{"id":393614,"date":"2019-01-21T11:52:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T10:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/i-was-sincerely-moved-by-this-ad\/"},"modified":"2019-01-21T11:52:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T10:52:57","slug":"i-was-sincerely-moved-by-this-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/i-was-sincerely-moved-by-this-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Was Sincerely Moved By This Ad\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Menahan<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=59685\">Information Liberation<\/a><br \/>January 18, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Late night comedian Stephen Colbert said Wednesday that he was \u201csincerely moved\u201d by Gillette\u2019s widely-panned ad on \u201ctoxic masculinity.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After making a corny joke about how their ad was \u201ccutting edge,\u201d Colbert took a serious tone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was sincerely moved by this ad,\u201d Colbert said. \u201cEspecially the kids at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though Colbert had nothing negative to say about the ad itself, he did criticize our \u201cpublic institutions\u201d for failing to teach us \u201cmoral lessons\u201d like those in the Gillette ad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre our public institutions so weak that we need to be taught moral lessons by razor companies?\u201d Colbert asked.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cAfViwoRjLY\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Colbert dodged most of the controversy and instead attacked Fox News host Brian Kilmeade for getting \u201cworked up\u201d about mere \u201cads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The only funny thing was watching him debase himself on behalf of his corporate masters.<\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Friday, January 18, 2019  at  6:57 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/stephen-colbert-on-gillette-commercial-i-was-sincerely-moved-by-this-ad.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/stephen-colbert-on-gillette-commercial-i-was-sincerely-moved-by-this-ad.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris MenahanInformation LiberationJanuary 18, 2019 Late night comedian Stephen Colbert said Wednesday that he was \u201csincerely moved\u201d by Gillette\u2019s widely-panned ad on \u201ctoxic masculinity.\u201d After making a corny joke about how their ad was \u201ccutting edge,\u201d Colbert took a serious tone. \u201cI was sincerely moved by this ad,\u201d Colbert said. \u201cEspecially the kids at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-393614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}