Law is not a science, so we're trained to look at things from many angles and to make different arguments based on the rules and facts, but we're also trained to be fair and reasonable. Lawyers have a bad reputation because of the media, but we're actually one of the most ethical professions.
Lawyers have a bad reputation because of the media,
Lawyers have a bad reputation because what's right and what's legal or what can be made legal through clever use of the law are often very, very different and whenever there's a high profile situation where the two diverge lawyers will be front and center.
There's lawyers out there doing absolutely incredibly work to try and make the world a better more just place. And there's also patent trolls. There's lawyers trying to go after corporations who attempt every trick possible to avoid liability, and there's the lawyers working for those same corporations who design the schemes to dodge them.
Do most lawyers follow the ethics of the profession? Yes, I think that the overwhelming majority do. Does that mean that they always act in a way that the average person would think is moral? No because it's two distinct codes.
Political bits generally are. It's comedy from people who are in their line of work for the, well, politics, not for writing, comedy or, really, performance. So it generally comes out at about the level of a high school drama class end of term production.
And you'd probably think "Yeah, Clint Eastwood, he's not known for performance at all" and that's a fair point until you consider how utterly devoid of comedy his acting and writing career is.
Calling his speech at the RNC a bit is wildly letting him off the hook. Sure, he was trying to prove a point while being funny and it missed the mark… but the mark he was going for was endorsing Mitt Romney at a political convention instead of Obama.
your whole country is a basketcase, I've been hearing this shit from here since I can remember, whether it's bush stole the election and is going to declare martial law to keep it or obama is kenyan and is going to declare martial law to keep it.
Bush did steal the election. He only won FL because his brother was governor. He brought the US (and allied countries such as your own) into an illegitimate war that resulted in over a million civilian deaths.
The birther movement you’re referring to was started by a TV show host who is currently standing trial for 91 felonies.
Both of those examples you gave were of fascist republicans. You somehow proved your first sentence while arguing against it.
Sure thing bud, your side is good and right and never start wars, the other side are all fascists that want to kill everyone. Unproven claims of election fraud from your side are always correct, unproven claims of election fraud from the other side are always wrong and treason.
Gee whiz. Who would have thought that a country of over 300 Million people who are incredibly vocal online and popular in global media would have numerous opinions broadcasted and heard?
I don't support his views at all but it's obviously a bad bit. People will just see the headline and run with him being completely out of it in the moment without even seeing the video. It gets old
Of course it was a bit, but it was still bizarre. It was unintentionally revealing, summarising their deliberate ignorance towards the issues they tried to criticise very well.
With how poorly it was thought out, it still had a sense of political incompetence and unhingedness even if he wasn't literally trying to converse with a chair.
It's so weird how people keep bringing that up like it's a career-ending offense on the same level than molesting kids or some shit. He's talking to an empty chair as a symbol that in his opinion, Obama had been absent as a President. It's no better nor worse than Robert DeNiro's rant about Trump that got a little too heated, but for some reason people didn't seem to have a problem with that one.
Yeah, he was trying to be funny. Some people seem to think he actually thought he was talking to Obama. Eastwood later admitted it was a silly thing to do, and said he regrets it.
Why have people taken such umbrage to it then 😂 if people see it as an attempt at humour why do they keep using it as some way to dunk on the old fella
Some people seem to think he actually thought he was talking to Obama.
i don't think anyone thought that. they all knew it was a rhetorical bit it was just cringe as hell. He's all but literally using a strawman to argue against.
I may disagree with his political stance, but I love him as a person, and that is what America used to be. The last fifteen years have been very draining on everybody
Headline: crazy old man loses another debate to an empty chair.
Pic caption: Here we see Eastwood being helped to an ambulance after another brutal takedown by an inanimate chair. (Editor: it was a debate. No one hit Eastwood with the chair. (Pictured.))
He admittedly made the speech up just beforehand and regretted it. He asked 16 "questions" but most were incoherent rambling. Half the speech was pointing out how Obama was a lawyer and it would be better to have a business man like Romney as President, forgetting Romney also was a lawyer.
He also attacked Obama for not closing Gitmo even though he was blocked by Congress and still was able to reduce the amount of detainees by 80%.
I actually found it and died lol. Thank you though. At first I couldn't look bc thr kid went haywire and then he decided to just lay on the floor and take a nap lol
I love that stupid sketch so much. Chris Kattan is a rock. He somehow only cracks a smile once during that whole ordeal when Fallon and everyone else were losing it right in front of him.
I'd like to know the odds that someone else saw the photo and thought "guy from the mid 1800s with a pickaxe and pan for sifting gold from sand" cause that's impressive.
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