First There Was The Greatest Advertisement Ever Made: Hear me out. This is brilliant, and I will explain why. For now, if you have not seen The Ad That Melted The Internet, here it is. My advice is to play it slow, with subtitles / closed captioning turned on, so that you hear every word and ONLY the words contained in the ad. This ad has the power, like The Shadow, to cloud men's minds. People hear everything they want to hear in this ad. People are posting all over the Internet claiming they heard messages from the spirit world and all kinds of crazy stuff in this ad. Transcript of this ad: Is this the best a man can get? Is it?We can't hide from it. It's been going on for far too long.We can't laugh it off, making the same old excuses.But something finally changed, and there will be no going back.Because we, we believe in the best in men.To say the right thing, to act the right way.Some already are, in ways big and small.But "some" is not enough, because the boys watching today, will…
Oh God, What Is It This Time? The Internet has an upset tum-tum again. This time it's because Bill Maher has said some mean things about comic book fans. With tone-deaf timing, Maher picked the passing of revered comic book creator and legend Stan Lee to trash comic fans. First in November 2018 came his blog post on his own Real Time website - didn't even know he had a blog, did you? "I don’t think it’s a huge stretch to suggest that Donald Trump could only get elected in a country that thinks comic books are important." After fans sent him the requisite flame-back, Maher appeared on Larry King live a few days later and dug a trench where he stood: So he clarifies he's not attacking Stan Lee, but the fandom. Fade out, fade in: Bill Maher's Real Time returns after the first of the year with a brand new season, and by golly if he didn't throw some more gas on the comic-book-fan kindling: Now, Bill's position is that comic books are for kids, as are cartoons, cards, figurines, Legos, and…
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