JIMMY DORE—New Orleans-based writer Stephan Elliot has settled a $1.5 million defamation lawsuit against Moira Donegan, another writer who made public a spreadsheet she compiled listing allegedly “shitty media men” she and other women in media had contributed to. Details of the settlement have not been released, but Donegan has since made her tweets private rather than face blowback. Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss how cavalier Donegan and others were about smearing men in journalism with unsubstantiated claims they had no opportunity to refute.
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SCOTT RITTER—The proponents of American cancel culture aren’t making it easy for me. While I recently got my Twitter account back, every tweet I make gets swarmed by accounts affiliated with the North American Fellas Organization (NAFO), whose favorite line, “twice-convicted pedophile” is as insulting as it is wrong. (I was only convicted once, and the charges had nothing whatsoever to do with pedophilia or any manifestation thereof.)
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RON UNZ—As a result, Hersh’s Democracy Now! segment can no longer be viewed anywhere except on the Youtube site itself, and then only after clicking through two layers of warnings. The obvious intent was to drastically reduce Hersh’s potential audience and this will surely succeed. I assume that these restrictions have been combined with the most severe sort of shadow-banning. So a segment that would have probably been seen by many millions will only get a small fraction of that total.
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JAMES TWEEDIE—Following victories in the civil rights campaign, in 1968 King and the SCLC took a bold step forward by organising the Poor People’s Campaign. He envisioned “a multiracial army of the poor” to march on Washington for mass acts of civil disobedience until Congress legislated for an “economic bill of rights” for those in poverty.
On March 29 of that year King, then aged 39, traveled to Memphis, Tennessee to support a strike by public sanitary workers. His flight was delayed by a bomb threat against the aircraft, and in his last speech at the city’s Mason Temple on April 3, King was fatalistic about the prospect of his assassination, saying that like Moses, he had “been to the mountaintop, and I don’t mind.”
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JOSEPH EARP—This is a family that, over generations, has learned that the world is nothing more than a series of goals, which lead to nothing but more goals. Bert (F. Murray Abraham), the family’s patriarch, has created a miniature culture that revolves around himself, in which sex is an opportunity for manipulation, wealth is an opportunity for manipulation, and love is an opportunity for manipulation. And his brood, desperate to emulate him, and attract his affection – if only to get ahead themselves – have followed in his lead, even if they don’t realise it.
