McNabb, Davis Fired by ESPN for Alleged Sexual Harassment
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January 6th, 2018 6:45 PM
Yesterday, as Sports Illustrated and others reported, ESPN fired two suspended employees for allegedly engaging in sexual harassment during their previous employment at the NFL Network. How ironic and how hypocritical is that? ESPN is also facing a sexual harassment lawsuit for allowing what its accuser, Adrienne Lawrence, charges is a hostile work environment for women.
ESPN's Kellerman Rips Champion Astros for Celebrating with Trump
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January 5th, 2018 9:15 PM
In the dream world of ESPN's Max Kellerman, presidential scandal began in Richard Nixon's time and resumed in Donald Trump's. On the First Take program which he co-hosts, Kellerman listed several criticisms of the Trump Administration which he hopes will discourage the 2017 World Series champion Houston Astros from celebrating their title at the Trump White House.
USA's 'Damnation' Showcases Racists as Embracing Patriotism
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January 5th, 2018 2:34 AM
It has become a standard trope for the Trump era: patriotism is racist. And, although USA’s Damnation takes place during the Depression Era, it's not a stretch to think a racist group calling themselves patriots is supposed to parallel liberal fears of Neo-Nazis, the KKK, and other bigots of today.
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NBC News Comedy Admits 'Impartiality in Journalism Is Dead'
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January 4th, 2018 11:31 PM
NBC's newsroom comedy Great News let the cat out of the bag on the sorry state of modern journalism: If you want to make it in the news biz, you can't be impartial, you have to pick a side and create drama.
Yahoo! Ridicules Trump for Tweet on Soldier's Widow, NFL
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January 4th, 2018 6:05 PM
The social media skirmish between President Trump and defenders of NFL protests is back on, and Yahoo! Sports rushed headlong into the fray today to denounce the commander in chief for opposing those pro football players who take a knee during the national anthem.
Planned Parenthood Thanks 34 Entertainers in New Report
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January 4th, 2018 4:00 PM
Planned Parenthood and Hollywood have long joined forces. And now, the abortion giant is using its latest annual report to boast of the entertainment industry’s support. According to America’s largest abortion provider, “entertainment stands with Planned Parenthood.” As proof, Planned Parenthood’s 2016 – 2017 report listed an album to which entertainers donated various tracks.
CNN Promotes Partisan ‘American Women’ While Iran Protests Are Ignored
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January 4th, 2018 3:53 PM
Timing is everything, and if you’re going to argue that American women are oppressed by the current administration, the patriarchy, the wage gap, or ponying up for their own birth control, try not to do it while women are very publicly facing actual oppression of the jailing-beating-shooting variety.
The Nation: Without Kaepernick, Local Economies Were Gutted
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January 4th, 2018 12:00 PM
None of the NFL's communities have applied for federal disaster funding yet, but progressive lion Dave Zirin, sports editor for The Nation, claims the refusal to sign Colin Kaepernick to a pro football contract has brought these cities to economic ruin. He blames Kaepernick's lost season on right-wing, billionaire team owners who bank-rolled Donald Trump into the Oval Office.
‘Dunkirk’ Companion Book: Nazis Wanted to ‘Make Germany Great Again’
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January 4th, 2018 10:41 AM
Liberals love to congratulate themselves for being “on the right side of history,” while of course, consigning conservatives to the “wrong side.” But history takes its sweet time unfolding, and liberals are an impatient lot. So they like to retrofit existing history, demanding that people and events be judged according to their modern progressive pieties, and lumping conservatives in with…
Alt-Left Insanity: ‘Trump Trauma’ Is Making Liberals Freak Out
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January 4th, 2018 9:23 AM
The alt-left is completely nuts. If reading more than a year of this column hasn’t proven that to you, please get help. You might have contracted something. Even when they admit they’re nuts, they have to blame someone. Naturally, they point the finger at President Donald J. Trump. And that takes us to an episode of “AM Joy” just before the new year. Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart…
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'The X-Files' Features Republican (and Democratic) Presidents as Evil
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January 4th, 2018 12:44 AM
Fox’s The X-Files hasn’t been a stranger to liberal bias in the past, and it looks like that’s not going to change in 2018. The premiere for the show’s eleventh season proves that with the revelation that the series' longtime antagonist is behind some familiar political figures on the right.
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New Show Bashes Table for Trump Supporters as 'Lame Spot' on Campus
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January 3rd, 2018 10:51 PM
In the January 3 premiere of the new spinoff series Grown-ish on Freeform, freshman Zoey Johnson (Yara Shahidi of ABC's Black-ish) thinks she has the fictional California University all figured out after only three days on campus. Of course, just about everything she's figured out is pretty much worthless and has some kind of political slant to it - all liberal.
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‘Fixer Upper’ Stars Reveal Pregnancy with Heartbeat Ultrasound
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January 3rd, 2018 4:13 PM
Many in the media have long idolized “childfree” relationships. But that isn’t stopping one well-known couple from welcoming their fifth. Fixer Upper stars Chip and Joanna Gaines recently announced that they’re expecting their fifth child. On Wednesday, Joanna shared an ultrasound video showing the baby’s “little heartbeat” on Twitter and Instagram.
Meryl Streep Shifts Blame for #MeToo Silence to Melania and Ivanka
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January 3rd, 2018 3:57 PM
Apparently, an actress can dodge a bullet by making an issue about conservative politics. Actress Meryl Streep, interviewed by the New York Times along with her co-star in The Post Tom Hanks, was asked by Cara Buckley about her silence on sex predator Harvey Weinstein, the producer Streep worked with for many years. She deflected the question by telling Buckley, “I don’t want to hear about the…
