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Post by davidsf on Jan 5, 2020 21:00:15 GMT -8
I saw that from Ricky Gervais:
So, if you do win an award tonight, don't use it as a platform to make a political speech. You're in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg. So, if you win, come up, accept your little award. Thank your agent and your god, and f*** off!"
Suddenly, I appreciate Ricky Gervais!
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Post by MDDad on Jan 5, 2020 22:36:49 GMT -8
Great speech by Gervais. And a great way to ensure he'll never get invited back to host again.
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Post by Bick on Jan 6, 2020 6:39:28 GMT -8
Some of the fallout I've read this morning is actually very encouraging.
The usual leftist subjects are portraying support of Gervais as right wing, pro Trump. The responses to that are overwhelmingly, 'no, not pro-Trump, anti -WOKE'.
Made my morning.
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Post by davidsf on Jan 6, 2020 8:09:00 GMT -8
Great speech by Gervais. And a great way to ensure he'll never get invited back to host again. He said as much a couple times during his opening monologue. but, I also noticed everyone in the room was laughing at all the right spots, so I’m now more inclined to believe he was only pandering for the laughs.
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Post by davidsf on Jan 6, 2020 11:06:31 GMT -8
Oh no there was plenty of straight and shocked faces when the cameras panned........ I saw some of those, but I didn’t know if they were reacting to Gervais or to something or someone else at their table.
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Post by Bick on Jan 10, 2020 21:07:42 GMT -8
More Ricky Gervais. I think I've found a unicorn... A liberal I can tolerate!
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Post by MDDad on Jan 12, 2020 9:36:27 GMT -8
He said as much a couple times during his opening monologue. but, I also noticed everyone in the room was laughing at all the right spots, so I’m now more inclined to believe he was only pandering for the laughs. I think the entertainment industry is the most pathetic business in America. I don't know how anyone can watch any of those self-congratulatory circle-jerks. In what other profession do its members have such huge egos in constant need of stroking that they vote themselves awards, strut down a red carpet like the king and queen of France, televise the whole thing around the world, and then pick the stupidest among them to voice their childish political views. This is a group constantly crying about female empowerment, yet they happily work in an industry where horny old white men rape young starlets on casting couches. They espouse a concern for climate change while they fly around in private jets and have fleets of Rolls Royces and Bentleys. I'd love to know how many of those hypocrites in the first 20 rows at the Oscars arrived at the ceremony in a Prius or on a public bus.
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Post by SK80 on Jan 12, 2020 10:38:58 GMT -8
Will you ever be WABASH again....? Trying to "unsee" your avatar.....
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Post by MDDad on Jan 12, 2020 10:50:40 GMT -8
Nah, Wabash is like last week's leftovers. AOC is the future, baby.
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Post by SK80 on Jan 12, 2020 10:58:35 GMT -8
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Post by RSM789 on Jan 12, 2020 11:11:01 GMT -8
... In what other profession do its members have such huge egos in constant need of stroking that they vote themselves awards, strut down a red carpet like the king and queen of France, televise the whole thing around the world, and then pick the stupidest among them to voice their childish political views... The NFL, NBA & MLB?
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Post by Credo on Feb 2, 2020 20:19:19 GMT -8
Not exactly a Hollywood take but it fits the theme. I recall Steph Curry said something similar last year and it didn't work out so well for the Warriors.
Sorry, Richard, only winners get the invite.
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Post by Credo on Apr 27, 2020 13:26:19 GMT -8
Every Hollywood type and Democrat politician who urged people to "believe Dr. Ford" and her outlandish story about Brett Kavanaugh, but has refused to do the same for Tara Reade's vastly more credible and multiply corroborated allegation vis-à-vis Joe Biden (that is, ALL of them) is a total fraud.
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Post by Bick on Apr 27, 2020 23:04:17 GMT -8
Saw something from Rose McGowan blasting her hypocrisy as well.
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