Idiots, douchebags and idiotic douchebags defend Bill O’Reilly on Twitter

*insert image of building on fire*

All done cleaning house. 😉

@PeeVee

Oh, good! 🙂 Gotta collect ’em all!

@Betrayer:

But y’know, that sentence, that retort, “I wish I was a lesbian”, kind’a stuck in the ol’ Loud-low’s mind… kind’a, gestated there fer — seven-eight minutes — and this tune popped out!

@Betrayer

[consumers] complained to advertisers and threatened boycotts, advertisers asked that their ads air at a different time on FOX (despite the narrative presented they didn’t really pull most ads), FOX fired him.

So as a result of him becoming a human being who was just too awful to be economical to keep, Fox fired him, is that what you’re saying? That the ultimate cause of his firing was his awfulness? I feel like someone else was saying that earlier.

So no. Him being fired really wasn’t because he’s an awful human being. Not directly.

Put the goalposts back where you found em, cupcake.

Just out of idle curiosity, why is there so much hate directed at Garfield the Cat? To the best of my knowledge Jim Davis hasn’t said anything as horrible as Scott Adams does on a regular basis, so why the hate?

Inquiring minds want to know.

I’m sorry about Chuck Woolery. I have fond memories of the train wreck that was Love Connection!

@JoeB
Muh fuckin jam from back in the day! ?

@Paradoxical Intention

This ain’t new.

Bill O’Reilly to leave Fox News with $25 million
http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-bill-oreilly-payout-20170420-story,amp.html

Last summer, the Murdochs fired Roger Ailes, the architect and former chairman of Fox News, after women complained that they were subjected to a hostile workplace. Several women alleged that Ailes suggested they provide sexual favors in exchange for career advancement. Ailes received $40 million when he left Fox.

@ColeYote

Nice!

And . . .

Fox is wrong not to stand by O’Reilly he is INNOCENT the leftist has set him up to fall

Just the one leftist?

. . . yes. Yes, it is just the one (unnamed) leftist. That’s how powerful a leftist is. Imagine if leftists formed groups!

In related news most punctuation with the possibly sole exception of the apostrophe is a leftist scheme and must be shunned

@ Redsilkphoenix

From what little I understand, Garfield gets hate partly for oversaturation, partly for becoming repetitive and profoundly mediocre over time and yet continuing ad infinitum, partly for crowding out the field like a lot of zombified newspaper comics, and partly for Jim Davis openly admitting that his main goal in creating the comic was to make money. It seems like general irritation run through the magnifying force of the internet into hate.

Not really a hate I share. I still remember enjoying the first sixteen years of the comic as a child, I still crack a smile over stuff after that, and Jim Davis hasn’t gotten involved in politics (…god I hope I’m not wrong about that), and seems to be a surprisingly good sport about the comic. I still remember that whole Garfield Minus Garfield thing. It was at least partly an indictment of how uninteresting Garfield had become, but Davis loved it, and not only let the creator make a book with the remixed strips, he even wrote the foreword and contributed some strips, himself.

Eh, I never minded Garfield. It’s a pretty innocuous comic…I kinda think of Garfield as the original Grumpy Cat.

I still have all 4 Garfield mugs from McDonalds.

Yeah, personally, not a big Garfield hater myself. But it’s like the Nickelback of the funny pages: a one-trick manufactured pony meant for mass consumption. Give me Far Side, Bizarro, FoxTrot or Calvin and Hobbes any day.

Redsilk brought up Scott Adams and that brings up a rather personal tale of who I was growing up. I was pretty plugged into the tech world growing up in the 90s. My father was an electrical engineer, my stepfather was a software analyst and I had my sights on engineering myself. Reading a comic strip about the follies of an engineer like Dilbert was huge for 10-year-old kid with those aspirations. I own like the first 10 books of Dilbert and I even had my own Dogbert plush that sat on top of our family’s monitor.

Reading some of the other books Adams released (like Dogbert’s Management Guide), I always got the sense that Adams was the kind of insufferable jackass that thought he was the smartest guy in the room, but then to find out he was peddling the nonsense he has… it’s just another disappointment.

Re: getting bands wrong

Back in my roadie days I was lounging with some fellow crew. We did the usual “What you got on at the moment?” chat. One of our friends mentioned that later that week he was doing a secret gig for “that band, what they called, Skrewdriver”.

Screwdriver were (possibly are) a white power band. So the talk turned to “no wonder they’re trying to keep it secret” etc and word soon spread.

Cue a few days later when inoffensive shoe gazing band Swervedriver are wondering why there’s an anti facist picket outside the venue.