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In reply to the discussion: MSNBC Reportedly Cutting Ties to Contributor Sam Seder Over Old Polanski Rape Joke [View all]rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)35. Yeah, he talked about this last week.
He never depended on one source of revenue, because political talk, especially for the left has constantly changed.
Ive listened to Sam and others since 2004. And there is one thing for damn sure, you need to work at it to find them.
To find Rush Limbaugh is as easy as rolling off a log.
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MSNBC Reportedly Cutting Ties to Contributor Sam Seder Over Old Polanski Rape Joke [View all]
Adenoid_Hynkel
Dec 2017
OP
Al Franken, Joy Reid and now Sam Seder. They're going after effective progressives.
brush
Dec 2017
#12
They are both effective in the sense that they stay on message. It still seems to me that some...
brush
Dec 2017
#58
Well, that was a TERRIBLE joke. But obviously a joke. And today, you're gonna pay for it.
7962
Dec 2017
#3
This is horrible. MSNBC just gave into a lie. And they wonder why facts no longer matter. (eom)
StevieM
Dec 2017
#4
Its probably better to make anti-rape points without rape jokes even sarcastically ...
marble falls
Dec 2017
#5
That seems like an overreaction to me. From 2009? A joke? Come on. Ridiculous.
Honeycombe8
Dec 2017
#8
I don't even see it as a joke, but as a furious, sarcastic lashing out at rape apologists. n/t
femmedem
Dec 2017
#40
Well, it's important for MSNBC to move away from actual journalism when it can.
byronius
Dec 2017
#11
Are we sure that Seder dide not do this himself to get out of his contract early?
McCamy Taylor
Dec 2017
#16
After MSNBS was one of the first networks to characterize Comey's letter to the republicans in
still_one
Dec 2017
#18
If anything-it is the pattern of the person-like @MooreSenate--who had a pattern of trying to
riversedge
Dec 2017
#43
The right loves to use Polanski as a talisman for "liberal hypocrisy" on rape
RhodeIslandOne
Dec 2017
#32
Every now and then I think I might wanna get msnbc.then they do something like this
dembotoz
Dec 2017
#37
Lesson learned? don't tweet, email, post on FB, etc. anything you wouldn't want to be used by
Nitram
Dec 2017
#46