{"id":179832,"date":"2017-10-12T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T23:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/12\/you-have-got-to-be-fing-kidding-me\/"},"modified":"2017-10-12T18:47:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T23:47:00","slug":"you-have-got-to-be-fing-kidding-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/12\/you-have-got-to-be-fing-kidding-me\/","title":{"rendered":"You Have Got to be F%$#ing Kidding Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/DYScQBX.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/DYScQBX.jpg\" width=\"3\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><i><\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><i><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z8cyxrd693\">pic.twitter.com\/z8cyxrd693<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n<p><i>\u2014 Seth MacFarlane (@SethMacFarlane) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SethMacFarlane\/status\/918193451006431232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2017<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i><br \/>And then he sang, &#8220;I saw your boobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KCNvREKTnQc\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/>Notice the Slightly Uncomfortable Audience Reaction?<\/i><\/div>\n<p>The story about Harvey Weinstein&#8217;s long history of harassment and assault of women in Hollywood continues to get more horrifying.<\/p>\n<p>It also gets weirder.  Now we have an explanation for a Seth McFarlane joke at the 2013 Oscars, and basically it&#8217;s him seizing the moral high ground.<\/p>\n<p>You hear heard that right, &#8220;Seth McFarlane seizing the moral high ground.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now <b>THERE<\/b> is a phrase I never expected to write. <\/p>\n<p>He had been told in confidence by a friend what had been done to them, and given those constraints, he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/la-et-entertainment-news-updates-seth-macfarlane-reveals-truth-about-his-1507755303-htmlstory.html\">went after Weinstein with a joke<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">As allegations against disgraced Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein pile up, more and more celebrities are coming forward to either confirm or deny their own preexisting knowledge about the situation.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Seth MacFarlane explained the origins of a 2013 joke he made at Harvey Weinstein&#8217;s expense during the announcement of Academy Award nominations. <\/p>\n<p>MacFarlane cracked his joke immediately after he listed the nominees for supporting actress. &#8220;Congratulations,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You five ladies no longer have to pretend to be attracted to Harvey Weinstein,&#8221; which got a considerable response from the room.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2011, my friend and colleague Jessica Barth, with whom I worked on the \u2018Ted\u2019 films, confided in me regarding her encounter with Harvey Weinstein and his attempted advances,&#8221; MacFarlane said in a statement on social media Wednesday. &#8220;She has since courageously come forward to speak out. It was with this account in mind that, when I hosted the Oscars in 2013, I couldn\u2019t resist the opportunity to take a hard swing in his direction.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I still find it hard to believe that Seth F%$#ing McFarlane is seizing the moral high ground.<\/p>\n<p>We are living in profoundly strange times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pic.twitter.com\/z8cyxrd693 \u2014 Seth MacFarlane (@SethMacFarlane) October 11, 2017 And then he sang, &#8220;I saw your boobs.&#8221; Notice the Slightly Uncomfortable Audience Reaction? The story about Harvey Weinstein&#8217;s long history of harassment and assault of women in Hollywood continues to get more horrifying. It also gets weirder. Now we have an explanation for a Seth McFarlane &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,714,415,364,389,448,421],"class_list":["post-179832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-discrimination","tag-entertainment","tag-evil","tag-history","tag-sex","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}