I’ve learned Trump will kill Netflix’s bid for Warner and help Paramount win, giving him control of Fox, CBS, CNN, and TikTok. But as Colbert showed, we can fight back.
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The Plumbers Who Couldn’t Fix a Leak
For me, the puzzle of Watergate is why Richard Nixon, who wasn’t responsible for the Democratic National Committee break-in, decided to lead the cover-up just days after the burglary undertaken by a band of White House–led dirty tricksters known as “the Plumbers.” What made the president order the CIA to shut down the FBI probe […]
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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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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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A Golden Age for Progressive Media?
30 years after the contamination of our public airwaves via the national syndication of Rush Limbaugh’s radio program–and five years after the unfortunate demise of Al Gore’s Current TV–it’s good to see some progress in the fight to ensure that the non-wingnut perspective has a solid platform in American media. Last year, the New York […]
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Jimmy Fallon’s Surrender to Donald Trump
His words couldn’t be any more pathetic. You could see the beads of flop sweat on Jimmy Fallon’s face on Sunday Today, as he tried to defend his reluctance to subject Donald Trump to intense ridicule on The Tonight Show: He doesn’t like talking about politics? He prefers to talk about pop culture? Dude, Trump […]
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After Hurricane Harvey, Republicans Have No Excuses for Inaction on Climate
How high’s the water, mama? Five feet high and rising How high’s the water, papa? She said it’s five feet high and rising Well the rails are washed out north of town We gotta head for higher ground We can’t come back till the water goes down Five feet high and rising… –Johnny Cash, “Five […]
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HBO’s “Confederate” Will Never Make It to the Airwaves, and That’s a Good Thing
Not a chance in hell. Rest assured, no matter what its executives are saying now, Time Warner will not damage its corporate reputation by putting a show with a concept as contemptuous as Confederate on the air. Who would be the audience for such nonsense, anyway? As the New York Times noted last week: It […]
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The Ghost of Primaries Future
I started last week being ticked off at Bill Maher for his suggestion that members of the Democratic Party’s base are too obsessed with so-called “identity politics.” As part of his tirade, Maher mentioned Democrats lamenting perceived racism in sports–something that was remarkably tone-deaf in light of, well, racism in sports. Something tells me Adam […]
