Maybe the CNN coverage of the Steubenville rapists sentencing was the right approach….kinda

TW for rape: Hear me out… The problem with their coverage is that it had an overwhelmingly clear sense of sympathy about it and that’s not OK. I want to make that nuance clear.

However, I keep hearing that another part of the problem with their coverage is that it focuses on the rapists and not the victim and it’s the criticism of that angle that I’m not sure I agree with. Maybe talking about all that lost potential and all the time they’re going to do and how this will impact their future, how they’ll never play ball or get into a good college or get a good job etc is the way to cover a high-profile rape case like this. Maybe that focus on what they lost is the deterrent that will stick in the mind of the next potential steubenville rapist. Maybe, through the drunk haze of some party gone wrong, just before that next person gets victimized, the person about to victimize her or him will remember the look on the steubenville rapists face as he sobbed and the words of news anchors clucking their tongues and commiserating all that lost “potential.” Even if there was no real potential for those specific guys, everyone believes “I have potential”. No one believes “I’m a monster.” If the news anchor gets up there and say, “this kid is a monster!” That next potential rapist doesn’t identify what he’s doing with that monster’s actions. He’s a human, not a monster. To see that rape is a crime committed by humans who had full lives, to see its face as a scared teenage boy, maybe that’s the kind of thing the next potential rapist will better identify with and step back and say, “wait, what I’m about to do is exactly what those boys did. Maybe I should stop this problem before it starts.”

Just putting that thought out there. What do you think?

Seven Reporters Who Falsely Claimed that "Obama Signed 23 Executive Orders" on Guns →

I expect this sort of thing from lazy CNN hacks and manipulative Fox News propagandists, but I’m really disappointed in Neal Conan.

Today in most sexist shit I ever heard: Fox News shithead says news women are picked out of "Victoria's Secret Catalog" →

During conservative idiot, Brian Kilmeade’s radio show, a guest called in and complimented Alisyn Camerota, the Fox News anchor who joins Kilmeade on his radio program and typically fills in for “Fox & Friends” host Gretchen Carlson.

“Well you and all the women of Fox, I don’t know who was the scout that got you guys, but they rock,” the guest said.

“It was Brian,” Camerota joked. “But thank you very much, that’s very sweet.”

Kilmeade, whose sexist joke once caused his female co-host to walk off the set of Fox News’ morning show, offered a different explanation. He said, “It was actually, we go into the Victoria’s Secret catalog and we said, ‘Can any of these people talk?’ And they all could and they all went to college.”

Incidentally, flipping through that catalog is the only outlet for Kilmeade to get off.

Nancy Pelosi > Jesus

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Today, Mitt Romney Lost the Election →

s4mmich:

You can mark my prediction now: A secret recording from a closed-door Mitt Romney fundraiser, released today by David Corn at Mother Jones, has killed Mitt Romney’s campaign for president.

On the tape, Romney explains that his electoral strategy involves writing off nearly half the country as unmoveable Obama voters. As Romney explains, 47 percent of Americans “believe that they are victims.” He laments: “I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”

So what’s the upshot? “My job is not to worry about those people,” he says. He also notes, describing President Obama’s base, “These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax.”

bwahahahaha, Mitt Romney complaining about people who pay no taxes, that’s a FUCKING LAUGH.