Current Events > Ellen attempting to get satire vids of her Bush defense taken down

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https://www.fastcompany.com/90415876/this-re-mix-of-ellens-pathetic-defense-of-george-w-bush-is-devastating

At the time of this writing, primo coffee hours on October 10, it is the third day straight in which a person could tweet something like, Whats a million or so casualties between friends? to droves of followers who immediately understand. Such a tweet would be an unmistakable nod to comedian, daytime talk show host, and gay superhero Ellen DeGeneres, who is currently caught in a fraught cultural controversy of her own makingone that just got way worse.

Had she simply left it at being photographed laughing with George W. Bush in a private box at a Cowboys game, the jokes and criticism would have tapered off quickly. Attention spans are even shorter these days than Ellen DeGeneress memory of what life was like in 2001-2008, and we would have all moved on to whatever Trump was doing (abandoning our allies) or perhaps a sordid scandal involving footballers wives. Instead, DeGeneres of course taped an ill-advised monologue on her show, portraying her friendship with Bush as a schmaltzy example of partisan-transcending kindness. Since then, the controversy has only metastasized and even spawned sub-controversies of its own. While several celebrities have sided with the host in a seeming show of 1%-er solidarity, many other people (including noted celebrity Mark Ruffalo) are pointing out the wide gulf between Ellens call to kindness and the abject cruelty of the Iraq war. One person in particular, though, has been incredibly effective in pointing it out.

Self-described tech creative and former kid refugee Rafael Shimunov edited the monologue, inserting horrific Iraq war images into the background as Ellen defends her friendship with the man responsible for them. Most striking, perhaps, is a moment in which Ellens outstretched arms sync up with an image projected behind her of an Abu Ghraib detainee being tortured. Its a postmodern masterpiece that seems destined to follow DeGeneres for years to come. In an interview with Popula, Shimunov, who is also the one who proved that the White House doctored a video to claim that Jim Acosta assaulted an aide, explains that this syncing was a happy accident. I was randomly putting images in, he says. And when I put that one in, that was the background while she was doing that pose, and I pushed it a little to the left, to the right, to make it match up, once I was hit with it. But it wasnt like, a planned thing.



No sooner did Shimunovs video hit the internet on Tuesday afternoon than mass takedown notices began to appear, with claims of copyright infringement. And as history has proven time and time again, the more that somebody litigiously tries to prevent some devastating video from being seen, the more interest anyone has in it.

Rather than make the video go away, DeGeneres and/or her legal team have only fanned the flames of internet-dwellers desire to share this video (which, as many have pointed out, falls under fair use.) In fact, Fast Company would likely not have chosen to run a post about the video if it hadnt become a forbidden curio.

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B-b-b-but Ellen said the photo of her and Bush would regain your faith in America!
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lmfao get rekt Ellen

The internet goes easy on NO ONE
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I haven't heard about Ellen in forever until now so I wonder if this is an intentional phenomenon
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Shes actually doing what a good friend would do in this situation
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Tbh I'd have more respect for her if she just said "I don't need to justify who I hang out with to you people. Fuck off."

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Children be childish
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Celebrities get cozy with Obama all the time so why is this an issue

Doom_Art posted...

Tbh I'd have more respect for her if she just said "I don't need to justify who I hang out with to you people. Fuck off."

The dumb thing is she didn't even really justify it anyway. She basically got up her own ass and acted like her and Bush being friends is an example of world peace.
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Lold @ the topic title
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Darmik posted...

Doom_Art posted...

Tbh I'd have more respect for her if she just said "I don't need to justify who I hang out with to you people. Fuck off."

The dumb thing is she didn't even really justify it anyway. She basically got up her own ass and acted like her and Bush being friends is an example of world peace.

She shoulda poured lambs blood on him and his family
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It's funny how the right mostly leaves her alone, despite being a gay liberal, but now the left is going after her.
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lilORANG posted...

It's funny how the right mostly leaves her alone, despite being a gay liberal, but now the left is going after her.

Because she dared suggest that not everyone has to think the same.

coh posted...

lilORANG posted...

It's funny how the right mostly leaves her alone, despite being a gay liberal, but now the left is going after her.

Because she dared suggest that not everyone has to think the same.

The problems of George Bush aren't his thoughts.
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lilORANG posted...

It's funny how the right mostly leaves her alone

I heard enough "Ellen DeGenerate" comments growing up to know that this isn't true.
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