One thing that never sat well with me about this clip: Stewart says “we all knew Cosby was a prick for a long time.” That’s certainly true, but Stewart had Cosby on his show as late as November 2013, when the lawsuit had been some years ago and anyone paying close attention knew something was up there. (Even more…

Yeah, I’d be curious to see if this doc addresses the argument that bullying kids would have latched onto anything and Apu just happened to be the thing that was there in many cases. I mean, I can’t imagine that if Apu wasn’t around they would have decided “oh okay, let’s not racistly bully the Indian kid in class…

Yeah that’s kinda where I’m at. I stuck with The Simpsons for a long time (too long) but even the later episodes that I thought were pretty good I’m just not all that eager to actually revisit. Why bother when there’s around 180-odd legitimately classic ones I could watch instead?

That’s exactly what they were satirizing, though. It was poorly written, unfunny, trashy, genuinely misogynistic attempts at satirizing it. (Based on his statement, Taibbi himself would appear to agree with that now, even if Ames is still defensive of it.) But they were still satirizing it. The fact that it was bad or…

Can confirm, it’s a very funny show and vastly better than SNL (whose Trump satire has been lazy and awful). Atamanuik has also said he would refuse to have the real Trump on, unlike what SNL did.

I would honestly guess that the customer service employees don’t have that ability. They can probably deactive or re-active accounts because that is, naturally, a thing they would need to be able to do, but not necessarily actually tweet as that person as if they had “hacked” the account itself. In any case, Trump’s…

Twitter employee join DSA

Is there any specific basis or evidence for that though? Or just rumors? I’m not even saying I’d be terribly surprised but that almost seems more like a meme to me at this point.

He’s not talking about Monica (who, no, wasn’t assaulted, though you could reasonably debate the ethics and power dynamics of such a powerful person pursuing a lowly subordinate that way). He’s talking about Juanita Broaddrick and others who have actually come forward and said Clinton raped or harassed them. And he’s…

I loved Community but I don’t know, didn’t it kind of run it’s course? It was bleeding main cast members by the end. I really liked the final season but it struck me as a good place to stop.

....it’s a trailer. It takes two minutes to watch. Jesus.

A good rule of thumb: don’t believe Gawker blind items. They were just sourced from other places and then added some details so that they could imply a specific person, whether or not the original rumor actually had those specific details. Gawker ran a bunch of similar blind items implying that James Franco had raped…

All Roseanne means is that she has read the same Gawker stories everyone else has. Also, and I don’t mean to cruel in saying this, but Roseanne really is not well and I would take pretty much anything she says with a grain of salt at this point. She is not a reliable narrator.

Yeah as a long time fan who is also well to the left of Matt and Trey, there’s a lot of times where I’ve disagreed with a given episode but I’ve never felt that the message was actually “caring about things is stupid” like so many have suggested. Even in the Douche and Turd episode, the lesson at the end almost…

But Matthew’s point is still right here. Matt and Trey never, ever suggested that they would absolutely never tackle Trump - they merely suggested that they were tiring of becoming the “Trump show” every week, where the only reason you tuned in was to see what they would do with him that week, like SNL or The Daily…

I definitely think doing the movie with Allen was, at the very least, arguably questionable, but I’m not sure this is in the same universe or necessarily relevant to it. That he’s doing this film does at least seem to show that he’s capable of some self-reflection about his choice.

Actual research says otherwise. Look, I get where you’re coming from and why you would believe that, but it really is true that when you really focus on denying something, people will take your emphatic denials as further proof of something they already wanted to believe. Back when I was just a middle school kid I had…

The original tweet was a good satirical joke about how people we like let us down. It is however being horribly misapplied in this situation.

As someone sympathetic to a lot (not all) of this site’s politics I have to agree. The fact that there is actual straight “news” (but not actually important news, because it’s just like, whatever dumb thing the White House tweeted last, not actual policy analysis or whatever) about Trump on this site now, free from…

I had totally forgotten this until a commenter elsewhere on the internet pointed it out, but Roseanne once earnest accused Obama of being a pedophile. Yeaaaahh.....