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Republican candidate charged with assault after body-slamming Guardian reporter
Planr:
--- Quote from: Foxscotch on May 27, 2017, 09:21:41 PM ---except actually no it isn't
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if it was a republican reporter who got bodyslammed by a democrat i'd say demonizing the democrat would be equally wrong
reporters are incredibly annoying when you're a politician/celebrity. they hover over you like flies and do everything they can to twist what you say to fit their agenda, manipulate the conversation to go the way they want, etc.
while i don't support what he did to the reporter, i don't blame him for doing it either; if i was in his place i would've probably done something less drastic though like swat the mic/camera out of his hand and tell him to go away
Darryl McKoy:
--- Quote from: Planr on May 27, 2017, 10:13:00 PM ---while i don't support what he did to the reporter, i don't blame him for doing it either; if i was in his place i would've probably done something less drastic though like swat the mic/camera out of his hand and tell him to go away
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Sounds like you both need to work on your self control
Tactical Nuke:
people need to realize that having a neat little journalism license or whatever the forget does not entitle you to be an starfish who disrespects personal space and badgers people constantly
one of the reasons celebrities are so loving nuts is that the media is made almost exclusively of manipulative cunts who make bank off of reporting every little thing that you do, including all your family problems and other personal stuff
as much as I dislike Kanye West and cannot understand his popularity, I don't blame him at all for his ridiculous outbursts at people taking photos of him, and unless you really love the spotlight, if you were in his position you'd be tearing your hair out too
Planr was right in his brown townogy, the media is a swarm of flies
they're a business, and as such they will (as repeatedly shown to this date) blow things out of proportion or just outright lie to rake in the profits
look at their coverage of Michael Jackson or Bill Cosby
you'd think both were insane serial rapists who act like children and have "connections" despite the lack of actual evidence for any of the women coming forward against Cosby, their changing accounts of what happened and the fact that Jackson settled the child rape case out of court for a fraction of a fraction of what he was worth, a case by the way that was clearly going in favor of Jackson
you wanna talk about Hollywood racism, Bill Cosby and Michael Jackson are two of, if not the most successful black men in the entertainment industry ever, and now they're being slandered by opportunists in both the news and elsewhere to steal what they rightfully earned
forget it always goes back to Cosby with me
Red Spy:
We needed a strong man and we got one
Ipquarx:
--- Quote from: Nonnel on May 25, 2017, 10:56:34 PM ---if he gets elected after this I'll be worrying about the state of the world
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He did get elected but mostly as a result of 2/3rds of the votes being cast before this event happened.