Nice change of pace to see a rational Republican on the panel. One that was actually more rational than most of the panel for the gun debate. (I'm sure it will turn out that he's a radical on something, but I have to give him kudos on this topic.) Martin Short and Maher were ridiculously out of touch and illiterate on the non-existent correlation between specifically-patterned gun violence in America and internationally-distributed Hollywood and video game entertainment. Their hate for Django was weird and condescending too.
I think it would be hilarious if the US went as Puritanical on violence as they are on sex; Japan and Europe and the rest of the world will still be producing "death simulators" and violent films which somehow don't result in a regular stream of gun-related shooting sprees. But, hey, it's easier than digging seriously into a broken health care system which translates to poor mental health in a nation with hundreds of millions of guns and some of the laxest regulation of that weaponry on the planet.
And I was glad to see that torture straw-man nonsense shut down so quickly. People who use it: (a) don't truly understand the long-term effects of torture's use on society at large and (b) the ineffectiveness of torture in any capacity. Torture is primarily a tool of fear (used by
fearful people) and little else.
great show... holy shit... this women is gorgeous...
And nearly forty. Cray.