Trust me when I say that I was somewhat shocked too! I just found out about it a couple of minutes or so ahead of you. This kind of kills off this thread, but it certainly was timely. Now we will soon get to see how this all shakes out with MSNBC’s line up.

HAAAA!!!!! I just found out that Chris Matthews IS RETIRING!  Our timing here was damn spot on! Wonderful news! :-)

Yeah, with so many of the other incredible people around him, you’d think there would be some sort of osmosis, but I think that he’s basically a prick who doesn’t think his shit ever stinks. I’d bet that he has adopted the Con use of ‘snowflake’ in his private lexicon and mentality and it’s probably what he calls…

Yeah, she is! Both her and Velhi do the morning rounds, but you see both of them heavily relied upon as fill-ins for the big, prime time hosts, especially Reid. She’s usually the go-to person when Maddow is off for the night and Maddow’s a heavy hitter, so that says a lot right there for Reid’s ability and appeal.

Yup. Its a messy case. Im more interested in the cctv and audio clips. Those are as unbiased as we can get. Even photos dont tell the story of HOW an injury was obtained. 

I get it completely. Its such a personal situation. If Depp is innocent of physical violence then I think he has every right to try and clear his name on it. I sure as hell wouldnt want to be stuck with that label even if I’m not a total angel other wise.

I am asking this as a legitimate question: what about offenders who honestly take responsibility and demonstrate not just remorse, but have made sincere efforts to learn and grow? I realize they are few and far between, but they may exist somewhere. (Mark Halperin obviously NOT being one of them with this little pity…

“Murderers in our society who get out of prison are afforded an opportunity to go on with some aspect of their life,” he said.

That whole sketch deserves to be posted. Love it so much.

It does but who knows. Maybe the statute of limitations was up by the time he filed the lawsuit? Or he doesn’t want her in jail and just wants to attempt to clear his name.

Team Nobody-And-I-Can’t-Wait-Until-This-Is-Over-And-Never-Have-To-Hear-About-These-Awful-People-Again.

I completely agree with you about the weirdness (and baselessness) of wanting to present Depp as a blameless victim in this whole affair. He quite clearly has some dangerous violent and abusive tendencies, and a lot of Depp stans and MRA types completely ignore that.

I highly doubt he'll settle privately. Hes the only one fighting to have everything public even while knowing shit like this is in there. The Sun wanted evidence to be heard privately and Amber wanted anything found in discovery private. He says he's innocent and seems to have a lot to show in order to prove it. I…

I get it, Johnny. I went through a big Hunter S. Thompson phase, too. But then I went to high school, found Bukowski, and really cleaned up my act.

How so?

You hacks unironically use The Daily Mail has a consistent source and you think that commenter should chill?

This business with his medical records looks shady and is being mishandled. 

Castro. Another woman Abrams/Gillibrand/Pressley/Harris would be historic as fuck. But, I daren’t dream. Also Harris would be a phenomenal AG or Secretary of State rather than VP.

I was watching thinking to myself that he’s got to be thinking: “Don’t interrupt the woman. Don’t interrupt the woman. Don’t interrupt the woman.” But then it turned out he really just didn’t have anything to say in response.

Yeah there are so many Bloomberg sock puppet accounts on facebook right now it is fucking unreal. Like, scary unreal.