![]() This is the same lame strategy that had serial plagiarist and conservative doofus Benny Johnson in their employ for far too long. It’s babyish and embarrassing and, what’s worse, it all exists as a way for BuzzFeed to (a) brag about their access, and (b) limply try to convince conservatives that they can enjoy BuzzFeed, too-not out of any real desire for balance, but because they want a certain kind of journalistic respect, and, hey, conservative readers’ traffic can’t hurt. And I think those principles are worth protecting and upholding far more than the sort of noodly idea that Bobby Jindal and Ted Cruz deserve silly viral videos just because, I dunno, they want them? Pfft. But Ben Smith has recently gone on record as saying that BuzzFeed “firmly believe that for a number of issues, including civil rights, women’s rights, anti-racism, and LGBT equality, there are not two sides.” Which, O.K., then why again are you giving such cheery, gee-whiz coverage to politicians like Bobby Jindal and Ted Cruz, who actively work against that stuff? Sure the “mainstream media” people might be howling away at the idea that conservative candidates shouldn’t have access to a media platform because of their beliefs, but BuzzFeed is a publication that, by and large, has been admirably responsible, fair, and progressive in its coverage of women’s rights, gay rights, trans rights, etc. Why are they doing these videos? I know, I know, “both sides of the issue,” blah blah. Now they’ve gotta have a charming little thing with Bobby Jindal where he competes against things like “Obamacare” in a push-up contest. That rancid Ted Cruz video wasn’t enough, I guess. Speaking of that type, here’s Bobby Jindal, a man from Louisiana who will never be president, doing a fun push-up contest for BuzzFeed. No, dude, people are mad because you’re an asshole, not because of how you were an asshole. See, what they’re really “apologizing” for is the way they talked about gay marriage-Sam says that people are mad because he didn’t treat it seriously enough. But, uh, they then go on to say that they don’t “agree with that lifestyle” or some such horseshit. People got mad, and apparently the clip wound up on Jimmy Kimmel’s show, and so Sam made a video saying he was sorry, and that he and his wife love everyone and even-gasp!-have gay friends who they, y’know, don’t treat like garbage, and are therefore magnanimous saints. Except, last month, Sam, and Nia sort of made a video apologizing for the previous day’s vlog, in which, I guess (the vlog has since been edited), they asked their daughter about gay marriage and she said whatever floats your boat, basically, but then Sam counseled her about why gay marriage is wrong. Like “‘Child of God’ is the first thing in Sam’s Instagram bio” Christians. But pulling her pee out of the goddamned toilet all so you can get to tell her she’s pregnant? It’s creepy! I’m sorry, it’s creepy, and controlling.ĭon’t you detect a note of creepiness from this whole situation? Well, I did, so I did a minor amount of digging, and here are some things I’ve learned about Sam and Nia. Nothing wrong with that, so long as you’re sure she wants to know. ![]() ![]() If you want to surprise the mother of your child with, like, the gender of the baby, because she didn’t want the doctor to tell her, but would be fine with you telling her? Great! Good. So he literally filmed himself extracting his wife’s urine from a toilet and put it on YouTube, all so he could be the big surprise guy. So he decided that, for baby number three, he was gonna be the one who gets to say surprise. For one thing, can’t we let women have that? I mean, of all the things this country does to subjugate and objectify women and their bodies, do smarmy YouTube dudes really have to be taking pregnancy announcements away from them, too? I can just picture this guy, this Sam person, quietly stewing when his wife told him she was pregnant the other two times, because she got to have the cool, fun surprise and he didn’t. I no longer think it was staged, but I do think there’s something decidedly off about it.
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