• CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    This is, of course, the tip of the iceberg. Far-right blog Counter-Currents noted that @kantbot hosted another “unwoke Left” podcaster, Aimee Terese, who was praised by white nationalist group American Renaissance for retweeting Bronze Age Pervert and supposedly rejecting “the war on white heritage.” Counter-Currents further appreciated @kantbot hosting Sean McCarthy, of the “Dirtbag Left” podcast Grubstakers. McCarthy in turn hosted Chapo Trap House’s Matt Christman on Grubstakers for a two-part episode chatting about QAnon for hours, along with another of their cohort, Nick Mullen. (Neither Terese nor McCarthy responded to requests for comment.) Mullen is fairly notorious for his controversial podcast Cum Town and his use of racist slurs, including dropping the n-word multiple times on Bill Maher. Mullen also joined The Sitdown podcast to talk about pedophilia in Hollywood back in 2018, which a host introduced by saying, “We’re here to talk about probably the biggest cartel that I know of, and it’s full of Jews.”

    Mike Recine has hit the fuckin' big time, ayy! :AyyyyyOC-big:

    This article is hilariously grasping at straws, it's pathetic.

      • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah I'm looking at that now like what??? I guess it's referring to a Cum Town bit about Bill Maher using the N-word? Funny where the author places blame in this whole affair.

        • Phish [he/him, any]
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          4 years ago

          Say what you will about that Cum Town bit, but I think the article should at least mention Nick was doing it to rip on Maher because HE SAID THE N-WORD ON HIS OWN HBO SHOW. It's a fairly important detail.

          • evilgiraffemonkey [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Yeah one of the funniest things about all these democrat whiners is that they go on bill maher (like neera tanden has been on multiple times) who is just as offensive as anyone they have a problem with, whether it's joe rogan or "dirtbag left" people.

        • Fakename_Bill [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Someone posted the clip on the old sub once -- Nick Mullen started the episode by singing "Bill Maher the n****r guy" to the tune of the Bill Nye theme, and the other hosts riffed on it. It was pretty disgusting, but it definitely didn't happen on Bill Maher's show.

          EDIT: this is it, CW: slurs of course

            • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Bill Maher wasn't really making fun of racism, as long as we're pointing things out. The joke was just that he's not tough enough to be outdoors, and he used a slur to make it.

              This was in the context of Maher and Ben Sasse commiserating about adults dressing up for Halloween and Sasse suggesting that Maher come out to Nebraska, because they don't do that out there apparently.

              I watched this happen, I gotta share just how bad it was. Especially in the context of this author fumbling the facts this badly.

        • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          One of my favorite cum town bits. Tho the Cuomo one is of course perfection.

          Afterall it would be weird for a centrist lib like bill Maher to have the president of the DSA on his show