The Newsroom, Season 2

[Kanriel]

I think he said something along the lines of, "The biggest enemy of the Tea Party isn't Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid or Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. It's this man." BOOM picture of Jesus. He didn't say anything bad about Jesus, but saying he'd be an enemy of anyone is pretty out there.

Terry Crews better call in the whole Expendables team to protect him now.

How awesome would an episode of Expendables + Newsroom be...lol

[Fievel]

It's funny, the characters I hated at the start are the ones I love now at the end of the season. Makes me sad it's already over.

[TacoTaru]

You know when this series started I thought Jim Harper was a little to close to Jim Halpert. Then the love story happened and I thought was even more odd. If Season 2 starts and he's at CNN, I'm going to call shenanigans.

[Kurokikaze]

Absolutely loved that last episode but I'm more surprised at how Olivia Munn's character has grown on me. Charlie Skinner is still a motherfucking boss "This is not a negotiation."

[Kanriel]

And I like how Charlie Skinner's character is built around the expectation that you respect him because of the actor portraying him.

[Blackice]

Finally watched it.

Spoiler: show

Fantastic episode and it pains me to admit this, but Olivia is doing a great job with Sloan (I say this because she's been terribad in every other role she's had to "act" in.) It sucks that the season came and went so quickly, but I'm glad the "will he get fired this week?" story line is done with, that shit was getting about as old as the love rhombus was but at least we have a love pentagon now! I'm also happy Neal's work blew up on him, season 2 without Crews just wouldn't be the same.

[Ragnus]

I think he said something along the lines of, "The biggest enemy of the Tea Party isn't Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid or Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. It's this man." BOOM picture of Jesus. He didn't say anything bad about Jesus, but saying he'd be an enemy of anyone is pretty out there.

How was that not a true statement? Most of the religious people in the Tea Party worship a Satanist, "Republican", Americanized version of Jesus whose teachings only apply on acceptance only applies to other die-hards of their faith. If real Jesus came back and said anything he actually believes in, they would stone / shoot him as a "socialist" impostor sent by Satan to temp them from the true path.

I don't believe in calling people out on their faith and what they believe in, but they're taking a religion, picking out what they want to apply to everyone regardless of religion or background, and disregarding everything that might be a hindrance to them all while claiming they're following The Bible as it's written.

It would be the same as if I believe in a book that says a proper greeting is to punch each other in the face, disregard the part where I get punched back, and scream religious persecution when called out on wanting to punch people to say hi without getting punched back in return.

Also: I just realized this might be me falling into a troll trap much like Neal was trying to set up. >_>;

[Sup3rB4d]

If I can balance my checkbook why can't the government do it?

[Murdock]

You know when this series started I thought Jim Harper was a little to close to Jim Halpert. Then the love story happened and I thought was even more odd. If Season 2 starts and he's at CNN, I'm going to call shenanigans.

iirc in the first episode Jim said he turned down a job at CNN to work there.

[Rhyis.]

When you think about, Maggie and Pam are kind of the same character too.

[Ragnus]

I know she's an insecure character who doesn't want to risk something new by giving up a sure thing, but Maggie was really driving me up a wall this last episode.

[Hirronimus]

That sucks, they cut out the scene with a guy jumping Will outside the office on the street.

[Haiko]

Terry Crews just did an IAmA on reddit earlier...he my fucking idol now.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comment...rry_crews_ama/

[Fievel]

Terry Crews just did an IAmA on reddit earlier...he my fucking idol now.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comment...rry_crews_ama/

That is fucking awesome

[Mazmaz]

Was there anything Republican about Will in this show other than them saying he's a registered Republican lol?

[tyven]

Was there anything Republican about Will in this show other than them saying he's a registered Republican lol?

He's rich and white

[Rhinox]

Was there anything Republican about Will in this show other than them saying he's a registered Republican lol?

What's your definition of a republican? Pretty sure he laid out what made him a republican in the last episode.

[Elcura]

"You do. Hire her."

That shit got me hard. Rewatching the first episode because of it lol

[Pooky]

That shit got me hard. Rewatching the first episode because of it lol

No lie, I watched that one scene like 20 times in a row. So good @_@

[Kurokikaze]

Terry Crews just did an IAmA on reddit earlier...he my fucking idol now.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comment...rry_crews_ama/

Gonna one up you: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comment...united_states/

^ President Obama AMA.

And heres my post/question which was inspired by this show:

I was initially going to type up a question about the fiscal cliff and the possibility for a Financial Transaction Tax but I've decided not to... Instead I'll ask this; How do you feel about mandating that all cable news network provide 1-2 hours of the day dedicated to *just* the news. No opinions, no talking heads, just straight facts.

The reason I ask this is because there is so much misinformation out there that I, and many others, feel is hurting the country in the long run. I mean look at some of the recent political ads that have been aimed at you... they're completely devoid of facts or full of hypocrisies and yet people take them at face value because they don't really have credible people telling them otherwise. I will admit that there are currently some shows out there that tell it how it is (Rachel Maddow, Jon Stewart even if it's satire) but it's honestly not enough. Not when you have 24 hour news network saying the same false talking points over and over.

What we have now is ruining our nation... Off the top of my head, I'll say that the biggest cancer in our media is FOX News. They're a machine hellbent on spreading a certain point of view by any means necessary. Completely brainwashing millions of people and making them believe things that have been proven wrong over and over. They don't just do a conservative/republican "spin on the news"... they run their debates and raise funds for those republican candidates. I don't understand how this is allowed or how they can even continue to call themselves a news organization...

This is getting bit "ranty", which is not my intention, so I'll just end with this: Before we can solve the problems that need to be addressed we need to make sure that everyone is on the same page in regards to facts and fiction.**We will fix the issues this country faces in time, but not without a well informed and well educated electorate.**


PS. Change your catch phrase from "Yes We Can" to "Yes We Will"... "Can" implies the possibility of failing.

- Ken

Edit: Noticed it was posted in politics... meh it's relevant here too.