What he said about the hypothetical 17 year old girl and her boyfriend was completely justifiable, but then she berated him so badly for what he said to the point of it just being mean! She acted like a total *beep* during that segment and I lost a lot of respect for her.
shareIsn't that sex with a minor though? Which in itself is illegal.
shareNot if the guy is also 17 or actually younger than the girl. There are old unenforced laws making it illegal for minor teenagers to fornicate, but good luck trying that case when both parties are claiming rape. Ages of consent vary state-to-state, and it's not statuary rape if the older person is the older person is an adult but within a certain amount of years older than the other I've always heard that it's 4 years. As asinine as it is for it being legal for someone suddenly being able to purchase tobacco product on their 18th birthday and purchase & consume alcoholic beverages on their 21st birthday, the powers-that-be have yet to make it outright illegal for an 18 year old guy to have sex with a consenting 17 year old girl, whom he may have been having sex with while he was a minor, starting on his 18th birthday.
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is this what satire comedy has become now? Acting outraged and angry over every clip while your audience of sycophantic lapdogs claps and agrees with everything you say? Um, that's fine and all, but wheres the funny part? At least Colbert and Stewart could still do that kind of stuff and be funny about it, but the likes of these new kids on the block (Bee, Wilmore, Noah) is just painful to watch.
shareYeah I agree. She takes clips way out of context and makes the subject look evil when they clearly are not.
shareThen go watch Larry Wilmore instead...
How to create an atheist: read the bible twice cover to cover.
No way, he is even worse. Everything he says is about racism.
shareHe's been given a voice to focus on the news cycle from a Black perspective and since you don't watch you have mistakenly concluded:
Everything he says is about racism.
Actually I did watch his show for the first few months it was on, and yes it was almost always about racism or black strife.
shareYep and now that he's been on over a year he's broadened his appeal but he'll never give up his Black viewpoint. Comedy Central is giving a voice to an under-heard cultural group.
How to create an atheist: read the bible twice cover to cover.
Under-heard cultural group? Black people? I hope you were being sarcastic.
shareNot at all.
I don't see the views on Larry's show on any other late night host's show.
Where else would you get the Black History month mentions of the first Black man to reach the north pole or the guide to understanding a Black Woman's hand signs in Women's History Month or Mike and Rory switching sides and debating the pros and cons of the KKK?
Larry was the only one that had several Flint water activists on.
No other nightly talk show that is on a network that isn't devoted to Black only audiences, has the scope and level of Black culture represented as Larry's.
Criticism of religion is not racism...
Where else would you get the Black History month mentions of the first Black man to reach the north pole or the guide to understanding a Black Woman's hand signs in Women's History Month
Everything he says is about racism.