Here's an addition to the first post of this thread, "THE BABY POWDER ACTORS". I just had to do this gif!


Direct link to above scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... oo#t=2742s
His story is simply preposterous (grab a bucketOn the morning of 9/11, Weingard was late for a meeting in the South Tower of the World Trade Centre. A year later, his fiancée [Annika Linden] was killed in the Bali bombings. Then, he spent Christmas 2004 on a Thai beach as the tsunami swept in
Starbucked wrote:Meet former JP Morgan trader Mark Weingard, 9/11 survivor and Bali bombing survivor.
" A year later, his fiancée [Annika Linden] was killed in the Bali bombings."
They were probably told they could do this in a decade or two. They probably thought, the success they had, probably thought it might be even less than that at first. It's been 15 years. This could be a trial balloon, to see if anyone notices or cares. From that they could calculate how many they could retire (as confessed frauds) per decade, of the few dozens they have, and calculate costs/leverage required etc accordingly. I'm sure the "team" is eager to know when they can take the wigs off! It must be getting hot under there after so long. Probably more than a little grumbling and sore feelings starting about now. Photoshop journalism ain't what it used to be.arc300 wrote:
Or is this a machiavellian damage control or poisoning the well or limited hangout kind of operation?
We should appreciate this kind of message. If more people with media power would confess their lies, we might collectively recover from this problem and see a more hopeful world. The flaw, of course, is if people keep tying it back to the propaganda.As a young man, I made a mistake that I deeply regret and for which apologies may still not be enough.
After I moved with my wife to Los Angeles from New York City in 2001 shortly after 9/11, I told people that I was in one of the World Trade Center towers on 9/11. It wasn’t true. I was in Manhattan but working in a building in midtown and I was not at the Trade Center on that day. I don’t know why I said this. This was inexcusable. I am truly, truly sorry.
For many years, more than anything, I have wished that, with silence, I could somehow erase a story told by an immature young man. It only made me more ashamed. How could I tell my children to be honest when I hadn't come clean about this?
It is to the victims of 9/11 and to the people that love them--and the people that love me--that I ask for forgiveness.
Well, forgive me for being "holier than thou" but I am pretty sure greater than 99% of the population did not lie at all about 9/11 and this does not make an excuse for those that did. You cannot compare the psychological, mind-targeting and traumatizing effects of propaganda to ordinary fibs.What @SteveRannazzisi did was super wrong, but If we were all held accountable for lies we told when we were none of us would be clean.
Except, if he's on TV talking to millions of people using his acting skills to deceive, he must accept that he is "raising" people big, small and fully adult who aren't aware they are being lied to. Is it only okay to call out politicians for their disgusting lies? Is everyone else with a huge media presence (arguably, even larger than that of many politicians) exempt from moral behavior? Why — because they are in an immoral profession? Because they were pressured to lie?Guys @SteveRannazzisi is a comedian. He tells jokes. He's an actor on TV. He's not running for office or raising your kids. #perspective
Oh.We all sometimes lie and exaggerate a story to seem cooler ...