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Post by Ladybug on Apr 23, 2015 13:47:42 GMT -4
i really started liking him again after Argo but the respect is draining away the more he opens his mouth. Had the information remained in the program it would have been a blip on the celebrity radar. Now he's got himself into an actual reputation damaging scandal. How'd that work out for you, Ben?
Saw this comment on Celebitchy and it was too funny not to repost:
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Post by prisma on Apr 23, 2015 14:00:20 GMT -4
Give it 24 hours and this may all be JLo's fault.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2015 17:15:06 GMT -4
Somehow I understand Ben Affleck experiencing insecurity more than Gwyneth. That's just a feeling I have. I see in his wiki that his mother was a Freedom Rider. Couldn't he have had that presented to try to offset the discovery of the slave-owning ancestor? Turns out his mother wasn't a freedom rider. Yet another discrepancy....
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Post by chonies on Apr 25, 2015 21:46:27 GMT -4
Oh no. I hope this is just an Affleck thing. I love Finding Your Roots and really hope there are no academic shenanigans or other lack of integrity.
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Post by Martini Girl on Apr 25, 2015 21:52:37 GMT -4
Oh no. I hope this is just an Affleck thing. I love Finding Your Roots and really hope there are no academic shenanigans or other lack of integrity. I was kind of dismayed to hear this. Ever since Ben and Matt have come on the national scene in 1997, it's been mentioned that Chris Bolt Affleck was a Freedom Fighter. To hear her finally say she wasn't is something of a shock. Maybe Weinstein's PR machine put it out there and they just never bothered to correct it until now??? (I thought this was common knowledge).
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Post by chonies on Apr 25, 2015 22:04:38 GMT -4
Oh no. I hope this is just an Affleck thing. I love Finding Your Roots and really hope there are no academic shenanigans or other lack of integrity. I was kind of dismayed to hear this. Ever since Ben and Matt have come on the national scene in 1997, it's been mentioned that Chris Bolt Affleck was a Freedom Fighter. To hear her finally say she wasn't is something of a shock. Maybe Weinstein's PR machine put it out there and they just never bothered to correct it until now??? (I thought this was common knowledge). I don't follow Ben enough to know anything about this, so it's possible it was common knowledge. What distressed me most was that the DM article said that PBS has put some distance between itself and Gates. I would be seriously crushed if my fangirling of Skip has been misplaced.
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Post by Auroranorth on Apr 26, 2015 2:38:48 GMT -4
His mom sounds like a pretty cool lady.
Gates made a really big mistake by going along with this. His credibility just took a hit.
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Post by Ninja Bunny on Apr 26, 2015 4:26:43 GMT -4
i really started liking him again after Argo but the respect is draining away the more he opens his mouth. Had the information remained in the program it would have been a blip on the celebrity radar. Now he's got himself into an actual reputation damaging scandal. How'd that work out for you, Ben? Saw this comment on Celebitchy and it was too funny not to repost: No kidding. Around the time Argo came out, all was forgiven for the Bennifer disaster but after shrieking like a psycho at Sam Harris and now this? He's back in the crapper again. Eff you, Ben.
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Post by chonies on Apr 26, 2015 8:44:07 GMT -4
His mom sounds like a pretty cool lady. Gates made a really big mistake by going along with this. His credibility just took a hit. His mom sounds interesting, but if Ben has been repeating this story on and off for 20 years, why didn't she tell him to knock it off earlier? I think this bad history is both worse for Ben and way worse for Gates. It's sloppy and unprofessional, and I don't have a good feeling about the outcome.
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Post by Spinderella on May 29, 2015 12:53:19 GMT -4
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