Amanda Marcotte: For the Right, Hillary’s Health Is the New Birtherism
Hillary Clinton was recently diagnosed with pneumonia. Barack Obama was not born in Kenya or anywhere else other than Honolulu, Hawaii. So what do Hillary fact and Obama fiction have in common? Marcotte has a sexism- and racism-related explanation. “The feigned concerns over Clinton’s health strongly resemble the feigned concerns that Obama was faking his natural born citizenship,” she wrote in a…
South Park: Election is Choice Between ‘Giant Douche, Turd Sandwich'
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The much-anticipated premiere of South Park’s 20th season did not disappoint, featuring just the right level of timely, raunchy, bipartisan satire for which the show is known. In the episode “Member Berries,” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone take on the National Anthem, female comics, and the presidential election in a way only South Park can.
Vox's Sports Blog: NCAA Leaving NC 'Meaningless' Until It Expels BYU
Cyd Zeigler hit the NCAA from the left in a Tuesday post on Outsports for not going far enough in their move to take NCAA playoff games in several sports out of North Carolina over its "anti-LGBT 'HB2' law." Zeigler contended that "if the NCAA is serious, it is only a matter of time before BYU [Brigham Young University] gets kicked out of the association...[a]nd every other school with an anti-…
SHOCK: Raunchy MTV Show has Susan B. Anthony Pleasuring Main Character
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In Monday night’s episode of Mary and Jane, titled “Girl on Gurl,” the character of a quirky “feminist mobile librarian” tries to inspire Paige (Jessica Rothe) with the memory of Susan B. Anthony, but it goes horribly wrong...
South Park Teases New Season with Kaepernick Version of Anthem
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South Park just tweeted a National Anthem-themed promo for the premiere of their 20th season to coincide with the kickoff of the San Francisco 49ers' Monday Night Football game where backup quarterback Colin Kaepernick continued his asinine protest of the Anthem.
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‘Miss America’ Puts Spotlight on Liberal Media Bias
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Who would have thought it would be the 2017 Miss America Competition that would force ABC to talk about liberal media bias? Of course, it took the liberal media freaking out that Hillary wasn’t handled with kid gloves by Today show host Matt Lauer at MSNBC/NBC’s Commander in Chief Forum last week for this to become an issue raised during the pageant.
Bozell & Graham Column: HBO Prepares Another Corrupt-Pope Series
Here we go again. Just like Showtime produced three seasons of a series reimagining an evil 15th century pontiff in The Borgias, now the Bill Maher Channel is importing from Italy The Young Pope, starring Jude Law as 47-year-old Lenny Belardo, who is installed in the present day as Pope Pius XIII.
Deborah Young of The Hollywood Reporter screened the first two hours of Paolo Sorrentino’s ten-hour…
Off-Sides: NFL Players Pay No Penalties for Anti-Cop Antics
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As the NFL season starts this week, Colin Kaepernick has the right to kneel or sit or do a headstand during the national anthem. What’s more, he can do it for any reason he likes. If he wants to go to the barricades over the oppression he suffers pulling $19 million a year to ride the bench and fill his mansion with his shoe collection, well, fight the power, comrade!
CBS's 'American Gothic' Finale Hits Hillary's Emails, Trump's Taxes
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Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump took hits on the CBS drama American Gothic last night. In the first part of the two-part season finale, “Madame X,” Garrett Hawthorne (Antony Starr) has worked out a deal with the police to help them find the Silver Bells serial killer’s accomplice in exchange for a suspended sentence on a manslaughter charge.
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Peasants Revolt Against One Percenters at Burning Man Festival
If attending a Burning Man Festival is important to you, then there is something severely lacking in your life. However, in recent years the Burning Man Festival has become so hyped in the media that now the ultra wealthy glitterati has decided that it is an important checkoff on their bucket list. This has caused resentment among the peon attendees who greatly resent the hated One Percenters…
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Empire State Building Honors ABC's View, Rejected Mother Teresa
On Tuesday, the owners of the Empire State Building honored ABC's The View by lighting the famed skyscraper "in light blue, teal and orange in celebration of 20 years" of the daytime program. However, the same company rejected a tribute in lights for the 100th birthday of Mother Teresa in 2010, which was requested by the Catholic League.
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'Sexuality Is a Spectrum,' Declares FX Character in 'Atlanta' Premiere
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In Tuesday night’s premiere double episode of FX channel’s Atlanta, “The Big Bang; Streets on Lock,” lead character Ernest (Donald Glover) is arrested for participating in a shooting with his wanna-be rapper cousin, Alfred.
AP Describes Schlafly as 'Far-Right,' Her Group As 'Ultraconservative'
The death of conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly set off the predictable leftist social media hatefest overnight, and naturally gave rise to a "graceless" obituary in the New York Times.
While it's a bit of a relief that Jim Salter's obituary at the Associated Press was not as hostile as the quite left-leaning wire service has been towards deceased conservatives in the past (e.g., Tony Snow in…
NY Mag Writer: Conservatives Like ‘Highly Emotional’ Fake News
Shorter version of Brian Feldman’s Wednesday article: Sure, Mark Zuckerberg’s a genius, but he still hasn’t come up with a foolproof way to keep Facebook from promoting right-wing propaganda. “Facebook’s problem isn’t that it suppresses ‘conservative news’ or allows ‘fake news,’” wrote Feldman. “It’s that those two categories are increasingly indistinguishable.”
