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Robert Downey Jr. Walks Out of Interview After Reporter Badgers Him On Whether Or Not He's a Liberal, or Still Does Drugs
He doesn't want to say whether he's a liberal or Republican or whatever, which I usually take to be a Good Sign.
He's pretty evasive on it all, actually. I came in expecting to think the reporter was out of bounds, but I really don't think he is -- the reporter is curious about Downey's politics. I confess, I am too, and I wanted to know the answer. So I can't really criticize the reporter.* The reporter is asking about this old NYT profile of Downey, much-cited by conservatives.“I have a really interesting political point of view, and it’s not always something I say too loud at dinner tables here, but you can’t go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary and really understand it and come out a liberal. You can’t. I wouldn’t wish that experience on anyone else, but it was very, very, very educational for me and has informed my proclivities and politics every since.” (Suffice it to say he is not one of the Hollywood types who weeps over innocents trapped behind bars.) ... On or around Independence Day in 2003, he stopped at a Burger King on the Pacific Coast Highway and threw all his drugs in the ocean. And while he was sitting there chewing on a burger, he decided he was done...So the reporter asked him about this stuff, and getting clean -- fair questions, I think -- but Downey didn't want to talk about it and just wanted to promote the Avengers. Which is also fair enough. And then he walked. What are his politics, anyway? This site says he both attended a fundraiser for Barack Obama in 2012, perhaps just at the behest of George Clooney, but also attended the Republican National Convention in 2008. What he might be doing is trying to remain in the closet, or even go back into it, having come out before. You just aren't allowed to be anything but Progressive Democrat in this country anymore.
"If I see somebody who is throwing their life away with both hands and is raging around and destroying their family, I can't understand that person," he said. "I'm not in that sphere of activity anymore, and I don't understand it any more than I understood 10 or 20 years ago that somehow everything was going to turn out O.K. from this lousy, exotic and dark triple chapter of my life. I swear to God I don’t even really understand that planet anymore." Mr. Downey, who has said that he woke up in a pool of his own blood a time or two when he was in prison, is a fighter. "Probably the biggest thing that Tony Stark and I have in common is the hardware of conflict, the courage under fire," he said, setting aside his lunch on a tray. "I don't really fit in so good outside the military bases with my mentality."
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: The Barrel at April 22, 2015 04:42 PM (h4vJk)
Posted by: The Barrel at April 22, 2015 04:42 PM (h4vJk)
Posted by: Robert Downey Stark Jr. at April 22, 2015 04:43 PM (J0IP0)
Posted by: Golfman at April 22, 2015 04:43 PM (uivt4)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 22, 2015 04:43 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2015 04:43 PM (wlDny)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2015 04:43 PM (wlDny)
Posted by: Golfman at April 22, 2015 04:43 PM (uivt4)
Posted by: Ozzy Osbourne at April 22, 2015 04:43 PM (evdj2)
That Avengers property is untouchable.
Posted by: brak at April 22, 2015 04:43 PM (Tj+s6)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 22, 2015 04:44 PM (FsuaD)
*shudders*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2015 04:44 PM (h4vJk)
If he walked out because he doesn't think a two minute soundbite can do justice to his Life's Story, then yeah I'd so so too.
But if he walked out because he wasn't in the mood to relive his past or own up to his convictions, if he has any, then he's a putz.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 04:44 PM (R/rAV)
Posted by: Golfman at April 22, 2015 04:45 PM (uivt4)
Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2015 04:45 PM (IGu+c)
For those that don't remember this was last weeks walk on the flag protest.
As you may know, one of the protesters (Eric Sheppard) is now a fugitive from justice for bringing a gun on to campus and leaving it in his unattended book bag during yesterday's continued protest.
His father is now pleading for his son to turn himself in.
Young Mr. Sheppard was interviewed during first protest. He told the reporter "I am a terrorist towards white people. That flag represents white supremacy which is plaguing the entire earth, so when we step on that flag we are stepping on racism, white supremacy."
A true upstanding American.
Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at April 22, 2015 04:45 PM (X+nFp)
This is becoming more and more true every day. See, e.g., the John Doe persecutions.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 22, 2015 04:46 PM (mx5oN)
I AM IRON MAN
Posted by: Ozzy Osbourne at April 22, 2015 04:43 PM (evdj2)
Phonetically, that's AH AN ARRON FOOKIN' MAH.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 22, 2015 04:46 PM (SpnVI)
Posted by: Null at April 22, 2015 04:46 PM (xjpRj)
Posted by: Y-not at April 22, 2015 04:46 PM (9BRsg)
Posted by: SH at April 22, 2015 04:46 PM (gmeXX)
Want to know why leftists are always on edge, always, stressed out, always trying to manipulate people and always trying to control and restrict everyone?
Because their worldview depends on other people behaving in accordance with the social and economic theories upon which leftism rests.
And yet, so often (almost always), the people don't behave as the theory requires them to behave. And so the left constantly goes into conniptions trying first of all to FORCE people to behave as they ought to behave, and secondly (when Plan 1 doesn't work out, as it never does) trying to distract attention away from the failure of the theory.
So, as a clear, simple example of how this has played out:
Pre-existing fact:
Minorities do poorly in school on average.
Leftist theory to explain it:
The kids perform poorly in school because they have low self-esteem, and because the teachers are wittingly or unwittingly racist.
Leftist solution, imposed nationwide, courtesy of the Gramsci/Obama forces:
Pound esteem-raising messages into the brains of minority students from Nursery School onward, while simultaneously hector teachers into taking anti-racism training courses and then pressuring teachers to inflate grades for minority students.
Result:
Minority kids now in general have sky-high self-esteem, and they usually get passed through any classes they attend, regardless of performance.
And then the rocky shores of reality dash the leftist dreams:
Theory Failure:
Despite having high self-esteem and easy grading criteria, minority kids now do WORSE in school than they did before the leftist program was imposed.
Ooops!
This drives the left completely insane. They scream and rage and try to make everyone not notice that they had already gotten all their dream proposals enacted, and they failed to work; the students did not behave as expected. This results in an eruption of blame-shifting and dissembling and finger-pointing and noise-making, all intended to hide the fact that the theory failed -- and to demand that it get amped up even further, to make it work this time.
Multiply this whole process a thousand times over -- jobs for terrorists, family reunions for MS-13 gang members, restorative justice for budding psychopaths, handouts for the poor, etc. etc. -- and you get a history of the Left's failure and the status of 2015 America -- which are by now the same thing.
Posted by: zombie at April 22, 2015 04:46 PM (K4YiS)
Woof Woof!
On a more serious note, what happened to last week's Podcast?
Posted by: Bill Clinton at April 22, 2015 04:47 PM (rHIfW)
Nice.
Posted by: Golfman at April 22, 2015 04:45 PM (uivt4)
That was intelligible, so clearly he's an impostor.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 22, 2015 04:47 PM (mx5oN)
btw, I watched The Judge with him and Duvall and I liked it. Nothing original, but it was a nicely told story.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 04:47 PM (R/rAV)
Posted by: some guy at April 22, 2015 04:47 PM (q177U)
Posted by: Y-not at April 22, 2015 04:47 PM (9BRsg)
A true upstanding American.
Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at April 22, 2015 04:45 PM
..............So this special snowflake is going to get hit by the reality of a rule that other libs made. Petard Hoisted. Enjoy.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 22, 2015 04:48 PM (6GBAx)
Added for clarity.
Posted by: Cicero Boom chicka boom Kaboom! Kid at April 22, 2015 04:48 PM (MrqLm)
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at April 22, 2015 04:48 PM (XrGnJ)
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at April 22, 2015 04:48 PM (XrGnJ)
Uuuhhhh...huh huh...whut?
Posted by: Poseidon at April 22, 2015 04:49 PM (mx5oN)
Posted by: wrg500 at April 22, 2015 04:49 PM (sgrzZ)
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Probably because Duvall is a great actor. I've said it before, but watch any scene with Duvall in it. Then watch a scene with Clooney.
It is really amazing that Clooney has become the superstar that he is.
In many ways his life is the life of Obama's.
Posted by: SH at April 22, 2015 04:49 PM (gmeXX)
Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at April 22, 2015 04:50 PM (ZKzrr)
I'm surprised the reporter didn't ask him about whether he felt bad
about the littering he did by throwing his drugs into the ocean.
Gaia wept.
Meanwhile, Choom Boy takes AF One to the Florida Everglades to preach to us about Climate Change.
9,000 gallons of jet fuel for the round trip.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 22, 2015 04:50 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Y-not at April 22, 2015 04:50 PM (9BRsg)
Posted by: SH at April 22, 2015 04:50 PM (gmeXX)
Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at April 22, 2015 04:50 PM
An atomic one. One that rips the waistband and pulls it over his pointy head.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2015 04:51 PM (h4vJk)
Posted by: The Dude at April 22, 2015 04:51 PM (SyKbw)
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 22, 2015 04:52 PM (6GBAx)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at April 22, 2015 04:52 PM (2EBz3)
Posted by: duke at April 22, 2015 04:52 PM (ChY2Q)
Surely the talent's agents know this already, yes?
Posted by: toby928(C) at April 22, 2015 04:52 PM (evdj2)
2003 is after he got out of the joint.
There's a Burger King on PCH??
No, you dont have the right to make private citizens answer questions they dont want to answer.
Posted by: Bruce J. at April 22, 2015 04:52 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 22, 2015 04:53 PM (wcbxS)
Posted by: AngelEm at April 22, 2015 04:53 PM (ImY/R)
Ace was paid off by a Hillary supporter not to show her in a negative light.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 22, 2015 04:53 PM (k2fxD)
Posted by: some guy at April 22, 2015 04:54 PM (q177U)
And the reporter could be in the wrong here yet ace. Hat was this an interview for? If it's just some generic interview then sure it's ok to ask that stuff but if it's specifically for the promotion of avengers then stick with the topic.
Posted by: Buzzion at April 22, 2015 04:54 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: toby928(C) at April 22, 2015 04:52 PM (evdj2)
you would think so but I guess not. You would think you would keep a mental note that the Channel 4 dude is an asshole but eh
Posted by: The Dude at April 22, 2015 04:54 PM (SyKbw)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 22, 2015 04:53 PM (wcbxS)
Not all celebs are Gwyneth Paltrow sipping wheat grass smoothies and steaming their hoo-has all day.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 22, 2015 04:54 PM (mx5oN)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2015 04:54 PM (DXzRD)
Posted by: Lena Dunham at April 22, 2015 04:54 PM (wcbxS)
Posted by: some guy at April 22, 2015 04:55 PM (q177U)
How many times has a liberal actor run their mouth about politics and (colective) we, commented that they should "shut up and act?"
I don't mind Downey doing this at all.
Posted by: caunotaucarius at April 22, 2015 04:55 PM (aruDZ)
Posted by: Golfman at April 22, 2015 04:55 PM (uivt4)
Posted by: MTF at April 22, 2015 04:56 PM (FCsIb)
Lena darling. Everybody in college had you once.
Posted by: wrg500 at April 22, 2015 04:56 PM (sgrzZ)
Posted by: Jim Beam at April 22, 2015 04:56 PM (evdj2)
Wait... I think I remember... didn't Rome call Everett "Chrissy" and then Everett punched him out?
Posted by: OregonMuse at April 22, 2015 04:56 PM (I8YZX)
Posted by: BignJames at April 22, 2015 04:56 PM (Eo86b)
Posted by: OregonMuse at April 22, 2015 04:56 PM (I8YZX)
WAR CHRISSY!!
Posted by: The Dude at April 22, 2015 04:56 PM (SyKbw)
I'd just like to note that I'm a huge fan of Rage Against My Parents guitarist Tom Morello's acting in Iron Man. Oscar level stuff, brings a tear to my eye.
http://tinyurl.com/lev9bm2
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 22, 2015 04:57 PM (SpnVI)
Posted by: zombie
____________
You forgot the additional step of blaming evil conservatives for "cutting" funds for education.
Posted by: Furious George at April 22, 2015 04:58 PM (UlJ3l)
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I'm going to disagree with you Ace. Unless the terms of the interview were that anything was open, then the reporter was objectively wrong. When RDJ made clear he was there to promote a movie and didn't want to go down the rabbit hold the reporter wanted to go, he should have stopped and moved on. Yes he had an agenda (as did RDJ) but that does not make him right. RDJ's agenda was not a secret and the only reason to do the agenda was to promote the movie. His agenda was not to restore his image such that going into the past was necessary.
The reporter here was wrong - he was not a prick about it - but he was still wrong. RDJ handled it great.
Posted by: SH at April 22, 2015 04:58 PM (gmeXX)
Posted by: DaveA at April 22, 2015 04:58 PM (DL2i+)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at April 22, 2015 04:58 PM (jOumW)
Posted by: Cruzinator at April 22, 2015 04:58 PM (P7ulB)
Posted by: Y-not at April 22, 2015 04:58 PM (9BRsg)
What's amazing is that we all scream "shut up and sing" and now here's a guy who wants only to do that and now it is required that he talk politics.
With the left, everything is political and I guess it now has to be that way. Couldn't the friggin' reporter just talk about the damned picture? I think he was itching to turn Downey into Memories Pizza so the 10 or 20 Twitter trolls can trash him.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 04:59 PM (St6BJ)
It's fair game to ask him about it and it's completely fair for Downey not to want to talk about it.
Completely ok regardless.
Posted by: prescient11 at April 22, 2015 04:59 PM (q5APL)
Who is your alternative to the Democrats?
The freaking useless Republicans. John Boehner.
I'm amazed any of these guys don't run right back to the arms of the Democrats as quickly as possible. Same country/culture: less ostracism.
Posted by: Kensington (@NYKensington) at April 22, 2015 04:59 PM (7Kbxu)
Posted by: Cher at April 22, 2015 04:59 PM (q+zA9)
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I liked it, too, but its depiction of criminal procedure is possibly the most inaccurate of anything outside a sitcom.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at April 22, 2015 04:59 PM (2EBz3)
Posted by: OregonMuse at April 22, 2015 04:56 PM (I8YZX)
Must see TV
http://tinyurl.com/k8hhk8k
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 22, 2015 05:00 PM (V+kmg)
Posted by: SH at April 22, 2015 05:00 PM (gmeXX)
So, what's your take on your Fuhrer claiming no Armenian genocide, Ms. Sarkissian?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:00 PM (St6BJ)
Posted by: Oedipus at April 22, 2015 05:01 PM (CXLVd)
The last thing he said as he walked was something about "this becoming a little Diane Sawyer". To me that is, "poke their wounds til they cry" gossip-journalism.
Posted by: typo dynamofo at April 22, 2015 05:01 PM (i7JE3)
And Bill Nye is over the moon because he got to fly on AF One with the JEF.
Sorry for the OT. Having a mild rage headache.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 22, 2015 05:02 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: meh at April 22, 2015 05:02 PM (bsDXW)
Posted by: Milton Brown at April 22, 2015 05:03 PM (UlJ3l)
"Here's the Jim Rome interview:"
To his credit, Rome aplogized and stated that he was young and stupid at the time. Iam not a fan, but I respect that he at least had enough self-awareness to realize that if you ask for it, sometimes you get it.
Posted by: Benji Carver at April 22, 2015 05:03 PM (OD2ni)
Posted by: SH at April 22, 2015 04:58 PM (gmeXX)
Yup. The point being, you can't be something other than a card carrying member, or else you'll be hounded about it. One way or another, your unwillingness to toe the line IS the story. That's what is wrong here, not the reporter's tone.
Posted by: Speaker of the House, Tommy Flanagan at April 22, 2015 05:03 PM (TOk1P)
I'm taking Downey's side here.
Posted by: jakeman at April 22, 2015 05:03 PM (Wq40h)
There's an old - and vile - saying in show biz:
"Hollywood would forgive Hitler if he were good at the box office. Well, maybe not forgive, but forget."
Downey might not want to put that theory into practice. He's good at the b.o. (and no I'm not comparing him to Hitler) but he's still no Clint Eastwood.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:03 PM (St6BJ)
Posted by: BurtTC at April 22, 2015 05:03 PM (TOk1P)
Posted by: Benji Carver at April 22, 2015 05:03 PM (OD2ni)
That's nice. Jim Rome is still a dick though.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 22, 2015 05:04 PM (V+kmg)
There's a McDonalds in Malibu. In his defense, when you're really high on drugs, the fries do taste alike.
Posted by: Bob Wood at April 22, 2015 05:04 PM (beJFh)
And me too!
Posted by: bill nye's dick at April 22, 2015 05:04 PM (kivUY)
But this is also proof #1,192 why Clint Eastwood, out and proud politically and does not give a crap what you think, is a total bad-a at 85 years young.
Posted by: LizLem at April 22, 2015 05:05 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: The Tie at April 22, 2015 05:05 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: buzzion at April 22, 2015 05:05 PM (z/Ubi)
http://is.gd/5lXc4w
Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at April 22, 2015 05:06 PM (ZKzrr)
I think we need an exploratory committee to delve further into the location of the Burger King on PCH.
Who's with me?
Posted by: Bruce J. at April 22, 2015 05:06 PM (iQIUe)
My favorite Downey role was Ian (or was it Max?) in Weird Science:
"This party's lame Max."
"What about the girls?"
"Girls Schmirls."
Posted by: Benji Carver at April 22, 2015 05:06 PM (OD2ni)
Come on! The chocolate shakes and onion rings are worth the trip alone.
Posted by: Bruce J. at April 22, 2015 05:06 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 22, 2015 05:06 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Kensington (@NYKensington) at April 22, 2015 05:06 PM (7Kbxu)
i don't know the rules. It's obviously a Junket, where the actor just goes from room to room and thus does like 100 interviews in a day. I don't know what a junket's rules are, if any.
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2015 05:07 PM (PA7DS)
He made it perfectly clear that he was there to discuss the movie and that he wasn't interested in rehashing his past.
Gave the dude a couple of chances, too.
Yeah, interviewer was trying to trip him up, and failed miserably.
As others have stated, I don't want to know his politics. I watch Entertainment for just that - entertainment. An escape from constant politics.
Posted by: chi's sandwIch at April 22, 2015 05:07 PM (yBiXO)
Questions concerning matters of pop culture and trivial things are reserved for Obama.
- the style guide
Posted by: bananaDream at April 22, 2015 05:07 PM (uzJKG)
Posted by: ГУЛАГ для головн at April 22, 2015 05:07 PM (0Ew3K)
If he answered the responses would have been edited, parsed and interpreted otherwise why ask them
All the reporter could do is show him walking out
Why did he even bother showing that?
Because he had an agenda
And Downey knew it
Posted by: ThunderB, Quite Capable of Violence at April 22, 2015 05:08 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at April 22, 2015 05:08 PM (bCJvd)
But this is also proof #1,192 why Clint Eastwood, out and proud politically and does not give a crap what you think, is a total bad-a at 85 years young.
Posted by: LizLem at April 22, 2015 05:05 PM (yRwC
As someone who has been in show biz going on 30 years, all I want is a steady and decent paycheck, with fat royalty checks coming in every year to support my life. To hell with an Oscar; if my livelihood is at stake I will shut up and say my lines. It's painful to have to take meetings and shit from people who have the values slightly beneath child rapist and the brains of a toddler, but it is what it is.
So, kudos to Downey. And since these interviews are strictly supposed to be about the film, the "reporter" was out of bounds with his questions, no matter how nice he was in phrasing them.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:08 PM (St6BJ)
Posted by: Hank at April 22, 2015 05:08 PM (K+1ie)
"That's nice. Jim Rome is still a dick though."
Agreed. I guess I was expecting him to be a bigger dick about it.
Posted by: Benji Carver at April 22, 2015 05:08 PM (OD2ni)
Posted by: TallDave at April 22, 2015 05:08 PM (/s1LA)
It was wrong because it was indecent.
Posted by: SH at April 22, 2015 05:09 PM (gmeXX)
While we're talking Hollywood, are any of these worth watching? Besides Airplane!
http://is.gd/5lXc4w
Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at April 22, 2015 05:06 PM (ZKzrr)
Fantastic Voyage: Raquel Welch in spandex
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 22, 2015 05:10 PM (SpnVI)
where the actor just goes from room to room and thus does like 100
interviews in a day. I don't know what a junket's rules are, if any.
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2015 05:07 PM (PA7DS)
Yes, there are rules, sometimes very strictly enforced by the interviewee, sometimes by the money people behind it. The reporters are herded in, with set times, and usually clearly defined boundaries. So if, for example, you have Tom Cruise in front of you, you don't get to ask him about the gay stuff. You just don't, and if you try they will confiscate your footage, and you'll... as they say, never work in "this town" again.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 22, 2015 05:10 PM (TOk1P)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at April 22, 2015 05:11 PM (bYk1t)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:11 PM (St6BJ)
That doesn't mean that he's Moron Herd material; it just means that he's just somewhere to the right of Josef Stalin and doesn't want to make his political beliefs an issue.
Good for him.
Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at April 22, 2015 05:11 PM (0RdKg)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:11 PM (St6BJ)
The interview was at Oberlin?
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 22, 2015 05:11 PM (V+kmg)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:12 PM (St6BJ)
Posted by: Sean Penn at April 22, 2015 05:12 PM (q+zA9)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 22, 2015 05:13 PM (kivUY)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 22, 2015 05:11 PM (V+kmg)
O'Berlin?
An Irish Jew song and dance man?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:13 PM (St6BJ)
Yo politics!
Posted by: Sean Penn at April 22, 2015 05:12 PM (q+zA9)
Here. Take this red plastic cup and go bail out a canoe.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 22, 2015 05:13 PM (FsuaD)
Red Dawn.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:12 PM (St6BJ)
It's the awful PC remake that's falling off the Netflix list.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 22, 2015 05:13 PM (SpnVI)
This guy wanted to make a name for himself. Downey knew it wouldn't be fair because this guy needs it to be controversial, for his fucking career. So he walked out. And that's all this guy gets to show for controversies sake
It was a set up, so fuck him
Posted by: ThunderB, Quite Capable of Violence at April 22, 2015 05:13 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Cher at April 22, 2015 05:14 PM (q+zA9)
"So if, for example, you have Tom Cruise in front of you, you don't get to ask him about the gay stuff."
I'm guessing no question Inter-Galactic Overlord Xenu either, right?
Posted by: Benji Carver at April 22, 2015 05:14 PM (OD2ni)
What two things have electrolytes?
Steamed hoo-hahs and Brawndo!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at April 22, 2015 05:11 PM (bYk1t)
Dude, that is a borderline MUMR comment.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:14 PM (St6BJ)
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Nor should you. We don't live in a decent world, but we should keep demanding one.
Being a reporter does not give you carte blanche to ask any question or explore any subject. Too many think that is the case.
You should still be a decent person. Decent doesn't just mean nice. It means acting appropriately as suitable to the moment.
When someone does not act that way, we should call them out on it.
This is not the worst aggression in the world, but it is still clear to me that the interviewer was wrong.
Posted by: SH at April 22, 2015 05:14 PM (gmeXX)
Posted by: Todd Akin at April 22, 2015 05:14 PM (48QDY)
Posted by: Grey Fox at April 22, 2015 05:14 PM (a42f0)
Tom Cruise is gay?
wasn't gay back in the 80's
Posted by: Cher at April 22, 2015 05:14 PM (q+zA9)
If I were shagging Mimi Rogers, no way I'd go gay. She's got announcements that would turn Liberace into John Wayne.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:14 PM (St6BJ)
Posted by: 7 train at April 22, 2015 05:15 PM (q7KJ7)
Posted by: Cruzinator at April 22, 2015 05:15 PM (P7ulB)
Posted by: Grey Fox at April 22, 2015 05:14 PM (a42f0)
Write them a nice letter declining the invite, but use feces instead of ink.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:15 PM (St6BJ)
Posted by: Cher at April 22, 2015 05:15 PM (q+zA9)
Posted by: Dr. McCoy at April 22, 2015 05:16 PM (/EkKm)
The soooo have earned it.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 22, 2015 05:16 PM (08Znv)
Posted by: despair at April 22, 2015 05:16 PM (J6suc)
Posted by: Tom Cruise at April 22, 2015 05:16 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Benji Carver at April 22, 2015 05:14 PM (OD2ni)
What about Xim and Xer?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:16 PM (St6BJ)
Posted by: ThunderB, Quite Capable of Violence at April 22, 2015 05:17 PM (zOTsN)
Here is a reporter assigned to do a fluff piece on the movie, and decides on his own to be "hard-hitting." That IS on him. I bet his editor didn't tell him to be aggressive or ask personal questions. It's movie promotion, happens all the time.
So, yes, the jerk was out of line. Lately you seem to pick the wrong side rather often.
Posted by: Adjoran at April 22, 2015 05:17 PM (QIQ6j)
Posted by: Rancid Clamdiddler at April 22, 2015 05:17 PM (5fSr7)
Ask me about Scientology!
Not.
Posted by: Tom Cruise at April 22, 2015 05:16 PM (FsuaD)
Could be worse, it could be Amway.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 22, 2015 05:17 PM (SpnVI)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:14 PM (St6BJ)
I don't think there is any evidence he actually shagged her. Even if there was video, I'd be assuming he was using someone else's weener.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 22, 2015 05:17 PM (TOk1P)
I wonder if they'll do it with a Potemkin vote? Their style wouldn't be to outright confirm her, instead they'll probably pass a resolution saying that she will be deemed confirmed unless within 30 days they can pass a condemnation of Obama's overreach in appointing her with a two-thirds majority.
Then they'll blame the Democrats for failing to join them in defeating this affront to Senate prerogatives.
Posted by: MTF at April 22, 2015 05:17 PM (FCsIb)
I will always have a soft spot for A Knight's Tale; should have just been a silly RomCom set in Medieval England but the story and the cast elevates it to something really special. And you won't get this through a Netflix watch, but the commentary on the DVD is still one of the best of any movies I've heard. They talk about all the historically accurate things they put into the film and all the little behinds the scenes details, that stuff is crack to me so I love it.
Apparently there is a period of Chaucer's life unaccounted for in history, and the writers pretend this story fills in the gap of that period (he is one of the characters in the film.)
And I'm not ashamed to say that the first time I rewatched this after Heath Ledger died I cried a little. He does a great job in it. Just a fun film.
Posted by: LizLem at April 22, 2015 05:17 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: ThunderB, Quite Capable of Violence at April 22, 2015 05:18 PM (zOTsN)
The soooo have earned it.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 22, 2015 05:16 PM (08Znv)
The way around them is a) insist on your own crew to tape alongside theirs and b) dig up every piece of dirt on the interviewer you can, learn it, memorize it and if they dare try and snag you, pounce.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:18 PM (St6BJ)
Would the inquisitor have a right to demand an answer from Downey about what religion Downey practices?
I'm tired of the media cabal trying to single handedly elect a Hollywood elite ruling class. It probably takes a certain lack of arrogance and self control to ease jump off that pedestal, good on Downey for having the will power to opt out.
Posted by: The reason Hillary wears a Mao suit at April 22, 2015 05:19 PM (RJMhd)
But our current Dumb Age requires that every single dispute, like this one, have some kind of Black Hat Villain and White Hat Hero.
*********************
I wouldn't go quite that far. Journalism is at an all time low. It was completely reasonable to assume the reporter was somehow at fault, as long as you are open to correction.
Posted by: Sunni LeBeouf at April 22, 2015 05:19 PM (xkSSa)
Posted by: BurtTC at April 22, 2015 05:17 PM (TOk1P)
So it was a Rock Hudson studio-arranged marriage? Poor Mimi, which ironically, is an appropriate name for SCOAMF.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:19 PM (St6BJ)
http://is.gd/5lXc4w"
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The only one I might make any effort to see is "Flight," which I've heard good things about.
"Robot and Frank" was very touching, as well, but if you haven't lost an elderly father in the last year and a half, it might not resonate for you as much as it did for me.
Posted by: Kensington (@NYKensington) at April 22, 2015 05:19 PM (7Kbxu)
Posted by: Cruzinator at April 22, 2015 05:20 PM (P7ulB)
Lacky: Comrade Stalin I have good news! You have won the election 67,886,541 to 2.
Stalin: What are their names?
Posted by: NYC Parent plumbing ever greater depths of cynicism and disgust at April 22, 2015 05:20 PM (HEo6y)
Posted by: ThunderB, Quite Capable of Violence
Bitch set us both up.
Posted by: Marion Berry at April 22, 2015 05:20 PM (Q/rld)
Posted by: Democrats at April 22, 2015 05:20 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Marie Harf at April 22, 2015 05:21 PM (xkSSa)
Posted by: Grey Fox at April 22, 2015 05:14 PM (a42f0)
Write them a nice letter declining the invite, but use feces instead of ink.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:15 PM (St6BJ)
Because ORGANIC bitchez
Posted by: Golfman at April 22, 2015 05:21 PM (48QDY)
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 05:21 PM (R/rAV)
ah, thanks for the info.
>>>The thing is Ace, it feels to me that the reporter is less interested in asking him Q's about his past and more trying to put him on the spot because he is on record saying, "I'm not a liberal."
i didn't really get that feeling, though I do assume the reporter is a douche.
But honestly, I DO sort of want to know about RDJr's politics, and I would like to hear a Drug Recovery story. (Recovery stories, which never interested me before, are for some reason interesting to me lately.)
So I guess I just feel like: Yeah, I want to know this stuff.
Not saying I have the RIGHT to know this stuff, just saying I have the desire.
but if burt is right and on these junkets the rules are tight and enforced, then the reporter was out of bounds.
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2015 05:21 PM (PA7DS)
Old wall oven died a little over two months ago.
Ordered new replacement 3/12. The locally-owned appliance store keeps saying the company (GE) keeps back-ordering. We only had the choice of one oven to fill the cabinet space, and it's not cheap.
Was told it would (finally) be delivered tomorrow and installed. Didn't hear from appliance store.
I called nearly an hour ago, and was told "Steve" would get back to me.
So far, nothing.
I can't believe a family-owned business can stay in business treating customers this way.
*drums fingers on desk*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 22, 2015 05:22 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:19 PM (St6BJ)
Pretty much, yeah. He went from Rogers to Kidman to Cruz to Holmes. Nicole has hinted at things... but I always figured there were contracts signed. Keep your mouth shut, or hand over large wads of cash.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 22, 2015 05:22 PM (TOk1P)
Posted by: ThunderB, Quite Capable of Violence at April 22, 2015 05:22 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Kensington (@NYKensington) at April 22, 2015 05:22 PM (7Kbxu)
If the reporter wants to know his politics, invite him back for an interview with that as it's purpose.
Questions in interviews like this, like it or not, are ambush questions.
Actors especially, are aware of the damage the wrong politics can have on their work prospects. Not a single conservative or right leaning actor I've ever heard commenting on this has not confirmed that having the wrong politics in Hollywood has impacted their prospects.
Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at April 22, 2015 05:23 PM (BZAd3)
It was wrong because it was indecent.
...
i really don't think that asking someone about stuff they've willingly discussed before is really "ambushy" or unfair, though.
Again, I respect RDJr's right to not answer. but if i were an interviewer, these would have seemed like good questions to me.
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2015 05:23 PM (PA7DS)
Insist that Ace be given the final edit.
Reporter: WHAT DO I WANT?
Downey: COCK!
Posted by: t-bird at April 22, 2015 05:23 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 22, 2015 05:23 PM (FsuaD)
I have to spend part of this week in Hollywood.
I hate Hollywood. Grrrrrr.
Posted by: petunia at April 22, 2015 05:23 PM (VoCyE)
Just saw Holmes in the film "Woman In Gold." Excellent film though I wish I snuck in - Harvey Weinstein produced it.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:24 PM (St6BJ)
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 05:24 PM (R/rAV)
Posted by: Grey Fox at April 22, 2015 05:14 PM (a42f0)
I have emailed them asking to get off their stupid list, and I still get emails! Every email is a chicken little crying wolf type thing, when not tongue bathing Obama in praise for nixing Keystone, and it gets old super fast. Screw them. So your letter makes me happy.
Posted by: LizLem at April 22, 2015 05:25 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:18 PM
Absolutely right on! Pull out the camera and start taping. Doing background is always good if time and the venue allows it. Then nail 'em when the agenda takes over.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 22, 2015 05:25 PM (08Znv)
He's said it was a mistake, blaming it on his youth, but I don't know that he ever apologized. Doesn't sound like it from this:
http://deadspin.com/5873900/
an-interview-with-jim-everett-about-teeny-tiny-
jim-romes-departure-from-espn
Posted by: Y-not at April 22, 2015 05:25 PM (9BRsg)
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2015 05:23 PM (PA7DS)
It depends on what the rules were ahead of time. If he's on a press tour to promote the film then the questions are really supposed to be only about the film. Unless some other big unrelated news involving the actor is literally happening at the same time as the release. In which case, they'd definitely set preconditions.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:26 PM (St6BJ)
some of you are presuming bad intent behind the interviewer's questions, assuming he wants to then hurt RDJr by running tape of the answers.
I do not think that presumptions is crazy, but nor do I think it's fair to presume bad intent, and then say: A ha! Bad Intent! (Which was presumed.)
Like, I don't think that your guess that he's an asshole is a bad guess, but I would say it is just a guess, and thus, not having any actual reason to say "This guy was out to get RDJr,' we shouldn't say that he was.
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2015 05:26 PM (PA7DS)
Posted by: ThunderB, Quite Capable of Violence at April 22, 2015 05:26 PM (zOTsN)
politics, and I would like to hear a Drug Recovery story. (Recovery
stories, which never interested me before, are for some reason
interesting to me lately.)
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2015 05:21 PM (PA7DS)
Downey is an interesting guy, and even the text you quoted above is fascinating to read. There appears to be some real honesty there.
I guess I'm less interested in his politics than I am the... I don't know, more overall changes he made in his thinking, in his life. Want to know, but yeah, it's his right to keep that stuff to himself as much as he wants.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 22, 2015 05:26 PM (TOk1P)
Posted by: Kensington (@NYKensington) at April 22, 2015 05:26 PM (7Kbxu)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at April 22, 2015 05:27 PM (YvRAm)
It depends on what the rules were ahead of time. If he's on a press tour to promote the film then the questions are really supposed to be only about the film. Unless some other big unrelated news involving the actor is literally happening at the same time as the release. In which case, they'd definitely set preconditions.
yes, as i've said, if burt is right (and he sounds right), then this is not a profile or an in-depth interview, this is three minutes of fluff to run on the local news, and these interviewers know that going in.
i would think these were fair questions for a *profile,* where RDJr really did sit down to talk about himself.
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2015 05:27 PM (PA7DS)
Just in case this hasn't been pointed out already, but RACIST!
Posted by: blaster at April 22, 2015 05:28 PM (kGsA2)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 22, 2015 05:28 PM (FsuaD)
"I don't think there is any evidence he actually shagged her. Even if there was video, I'd be assuming he was using someone else's weener."
Kind of like the Renly/Margery marriage in Game of Thrones.
Posted by: Benji Carver at April 22, 2015 05:28 PM (OD2ni)
Because this reporter decided to create controversy, before the interview began
Posted by: ThunderB, Quite Capable of Violence at April 22, 2015 05:29 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Marie Harf
Get him a job!
Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2015 05:29 PM (IGu+c)
but still, that's just a guess; i really don't see him engaging in any behavior here I'd call "badgering" or unfair.
I know I said "badgering" in the headline, but that's just because we Lie In All Headlines. I learned that from the media.
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2015 05:29 PM (PA7DS)
Posted by: Cruzinator at April 22, 2015 05:29 PM (P7ulB)
Posted by: anna at April 22, 2015 05:29 PM (FcR7P)
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Ambushy may be the wrong word choice, but just because someone has talked about a topic at some point should not mean that it is fair game to always bring it up. There is some aspect of situational awareness.
Jay Leno interviewing Hugh Grant after a big scandal in which Hugh Grant was using Leno to repair his image is different from Hugh Grant promoting a movie today at a junket with a no name interviewer.
And simply because Hugh Grant talked about it in the past does not mean it is right to ask him about it now.
It is simply indecent to bring it up if all Hugh Grant is doing promoting a movie.
To go legal, objection relevance. If Hugh/ RDJ brings up the past on their own, then I guess they have opened the door.
Its not the worst aggresion, but one we should not promote.
Posted by: SH at April 22, 2015 05:29 PM (gmeXX)
I think part of the reaction to Downey is the fact that there are so few really big show biz names that are seemingly on our side, that we want to stand up and champion.
If half of show biz were in the Eastwood/Sinise/Davi mold, then our reaction to Downey might very well have been "chill out dude, it's just a question."
But we are on the shit end of a very long pike while we walk the plank over shark infested waters.
(3,3,3 metaphors in 1!)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:30 PM (St6BJ)
do you want to be banned again?
You were banned before for spamming threads; I see you are incapable of learning.
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2015 05:30 PM (PA7DS)
I'm guessing he saw the tough love and hard work approach as one that worked and associated that with non-liberals.
Posted by: AmishDude at April 22, 2015 05:30 PM (b4b5c)
Posted by: Kensington (@NYKensington) at April 22, 2015 05:19 PM (7Kbxu)
That is a great little film as well, I agree. It also because of family situations resonated with me, but it is a good film even without that connection.
Posted by: LizLem at April 22, 2015 05:30 PM (yRwC8)
To paraphrase Uncle Willie Robertson, you'd have to have a screw loose not to want to sex Mimi Rogers.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 05:30 PM (R/rAV)
Budget is X.
They want 2X.
You propose X.
They compromise on 1.5X.
This is called a 25% cut.
Posted by: despair at April 22, 2015 05:30 PM (J6suc)
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2015 05:26 PM (PA7DS)
interviewer has precedent of doing exactly that though
Posted by: The Dude at April 22, 2015 05:31 PM (SyKbw)
Assumption 1: He's out to make a name for himself.
Assumption 2: His producer is out to make a name for him/herself.
Assumption 3: The senior editor will do whatever it takes to make a name for him/herself.
With these assumptions in mind,
Rule 1: Never ever trust the media.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 22, 2015 05:31 PM (08Znv)
And I'm not ashamed to say that the first time I rewatched this after Heath Ledger died I cried a little. He does a great job in it. Just a fun film.
Posted by: LizLem at April 22, 2015 05:17 PM (yRwC
I like that movie too. The main actors had fantastic chemistry together.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 22, 2015 05:31 PM (mx5oN)
Like, I don't think that your guess that he's an asshole is a bad guess, but I would say it is just a guess, and thus, not having any actual reason to say "This guy was out to get RDJr,' we shouldn't say that he was.
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I don't actually think that - it may be true.
That is not why I think the reporter was wrong though.
He was just probing an area that he had no business probing and Downed was not interested in.
Its badgering.
Posted by: SH at April 22, 2015 05:31 PM (gmeXX)
mold, then our reaction to Downey might very well have been "chill out
dude, it's just a question."
But we are on the shit end of a very long pike while we walk the plank over shark infested waters.
(3,3,3 metaphors in 1!)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:30 PM (St6BJ)
Let's not forget Adam Baldwin (swoon).
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 22, 2015 05:31 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: MTF at April 22, 2015 05:32 PM (FCsIb)
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2015 05:23 PM (PA7DS)
For a general interview I would say you're right. But if you're at an interview specifically for talking about your most recent movie I would say no. And it was apparent that he was willing to give the guy a little leeway but when it kept going down those roads that was it.
But yeah it would be interesting to hear him talk about his drug recovery and all that. Politics less so for me because 24/7 politics sucks and more actors need to follow his example and shut up about them.
For me its enough that he's either conservative or just doesn't feel the need to shit all over half his audience like most of his hollywood cohorts do.
Posted by: buzzion at April 22, 2015 05:32 PM (z/Ubi)
this is why you were banned, and this is why you're about to be banned again:
You do not interact with people. You do not talk with people. You do not ever speak on-topic.
Instead, you spam threads with your personal obsessions.
This would be fine on the MUMR Blog, but you're not on the MUMR Blog; no one is coming here to read your off-topic obsessing over this or that.
You continue to use threads for a purpose for which they were not intended, which is to advertise/spam your off-topic thoughts.
I didn't mind that you posted one email. But now, of course, you've spammed it five times.
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2015 05:32 PM (PA7DS)
Posted by: Diogenes at April 22, 2015 05:31 PM (08Znv)
Memories Pizza. 'nuff said.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:32 PM (St6BJ)
Posted by: Kensington (@NYKensington) at April 22, 2015 05:32 PM (7Kbxu)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:33 PM (St6BJ)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:30 PM (St6BJ)
Well we all must economize in these troubled times, even the metaphors!
Posted by: LizLem at April 22, 2015 05:33 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: Teresa Heinz Kerry at April 22, 2015 05:33 PM (QRz0C)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 22, 2015 05:31 PM (mx5oN)
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excellent score as well
Posted by: MTF at April 22, 2015 05:33 PM (FCsIb)
Then you've got Downey sticking up for Mel Gibson despite the general hatred of the man in Hollywood (9 parts from his Christ movie and 1 part because of his drunken rants, let's be real here). Downey has shown he's not just another trained liberal seal.
Posted by: Trich at April 22, 2015 05:33 PM (0Rz0w)
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2015 05:32 PM (PA7DS)
MUMR has been on topic on some of the gaming threads. Sure, he was being racist as fuck but still kinda on topic
Posted by: The Dude at April 22, 2015 05:33 PM (SyKbw)
Posted by: Anna at April 22, 2015 05:34 PM (evdj2)
I think the spamming will stop if someone stops altering and then deleting his comments.
It's a vicious circle going on here.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 05:34 PM (R/rAV)
his lifetime now due to one honest interview, is a shame.
Hmmmm. **weighs self-respect and Oscar in opposing hands** I'm gonna guess that Oldman doesn't really care. If you're confident in your life's work, you don't give a damn what some worthless, politically-based award says. You know, like Barack and his Nobel.
Posted by: pep at April 22, 2015 05:34 PM (LAe3v)
but i don't think celebrities should generally be protected from questions they don't feel like answering.
Her Majesty Hillary Clinton believes in that; I don't.
Now, in a junket setting, maybe these are inappropriate, but as a general matter, I think anyone has the right to ask anyone most anything. Certainly one can ask about *previously* discussed matters.
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2015 05:35 PM (PA7DS)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 22, 2015 05:31 PM (mx5oN)
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excellent score as well
Posted by: MTF at April 22, 2015 05:33 PM (FCsIb)
Absolutely. Opening the first joust with "We Will Rock You" was genius, and the after-tourney dance with "Golden Years" by David Bowie is one of my favorite scenes in the movie.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 22, 2015 05:35 PM (mx5oN)
As humorous as the Hodoring is, just go straight to delete.
Posted by: toby928(C) at April 22, 2015 05:35 PM (evdj2)
Posted by: Cheap Trick at April 22, 2015 05:35 PM (h4vJk)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 22, 2015 05:35 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: ThunderB, Quite Capable of Violence at April 22, 2015 05:36 PM (zOTsN)
But now, of course, you've spammed it five times.
More like fifty-five times, but that's because you empowered some chooch to delete every comment he makes.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 05:36 PM (R/rAV)
Posted by: Anna at April 22, 2015 05:34 PM
Damn it! We wanted you to want us.
Posted by: Cheap Trick at April 22, 2015 05:35 PM (h4vJk)
Didn't I see you cryin'?
Posted by: Insomniac at April 22, 2015 05:36 PM (mx5oN)
Posted by: Cruzinator at April 22, 2015 05:36 PM (P7ulB)
Posted by: Jane D'oh
My default is to give the locally owned enterprise first shot at my business, but it seems more often than not I end up somewhere else.
Posted by: Aviator at April 22, 2015 05:36 PM (sQzB6)
some of you are presuming bad intent behind the interviewer's questions, assuming he wants to then hurt RDJr by running tape of the answers.
I do not think that presumptions is crazy, but nor do I think it's fair to presume bad intent, and then say: A ha! Bad Intent! (Which was presumed.)
Like, I don't think that your guess that he's an asshole is a bad guess, but I would say it is just a guess, and thus, not having any actual reason to say "This guy was out to get RDJr,' we shouldn't say that he was.
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2015 05:26 PM (PA7DS)
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Fair enough. I'm a conservative in academia, so perhaps I've become excessively sensitive to this sort of thing. I see the reporter bring up the, "I see you've said that you're not a liberal," crap and I assume the worst: we will punish you for impure thoughts.
Hell, I've even needed to sanitize who I FOLLOW on twitter in order to protect myself from these maniacs. Follow. Not things I've personally tweeted, but edit who I follow. Let that sink in. I have to sweat who I follow on twitter, because following the wrong people could adversely affect my job security.
Posted by: 7 train at April 22, 2015 05:36 PM (q7KJ7)
well that's the ban in effect, his comments are deleted shortly aft they're made. I guess I keep just refreshing the page shortly before they're deleted.
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2015 05:36 PM (PA7DS)
well that's the ban in effect, his comments are deleted shortly aft they're made. I guess I keep just refreshing the page shortly before they're deleted.
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2015 05:36 PM (PA7DS)
Arlene's Flowers.
Albeit the circumstances were a bit different. Media reaction wasn't.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 22, 2015 05:37 PM (08Znv)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 22, 2015 05:31 PM (FsuaD)
Of course. And Kelsey Grammar. How he survived 11 years of "Frasier" with the unbridled leftists on that show is beyond me. Then again, as a fan of the show, I have seen the entire series several times and in all those years there was only one sort of swipe at Nancy Reagan (the lie about here being extravagant with the drapes) but they always poked fun at certain liberal sacred cows in a somewhat subtle way.
It's a great series, IMHO.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:37 PM (St6BJ)
Posted by: toby928(C) at April 22, 2015 05:37 PM (evdj2)
======================
agree with both. just fantastic use of music.
Posted by: MTF at April 22, 2015 05:37 PM (FCsIb)
Posted by: Anna at April 22, 2015 05:34 PM
Damn it! We wanted you to want us.
Posted by: Cheap Trick at April 22, 2015 05:35 PM (h4vJk)
Didn't I see you cryin'?
Posted by: Insomniac at April 22, 2015 05:36 PM
No...*sniff*
That was definitely someone else. *sniff*
Posted by: Cheap Trick at April 22, 2015 05:38 PM (h4vJk)
I prefer not knowing when stuff disappears from Netflix. I'm sure 99% of the time I'd never even notice.
It pisses me off when I go look for something I know I put on my list and it's not there.
Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at April 22, 2015 05:38 PM (ZKzrr)
They act like a lynch mob
Posted by: ThunderB, Quite Capable of Violence at April 22, 2015 05:38 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Indestructible at April 22, 2015 05:38 PM (Q/rld)
I'm under the impression that there exists a like-minded circle of close friends including:
Kevin James
Vince Vaughn
Jon Favreau
RDJr
Adam Sandler
Steve Buschemy
Adam Sandler
Rob Schneider
Norm McDonald
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 05:38 PM (R/rAV)
http://tinyurl.com/o5bd7tl
Mother of three, five months pregnant, fired for not being willing to pay back money taken in a robbery at gun point.
Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at April 22, 2015 05:39 PM (BZAd3)
oops, I said rape twice
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 05:39 PM (R/rAV)
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That's retarded, sir.
Posted by: MTF at April 22, 2015 05:39 PM (FCsIb)
What about Adam Sandler?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:39 PM (St6BJ)
Posted by: Brucella Jenner at April 22, 2015 05:40 PM (xkSSa)
The problem I have (seriously) is that every time mumr shows up this place turns into a scene from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
Knock it off, already.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 05:41 PM (R/rAV)
It's a vicious circle going on here.
MUMR has proven that its incapable of normal behavior.
Ace is having fun and so am I just watching it. I don't know how Ace can replace its inanities so quickly. Still it's pretty annoying and Ace'll get tired soon. But until it's banned, it's sorta fun.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at April 22, 2015 05:41 PM (0HooB)
Posted by: Golfman at April 22, 2015 05:41 PM (48QDY)
McCain was a Hawk, but he challenged Busb from time to time, notably on the surge. Many conservatives hate him, but a lot of people still respect him as a war hero.
Romney was unpopular with a lot of voters, because he was associated with Wall Street. That was the big difference between 2008 and 2012. I could see a lot of people feeling more comfortable with speaking out in favor of McCain v. Romney, especially someone who makes their money starring in pro military action films.
Posted by: Tattoo Ewe For the Year of the Sheep at April 22, 2015 05:41 PM (nCKKS)
Posted by: ThunderB, Quite Capable of Violence at April 22, 2015 05:42 PM (zOTsN)
Now, in a junket setting, maybe these are inappropriate, but as a general matter, I think anyone has the right to ask anyone most anything. Certainly one can ask about *previously* discussed matters.
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I don't think my standard is as loose as yours. Decency doesn't end just because you are a celebrity - even one who has to do press junkets to promote your movie/product.
I suspect we just differ on where that line is.
Posted by: SH at April 22, 2015 05:42 PM (gmeXX)
It's a vicious circle going on here.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 05:34 PM (R/rAV)
You are apparently unfamiliar with his work before he got the special TB3K treatment.
Posted by: Maetenloch at April 22, 2015 05:42 PM (pAlYe)
politics can have on their work prospects. Not a single conservative
or right leaning actor I've ever heard commenting on this has not
confirmed that having the wrong politics in Hollywood has impacted their
prospects.
Posted by: LoneStarHeeb
Yeah, that might be true. But as they used to say back in the 1980's, one out of three Hollywood conservatives becomes President.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....lost in America at April 22, 2015 05:42 PM (RFeQD)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2015 05:42 PM (h4vJk)
Posted by: ThunderB, Quite Capable of Violence at April 22, 2015 05:43 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Maetenloch at April 22, 2015 05:42 PM (pAlYe)
at least he isn't going off on asians
Posted by: The Dude at April 22, 2015 05:43 PM (SyKbw)
Posted by: Tattoo Ewe For the Year of the Sheep at April 22, 2015 05:43 PM (nCKKS)
All I remember is him shitting on gaming.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 05:43 PM (0NdlF)
Did I forget Adam Sandler? He's like the ring leader, I think.
It seems like that group mentioned above aren't really into the A-list crowd, but they're all extremely successful in showbiz.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 05:44 PM (R/rAV)
Posted by: Picric at April 22, 2015 05:44 PM (QnQ+g)
Posted by: Beer Ninja at April 22, 2015 05:44 PM (I3yoC)
http://tinyurl.com/o5bd7tl
Mother of three, five months pregnant, fired for not being willing to pay back money taken in a robbery at gun point.
Scratch Popeye's off my list.
And the company's excuse? Weak sauce.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2015 05:44 PM (IGu+c)
When one self-censors for fear of being called racist, then the left has won. Not on facts, not on reason, not on the merits of any argument they might have but out of fear.
You cannot allow that to happen. Now, if you are in a work situation you can't really feel free to speak your mind in the first place, so just shut up, do your job and cash your paycheck. In the end, it ain't worth it. Especially nowadays. Jobs are scarce and getting scarcer.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:44 PM (St6BJ)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 22, 2015 05:45 PM (/tNwW)
Well, Norm McDonald isn't extremely successful, nor is Rob Schneider. But still..
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 05:45 PM (R/rAV)
Posted by: herb borkland at April 22, 2015 05:45 PM (JF94C)
Posted by: Picric at April 22, 2015 05:44 PM
Can we bring anything? Beer? Wine?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2015 05:45 PM (h4vJk)
Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at April 22, 2015 05:39 PM (BZAd3)
Oh boy. So much material. Someone with talent more than mine could have a field day.
I'll start. $1.19 day chicken at Popeye's in Houston...
Posted by: Golfman at April 22, 2015 05:45 PM (48QDY)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 22, 2015 05:45 PM (/tNwW)
Some moron yesterday posted a link to "C string panties." One of my friends suggested a better name would be the Snatch Patch.
SEMI NSFW
http://tinyurl.com/nx487w4
Posted by: The Great White Snark at April 22, 2015 05:45 PM (XUKZU)
Posted by: ThunderB, Quite Capable of Violence at April 22, 2015 05:43 PM (zOTsN)
Endeavor to persevere.
PS: It's "perseveration"
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:46 PM (St6BJ)
Bleeding your heart everywhere isn't going to fix MUMR.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 05:46 PM (0NdlF)
250 I think the spamming will stop if someone stops altering and then deleting his comments.It's a vicious circle going on here.Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 05:34 PM (R/rAV) You are apparently unfamiliar with his work before he got the special TB3K treatment.
Posted by: Maetenloch at April 22, 2015 05:42 PM (pAlYe)
His obsession with Anna goes long before his comments ever started getting nuked.
Posted by: buzzion at April 22, 2015 05:46 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 22, 2015 05:46 PM (/tNwW)
Posted by: Golfman at April 22, 2015 05:47 PM (48QDY)
yeah like i said i think this assumption is a decent one, as far as assumptions go.
but based on the actual evidence of the tape itself, i don't see him proving that assumption to be true.
yeah, he's asking about juicy stuff. So? That's kind of his job, generally, putting aside the special circumstances of junket limitations.
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2015 05:47 PM (PA7DS)
I think that was AtC who graciously gifted us that image.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2015 05:47 PM (h4vJk)
http://tinyurl.com/nx487w4
Posted by: The Great White Snark at April 22, 2015 05:45 PM (XUKZU)
That would not work on Desiree Cousteau, circa 1977.
It would look like Larry Harmon, or Larry Fine.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:47 PM (St6BJ)
The interviewer seriously asked him "but aren't you concerned that by doing the clean up yourself, you aren't holding the local government accountable for the clean up?!"
She was disturbed he took the initiative to do it himself rather than do nothing and complain to governement instead. In her mind, that was the better more moral course of action
Posted by: ThunderB, Quite Capable of Violence at April 22, 2015 05:47 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: The Dude at April 22, 2015 05:47 PM (SyKbw)
Posted by: buzzion at April 22, 2015 05:46 PM (z/Ubi)
Anna the ex tennis player?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 22, 2015 05:48 PM (/tNwW)
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....lost in America at April 22, 2015 05:42 PM (RFeQD)
Bravo. Excellent point.
Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at April 22, 2015 05:48 PM (BZAd3)
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2015 05:48 PM (PA7DS)
Posted by: Golfman at April 22, 2015 05:47 PM
*sigh*
Damn. Stuck up here.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2015 05:48 PM (h4vJk)
I still wonder what secures those things. I have it narrowed down to either Velcro or superglue.
I'd volunteer to hold Kate Upton's in place with my tongue. I'm a gentleman that way.
All chivalrous an' shit...
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at April 22, 2015 05:49 PM (0HooB)
despite the general hatred of the man in Hollywood (9 parts from his
Christ movie and 1 part because of his drunken rants, let's be real
here). Downey has shown he's not just another trained liberal seal.
Posted by: Trich
Mel gave Downey a job after he got out of prison, when no one else would touch him. Because Mel does believe in forgiveness and reconciliation in life. Downey has never forgotten that.
And Jodie Foster speaks up for Mel, too. She was going through a rough patch in her life (I think it was heavy drinking), and Mel stood by her and helped her and looked out for her (I think it was during the filming of the Maverick movie).
They are not all scum, but the Hollywood system wants corporate conformity because they are promoting an image, and you risk much by stepping out of line and actually having independent thoughts, and saying them in public.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....lost in America at April 22, 2015 05:49 PM (RFeQD)
That would not work on Desiree Cousteau, circa 1977.
It would look like Larry Harmon, or Larry Fine.
Spread out, porcupine!
Posted by: Moe at April 22, 2015 05:49 PM (YvRAm)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 22, 2015 05:49 PM (/tNwW)
And the company's excuse? Weak sauce.
-
company's excuse is that she is being fired for keeping the money in the drawer (as opposed to I don't know what) and that she had been warned before. There is video of the robbery so she is not making it up out of whole cloth. Definitely bad PR and if U had ever eaten in a Popeye's I might not go back.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at April 22, 2015 05:49 PM (XUKZU)
It's one of those interesting "before they were famous" casts that just randomly come together and work.
And so many handsome guys in it, am I right 'Ettes? James Purefoy, Ledger, Rufus Sewell, Bettany...can't go wrong there.
Posted by: LizLem at April 22, 2015 05:50 PM (yRwC8)
One up her. Cut her hours to zero.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2015 05:50 PM (IGu+c)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2015 05:50 PM (h4vJk)
You are apparently unfamiliar with his work before he got the special TB3K treatment.
I'm well aware. What happened is this: mumr would come here and make comments about fascism or Stalin or genocide. And some people got annoyed that he seemed to be off topic all the time like that really matters.
Then mumr would occasionally make sarcastic remarks about how lightly the Left regarded genocide and those same people accused him of racism and used that as an excuse to get him banned.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 05:50 PM (R/rAV)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at April 22, 2015 05:50 PM (YvRAm)
Posted by: Golfman at April 22, 2015 05:50 PM (48QDY)
Posted by: ThunderB, Quite Capable of Violence at April 22, 2015 05:47 PM (zOTsN)
It is an interesting lesson in proving self-reliance, which is like showing the cross to vampires. The media MUST destroy people like that because the leftist meme is no one can be self-sufficient. Filed under: Fauxcahontas, you didn't build that and the faux-fauxcahontas wannabe PIAP.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:50 PM (St6BJ)
Posted by: ThunderB, Quite Capable of Violence at April 22, 2015 05:51 PM (zOTsN)
What you're doing is obsessive and abnormal. If you want to do whatever you want, go make your own popular blog ... but if you want to be accepted around here, respect the bloghost, and respect this community.
Spamming deserves no respect. Spamming is not going to get you anything beyond further mockery and contempt.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 05:51 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: Cruzinator at April 22, 2015 05:52 PM (P7ulB)
Also, remember the teacher Marva Collins from the late 70's early 80's? She started her own school in Chicago and at first was hailed as a hero for teaching the so-called unteachable.
But then the NEA and AFT had to destroy her and she all but disappeared from the radar, but not before she fostered the idea of charter schools.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:52 PM (St6BJ)
you are delusional. Nope, you spammed every thread with your repetitive obsessions before, too.
And you continue to think this is all about some plot to keep you from anna.
1, I have no fucking idea who "anna" is. Only a deluded person would continue insisting that I must know intimately the landscape of your emotional geogrphy.
Is it anna puma? Only one I can think of. But you just call her "anna" and expect that everyone else should know what the FUCK you are talking about.
2, even if I did know who "anna" was, i would not give you her email. You make a pest out of yourself everywhere.
I assume that if "anna" wants to talk to you, she has ways of reaching out to you.
If she's not reaching out, maybe take a hint.
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2015 05:52 PM (PA7DS)
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 05:50 PM (R/rAV)
---
He's a troll now. It matters not how this got started.
Posted by: Y-not at April 22, 2015 05:52 PM (9BRsg)
Posted by: Golfman at April 22, 2015 05:53 PM (48QDY)
Posted by: Hal at April 22, 2015 05:53 PM (nzmxZ)
Posted by: Golfman at April 22, 2015 05:50 PM
As soon as it warms up a bit and stops raining, it'll be time to get the smoker and the grill going seriously.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2015 05:53 PM (h4vJk)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:53 PM (St6BJ)
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 05:53 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: ThunderB, Quite Capable of Violence at April 22, 2015 05:54 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 05:54 PM (R/rAV)
Posted by: Texas Dan at April 22, 2015 05:54 PM (6tXy4)
Posted by: Y-not at April 22, 2015 05:52 PM (9BRsg)
I think he's gone now. For a second, there was a glint of sanity and then...
Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at April 22, 2015 05:54 PM (BZAd3)
Okay, time to make the "ah-beetz."
Later, fellow rape-shifters.
MUMR, vayr ge hargit.
Keep it IS-real.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 22, 2015 05:55 PM (St6BJ)
I'd expect the banhammering is it, short of getting government and a restraining order involved.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 05:55 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 22, 2015 05:55 PM (9PSXO)
but continue fantasizing that "anna" and I are famously fast friends and I can just put you in touch, had I not made it my Life Mission to keep you separate from "anna."
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2015 05:55 PM (PA7DS)
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 05:56 PM (R/rAV)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 22, 2015 05:56 PM (/tNwW)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at April 22, 2015 05:56 PM (YvRAm)
Do you like this movie? yes?
DID YOU KNOW THAT THE LEADING ACTOR MIGHT POSSIBLY BE CONSERVATIVE AND/OR HARBOR BAD-THINKS?
What about this book? You like this book?
THE LADY WHO WROTE THAT BOOK IS FRIENDS WITH PEOPLE WHO VOTE REPUBLICAN. DON'T READ THAT.
It's sickening. It's a deliberate attempt by people on the left to OTHER everyone they disagree with, and cast them out of society.
This article at the Free-Bacon is spot on. http://bit.ly/1Djjkt7 I'm so sick of my favorite authors/ actors/ whatever being chased out of their jobs because they have BadThinks.
Posted by: Book is Pissed Off at April 22, 2015 05:56 PM (AlkUj)
------------------------------------
That's easy. Carpet tacks.
Posted by: Soona at April 22, 2015 05:56 PM (/HX7u)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 22, 2015 05:55 PM
No thanks. Y'all can keep that cra-cra out there. I have standards, you know.
Posted by: The Barrel at April 22, 2015 05:56 PM (h4vJk)
Anna Torv from Fringe?
In one scene she'd look Hot, in the next scene she'd look Not. Bizarre face on that one.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 05:57 PM (R/rAV)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2015 05:57 PM (h4vJk)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 22, 2015 05:57 PM (/tNwW)
Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney
Then good God man quit diddling your comments.
Posted by: Aviator at April 22, 2015 05:58 PM (sQzB6)
I look forward to seeing what Sad/Rabid Puppies will do to SF/F books.
Some of these things are cyclical. We're overdue for a different direction.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 05:58 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2015 05:58 PM (h4vJk)
And it would certainly have messed with his own Presidential prospects:
http://tinyurl.com/q7yme7y
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at April 22, 2015 05:58 PM (XO6WW)
preservere my friend preserver...
(Man I've been getting that one wrong for longer than I want to admit, I blame Darwin or Sun Tzu)
Posted by: The reason Hillary wears a Mao suit at April 22, 2015 05:59 PM (RJMhd)
Butt plug.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2015 05:59 PM (IGu+c)
Then mumr would occasionally make sarcastic remarks about how lightly the Left regarded genocide and those same people accused him of racism and used that as an excuse to get him banned.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 05:50 PM (R/rAV)
No. He would repeatedly make random off-topic posts in the same thread and then he started posting racist comments on the blog. Now perhaps these were taken out of context but since he never interacted with anyone nor provided a contact email address, there was simply no way to know.
In addition he was warned about his behavior several times - which he completely ignored - and so he was banned. Since then he has justified his banning many, many, many times over.
Posted by: Maetenloch at April 22, 2015 05:59 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 05:55 PM (0NdlF)
Good luck with that with this being a smart CONSERVATIVE military blog.
Posted by: Golfman at April 22, 2015 05:59 PM (48QDY)
In one scene she'd look Hot, in the next scene she'd look Not. Bizarre face on that one."
--------
Nah. Once you realize she's hot, she's always hot.
Posted by: Kensington (@NYKensington) at April 22, 2015 05:59 PM (7Kbxu)
Posted by: buzzion at April 22, 2015 06:00 PM (z/Ubi)
Mom and pop appliance store sales weasel finally returns my call.
"Sorry, your new wall oven still isn't in. I'll get back to you tomorrow."
Oven ordered March 12. Paid $$ down. From now on, it's Big Box stores.
Oh, it's Wine O'Clock.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 22, 2015 06:00 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: The reason Hillary wears a Mao suit at April 22, 2015 06:00 PM (RJMhd)
Spam, Marco Rubio's garbage, spam, and spam
Spam, rape, spam, and eggs
Spam, spam, spam, spam, Kate Upton's bewbs, and spam
A serious discussion of the economic decline of the United States and the resulting global impact and spam
Posted by: Mirror Universe Terry Jones at April 22, 2015 06:00 PM (Q/rld)
In one scene she'd look Hot, in the next scene she'd look Not. Bizarre face on that one.
I could never decide if she was hot or not for some reason. That seems like it.
Don't get me wrong, I'd hit it. Just not with the same vim and vigor I'd devote to, say, a Kate Upton or a Christina Hendricks.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at April 22, 2015 06:00 PM (0HooB)
Some of these things are cyclical. We're overdue for a different direction.
We're overdue for a motherfucker of a pendulum swing.
I think it might have started in 2010 when the Tea Party arose, but the PTB stifled it in the crib.
Pressure like that, though, will continue to build.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at April 22, 2015 06:00 PM (YvRAm)
i did not ban him for racism. I banned him because I was in a thread, telling him to STOP with this sort of spam:
...the athest is infinite in his perfidity...
(5 comments later)
...as the Bible observes, suffer not a witch to live....
(six comments later)
...our country is filled to the brim with witches....
(eight comments later)
...witches of the secular atheist variety...
I kept telling him STOP FUCKING MAKING MY BLOG YOUR BLOG. I told him ot collect his thoughts in one (1) comment and post it once (1nce), and he kept ignoring me, kept posting this shit right to my face:
...and more off topic musings about how the Devil is going to steal the souls of the unrighteous...
Now, why was he ignoring me? Out of defiance? No, he was ignoring me because he literally NEVER reads comments; he just spams threads with his obsessions.
But at that point I realized, "Fuck this, he will never stop."
So I banned him. Not anyone else. ME. And not for racism.
But because this is MY BLOG, for the use of commenters to discuss news of the day and chat with each other, not for some obsessive to come in here and spam threads like it's his own private Twitter Feed.
Since then, he has spammed my email (seriously, spammed, one message after another) accusing me of divulging his 'private information" -- which I do not have; I have literally no idea who he is or what state he's in -- and accusing me of trying to keep him from "anna."
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2015 06:01 PM (PA7DS)
My computer just crashed, hard, and is acting 'funny', and I feel like an innocent bystander at a bus stop between two rival gangs in a shoot out.
'scuz me while I call my shrink and get my med script refilled.
Posted by: EphramKG36 at April 22, 2015 06:01 PM (8PNC7)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 22, 2015 06:01 PM (FsuaD)
332 Damn it to hell.Mom and pop appliance store sales weasel finally returns my call."Sorry, your new wall oven still isn't in. I'll get back to you tomorrow."Oven ordered March 12. Paid $$ down. From now on, it's Big Box stores.Oh, it's Wine O'Clock.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 22, 2015 06:00 PM (FsuaD)
From your comment its also Whine O'Clock.
Good luck getting your new oven.Posted by: buzzion at April 22, 2015 06:01 PM (z/Ubi)
Everyone has their reasons. Why risk offending people with whom you work every day, or in his case, his fans aka complete strangers, when politicians of both parties are alike for the most part?
Like yourself, I'm not going to risk my job telling my gay coworker how awesome Mitch Mcconnell is. For all intents and purposes, he is the lesser of both evils compared to Harry Reid, and that's nothing to brag about.
Posted by: Tattoo Ewe For the Year of the Sheep at April 22, 2015 06:02 PM (nCKKS)
It can be an option. MUMR lives somewhere with Internet access, and chances are that there are people he answers to who would not approve of his behavior.
Notorious blogger Vox Day dealt with one such troll rather successfully:
http://voxday.blogspot.com/search/label/Troll%20Ban
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 06:03 PM (0NdlF)
I'm with the whole "Shut up and sing" frame of mind - sick of hearing celebrities sound off about politics. Especially their raise awareness ads where they repeat the same line or word (all shot against a white background), like "I am Bradley Manning" or whatever the latest social ill they're attempting to fix (not OK to have a sex slave? good to know!).
Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2015 06:03 PM (2TN4k)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 22, 2015 06:03 PM (/tNwW)
Posted by: Null at April 22, 2015 06:03 PM (xjpRj)
Posted by: buzzion at April 22, 2015 06:01 PM (z/Ubi)
I'm fantasizing throat-punching the sales weasel.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 22, 2015 06:04 PM (FsuaD)
-- and accusing me of trying to keep him from "anna."
Posted by: ace
Bossman? That's a call to the authorities. That's stalking.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2015 06:04 PM (IGu+c)
it was not that he was saying "hateful" things about atheists, it's that he was spamming the thread with fractured setences, each five words long, each ending in ... so as to make a sort of fractured chain.
He does this because he insists that he will threadjack a thread and not let anyone talk about anything else.
If he put this crap into one or two comments, people could just scroll past it.
But he does this
...athestis...
...are...
...fulll...
...of perfidity...
shit precisely to STOP you from scrolling past.
One word:
NOPE.
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2015 06:04 PM (PA7DS)
Posted by: ThunderB, Quite Capable of Violence at April 22, 2015 06:04 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 22, 2015 06:04 PM (mx5oN)
Priceless; "Thtrteen Ridiculous Predictions Made on Earth Day in 1970"
Here's a taste: "“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.” — Kenneth Watt"
http://tinyurl.com/o54keml
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 22, 2015 06:04 PM (cQ7p2)
Posted by: Tattoo Ewe For the Year of the Sheep at April 22, 2015 06:04 PM (nCKKS)
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at April 22, 2015 06:04 PM (l3LvV)
But because this is MY BLOG, for the use of commenters to discuss news of the day and chat with each other, not for some obsessive to come in here and spam threads like it's his own private Twitter Feed.
Yeah but...then my ideas such as creating a hooters-like ice cream shop called Cones will go unheard.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 06:04 PM (R/rAV)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 22, 2015 06:05 PM (/tNwW)
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Pretty much this.
I was raised in a family that did not subscribe to the "don't talk politics or religion" thing, but as I've gotten older I've come to appreciate the people who subscribe to this philosophy (with casual acquaintances, work colleagues, or the like).
Posted by: Y-not at April 22, 2015 06:05 PM (9BRsg)
Ace is really the King of Siam!!!
Thus... Anna!!!!
etcetera.... etcetera... etcetera
Posted by: BB WOLF, at April 22, 2015 06:05 PM (qh617)
I suspect there might be some wire in there. Which, It's bad enough having it in a bra, I am NOT adding it down there too!
Posted by: LizLem at April 22, 2015 06:05 PM (yRwC8)
That would be kind of a neat twist, you have to admit.
Posted by: Kensington (@NYKensington) at April 22, 2015 06:05 PM (7Kbxu)
That would be kind of a neat twist, you have to admit.
Posted by: Kensington (@NYKensington) at April 22, 2015 06:05 PM (7Kbxu)
This isn't the freaken Twilight Zone!
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 22, 2015 06:07 PM (/tNwW)
i don't know your fucking email
Jesus Christ Almighty, you just think everyone knows (or should know) every intimate detail of your life.
i wrote to you to STOP in the thread you were doing it in.
Of course you didn't see that because YOU DON'T READ ANYONE ELSE'S STATEMENTS; YOU SIMPLY SPAM THREADS WITH WHATEVER IS OBSESSING YOU TODAY.
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2015 06:07 PM (PA7DS)
Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2015 06:07 PM (2TN4k)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 22, 2015 06:05 PM (/tNwW)
Pics, blah, blah, blah.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 06:07 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: Sunni LeBeouf at April 22, 2015 06:07 PM (xkSSa)
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2015 06:07 PM (PA7DS)
That would be kind of a neat twist, you have to admit.
Posted by: Kensington (@NYKensington)
Have you ever considered a career in screenplay writing?
Posted by: M Night Shamalamadingdong at April 22, 2015 06:07 PM (Q/rld)
Ahhh... NOW it all makes sense!!!!
Ace is really the King of Siam!!!
Thus... Anna!!!!
etcetera.... etcetera... etcetera
Posted by: BB WOLF, at April 22, 2015 06:05 PM (qh617)
Yep, all sciency and everything! And it made me laugh.
Posted by: Old Blue at April 22, 2015 06:08 PM (9iR5/)
Posted by: The reason Hillary wears a Mao suit at April 22, 2015 06:08 PM (RJMhd)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 22, 2015 06:08 PM (/tNwW)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 22, 2015 06:08 PM (FsuaD)
Posted from the home of the National Climatic and Data Center no less.
Dopes all.
Posted by: Golfman at April 22, 2015 06:08 PM (48QDY)
Posted by: AnnaDude at April 22, 2015 06:09 PM (b4b5c)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 22, 2015 06:09 PM (mx5oN)
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 06:09 PM (0NdlF)
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Switch "Twilight Zone" with "Night Gallery" and try saying THAT with as much confidence.
Posted by: Kensington (@NYKensington) at April 22, 2015 06:09 PM (7Kbxu)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 22, 2015 06:09 PM (cQ7p2)
He used to try and directly engage her but his commentary was ...off
And extremely filthy. Dildos and sucking bags full of dicks and pedophilia and what not
Not trying to stir the pot but I think he is obsessed with her and trying to stalk her
Posted by: ThunderB, Quite Capable of Violence at April 22, 2015 06:10 PM (zOTsN)
You know, there are some things in life that are fun to not know about. I believe I'll designate C-String Bikinis as such.
It'll be one of Life's Sweeter Mysteries. I'll just admire the fact they exist at all.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at April 22, 2015 06:10 PM (0HooB)
Saner than the guy addicted to texting who cut off his hand (think he was in China?)
Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2015 06:10 PM (2TN4k)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 22, 2015 06:08 PM (FsuaD)
Let's be honest. How many of us have REALLY wanted to do that very thing from time to time, especially at work?
*raises hand*
Posted by: Insomniac at April 22, 2015 06:10 PM (mx5oN)
Heh. A guy in Colorado shot his computer. Eight times. (Fox)
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I can see that. Windoze and Google can throw you over the edge.
Posted by: Old Blue at April 22, 2015 06:10 PM (9iR5/)
Posted by: Golfman at April 22, 2015 06:11 PM (48QDY)
The computer is not expected to recover."
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 06:11 PM (0NdlF)
And extremely filthy. Dildos and sucking bags full of dicks and pedophilia and what not
Not trying to stir the pot but I think he is obsessed with her and trying to stalk her
Posted by: ThunderB, Quite Capable of Violence
So just some light flirting, then?
Posted by: Bill Clinton at April 22, 2015 06:11 PM (Q/rld)
Posted by: jwpaine at April 22, 2015 06:12 PM (i0pY0)
Posted by: Harry Reid at April 22, 2015 06:12 PM (mx5oN)
Speaking of show business, Courtney Cox hit the talk show circuit this week to promote her new movie.
Why do celebrities aspire to look like Catherine Hellmond's character in Brazil? Cox doesn't just look ridiculous, she now has a speech impediment.
I don't know what causes it -- botox maybe? -- but the surgery is causing a common speech impediment as a side effect.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 06:12 PM (R/rAV)
The computer is not expected to recover."
MOVE!
Posted by: Nick Burns at April 22, 2015 06:12 PM (YEelc)
Posted by: ThunderB, Quite Capable of Violence at April 22, 2015 06:13 PM (zOTsN)
And high school journalists are working at State.
Posted by: Golfman at April 22, 2015 06:13 PM (48QDY)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 22, 2015 06:14 PM (/tNwW)
He would write something very graphic and then end with "right Anna?"
I've seen that. I have a feeling Anna could "handle" the crazy ass.
Still...
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 22, 2015 06:14 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Nevergiveup
One shot one kill baby.
Posted by: Elvis at April 22, 2015 06:15 PM (Q/rld)
Posted by: ThunderB, Quite Capable of Violence at April 22, 2015 06:15 PM (zOTsN)
as I said, I don't know who "anna" is, and I don't have any "anna's" emails anyway, and I wouldn't have given out a WOMAN's email to strange man in any event
but i didn't even know of this history
the thing is, if someone wants to talk to you, they have ways of getting in touch.
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2015 06:15 PM (PA7DS)
Posted by: Truth Hurts at April 22, 2015 06:15 PM (Tsfk9)
A correct decision I am happy about, yet also totally surprised they did the right thing:
http://tinyurl.com/lc3u327
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 22, 2015 06:16 PM (ODxAs)
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I think a lot of people just don't realize how inexact and iffy plastic surgery results can be.
Posted by: Kensington (@NYKensington) at April 22, 2015 06:16 PM (7Kbxu)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 22, 2015 06:16 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 06:16 PM (0NdlF)
Still...
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 22, 2015 06:14 PM (FsuaD)
Yeah but why should she have to put up with this kind of crap?
Why should any of us have to deal with it?
Posted by: Maetenloch at April 22, 2015 06:17 PM (pAlYe)
Yeah but why should she have to put up with this kind of crap?
Why should any of us have to deal with it?
Posted by: Maetenloch at April 22, 2015 06:17 PM (pAlYe)
You're absolutely right.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 22, 2015 06:18 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: rexbatt at April 22, 2015 06:18 PM (woA40)
Meanwhile, Chelsea Clinton is touring the world's college campuses to give a canned lecture on "Challenging Global and Domestic Health Problems."
The bullshit carousel spins round and round.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 06:18 PM (R/rAV)
Both are in the same massively successful franchise, with individual and group movies. Evans spends the interview not so subtly whining about the pressures of fame and success, and came across as resentful that he has to do the Hollywood things you do when you are in a huge franchise that pays you gobs of money. All he wants is to get out of it as soon as he can and make little indie films the rest of his life. (And if hints about where Civil Wars is going are accurate that might just happen.)
RDJ was the exact opposite. You could tell he was overjoyed to be in this situation, and could not be more excited about the franchise, or more gracious about his success and the opportunities it gives him. I'm sure some of that is due to seeing the rock bottom side of Hollywood where your career looks dead, and greatly appreciating the circumstances his life is in now. Having a little more perspective and wisdom.
Came away from both loving RDJ a little bit more, and giving Evans major side eye.
Posted by: LizLem at April 22, 2015 06:18 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: ThunderB, Quite Capable of Violence at April 22, 2015 06:19 PM (zOTsN)
The bullshit carousel spins round and round.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 06:18 PM (R/rAV)
???
She is not talking about her hugely successful career at NBC? It was NBC wasn't it?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 22, 2015 06:19 PM (/tNwW)
Posted by: Tattoo Ewe For the Year of the Sheep at April 22, 2015 06:20 PM (nCKKS)
Posted by: Truth Hurts at April 22, 2015 06:21 PM (Tsfk9)
At least, not yet.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 22, 2015 06:21 PM (FsuaD)
Cox has a really nice rack, though. She had them out...
She's practically topless in every tv appearance, now!
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 06:21 PM (R/rAV)
"Success" at getting paid a shit ton of money or "success" at creating anything of journalistic worth?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 22, 2015 06:21 PM (LA7Cm)
Posted by: Nevergiveup
Now that you mention it ...
Posted by: Reggie at April 22, 2015 06:22 PM (sQzB6)
We're overdue for a motherfucker of a pendulum swing.
I think it might have started in 2010 when the Tea Party arose, but the PTB stifled it in the crib.
Pressure like that, though, will continue to build.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at April 22, 2015 06:00 PM (YvRAm)
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What people don't get is that Sad Puppies is really small. TINY. It's literally just a couple dozen people. The only reason they've had any success this year is because the Hugo Awards are such an insular group, it only needed a few dozen voters to make a difference.
Here's the thing- the anti-puppy, social justice bullies have the media on their side. They have Slate, Gawker, NPR, Entertainment Weekly- all these big sites making up their own false narrative. It's not likely the Sad Puppies people will ever be able to do this again. Not unless someone out there gets serious about promoting them. They need an Adam Baldwin or something for signal boost. Otherwise- not happening.
Posted by: Book is Pissed Off at April 22, 2015 06:22 PM (AlkUj)
Posted by: Kensington (@NYKensington) at April 22, 2015 06:22 PM (7Kbxu)
Posted by: Tattoo Ewe For the Year of the Sheep at April 22, 2015 06:22 PM (nCKKS)
Posted by: LizLem at April 22, 2015 06:18 PM (yRwC8
I wonder if he's changed his mind on that though. Especially after visiting kids with cancer and their excitement at getting to meet Captain America and Star Lord.
Posted by: buzzion at April 22, 2015 06:23 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: Nevergiveup
Remember that "young hip" start-up network Meghan McCain was on. It was going to take the world by storm and change the way news and punditry was done. Is that still a thing?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Indestructible at April 22, 2015 06:24 PM (Q/rld)
Once I added an extra E I got the website addy to work. Congrats to your boy!! Very nice.
And Propane Council instantly makes me think of Hank Hill, hah!
Posted by: LizLem at April 22, 2015 06:24 PM (yRwC8)
3.979 cents per round, total cost shipped.
I need a bigger ammo safe.
Of course, living on the edge of the city of Baltimore, this could be a good thing.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 22, 2015 06:24 PM (VPLuQ)
The GamerGate people have managed to push back hard, not that the media and SJW'ers aren'r working to defeat them, too.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2015 06:24 PM (2TN4k)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 22, 2015 06:24 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 06:16 PM (0NdlF)
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It's true. And they're all gorgeous.
Posted by: Soona at April 22, 2015 06:25 PM (/HX7u)
I wonder if all the celebs go to the same surgeon. Marie Osmond and Coutney Cox have the same face!
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 06:25 PM (R/rAV)
Posted by: Eromero at April 22, 2015 06:25 PM (go5uR)
425 Robert Downey Jr. is black? Damn! Lat movie I saw him in was the first Ironman. He seemed white in that one. He was definitely white in Air America.
Posted by: Eromero at April 22, 2015 06:25 PM (go5uR)
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See Tropic Thunder. Yes, he's an African American.
Posted by: Sunni LeBeouf at April 22, 2015 06:26 PM (xkSSa)
And Propane Council instantly makes me think of Hank Hill, hah!
Posted by: LizLem at April 22, 2015 06:24 PM (yRwC
The cookbook will be downloadable Memorial Day. D'oh Boy gets a free copy.
I encouraged him to enter his special grilled steak a while back. Didn't realize he'd actually entered. He haz a happy.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 22, 2015 06:27 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at April 22, 2015 06:27 PM (CxEX+)
The GamerGate people have managed to push back hard, not that the media and SJW'ers aren'r working to defeat them, too.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2015 06:24 PM (2TN4k)
GamerGate is kicking ass. They are also a large group of pretty tech savvy people- so they have a huge twitter/ online presence. The SadPuppy people don't have that advantage, unfortunately.
Plus they're mostly authors. I don't think half of them could do the 140 character thing without making themselves crazy.
Posted by: Book is Pissed Off at April 22, 2015 06:27 PM (AlkUj)
Posted by: Truth Hurts at April 22, 2015 06:27 PM (Tsfk9)
Posted by: ThunderB, Quite Capable of Violence at April 22, 2015 06:28 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: buzzion at April 22, 2015 06:23 PM (z/Ubi)
I'll admit that was a ridiculously sweet thing of both of them to do. Chris Pratt like RDJ just seems really laid back about the Hollywood hype and appreciative of his successes and opportunities; hopefully being friends with Pratt has rubbed off on Evans a little.
But I'm starting to wonder if it is conspiracy that so many Marvel action stars right now are named Chris. Chris Pratt, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth...
Posted by: LizLem at April 22, 2015 06:29 PM (yRwC8)
A report from the Center for Immigration Studies that analyzed the statistics said that by 2023, one in seven U.S. residents will be an immigrant, rising to one in five by 2060 when the immigrant population totals 78 million.
DRUDGE- Flashing Light
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 22, 2015 06:29 PM (/tNwW)
Posted by: Soona at April 22, 2015 06:25 PM (/HX7u)
(Guy In Real Life)
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 06:29 PM (0NdlF)
I think that unless the topics were agreed to up front the reporter was not in the wrong to ask about it.
But that's just me, most of the time was spent on the Avengers.
Posted by: prescient11 at April 22, 2015 06:30 PM (q5APL)
Save the puppies!
http://tinyurl.com/pfatf97
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 06:30 PM (0NdlF)
Show business has an extra Hemsworth on hand, which is nice in case they lose one.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 06:32 PM (R/rAV)
Heh, it was Sad Puppy's Correria who said of GamerGate(paraphrasing); You picked a fight with people who spend all their free time playing war games to win? Good luck with that!
Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2015 06:32 PM (2TN4k)
Posted by: Truth Hurts at April 22, 2015 06:32 PM (Tsfk9)
Posted by: dick cheney at April 22, 2015 06:32 PM (hTeQK)
When she was riding the Springsteen vid wave Letterman interviewed her.
She was talking about her flight and stammered about St Loius um er um er. Letterman interjected something like Indiana.
She said "Yeah, that's it."
Posted by: Golfman at April 22, 2015 06:33 PM (48QDY)
Posted by: Book is Pissed Off at April 22, 2015 06:27 PM (AlkUj)
The blog posts back and forth between Correia and GRRM, trying to accurately depict their thoughts, are longer than some people's books! I'm sure the brevity thing on Twitter is massively frustrating.
There's still a part of me that worries that is GRRM dies prematurely, his lefty fans are going to blame Correia for the stress and distractions of Sad Puppies for his death and bomb his house or something. Winter is coming for you Correia, with pitchforks and flames! Hopefully not, but SJW's are not known for being particularly logical so you never know.
Posted by: LizLem at April 22, 2015 06:34 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 22, 2015 06:35 PM (/tNwW)
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 06:29 PM (0NdlF)
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Well, damn. That's disappointment #1.
Posted by: Soona at April 22, 2015 06:35 PM (/HX7u)
They aren't logical, but they're also big on talk and not so much on action.
So mostly it'll be angry tweets, and ineffective attempts to shun and shame.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 06:36 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 06:36 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: Golfman at April 22, 2015 06:37 PM (48QDY)
Posted by: Truth Hurts at April 22, 2015 06:27 PM (Tsfk9)
Well, that's black. If you want....
Posted by: (D)MarxistNC at April 22, 2015 06:37 PM (QF9nR)
Posted by: Sunni LeBeouf at April 22, 2015 06:26 PM (xkSSa)
No doubt about it. Black.
Didn't he win an Oscar for that? Whether or not, that was an incredible performance.
Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at April 22, 2015 06:39 PM (BZAd3)
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 06:36 PM (0NdlF)
You mean...attempts to create an unsafe space? Quelle horreur! *faints*
Posted by: LizLem, pulling a SJW at April 22, 2015 06:39 PM (yRwC8)
Monica, Rachel, and Phoebe were cute. They weren't beauties, which made them even more attractive and popular.
But then Cox and Aniston got really famous and became 'glamorous.' They're not; it's just the perception.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 06:39 PM (R/rAV)
Posted by: LizLem at April 22, 2015 06:29 PM (yRwC
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The name "Chris" is just a diversion to keep us from noticing that they're all black.
Posted by: Soona at April 22, 2015 06:40 PM (/HX7u)
*raises hand
My computer at work is a slow piece of sh!t that locks up and crashes all the time. I'm pretty sure the workplace has its firearms policy in place exactly because if not, every machine in the office would be riddled with holes
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 22, 2015 06:41 PM (AVEe1)
You probably all heard/saw, now there's a black protest against police Baltimore. The "news" outlets are pimping this, but these staged events have become so commonplace in such a short amount of time that no one really gives a shit anymore.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 06:41 PM (R/rAV)
A report from the Center for Immigration Studies that analyzed the statistics said that by 2023, one in seven U.S. residents will be an immigrant, rising to one in five by 2060 when the immigrant population totals 78 million.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 22, 2015 06:29 PM (/tNwW)
And there is nothing inevitable about this. This is something that is being done to us.
European countries are also being flooded with alien immigrants who have no regard for the native culture.
Is it just a coincidence that this is only happening to white majority nations? We're being told, "You will not have a white majority in a few decades."
It sure seems to be coordinated. Who is behind it?
Posted by: rickl at April 22, 2015 06:41 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Vote Lord Humungus at April 22, 2015 06:42 PM (wzUs/)
(Recovery stories, which never interested me before, are for some reason interesting to me lately.)
http://www.nyintergroup.org/meetinglist/
Hundreds of "Open" meetings.
Posted by: DaveA at April 22, 2015 06:42 PM (DL2i+)
i wrote to you to STOP in the thread you were doing it in.
Of course you didn't see that because YOU DON'T READ ANYONE ELSE'S
STATEMENTS; YOU SIMPLY SPAM THREADS WITH WHATEVER IS OBSESSING YOU
TODAY.
Posted by: ace
Threadwinner!!
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....lost in America at April 22, 2015 06:42 PM (RFeQD)
Posted by: Jordan from Scrubs at April 22, 2015 06:43 PM (Kwx6V)
Posted by: ThunderB, Quite Capable of Violence at April 22, 2015 06:43 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: mark morris at April 22, 2015 06:43 PM (mQyVW)
Hopefully not, but SJW's are not known for being particularly logical so you never know.
They aren't logical, but they're also big on talk and not so much on action.
So mostly it'll be angry tweets, and ineffective attempts to shun and shame.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 06:36 PM (0NdlF)
US leftists want to see everything destroyed, but they're focused on talking someone else into doing the dirty work. I suspect that's a big part of the reasoning for the open borders thing.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 22, 2015 06:43 PM (ynQIy)
Threadwinner!!
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....lost in America at April 22, 2015 06:42 PM (RFeQD)
Has anyone told Ace to take the rest of the day off yet? Time's running out...
Posted by: LizLem at April 22, 2015 06:44 PM (yRwC8)
You could put Hemsworths, Pratt, Evans and Reynolds in a bag, shake em up, and they'd all come out the same. I could not tell you the difference between any of them.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 06:44 PM (R/rAV)
Posted by: Jane D'oh
Just to watch it....die.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....lost in America at April 22, 2015 06:44 PM (RFeQD)
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 06:45 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 06:46 PM (0NdlF)
The beef in Baltimore is that a black perp died in custody. I have no idea how. But the black lady mayor, who is a carbon copy of the Wash DC black lady mayor, is determined to get to the bottom of it!
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 06:46 PM (R/rAV)
I'm pretty sure if there is ever 51 million people streaming into our country per year, there will have been or will be a total societal breakdown.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 22, 2015 06:46 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 06:45 PM (0NdlF)
Forget Sad Puppies...what about us?!?!?!
Posted by: Sad Hamsters keeping the HQ powered, unfed and unloved at April 22, 2015 06:47 PM (yRwC8)
Last week the staged outrage was over the Arizona cop who ran down a dnagerous perp with his cruiser.
And next week it will be a different city, different cop, same fake outrage.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 06:48 PM (R/rAV)
Can't say I blame him for not talking about his politics. Proggies buy tickets, conservatives buy tickets, Dems buy tickets, Repubs buy tickets.
Why piss any of those people off when you have the first big summer moving coming out in less than two weeks?
He's the boss. I just pay for stuff.
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at April 22, 2015 06:49 PM (VvOZ5)
How do you kill that ... which has no life?
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 06:46 PM (0NdlF)
Well to start with you and three of your friends have to spend every waking hour killing boars to level up.
Posted by: Buzzion at April 22, 2015 06:49 PM (z/Ubi)
And just to piss you off even more, an interesting bit of Earth Day trivia. When Ira Einhorn was arrested for murdering his ex, the defense attorney who got his bail reduced to $40k (enabling him to jump bail and stay free for over 20 years) was........Arlen Specter.
Yes, THAT Arlen Specter.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 22, 2015 06:49 PM (ynQIy)
471 posts and not a single hug for Ace?
c'mon you guys
{{{group hug}}}
you can join in too, MUMR, there ya go.
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at April 22, 2015 06:50 PM (l2Gqi)
Posted by: Bruce Jenner at April 22, 2015 06:50 PM (3F6F8)
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 06:44 PM (R/rAV)
They are each trying to keep a certain thing of power from a bad guy, while trying to get the girl. While fighting in a tight yet striking costume. Geez how hard can it be?!
Posted by: Marvel Fanboy/Girl/Xer at April 22, 2015 06:50 PM (yRwC8)
The most annoying part about all of this to me is that I do believe our government at all levels has gotten too strong, too powerful, and given too little accountability. Including local police.
And there is a "conversation" to be had there.
But instead, the media must run with their narrative of "white men in authority hunt down and kill innocent black teenagers for sport, and get away with it."
Posted by: mynewhandle at April 22, 2015 06:51 PM (AkOaV)
Al Sharpton loving the frequent flier miles.
Posted by: Golfman at April 22, 2015 06:52 PM (48QDY)
Posted by: Alien facehugger at April 22, 2015 06:52 PM (YEelc)
To be fair, the prelim autopsy report stated that his spinal cord just below the neck was approximately 80% severed. And he was recorded as stepping into the police van on his own, so at that point in time, his spinal cord is presumed to be unsevered.
So...there is some area for concern there.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 22, 2015 06:52 PM (VPLuQ)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 22, 2015 06:52 PM (AVEe1)
The video I saw, they're dragging him and the lady recording the video is yelling "his leg is broke, his leg is broke" when the man is clearly limp all over and looks unconscious if not dead.
Or am I thinking about a different event?
Posted by: mynewhandle at April 22, 2015 06:54 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo
Goats and 12 year old boys hardest hit.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Indestructible at April 22, 2015 06:54 PM (Q/rld)
471 posts and not a single hug for Ace?
c'mon you guys
{{{group hug}}}
Room for me?
Posted by: Alien facehugger at April 22, 2015 06:52 PM (YEelc)
How about me?
Posted by: Face-sized spider at April 22, 2015 06:54 PM (FsuaD)
downey has had his personal issues, but seems to be doing well now. he's got this gigantic movie franchise behind, looking to him to promote it and make money. in other words, he's doing his job.
notice how downey is looking left for guidance. i suspect his publicist and the movie publicist gave him the bailout signal. this little bitch reporter deserved less than even this consideration.
also, see early on in the interview how he tried to co-opt downey by playing to him and trying to establish a false rapport with him. later, downey's face changes along with his breathing...you can see him sussing this asshat out.
Posted by: asswipee at April 22, 2015 06:56 PM (eS0nh)
So...there is some area for concern there.
80%? Yeah. Lot's of room for concern.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2015 06:56 PM (IGu+c)
So long, mom and pop appliance store. You psuck.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 22, 2015 06:56 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: steevy at April 22, 2015 06:56 PM (mGBKM)
One of the assholes doing this is your anti-Christ and mine, George Soros. He owns something called the Open Borders Initiative which is designed to do exactly what is now happening here, namely to destroy our culture.
Who else is in on it is anyone's guess. It needs to be stopped immediately.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at April 22, 2015 07:00 PM (0HooB)
radio. Joker's defense admitted into evidence Video of that Mudlim POS giving finger to camera on July 2013.
I put on Twitter & it's on Boston Herald website.
Posted by: Carol at April 22, 2015 07:01 PM (gcj0d)
Posted by: Face-sized spider at April 22, 2015 06:54 PM (FsuaD)
You two are made for each other.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 07:01 PM (0NdlF)
So...there is some area for concern there.
Perhaps so. But the racial element is what's really important, and by that I mean it's really bullshit.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 07:03 PM (R/rAV)
Same event.
But....what has been edited out is the final moments, literally one to two seconds of video, where once he is placed on the bumper of the van, he stands up on both legs, ducks down, and steps into the van.
That portion of the video is usually not shown, and is so brief, that even if seen, it fails to register the significance of seeing him stand upright, and step in.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 22, 2015 07:03 PM (VPLuQ)
Posted by: steevy at April 22, 2015 06:56 PM (mGBKM)
I heard a rumor, maybe here, that RDJ told the studio he won't be in Iron Man 4 until they agree to let Mel Gibson direct it. No clue if that's true, but...
1) very cool to stand up for a friend if true, do him the career favor Gibson did for him,
2), he's RDJ, I could see him actually making a demand like that and the studios seriously having to consider, and
3) How good action-wise could a Gibson-directed Marvel movie potentially be?! Pretty good, it really isn't a bad idea.
Posted by: LizLem at April 22, 2015 07:03 PM (yRwC8)
I'm outside with roses & have Howie Carr on
radio.
How do you like those wind gusts? The wind is strong enough to carry you away!
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 07:04 PM (R/rAV)
Posted by: Face-sized spider at April 22, 2015 06:54 PM (FsuaD)
You two are made for each other.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 07:01 PM (0NdlF)
Ooooh, that gives me an idea for a movie...
Posted by: SyFy Producer, looking to top Sharknado at April 22, 2015 07:05 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: Mikey at April 22, 2015 07:05 PM (2f/TW)
It's so gusty right now there's white-caps in the toilet bowl!
The toilet water is turbulent, it's that windy.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 07:05 PM (R/rAV)
Where you at?
Worst windstorm I've been in, I wondered if my cheapo apartment was ready to fly off. Did not sleep very well that night.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 07:08 PM (0NdlF)
outside Boston
Posted by: Soothsayer, Inc. -- The King Unwilling at April 22, 2015 07:09 PM (R/rAV)
There's still a part of me that worries that is GRRM dies prematurely, his lefty fans are going to blame Correia for the stress and distractions of Sad Puppies for his death and bomb his house or something. Winter is coming for you Correia, with pitchforks and flames! Hopefully not, but SJW's are not known for being particularly logical so you never know.
Posted by: LizLem at April 22, 2015 06:34 PM (yRwC
Wouldn't surprise me. They've accused him of everything other vile thing out there. Apparently he's a homophobic, racist, cissexist, hobo murderer. All because he likes books they don't like.
MY GOD WHAT A MONSTER.
/off sarcasm caps.
Posted by: Book is Pissed Off at April 22, 2015 07:10 PM (AlkUj)
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 22, 2015 07:10 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: Ph2ll at April 22, 2015 07:11 PM (WmRdJ)
Just had a thought. Specifically to the left but did for thought about anyone's world view in general.
Not everyone has a life similar to yours. I mean wholly different to the point where they aren't aware someone who lives the way you do actually exists.
There are fulfilled, happy people who have hopes dreams and ambitions. Their lifestyle is incompatible with yours. You will never meet them, never even hear about them or encounter acknowledgment of their existence. But the choices you make are going to impact their lives.
I don't know where else to go with this but does anyone think of how trivially important a lot of the progressive world view actually is to those who live outside of it?
Yet how drastically they want to change the world?
Posted by: maxyp at April 22, 2015 07:12 PM (DjLh9)
Posted by: asswipee at April 22, 2015 07:13 PM (eS0nh)
In short, one of us!
Okay, I have to go help assemble raised garden beds at my grandma's house, so I'm off. Have a good evening!
Posted by: LizLem at April 22, 2015 07:13 PM (yRwC8)
Just after a nonverbal exchange with his off camera handlers, RDJ says something like " Your foot is kinda twitching there, you better hurry up and ask your next question"... then glares with a faint hint of a smirk. Burn.
Posted by: S2 at April 22, 2015 07:14 PM (UsTB9)
really loyal friend. He got a major award back in 2011 and he not only
insisted that Mel Gibson be the presenter but used most of his speech to
try and help Gibson after the crapfest that was the breakup with his
baby-mama.
RDJ seems
like a really good guy and fairly laid back but he is allowed to have
his own private thoughts that he does not have to explain to random
asshole reporters... especially on a press junket where the topic is
supposed to be the movie and not himself.
Posted by: redbanzai at April 22, 2015 07:14 PM (5DGKy)
Posted by: asswipee at April 22, 2015 07:13 PM (eS0nh)
I think that ace is right in that these questions aren't actually out of bounds for an interviewer to ask. And that is aces point. But I think that they are out of bounds for the type of interview this was supposed to be.
Posted by: Buzzion at April 22, 2015 07:17 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: dick cheney at April 22, 2015 07:19 PM (hTeQK)
The the kicker was about rdjr father. He saw where the next question was going...
Posted by: dick cheney at April 22, 2015 07:23 PM (hTeQK)
it's about kneecapping your opponents through revenue.
Posted by: asswipee at April 22, 2015 07:27 PM (eS0nh)
--
Zombie @ 22...that was excellent analysis. Spot on.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 22, 2015 07:35 PM (DprTk)
Posted by: vivi at April 22, 2015 08:21 PM (/Zsgn)
Posted by: Rana at April 22, 2015 10:36 PM (uFm1t)
I think you're being too hard on yourself on this one, Ace. Given that reporters tend to be complete and utter jackasses most of the time, the fact that you assumed that this was likely the case in advance is in large part the result of learned experience, not necessarily a tribal affiliation issue.
Posted by: can of spam at April 23, 2015 08:05 AM (g0aRc)
The entire hollywood machine is a corrupt and slimy insider McCarthyism - sex with small boys in hot-tubs machine. + and radical redistribution hypocrisy 101.
***Still waiting for Cher to open up all her mansions to the poor.
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