why* they were famous. I really only know anything about them from The Soup, which was not kind. 

Dear Mr. Police Guy: If it’s pushing an “absurd stereotype”, then what do you care?

“On behalf of AV Club, we apologize” seems like a real simple way to end that article instead of “you know what we should do if we ever get around to it...”

“Groom” is becoming one of those overused words. It used to mean an older person in power manipulating a younger person using the power they have over them to normalize their terrible behavior. Now it seems to mean “any time we dun got fooled.”

Lewinsky was a victim who was mocked for being a victim, and for her looks. She had absolutely no behavior outside of the situations in which she was a victim that anyone spoke about.

That MJ documentary spent a lot of time going over the work he did with the parents to build trust, make them comfortable, ingratiate himself with the family, etc. But yes, they should know better.

Hey, it can be two things: Stodden can be a victim of abuse and a terrible person who probably shouldn’t be on TV. Kinda like O’Neal can be a “former AV Club writer,” and one of, like, three or four people who all but made this site.

As the mother of a 16 year old, I find the fact that kids that young are legally allowed to marry full grown-ass adults abhorrent. All of this is deeply sad.

Can you groom parents? Isn't it just manipulation at that point? They should know better... Anyway all of this is bad

This all reminds me of the Monica Lewinsky scandal years ago. I remember watching Jay Leno make fun of her night after night, and we all laughed along.

Dave Franco.  His brother.  I don’t feel the sins of the brother are the sins of the other brother.

IMDB is famously never wrong

Projection. It’s always projection with these fuckers.

1/10, low-effort trolling.

Checked your past comments before replying because this sure sounds like trolling and yup didn’t even need to scroll down to see the N-word.

“all white male feminists are lying sacks of shit...” That seems a bit much donchathink?

“I have not and I do not plan to right now” is not quite the same as “don’t plan to work with him again”, is it?
Ah, misleading clickbait titles, we meet (constantly) again.