The forces of dominance and control are being challenged, and those who feel threatened are lashing out.
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A Non-Sports Fan’s Take On Politics and Sports
Football is Trump and basketball is Democrats.
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March Madness: Right-Wing Media Will Take Aim at Youth Opposed to Gun Violence
They can’t help themselves. If you’ve ever doubted the fundamental foolishness and ghoulishness of the American right, just watch—if you can bear it—the right’s reaction to today’s March for Our Lives. If you think the rhetorical assaults on anti-gun-violence American youth in the days leading up to this march were bad, as Bachman-Turner Overdrive famously […]
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The Media is the Message
I didn’t think the Fox News Channel could give us anything funnier than Laura Ingraham’s desperate attempts to garner ratings by insulting LeBron James, but the news that Fox has given another unlistenable wingnut radio host, Mark Levin, his own show—which begins tonight—is more hilarious than Redd Foxx in his prime: As previously announced, the […]
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Above the Rim: Charles Barkley Dunks on Fox News
About 25 years ago, Charles Barkley starred in an iconic commercial in which he declared that he should not be regarded as a role model. With his on-point recent remarks about Fox News hack Laura Ingraham’s rhetorical assault on LeBron James, perhaps we should in fact regard Barkley as a role model: In today’s charged […]
