Ana joins Cenk for SCS. Controversy around Rolling Stone’s cover that makes Dzhokhar Tsarnaev look like a rockstar. List of 8 other controversial magazine covers. Britain has legalized gay marriage. A gay activist was tortured and murdered in Cameroon over the weekend.
Julia Roberts’ niece was arrested for beating her boyfriend in a domestic violence dispute. Discussion of whether or not men are less of a man if they call authorities if they are beaten by their woman. The Vatican offered 7 years less time in purgatory if people follow the Pope on Twitter. A man that is addicted to porn is blaming Apple company, so he wants them to implement a multi-layered admission process to access it.
A Texas restaurant known as “Redneck Heaven” is under fire for their waitresses’ scantily clad outfits. An artist created a video that shows what the West Coast of the country would look like in 300 years of rising waters due to climate change.
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Re: redneck heaven….Pokemon, gotta catch ’em all.
I went back to my hometown in northern Michigan in February 2012. No snow, 40f, the ground wasn’t frozen, and there were buds on the trees! You don’t think some shit is up?!?! Everyone I have talked to over 40 (even climate change deniers) has said that the weather has changed noticeably in their lifetime. We should not be treating this as a back burner issue. This is a global emergency and I wish TYT would treat it that way.
On an unrelated note, I vigorously support the underboob.
Re: calling in about being beat up by a girlfriend/wife…My girlfriend is a blackbelt in a fairly violent style of karate, if she was just crazily beating me up in an extremely violent way, I would call. If she just kicked me across the face and left, I wouldn’t. This seems to meet with what others at TYT said.
couple notes.
1. Isn’t Apple the most anti-porn tech company anyway? That was their sole excuse for not having flash capability on their devices.
2. It’s pronounced lew-is-ville. Apparently we’re not southern enough to pronounce it weird in this part of Texas. Also this place is 20 minutes away from me and in the parking lot of a big mall for that area. How did this spring up and I never heard of it. :(
Always fun when TYT does a story from my corner of the world though.
No, Apple didn’t block flash to prevent porn on their tablets and phones. They did so because of technological reasons– they and other tech companies want to push the more advanced and capable HTML 5, not Flash which is inherently not touchscreen friendly.
Typical TYT exaggeration and inflation of truth. The guy’s issue was that he went to search for something but ‘accidentally’ typed ‘fucking house’ instead of ‘[something else] house’ and got a bunch of sex listings. He said he believed apple should include a filter by default so people don’t accidentally end up on porn sites and don’t trigger an addiction. Yes, i still think its the dudes fault, but you could be responsible people and report the story properly, or you can leave things out and put things in to suit your prefered narration and agenda. If I can’t get the truth from you guys, can you tell me if there is a place which speaks the truth so that I can go to them? Is there a place or are they all going to turn out like you, doing only 5% truth even though you promised 100% truth (the Obama method).
Cenk and Ana’s point still stands– Apple doesn’t control the search engines where the guy went to search for anything, fucking or not fucking related. They were just pointing out the ridiculousness of the story– claiming that TYT didn’t “report the story properly” and then having a bitch fit about trying to find the “truth” makes you look arrogant and stupid.
What on earth are you talking about? I clearly said that it doesn’t affect the outcome of the story, however they deliberately left out important information to make the guys request seem more idiotic and stupid (even though it is silly on its own, and i said that as well). By making the guy look more stupid/silly, they make the story more interesting, and did you realize how many times Cenk capitalized on this point?
For goodness sake, use your head, think about what someone is trying to say if you really do not understand what they are saying. Then you real realize, and my bitch fit was entirely warranted, because every time I read the same story somewhere else, it’s almost always been warped to fit Cenk’s agenda!
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You guys are being utterly ridiculous re. the Rolling Stone cover. “Like a rock star”? He’s a young guy with crazy hair, what were they supposed to do with him? Photoshop him to look bald and wearing an orange jumpsuit? Find a picture where he appears slightly less handsome?
Have we reached that threshold where in the eyes of the public, good-looking people can do no wrong? A good looking guy on the cover means he’s innocent, or cool, or glorified? It’s all in your heads. Rolling Stone is not about “sending a message”, it’s about selling issues. If you’re so superficial to judge an article based on the cover image, feel free to be as offended as you’d like.