what's that called when you feel good at seeing your enemy in duress? Schadenfreude or some such thing.
I'm feeling that now. is that wrong?
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November 29, 2017, 09:14 PM
Ozarkwoods
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Originally posted by sdy: OT, but adding to the list:
CNN fires Teddy Davis, senior producer of @jaketapper's "State of the Union" program, over behavior "that does not align with the standards and values of CNN." Three women had complained about Davis.
MPR won't comment because lawyers, so who knows what really happened at this point.
So I guess my instinct was right on this. Something didn’t seem right about the story.
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
November 29, 2017, 09:19 PM
jhe888
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Originally posted by JALLEN:
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Originally posted by jigray3: It feels a lot like a lunch mob to me. Certainly an easy environment in which anyone can make unsubstantiated claims and ruin someone's life. Some of these are not legit. Whether attention seeking or payoff seeking, they just aren't. Happy to see Lauer go down, Karma's a real bitch, huh, Matt, but if it's BS, it's wrong, and no one seems interested in finding that out.
I haven’t been to a lunch mob in years, but remember them fondly.
We have a good bunch where I work.
The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything.
November 29, 2017, 10:00 PM
46and2
Those remote actuated electronic door locks aren't that rare or crazy, some convenient stores and jewelry stores have them, some banks use them on doors that access the teller lines, etc. His alleged use is, of course, wrong/creepy.
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Originally posted by jigray3: It feels a lot like a lunch mob to me. Certainly an easy environment in which anyone can make unsubstantiated claims and ruin someone's life. Some of these are not legit. Whether attention seeking or payoff seeking, they just aren't. Happy to see Lauer go down, Karma's a real bitch, huh, Matt, but if it's BS, it's wrong, and no one seems interested in finding that out.
I dunno... if you think about it, the downfall of a whopping 20/30/50 famous people is nothing in terms of how many working professionals, adults, executives, etc that there are.
Even if this series of events takes down 1000 people, it but a teeny tiny fraction of the total, and with numbers like that I think it's easy to see how it could be entirely true.
Is it so hard believe that there are even 1000 egotistical, power hungry, people who have gotten away with harassing women? They aren't even rape charges, BTW, just rude behavior of a sexual nature type things, out of the 300+ Million people in America, and tens of thousands in Hollywood alone, and a few thousand politicians and other public figures...
Of course *some* of it is bullshit...
November 29, 2017, 11:14 PM
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This has gone on forever and it is not just the men but the women as well.
I can remember at least one occasion at every place that I worked that some woman was messing with someone.
California was really out in the open and not unusual to be told how they felt about you or your physique.
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November 29, 2017, 11:29 PM
oddball
Even his most famous co-star got in on the act (5 years ago).
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
November 30, 2017, 12:24 AM
cas
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Originally posted by Sigmanic:
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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:
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Originally posted by justjoe: Prairie Home Companion indeed!
Couldn't they just rename them as Prairie Home Groper and call it good?
That's the liberal mindset, change the name and the past just goes away. Like so many democrats tearing down statues and renaming schools, trying to deny their past.
_____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911.
November 30, 2017, 06:16 AM
parabellum
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Originally posted by Ozarkwoods:
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Originally posted by sdy: OT, but adding to the list:
CNN fires Teddy Davis, senior producer of @jaketapper's "State of the Union" program, over behavior "that does not align with the standards and values of CNN." Three women had complained about Davis.
Yeah, I had to laugh when I saw "standards and values of CNN". What a joke.
November 30, 2017, 07:15 AM
downtownv
NBC announced early Wednesday that it had fired Lauer after an employee had accused him of sexual misconduct. A few hours later, a Variety report broke with multiple NBC female employees coming forward with similar accusations.
In that report, Lauer was accused of showing a female employee his penis, gifting a sex toy to a colleague, and using a secret button under his desk to lock his door when women were in his office.
________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton.
November 30, 2017, 07:27 AM
BamaJeepster
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Originally posted by downtownv: In that report, Lauer was accused of showing a female employee his penis, gifting a sex toy to a colleague, and using a secret button under his desk to lock his door when women were in his office.
Is that wrong? Is that frowned upon?
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams
November 30, 2017, 07:30 AM
V-Tail
Outstanding, Gustofer!
הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים
November 30, 2017, 07:31 AM
justjoe
Tom Wolfe used the comic book term "Masters of the Universe" to describe the Wall Street traders in the '80s who were ego-drunk on power. They were pulling in hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, in one day, and they thought they could do anything.
That's the story with these celebrity predators, like Matt Lauer. They make so much money, (NBC paid Lauer $100 million over the course of his career on Today), are so famous, the objects of adulation, carried around like an egg on a pillow by their corporate bosses-- they really believe that the rules do NOT apply to them.
Lauer pulling out his dick is not only a sex act, it's a power-drunk act. And who knows how long he got away with that kind of crap....
"I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023
November 30, 2017, 08:18 AM
mbinky
He's "sorry" he flushed $25 mil a year down the crapper. And he's "sorry" girls know his game now. Isn't he married? I be he's NOT sorry for what this does to her.
November 30, 2017, 08:22 AM
JALLEN
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Originally posted by mbinky: He's "sorry" he flushed $25 mil a year down the crapper. And he's "sorry" girls know his game now. Isn't he married? I be he's NOT sorry for what this does to her.
It hasn’t hurt BJ, has it?
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
November 30, 2017, 08:29 AM
Gustofer
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Originally posted by mbinky: He's "sorry" he flushed $25 mil a year down the crapper. And he's "sorry" girls know his game now. Isn't he married? I be he's NOT sorry for what this does to her.
Like most in his shoes, he is not sorry at all for what he did. No, he is simply sorry that he got caught...and fired.
So, he'll say what his publicist says he should say in order to possibly save something of the life he knows.
________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton.
November 30, 2017, 08:42 AM
BGULL
May have to tune in to NBC's Sunday Night Football, for the halftime commentary from Bob Costas. I'm sure he will be just as outraged and indignant as everyone else.
