The garbage that is DISCOVERY never goes away, does it?
Which is how we arrive at a mid-week piece after doing three already. That classy and quality company that is DISCOVERY has
produced what they're calling a documentary.
Well thank heaven, right?
The
Iraq War is long overdue for an American documentary that examines the
lies and notes how the only US withdrawal that ever really took place
was the bulk of the American media leaving (fleeing) at the end of
2008. In fact, WEVV's 44 NEWS reports,
"A deployment ceremony was held in Evansville on Tuesday afternoon for
hundreds of Indiana National Guard soldiers who are headed to Iraq.
Tuesday's ceremony was held as a sendoff for approximately 300 members
of the 1st Battalion, 163rd Field Artillery." So thank heaven DISCOVERY
is using its wealth of resources to cover such an important topic.
What's that?
It's not about the Iraq War?
Okay,
well the plight of young males who are assaulted and abused does get
enough attention -- in fact, when the abuse of boys was finally getting
some media attention in the Me Too era, Cheetahs like Patricia Arquette,
Michelle Williams, etc, hijacked the narrative to make it about how
many millions 'poor' actresses weren't getting. (See "MEDIA: Male norms, Russia hate and lots of excuses -- it's the 90th Academy Awards.")
Oh. The Cheetahs must be in charge at DISCOVERY because they're not going to explore that either.
Well
goodness knows that Jane Fonda's weak ass Friday Fire Drills aren't seriously addressing climate change (or raising awareness) so climate is
an issue that needs media attention -- sorely needs it.
Since
it needs attention, it is apparently the last thing DISCOVERY is going
to explore. Instead, they're going to offer HOUSE OF HAMMER. Christopher
Lee fans shouldn't get excited -- HOUSE OF HAMMER, not HAMMER HOUSE OF
HORROR.
This isn't about the British horror films.
It's not about much when you consider that DISCOVERY boasts that it offers "factual" programming.
What's the woman's name? The Patti Davis of the Trump family?
We
don't like nobodies who pretend to be somebodies. Patti used to trash
her parents, Nancy and Ronald, and try to hob knob on that basis when
not bragging that she composed a song for the Eagles (we side with Don
Henley on that claim). We never trusted Patti and we don't trust the
Trump-ette. Others applaud her but we (a) don't trust her and (b) find
it pathetic when anyone tries to make their name, fame and/or money off
of trashing their relatives for sport.
We don't care for Trump-ette and HOUSE OF HAMMER is full of Trump-ettes.
We watched the first two parts. Maybe part three turns the whole thing around? (It couldn't.)
It's
garbage and, sorry, DISCOVERY+, it's not even factual. Maybe that's to
be expected when you bring THE QUEEN OF METH on board to do another
cheapo piece of TV trash.
Armie Hammer does exist. He's an actor. He was a working actor until he started getting smeared. That does bother us -- because we know Armie, because we believe in fairness, and because this is a human life being destroyed with claims that don't add up.
The
'documentary' wants to alarm us. We're not alarmed. We grasp that
humans are sexual beings and we long ago worked our way through Nancy Friday's work and through own 'research.' In fact, we assume most
adults have -- at least done their own 'research' at any rate.
We bring that up because if you are raped, you are raped. If you are assaulted, you are assaulted.
Bad dating is not rape or assault. Dating that did not please you or work your own personal kink is not rape or assault.
Claims and charges were made against Armie Hammer.
He
lost his career over them. The Los Angeles Police Department investigated and did
not bring charges which means that they couldn't substantiate any of
the charges.
Not that surprising when you're being told by Trump-ettes that Armie was intimidating and that was assault.
"I decide when you sleep, when you eat, when you [expletive]. I am 100% a cannibal, I want to eat you."
The 'documentary' includes that. As proof of how evil Armie is.
Seriously, they do.
These and other texts were exchanged with women Armie was interested in.
Doesn't
sound like assault. Sounds like someone into power-play in the bedroom
feeling out a potential partner to see if they have the same interests.
Considering the popularity of 50 SHADES OF GREY, we're stunned that
anyone's shocked by the texts.
We never hear anything like, "I objected but he showed up and did this to me!"
Again, it's like someone exploring consent.
We thought consent was a good thing.
And if we're dating someone, we'd like to know what we're going to be doing in the bed before we get there.
Armie
has power issues in bed. No doubt, if the woman replies, "Fine, but
sometimes I like to spank a bad boy," he would have been up for that as
well. Show us any guy who initiates dom talk early on and flip him over
quickly because he's also a sub.
Armie's
not the only one being trashed in the documentary. A Trump-ette in the
Hammer family (no, we're not going to amplify her name) shows up to
dish and she's so proud of herself that she's a producer and a
consultant. She's there to trash multiple relatives including
great-great-granddad. No one is safe with a Trump-ette in the family.
What any of this has to do with some accusations that were investigated and found to be wanting, we have no idea.
And,
on that, we don't believe that every investigation is fair. Jamie Leigh
Jones? We believe her. We tell ourselves that no one could win
against Dick Cheney's Halliburton. We know many people feel that is
'case closed' because of the verdict. And if that's what they feel,
that's what they feel. We're not going to yell and scream at them.
We'll state our opinion and move on. And that's what we all have to do,
make our own judgment calls. We don't find the accusers particularly
believable. Also true, some of what Arme's accused of does not rise to
the level of assault or rape. Please break that news to nervous nellies
Courtney Vucekovich and Julia Morrison.
Also let them know that, when looking for Prince Charming, men who are
already married are rarely, if ever, a catch. In other words, sometimes you
invite your own problems. We're not saying, "She was asking to get
raped." No one is asking for that -- except the loon E. Jean Carroll
who told CNN viewers that rape was "sexy." Courtney and Julia weren't
raped or assaulted. They didn't like texts that they received.
Courtney didn't like Armie tying her up -- afterwards, she didn't
complain or protest before. She chose to go along with it. We remember, back in the not-so-distant-day, when women were expected to have a little
self-respect, you reply that you're offended by whatever offended you
and either dump the person or work through it.
What we're saying is: Bad dating is not a crime.
Yes, it may feel like one and you may feel very wronged but it's just a bad experience that you're going to have to get through.
Repeating, bad dating is not a crime -- sometimes it just feels like one.
We
decried the attack on Aziz Ansari for the same reason that Ashleigh Banfield
did: It wasn't assault and it wasn't rape. A woman goes out with Aziz
and has enough fun to want to go back to his place. She let's him go
down on her multiple times and goes down on him. After the date? She
decides she was assaulted.
No, dear, you weren't.
You may regret what you did, but you weren't assaulted.
And
we're sorry that no one in your life was able to counsel you and
explain that very few people alive today are without a night or two that they
don't regret in retrospect. That's modern dating. And we live and we
learn. That's what you do if, after sexually pleasuring Aziz by your
own choice and allowing him to sexually pleasure you by your own choice, you wake up with
regret. Chalk it up to an experience and learn from it. Don't whine
that you were assaulted or raped because you weren't and you insult real
survivors when you equate your bad date with a violent encounter.
There
are many women -- the huge numbers would surprise you -- who have been
assaulted and/or raped. DISCOVERY+ will not offer a documentary about
that. But they'll smear Armie Hammer and roll in the gutter for
ratings. They call it entertainment but, in wiser times, society called
it exploitation.
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Disclosures, we know Armie. Also Jim is opposed to this going up. He
thinks it should be held for Sunday. We'd love to do that -- it would
mean we'd already done our piece for this week and could actually have
some free time. However, we do know Armie and his career has been
harmed and he has been harmed. We're not going to wait to view the
third episode to weigh in on this garbage and we're not going to wait
until Sunday. Jim did ask us to note the other features that went up
earlier this week and we will do that:
P.S. People who have not watched any of the HOUSE OF HAMMER
are calling this 'documentary' "shocking." Dull, that's the best word
for it -- along with cheap and exploitative.