Yeah, people are gonna turn red because a comedian said Ivanka is full of shit, but be ok when the president calls Kaepernick a son of a bitch.
I remember a lot of indignation surrounding Wilmore and his dismantling of the press and how he addressed Obama at the end. One of my favorite WHCD sets for sure.
THAT caused a controversy? Considering the biggest war crime of this century was one of the topics that was one hell of a tame speech by Colbert (still hilarious though).
Savage, but I'd forgotten how unfunny that (unneeded) taped segment was. I still think they hired Colbert thinking his character was the real person. And even though he performed as his character, he still skewered Bush as if he were praising him.
Stop being fucking scared of the same old shit. Some of you act like Wolf ventured into untread taboo land. Nah she was telling it like it is and the Right is acting like it always does to anything by anyone liberal calling them out.
I kinda missed that one cause I was still laughing at the McConnell one lol
i mean yea, i hope i'm wrong. i'm just calling out what i'm seeing and how i think much of the masses will react. not everyone in america, whether liberals or conservatives, are as sophisticated and omniscient as the left-wing resetera activist, and many americans vote per what they hear on talk radio and local news.
The people who got offended were gonna get offended no matter what unless she went up there and verbally felated Donald Trump the entire time. Don't be afraid of some reaction that's never going to come just like their boycotts and protests don't amount to much considering every other counter example out there.
Nobody will care about this in like 2 days. The problem with the left is yes you guys DO worry too much about "optics"
It really highlights just how complicit the "liberal" media is in propping up Trump. They want an evening where everyone can smile along with how people like Trump, Sanders, Conway, Priebus etc are literally destroying our democracy and the country as a whole. Fuck everyone who doesn't speak the truth in fear of showing "bias".
Funny thing is... what access? Bunch of "Uhhh, I'm not sure. You'll have to ask the President about that.", "facts" that are soon contradicted by Donny's tweets, and a constant stream of regurgitated bullshit.
This is my take too. That access rumor floating around makes a LOT more sense if Slanders or her office was leakers yet talked undemocratic horseshit on-camera on the bosses' orders. Both parties "win" and will continue the dance tomorrow.
The weird phenomenon of Trump meant that they could get a ton of eyes on screens covering essentially anything he did, and so ultimately everything he did was covered at length. Basically every single campaign event he held ended up broadcast, every dumb thing he said was dissected over and over, we started watching discussion panels have to become explicitly right-wing weighted because you couldn't just do Democrats vs Republicans anymore, you needed Democrats vs Republicans vs Trumpers. There was that one time he managed to get the media to live air footage of an empty podium for a long-ass time, then come out and do what amounted to a commercial advertising the new Trump hotel and then dropping some short comments semi-renouncing birtherism and leaving while refusing to answer questions.
The kept giving Trump way more attention than anyone. Basically, giving him free publicly.
100% this.
They aired Trump rallies completely. They ran Hillary email bullshit every fucking day they could. They relied on "omg did you hear what Trump said" too much instead of actually delving into his shitty policies and reporting on that.
In addition to giving him a ton of free press, they ran with the clinton email bullshit a lot and invited Trump surrogates on who would outright lie or have no actual arguments. The image of remaining impartial was more important than calling them out.
The crowd wasn't her intended audience either, Jesus.
