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Faux News got rich by lying - they saw the market opportunity in telling stupid people what they want to hear. Scammy televangelists had been grifting the same crowd, with the same technique, for decades; it only took the likes of Murdoch to apply the sleaze on a grand scale.

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We have it too - it's called defamation. With plenty of twists and turns and exceptions and exceptions to the exceptions and all the fine tuning and refinements that keep lawyers and judges employed, but we do have it.https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

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It's only protected speech if Woods says it.

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There is no "too much" liking Videodrome.

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But was it an orange monochrome monitor, and not one of those newfangled green ones?

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That's right, Jimmy, keep making your point "The Hard Way."

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Yeah, I really wish the Founding Fathers had included a clause about the separation of church and electronic communications.

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so i think i have the vaguest memory of auditioning for him in CHI for a commercial? would that even make sense? like 8 years ago?

(clearly i am nerd theatre person, not a commercial person.)

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Nope, got me there. We WISHED we could get one of those orange ones!Though my personal ][+ was hooked to a first-gen Sony Trinitron TV. Colour!

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The first thing I ever saw James Woods in was the miniseries Holocaust. He played a Jewish artist married to a gentile (Meryl Streep). Was tortured and had his hands badly broken. Guess Mr. Woods conveniently chooses to forget that history lesson and role.

Don't let the door hit ya.....

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The orange ones were plasma displays - fun fact is that we actually had flat panel displays before CRT tubes took over.

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We probably do sue each other too much but it beats how folks in other countries often settle their problems with violence like guns and-- oh, uh, never mind!

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Maybe he meant another famous Voltaire dictum: “I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

Nope, still relevant as always. We leftists still stand by it.

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... hrm...

... sooo... If I'm following the history, here, James Wood supported--in his now alarmingly successful bid to become the head of government--a man who threatened to jail his opponent, none-too-obliquely hinted if the same opponent won his supporters might _shoot_ her (unless, perhaps, somehow 'second amendment solutions' in the context meant, perhaps carrying out protest target shooting demonstrations... or, I dunno... shooting _themselves_ in despairing protest, hrm? 'Cos maybe he shoulda specified, if so), and who has proposed banning adherents of an entire world religion from his nation...

... but he's concerned a _business_ whose service he uses has decided they'd rather not spread without consideration the toxic shit certain of his supporters do fill the net with (and generally do their best thereby to make it intolerable to use for anyone else), ah, well, he's concerned about _this_...

This guy wasn't a child actor, was he, by any chance? And civics just wasn't on the on-set curriculum?

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Videodrome, Madonna, burning cigarette. Plus James Woods inserting a VCR tape into his abdomen.

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