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[–] 116 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It sounds like NBCUniversal News Group needs a new chairman. The explanation and justification for such a terrible hiring ought to have serious, long lasting consequences. There are blunders and then there are those who exchange freedom of the press for greed and grift. This should not be soon forgotten.

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  • [–] 89 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    Almost made it a whole Scaramucci.

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  • [–] [S] 18 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I keep seeing this reference...

    https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/afraid-to-ask-andy

    And yes, I'm too lazy to go to a meme generator, so I'm just leaving that

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Damn, that sounds vaguely familiar, but ig Spicer overshadowed him in my memory

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    To be fair, Sean "among the bushes" Spicer lasted 18.3 mooches.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Ahh the Spicey one. I had a love/hate relationship with him. For anybody who wasn't glued to political feeds expecting Armageddon at any moment like me, this pretty accurately sums up Spicer's reign as White House Press Secretary.

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  • [–] 63 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    “I want to personally apologize to our team members who felt we let them down,” he said. “While this was a collective recommendation by some members of our leadership team, I approved it and take full responsibility for it.”

    These statements always seem so facile when “taking responsibility” means no consequences apart from issuing an apology.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago

    On top of that, you can see that even the part about taking full responsibility is cloaked in caveats and softening language.

    "...our team members who felt we let them down..."

    "While this was a collective recommendation..."

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  • [–] 60 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Saw no issue with it until public uproar... already shows the execs are completely detached from reality

    "But number go up?"

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago

    You can only have "both sides" to things that are based in reality, not bad faith. Hiring her to "balance" things was an impossibility, since she peddles in bad faith and conspiracy theories.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Rachel Maddow ranted for 29 minutes!!! I need to find that on YouTube.

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    "Ranted" is an exaggeration as she was exceedingly professional, yet passionate and surprisingly candid. I never really cared about her either way until I listened to her podcast Bag Man. It is incredible. And true! Now I realize she's completely awesome and have a whole new respect for her...

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What was her actual job going to be? Was she just going to be a talking head that would give “the other side.” AKA, lies about election fraud and whatnot.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    "Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions"

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    These fucking ghouls should be tattooed with an ink that glows under black light. Humanity fails if they are ever able outrun the shame of what they've done.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Tattooing people to mark them? That's some Hitler shit.

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