HBO's @LastWeekTonight has a long track record of citing social science findings without the appropriate context, massaging them to support whatever point @iamjohnoliver is trying to make.
I suspect there will be a lot of revealing clips from this interview simply because @AlexThomp did his job in a way that most journalists refuse to do these days.
Whether it’s Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, or many other hateful conspiracy-fueled propagandists, they are almost never actually confronted with the false or dishonest things they actually have said in these interviews. Mostly because the interviewers care more about keeping access than revealing the truth. This is why Tucker, for example, is wry selective about who he does interviews with.
So instead even supposedly hard questions are often open-ended things that the subjects can easily dismiss without follow up like “do you hate Jewish people?” Instead of “why did you promote these specific insane and clearly false conspiracies?”
The issue was never platforming, but that the alleged journalists refuse to do their jobs and thus provide an opportunity for these malicious figures to present themselves as something else and mislead audiences.
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"National Treasure 3" is in the works, according to franchise director Jon Turteltaub:
"It’s finally real. Now, it’s ‘Hollywood real,’ meaning things could happen. Nic gets hit by a bus, there’s no ‘National Treasure 3.’ If I get hit by a bus, there’s probably a ‘National Treasure 3.’ Welcome to Hollywood.”
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Pure dishonesty. The far-left wants to abolish the constitution, capitalism, prisons, and borders. Their interlocutors praise authoritarian regimes and excuse terrorism.
But if this is the game we're playing, well then, the far-right just wants to lower your taxes. See?
I’m not scared. I think you guys will fail because your ideas are stupid and very, very, old and will fail wherever put into practice. Price controls are older than Christianity, for instance. Your Mao schtick is moronic and takes advantage of your fans’ ignorance. I think you’re a cosplaying radical kid of privilege and apologist for murderers and terrorists. But you’re not scary dude. You’re a poseur. I think it’s hilarious you streamed my comments to your easily duped fans.
Genuinely never seen anything like the response to Caitlin Clark. All she wants to do is play basketball and she’s being used as a prop for so many bad faith, toxic takes. It’s wild.
It was obviously not the truth at the time he said it. Did lefties really delude themselves into thinking there would be no further damaging accusations? Because I think the rest of this saw this coming miles away.
When he was accused of throwing women in rooms and not letting them out and grabbing them by the wrist, Emma defended him and attacked Democrats with the courage to say anything.
A lot I could say about Dan but bottom line is he was a pro: fair to work with, you always had to bring your A game, and you could trust he wouldn't burn you.