Patrons Only: Is Ken Bone Right That Liberals Are Meaner Than Conservatives?
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Well? Is he? Katie and Jesse discuss The Bone Man's recent, controversial tweet, revisit his glorious recent internet-history, talk about their own experiences with left- versus-right-wing haters and obsessives, and -- God help us all -- revisit certain aspects of GamerGate.
Ken Bone: "All morning the Trump supporters have been nice to me even though I don't like Trump. The Biden camp has been shitting all over me because I don't like Biden. Do these people really not see how much this behavior pushes bystanders toward the right?" - https://twitter.com/kenbone18/status/1313858537991401475
INSIDE JOKE CLUE: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/inside-the-near-meltdown-of-the-feminist-tour-in-australia.html
NY Mag: Gamergate May Have Just Won Its Most Disgraceful Scalp Yet (Updated) - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/03/this-looks-like-a-disgraceful-gamergate-win.html
Jesse "behaves like a predator" because he tried to get comment for a story: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/724818516189261824/photo/1
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Katie, can I ask you something? |
| 0:03.2 | I guess so. |
| 0:04.8 | Would you be willing to go to the bone zone with me? |
| 0:08.5 | No, I do not want to go to the bone zone with you. |
| 0:11.0 | I don't know what that is, but I don't want it. |
| 0:13.1 | Okay, well then should we talk about Ken Bone instead? |
| 0:15.4 | Yes, let's talk about Ken Bone. |
| 0:17.5 | Ken Bone, close personal friend of the pod. |
| 0:20.4 | He, for people who don't remember, for people who blocked this particular meme out, Ken Bone |
| 0:26.6 | is a power plant operator from Illinois, born in 1982, who during the run up to the 26 |
| 0:33.9 | election became infamous, maybe or maybe in the world. |
| 0:38.7 | 2016 election. |
| 0:39.7 | What did I say? |
| 0:40.7 | 2020, 2020, 2020, 2020. |
| 0:41.7 | I think you said, I think you said 26. |
| 0:43.9 | Okay, the 26 selection. |
| 0:46.1 | The 2016 election, he was at a debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, RIP, and he |
| 0:55.7 | asked a question about, he asked a question about energy policy to the candidates. |
| 1:02.8 | He was an undecided voter and he, it was something about like his name and he was wearing |
| 1:10.0 | this red sweater and then like after the debate, he was like walking around taking pictures |
| 1:15.0 | of like what the disposable camera, the whole thing was just like very cute. |
| 1:19.5 | And he became this sort of beloved internet meme briefly until of course people then like |
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