There was an episode of The Carbonaro Effect where he did some food-themed tricks in front of a huge SMEG display, including some (probably paid for) close-up shots of all the products with that name prominent on each one.

Yeah those are some major issues. I’ve heard some people defend it but she is also associated with fighting treating trans prisoners decently. There’s debate on if she did that herself or obscured it through a few layers of bureaucracy but I don’t think that’s going to be an effective defense... but basically, she was…

I’ve followed Gillibrand since she was appointed Senator, including the early moments where she had to deny being a Blue Dog as a Rep. One thing that stands out about her is she is good as speaking passionately about the topic. I know media misogyny made her that way, but it doesn’t change that Hillary Clinton…

Ratings plummeted after Ann Curry was ousted and GMA took over as top morning show. You’d think that would be a good excuse to save on his multimillion dollar salary but they stuck by him.

TBH, in hindsight I wonder how much Katie and Al were propping him up, making him seem likable by acting as if they liked him. Maybe because he was clearly lower on the totem pole than Katie and he’s one of those guys who is unbearable once he thinks he’s on top.

Yeah, for all the talk about how everything in Hollywood comes down to money — ‘It’s not racist, homophobic or misogynistic, it all comes down to money and the audiences forcing them to reinforce bigotry.’ They’re really good at overlooking ratings or box office numbers when they argue that someone other than a…

Sounds like Fourtune has made a couple indirect responses to it on Twitter:

Pretty much, they’re both comedians who can make me laugh when they’re being assholes to people I don’t like but then I look at the rest of their work and see they’re assholes to just about everybody and its not cool.

So am I, but after reading this article I’m wondering if there’s a Nick/Viacom exec who has also been preying on children and protecting Schneider.

When GLAAD started the anti-bullying Spirit Day, I had a hard time finding something purple to wear, tho in the past few years I did find a few things. I can’t wait to see more purple in stores, this is a nice one.

The NYT went from putting way too much emphasis on Clinton’s e-mail server to obsessively giving pretty friendly profiles of white supremacists. Previously, they helped the Bush administration sell their desire to invade Iraq.

Attractive helps a lot when your only job involves trying to say the same thing as everybody else in your niche, just louder.

2008 was a nightmare. As I recall, there was a guest that referred to Clinton as reminding him of a “first wife” and there was a good amount of racist shit too. Cable news was a lot more male and white back then and there and having a female and a MoC candidate really seemed to get all those white men to start saying…

Yeah, I only got halfway through Shattered before it was due and needed to go back to the library but that totally sounds like the campaign... except Mook probably also calculated how he the campaign could benefit from HW’s fundraising but the eventual scandal would keep HW from having too much influence on Clinton.

OTOH, apparently this guy threatened to smear Terry Crews in the pages of the Enquierer for publicly discussing his abuse at the hand of his manager.

Yeah, there’s seriously a big chunk of the right who believe that liberals support reproductive rights because they want to kill babies, that queer people just want to destroy the family unit (also worth noting that they don’t know what that actually means, like mommy and daddy will be required to go to different sex…

Damnit. Guy Pearce better stay the lovely person he appears to be.

The only time gossip media gave me more whiplash was when the National Enquierer (IIRC?) apologized for a saucy headline about Princess Diana that went to press just before her death, then they went on to sell tearful remembrances of her (and conspiracy theories about how she really died).

If we have this moment of predators being outed and ostracized and Dan Schneider escapes it, I’m going to smash something.

My husband had a co-worker who he really liked but she was rabidly anti-abortion because don’t kill babies. When he’s point out that under Republican policies there’s a good chance a lot of those babies will face some kind of malnourisment, she just switch her rage to welfare cheats. It was frustrating because when it…