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Now this might finally make Fetch happen. For no apparent reason, Pillsbury has finally honored Gretchen Wieners and the iconic 2004 film in which she appeared with … limited edition Mean Girls toaster strudel? On Wednesdays they wear pink … icing.
Yes. This is an entirely real, and fitting honor for the young lady whose father invented the delicious treat. And I gotta say, that strawberry-cream cheese combo looks pretty delicious.
But why is this happening 16 years after Mean Girls hit the screens? (Yes, now you feel old, so do I.) I have no idea. Maybe it has something to do with Mean Girls day next month! (It’s October 3rd!) Or maybe it’s somehow related to the rumored meta-movie adaption of the Mean Girls musical? The promotion also includes a contest for the best pink icing art and the prize for the winner includes Mean Girls merch, a personalized video message from Gretchen Wieners herself, Lacey Chabert, and most importantly, a year’s with of toaster strudel!
And ALL for Gretchen Wieners! 💕 Announcing NEW @MeanGirls Inspired Toaster Strudel with Limited Edition Pink Icing! pic.twitter.com/8PjAhQYNej
— Toaster Strudel (@ToasterStrudel) September 2, 2020
There’s a lot of weird advertising out there—but at least this one looks pretty tasty, if somewhat inexplicable?
(via: Delish, image: Paramount)
Here are a few other things we saw today:
- Peter Thiel is, amazingly, even worse than we thought. (via Buzzfeed)
- New York Times reporters asked attendees why they weren’t masked at a Trump rally and then they were asked to leave. (via HuffPost)
- And to complete the trifecta of horrible news today, money earmarked for 9/11 first responders’ healthcare … has just gone missing. (via New York Daily News)
- THIS CAST THO!
Okay, the anticipation for “The Harder They Fall” just got SUPER real!!
The amazing Zazie Beetz, Regina King, Delroy Lindo, LaKeith Stanfield, Danielle Deadwyler, Edi Gathegi and RJ Cyler join Jonathan Majors and Idris Elba in the Western – coming soon to @netflix!! pic.twitter.com/MHvhOdIUNH
— Strong Black Lead (@strongblacklead) September 11, 2020
- Inside the endings that aren’t really endings of Keeping Up With The Kardashians and The Walking Dead. (via The Hollywood Reporter)
- Karen Han Argues that Mulan‘s villain was in the right (she was!). (via Polygon)
- Yes please, take my money.
Crack open a cold beverage with the Infinity Gauntlet and Mjölnir. https://t.co/Dk3S9deZg8
— Nerdist (@nerdist) September 11, 2020
And finally, Oregon is facing catastrophic damage and evacuations due to massive wildfires. If you can, please help and to everyone else in the West, stay safe.
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Now this might finally make Fetch happen. For no apparent reason, Pillsbury has finally honored Gretchen Wieners and the iconic 2004 film in which she appeared with … limited edition Mean Girls toaster strudel? On Wednesdays they wear pink … icing.
Yes. This is an entirely real, and fitting honor for the young lady whose father invented the delicious treat. And I gotta say, that strawberry-cream cheese combo looks pretty delicious.
But why is this happening 16 years after Mean Girls hit the screens? (Yes, now you feel old, so do I.) I have no idea. Maybe it has something to do with Mean Girls day next month! (It’s October 3rd!) Or maybe it’s somehow related to the rumored meta-movie adaption of the Mean Girls musical? The promotion also includes a contest for the best pink icing art and the prize for the winner includes Mean Girls merch, a personalized video message from Gretchen Wieners herself, Lacey Chabert, and most importantly, a year’s with of toaster strudel!
And ALL for Gretchen Wieners! 💕 Announcing NEW @MeanGirls Inspired Toaster Strudel with Limited Edition Pink Icing! pic.twitter.com/8PjAhQYNej
— Toaster Strudel (@ToasterStrudel) September 2, 2020
There’s a lot of weird advertising out there—but at least this one looks pretty tasty, if somewhat inexplicable?
(via: Delish, image: Paramount)
Here are a few other things we saw today:
- Peter Thiel is, amazingly, even worse than we thought. (via Buzzfeed)
- New York Times reporters asked attendees why they weren’t masked at a Trump rally and then they were asked to leave. (via HuffPost)
- And to complete the trifecta of horrible news today, money earmarked for 9/11 first responders’ healthcare … has just gone missing. (via New York Daily News)
- THIS CAST THO!
Okay, the anticipation for “The Harder They Fall” just got SUPER real!!
The amazing Zazie Beetz, Regina King, Delroy Lindo, LaKeith Stanfield, Danielle Deadwyler, Edi Gathegi and RJ Cyler join Jonathan Majors and Idris Elba in the Western – coming soon to @netflix!! pic.twitter.com/MHvhOdIUNH
— Strong Black Lead (@strongblacklead) September 11, 2020
- Inside the endings that aren’t really endings of Keeping Up With The Kardashians and The Walking Dead. (via The Hollywood Reporter)
- Karen Han Argues that Mulan‘s villain was in the right (she was!). (via Polygon)
- Yes please, take my money.
Crack open a cold beverage with the Infinity Gauntlet and Mjölnir. https://t.co/Dk3S9deZg8
— Nerdist (@nerdist) September 11, 2020
And finally, Oregon is facing catastrophic damage and evacuations due to massive wildfires. If you can, please help and to everyone else in the West, stay safe.
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When Bob Woodward shared some revelations from a series of interviews he did with Donald Trump earlier this year, people were angry. Much of the anger was directed at Trump, obviously, who can be heard in recordings talking about how deadly the coronavirus is at a time when he was downplaying its threat to the public, comparing it to the flu and calling it a hoax being pushed by the Democratic Party for political gain. He told Woodward that he was downplaying the virus knowingly and deliberately because he didn’t want to “create a panic,” choosing instead to gaslight a country while hundreds of thousands of people died.
So of course people were angry with Trump. But people were also angry with Woodward for keeping these interviews to himself, only releasing them six and more months later in the lead-up to his book release.
Now Woodward is trying to defend his decision to sit on this information so long. The AP writes:
“He tells me this, and I’m thinking, ‘Wow, that’s interesting, but is it true?’ Trump says things that don’t check out, right?” Woodward told the AP during a telephone interview. Using a famous phrase from the Watergate era, when Woodward’s reporting for the Post helped lead to President Richard Nixon’s resignation, Woodward said his mission was to determine, “What did he know and when did he know it?”
It’s totally understandable for Woodward not to rush out and hastily publish this story before he knows what’s what. But the more he tries to explain why he waited so long, the more callous and calculating he ends up sounding.
“If I had done the story at that time about what he knew in February, that’s not telling us anything we didn’t know,” Woodward said. At that point, he said, the issue was no longer one of public health but of politics. His priority became getting the story out before the election in November.
“That was the demarcation line for me,” he said. “Had I decided that my book was coming out on Christmas, the end of this year, that would have been unthinkable.”
So he wanted to influence the election but has nothing to say about the nearly 200,000 people who have died between that interview and this week when he released the audio as promotion for his book?
Some are defending Woodward, saying it wouldn’t have made any difference if he’d shared what Trump told him earlier. And maybe that’s true. But we don’t know that, and it seems like a journalist has an ethical obligation to share something like this with the public. Also, who does it help to be so complacent about Trump’s actions and the reactions of his base?
There is no ethical or moral defense of Woodward’s decision to not publish these tapes as soon as they were made. If there was any chance it could save a single life, he was obligated to do so. Bob Woodward put making money over his moral and professional duty.
— john r stanton (@dcbigjohn) September 9, 2020
This is the same shit people were telling me about Bob Woodward. “It wouldn’t have mattered if he said anything.” You don’t know that. Why are you defending these people. They don’t care about you. Stop it https://t.co/IE0rBPR0QA
— Imani Gandy ☄️🌏🔥 (@AngryBlackLady) September 10, 2020
Like, as a young Woodward got information, he published it, as fast as it was coming in, and brought a horrifying scandal to light in front of a critical nation, eventually forcing the President to resign in shame and disgrace.
Which turns out to be great for book sales.
— Sean Kelly (@StorySlug) September 10, 2020
Meanwhile, Donald Trump is trying to weaponize Woodward’s delay.
Earlier today he tweeted: “Bob Woodward had my quotes for many months. If he thought they were so bad or dangerous, why didn’t he immediately report them in an effort to save lives? Didn’t he have an obligation to do so? No, because he knew they were good and proper answers. Calm, no panic!”
Bob Woodward had my quotes for many months. If he thought they were so bad or dangerous, why didn’t he immediately report them in an effort to save lives? Didn’t he have an obligation to do so? No, because he knew they were good and proper answers. Calm, no panic!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 10, 2020
Then at a press conference this afternoon, he said the Woodward revelation was “stuff that everyone knew,” which it was not. “If Bob Woodward thought what I said was bad, then he should have immediately, right after I said it, gone out to the authorities so they can prepare and let them know.”
But which authorities is he talking about exactly? Isn’t Trump the authority here? Or maybe the team that briefed Trump on the dangers of the virus, whom he then ignored? Who is Trump suggesting Woodward should have gone to with this information?
In this quote he 1) blames Bob Woodward for not making a public health announcement; 2) says the “fake media” knew it was bad, but somehow Woodward didn’t (he’s not part of the media?); then says 3) he did the interview only because he wanted to see if Woodward can “write good.” https://t.co/TB9inlU4gZ
— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) September 10, 2020
Trump trying to pin him lying on Woodward, like: if it was so bad, why didn’t he report. Which is a trap that Woodward didn’t need to walk into.
— Person Woman Man Camera TV (@ClaraJeffery) September 10, 2020
Trump then blamed Bob Woodward for not telling people that he lied earlier. https://t.co/ZZRSVqi4Rp
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) September 10, 2020
President Woodward really screwed up his covid response. @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/r8tX3nNBeL
— NoelCaslerComedy (@CaslerNoel) September 10, 2020
After defending intentionally downplaying the coronavirus threat, blaming Bob Woodward and listing off the extensive amount of television he watched last night, President Trump leaves the briefing room after only taking three questions.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) September 10, 2020
Every single part of this whole story is awful.
(image: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
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Let's get into it, AFROnerdists! It's time for a new installment of Afronerd Radio's Grindhouse broadcast-airing this Sunday at 6pm EST. Join your favorite internet radio hosts as they unravel the following mysteries: the highly anticipated film, Mulan made its way to the Disney plus streaming platform and we give our impressions (quick takes: the great Jason Scott Lee should be getting more gigs and this should have been seen in theaters!); iconic sci-fi author, the late Octavia Butler finally "gets her roses" by finally making it on the New York Times Best Sellers List; our impressions of the first 3 episodes of season two of Amazon's The Boys:
Cyborg actor, Ray Fisher sets the record straight as WB investigators begin their probe into the Justice League actor's previous allegations that director Joss Whedon ran a hostile, toxic set during filming; an African history professor, Dr. Jessica Krug might be the new Rachel Dolezal per her disclosure in a recent Medium piece that she has been passing as a black person for many years-Dburt weighs in; "Vought" as a fictional corporation seems to be eerily similar to the real life Trump acolyte, Russell Vought of the WH Office of Management and Budget who announced that his office will be canceling racial sensitivity training among federal agencies;
The days of taxpayer funded indoctrination trainings that sow division and racism are over. Under the direction of @POTUS we are directing agencies to halt critical race theory trainings immediately.https://t.co/dyMeJka9rt
— Russ Vought (@RussVought45) September 4, 2020
Did we speak about screenwriter, John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) writing a black Batman arc or his new comic, The Other History of the DC Universe highlighting the perspective of DC heroes from marginalized groups? And lastly, is Tenet still destined for success during a pandemic with its 100 million dollar box office? Call in LIVE at 508-645-0100.
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