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TheCatt wrote: Making up a fake interview, and not labeling it out as such, and a million people sharing it, people showing their disgust of the Left based on this video? As Gordon would say, "one side gets reinforced in their delusion that only the other side has crazies. That actively makes things worse."

Stuckey blasts her viewers

“If you have to do research to figure out that a video that blatantly absurd is satirical, you shouldn’t be on the Internet,” Stuckey wrote.

I agree with her. If you see the video, it's pretty clear that it's a splice job. This is the left being hysterically stupid. This wasn't about a video that wasn't labeled "satire", this was about someone making fun of the new "socialist hope" that has turned out to be pretty uninformed on issues. Since you really aren't on the right, you might not have seen the gobs of posts on the original PBS interview that Cortez did. It was obvious that this was lifted from there. They went viral because Cortez was obviously ill prepared for the interview (and probably the position she'll likely be elected to).

And Stuckey's video got shared by a lot more liberals that thought it was intended to appear to be real than conservatives that presented it as real. It's artificial outrage.

I insist that Colbert and the rest of the unfunny leftists label their satire as such! Actually, didn't Colbert make his career (as feeble as it is) as a satirical Republican character?

Vince wrote: I agree with her. If you see the video, it's pretty clear that it's a splice job.

I have not

Vince wrote: This is the left being hysterically stupid

That statement is incomplete. There are tons of people on the conservative side who thought it was real, reinforcing their beliefs of the Left.

Vince wrote: you might not have seen the gobs of posts on the original PBS interview that Cortez did.

I have not. I've heard some of her more notable comments.

Vince wrote: And Stuckey's video got shared by a lot more liberals that thought it was intended to appear to be real than conservatives that presented it as real. It's artificial outrage.

Do you know that? Like have evidence for it?

Vince wrote: I insist that Colbert and the rest of the unfunny leftists label their satire as such! Actually, didn't Colbert make his career (as feeble as it is) as a satirical Republican character?

He did, and the Colbert Report was awesome. The difference is his entire show was satire, as opposed to a non-satirist doing satire.

TheCatt wrote:That statement is incomplete. There are tons of people on the conservative side who thought it was real, reinforcing their beliefs of the Left.

Do you know that? Like have evidence for it? Not to be snarky, but I suspect we are both experiencing some ideology bias. I saw a couple of references to the funny video before it blew up, none of which were presenting it as a real interview. I know there were a few that presented it as real on Facebook (from what I've heard... not seen any of them first hand), but I saw much more from the left claiming that she was presenting it as real. Maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle, but I maintain that if you actually saw the video and didn't realize it was satire, then you should have your voter's registration revoked.

Vince wrote: Do you know that? Like have evidence for it?

Yes. I went out and read a bunch of FB comments from it being shared.

People are dumb.

Vince wrote: but I maintain that if you actually saw the video and didn't realize it was satire, then you should have your voter's registration revoked.

Sadly, we cannot do that.

Roy Moore: The state of Alabama is a champion of freedom.

Another instance of black people wanting to be called black.

He then managed to get some 45-50 year old guy to dress up like he was having a quinceanera to attract illegal aliens. And he did it. They made a sign "FREE DRUGS! YOUNG GIRLS!" So... the police showed up instead of illegals.

The white liberal character went to a rap battle. And battled. The rapper basically said he'd fuck his wife, and he said OK. He then said he had a bigger dick than the black man.

Pretty forgettable episode.

I saw a clip from this and... I don't know. The level of stupid is just not entertaining to me. It's like reading most of the replies on Twitter. I don't find watching people's stupidity being exploited entertaining. It's like a big long Nigerian Prince scam.

I compare it to the late night "walk around and ask folks questions" bits. Those are always done in left wing strongholds, and everyone they interview doesn't know shit about history or current events.

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TheCatt wrote: The building a mosque in rural Arizona skit sure had some horrible racists in it.

I don't have Showtime, so I'll have to take your word for it.

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To be fair to those retirees and unemployed people...

I'm pretty sure most Europeans, our moral superiors, would vote against a mosque at this point too.

The foils didn't really fall for it this time around.

Except for the luxury yacht salesman, who was ready to help him traffic humans and kill people.

Last two episodes were blah blah blah. The one segment that worked each time was the escaped prisoner who became a DJ / chef (two separate episodes). The people they worked with were quite easily taken in.

Oh, and we got to see a grown man believe the only way to survive a beheading was to bite his captor's dick. HE then proceeded to chomp a dildo.

Roy Moore suing over his episode

Moore was interviewed by Cohen, who pretended to be an Israeli anti-terrorism expert who had a "pedophile detector." During the episode, the device -- which looks like a hand-held metal detector -- was shown beeping near Moore, implying that he was a pedophile.