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Jon Stewart returns to Daily Show Tonight after Trump Shooting. (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I don't understand why they couldn't cover the convention just because a guy got shot at a Trump Rally. You'd think the impetus would be on the GOP to postpone their rally or something, why does Comedy Central have to be symbolically sympathetic one?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think it comes more from safety than sympathy.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

Yeah. Copycat relation from ... the same bunch of violent hillbillies.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

MSNBC and CNN were told in no uncertain terms that if they did not get off the floor of the RNC there would be violence.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Told by who? Source for this?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Will Don Dickhead Jr. I filmed saying this.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Pretty sure he's said one of his biggest regrets was talking to a young Tucker Carlson on that show and focusing on how stupid his bowtie was and not the awful shit he spouted.

It's actually a pretty commercial n topic with fascists and even just regular conservatives.

Like, Boris Johnson 100% knew his haircut was absolutely insane.

He also knew that the media would latch onto it. And the more they talked about how ridiculous he looked, the less they'd talk about how horrible he really was.

trump's taken it to a whole new level

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Trump's look is born of vanity though, it's not a calculated PR stunt.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't have to be intentional.

With Boris it was and that made him more dangerous.

But even when it's unintentional, there's such a thing as media saturation. So candidates that are constantly crazy and doing awful shit benefit from not just getting press coverage for the awful shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

honestly I'm not sure I buy the idea that any significant portion trump's awful shit is flying under the radar because of his wacky hair.