A Berkeley-educated leftist who couldn’t bear drinking at a bar with Trump voters is now MAGA’s top defender. A tale for our times.
Bill Maher
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New Rule: Bill Maher Should Look in the Mirror
The comedian sees himself as a one-man truth squad fighting the woke so Democrats can prevail in Middle America. He’s not.
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November 6 Is When Americans Must ‘Rise for Climate’
I have to admit, my first reaction was, “Not another rally.” This is not to dismiss or disrespect those who will be participating in today’s “Rise for Climate” demonstrations across the country (as well as internationally) today. Yes, it’s important to take to the streets to condemn the moral scandal that is the Trump administration’s […]
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Paris is Burning: CNN Deserves Flak for Hiring Pro-Trump Hack
Forrest Gump was right: Stupid is as stupid does. CNN said Wednesday evening that Paris Dennard has been suspended from his commentary role, pending an examination of the allegations against him in a Wednesday Washington Post story. The Post reported that Dennard was fired from a job at Arizona State University “for making sexually explicit […]
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March for the Ocean on June 9. Vote for the Ocean on November 6.
At the end of the day, the most important march is the one that ends at the ballot box. No disrespect to Bill McKibben and David Helvarg, who are calling upon Americans to head to Washington, D.C., on Saturday, June 9, to protest the Trump administration’s offshore drilling schemes. As both men note, there’s plenty […]
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Someone Tell Bill Maher Not to Waste His Sympathy on Laura Ingraham
Watch this clip very carefully from last night’s Real Time with Bill Maher. Do you notice that Maher doesn’t actually refute any of Eliot Spitzer and Heather McGee’s points about David Hogg’s pushback against Laura Ingraham’s rhetorical assault? As Northeastern University Professor Dan Kennedy observes here, all parties involved in the Hogg-Ingraham controversy simply exercised […]
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Stormy Daniels is the Trump Voter’s Legacy
How many Trump voters will bring themselves to watch 60 Minutes tonight? Pardon me for assuming that the vast majority of those who sent the bigoted billionaire to the White House in November 2016 will not have the guts to view this evening’s scheduled broadcast of an interview with the President’s previous paramour, veteran adult […]
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Jerry Brown Is Not the Enemy of Climate Hawks
The California governor has been working to maintain America’s international credibility on climate in the face of Trump’s denialism.
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Thoughts and Prayers for Jimmy Kimmel
Integrity is not good for one’s career prospects on network television. You have to think that ABC executives are beside themselves with anxiety due to Jimmy Kimmel’s courageous condemnations of the Republican Party’s firearms fetish–especially so soon after he called out the GOP’s fixation on snatching health care from millions of Americans. Outside of ABC […]
