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That wasn't ignorance. It was malice. He wrote for Richard Spencer. He knew what he was saying.

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When it comes to Girdusky, I just gotta channel Jesse Custer: "You! WHERE THE FUCK IS YOUR CHIN?"

Take your pathetic man-boy violence fantasies with you on your way out, asshole.

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i don't have much of a chin. luckily, politics are not determined by facial features.

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Also too, why in the Hell is CNN having a debate over that rally "comics" "joke" anyfuckingway? I am so sick of news media pretending there are two sides to every issue.

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"it was just ignorance"

So, not a joke.

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“That is completely out of pocket. You know that,” Phillip told Girdusky.

Does ANYONE use common colloquialisms correctly anymore?

She meant "out of bounds," but I guess any old expression will do as long as you know enough context. Still, it is depressing.

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"out of pocket" also means out of hand or out of bounds. I see it all the time the last few years.

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I have never seen it so used, and it is a common thing that common expressions mutate in the course of being used. This usage is an error at this point.

It was a mistake for "off the hook" or "out of whack," but it is a misuse. If it catches on, it will become a "use."

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"Phillip" is never identified with a last name in this article.

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Abby Phillip. It's on the link immediately preceding the first block quote, to a CNN article. She is the host of the show this "joker" appeared on.

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I meant what I said :>) Thanks for letting me know that "Phillip" was identified in the *link* to another story. Well, I didn't go to the link because I got all the info I needed from Robyn's text. I spent a working life looking for things like this and couldn't "change" if I wanted to!

The ancient rule for news writing -- WHO WHAT WHERE WHEN -- would have avoided this confusion, but that horse has, as they say, left the barn. As is occasionally pointed out, Wonkette articles ARE news articles, at least in part.

Thanks again...

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i don't know about any of this. but i DO know that the last time i had to do an english accent in a show (jesus christ i'm in chicago and we're the fucking home of david fucking mamet and fucking steppenwolf and NO ONE should have a fucking accent in chicago fucking theatre) i told the utterly annoying (they are all fucking utterly annoying) dialect coach that my 'accent inspiration' was mehdi hasan. obviously she had no idea who i was talking about.

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The insane delusion traditional media is under (and seems nothing if not godDAMNED focused on keeping intact) about this shit being 'normal' to counter... well, fucking... ANYTHING... policy or otherwise, is wild to witness.

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“You can stay on CNN if you falsely call every Republican a Nazi and have taken money from Qatar-funded media,” he wrote on social media. “Apparently you can't go on CNN if you make a joke. I'm glad America gets to see what CNN stands for.”

Girdusky: "But why WON'T CNN let me be a bigot without consequences? *flounces onto a bed and sobs hysterically*" /s

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Has that "conservative commentator" been on CNN before? If so, why? Aside from his shitty sense of humor, what possible benefit do CNN bookers think he brings to the table?

I question the judgment of anyone who watches this shit unless they're getting paid as a reporter or researcher.

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Current ownership of CNN thinks it has a chance to attract conservative viewers. They are wrong on this, just like Bezos is wrong that not endorsing Harris would give him the slightest benefit with Trump. But that's why they're doing it. These decisions are made at the top, with no separation between editorial and business.

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Ta, Robyn. That was no joke, that was stochastic terrorism.

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No worries this firing just frees up Girdumsky to spend more time on the road playing at third rate MAGA comedy fests with his comic genius pal from the PAFB’s MSG fash rally.

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This made me laugh, which is more than I can say for either conservative 'funny man' with their 'jokes'. You're batting a thousand, them... not so much.

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Ah, the old, trusty stand-by of the terrible, feeble-minded person - it was “joke.” Oh, you support Palestinians? I hope your beeper doesn’t explode and destroy this entire CNN panel! Whenever terrible people blurt something hatefully revealing, they desperately try to apply the “joke” card to escape accountability. We are living in dangerous, precarious times where fascism is more openly threatening democracy than perhaps any time since WWII. There must be no tolerance for hateful, violent rhetoric. CNN did the right thing, and all this guy can do is hope for cancel culture martyrdom.

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"CNN did the right thing."

Fact not in evidence. Someone at CNN has said he won't be booked again but someone at CNN also thought it was a good idea to book him in the first place. I wouldn't look to CNN as a reliable source.

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I’m sure it wasn’t the first time Girdusky told, or heard, the joke. You know it got big laffs with the boys. I had a friend, since deceased, sadly — a good, decent person — who would tell me jokes he heard from his fellow Wall Street brokers. They were primarily sexist but also racist. At first I laughed, politely, then I stopped laughing, and finally I asked him to stop. He did.

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How many Republicans does it take to tell a funny joke?

None.

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Unknown. It’s never happened yet.

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Alternately, All of them, and it still isn't funny.

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How many republicans does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

None, they use gaslight

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None. Chump told them it was fixed, so they sit in the dark and make death threats to anyone who notes that they're sitting in the dark.

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None. Electricity is the gift of the Devil.

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Two: one to cut its funding and another to claim it’s still on.

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These distinctions between Hamas and Palestinian people would be easier to make were not Hamas the elected government (once, then the fascism started) of a large group of Palestinian people.

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I would like to remind you that about 85% of the Israeli parliament just recently decided to ban the UN relief agency that was the main provider if food and also provided health care to Palestinians caught in Gaza. Meaning that at least a million people there will have no food aid and diminished health care after suffering shrapnel and blast wounds from American missiles and bombs used against them by Israel in Gaza. In fact, the US stopped funding that UN agency months ago. So that does not speak highly of the voting public in Israel. No other group, including the US, is set up or even permitted to provide that amount of aid to the fenced in population in Gaza, most now with no jobs, no shelter, no food, and no money after being chased from their homes to refuge after refuge as buildings are systematically blown apart. Many living in tents with winter approaching.

But even tent cities are being bombed, so there is no safe place in Gaza for Palestinian families go to that is safe, unlike some other refugee situations where a family may have to leave their home but at least can move out of a war zone. Recently several rockets hit a densely packed community in north Gaza. The IDF solution, they should have moved to south Gaza. But Israel is sending missiles and bombs there too. No country is accepting them as refugees either one6.

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oh jesus christ that's just the stupidest crap.

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Oh, fuck you.

George W. Fucking Bush did everything in his power to get the PLO ejected. George W. Fucking Bush brought Hamas to power.

A dispute I have with the article is where it claims it was Bush's "political ideals—or, more correctly, the naïveté" and that he wasn't actively encouraging Hamas back then. I'M OLD ENOUGH TO FUCKING REMEMBER. So just shut your nasty mouth when saying anything nasty about Palestinians.

As I said, fuck you.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/10/was-hamas-elected-to-govern-gaza-george-w-bush-2006-palestinian-election.html

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Just like Trump won in 2016, so all Americans must be white trashy low brow cruel spiteful bigots who emanate the worst traits of humanity & get off torturing anyone that thinks differently then them

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That's a lot of bullshit meaning to impute to the actual words that were written.

I'm not aware of any wars in which only governments fought other governments. People represented by the governments always get attacked.

There is a reason why war is hell.

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Forgive me if I misunderstood your initial statement but it sounds a lot like you are almost justifying or at least minimizing the cruel impact of the joke because Hamas runs the government and somehow being sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinians is to support or sympathize with Hamas…

There is no just way to equate or compare an average Palestine to Hamas

Those who conflate the two actively chose to engage in the type of bigotry that have fueled a 1000 genocides

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I was going to say this but you said it way more colorfully.

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I have some relevant questions. Let’s see if you don’t know the answers or if you were purposefully withholding them.

How long ago was the last election in Palestine? How many people living in Palestine now were old enough to vote back then?

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