It's true that it likely wouldn't come up in the case; the matter at hand would be proving she lied about being assaulted or else that they were uninvolved in whatever may have transpired. And while they can easily demonstrate her lying about other peripheral elements, I don't know how they prove she's lying about…

My point is just that this house's reputation is already besmirched by confirmed crimes, lest they attempt to present themselves as never before disgraced.

As though all fraternity soirees are registered with campus authorities?

One thing to point out is that unless the woman proceeds immediately to receive medical attention and have a rape kit administered, physical evidence will often be completely lacking in cases of acquaintance rape. It's no surprise that they had nothing to go on in this case given that it allegedly happened two years…

Let's not forget the confirmed gang rape in the same house years earlier:

It's gonna be uh… fascinating decomposition.

So you got Jesus, his daddy and a spook?
You loony kooks.

If he doesn't already have a "more reasonable judgment of his material" when it was that crappy, then his fitness to host is more in question. That's why deftly acknowledging that it sucks can help his credibility. Which also extends to your analogy of politicians not commenting on drug use—such calculated silence and…

You're right; he doesn't owe us anything, but he sure as shit wants us to watch him. If he's not concerned that this will fester, fine, skip addressing it in the shorter term. But he seems to have provoked enough schadenfreude even minus this hullabaloo.

Maybe it's just that I've been married 10 years and sure as shit would need to apologize for statements half as dubious. And actually, I'd say absolution would be relatively easy in a case like this — he's not an OU SAE member; all it takes is just a lighthearted acknowledgement that he was being hackish, a nice lie…

No, I don't mean he should apologize this week or even this month. I think he should take some time to craft a response because obviously people will see through "forced bullshit damage control."

The second paragraph quoted above really encapsulates what critics are upset about. I didn't see anyone questioning Noah's right to make lame jokes on the internet, but many grasped that the tropes were harmful and were therefore frustrated by the lack of apology. Given the good will he's lost, it would obviously be…

Well I'll try but it, uh, looks kinda narrow…[unzips]

Look, he can prefer any size or shape of woman he pleases, but he can't denigrate, stereotype and marginalize those he doesn't.

Who's starting a crusade? I just refuse to give him a pass is all. Plenty of heavy women out there do have a thick skin, but plenty younger ones don't. Do Noah's tweets not purport to be his actual opinions?

Would anyone believe he's actually the reincarnation of a slave owner? No — it's in jest. Would he have been morally obtuse enough to be a slave owner if born into such a life? I somewhat doubt it, but who the hell knows. And no, "fat chicks everywhere" is not that subjective as an offensive phrasing. All the…

So a member of group A insults all of group B, and those who object must think that only group A should be insulted…is this what passes for logic in your world?

My deepest apologies for the flagrant misspelling; I was playfully imagining him as the reincarnation of a very famous Florida slave owner:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

The AV Club: where shit gets taken literally all of the sudden…

By "master," Marah is alluding to the fact that, apart from being a cantankerous slave owner in a previous life, Oswalt willfully personifies the petulant, domineering ego at the core of white patriarchy. "-ful" of course refers to how full of one's self one must be in order to implicitly defend boorish insults of…