Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

Solid. F yeah fellow California voters.

this story about the case and the recall is pretty intense

https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/brock-turner-michele-dauber

whoa wtf with david from sesame st. I didn't know about any of that. I'm shocked they kept him on the show after he beat a woman with an iron rod.

also, Bill Clinton, ladies & gentlemen! (should not do any more interviews, or "write" novels)

to wit:

https://splinternews.com/how-is-bill-clinton-allowed-to-keep-saying-things-1826734797

That event uninviting Monica Lewinsky because Bill Clinton was going to be there was wild.

i heard clinton on NPR the other week and he sounded so incredibly old and doddering, they should not truck him out for anything at this point.

Off topic but there must be like a million podcasts hatereading that novel by now right

Remarkable how much worse Bill Clinton sounds & looks compared to Jimmy Carter, who is 20 years older and survived brain cancer.

i wonder if a couple decades of being conspiracied by the right wing hasn't taken its toll, i bet that dude sometimes wishes he'd just pondered a run in 1992 and then decided to retire into some kind of private endeavor.

but then he thinks of all the bombing he may have missed.

he also lost a lot of weight very quickly on some vegan diet, which can really drew-carey a mfer up

i bet that dude sometimes wishes he'd just pondered a run in 1992 and then decided to retire into some kind of private endeavor.

nooooooooooooooo way

p sure he's stoked he received the most famous bj in American history

There's an alternate universe where he was manager of the most successful Walmart in Little Rock.

i think if we don't assign normal human thoughts to Bill Clinton then maybe he's completely content and tbh probably most of the time he is, but no doubt at times he has some "what if?" thoughts. though it's hard for a man of his apparent nature and vast wealth to do that for too long and with much actual regret, i'm sure.

i bet that dude sometimes wishes he'd just pondered a run in 1992 and then decided to retire into some kind of private endeavor.

^^ John Edwards' daily fantasy, I'm sure.

i dont' get this at all:

https://www.eater.com/2018/6/14/17462514/ashley-merriman-gabrielle-hamilton-spotted-pig-ken-friedman

I don't know much about these two, or even the Friedman thing, but her defense of this move sounds...incoherent?

Oh gosh oh gee quell surprise Chris Hardwick.

^ for reference

Truly horrible.

super fucking gross. always hated that dude tbh.

that article, my god...

well, i'm glad i have no idea who he is

I know someone who's BFFs with Hardwick and I'm waiting to see what she'll have to say about this, because it puts her in a really awkward place professionally standup-wise.

super fucking gross. always hated that dude tbh.

same

sorry but who cares if you always hated someone who turns out to be an abuser, what does it matter, you want points (as it were)

?

just one more reason not to like him, I suppose.

ooof

it was just a sidenote? jeez.

xps

i guess it could be said that it doesn't matter if someone did or did not like the guy beforehand, since if we know anything about abusers it's that they're often extremely charming and likable, and sometimes seemingly very unlikable curmudgeons treat their friends and family with complete decency and respect and love.

that's not a shot at anyone here

at the very least i think we can maybe foresee that the person who is most "shocked" about these claims will be Chris Hardwick himself!

The palpable relief when the accused celebrity is someone you never liked and the open hand-wringing when it's someone you did are both ... not the important point.

true

For what it's worth, my "quell surprise" has more to do with unease with adult self-proclaimed nerd culture than it was signaling my brilliant taste at not liking the guy.

I just read up on him. I knew him from Singled Out and Talking Dead but had no clue he was big in certain circles. I'm glad people are reading her essay.

People are already quitting Nerdist over it. I highly doubt he gets to keep his TV gigs. So that's something, I guess.

I guess that makes two podcast networks run by abusive creeps

some of the qualities that made me not like his podcast--the constant boostering for workaholism, the control freaky approach to comedy and culture consumption--is what make the story, if not unsurprising, at least within the realm of "I can see that."

xpost didn't he leave Nerdist months ago? People are quitting because he started it, I guess?

Yeah, it's the association.

Who's the other podcast-network creep?

Dustin from Feral Audio

"the"

(but you might be thinking of Nick Robinson?)

Yes I was referring to Feral Dustin.

Hardwick sold Nerdist six years ago, so anyone who resigns from it today is making an emptier gesture than hand-wringers on message boards.

Sold it in 2012, completely left it last fall.

nerd culture... is bad

it is essentially what happens when people think all the kids except charlie were treated poorly by willy wonka