WashPost: Trump Ignited NFL Controversy, Not SJWs
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Liz Clarke and Mark Maske of The Washington Post blame President Donald Trump for catapulting the NFL's national anthem protests into a national issue last year. Not Colin Kaepernick, Eric Reid, Michael Bennett, Travis Kelce or the other players who blatantly disrespected veterans throughout the 2016 and 2017 NFL seasons. In today's Post, the writers explore the reasons behind the comparative…
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More Hollywood Hate: Director Unveils Biopic About ‘Ruthless’ Cheney
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A new character assassination, er, I mean biopic about Vice President Dick Cheney is set to hit theaters this Christmas. Starring Christian Bale in the titular role, Vice appears to be less of a thoughtful political drama detailing Cheney’s role during the Bush years, and more of a gritty, gangster movie, depicting the vice president’s quest for absolute power.
Too Political: 43% Surveyed Less Likely to Watch Sports
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More bad news for the NFL. According to Variety, viewership of the first three weeks of the 2018 season “are down an average 2% in total viewers from where they were at the same point in 2017.” Of course, ratings in the same period of 2017 nosedived 8%-10%.
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Alyssa Milano Insists Sexual Abuse Is ‘Institutionalized in America’
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Hollywood is piling more emotion on the scales.
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South Park Bashes Catholicism: 'Church Is the Cancer'
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The Catholic Church was the target for South Park on the second episode of the Comedy Central show’s 22nd season titled “A Boy and a Priest” which aired on October 3. The show’s angle was to mock them mercilessly with priest pedophilia jokes.
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Drama's Pro-Life Message: Don’t Intend on Baby Slowing Down Career
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Society often tells young women that they have to choose between either their unborn children or their careers, but one defiant singer refuses to choose on Fox's music drama Star.
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Uncle Celebrates Child Coming Out: 'Love You Even More' on ABC Drama
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A Million Little Things had many of us in a million pieces last week as it debuted with a touching story focusing on friends coming closer together after one of their own commits suicide. For the first time in a while, it seemed as though ABC would put aside the political agendas and focus on a valuable topic—suicide prevention. I don’t know about you, but that had the skeptic in me asking the…
Researcher: ‘No Evidence' Russians Stoked Last Jedi Controversy
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To the vast majority of the mainstream media, conservatives (and especially Trump supporters) are nothing but little keyboard Kremlin apologists, scurrying about on social media sowing discord alongside their Russian counterparts.
Snoop Dogg: Kanye West Is an ‘Uncle Tom’
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Thank you for taking the time to read this latest installment of the Snoop Dogg vs. Kanye West political drama. First, there was West’s short, unaired political monologue that he gave after the end credits of Saturday Night Live’s season premiere had rolled. While the Trump-supporting rapper devoted a bit of time to criticizing Democratic policies, the majority of his words were an exhortation to…
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Woman Has Abortion 'Out Of Spite' on FX Biker Drama
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FX’s Mayans M.C. has been clearly political in its first season, from wall references to outright white supremacists. However, the latest episode tackled a topic even I was surprised about: abortion. What’s even more shocking is what they end up doing with it.
Eric Reid Says African-Americans Can be Killed in Their Homes
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Multi-millionaire football player Eric Reid (see photo) is back in the National Football League and shooting off the kind of anti-American remarks that would make his old kneeling buddy, Colin Kaepernick, proud. In Jason Reid's story on The Undefeated, Eric Reid says America's 400-year history of racism continues, African-Americans lack economic opportunity and "You can’t live in your own house…
Celebs Try to Make Voting Sexy: ‘Slide It In’ for That ‘First Time’
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Famous faces always do well in selling a product – and sex does even better. So if Carl’s Jr. can do it for burgers, why can’t Hollywood do it for midterm election votes? Same principle, right?
Alicia Keys, Erykah Badu, Others to Perform at Anti-Kavanaugh Concert
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In the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, readers are treated to what George Orwell thought citizenship would look like in a post-truth era: Emotion is valued over truth, and the proletariat basks in enormous amounts of media meant to pander to and subdue them.
Cory Booker Hits Hollywood, Solicits Dem Cash in CA Fundraisers
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As Cory Booker is making it harder and harder to take him seriously, what with all his bloated grandstanding during the Kavanaugh hearing, coupled with the growing weight of his hypocrisy as an admitted groper of women, the Democratic senator has set his sights on political fundraising in Hollywood.
