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Post by My Avatar Is A Hot Babe on Sept 9, 2021 17:02:08 GMT
The IMDB boards used to be a good place to see people showing up who had some connections to the industry and some insider info, or so they claimed. Now I see it on YouTube. Pat Proft's wife commented on a Naked Gun reaction video recently. One time I played Yahoo Pool with someone who said she was Beverly D'Angelo's cousin or niece. She sent me a pic and I did see some resemblance.
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Post by My Avatar Is A Hot Babe on Sept 16, 2021 18:55:25 GMT
Jim Breuer's making some waves regarding the vaccine mandate issue. Looks like this started with a 20-minute video on his Instagram account on September 10th. He posted another 9 minute video today. He was on Tucker Carlson's show yesterday I think. I never much liked Jim Breuer... he always struck me as one of those guys who thinks "loud" equals "funny" and doesn't have much else going for him. But now I've got another far more substantial reason to dislike him. Thanks! BTW, are you angling to get this thread closed? Posting a clip from the Fuc... er, I mean Tucker Carlson Show on a topic that is forbidden to discuss here is not likely to yield good results.
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Post by Potsie Hoofman on Sept 17, 2021 0:39:00 GMT
Both of Jim Breuer's fans are gonna be totally bummed.
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Post by Norman ‘Whiplash’ Mailer on Sept 17, 2021 10:32:37 GMT
Both of Jim Breuer's fans are gonna be totally bummed.
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Sept 17, 2021 16:43:52 GMT
I’m still mystified as to why this rice-pudding-in-human-form is even posting on the forum. I guess the options for far-right sex pests who like vintage television is pretty limited. Be proud of your target market, Steve!
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Post by My Avatar Is A Hot Babe on Sept 20, 2021 18:27:42 GMT
It's not a defense of blacklisting to say, "well, we didn't COMPLETELY blacklist you." Under McCarthyism, some blacklisted people were able to work under assumed names. Did that make it not a real blacklist? Of course, what I'm talking about here is a de facto blacklist driven by the media. It's open collusion to tar and tarnish the names of people so that they will be deemed unacceptable to be hired by any mainstream company. It has nothing to do with job performance. The media is instilling a fear that companies will be smeared and trashed with bad press if they hire a certain person. There was an agenda to get this guy fired, and a mission to dig into his background and find anything they could that could be spun into a negative headline. The stories were sourced, framed and written in a completely biased way. It's distasteful and un-American to simply target a private citizen for destruction and have numerous organizations direct their resources to comb through his entire life to find things to create faux scandals about. The targeting of Richards should send a chill down every American's spine. What was done to him could be done to any private citizen. You can blame them for thinking that a background check doesn't mean just checking your criminal history, but trying to find every recording of everything you've ever said in your entire life, and interview everyone who's ever met you, to see if anything can be pinned to you that supposedly offends someone, even if the offended people were already out to get you anyway. It means anyone is vulnerable to it who is simply high-profile enough to be known by the headhunters who are looking for a fresh scalp. It doesn't matter if you're high-profile or not. The less high-profile you are, the faster the company would let you go if the media decided to attack you. He wasn't fired for anything relating to job performance. He was fired because of the media deciding to make a "scandal" out of things he said or did in the past, unrelated to his job at Jeopardy. This is a Simpsons joke played out in reality. "This says you grabbed a dog by its hind legs and pushed it around like a wheelbarrow." "But that was in the third grade!" "Well, it all goes on your permanent record." Because his firing isn't based on job performance, he will most certainly have a hard time getting hired by any other company in the same industry. The firing is based on a standard that anyone who is smeared publicly for supposedly "offending" someone will be fired. Anyone looking to hire him would be afraid that the media will simply aim their guns at him again and relaunch the negative headlines. If it was solely the Jeopardy company who thought this way, you might have a point, but it's not. This is widespread corporate thinking right now. It doesn't matter if they're monolithic or not. A large segment of the public and the media had the goal of destroying his career before they knew if he had done anything that could be perceived as "wrong" or not. They set out to research everything about his life, related to his job or not, and spin it into a public character assassination. There isn't anyone who could emerge from that kind of targeting unscathed. And when a company actually gives the vultures what they want, all they do is encourage more of this. Every time someone like this is fired, it threatens the jobs of millions more. Because the assembly line of character assassination can be geared up to take down any innocent, unsuspecting individual who stands in the way of someone else's goals. Take your pick. The people who deemed him not an acceptable host because of his race and sex. The people who sought to assassinate his character and get him fired by researching everything he's ever done in his life and publishing the carefully edited selections that could make him sound the worst. The corporation who cowardly kowtowed to these demands, which only encourages more people to be subjected to this kind of scrutiny that was only reserved for political candidates in the past. But it's worse, because the voters are much more forgiving than corporate executives and lawyers. There is an army on social media, with allies in the internet and other press, who are eager to witch-hunt and destroy almost anybody. Every time they win, it makes life more miserable and treacherous for everybody else. The paradigm it creates is that everybody, at every time, must always be careful that what they say or do cannot possibly offend anybody else at any time now or in the future, if they want to protect their job. It's the equivalent of living in East Germany where the law of "show me the man and I'll show you the crime" is the order of the day.
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Post by Potsie Hoofman on Sept 21, 2021 0:02:54 GMT
That's why that place is their safe space. All the racists and incels and Nazis and misogynists and hate mongers can converge at Hoofy's place as a safe haven!
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Chungus
Sir Ringo
High time we had a definitive Who CD pressings thread
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Post by Chungus on Sept 21, 2021 0:08:06 GMT
What was done to him could be done to any private citizen that acts like an ignorant dipshit throughout his career. fixed it
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Post by Norman ‘Whiplash’ Mailer on Sept 23, 2021 10:59:37 GMT
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Post by Norman ‘Whiplash’ Mailer on Oct 3, 2021 12:05:59 GMT
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Oct 3, 2021 13:11:28 GMT
Shame we never got George Lucas' Wind In The Whillows trilogy.
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Post by Chicken in Black on Oct 3, 2021 13:22:46 GMT
You mean Triumph of the Whills.
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daved
Better than Steve
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Post by daved on Oct 3, 2021 14:31:27 GMT
I’m still mystified as to why this rice-pudding-in-human-form is even posting on the forum. I guess the options for far-right sex pests who like vintage television is pretty limited. Be proud of your target market, Steve! My guess is he found a thread while googling “Marvel” or “Star Wars”. From what I have seen he has contributed zero to the music forum.
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Post by Norman ‘Whiplash’ Mailer on Oct 25, 2021 23:19:07 GMT
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Chungus
Sir Ringo
High time we had a definitive Who CD pressings thread
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Post by Chungus on Oct 26, 2021 4:12:35 GMT
"Don't take it personal...I just hate women."
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