as I watched I was often reminded that many people glorify ideas like “public service” — a preposterous term that treats politics as if it were a sacrifice without pay, power, or prestige

She goes to prison for 'insider *training*'? Quite a bold move for a mainstream comedy to take on this little-known but insidious scourge of corporate America as one of it's themes. Keep the training playing field level!

It's the same reporter whose eight-part series on Vinci corruption was shut down by Ray roughing him up a bit. There's plenty of reason to doubt that he will successfully get the story out there, now that the conspirators have essentially won and consolidated their power.

The pill that Paul took was the same - it's Viagra. the blue pills at the party were for the male guests; the ladies were getting MDMA sprayed into their mouths.

A lone 'stray observation' about the color of the dress constitutes the review being 'fixated' on it? Wildly exaggerate and overreact much?

I think you meant 'unsubstantiated myth'.

"I read this article once. It already mentioned that quote."

Well, it's not like it takes him much time or thought to post drivel like "hurr durr i'd hit it". So he's almost guaranteed to beat anyone who might have something interesting or clever to say to the punch.

Conservatives did invoke Orwell when it came to political correctness - it was an attempt, you see, to essentially remove words from the language which would promote what libruls saw as wrong-thinking. The result of PC-ifcation taken to its 'natural extreme' was, in the mind of a tinfoil-hat wearing 90s conservative…