Atheist Pope Battles Power-Hungry Cardinals in ‘The Young Pope’

Culture
February 6th, 2017 12:35 AM
The seventh episode of HBO’s The Young Pope, which aired February 5, depicts the Pope (Jude Law) going through a crisis of faith, while his fellow Cardinals celebrate over his possible resignation. The Pope's confessor, who has been revealing all the Cardinals’ confessions to the Pope, confides in Sister Mary (Diane Keaton), “The Pope doesn’t believe in God.” Later, while the Pope tries to…

Nudity, Fluidity, Misogyny, Oh My! Lena Bares All in ‘Girls’ Interview

Culture
February 1st, 2017 3:30 PM
Media-beloved Lena Dunham is finally giving acting a rest. After six years, the controversial queen of militant feminism is wrapping up HBO’s sex-obsessed Girls, and we say, good riddance! In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter’s Lacey Rose, the cast, producers and HBO execs got down and dirty about the show.

'The Young Pope' Asserts That No Priests Respect the Vow of Chastity

Culture
January 30th, 2017 11:27 PM
The sixth episode of HBO’s The Young Pope made another blanket, heretical statement about Catholic priests. Additionally, the episode, which aired January 30, contains two power-hungry speeches given by the Pope (Jude Law) aimed at destroying the Italian Prime Minister and an order of monks. 
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'The Young Pope' Gropes Woman, Calls All Priests and Nuns 'Cowards'

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January 30th, 2017 1:01 AM
HBO's The Young Pope reached its halfway point on January 29, bursting at the seams with nonstop vileness and slights against the Catholic Church. The show’s fifth episode contained a little bit of everything, with Pope Pius XIII (Jude Law) groping a young woman, calling all priests and nuns “unhappy” and "cowards,” and denying that he’s a priest to a prostitute.  

Bozell & Graham Column: HBO's Super-Villainous 'Young Pope'

January 28th, 2017 8:05 AM
In HBO's The Young Pope, the implausible American pontiff Lenny Belardo (Pope Pius XIII) proposes to Cardinal Voiello – a “reformist” prelate -- that all the gay priests be drummed out of the priesthood. The script reads like a mudslinging advertisement against the Vatican.  The cardinal protests: “It would be a war that would leave the ground littered with corpses, Holy Father. Do you want to…
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'The Young Pope' Implies 2/3 of Priests Are Homosexuals or Pedophiles

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January 23rd, 2017 11:56 PM
The liberal HBO show The Young Pope’s fourth episode, aired on January 23, has the Pope suggest that pedophiles and homosexuals constitute a whopping two thirds of the clergy.
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Maher Paints Trump Voters as 'F***ing Drug Addicts,' Should Do Pot

January 23rd, 2017 12:26 PM
As far-left HBO comedian Bill Maher concluded the regular "New Rules" segment of his Real Time show on Friday, he cited statistics on heroin and prescription drug abuse in states that voted for Donald Trump to portray his supporters as "f***king drug addicts," and ended up mockingly advising them to learn a lesson from liberals and switch to marijuana because of all the painkiller overdose deaths…
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'The Young Pope' Depicts a Power-Hungry, Heretical Pontiff

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January 23rd, 2017 12:22 AM
The third episode of HBO’s new series, The Young Pope, begins with an expletive-laden tirade by Pope Pius XIII (Jude Law) declaring, “I am the Lord omnipotent.” The episode, which aired on January 22, shows the Pope reflecting with his confessional priest on the conclave that elected him.
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Bill Maher: 'False Equivalency' That 'Both Sides Are Equally Wrong'

January 19th, 2017 11:00 AM
Wednesday night on Jimmy Kimmel Live, HBO liberal talkshow host Bill Maher came on the show to bash conservatives and call on the media to hold Trump accountable. Without any sense of irony, Maher lectured Kimmel on the need for hosts like him to hold Trump’s “feet to the fire” as if the media gives Trump the adoring Obama treatment. Maher then told Kimmel that the media can’t treat the right the…

'The Young Pope' Presents a Vatican Teeming with Corruption

Culture
January 19th, 2017 9:15 AM
The second episode of HBO’s The Young Pope, which aired January 16, had Pope Pius XIII (Jude Law) further reveal his corrupt self amongst an even more corrupt Vatican City. 

HBO's 'The Young Pope' Mocks Catholic Church with Conniving Pope

Culture
January 16th, 2017 12:14 AM
HBO’s latest Catholic-bashing series, The Young Pope, presents the first American pope as an amoral, power-hungry, straight-up jerk. Actor Jude Laws stars as the 47-year-old Lenny Belardo, who becomes Pope Pius XIII as a result of a corrupt Cardinal. 
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WashPost: ‘A-Hole’ Pope in New Show Is Just Like Trump

January 13th, 2017 10:58 AM
The Washington Post on Friday gushed over a new Catholic-bashing HBO drama that features an “a-hole” Pope. Reviewer Hank Stuever, of course, linked this despicable character to Donald Trump. The Young Pope stars Jude Law as an “ice-blooded American cardinal” chosen to be the leader of the Catholic Church. 
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NB Year-in-Review: The Most Obnoxious Celebrity Quotes of 2016

December 30th, 2016 9:55 AM
NewsBusters is recounting the most obnoxious liberal bias of 2016. Today, we finish the series with some of the most outlandish celebrity quotes of 2016, mostly of the Hollywood elite shaking their pom-poms for Hillary, hyperventilating over the idea that Trump might actually be elected, and crying “racism” or “sexism” when things don’t go their way.
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Anti-Trump 'Silicon Valley' Star Arrested for Physical Assault

December 10th, 2016 10:19 AM
Actor T.J. Miller portrays Erlich Bachman, an over the top obnoxious character, on the HBO comedy series "Silicon Valley." Well, it turns out that perhaps his obnoxiousness wasn't all acting since the virulently anti-Trump Miller turned his political obsession into a physical assault upon an Uber driver on Friday morning for the high crime of disagreeing with him about Donald Trump. The New York…