Remember Colin Powell’s “Pottery Barn doctrine” with regard to the Iraq War–”You break it, you own it”? That same rule should apply to the consequences of bad voting decisions. Those who voted for Donald Trump last November–especially the folks who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, only to take leave of their senses […]
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Will ABC Execs Stand Behind Jimmy Kimmel? No.
They wouldn’t sell him down the river, would they? Oh, come on. Of course they would. Call me cynical, but I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if, a few months down the line (to make it look good), ABC announces that it’s wishing Jimmy Kimmel all the best in his future endeavors. Kimmel has […]
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The Sound of Silence
On November 8, 2017, let’s have a moment of silence. We need a moment to reflect on the chaos and disorder of the past year. A moment to look back on how much we could have gained…and how much we have already lost and may still yet lose. We need a moment to reflect upon […]
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The Press Won’t Report It, But We Know It’s True: If You Voted for Trump, You Hate the Dreamers Too
Remember the Felipe Garza-Donna Ashlock story from about 30 years ago? It was a heartwarming, and heartbreaking, tale: a Latino teenager in Patterson, California fell for a white classmate who happened to have a heart condition. In January 1986, Garza died suddenly after a blood vessel burst in his brain–and his heart was transplanted into […]
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Not Suitable for Children
Remember eight years ago this week, when right-wingers freaked out over President Obama’s back-to-school address to public school children? MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow noted at the time that the right-wing meltdown was completely irrational, since Obama said nothing offensive during the speech. Eight years later, if Donald Trump decided to deliver a back-to-school address to America’s […]
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It’s Not “Liberal Bias” for the Press to Oppose Lies and Bigotry
It will be remembered as one of the most dramatic moments of this dark era. Tuesday night, after another sleazy speech by Donald Trump, Don Lemon of CNN set aside fears of being accused of “liberal media bias” and spoke the unvarnished, unfiltered truth about arguably the single worst Commander-in-Chief in United States history: Those […]
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Why MSNBC “Lacks” Confidence in Lawrence O’Donnell
Looks like NBC News President Andrew Lack is getting his purge on. Lawrence O’Donnell, the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word, will likely be ousted in early-June. O’Donnell has done an exemplary job over the years of exposing the full extent of Donald Trump’s political depravity; it appears that he was too good at what […]
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Andrew Lack, Way Off Track, Loves Himself Some Right-Wing Hacks
I bet you Sean Hannity’s next. This week’s announcement that NBC News President Andrew Lack has hired Fox refugee George Will as an MSNBC commentator is not outrageous or infuriating. Actually, it’s morbidly funny–because Lack’s apparent strategy is a guaranteed flop. It appears that Lack thinks he can attract Fox’s longtime viewers by flooding MSNBC […]
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MSNBC Mainly Seems Nothing But Conservatives
It must be something in the water at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. That’s the only logical explanation for MSNBC executives reportedly planning to give obnoxious right-wing pundit and Donald Trump apologist Hugh Hewitt a greater media platform: MSNBC is in talks with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt about creating a show for him on weekend evenings, […]
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The Next Voice You Hear…
It’s not that far-fetched of an idea. Not in this world, anyway. Think about it: we are told that James Murdoch, the head of 21st Century Fox, wants rid of Bill O’Reilly in the wake of increased media scrutiny (and decreased advertisers) over his history of alleged sexual harassment–a history that reportedly caused Megyn Kelly […]
