IMO (and maybe this is the liberal Jewish side of me talking, but isn’t it always?) the most brilliant part of that segment is how he uses the idolization of Israel by the Right Wing against these American gun nuts. That they would earnestly believe Israelis would advocate for single digit-age kids to have guns in…

Psycho-sociopaths being tricked and shamed?

If he knew what was up he wouldn’t have waited until he was caught to issue a statement like this.

I took his enthusiasm as genuine delight at someone expressing opinions he is (usually) smart enough to avoid saying in public. Look at the way the guy laughed so hard he had to wipe away tears when Cohen made a joke about rape and then commented that he assumed that part would be edited out, this guy was being…

Yeah, it’s definitely accurate but it’s also a lame excuse. I mean, you have to agree to hold that stuffed animal gun. If you’re that dumb, then the lies and tricks and manipulation don’t have to be all that ingenious. You’re probably - PROBABLY - already a pretty bad person.

takes two seconds for a team to properly vet a possible meeting. these turds are so horny for the limelight they couldn’t give a fuck. let em show their ass

If he was in on the joke he wouldn’t have needed to put out this whiny statement.

You think he was in on the joke?

It’s an excuse I’m seeing a lot with these guys: “THE ONLY REASON I WAS DUPED WAS BECAUSE I WAS IN A ROOM OF MASTER CON-MEN AND I JUST SAID THE FIRST THING THAT CAME TO MY MIND!”

So every person that appeared on this show has the brain power of Ron Burgundy?

Good for Philip Van Cleave! I’m sure that Sacha Baron Cohen is chastened now, and will no longer stoop to manipulative techniques to get people to say basically what they believe but with the veneer stripped away!

That’s kind of scary. Because it tells us that prominent gun rights advocates can afford to give so few fucks that they aren’t worried about looking like psychopaths in front of the entire world.

“in the end we played each other and I confirmed what I feared this was all about.”

But who else made the allegations? I have googled it. And as near as I can tell gawker made it up and they don’t have a source. A lot of people reposted it, but they’re just repeating gawker’s claims, which are based on nothing.

Who else made them?

Neither did Kirkman.

That is true.

The worst part of that is that it connects Kirkman to the masturbation rumor, which is unfair to her — she said no such thing. She didn’t publicly level accusations at him of anything, because she didn’t name him. That’s kind of a key element.

1. Republication is republication. It doesn’t matter whether they’re just repeating defamation from somewhere else.