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The Hollywood Reporter Praises TV’s ‘Most Matter-of-Fact’ Abortion
According to The Hollywood Reporter, FXX show You’re The Worst just “featured the most matter-of-fact TV abortion” yet to hit the screen.
The Sexualization of Voting: Celebs Work Their Bodies for Hillary
Objectification is awful, right? Yes …unless you’re wielding your body to gain votes for Hillary. Even with their star power, celebrities know that merely explaining Clinton’s policy positions won’t make their voting videos go viral. So, they took a cue from lazy filmmakers – throw in some sex and nudity when all else fails. As writer/producer Lena Dunham recently reminded us: it’s just “what you…
Painfully Bad Taste: ABC Developing Sitcom About VA Hospital
Know what’s really funny? VA hospitals. Real fertile territory for sitcom wackiness, what with the amputees and PTSD and the needless suffering of veterans at the hands of an incompetent and callous bureaucracy.
50th Annual CMAs Work in Politics Without Being Too Political
Wednesday night’s Country Music Association Awards were so chock full of tributes, special appearances, and medleys to celebrate its 50th anniversary that there wasn’t much time to get political. Last year hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley made a bunch of political references. This year the hosts were over it and sang, “We're so freaking sick of politics we don't care who wins. The election…
Chelsea Handler Pushes Celebrity Exodus to Canada if Trump Wins
Ideas for show themes must be in short supply in the world of Chelsea Handler’s Netflix show. In Wednesday’s “How Dark My Life Once Was,” she goes to the well for a second time to gather support for her lame threat to move to Canada should Donald Trump win the election on November 8.
'Fresh Off the Boat' Lectures: ‘Country Founded By Illegal Immigrants'
Fresh Off the Boat just abandoned all pretense of being a fun family comedy to deliver its viewers a stern lecture on illegal immigration. In Tuesday's episode “Citizen Jessica,” Jessica Huang (Constance Wu) fully supports Florida’s Proposition 187, which seeks “to end illegal immigration by putting up a wall of Border Patrol agents on our shore.”
‘The Real O’Neals’ Mocks Marriage With Celebratory Divorce Ceremony
“Not everything is about you being gay, Kenny!” Oh, how happy I was to hear those words finally spoken on ABC’s The Real O’Neals, Tuesday. Unfortunately, even when the show takes its attention off how gay Kenny O’Neal (Noah Galvin) is, they can’t seem to shake off being anti-Catholic, anti-conservative, or anti-anything decent. This episode focuses on taking down the sanctity of marriage.
Obnoxious Environmentalist Shut Down on ABC's 'The Middle'
ABC’s The Middle sure had some hilarious scenes this week as a liberal loudmouthed environmentalist got put in his place. The episode “True Grit” shows Sue Heck (Eden Sher) can no longer stand her loser liberal boyfriend Jeremy (Will Green) and his environmentalist rants. She attempts to break-up with him based off the advice her brother Axl (Charlie McDermott) provides: be a jerk. This does not…
NPR Show: Trump Ushered in ‘Rebirth' Of 'Nation’s Hatred’
On October 21, radio show This American Life featured a song imagining how President Obama feels about “flexing” “demagogue” Donald Trump.
YouTube Censors Video on … Left-Wing Censorship
What do you suppose happens on YouTube to a video that is a “discourse on the First Amendment and the tactics that progressives are using to limit speech and political engagement by conservatives”? Well, according to the Wall Street Journal, it falls victim to an algorithm with absolutely no sense of irony.
To WashPost, Only Trump Blames Protests for NFL Woes
Baby steps, Washington Post, baby steps. On November 1, the Post published yet another long (1,166 words) piece about the NFL’s viewership woes. But unlike the last one, sports columnist Sally Jenkins mentioned the elephant kneeling in the sports newsroom.
'Good Girls Revolt' Is 60s Feminist Nostalgia for 2016's 'Nasty Woman'
Amidst a background of 1960’s sex, drugs, and rock and roll, Good Girls Revolt, an Amazon Original Series, tells the fictionalized story of the female researchers who sued Newsweek for gender discrimination. The heroine is a young liberal feminist named Patti Robinson (Genevieve Angelson) with one ambitious goal – to be a writer at the weekly news magazine, News of the World. The only problem is…
Model Speaks Against Down Syndrome Abortion: ‘Life Needs To Happen’
There’s beauty to be found in life’s differences, according to one model. Earlier this month, actress and model Amanda Booth shared the story of her toddler with Down syndrome in a piece published by Harper’s Bazaar. While abortion was never a consideration for her and her husband, she quickly realized the “staggering” “termination rate” for little ones like her son Micah. Through her advocacy,…