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[Got the Shakes]

Bill O'Reilly settled a sexual harassment lawsuit for $32 million in January, and Fox extended his contract for 4 years in February.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/business/media/bill-oreilly-sexual-harassment.html

 

[ArkhamFantasy]

Bill O'Reilly settled a sexual harassment lawsuit for $32 million in January, and Fox extended his contract for 4 years in February.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/business/media/bill-oreilly-sexual-harassment.html

Almost like fox doesnt care about sexual harassment 🤔

 

[BoboBrazil]

Almost like fox doesnt care about sexual harassment 🤔

Hannity is still there so no.

 

[VendettaRed07]

This sounds an awful lot like a justification for DC to roll over for Facebook and Twitter's lobbyists.

Theres a difference between allowing companies to sell political ads to hostile foreign governments and forcing news networks what they can and cannot report or mandate some arbitrary time limits on partisan coverage

 

[royalan]

Wow, this might be Jon Lovett's best panel yet.

 

[Mobius and pet octopus]

Brought to you from the network that constantly criticizes other networks on morals & integrity. Hypocrisy much? @FoxNews @BillOReilly

Don Lemon is on fire lately https://twitter.com/donlemon/status/921807066955702273

 

[thepotatoman]

I think we might be looking at the past with rose colored glasses. I'm no scholar on the subject, but I've heard people say politics in the past was no picnic either.

Civil war is the ultimate political polarization, but I think it has never been divided along party lines like this before.

You can know absolutely nothing about a politician but the party they belong to, and you already know how they'll vote 95% of the time, and at least a dozen states and hundred districts where they are 99% likely to win and a similar amount where they are 99% likely to lose. It's to the point that people decide to be against something just because the other side is for it.

Has there been anything like that before?

Though I do definitely prefer it to having one huge dividing issue like slavery that hundreds of thousands of people will kill and die for.

 

[Wilsongt]

Did someone say fake news? https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile...20/business/media/navy-seal-fox-news.amp.html

Earlier this month, Fox News featured a story about a highly decorated veteran: a Navy SEAL who had served in Vietnam, had earned two Purple Hearts and had hand-carved a presidential seal that he hoped to give to President Trump.

But on Thursday, the network issued a correction to the Oct. 8 segment about the veteran, John Garofalo, and said that “all” of his claims “turned out to be untrue.”

In the segment, Mr. Garofalo was identified as a member of the first Navy SEAL team, who had been awarded 22 commendations.

“The fact is that he did not serve in Vietnam,” Fox said in its statement.

“He was never a U.S. Navy SEAL,” it continued. “Even though he showed us medals, Garofalo was not awarded two Purple Hearts or any of the other nearly two dozen commendations he claimed to have received, except for the National Defense Service Medal.”

 

[Mark Andrew]

Did someone say fake news? https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile...20/business/media/navy-seal-fox-news.amp.html

EXTREME vetting.

 

[StopMakingSense]

Almost like fox doesnt care about sexual harassment ��

Or "nonconsensual sexual relationships" JFC. Talk about burying the lede.

 

[thepotatoman]

CIA wanted him to block their release on national security grounds.

CIA wants to block the release of everything on national security grounds.

 

[AntraxSuicide]

Civil war is the ultimate political polarization, but I think it has never been divided along party lines like this before.

You can know absolutely nothing about a politician but the party they belong to, and you already know how they'll vote 95% of the time, and at least a dozen states and hundred districts where they are 99% likely to win and a similar amount where they are 99% likely to lose. It's to the point that people decide to be against something just because the other side is for it.

Has there been anything like that before?

Though I do definitely prefer it to having one huge dividing issue like slavery that hundreds of thousands of people will kill and die for.

Polarization was here since the Civil War, but it didn't line up with the parties. The origin of all this shit today is the decision as a nation to allow Confederates to literally infiltrate the government they wanted to destroy. Those Confederates and their ilk may have called themselves democrats and changed later, but their ideology has been unwavering.

 

[Got the Shakes]

 

[SexyFish]

Trump straight up downplaying the Russians buying ads on Facebook.

 

[RDreamer]

Trump straight up downplaying the Russians buying ads on Facebook.

Indeed, Trump. What about the tons of free air time they gave you for uninterrupted rally speeches? They were definitely guilty of helping put you in office and we should talk about that more!

 

[BoboBrazil]

This should be illegal https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ated-to-russia-probes/?utm_term=.252e085c34b2

 

[sphagnum]

So hey is there like maybe a spinoff PoliGAF message board, you know, just in case

 

[And_Gignac]

So hey is there like maybe a spinoff PoliGAF message board, you know, just in case

Heh, same. Let me know!

 

[Zolo]

Trump straight up downplaying the Russians buying ads on Facebook.

One's a foreign power and the other's domestic?

 

[RDreamer]

So hey is there like maybe a spinoff PoliGAF message board, you know, just in case

Could do a Facebook group or something.

At one point a bunch of us added each other because we did a website venture together. Was pretty awesome for a little while. Wish we had kept up on it.

(And if anyone remembers who actually set up that wordpress, that'd be cool. I realized I never actually saved anything I wrote so it'd be nifty to get that back)

Edit: Nevermind about that old wordpress. It IS still up. Saving all my articles now...

 

[eBay Huckster]

So hey is there like maybe a spinoff PoliGAF message board, you know, just in case

does discord count

 

[Poodlestrike]

This should be illegal https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ated-to-russia-probes/?utm_term=.252e085c34b2

Don't worry, he's gonna stiff them for most all of that.

 

[And_Gignac]

does discord count

I suggest r/neoliberal

 

[Tamanon]

Is there a PoliGAF discord?

 

[Poodlestrike]

Yeah, could I get an invite to the discord?

 

[eBay Huckster]

if we like you enough, probably

 

[LostMyNarbles]

Can I get a Discord invite too. Ya'll are a great source of information and I worry about the storm brewing. :<

 

[Sadsic]

i would like to join the discord if possible, even if i just lurk, this is my favorite community for getting political news

 

[FLEABttn]

Same, please.

 

[RDreamer]

I'd love to join the discord too.

 

[IggyChooChoo]

i would like to join the discord if possible, even if i just lurk, this is my favorite community for getting political news

Same. I think I've read literally every poligaf post since 2011. Not sure how I would get through the work day without it.

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

I need a discord link too.

 

[numble]

Please invite me to the discord.

 

[htttpwwwyahoocom]

i would also love to be on the discord!

 

[CCS]

Can I get a discord invite too? Think I left it after the election.

 

[eBay Huckster]

(i'm not kidding with that last post. this ain't open borders like the one i was running)

Can I get a discord invite too? Think I left it after the election.

speaking of which, no one left that one, i just deleted the whole damn thing during an episode of depression last november

 

[Poodlestrike]

if we like you enough, probably

Well, shit.

 

[Mike M]

Wouldn't mind an invite to the discord either, even though I've mostly gone into lurking since ACA passed.

 

[pigeon]

i would also love to be on the discord!

Well I'm convinced

 

[sphagnum]

guess I'll toss my hat in for an invite as well

 

[blackMamba1187]

Same. I think I've read literally every poligaf post since 2011. Not sure how I would get through the work day without it.

Same boat, here. This is all so depressing.

 

[brianmcdoogle]

I don't post here much, but I'd like a discord link as well. Thanks.

 

[Autodidact]

if we like you enough, probably

If PBY has to send my invitation, I'll be fucked.

 

[Makai]

Same. I think I've read literally every poligaf post since 2011. Not sure how I would get through the work day without it.

It’s not going away...

 

[Brawly Likes to Brawl]

and me

 

[Nrocinu777]

I want a discord link too plz.

 

[kirblar]

Someone just post it up in the email quote tags.

 

[Aaron Strife]

i would also love to be on the discord!

Story checks out.

 

[ShironRedshift]

I'd appreciate a Discord invite.

 

[Conciliator]

Can I get in on the discord invite? Thanks