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Joe Biden Gets Standing Ovation at Oscars
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Vice President Joe Biden stopped by the 88th Annual Academy Awards and was given a hero's welcome by a room of rich white liberals who no doubt want him to jump into the race for president.
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Chris Rock Dedicates Entire 10 Minute Oscar Monologue to Race Jokes
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Comedian Chris Rock was under a lot of pressure to "speak truth to power" in his second turn as host of the 88th Annual Academy Awards. The lack of black actors and actresses nominated has dominated Oscar coverage again this year, with pledges from Will and Jada Pinkett Smith and Spike Lee to boycott and the Academy to change the racial makeup of its members. Rock reportedly even rewrote his…
News Outlets Celebrate Transgender Prisoner Surgery Legislation
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The Daily Beast and Cosmopolitan are pleased that taxpayers in two states are now on the hook for the cost of transgender prisoners’ sex reassignment surgery.
“Transgender Americans have seen slow but steady progress in health insurance coverage for sex reassignment surgery. Unless they’re in prison,” The Daily Beast’s Samantha Allen stated.
‘Scandal’ Links Republican Success to White Supremacy
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The latest episode of Scandal, “Wild Card,” was full of its typical bed-hopping among the political elite. Nothing new there. What was interesting, though, was how they used the liberal view of right-wing stereotypes to make Republicans look bad.
WaPo: Ancient Graves Prove Muslims and Christians 'co-existed'
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The Washington Post’s Ishaan Tharoor says he wants you to know “What the ‘oldest’ Muslim graves in Europe can tell us about the past.” But he’s really more interested in what they can tell us about the future. If you couldn’t already guess, it’s a happy tale of brotherhood and cooperation between Muslims and Christians.
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Whoopi: Abortion Legal Because People Tired of 'Hanger' Abortions
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Illegal abortions were rampant before legalized abortion, according to one View co-host.
On Tuesday, The View focused on the defunding of Planned Parenthood in Ohio as a “hot topic.” After the ladies proclaimed they were “all pro-life,” liberal co-host Whoopi Goldberg took the opportunity to remind the audience why legalized abortion exists: because “people got tired of tripping over women” who…
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Jennifer Garner Returns to Church After Role in New Faith-Based Movie
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Every so often, acting translates into real life. Actress Jennifer Garner is the latest example of the power of film after rediscovering her faith while starring in a faith-based movie.
Based on a true story, the upcoming film Miracles from Heaven stars 43-year-old Garner as Christy Beam, a mother who fought for the life of her young daughter Anna (Kylie Rogers) after she was diagnosed with a…
ABC Drama Exposes Sexism, Racism Lurking within White Men's Souls
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The evil greedy businessman has become a well-documented Hollywood trope over the years. So of course Shonda Rhimes took that stereotype and added racism and sexism to the mix on ABC’s How to Get Away With Murder.
Lefty Columnist Would 'Gladly' Knee all GOP Candidates 'in the Groin'
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Are Republican presidential candidates “crazy zealot[s],” part of a “terrorist organization” or just deserving of a “knee in the groin?” Just ask Daily Beast columnist Ana Marie Cox, who Tweeted out all of that during the GOP debate.
Holy Birthday Surprises, Batman! Big Bang Theory Celebrates Sheldon
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To celebrate CBS’s The Big Bang Theory’s 200th episode, “The Celebration Experimentation” features Sheldon’s (Jim Parsons) birthday party. No big deal, right? Wrong. His friends convince him that it will be a fun thing, not the disappointing experiences of his childhood. His big surprise present? A visit from Adam West, television’s original Batman.
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NBC’s ‘Chicago PD’: Black Lives Matter, But Only to Police
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On Wednesday, between Blackish and Chicago PD, police public relations on network television did not have a banner day.
Networks Make Oscars About Race, Ignore Black Actors’ Successes
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The controversy over the racial makeup of this Sunday’s Oscars has consumed the attention of the national media. ABC, CBS and NBC evening news shows have done 21 stories on the #OscarsSoWhite issue this year, never once even asking whether the results are a scandal.
An Economist study of the number of minority awards questioned the very premise of the complaints, stating: “our analysis of film…
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ABC’s ‘Blackish’: Police are Thugs, Obama Almost ‘Stolen Hope’
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The two week hiatus that ABC’s Blackish took from any discernible bias or controversy came to a sudden and violent end on Wednesday night, in an episode titled ‘Hope’.
