Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

anyway the masha gessen piece is good

it's "interesting" that now a leftish former satirist and good-guy politician is in the frame that men need to rethink the volume of their chastisement

Rephrase

just watch your fucking tone, that goes for me too obv

There are times where allegations are unfounded but this is not one of those times. And I’ve seen the proof. Just because your text messages were not published, doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Tread lightly. https://t.co/HL2uN02WcR

— om (@oliviamunn) November 25, 2017

it's "interesting" that now a leftish former satirist and good-guy politician is in the frame that men need to rethink the volume of their chastisement

its true that after years of enthusiastically decrying the moral corruption of others on ilx the welfare of this politician I've never heard of made me very hastily reverse my feelings on the matter

#notallilx0rs

stop shitting the thread up with your wounded snark you self-exculpatory weasel shite

ilx got good again

i was making the opposite point you dumb idiot

on my phone "ogmor" autocorrects to "pignut" or "ignore" fwiw

i can't remember what i was going to say

Daddy, what's a pignut?

the rats are banding together

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/a-woman-approached-the-post-with-dramatic--and-false--tale-about-roy-moore-sje-appears-to-be-part-of-undercover-sting-operation/2017/11/27/0c2e335a-cfb6-11e7-9d3a-bcbe2af58c3a_story.html?utm_term=.546ba6791be6

A woman who falsely claimed to The Washington Post that Roy Moore, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Alabama, impregnated her as a teenager appears to work with an organization that uses deceptive tactics to secretly record conversations in an effort to embarrass its targets.

In a series of interviews over two weeks, the woman shared a dramatic story about an alleged sexual relationship with Moore in 1992 that led to an abortion when she was 15. During the interviews, she repeatedly pressed Post reporters to give their opinions on the effects that her claims could have on Moore’s candidacy if she went public.

The Post did not publish an article based on her unsubstantiated account. When Post reporters confronted her with inconsistencies in her story and an Internet posting that raised doubts about her motivations, she insisted that she was not working with any organization that targets journalists.

But on Monday morning, Post reporters saw her walking into the New York offices of Project Veritas, an organization that targets the mainstream news media and left-leaning groups. The organization sets up undercover “stings” that involve using false cover stories and covert video recordings meant to expose what the group says is media bias.

James O’Keefe, the founder of Project Veritas who was convicted of a misdemeanor in 2010 for using a fake identity to enter a federal building during a previous sting, declined to answer questions about the woman outside the Project Veritas office, a storefront in Mamaroneck, N.Y., on Monday morning shortly after the woman walked inside.

Evil

i'm glad that the post published her off the record comments though. i wonder how much she got paid

probably not a lot since

Alice Crites, a Post researcher who was looking into Phillips’s background, found the document that strongly reinforced the reporters’ suspicions: a Web page for a fundraising campaign by someone with the same name. It was on the website GoFundMe.com under the name Jaime Phillips.

“I’m moving to New York!” the May 29 appeal said. “I’ve accepted a job to work in the conservative media movement to combat the lies and deceipt of the liberal MSM. I’ll be using my skills as a researcher and fact-checker to help our movement. I was laid off from my mortgage job a few months ago and came across the opportunity to change my career path.”

In a March posting on its Facebook page, Project Veritas said it was seeking 12 new “undercover reporters,” though the organization’s operatives use methods that are eschewed by mainstream journalists, such as misrepresenting themselves.

A posting for the “journalist” job on the Project Veritas website that month warned that the job “is not a role for the faint of heart.”

fucking psychos

So much for that career path.

So since they're merely truth-seekers, I assume Project Veritas will make a statement praising the Post's thoroughness and integrity wrt this attempted setup.

well...

Way back in 2015, @Project_Veritas got a 0K. donation from @realDonaldTrump's charity, after pitching Trump on their work. pic.twitter.com/B88gRZEUus

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) November 27, 2017

Project Bullshit was taken i gather

forks you should know by now that republicans and other rightish elementals love to cloak their insipid fascism in "freedom" and "truth" verbal drag

"It's opposite day in America"

I would like to know why Harvard hasn't sued O'Keefe yet.

Or, if not them, Veritas Technologies.

because peter thiel is on the other end of that lawsuit

https://www.villagevoice.com/2009/09/22/conservative-facebook-investor-funded-anti-acorn-videographer/

the grand unifying theory of cockitude

i had either never realized or forgotten about that detail but ... fuck!

laid off from my mortgage job

lies and deceipt

show me the deciepts

Disease of conceipt

Any underemployed journos want to go double-agent on these d-bags?

NBC's Matt Lauer fired, inappropriate workplace behavior -- NBC chairman statement below. @cnn pic.twitter.com/U5l9vVegg4

— AnneClaire Stapleton (@AnneClaireCNN) November 29, 2017

I saw the announcement live. Haven't there been "Matt Lauer's an asshole, he's gonna go" stories floating for at least a year?

Any underemployed journos want to go double-agent on these d-bags?

This is a great (and hilarious) idea in theory but it's tough for me to imagine it accomplishing much that the WaPo story didn't

according to wiki, lauer's salary was 28 million a year! that's a lot of money.

yeah, he's the Albert Pujols of morning-TV drones

Tom Cruise cackles over morning coffee, alone, in front of a foggy window in Martha's Vineyard

Surprised Lauer lasted so long. Perpetual tabloid hag. Another few I wouldn’t be surprised by at all: Chris Matthews, Lawrence O’Donnell, Don Lemon

i remember everyone thought he was a creep about the Ann Curry thing, and she left under a weird inexplicable cloud bc of him.

it's funny that lauer was the fresh air after the toxic cloud of gumbel. now who is smelly? and real sports is kinda awesome!

lauer thought she was an idiot and forced her out as a condition of extending his contract, allegedly.

Wait, what toxic cloud of Gumbel?

Chris Matthews

this dude def has the air of a misogynistic lech

"Wait, what toxic cloud of Gumbel?"

what, you don't remember the infamous memo backlash?

i just remember him taking his eyeglasses off and furrowing his brow exasperatedly

Gumbel the only one of that crew who may have had a brain. Jeez, is there anything more ignominious than being a morning show host? Who remembers Jane Pauley and Joan Lunden?

all that money curdles t.v. people. remember america's sweetheart katy couric? doing life for double murder.

t.v. newspeople pretty backstabby in general. plus, they have to smile too much. they lose it.