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Larry needs to 1) take a strong stand with the points he wants to make but for some reason doesn't 2) become a better performer, which he is doing but at a slow pace That being said I loved the Jesus piece, I'm not entirely sure what the problem was. He swerved on a very obvious premise and ended it with Jesus saying some weird poo poo that the audience hated. He made an audience boo Jesus!
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Mar 20, 2015 15:00
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Jonas Albrecht posted:Yeah, you got me there. It's frustrating, but it really feels like Larry is a little in over his head. He doesn't seem to have the ability to tackle bad and bad faith arguments on the spot. Stuff that Colbert could do in his sleep. I remember one moment on The Nightly Show where one of the right-wing panel guests brought up the "Obama said he wants to 'fundamentally transform' America" talking point, and Larry responded with, "You know what? The Emancipation Proclamation fundamentally transformed America. Giving women the right to vote fundamentally transformed America. The Civil Rights Act fundamentally transformed America." I wish there were more moments like that on the show.
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Mar 20, 2015 16:26
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Given the appropriate time periods, that guy probably would have been against all of those too.
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Mar 20, 2015 17:43
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Jon Stewart rules. I like Michelle Rodriguez and I consider the Fast & Furious movies the best superhero movie franchise. Please stop saying stupid things, MRod. 
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Mar 20, 2015 18:42
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raditts posted:White people sure love grasping at anything that might help them ignore any challenge to their worldview, don't they. Not all white people are Fox News viewers. Although all Fox News viewers are probably white people. Not that you're not right about a ton of people. raditts posted:Michelle Rodriguez is a unique superhero and her superpower is sucking and dying in every movie she stars in. Michelle Rodriguez's superpower is her adamantium liver. She got killed off on Lost because she kept getting DUIs in Hawaii, judging from that clip, nothing's changed. IRQ fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Mar 21, 2015 |
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Mar 21, 2015 00:53
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Oh goddamn it, not again VA.
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Mar 24, 2015 04:06
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Hey, Irish Joe? Pre-emptively gently caress off. This is what we were talking about a few pages back (or was that on the Last Week Tonight thread?)
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Mar 24, 2015 04:09
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Oh hey, it's this crazy lady. I'm really disgusted with TDS for having her on. 
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Mar 24, 2015 04:22
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Isn't Ted Cruz Canadian? Or is that some other right wing creepo I'm thinking of?
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Mar 24, 2015 04:27
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raditts posted:Isn't Ted Cruz Canadian? Or is that some other right wing creepo I'm thinking of? He is, but he denounced his citizenship or something like that.
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Mar 24, 2015 04:30
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If that was how running for president worked it wouldn't be a problem. Good job, Ted.
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Mar 24, 2015 04:31
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I'm behind so I'm still watching the conversation with this muslim reform lady. I have no idea what she's trying to say.Fresh Like Zafo posted:He is, but he denounced his citizenship or something like that. I don't think it's that easy, lest we forget the first two years of the current presidency and he was actually born in America. Not that it matters because  if anyone thinks loving Ted Cruz is going to come anywhere close to getting the nomination.
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Mar 24, 2015 04:39
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Most of the people I've seen who support Cruz for President either don't know he wasn't born in America, or pull the "Well Obama wasn't born in America either" line.
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Mar 24, 2015 05:05
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So what is the real deal with that 33733 number? I thought at first the twist would be that it makes a donation but neither of the shows that riffed on it seem to know what it's actually for.
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Mar 24, 2015 05:18
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haveblue posted:So what is the real deal with that 33733 number? I thought at first the twist would be that it makes a donation but neither of the shows that riffed on it seem to know what it's actually for.
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Mar 24, 2015 05:25
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Wow why did Jon have this lady on? He tried very hard to point out that so much of what she was saying was not exclusively applicable to Islam, but she just flat out ignored him each time. She reminds me a bit of Sam Harris, in a bad way.
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Mar 24, 2015 06:32
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Neeksy posted:Wow why did Jon have this lady on? He tried very hard to point out that so much of what she was saying was not exclusively applicable to Islam, but she just flat out ignored him each time. She reminds me a bit of Sam Harris, in a bad way. Ayaan's grandmother had her 'circumcised' at the age of five while her father, who was opposed to the practice, was in Somalian jail. She's specifically said "Islam must be destroyed" and that it's "the new fascism." She's an ideologue who used to work for the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative 'think tank' that has Dick Cheney on the board of trustees. She ignored him because 1) it doesn't help sell her book, and 2) it contradicts a narrative that makes her a *lot* of money.
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Mar 24, 2015 08:38
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Ayaan's grandmother had her 'circumcised' at the age of five while her father, who was opposed to the practice, was in Somalian jail. She's specifically said "Islam must be destroyed" and that it's "the new fascism." I understood why she ignored him. I was wondering why he would put her on his show, considering it was going to be impossible to have a fruitful discussion.
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Mar 24, 2015 08:41
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Neeksy posted:I understood why she ignored him. I was wondering why he would put her on his show, considering it was going to be impossible to have a fruitful discussion. Because sometimes you need to have someone undeniably very well-educated come on the program and spout the ten-dollar-word version of what people post in barely literate English on Free Republic to remind your audience that someone who might espouse liberal (or moderate) viewpoints on occasion can be just as crazy and zealot-like as the sorts Fox News keeps on speed dial. She doesn't want an Islamic 'reformation' - she wants them to kill each other as much as possible for as long as possible. And the funny thing is, her book actually has more chance of slowing *down* the possibility of an Islamic Civil War/Reformation because there's nothing the Shia and Sunni like more than deciding whom they both hate. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 08:53 on Mar 24, 2015 |
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Mar 24, 2015 08:46
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Because sometimes you need to have someone undeniably very well-educated come on the program and spout the ten-dollar-word version of what people post in barely literate English on Free Republic to remind your audience that someone who might espouse liberal (or moderate) viewpoints on occasion can be just as crazy and zealot-like as the sorts Fox News keeps on speed dial. I still could barely follow what she was trying to say. But I could tell that whatever it was had to be crazy.
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Mar 24, 2015 14:43
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Yeah I thought this lady "left" Islam. Or am I confusing her with another person? Did she rejoin Islam to demand a reformation now? Can I demand Reddit Atheism into having a reformation? Strobe posted:Hey, Irish Joe? It's harder to troll this thread if it means keeping up with four or eight episodes a week. Echo Chamber fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Mar 24, 2015 |
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Mar 24, 2015 15:36
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I just gotta laugh at all the people who are making a big deal about this Starbucks thing. They fell hook, line and sinker for this marketing ploy by talking about it which is exactly what the PR agency who Starbucks hired wanted.
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Mar 24, 2015 18:07
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SyRauk posted:I just gotta laugh at all the people who are making a big deal about this Starbucks thing. They fell hook, line and sinker for this marketing ploy by talking about it which is exactly what the PR agency who Starbucks hired wanted. No this actually is something the guy running Starbucks would do.
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Mar 24, 2015 21:21
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Oh good, Larry brought back The Blaze's one black friend again like it ain't no thing. Gearing up to yell at the TV whenever some dumb poo poo comes tumbling out of her mouth again.
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Mar 25, 2015 04:46
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Aaaaand that's it, I'm done. I'm turning in my "Nightly Show Defender" card. When you give crazy wackadoodles a platform to spread ignorance and gum up a debate otherwise worth having, your show is not for me. Not going to watch it unless I hear that it's gotten substantially better.
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Mar 25, 2015 04:51
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To be fair, Larry actually showed some backbone against her dumb poo poo this time, and somehow Lewis Black would up being the most intelligent and well-spoken person at the table. I'm really only watching anymore because I haven't trained myself to go to sleep before midnight again yet.
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Mar 25, 2015 04:55
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Ugh, I'm glad I live on the west coast. I really do love @Midnight, though, so I wish there was something good between it and The Daily Show again.
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Mar 25, 2015 05:06
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Ayaan's extended interview is better, although it's still two mostly two people talking at each other. I really thought they edited the aired version to make her look as bad as possible. I found accusations of her just trying to sell her book particularly gross and disingenuous. Everyone going on that show is trying to sell/promote something. But I guess it's important to call out the one whose cause is the rights of minority women. Modus Pwnens fucked around with this message at 07:43 on Mar 25, 2015 |
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Mar 25, 2015 07:36
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I thought tonight's episode was alright. I enjoyed Lewis Black shooting down the notion that Creationists need respect. Larry's staff sucks at performance.
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Mar 25, 2015 10:33
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Ted Cruz really doesn't deserve a full episode. I understand the temptation because he's essentially another Trump, Bachmann, or Palin; but we all know he loves the hate. Even when Wilmore gives an occasional first act with teeth, the panel and mini-game at the end of the show neuters it and "leaves it there" CNN-style. Also, Stewart has the best phone-a-friend.
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Mar 25, 2015 14:36
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Modus Pwnens posted:Ayaan's extended interview is better, although it's still two mostly two people talking at each other. I really thought they edited the aired version to make her look as bad as possible. gently caress's sake, get down off the cross man. Out of all the things people were calling her / that interview on, "rights of minority women" was absolutely not one of them.
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Mar 25, 2015 17:37
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raditts posted:gently caress's sake, get down off the cross man. Out of all the things people were calling her / that interview on, "rights of minority women" was absolutely not one of them. When a victim of female genital mutilation is arguing that Islam is fundamentally violent and harmful to women, he doesn't have to agree, but to quip she wants people to buy her book--when every author that comes on his show is selling a book--is ugly and cynical. It really felt like he had his mind made up about her beforehand in a way that made for a worse interview. They eventually got into a more back-and-forth conversation (so I would recommend the extended interview just to see what she was attempting to say) but that's not what they decided to air.
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Mar 25, 2015 22:26
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raditts posted:To be fair, Larry actually showed some backbone against her dumb poo poo this time, and somehow Lewis Black would up being the most intelligent and well-spoken person at the table. I keep watching out of habit, and because TDS/Colbert used to be my go to "watch this during lunch break" thing but god Larry's writing and delivery is loving painful, the panels are usually terrible, and whoever decided party games needed to be the third act was terribly misguided, even post-keep it 100 every episode. When Stewbeef leaves CC is going to be in pretty dire straits unless the new guy/gal hits it out of the park.
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Mar 25, 2015 23:55
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Oh my god, that hearing was basically Take Your Pick in the modern day.
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Mar 26, 2015 04:06
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Wasn't this guy on that Ramsay show. Hotel Hell? It looks like all the renovations are still in place. that deer is high as poo poo!
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Mar 26, 2015 04:13
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Want that deer. edit: ^Yes http://www.fox.com/watch/316475459814/7684543488
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Mar 26, 2015 04:17
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This guy is amazing. 
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Mar 26, 2015 04:17
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aaaaaaaaaahahahahahah that fuckin deer
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Mar 26, 2015 04:48
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raditts posted:Wasn't this guy on that Ramsay show. Hotel Hell? It looks like all the renovations are still in place. I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that. I want that guy's life. Just chill in your own hotel with your dog and your deer and your weed.
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Mar 26, 2015 21:57
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RIP Jason Jones
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