Television

A discussion of David Simon’s “Show Me A Hero” episodes 3 and 4

Drew Scott, Joe Occhipinti, and Sean Prophet break down the first two episodes of HBO’s David Simon political drama “Show Me A Hero.”

Deepfakes are near-perfect videos of things that never happened — of people saying things they never said, and doing things they never did.

It was a wide ranging discussion about the Church, my upbringing, my exit from the church, the philosophical problems posed by my parents’ claim to speak for God.

“We all braced for a nuclear war and it didn’t happen. And the justification was that it was all averted through prayer, but to me it just didn’t wash. At some point I began to realize whoever my mom was talking to wasn’t right. And I wasn’t about to live my life based on it anymore.”

The false dichotomy: either impose government censorship on every second of every program, or suffer an orgiastic free-for-all that will permanently scar children’s minds.

The conceit of Fatica and other religious hucksters is that life is often brutal and hurtful, so he can rationalize being just as brutal in defense of the downtrodden.

The documentary quoted Falwell, Robertson, and other evangelicals using virtually the same rhetoric as Phelps, albeit less colorfully.

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