George Stephanoplous Repeatedly Warned by Producers Not to Use Defamatory Word "Rape," Used It Ten Times Anyway;<br>Also "Humiliated" by Payout to Trump

George Stephanoplous Repeatedly Warned by Producers Not to Use Defamatory Word "Rape," Used It Ten Times Anyway;
Also "Humiliated" by Payout to Trump

He just kept saying the word his producers told him would have legal consequences.

Because he's not a journalist. He's the same nasty shrimp who smeared honest women reporting on Clinton's harassment as "nuts and sluts."

George Stephanopoulos was repeatedly told by his executive producer not to "use the word rape" before going on the air to discuss Donald Trump but the ABC News anchor ignored the warning -- a decision that cost the network $16 million, The Post has learned.
Parent company Disney's capitulation last week in the defamation lawsuit by Trump against ABC News and Stephanopoulos shocked media and legal experts, but the damning revelation could help explain why Mouse House CEO Bob Iger signed off on the settlement so quickly.
The "This Week" host uttered that Trump was "liable for rape" while discussing the civil lawsuit won by journalist E. Jean Carroll during an interview with Republican lawmaker Nancy Mace in March.
"'This Week' producer said 'don't use the word rape' before the segment started," a network source told The Post. "The EP [executive producer] said it so many times."
A second source at the show confirmed via a text message viewed by The Post that Stephanopoulos was warned "not to say rape."
Disney's chances of winning the lawsuit would be damaged if Stephanopoulos ignored his producer's warning, legal experts told The Post.
Often, when dealing with litigious subjects, the company's legal team may speak to producers ahead of time to advise on language so as to avoid lawsuits, which is customary in the media industry.
However, it is unclear whether ABC's legal team had been involved before Stephanopoulos went on the air.
ABC News declined to comment. Reps for Disney and Stephanopoulos did not return requests for comment.
Iger agreed to the deal late Friday -- hours after Florida Judge Cecilia Altonaga rejected a request to delay the case and ordered Trump and Stephanopoulos to sit for hours-long depositions just days before Christmas, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
The judge also demanded that Disney turn over emails and text messages sent by and to Stephanopoulos by Sunday -- which could have forced the media mogul's hand if the damning text messages surfaced, according to the Times.
Disney's top lawyer, Horacio Gutierrez, urged Iger to settle the suit rather than risk a civil trial in front of a jury in the president-elect's home state, people familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal.
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A source said that ABC News employees are now calling Stephanopoulos "furious George" behind his back. They are also wondering how the star anchor can now cover the incoming Trump administration.
"Everyone seems to be asking that question except ABC brass," the source said.

More on the "humiliation" of "Furious George:"

ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos is "apoplectic" and "humiliated" by the network's decision to pay $16 million to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by President-elect Donald Trump, The Post has learned.
Stephanopoulos, who claimed Trump had raped E. Jean Carroll during an interview with Republican lawmaker Nancy Mace, was particularly upset about being forced to apologize, a source with knowledge of the situation said.
Another source told The Post that "George is defiant."
A third source said Stephanopoulos "is a very guarded person. His circle of trust is so small, and a lot of them don't work [at ABC anymore]."
The first insider added that the host of "This Week" had recently signed a contract extension with Disney-owned ABC News -- though the source did not disclose the terms of the deal.

The former President Bill Clinton aide has kept a low profile since the settlement -- a $15 million donation to a presidential foundation and museum for Trump and another $1 million for Trump's attorney fees -- was announced Saturday.
He has deactivated his X account, where he had more than 2.3 million followers.
Some ABC News staffers fumed at management for keeping a tight lid on coverage of the settlement, the first source said.
It was "front page news everywhere yet ABC doesn't report on itself," the source lamented.

Three sources told The Post that morale is down after a series of layoffs in all departments.
The settlement "is another gut punch," one of the people said. "It's sheer level embarrassment. People are furious."
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Stephanopoulos did not return multiple requests for comment.
Trump filed the defamation lawsuit against ABC News and Stephanopoulos after the newscaster incorrectly noted that the former president "has been found liable for rape by a jury."
The network and Stephanopoulos released a joint statement on Saturday.
"ABC News and George Stephanopoulos regret statements regarding President Donald J. Trump made during an interview by George Stephanopoulos with Rep. Nancy Mace on ABC's 'This Week' on March 10, 2024," the statement said.
Last year, a Manhattan jury hearing the civil case brought by Carroll, who has alleged she was raped by Trump decades ago, found the Republican liable for sexual battery and defamation -- but not rape.

Jacob Shamsian
@JayShams
The New York Times reports that Disney executives agreed to the $16 million settlement with Donald Trump because they feared a Florida jury, retribution from Trump, and the Supreme Court overturning landmark First Amendment law.

T. Becket Adams cracked:

T. Becket Adams
@BecketAdams
"ABC paid $15 million to save the First Amendment" is an all-timer in the history of PR spin.

Norman Ornstein
@NormOrnstein
I have known George Stephanopoulos since he was a junior staffer in the House of Representatives. He has had a remarkable career. I feel for him; Disney and ABC betrayed him. But if he stays in his position and does not resign, he is complicit in this blow to American democracy.

Mark Hemingway
@Heminator
Yes, Stephanopoulos must resign for the good of America!

Ed Morrissey wonders why our Bravest of Brave Fire-Fighters are all leaking about "Furious George's" anger over the settlement... anonymously.

Are you not all Brave Fire-Fighters and Fearless Truth-Tellers? Have I been misled?

CNN's ratings with the important "demo" fell to a fresh low.

New data has revealed that CNN has hit its lowest total day demo rating - a key category for cable news networks - in the outlet's history.
Among the coveted 24 to 54 viewer demographic - referred to as 'demo viewers' - CNN's daily audience dropped by one percent from last year. Last year, CNN's day total demo number was 94,000.
This year, it is reportedly 92,000, Mediaite reported based on to data from Nielsen Media Research.
The media outlet only accounted for 11 percent if cable news viewers during prime time last month after the election.
Since Donald Trump's presidential win, CNN's prime time viewership has slumped by 52 percent, according to Mediaite.
After the election, the prime time demo audience has shrunken to an average of 77,000.

CNN's overall ratings slightly increased since the election, but those increases represent their lifter, 55+ viewers remaining loyal to the network. Viewers 55 and older aren't valued by advertisers because their consumer habits are pretty much set by that age and advertising at them doesn't change those habits.

In other words, CNN's audience is old and aging. I remember how they used to snicker at the age of Fox's audience.

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Posted by: GF at December 19, 2024 01:15 PM (FZc+F)

2 How hard would it be to break a Stephanoplous hip?

Posted by: pudinhead at December 19, 2024 01:16 PM (jFCkp)

3 First!

Posted by: Jmel at December 19, 2024 01:16 PM (PqYF5)

4 >>>How hard would it be to break a Stephanoplous hip?

I would like to know the answer to this question!

Posted by: ace at December 19, 2024 01:16 PM (KRtlO)

5 "Any limit on speech is an attack on the first amendment."

"Learn to code."

"Destroy him, private-public complex."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:16 PM (GBKbO)

6 He closed his x account down in November. It took people this long to realize he had flounced.

Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2024 01:17 PM (pZEOD)

7
I'm rubber
And you're glue
The TRUMP!!! curse
Gonna stick on you

Posted by: PDT at December 19, 2024 01:17 PM (vFG9F)

8 George Snuffleupagus was humiliated? Woot, that's way better than shame!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 19, 2024 01:17 PM (tT6L1)

9 I have known George Stephanopoulos since he was a junior staffer in the House of Representatives

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He was Clinton's chief of staff, right?

Pretty nice to move into a non-partisan journalist position with a major news and media conglomerate with influence of millions of people and IPs.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 19, 2024 01:17 PM (hIXll)

10 Let's rape again, like we did last summer!

Posted by: ABC at December 19, 2024 01:18 PM (krQz2)

11 My favorite part of Trump II is that while PDT and Elon are working in tandem in Florida, JD strolls into Johnson’s office to explain the facts of life.

Posted by: Jmel at December 19, 2024 01:18 PM (PqYF5)

12 6 He closed his x account down in November. It took people this long to realize he had flounced.
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2024 01:17 PM (pZEOD)

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With 2.3 million followers, he probably easily made a few thousand dollars a month just on that, almost passively.

I mean, Stephy isn't hurtin' for cash, but that's an easy line of income that he just...ended.

It's interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:18 PM (GBKbO)

13 LOL get fucked you little monkey.

Posted by: steevy at December 19, 2024 01:18 PM (KQk9m)

14 So in addition to being corrupt and a partisan hack the snuffalupugus is also quite stupid. Sounds about right

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 01:19 PM (i5Vkf)

15 "Stephanopoulos, who claimed Trump had raped E. Jean Carroll during an interview with Republican lawmaker Nancy Mace ..."

Wait. So Mace witnessed the rape?

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 19, 2024 01:19 PM (1VvJB)

16 We are now the Knights that Sa-y-y--y ... "RAPE"!

Posted by: Sir George Steponitagain at December 19, 2024 01:19 PM (krQz2)

17 I mean, Stephy isn't hurtin' for cash, but that's an easy line of income that he just...ended.

It's interesting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:18 PM (GBKbO

Which is why y’all should all follow me because I need both passive and active income. 😀

Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2024 01:19 PM (pZEOD)

18 So "Journalist" is this high holy priestly profession that requires years of training and buckets of integrity, so much so that they'll just cram whatever hatchet man who just got rotated out of the white house in there and say "let 'er rip".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 19, 2024 01:19 PM (y/ZMQ)

19 Lololol shrimp.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 19, 2024 01:20 PM (OA79/)

20 The egos on these assholes.

Posted by: Ktgreat at December 19, 2024 01:20 PM (33LJY)

21 Leftists are no capable of shame.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 19, 2024 01:20 PM (aD39U)

22 The vicious partisan hack was so used to being able to smear people he never, in a million years, imagined there might be consequences.

I guess little Georgie didn't get the memo the Clinton years are not even a distant speck in the rear view mirror, these days.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 19, 2024 01:20 PM (tT6L1)

23 Knew I'd get will owed so I'll post it again.
That stubborn thing is in there too.
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The Irish, from which I am primarily composed, are largely quite intelligent with tremendous verbal skills ( me excepted), and numerous black holes in the logic and emotion parts of their brains.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 19, 2024 01:20 PM (4780s)

24 17 Which is why y’all should all follow me because I need both passive and active income. 😀
Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2024 01:19 PM (pZEOD)

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I don't even pay for the check mark.

Heck, I kind of stopped linking my reviews to X. Probably just because I fell out of the habit.

If people want to click on ads, that's always cool.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:21 PM (GBKbO)

25 After the election, the prime time demo audience has shrunken to an average of 77,000.

That means that about 0.02% of the country watches their network. Gee, why can't CNN sway election the way they used to?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2024 01:21 PM (xCA6C)

26 I mentioned "rape" once, but I think I got away with it.

Posted by: Sir George Steponitagain at December 19, 2024 01:21 PM (krQz2)

27 THE HUMILIATION OF FURIOUS GEORGE (chimp face) SNIFFALOTAPUSS

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 19, 2024 01:21 PM (wDJaI)

28
Oh, so NOW they believe in the First Amendment.

A few months ago these same Shits were saying the First Amendment was not absolute and needed "limitations."

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2024 01:21 PM (kBLVi)

29 I've wondered whether ABC is the party that closed Georgie's X account (rather than it being a move he took on his own).

Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2024 01:22 PM (TN0g+)

30 A third source said Stephanopoulos "is a very guarded person. His circle of trust is so small, and a lot of them don't work [at ABC anymore]."

Maybe. But his "Circle of Influence", at least in his own mind, is absolutely off the charts. And you know what ? For a time, it was. The time when just being on ABC in front of a mic influenced a certain segment of certain generations.

I'm calling bullshit on "guarded" though. Nobody "guarded" runs to a mic, every day, to shout their talking points.

Posted by: Good For the Goose at December 19, 2024 01:22 PM (ADhYT)

31 I don't even pay for the check mark.

Heck, I kind of stopped linking my reviews to X. Probably just because I fell out of the habit.

If people want to click on ads, that's always cool.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:21 PM (GBKbO)

It would help if I had great things to say, of course, but details.

You mean I have to click on the passing gas girl?

Posted by: Piper at December 19, 2024 01:22 PM (pZEOD)

32 Somebody please tell me that the Carroll thing is being appealed. The lady is obviously nuts, and has a documented rape fantasy fixation.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 19, 2024 01:22 PM (1VvJB)

33 Furious George 🐒

Posted by: steevy at December 19, 2024 01:22 PM (KQk9m)

34 Leftists are no capable of shame.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 19, 2024 01:20 PM (aD39U)
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Which can be listed as one of the psychological benefits of narcissism.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 01:23 PM (krQz2)

35 I bet it's irritating to no end knowing that a man named Cat Turd is not only your equal but a more informative news source with broader reach.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 19, 2024 01:23 PM (hIXll)

36 Transfer him to The View.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2024 01:23 PM (63Dwl)

37 A third source said Stephanopoulos "is a very guarded person. His circle of trust is so small, and a lot of them don't work [at ABC anymore]."

He's a Clintonian Renfield, and neither Clinton matters anymore.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2024 01:23 PM (xCA6C)

38 Bullhockey. If that were true ABC would fire him. How often does an employer keep someone who disobeyed direct orders and because of that lost them $15mm plus legal fees. But they didn't fire him. Standard modified limited hangout to protect ABC.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2024 01:23 PM (fs1hN)

39 It’s reported that the corrupt homunculus is fuming.

Posted by: Redenzo at December 19, 2024 01:23 PM (V/pbu)

40 You mean I have to click on the passing gas girl?

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(ads are targeted, shhh)

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 19, 2024 01:23 PM (hIXll)

41 Actually, Trump's not being very creative on this - he should have demanded that George pump Fanni Willis on live TV in front 'o Darius Sweetdick.

Trump's supposed to be this big showman.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at December 19, 2024 01:24 PM (zSyrn)

42 "A third source said Stephanopoulos "is a very guarded person. His circle of trust is so small, "

Nobody over five feet tall allowed into the Steph circle.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 19, 2024 01:24 PM (1VvJB)

43 ...coveted 24 to 54 viewer demographic...

Why is it always 'coveted'? I don't covet those worthless pricks.

Posted by: Candidus at December 19, 2024 01:24 PM (dsKux)

44
These totalitarian twats are STILL stuck in their self-made Doom Loop -- Gaslighting, Identity Politics, & Hoaxes.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 19, 2024 01:24 PM (kBLVi)

45 I just loved seeing this snippet in the time’s report:

>> The company was concerned that a jury in Florida - a deep-red state that Mr. Trump carried by 13 points in the election last month

Florida is now a deep red state. Remember 2000… satisfying it is

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 01:25 PM (i5Vkf)

46 The Trump Death Star leaves so many bodies in its terrible wake...

Posted by: fly gal at December 19, 2024 01:25 PM (6CtMt)

47 ...coveted 24 to 54 viewer demographic...

Why is it always 'coveted'? I don't covet those worthless pricks.

You aren't trying to sell worthless crap to people who don't need it.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 19, 2024 01:25 PM (xCA6C)

48
Morrissey wonders a lot of stuff because he is stupid. He also "wonders" a lot of other stuff because he's a shill.

I'm guessing his wonderment about why he keeps getting monkeypox is the genuine article, though.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 19, 2024 01:25 PM (BI5O2)

49 All that said, Times v Sullivan really does need to be revisited. The "actual malice" standard is Justice-made hooey.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 19, 2024 01:25 PM (LxER7)

50 The covfefed 24 to 54 twitter demographic

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 19, 2024 01:25 PM (hIXll)

51 He has deactivated his X account, where he had more than 2.3 million followers.
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However will those bots recover?

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 01:26 PM (krQz2)

52 45 I just loved seeing this snippet in the time’s report:

>> The company was concerned that a jury in Florida - a deep-red state that Mr. Trump carried by 13 points in the election last month

Florida is now a deep red state. Remember 2000… satisfying it is
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 01:25 PM (i5Vkf)

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Cleaning up elections and firing corrupt election officials has an effect.

It's obvious and clear.

And then you have to wonder why places like GA resist such efforts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

53 I read that ABC gave the little gnome a contract extension. Steffi must have enjoyed getting rammed by ABC corporate attorneys

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2024 01:26 PM (DopAq)

54 Leftists are no capable of shame.

How do you define it ? Look - many of these Leftists would now be "shamed" in the right spot. They "self shame", in the best Catholic or Puritan traditions, over shit you and I would laugh at.

The argument really is over what should cause shame. That is a vital distinction.

Posted by: Good For the Goose at December 19, 2024 01:26 PM (ADhYT)

55 If I went out and shot Soros for all the bad things he and his wealth have caused do you think I would get the Luigi treatment from the left?

Posted by: ObsidianKnife at December 19, 2024 01:26 PM (1Xis7)

56 Hey George Hillary called. She has a load of laundry you can do for her. Don't mind the skid marks!!!!

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 19, 2024 01:26 PM (wDJaI)

57 Why didn't Trump get $1.6B, instead of $16M? Sounds like a slam-dunk case against the deepest pockets in human history, with a gigaton of shit to hide from discovery.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 19, 2024 01:26 PM (1VvJB)

58 George Stephanoplous Repeatedly Warned by Producers Not to Use Defamatory Word "Rape," Used It Ten Times Anyway

I like rape.

Posted by: George Stephanoplous at December 19, 2024 01:26 PM (aD39U)

59 Lie now, pay later!

Ain't that right, Georgie?!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 19, 2024 01:27 PM (d9LQi)

60 Stephanopoulos got it shoved right up his ass.

Which you'd think he'd enjoy!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 19, 2024 01:27 PM (wtvvX)

61 George R. R. Stephanopoulos

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 19, 2024 01:27 PM (hIXll)

62 Which is why y’all should all follow me because I need both passive and active income. 😀
Posted by: Piper
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A link would be helpful.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 19, 2024 01:27 PM (PMg+h)

63 Remember when stephy was such a huge sex symbol we had the girls from the sitcom Friends lusting after him on an episode? 1994…. 30 years ago

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 01:28 PM (i5Vkf)

64 Bulg, if you're here, I replied to you on the previous thread regarding your doc's orders.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 19, 2024 01:28 PM (d9LQi)

65 Fascinating George is regarded as a star. No idea what makes George a star other than the word has been attached so long to George's name, people just seem to accept it.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 19, 2024 01:28 PM (tT6L1)

66 58 George Stephanoplous Repeatedly Warned by Producers Not to Use Defamatory Word "Rape," Used It Ten Times Anyway

I like rape.

Posted by: George Stephanoplous at December 19, 2024 01:26 PM (aD39U)

So do I!!!

Posted by: Slick Willie at December 19, 2024 01:28 PM (wtvvX)

67 Trump filed the defamation lawsuit against ABC News and Stephanopoulos after the newscaster incorrectly noted that the former president "has been found liable for rape by a jury."
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Yeah, any "news" personality should have known better than to make that statement. Trump was found liable for having "defamed" Carroll by calling her crazy for her accusations of Trump enacting a Law & Order episode on her.

In a contest where the judge pretty much didn't allow Trump to have a defense.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 01:28 PM (krQz2)

68 I can't ride the good rides at Disney World.

Posted by: George Stephanoplous at December 19, 2024 01:29 PM (aD39U)

69 65 Fascinating George is regarded as a star. No idea what makes George a star other than the word has been attached so long to George's name, people just seem to accept it.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 19, 2024 01:28 PM (tT6L1)

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Network television news anchors and their salaries are even more opaque and inexplicable than George Clooney's stardom.

Well, unless you explain it as laundering.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:29 PM (GBKbO)

70 How did I frt get pulled into frt this conversation?!? frt

Posted by: The Passing Gas Girl at December 19, 2024 01:29 PM (m0WlR)

71 55 If I went out and shot Soros for all the bad things he and his wealth have caused do you think I would get the Luigi treatment from the left?
Posted by: ObsidianKnife at December 19, 2024 01:26 PM (1Xis7)

Are you super cute?

Posted by: Just Lily at December 19, 2024 01:29 PM (L0nJW)

72 And then you have to wonder why places like GA resist such efforts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

I see you've never driven through Atlanta. GA is well on the way to being the next Illinois. One state ruled by one city.

Posted by: Good For the Goose at December 19, 2024 01:29 PM (ADhYT)

73 Nobody over five feet tall allowed into the Steph circle.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird

Nancy Mace called him a SAM, small angry man, during an interview last night.

Posted by: friends in low places at December 19, 2024 01:29 PM (WD60c)

74 >>Viewers 55 and older aren't valued by advertisers because their consumer habits are pretty much set by that age and advertising at them doesn't change those habits.

Is this true? I thought most of their advertising was drugs, and that demo is a big target for drug companies.

Posted by: Just asking at December 19, 2024 01:29 PM (T4+cP)

75 How small and impotent is a Stephanoplous wiener?

Posted by: pudinhead at December 19, 2024 01:29 PM (jFCkp)

76 67 Yeah, any "news" personality should have known better than to make that statement. Trump was found liable for having "defamed" Carroll by calling her crazy for her accusations of Trump enacting a Law & Order episode on her.

In a contest where the judge pretty much didn't allow Trump to have a defense.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 01:28 PM (krQz2)

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There's a clip going around of a bunch of news organizations all saying that Trump was convicted of rape not defamation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:30 PM (GBKbO)

77 55 If I went out and shot Soros for all the bad things he and his wealth have caused do you think I would get the Luigi treatment from the left?
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The only time anyone on the left would be accused of being antisemitic I'm guessing.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2024 01:30 PM (fs1hN)

78 There was a guy on MeidasTouch - a youtube channel who said on Election night that Trump was "an adjudicated rapist." Wish I had a channel to DJT to let him know about that. Was the British guy with no hair and funny glasses that said that.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at December 19, 2024 01:30 PM (zSyrn)

79 72 And then you have to wonder why places like GA resist such efforts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

I see you've never driven through Atlanta. GA is well on the way to being the next Illinois. One state ruled by one city.
Posted by: Good For the Goose at December 19, 2024 01:29 PM (ADhYT)

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I was there last week, actually.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:30 PM (GBKbO)

80 Georgie "Shrimpie" Snuffalapoulous is lucky to have a job. Not sure when his contract ends, but he will not be renewed at his current wages. Not sure who his podcast audience would be if he went that route? Legacy media is dead, just doing the funeral procession to the cemetery.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at December 19, 2024 01:30 PM (TN5A0)

81 How hard would it be to break a Stephanoplous hip?
Posted by: pudinhead
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Easier than you would think... ow-OW

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at December 19, 2024 01:30 PM (c0tJM)

82 I bet if you follow the money, you can trace the 15 mil right back to the Kamala Campaign.

Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 01:31 PM (QcVoh)

83 Fascinating George is regarded as a star. No idea what makes George a star other than the word has been attached so long to George's name, people just seem to accept it.

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Kind of like Kevin Hart. I've seen more than one celebrity point out that literally nobody recalls seeing Kevin Hart "on the way up"...he just went from complete unknown to "star".

Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2024 01:31 PM (TN0g+)

84 There's a clip going around of a bunch of news organizations all saying that Trump was convicted of rape not defamation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:30 PM (GBKbO)
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Well, the only reason people think Carroll is crazy is because Trump said she was.

* rolls eyes *

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 01:31 PM (krQz2)

85 Is it permitted to compare a white leftist dude to a chimp? Gotta be racist somehow.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 19, 2024 01:31 PM (Axt+y)

86 Don’t forget Steph’s boss Bubba was credibly accused of rape (Juanita Broderick) but the little gnome kept working for him and might’ve been the originator of the “bimbo eruptions” terminology…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 01:31 PM (i5Vkf)

87 50 The covfefed 24 to 54 twitter demographic

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 19, 2024 01:25 PM (hIXll)

LOL!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 19, 2024 01:31 PM (wtvvX)

88 Not news:

Joker 2 is a huge mess that makes no sense.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:32 PM (GBKbO)

89 Steph infection.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 19, 2024 01:32 PM (1VvJB)

90 I wonder what Rachel Maddow, aka the "Animatronic Cashew" per Ace, is thinking right now about this defamation lawsuit win for Trump. Maddow hosted E. Jean Carroll and two other tw*ts after the lawsuit on her show, with Carroll bragging about how she was going to spend her settlement $$. She needs to be countersued out of this universe.

Posted by: fly gal at December 19, 2024 01:32 PM (6CtMt)

91 Never watched George, I like to get my news from grownups.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 19, 2024 01:33 PM (4780s)

92 How does a Clinton spokeshole suddenly become a journalist?

Posted by: mr tmz at December 19, 2024 01:33 PM (rJ48h)

93 The New York Times reports that Disney executives agreed to the $16 million settlement with Donald Trump because they feared a Florida jury, retribution from Trump, and the Supreme Court overturning landmark First Amendment law.
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Hey! No fair having court cases in YOUR states!!!

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 01:33 PM (krQz2)

94 Yeah, any "news" personality should have known better than to make that statement. Trump was found liable for having "defamed" Carroll by calling her crazy for her accusations of Trump enacting a Law & Order episode on her.

The details really didn't matter. A NY jury was convened to demand that Donald Trump write a big check for being Donald Trump the Republican.

Understand that, and you'll understand the majority New England mentality.

Posted by: Good For the Goose at December 19, 2024 01:33 PM (ADhYT)

95 Joker 2 is a huge mess that makes no sense.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:32 PM (GBKbO)

Wait is that what we're calling Kamala now? She does cackle a lot.

Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 01:33 PM (QcVoh)

96 I'd never heard of this guy until he was mentioned on an episode of Friends in the '90s -- approvingly, by the three lead women characters on the show. When I heard the name, I pictured somebody like Telly Savalas's brother George -- who in the '70s looked more liek Chris Christie does now -- so I couldn't understand why the young ladies were so impressed by this guy.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 01:33 PM (J2vNu)

97 Joker 2 is a huge mess that makes no sense.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Tim Dillon, who is in that movie, has dubbed it the worst film ever made.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 19, 2024 01:33 PM (BI5O2)

98 One of the most amusing things (in today's world) about CNN is that their failure is displayed right there in their brand. CABLE News Network.

"Cable" news is on the way out. Each day it becomes more obsolete. So, to diversify and chase the "new" trend in news delivery, CNN (CABLE News Network) is in a position forcing them to change their Brand in order to adapt. No one survives that unless they have a product that greatly exceeds their competition. They're done...circling the drain.

Posted by: Orson at December 19, 2024 01:33 PM (dIske)

99 "Joker 2 is a huge mess that makes no sense."

So it's an allegory.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 19, 2024 01:34 PM (1VvJB)

100 How does a Clinton spokeshole suddenly become a journalist?

Posted by: mr tmz at December 19, 2024 01:33 PM (rJ48h)
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It's spelled the same way, but the j is silent.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 01:34 PM (krQz2)

101 Never watched George, I like to get my news from grownups.
Posted by: From about That Time at December 19, 2024 01:33 PM (4780s)
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I'm right here, you know!

Posted by: Bob Costas at December 19, 2024 01:34 PM (tT6L1)

102 ABC rewarded George for taking one for the team:
https://tinyurl.com/yazmddhk

Posted by: zonedar at December 19, 2024 01:34 PM (Slp/3)

103 George Stephanopoulos was repeatedly told by his executive producer not to "use the word rape" before going on the air to discuss Donald Trump

As if George works for this 'executive producer'...

Posted by: Yeah, We're Talking Deep at December 19, 2024 01:34 PM (KfN19)

104 97 Joker 2 is a huge mess that makes no sense.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Tim Dillon, who is in that movie, has dubbed it the worst film ever made.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 19, 2024 01:33 PM (BI5O2)

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I've seen worse (The Last Movie will always be in my heart as the most painful, ludicrous thing I've ever sat through.)

But this ain't good.

The musical sequences look really good, at least.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:34 PM (GBKbO)

105 George didn't just smear Trump as a rapist 12 or 13 times in that interrogation, he also was rape shaming Nancy Mace as someone that had been raped supporting a "convicted rapist". It was disgusting.

Posted by: friends in low places at December 19, 2024 01:34 PM (WD60c)

106 Honestly not sure how the malignant little shrimp was 'humiliated'.

He smeared Trump, the company had to pay a big settlement, and then rewarded him with a contract extension (which was reported yesterday).

He personally suffered not a single meaningful consequence, which is why the far leftists like him will continue to do it.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at December 19, 2024 01:34 PM (jEIOw)

107 What pearls of wisdom did Little George drop on his 2.3 million Twitter followers? How could there be that many idiots out there who would think he'd be worth a follow?

Posted by: Wally at December 19, 2024 01:35 PM (gO15o)

108 I can't ride the good rides at Disney World.
Posted by: George Stephanoplous
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Neither can I.

Posted by: Robert Reich at December 19, 2024 01:35 PM (XeU6L)

109 Joker 2 is a huge mess that makes no sense.

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People liked the first one. Viewers took the "wrong" message from it (see also: Falling Down). It had to be destroyed.

Also make it a musical because **** all y'all.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 19, 2024 01:35 PM (hIXll)

110 Never watched Kevin. I like to get my comedy from grownups.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 19, 2024 01:35 PM (4780s)

111 106 Honestly not sure how the malignant little shrimp was 'humiliated'.

He smeared Trump, the company had to pay a big settlement, and then rewarded him with a contract extension (which was reported yesterday).

He personally suffered not a single meaningful consequence, which is why the far leftists like him will continue to do it.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at December 19, 2024 01:34 PM (jEIOw)

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He's humiliated because he's important. He's a real person.

He shouldn't face consequences for speaking truth to power, which is whenever he opens his mouth.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:35 PM (GBKbO)

112 Bob Costas at December 19, 2024 01:34 PM (tT6L1)

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I was quite happy to see that little marxist shit move on from NFL broadcasts back in the day.

Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2024 01:35 PM (TN0g+)

113 109 People liked the first one. Viewers took the "wrong" message from it (see also: Falling Down). It had to be destroyed.

Also make it a musical because **** all y'all.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 19, 2024 01:35 PM (hIXll)

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The musical stuff is easily the beset stuff in the movie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:35 PM (GBKbO)

114 Morrissey wonders a lot of stuff because he is stupid. He also "wonders" a lot of other stuff because he's a shill.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

"tO bE fAiR~! HURR-DURRR!!!"

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 19, 2024 01:35 PM (IG4Id)

115 George didn't just smear Trump as a rapist 12 or 13 times in that interrogation, he also was rape shaming Nancy Mace as someone that had been raped supporting a "convicted rapist". It was disgusting.
Posted by: friends in low places at December 19, 2024 01:34 PM (WD60c)
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Yup. But it's nice to know that talking heads can't endlessly ignore reality.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 01:36 PM (krQz2)

116 "Joker 2 is a huge mess that makes no sense."

So it's an allegory.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 19, 2024 01:34 PM (1VvJB)

A cautionary tale.

Posted by: George Stephanoplous at December 19, 2024 01:36 PM (aD39U)

117 116 "Joker 2 is a huge mess that makes no sense."

So it's an allegory.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 19, 2024 01:34 PM (1VvJB)

A cautionary tale.
Posted by: George Stephanoplous at December 19, 2024 01:36 PM (aD39U)

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"I call is aspirational."
-Pete Buttigieg

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:36 PM (GBKbO)

118 How small and impotent is a Stephanoplous wiener?
Posted by: pudinhead at December 19, 2024

***
I promised I'd never tell!

Posted by: Ali Wentworth at December 19, 2024 01:36 PM (J2vNu)

119
What now, little man?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2024 01:36 PM (Pnyid)

120 "Humiliated" by Payout to Trump

13
LOL get fucked you little monkey.
Posted by: steevy
......

Shrinkage.

Posted by: wth at December 19, 2024 01:36 PM (v0R5T)

121 The musical stuff is easily the beset stuff in the movie.

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Oh, absolutely. And what 0.2% of straight audiences would go to movies for in modern times.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 19, 2024 01:37 PM (hIXll)

122 Is Stephanoplous Hillary's comfort animal?

Posted by: pudinhead at December 19, 2024 01:37 PM (jFCkp)

123 Okay, I've only read a few sentences and already I'm taking issue with some phrases used.

Trump is "vindictive"? It was Spurious George who was being vindictive by insisting that Trump was a rapist because Trump is not Uniparty.

Disney is "family friendly"? Not for quite awhile now, and only for people keeping their eyes half-closed so as not to see what Disney has become.

Posted by: Emmie at December 19, 2024 01:37 PM (Sf2cq)

124 Even before I learned to despise GWB, I had to concede the Left's point about his looks. Very simian.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 19, 2024 01:37 PM (BI5O2)

125 "Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein
I have known George Stephanopoulos since he was a junior staffer in the House of Representatives. He has had a remarkable career. I feel for him; Disney and ABC betrayed him. But if he stays in his position and does not resign, he is complicit in this blow to American democracy."

What a trooper! So many of these feltering limpdicks are so very eager for other people to give up their jobs for some bullshit principles.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 19, 2024 01:37 PM (iFTx/)

126 If you are coming up on 29 as I am you may recall that when Little Boy George made the leap from the Clinton WH to ABC News, there was a whole orchestra-full of tut-tutting and hand-waving about how George would be kept away from any kind of political reporting where his Dem Party umbilical cord might present even the appearance of a conflict of interest.

Memory hole, meet glory hole.

Posted by: Candidus at December 19, 2024 01:38 PM (dsKux)

127 The musical stuff is easily the beset stuff in the movie.

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He was more beset by the prison rape.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 01:38 PM (krQz2)

128 With 2.3 million followers, he probably easily made a few thousand dollars a month just on that, almost passively.

Don't you have to actually post content? How many different ways are there to say "I like penis"?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 19, 2024 01:38 PM (ExV1e)

129 121 Oh, absolutely. And what 0.2% of straight audiences would go to movies for in modern times.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 19, 2024 01:37 PM (hIXll)

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True. The people who liked Joker don't generally like musicals.

Everything about the film is an attack on the fans of the original.

Which doesn't really include me. The first one is a mess, too. I can't be insulted by attacks not directed at me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:38 PM (GBKbO)

130 "Humiliated?" The deposition would have been glorious.

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 19, 2024 01:38 PM (QSrLX)

131
A third source said Stephanopoulos "is a very guarded person. His circle of trust is so small, and a lot of them don't work [at ABC anymore]."

Translation: he's a self-important midget ass-felcher who doesn't know how to keep friends and allies.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2024 01:38 PM (y9nCu)

132 George didn't just smear Trump as a rapist 12 or 13 times in that interrogation, he also was rape shaming Nancy Mace as someone that had been raped supporting a "convicted rapist". It was disgusting.
Posted by: friends in low places at December 19, 2024

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I heard a clip from the "interview" this morning on talk radio. Seemed Nancy gave as good as she got -- better, since GS probably didn't expect her to fight back.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 01:39 PM (J2vNu)

133 I love the fact George is humiliated. His sense of, "Do you know who I am" must be so enormous, he cannot fathom the idea there might be a bridge to far for his titanic ego.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 19, 2024 01:39 PM (tT6L1)

134 "Ed Morrissey wonders why our Bravest of Brave Fire-Fighters are all leaking about "Furious George's" anger over the settlement... anonymously."

Not close to getting back on the Morrissey train after his misjudgment of Trump 1.0, but his take earlier this week on the implications of the media not fact checking in a Sullivan environment was first class.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 19, 2024 01:39 PM (BthBb)

135 Never watched Bob. I like to get my sports news from grownups.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 19, 2024 01:39 PM (4780s)

136 Leftists hang their hat on Judge Kaplan's statement that Trump was guilty of rape, just in the common parlance sense, not the legal sense. Kaplan's name needs to be on the long list of who Trump and his DOJ legally go after.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 19, 2024 01:39 PM (Odg76)

137
Wait.

You mean Furious George's best friend, The Man in the Wet, Yellow Depends, Joe Biden, can't help him out?

Shocked I am!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 19, 2024 01:39 PM (iJfKG)

138 If little Stephie is so outraged and deviant, he should go back on the air, or twitter, and say it again.

Go on, do it.

You chicken?

bawk, Bawk, BAWK.

Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at December 19, 2024 01:39 PM (EdpVa)

139 Why did Harley Quinn face no legal consequences for starting a fire in a correctional institution and trying to free a violent criminal from captivity?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:40 PM (GBKbO)

140

He said GRAPE, not rape!!!!

- - ABC

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2024 01:40 PM (x0n13)

141 "Spurious George" outstanding, Emmie.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 19, 2024 01:40 PM (tT6L1)

142 Maybe Nancy Mace should file.

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 19, 2024 01:40 PM (QSrLX)

143 Harley Quinn is the top of the crazy/hot matrix.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 19, 2024 01:40 PM (aD39U)

144 Even before I learned to despise GWB, I had to concede the Left's point about his looks. Very simian.

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I recently learned that Epstein had a painting of Bush playing with a paper airplane while seated in front of fallen Jenga blocks.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 19, 2024 01:40 PM (hIXll)

145 125 "Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein
I have known George Stephanopoulos since he was a junior staffer in the House of Representatives. He has had a remarkable career. I feel for him; Disney and ABC betrayed him. But if he stays in his position and does not resign, he is complicit in this blow to American democracy."

What a trooper! So many of these feltering limpdicks are so very eager for other people to give up their jobs for some bullshit principles.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 19, 2024 01:37 PM (iFTx/)

Say, is Jen Rubin still at the WaPo?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 19, 2024 01:40 PM (BthBb)

146 140

He said GRAPE, not rape!!!!

- - ABC
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2024 01:40 PM (x0n13)

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"No, I said rape. And I'd say rape again!"
-G. Stephy, defiant and unbowed

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:41 PM (GBKbO)

147 Yup. But it's nice to know that talking heads can't endlessly ignore reality.
Posted by: Axeman

Thank goodness for Nancy Mace and for Trump giving others the strength to defend themselves against the shameless media.

Posted by: friends in low places at December 19, 2024 01:41 PM (WD60c)

148 Why did Harley Quinn face no legal consequences for starting a fire in a correctional institution and trying to free a violent criminal from captivity?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:40 PM (GBKbO)

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No idea.

Posted by: FBI and CIA handlers at December 19, 2024 01:41 PM (tT6L1)

149 Bob Costas at December 19, 2024

If dog racing still had jockeys, maybe these guys would have had productive careers.

Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2024 01:42 PM (KfN19)

150 "Among the coveted 24 to 54 viewer demographic - referred to as 'demo viewers' - CNN's daily audience dropped by one percent from last year. Last year, CNN's day total demo number was 94,000."

I saw somewhere Charlie Kirk got sixty million views on Tik Tok in the weeks before the election.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 19, 2024 01:42 PM (pIfcn)

151 Trump is a beast, a force of nature…. What’s his body count now? He’s taken out the Bush clan, Cheney’s Romney’s Clinton, Obama… and those are just the major trophies. This guy has more trophies than Teddy hung at Sagamore Hill….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 01:42 PM (i5Vkf)

152 George Stephanopoulos's wife, Ali Wentworth, on their courtship. They met on a blind date:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUXHuYf8CVA

Posted by: fly gal at December 19, 2024 01:42 PM (6CtMt)

153 Trump raped ABC.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 01:42 PM (krQz2)

154 Buh-bye Neil Cavuto. I won't miss you.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 19, 2024 01:42 PM (paSBy)

155 Harley Quinn is the top of the crazy/hot matrix.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 19, 2024 01:40 PM (aD39U)
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I sort of wonder if Margo Robbie was playing herself.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 19, 2024 01:42 PM (tT6L1)

156 Disney needs to start cutting its liabilities. ESPN's NBA and NFL franchises are circling failure in a rapidly decaying orbit. DIS pedo movies are not drawing enough fags to their theme parks or selling merch.

ABC was always a throwaway.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at December 19, 2024 01:42 PM (wBaIH)

157 Buh-bye Neil Cavuto. I won't miss you.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 19, 2024 01:42 PM (paSBy)

He's all shook up.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 19, 2024 01:42 PM (aD39U)

158 I like rape.
https://tinyurl.com/yn4p9p9y

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 19, 2024 01:43 PM (wDJaI)

159 Why did Harley Quinn face no legal consequences for starting a fire in a correctional institution and trying to free a violent criminal from captivity?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:40 PM (GBKbO)
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Hey shut up!

Posted by: Scriptwriter Guy at December 19, 2024 01:43 PM (krQz2)

160
I've seen worse (The Last Movie will always be in my heart as the most painful, ludicrous thing I've ever sat through.)

The Last Movie?

You need to take a near lethal dose of LSD followed by a Speedball or three for that one to make sense.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 19, 2024 01:43 PM (iJfKG)

161 155 Harley Quinn is the top of the crazy/hot matrix.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 19, 2024 01:40 PM (aD39U)

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Not this Harley Quinn.

Lady Gaga isn't nearly hot enough. Not by a million miles.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:43 PM (GBKbO)

162 Also this is very interesting knowing what we've seen over the last ten years. Everyone knows the "Pet Goat" silliness, but I'd never seen this until this week.

Here's Bush at the moment the towers were being attacked. Children being led by their teacher to say:

GET READY!

https://tinyurl.com/mrx8pwa3

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 19, 2024 01:43 PM (hIXll)

163 141 "Spurious George" outstanding, Emmie.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 19, 2024 01:40 PM (tT6L1)

*curtsies*

I'd like to thank my Moron friends who provide constant intellectual stimulation, which occasionally prompts my remaining brain cells to produce something somewhat clever.

Posted by: Emmie at December 19, 2024 01:43 PM (Sf2cq)

164 Behind his back we call him Poison Dwarf.

Posted by: PEOPLE WHO KNOW GEORGE at December 19, 2024 01:43 PM (oOc/o)

165 Why didn't Trump get $1.6B, instead of $16M? Sounds like a slam-dunk case against the deepest pockets in human history, with a gigaton of shit to hide from discovery.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 19, 2024 01:26 PM (1VvJB)

He now can just describe the ABC station as admittedly biased and election interferers and hit George in his tiny pocketbook. That's worth far more than the money to them and him. He's counted coup on them and they burn in shame. The leftists will punish him too.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024 01:43 PM (n7h9X)

166 159 Why did Harley Quinn face no legal consequences for starting a fire in a correctional institution and trying to free a violent criminal from captivity?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:40 PM (GBKbO)
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Hey shut up!
Posted by: Scriptwriter Guy at December 19, 2024 01:43 PM (krQz2)

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I'm gonna get on our back about this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:43 PM (GBKbO)

167 "George Stephanoplous Repeatedly Warned by Producers Not to Use Defamatory Word "Rape," Used It Ten Times Anyway"

Ehhh ... this seems like fake spin to try to save ABC from as much fallout from this bombshell as possible. I think the reverse is much more plausible: ABC encouraged this dinky monkey douchemonger to use the word "rape" as often as possible.

Remember, this was before the election and ABC was trying to destroy Trump's candidacy. They would have called Trump a child molester if they thought they could get away with it. No doubt ABC thought there was no chance they'd be liable for defamation if they called him a rapist.

In fact, I think ABC and Curious George deliberately phrased it the way they did -- "liable for rape" -- to try to capture what the slimy scumbag judge said. This was all very very calculated.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 19, 2024 01:43 PM (iFTx/)

168 Pity that George doesn't have to personally pay the settlement. Companies should have a clause that if they have to pay out for defamation, slander, libel, then that settlement is coming out of the libeler's salary at 50%. I suppose that wouldn't pass legal muster.
But having to pay that settlement should at least give Disney cover to fire George and not worry about having to pay out his contract anyway. Of course Disney would have to want to get rid of him and Iger is probably only annoyed that Georgie was careless with how he worded his slander but is all for any attack on DJT.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 19, 2024 01:43 PM (UKUm3)

169 153 Trump raped ABC.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 01:42 PM (krQz2)

Forcefully.

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 19, 2024 01:43 PM (wDJaI)

170 Harley Quinn is the top of the crazy/hot matrix.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 19, 2024

***
And Margot Robbie playing HQ made Suicide Squad GO. Not just from her appearances in short-shorts, either. She just made Harley a *presence*."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 01:44 PM (J2vNu)

171 160 The Last Movie?

You need to take a near lethal dose of LSD followed by a Speedball or three for that one to make sense.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 19, 2024 01:43 PM (iJfKG)

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I need to see if Dennis Hopper ever talked about it later in life, post Blue Velvet or so when he went sober.

I'd bet he had virtually no memories of making the movie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:44 PM (GBKbO)

172 "Stephanopoulos, who claimed Trump had raped E. Jean Carroll during an interview with Republican lawmaker Nancy Mace ..."

Wait. So Mace witnessed the rape?
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at December 19, 2024 01:19 PM (1VvJB)

How old would Mace have been, like 6?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024 01:45 PM (n7h9X)

173 Is crazy/hot Harley Quinn's only superpower?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 19, 2024 01:45 PM (aD39U)

174 Did Harley ever figure out a way to get super powers, or was she just a college graduate?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 19, 2024 01:45 PM (hIXll)

175 173 Is crazy/hot Harley Quinn's only superpower?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 19, 2024 01:45 PM (aD39U)

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She has a baseball bat!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

176 Lady Gaga isn't nearly hot enough. Not by a million miles.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:43 PM (GBKbO)
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But what she lacks in looks, she makes up for in crazy.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 01:45 PM (krQz2)

177 124 Even before I learned to despise GWB, I had to concede the Left's point about his looks. Very simian.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 19, 2024

He does resemble the Chris Kattan monkey character from SNL.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 19, 2024 01:46 PM (1gLn1)

178 "Among the coveted 24 to 54 viewer demographic - referred to as 'demo viewers' - CNN's daily audience dropped by one percent from last year. Last year, CNN's day total demo number was 94,000.

This year, it is reportedly 92,000, Mediaite reported based on to data from Nielsen Media Research."

92,000 wouldn't fill Michigan Stadium.

Posted by: mrp at December 19, 2024 01:46 PM (rj6Yv)

179 And Margot Robbie playing HQ made Suicide Squad GO. Not just from her appearances in short-shorts, either. She just made Harley a *presence*."
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Margot Robbie is an Olive Garden 9.

Posted by: Crusader at December 19, 2024 01:46 PM (TN0g+)

180 She has a baseball bat!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

I think she might be preternaturally flexible.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 19, 2024 01:46 PM (aD39U)

181 Pity that George doesn't have to personally pay the settlement. Companies should have a clause that if they have to pay out for defamation, slander, libel, then that settlement is coming out of the libeler's salary at 50%. I suppose that wouldn't pass legal muster.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 19, 2024 01:43 PM (UKUm3)

I heard that 1 million did come out of George's own pocket.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024 01:46 PM (n7h9X)

182 Is crazy/hot Harley Quinn's only superpower?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 19, 2024 0

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Is the willingness to wield a baseball bat on your face without a second's hesitation a superpower? Then she has that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 01:46 PM (J2vNu)

183 Wasn't ABC once considered an honest news source?

If so, it wasn't then either.

Too bad.

Anyway. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at December 19, 2024 01:47 PM (WXNFJ)

184 Even before I learned to despise GWB, I had to concede the Left's point about his looks. Very simian.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 19, 2024

He does resemble the Chris Kattan monkey character from SNL.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 19, 2024 01:46 PM (1gLn1)
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Mister Peepers?

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 01:47 PM (krQz2)

185 How awesome would it be if Trump earned more money in defamation damages than he had to pay Carroll?

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at December 19, 2024 01:47 PM (V6W16)

186 Sociopathy is too common to be a super power.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 19, 2024 01:47 PM (aD39U)

187 So an average 30-35 year old woman is Batman's equal.

Checks out.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 19, 2024 01:47 PM (hIXll)

188 Wasn't ABC once considered an honest news source?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 19, 2024 01:47 PM (WXNFJ)
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Nope. It's broadcast.

And it depends on who does the considering.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 01:47 PM (krQz2)

189 184 Even before I learned to despise GWB, I had to concede the Left's point about his looks. Very simian.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 19, 2024

He does resemble the Chris Kattan monkey character from SNL.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 19, 2024 01:46 PM (1gLn1)
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Mister Peepers?
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 01:47

That's his name. You have a good memory. I was too lazy to search for the name.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 19, 2024 01:47 PM (1gLn1)

190 Say what you want about Nancy Mace, but she's a southern gal who will kick you in the Clackers with a smile on her face and Jesus in her heart.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at December 19, 2024 01:48 PM (wBaIH)

191 By the "logic" of the Carroll suit, nobody would be saying Trump's a rapist, unless she had spread that story.

He should sue Carroll unless she proves her "case".

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 01:49 PM (krQz2)

192 George has always been a nasty, little hatchet man for the left.

He knew what he was doing.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 19, 2024 01:49 PM (8GCEq)

193 One of the more distasteful episodes from the Clinton '92 campaign was watching interviews in the Clinton "War Room", starring James Carville and George the Geek.

Posted by: mrp at December 19, 2024 01:49 PM (rj6Yv)

194 I’m clueless about many things pop culture. I’d never heard of Margot Robbie until this here thread… obviously didn’t watch any of her movies. Probably not as crazy as E Jean Carroll

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 01:50 PM (i5Vkf)

195 Massacre of the North Koreans on Putin's meat grinder frontline: Bodies of Kim Jong-un's soldiers blight the snow as Russians burn dead comrades

Posted by: Don Black. Message: do not fight for Russia at December 19, 2024 01:50 PM (/7KEl)

196 Stephafuckawit is the epitome of having "little man" syndrome

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Actively Searching for Mistletoes Hanging Over Wagshambas at December 19, 2024 01:50 PM (HYKHz)

197 George didn't just smear Trump as a rapist 12 or 13 times in that interrogation, he also was rape shaming Nancy Mace as someone that had been raped supporting a "convicted rapist". It was disgusting.
Posted by: friends in low places at December 19, 2024

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I heard a clip from the "interview" this morning on talk radio. Seemed Nancy gave as good as she got -- better, since GS probably didn't expect her to fight back.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 01:39 PM (J2vNu)

If he had to shout rape 10 times to her he wasn't in charge of the interview.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024 01:50 PM (n7h9X)

198 Did Harley ever figure out a way to get super powers, or was she just a college graduate?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 19, 2024

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She was introduced on the animated Series in the '90s. Seems to me she later appeared, played by the actress who played Ferris Bueller's girlfriend, on some live-action TV series -- the one with the all-female superheroes who were descendants of Batman and others? Can't remember the title.

The point is, in the live-action series, she was a psychologist.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 01:50 PM (J2vNu)

199 Even before I learned to despise GWB, I had to concede the Left's point about his looks. Very simian.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 19, 2024

He does resemble the Chris Kattan monkey character from SNL.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 19, 2024 01:46 PM (1gLn1)
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Mister Peepers?
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 01:47

That's his name. You have a good memory. I was too lazy to search for the name.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 19, 2024 01:47 PM (1gLn1)
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My brain is a glass rod and trivia is fluff.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 01:50 PM (krQz2)

200 192 George has always been a nasty, little hatchet man for the left.

He knew what he was doing.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 19, 2024 01:49 PM (8GCEq)

It would be like Stephen Miller being the lead anchor on a network nightly news show and no one mentioning he might be a little biased.
How have they gotten away with this for so long?

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 19, 2024 01:50 PM (1gLn1)

201 Are we also celebrating the Brett Baierer is out at Fox?

Sure you landed some blows on Kamala.

But you're still a shitweasel.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 19, 2024 01:51 PM (8GCEq)

202 154 Buh-bye Neil Cavuto. I won't miss you.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist

Never understood the attraction of that douchebag.
Die Fox News. Die.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 19, 2024 01:51 PM (/U5Yz)

203 "92,000 wouldnt fill Michigan Stadium."

And neither will 7-5, if you catch my drift, Coach.

Posted by: Michigan Athletic Director at December 19, 2024 01:52 PM (gO15o)

204 Are we also celebrating the Brett Baierer is out at Fox?

Die in Hell Brett.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 19, 2024 01:52 PM (/U5Yz)

205 The point is, in the live-action series, she was a psychologist.

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A middle aged woman with a psychology degree from a state school = Batman

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 19, 2024 01:52 PM (hIXll)

206 The point is, in the live-action series, she was a psychologist.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 01:50 PM (J2vNu)

Me, I like to pretend to be an architect or a marine biologist or an Art Vandelet employee…

Posted by: George Costanza at December 19, 2024 01:52 PM (i5Vkf)

207 Pittsburg at Baltimore. What are the odds?

Posted by: pudinhead at December 19, 2024 01:52 PM (jFCkp)

208 I think George's problem- one of many- is that he still thinks it's 1992 and he's in The War Room

arrogant little pissant

Posted by: Don Black. Message: do not fight for Russia at December 19, 2024 01:52 PM (/7KEl)

209 205 The point is, in the live-action series, she was a psychologist.

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A middle aged woman with a psychology degree from a state school = Batman
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 19, 2024 01:52 PM (hIXll)

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If she's hot.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:53 PM (GBKbO)

210 I’m clueless about many things pop culture. I’d never heard of Margot Robbie until this here thread… obviously didn’t watch any of her movies. Probably not as crazy as E Jean Carroll
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 01:50 PM (i5Vkf)
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Two-front-doors Blahsey-Ford and Carroll hold down that end of crazy pretty well.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 01:53 PM (krQz2)

211 Me, I like to pretend to be an architect or a marine biologist or an Art Vandelet employee…
Posted by: George Costanza at December 19, 2024 01:52 PM (i5Vkf)

Latex.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 19, 2024 01:53 PM (aD39U)

212 Massacre of the North Koreans on Putin's meat grinder frontline: Bodies of Kim Jong-un's soldiers blight the snow as Russians burn dead comrades
Posted by: Don Black. Message: do not fight for Russia at December 19, 2024 01:50 PM (/7KEl)

Is there actually a picture of one yet? Even the front line Ukrainians are telling the press that they don't believe any are there on the front line.

Previously, though this kind of news pops up when another town or two falls due to being surrounded in the Donbass.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024 01:53 PM (n7h9X)

213 From the Bee:

Congress Proposes New Law Banning Anyone From Reading Spending Bill Until It's Passed

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 19, 2024 01:53 PM (QCSQH)

214 The live-action TV series in which Harley Quinn appeared was Birds of Prey, and Mia Sara played her.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 01:53 PM (J2vNu)

215 Was there ever a comic or show where Harley angrily discussed how much student loan debt she had remaining for her psychology degree? Because that would've been hilarious.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 19, 2024 01:54 PM (hIXll)

216 200 192 George has always been a nasty, little hatchet man for the left.

He knew what he was doing.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 19, 2024 01:49 PM (8GCEq)

It would be like Stephen Miller being the lead anchor on a network nightly news show and no one mentioning he might be a little biased.
How have they gotten away with this for so long?
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 19, 2024 01:50 PM (1gLn1)

His public apology should be a recording of him writing "I defamed President Donald Trump 13 times with false rape accusations" 13 times on a black board dressed in a Bart Simpson outfit.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 19, 2024 01:54 PM (OA79/)

217 What?? No flaming skull on the Fani Willis thread?

I feel gypped!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 19, 2024 01:54 PM (QGaXH)

218 "The Dane County medical examiner's office has identified the two individuals who died in Monday's shooting at Abundant Life Christian School as Erin M. West, 42, of Deforest; and Rubi P. Vergara, 14, of Madison."

So Samantha the shooter that hated and wanted to kill all men, killed two females, and herself. Crazy.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 19, 2024 01:54 PM (Cus5s)

219 So then that means average middle aged woman with a psychology degree from a state school also

= Bain
= Killer Croc

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 19, 2024 01:55 PM (hIXll)

220 Harley apparently had the back story of having been a psychologist at Arkham Asylum, which is where she met the Joker in the first place.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 01:55 PM (J2vNu)

221 216 His public apology should be a recording of him writing "I defamed President Donald Trump 13 times with false rape accusations" 13 times on a black board dressed in a Bart Simpson outfit.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 19, 2024 01:54 PM (OA79/)

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He doesn't have to apologize as part of the settlement.

But the appropriate apology would be him having to say, every time he was on national television, "I have proven to be a liar and am not trustworthy."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:55 PM (GBKbO)

222 Harley apparently had the back story of having been a psychologist at Arkham Asylum, which is where she met the Joker in the first place.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 01:55 PM (J2vNu)
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Mista' J.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 01:55 PM (krQz2)

223 Yeah there's a photo at DM of a whole line-up of uniformed bodies, neatly arranged in a row, in the snow

Posted by: Don Black. Message: do not fight for Russia at December 19, 2024 01:55 PM (/7KEl)

224 The point is, in the live-action series, she was a psychologist.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 01:50 PM (J2vNu)

Think that was her origin in the comics, too. the animated series didn't invent her I don't think.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024 01:55 PM (n7h9X)

225 I think the best part about all this "dire threat to the free press" phony outrage bullshit is how they refuse to touch the "why" of the settlement.

Not one will dare touch "he tried to shame a rape survivor who supports Trump by lying that Trump was convicted of rape."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 19, 2024 01:55 PM (8GCEq)

226 Libs of TikTok made an important observation:
So you’re telling me a bunch of Leftists ran to a new platform and all the sudden there’s an uptick in child s*xual abuse material and death threats there??

http://tiny.cc/p632001

Posted by: bonhomme at December 19, 2024 01:55 PM (Odg76)

227 George Stuffy the Clintonista

Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2024 01:56 PM (AYz4A)

228 219 So then that means average middle aged woman with a psychology degree from a state school also

= Bain
= Killer Croc
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 19, 2024 01:55 PM (hIXll)

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"BAIN!"
-Bane, Batman & Robin

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:56 PM (GBKbO)

229 Me, I like to pretend to be an architect or a marine biologist or an Art Vandelet employee…
Posted by: George Costanza at December 19, 2024 01:52 PM (i5Vkf)

Latex.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 19, 2024 01:53 PM (aD39U)

I’m also a longtime banger with the Van Buren boys gang. Real toughs. And I’m best friends with Keith Hernandez; I’m the chucker….

Posted by: George Costanza at December 19, 2024 01:56 PM (i5Vkf)

230 225 I think the best part about all this "dire threat to the free press" phony outrage bullshit is how they refuse to touch the "why" of the settlement.

Not one will dare touch "he tried to shame a rape survivor who supports Trump by lying that Trump was convicted of rape."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 19, 2024 01:55 PM (8GCEq)

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"The press should be allowed to defame anyone they want without consequence. Also, the private-public complex should destroy anyone who tells me to learn to code."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:56 PM (GBKbO)

231 His public apology should be a recording of him writing "I defamed President Donald Trump 13 times with false rape accusations" 13 times on a black board dressed in a Bart Simpson outfit.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 19, 2024 01:54 PM (OA79/)
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Gina Carano with a paddle the size of a cutting board spanks him after every period.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 01:57 PM (krQz2)

232 So far, I am not impressed with the Norks' war-fighting

I think their doctrine is to have more cannon fodder than the other guy

Posted by: Don Black. Message: do not fight for Russia at December 19, 2024 01:57 PM (/7KEl)

233 Hmmm...wonder what "extra-judicial, anti-institutional responses" this MSNBC commentator are thinking of?

https://x.com/joma_gc/status/1869817998065995777

Posted by: Thrawn at December 19, 2024 01:57 PM (uGhsv)

234 I'd love to see Clinton flunkie Steffy asked on record why he was ok with Clinton raping Juanita Broaddrick

If he says it wasn't rape = defamation under the Carroll standard

If he says it wasn't rape-rape (thanks Whoopi!) = defamation under the Carroll standard

And any real answer, that he didn't give a shit how many women Bill Clinton raped would end his career.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 19, 2024 01:57 PM (oZhjI)

235 FBI agents have detained 20-year-old Alexander Paffendorf for allegedly conspiring with Madison, Wisconsin school shooter Samantha Rupnow in planning a coordinated mass attack.

Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2024 01:57 PM (RHGPo)

236 232 So far, I am not impressed with the Norks' war-fighting

I think their doctrine is to have more cannon fodder than the other guy
Posted by: Don Black. Message: do not fight for Russia at December 19, 2024 01:57 PM (/7KEl)

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Starvation creates small people. Small people make unimpressive soldiers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:57 PM (GBKbO)

237 18 So "Journalist" is this high holy priestly profession that requires years of training and buckets of integrity, so much so that they'll just cram whatever hatchet man who just got rotated out of the white house in there and say "let 'er rip".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 19, 2024 01:19 PM (y/ZMQ)

Man? MAN? *glares at W-o*

Posted by: Jen Psaki at December 19, 2024 01:57 PM (PiwSw)

238 re. Chris Craft from last Thread.

Not from Florida. Mom was a Jewlery Designer in Manhattan. She'd jewel up the hardware designs for Chris Craft.

Pretty sure she got the job after making some custom jewelry for the owner's wife.

Posted by: garrett at December 19, 2024 01:58 PM (j6KoD)

239

Karma is beautiful.

Posted by: E Buzz at December 19, 2024 01:58 PM (JROaS)

240 The Last Movie?

You need to take a near lethal dose of LSD followed by a Speedball or three for that one to make sense.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 19, 2024 01:43 PM (iJfKG)

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I need to see if Dennis Hopper ever talked about it later in life, post Blue Velvet or so when he went sober.

I'd bet he had virtually no memories of making the movie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:44 PM (GBKbO)

Probably. That had to be an awesome time in Hollywood if you were one of the golden boys.

People just throwing money at you almost no matter what you did...cuz it was New Hollywood and the times they were achangin'.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 19, 2024 01:58 PM (iJfKG)

241 Not one will dare touch "he tried to shame a rape survivor who supports Trump by lying that Trump was convicted of rape."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 19, 2024 01:55 PM (8GCEq)
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Chris Plante: "The most insidious power the news media has is the power to ignore."

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 01:58 PM (krQz2)

242 So far, I am not impressed with the Norks' war-fighting

I think their doctrine is to have more cannon fodder than the other guy
Posted by: Don Black. Message: do not fight for Russia at December 19, 2024 01:57 PM (/7KEl)

My amateurish reading of Korean War history says that’s about right… that was definitely the Chinese approach when they entered the conflict after Inchon

Posted by: George Costanza at December 19, 2024 01:58 PM (i5Vkf)

243 240 Probably. That had to be an awesome time in Hollywood if you were one of the golden boys.

People just throwing money at you almost no matter what you did...cuz it was New Hollywood and the times they were achangin'.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 19, 2024 01:58 PM (iJfKG)

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"Well, I didn't get Easy Rider, but it made a bunch of money. Give the Hopper kid $2 million and see what he does."
-Hollywood executive who remembers when Cary Grant was young

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:59 PM (GBKbO)

244 FBI agents have detained 20-year-old Alexander Paffendorf for allegedly conspiring with Madison, Wisconsin school shooter Samantha Rupnow in planning a coordinated mass attack.
Posted by: SMOD

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Dang, that's the first news in two days.

Maybe soon they'll admit something else and we'll know why they're so tight lipped.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 19, 2024 01:59 PM (hIXll)

245 Strike one. Off Seinfeld sock

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 01:59 PM (i5Vkf)

246 If Stephodickinass didn't lie by saying "rape," then there was literally no point to the entire line of questioning.

But all he wanted was, "How can you, a rape victim, support Trump, a convicted rapist!?"

What is the news value in that?
None of the people defending Liar George dare explain that.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 19, 2024 02:00 PM (8GCEq)

247 Starvation creates small people. Small people make unimpressive soldiers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:57 PM (GBKbO)
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The Huns won by eating a lot of meat.

Meat-eaters conquer grain-eaters.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 02:00 PM (krQz2)

248 ---
Gina Carano with a paddle the size of a cutting board spanks him after every period.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 01:57 PM (krQz2)

So....just how does somebody get in on that action?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 19, 2024 02:00 PM (LxER7)

249 The image of an "apoplectic" Stephanoplous conjures an amusing image of a dwarf running amok kicking people in the shins.

Posted by: Halfhand at December 19, 2024 02:00 PM (wjVYw)

250 Yeah there's a photo at DM of a whole line-up of uniformed bodies, neatly arranged in a row, in the snow
Posted by: Don Black. Message: do not fight for Russia at December 19, 2024 01:55 PM (/7KEl)

I wouldn't trust the English press very much.

And in the military sense, the Russians having additional troops to soak up their moderate casualites while the Donbas is collapsing isn't going to aid Ukraine in the least.

Once the lunge to Kursk was halted, every day they could work over those troops in open, unintrenched lines on a front that led nowhere was a gift to Russia.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024 02:00 PM (n7h9X)

251 176 Lady Gaga isn't nearly hot enough. Not by a million miles.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 01:43 PM (GBKbO)
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But what she lacks in looks, she makes up for in crazy.
Posted by: Axeman
_____

The other actresses playing Harley look like they would be fun until you get whacked in the head. But they don't necessarily look like they would be the kind to give you the Lorena Bobbit treatment when you were down. Lady Gaga however....

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2024 02:00 PM (fs1hN)

252 The police and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seized guns and ammunition from the home of 20-year-old Alexander Paffendorf

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So.... She was 15, right?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 19, 2024 02:00 PM (hIXll)

253 If he had to shout rape 10 times to her he wasn't in charge of the interview.
Posted by: Oldcat

He was badgering her because she shared her own rape story in earlier interviews (not with him) plain and simple.

Nancy Mace Kill Bill! A photo shop on Outkick. She's not backing down!

Posted by: friends in low places at December 19, 2024 02:01 PM (WD60c)

254 Imagine the punitive damages a Palm Beach jury would have laid on ABC had it gone to trial.

Trump ought to now go after the midget directly.

Posted by: M. Gaga at December 19, 2024 02:01 PM (MUWUg)

255 So if SnuggleUpAgus is a nasty shrimp (and that's true) can we say that he is "steamed" over the settlement.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at December 19, 2024 02:01 PM (cB7nX)

256 they don't necessarily look like they would be the kind to give you the Lorena Bobbit treatment when you were down. Lady Gaga however....

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2024 02:00 PM (fs1hN)
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Pffft!

Posted by: E. Jean Carroll at December 19, 2024 02:02 PM (krQz2)

257 Huh. That's interesting. No photos of Alexander Paffendorf, either.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 19, 2024 02:02 PM (hIXll)

258 Buh-bye Neil Cavuto. I won't miss you.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 19, 2024 01:42 PM (paSBy)
*******
When his show came on everyone switched over to Larry Kudlow on Fox Business.

Fox has really moved to the right with all their new hires

Posted by: redridinghood at December 19, 2024 02:03 PM (NpAcC)

259 He was badgering her because she shared her own rape story in earlier interviews (not with him) plain and simple.

Posted by: friends in low places at December 19, 2024 02:01 PM (WD60c)
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WHY CAN'T I USE YOUR PERSONAL TRAGEDY TO SCORE POLITICAL POINTS??!!!

Posted by: George Stepondickus at December 19, 2024 02:04 PM (krQz2)

260 @88

>> Joker 2 is a huge mess that makes no sense.

It makes sense if you view the film as a repudiation of the first film.

The director literally a** r***s his protagonist, humiliates him, before killing him and rendering the first film and all of the events null and void.

Todd Phillips should never work again.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 19, 2024 02:04 PM (vf1JS)

261 The point is, in the live-action series, she was a psychologist.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024
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Think that was her origin in the comics, too. the animated series didn't invent her I don't think.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024

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Wiki does say that Paul Dini, one of the major writers for the animated series, did create the basic character, basing her on old friend actress Arleen Sorkin. No idea if that's true.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 02:04 PM (J2vNu)

262 Little Georgie has been unaccountable for his various transgressions throughout his working life. Of course he's shocked and enraged. He should be feeling lucky he got off so easily ...

Posted by: AMartel at December 19, 2024 02:04 PM (otvi3)

263 I was in the pool!

Posted by: George Staphonaknobfullofpus at December 19, 2024 02:05 PM (v0R5T)

264 My amateurish reading of Korean War history says that’s about right… that was definitely the Chinese approach when they entered the conflict after Inchon
Posted by: George Costanza at December 19, 2024 01:58 PM (i5Vkf)

They surrounded the entire UN army on the Yalu and they had to cut their way out down a single road. The Marines nearly were treated similarly on the other coast. The ROK troops everywhere dissolved to escape.

Once they outran their logistics and the front filled up their casualties went up and results went down, but we took two years to get back to "tied"

Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024 02:05 PM (n7h9X)

265 Wiki does say that Paul Dini, one of the major writers for the animated series, did create the basic character, basing her on old friend actress Arleen Sorkin. No idea if that's true.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 02:04 PM (J2vNu)
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She's Dini's creation. She only shows up in the comics years later.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 02:05 PM (krQz2)

266 Kamala Harris Lands $20 Million Book Deal And People Have Questions.

Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2024 02:05 PM (RHGPo)

267 Pittsburg at Baltimore. What are the odds?
Posted by: pudinhead
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Haven't looked, but gonna guess Baltimore -4.5.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 19, 2024 02:06 PM (Axt+y)

268 145 Say, is Jen Rubin still at the WaPo?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 19, 2024 01:40 PM (BthBb)

Her clam is a Wuhan wet market that Fauci dabs on petri dishes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2024 02:06 PM (x0n13)

269 Kamala Harris Lands $20 Million Book Deal And People Have Questions.

Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2024 02:05 PM (RHGPo)
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That's just the budget for Venn diagrams.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 02:06 PM (krQz2)

270 266 Kamala Harris Lands $20 Million Book Deal And People Have Questions.
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2024 02:05 PM (RHGPo)

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The same questions people have had about these kinds of book deals for at least 20 years?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:06 PM (GBKbO)

271 Completely OT but it bothers me… eligibility for college athletics totally screwed up by covid years. I’m seeing wrestlers who’re 24-26 years old… there’s a tight end for Miami who’s been playing college football for 8 years between covid and injuries. Insane

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 02:07 PM (6RwsA)

272 Todd Phillips should never work again.

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I suspect that was the threat if he didn't "fix" what he had done with the first Joker.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 19, 2024 02:07 PM (hIXll)

273 The point is, in the live-action series, she was a psychologist.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024
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Think that was her origin in the comics, too. the animated series didn't invent her I don't think.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024

***
Wiki does say that Paul Dini, one of the major writers for the animated series, did create the basic character, basing her on old friend actress Arleen Sorkin. No idea if that's true.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 02:04 PM (J2vNu)

I was incorrect, she was created for that series and became comicized later.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024 02:07 PM (n7h9X)

274 He conspired with her? I thought her tract was she hated men?

This story is weird. All of the stories for a good long while have been weird. Except for Las Vegas, which we were never told shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2024 02:07 PM (HsOwE)

275 Pittsburg at Baltimore. What are the odds?
Posted by: pudinhead
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Haven't looked, but gonna guess Baltimore -4.5.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 19, 2024 02:06 PM (Axt+y)
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Smart money favors Baltimore, but you never know about the spread.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 02:07 PM (krQz2)

276 Gov Petomaine-
‘You said rape ten times’.
Little George- ‘I like rape.’

Posted by: Eromero at December 19, 2024 02:07 PM (jgmnb)

277 Sorry folks, the Stephanoplous ride is closed.

Jury out front should've told you.

Posted by: John Candy at December 19, 2024 02:07 PM (i0F8b)

278 Won't miss Cavuto but I wish him well . He has MS I know people who've had/have it and it sucks.
He can't get out of his programming however. He got vaccinated, caught COVID, vaccinated again and ended up in hospital with pneumonia. Still thinks taxes are great. Duh

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2024 02:07 PM (DopAq)

279 The image of an "apoplectic" Stephanoplous conjures an amusing image of a dwarf running amok kicking people in the shins.
Posted by: Halfhand

An angry, stomping mad toddler.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 19, 2024 02:08 PM (WXNFJ)

280 FoxNews: Where's Biden? Lame-duck president slammed for 'quiet quitting' amid major government funding battle

Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2024 02:08 PM (RHGPo)

281 Completely OT but it bothers me… eligibility for college athletics totally screwed up by covid years. I’m seeing wrestlers who’re 24-26 years old… there’s a tight end for Miami who’s been playing college football for 8 years between covid and injuries. Insane
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 02:07 PM (6RwsA)

College is professional now.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024 02:08 PM (n7h9X)

282 Dicksplash George will simply self-medicate with alcohol, drive up to Georgetown while under the influence, strike a parked car and get arrested.

Again.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 19, 2024 02:08 PM (yxhux)

283 Snuffles said rape 15 times.

He likes rape.

Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 02:08 PM (QcVoh)

284 DailyMail: How vengeful Jill Biden is urging 'depressed' Joe to 'burn the whole thing down' in their final days... with Obama, Kamala and Pelosi at the top of her 'naughty list'

Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2024 02:08 PM (RHGPo)

285 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
Welcome to the left side of TikTok.

Can you say “delusional”?

https://tinyurl.com/3dx58w4x

Posted by: redridinghood at December 19, 2024 02:08 PM (NpAcC)

286 Her clam is a Wuhan wet market that Fauci dabs on petri dishes.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 19, 2024 02:06 PM (x0n13)

Huh, I would have bet her dusty clam was as dry as the Gobi desert.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2024 02:09 PM (HsOwE)

287 271 Completely OT but it bothers me… eligibility for college athletics totally screwed up by covid years. I’m seeing wrestlers who’re 24-26 years old… there’s a tight end for Miami who’s been playing college football for 8 years between covid and injuries. Insane

it was a whole mess and entirely the fault of the NCAA

if you were a 2020 HS grad you got extra eligibility but 2021 and 2022 who also got screwed over get nothing (they were screwed bc of all the 2019 and 2020 HS grad year deferrals)

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 19, 2024 02:09 PM (Pv3Rg)

288 WHY CAN'T I USE YOUR PERSONAL TRAGEDY TO SCORE POLITICAL POINTS??!!!
Posted by: George Stepondickus

You can and at the special first time rate of only 15 million plus lawyer fees plus you get to feel personally humiliated.

Seriously though in an interview Mace said the subject was NOT what they had assured her would be discussed.

Posted by: friends in low places at December 19, 2024 02:09 PM (WD60c)

289 266 Kamala Harris Lands $20 Million Book Deal And People Have Questions.
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2024 02:05 PM (RHGPo)

Cool!

Posted by: That six year old Kamala speech writer who now has a new job at December 19, 2024 02:09 PM (PiwSw)

290 It's always your fault when a narcissist cannot convince you to say what they want you to say.

That's why Stepondickus probably ramped it up to badgering Mace.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 02:09 PM (krQz2)

291 Haven't looked, but gonna guess Baltimore -4.5.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 19, 2024 02:06 PM (Axt+y)
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Smart money favors Baltimore, but you never know about the spread.
Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 02:07 PM (krQz2)

Usually Pitt knows to play Balt tight no matter the record. Expect few points and much blood.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024 02:09 PM (n7h9X)

292 E Jean called it the sexiest news segment she's ever seen.

Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 02:09 PM (QcVoh)

293 Did he use the word "rape" with Bill Clinton?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 19, 2024 02:10 PM (yxhux)

294 271 — Oh and Penn State wrestler Carter Starocci is going for his 5th national title… and will probably win it. How do you get another year of eligibility when you’ve already won 4??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 02:10 PM (6RwsA)

295 Vaxxes not taxes. And I don't like either

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2024 02:10 PM (DopAq)

296 For the first time in history, a Nativity scene was displayed on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Tuesday, marking what organizers say is a milestone for religious freedom and the First Amendment. The display, accompanied by prayer, Christmas carols and a reading of the Christmas story, was made possible by a landmark federal court decision that granted Rev. Patrick Mahoney and his supporters the right to peacefully celebrate the Christmas season on Capitol grounds. Held on the southeastern steps of the Capitol, the display was the culmination of a legal battle that began over a decade ago.

Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2024 02:10 PM (RHGPo)

297 Georgie Porgie lied. Why would accountability make the entitled dwarf apoplectic?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 19, 2024 02:10 PM (RRNPb)

298 284 DailyMail: How vengeful Jill Biden is urging 'depressed' Joe to 'burn the whole thing down' in their final days... with Obama, Kamala and Pelosi at the top of her 'naughty list'
Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2024 02:08 PM (RHGPo)

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Let it be true.

Leave a box of unredacted documents about Hurricane Crossfire, Fast and Furious, misspending of federal funds, and the toppling of Khaddafi in Libya on the Oval Office desk with a note saying that Biden had already declassified everything.

Something like that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:10 PM (GBKbO)

299 @ImMeme0
Welcome to the left side of TikTok.

Can you say “delusional”?

https://tinyurl.com/3dx58w4x

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She's leaving the comments off because she doesn't want to give MAGA a way to get attention.

The MAGA that just had a landslide electoral victory nationwide. I think they've got people's attention, ma'am.

(also imagine the filters she's using)

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 19, 2024 02:10 PM (hIXll)

300 Just looked. Baltimore -6.5. More than I thought.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 19, 2024 02:11 PM (Axt+y)

301 Seriously though in an interview Mace said the subject was NOT what they had assured her would be discussed.
Posted by: friends in low places at December 19, 2024 02:09 PM (WD60c)

Well you knew that going in, the press alwas lies. Next time go on a podcast, they usually keep their word and have a larger audience.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024 02:11 PM (n7h9X)

302 266 Kamala Harris Lands $20 Million Book Deal And People Have Questions.
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$20mm, why does that sound familiar. Oh yeah, isn't that how much her campaign over spent? I wonder where that money went.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2024 02:11 PM (fs1hN)

303 Oh and Penn State wrestler Carter Starocci is going for his 5th national title… and will probably win it. How do you get another year of eligibility when you’ve already won 4??
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New math.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 19, 2024 02:11 PM (yxhux)

304 Seriously though in an interview Mace said the subject was NOT what they had assured her would be discussed.
Posted by: friends in low places at December 19, 2024 02:09 PM (WD60c)
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Doesn't surprise me.

I'm quite sure that it has been decades since a conservatish pol has come on a news show to discuss "What that other conservative guy just said!"

But it's always the main topic of conversation on these ~~news~~Dem shows.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 02:11 PM (krQz2)

305 249 The image of an "apoplectic" Stephanoplous conjures an amusing image of a dwarf running amok kicking people in the shins.
Posted by: Halfhand at December 19, 2024 02:00 PM (wjVYw)

Lol

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 19, 2024 02:12 PM (1gLn1)

306 Trump calls for abolishing the debt ceiling

Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2024 02:12 PM (RHGPo)

307 294 271 — Oh and Penn State wrestler Carter Starocci is going for his 5th national title… and will probably win it. How do you get another year of eligibility when you’ve already won 4??

- extra covid year
- red shirt, gray shirt, white shirt
- "grad student" extra eligibility

its all so dumb

sports need to be excised from colleges (except intramural fun stuff).

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 19, 2024 02:12 PM (Pv3Rg)

308 @271 Linus, you should look at the tape of yesterday's Senate hearing with the head of the NCAA. The guy is a complete jackass and Kennedy made him look even dumber about trannies in women's sports

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2024 02:12 PM (DopAq)

309 Usually Pitt knows to play Balt tight no matter the record. Expect few points and much blood.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024 02:09 PM (n7h9X)

I was gonna say the same thing. Every Steeler Ravens game is close no matter where played and Tomlin wins his fair share

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 02:12 PM (6RwsA)

310 Just looked. Baltimore -6.5. More than I thought.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 19, 2024 02:11 PM (Axt+y)

I usually just pray for a blimp to crash into the stadium in these games.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024 02:13 PM (n7h9X)

311 In fact the 99%+ likely statement after "Yeah, but do you approve of what C just said?"

is

"That's not what I came on to discuss."

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 02:13 PM (krQz2)

312 305 249 The image of an "apoplectic" Stephanoplous conjures an amusing image of a dwarf running amok kicking people in the shins.
Posted by: Halfhand at December 19, 2024 02:00 PM (wjVYw)

Lol
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 19, 2024 02:12 PM (1gLn1)

Arrrgh!

Posted by: Robert Reich, who's also feeling apoplectic at December 19, 2024 02:13 PM (PiwSw)

313 299 @ImMeme0
Welcome to the left side of TikTok.

Can you say “delusional”?

https://tinyurl.com/3dx58w4x

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When Trump is inaugurated, in contradiction of her prediction that he won't be, this chick will shut down her TikTok, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 19, 2024 02:13 PM (GBKbO)

314 sports need to be excised from colleges (except intramural fun stuff).
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 19, 2024 02:12 PM (Pv3Rg)

What, so they might be fun again and accessible by regular Joe schmo?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 19, 2024 02:14 PM (HsOwE)

315 (also imagine the filters she's using)
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Why can't Rosie O'Donnell use filters? Until she does, her X videos need to come with one of those sensitive content filters so at least you can steel yourself in the rare chance you do want to hear her raving lunacy.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 19, 2024 02:14 PM (fs1hN)

316 I'd forgotten that this whole suit was a staple of Trump's stump speeches:
"ABC News, who I'm suing by the way, so terrible, fake news."

Yeah, Trump ain't letting this go just 'cause the settled.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 19, 2024 02:14 PM (8GCEq)

317 266 Kamala Harris Lands $20 Million Book Deal
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They don't just want you to know, they want you to know they want you to know.

Posted by: ... at December 19, 2024 02:14 PM (QcVoh)

318 Nancy Mace handled herself just fine but I wish she would have countered with well you had no problem working for Bill Clinton who was credibly accused of rape and settled with Paula Jones for sexual harassment. Also Kathleen Willey.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 19, 2024 02:15 PM (1gLn1)

319 Snuffleupagus > Stephanopoulos

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 19, 2024 02:15 PM (S+j2h)

320 We all thinks that Presdent Obama wood be a goods Speeker of the House and nots that Ellan Musk Clown..

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro,Vt at December 19, 2024 02:15 PM (T24y3)

321 I'ts now going to be, "ABC news, which had to pay me a bunch of money for lying by the way, they're fake news."

LOLGF

The pain ain't over, Georgie.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 19, 2024 02:16 PM (8GCEq)

322 its all so dumb

sports need to be excised from colleges (except intramural fun stuff).
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 19, 2024 02:12 PM (Pv3Rg)

Yes… and I find it depressing because I really enjoy college football and wrestling in particular. Penn State’s program is incredible mainly due to its coach Cael Sanderson and his entire coaching staff….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 02:16 PM (6RwsA)

323 Oh and Penn State wrestler Carter Starocci is going for his 5th national title… and will probably win it. How do you get another year of eligibility when you’ve already won 4??
_________

New math.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 19, 2024 02:11 PM (yxhux)

Athletic ability in all sports peaks an about 27-28 and raw strength increases for a few years more and declines. So it isn't a shock that a man at his peak for wrestling can beat the kids, or the ones he alread beat.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024 02:16 PM (n7h9X)

324
[Verbing a noun:] The initial CR bill was DOGEd.

Posted by: ShainS -- [Verbing a noun:] The initial CR bill was DOGEd at December 19, 2024 02:16 PM (A6FSC)

325 About Steffi's height

Midgets riding horsey back shot up a saloon today. The only injuries were ankle wounds and the only damage was to wall sockets and wainscotting. - George Carlin

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 19, 2024 02:16 PM (DopAq)

326 Stephenoughofthis

Posted by: Don Black. Message: do not fight for Russia at December 19, 2024 02:16 PM (/7KEl)

327 [Verbing a noun:] The initial CR bill was DOGEd.

Posted by: ShainS -- [Verbing a noun:] The initial CR bill was DOGEd at December 19, 2024 02:16 PM (A6FSC)
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We DOGE'd a close one.

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 02:17 PM (krQz2)

328 [Verbing a noun:] The initial CR bill was DOGEd.

Posted by: ShainS -- [Verbing a noun:] The initial CR bill was DOGEd at December 19, 2024 02:16 PM (A6FSC)
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What is the ask?

Posted by: Axeman at December 19, 2024 02:17 PM (krQz2)

329
Jorge was told by ABC legal not to use the "rape" word and then he insisted on using it over ten times?

That's called insubordination.

That's a summarily firing right there.

Why isn't he out on the street?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 19, 2024 02:17 PM (xG4kz)

330 Jorge was told by ABC legal not to use the "rape" word and then he insisted on using it over ten times?

That's called insubordination.

That's a summarily firing right there.

Why isn't he out on the street?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 19, 2024 02:17 PM (xG4kz)

He must like rpae

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 19, 2024 02:18 PM (S+j2h)

331 >>>if you were a 2020 HS grad you got extra eligibility but 2021 and 2022 who also got screwed over get nothing (they were screwed bc of all the 2019 and 2020 HS grad year deferrals)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 19, 2024 02:09 PM (Pv3Rg)

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My son's and his 2020 freshman teammates got screwed over by covid. The exiting seniors got another year, and you had next years incoming freshman still that were already signed. And the ncaa didn't increase scholarships, so, somebody had to go. Granted, he could have stayed at the school and kept his 3 year scholarship. But he wouldn't be playing baseball. He ended leaving to go play juco.

Posted by: Turn 2 at December 19, 2024 02:19 PM (JfxgE)

332 Kamala Harris Lands $20 Million Book Deal
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They don't just want you to know, they want you to know they want you to know.
Posted by: ...
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Coming soon: Mansion at Cape Cod

Posted by: Robert Reich at December 19, 2024 02:20 PM (XeU6L)

333 Fox has really moved to the right with all their new hires
Posted by: redridinghood at December 19, 2024 02:03 PM (NpAcC)

I'll buy it when Alex Jones gets a timeslot on weekdays.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024 02:20 PM (n7h9X)

334 They are also wondering how the star anchor can now cover the incoming Trump administration.

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But you never considered nor questioned his bias 24 years ago?

Sure, Jan ...

Posted by: ShainS -- [Verbing a noun:] The initial CR bill was DOGEd at December 19, 2024 02:21 PM (5iIu3)

335 144 Even before I learned to despise GWB, I had to concede the Left's point about his looks. Very simian.

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I recently learned that Epstein had a painting of Bush playing with a paper airplane while seated in front of fallen Jenga blocks.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at December 19, 2024 01:40 PM (hIXll)

Right next to his painting of Bill Clinton in a blue dress. Not a joke, BTW.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 19, 2024 02:21 PM (aQxSt)

336 "Kamala Harris Lands $20 Million Book Deal"

How I Blew It

Posted by: Suggested title at December 19, 2024 02:21 PM (vFG9F)

337 And it's the relentlessness with which he repeated the "rape" bait, the huge number of times he hammered it home, badgering the heck out of Nancy Mace. At an early mention, I think he glanced at a producer or somebody, off-camera--and then kept on going!

Posted by: m at December 19, 2024 02:22 PM (VnUSN)

338 Noodus milei

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 02:22 PM (J2vNu)

339 sports need to be excised from colleges (except intramural fun stuff).
Posted by: BlackOrchid
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How MIT has managed to survive without intercollegiate sports is a mystery.

Posted by: Robert Reich at December 19, 2024 02:22 PM (XeU6L)

340 Oldcat — It’s terrifying and fascinating at the same time to read first person accounts of those Chinese human wave attacks in the Korean War. A lot of Chinese soldiers weren’t even armed beyond perhaps a stick or a bayonet

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 02:23 PM (6RwsA)

341 ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos is "apoplectic" and "humiliated" by the network's decision to pay $16 million to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by President-elect Donald Trump, The Post has learned.

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Napoleonic Complex FTW!

Posted by: ShainS -- [Verbing a noun:] The initial CR bill was DOGEd at December 19, 2024 02:23 PM (5iIu3)

342 My son's and his 2020 freshman teammates got screwed over by covid. The exiting seniors got another year, and you had next years incoming freshman still that were already signed

well a lot of coaches - including the one my daughter was recruited by - cut their 2021 recruits to make room for the older girls that were staying an extra year, and the 2020s were all kept and deferred.

I guess it depends on the sport. she wasn't the only one, a whole bunch of girls she knew from her grad year ended up in the same boat. she was fortunate that another coach liked her and picked her up. but better players than her ended up not playing in college at all after having been recruited. some deferred themselves hoping reclassifying (as 2022) would help but then there were way way too many 2022s and it ended up being useless.

in any sport, college coaches prefer the older players. that is just natural. they get stronger. that's why junior college is such a popular route pre-DI for football.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 19, 2024 02:23 PM (Pv3Rg)

343 Oh great, Hammer, *now* you shed the Reich sock

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 19, 2024 02:24 PM (XeU6L)

344 Wasn't ABC once considered an honest news source?

If so, it wasn't then either.

Too bad.

Anyway. . . .
Posted by: Tonypete at December 19, 2024 01:47 PM (WXNFJ)

I think I liked Howard K Smith better than Walter Cronkeit or Huntley and Brinkley as a kid. But not a lot.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024 02:24 PM (n7h9X)

345 Nood.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 19, 2024 02:24 PM (aQxSt)

346 Nancy Mace handled herself just fine but I wish she would have countered with well you had no problem working for Bill Clinton who was credibly accused of rape and settled with Paula Jones for sexual harassment. Also Kathleen Willey.
Posted by: CaliGirl

I think she was blindsided and I'd bet money I don't have it won't happen again. At least not letting a jerk peppering rape! at her 12 times. Your reply would have been excellent.

Posted by: friends in low places at December 19, 2024 02:25 PM (WD60c)

347 How MIT has managed to survive without intercollegiate sports is a mystery.

MIT is very competitive in Division III athletics. Take a look at their field hockey team - they win a lot! Some of the majors are SHASS but not all.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 19, 2024 02:25 PM (Pv3Rg)

348 Oldcat — It’s terrifying and fascinating at the same time to read first person accounts of those Chinese human wave attacks in the Korean War. A lot of Chinese soldiers weren’t even armed beyond perhaps a stick or a bayonet
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 19, 2024 02:23 PM (6RwsA)

You need to take those with a large helping of salt. A static front with one side having arty and air superiority is gonna end up with a lot of bodies on the ground on the side without firepower. If they get into the position, well then there's nobody alive to have memories reported later.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 19, 2024 02:28 PM (n7h9X)

349 His public apology should be a recording of him writing "I defamed President Donald Trump 13 times with false rape accusations" 13 times on a black board dressed in a Bart Simpson outfit.
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That’s fine, but these sorts of things absolutely must be done on a Live broadcast. No edit-ingz allowed, you understand

Posted by: Common Tater at December 19, 2024 02:29 PM (wKLSC)

350 I (verbed) a (noun) more than once but she insisted she was over 18.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 19, 2024 02:31 PM (WXNFJ)

351 Since Donald Trump's presidential win, CNN's prime time viewership has slumped by 52 percent, according to Mediaite.

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"YOU PROMISED US THAT LITERALLY ORANGE HITLER WOULD BE MURDERED ON LIVE TV! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS -- [Verbing a noun:] The initial CR bill was DOGEd at December 19, 2024 02:33 PM (5iIu3)

352 I suspect what pushed "Furious George" over the edge was having to cough-up 1 million dollars of his own money. He had been repeated told not to use the word "rape" but he persisted.

No wonder they didn't want to go on to the Discovery phase.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 19, 2024 02:40 PM (pJWtt)

353 132 George didn't just smear Trump as a rapist 12 or 13 times in that interrogation, he also was rape shaming Nancy Mace as someone that had been raped supporting a "convicted rapist". It was disgusting.
Posted by: friends in low places at December 19, 2024

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I heard a clip from the "interview" this morning on talk radio. Seemed Nancy gave as good as she got -- better, since GS probably didn't expect her to fight back.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 01:39 PM (J2vNu)

I think it's worth watching the whole 10-minute ABC News segment. Googling

nancy mace stephanopoulos

will pull it up.

Posted by: m at December 19, 2024 02:53 PM (VnUSN)

354 Disney is funding the Trump Presidential Library.
Good for them!

Posted by: Max Entropy at December 19, 2024 03:46 PM (oxDA9)

355 "354 Disney is funding the Trump Presidential Library.
Good for them!"

Perhaps they could send out Mickey and Minnie for the ribbon-cutting.

Posted by: Max Entropy at December 19, 2024 03:48 PM (oxDA9)

356 If I am not mistaken, a drop from 94000 to 92000 is over 2 percent, double the drop cited of 1%.

Posted by: LK at December 19, 2024 03:54 PM (MKZan)

357 I see that little Pipsqueak and ABC lost a big lawsuit from Trump which proves more that our Nations M.SA. Media are a whole bunch of lowlife leftists/Propagandists which is what the NYT's mostly is

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 19, 2024 05:58 PM (wGqjj)

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George Stephanoplous Repeatedly Warned by Producers Not to Use Defamatory Word "Rape," Used It Ten Times Anyway;Also "Humiliated" by Payout to Trump

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George Stephanoplous Repeatedly Warned by Producers Not to Use Defamatory Word "Rape," Used It Ten Times Anyway;
Also "Humiliated" by Payout to Trump