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2020 was a dumpster fire in so many ways, not least of which was the cultural rot of network television and streaming service "entertainment." Hollywood pushed pedophilia, anti-Christian bigotry, Trump Derangement Syndrome and hateful BLM rhetoric, among other things.

Sure, obesity may be one of the leading causes of death in America, but in our ridiculous era, pointing that out could prove fatal to the self-esteem of obese people and that’s more important. 

Long considered essential to American culture, football is destroying itself, and it’s not just over social justice mania. The New York Post’s Phil Mushnick says the sport is in an idiot-induced freefall, as evidenced most recently by a brawl after a college bowl game Friday and unbridled anti-social behavior on the NCAA and NFL levels.

Right from the season three premiere, ABC’s The Rookie aims to get political on policing.

Looks like CBS’s NCIS: New Orleans will spend its 2021 doubling down on false liberal propaganda. While the show already bent over backwards to claim police officers are killing young black men last month, the latest episode somehow went further to appease a “burn the establishment” progressive and her mostly “peaceful” crowd.

It pays to be an "anti-black scold" on television, writes Dr. Jason Johnson, an MSNBC contributor and Morgan State University professor, in a sports screed on The Grio that was picked up by Yahoo. His excoriation of so-called scolds centers on ESPN’s Booger McFarland, but also includes his African American colleagues Sage Steele, Stephen A. Smith and the "grand-daddy" of them all -- Jason…

USA Today is on the warpath against high schools with so-called racially insensitive nicknames. In separate stories, USA Today pressured Red Mesa High School in Arizona to drop “Redskins” and Robstown Early College High School in Texas to replace the nickname “Cotton Pickers.”

In the past year, Kobe Bryant died in a helipcopter crash, social justice activism ruined sports for countless fans, LSU won the national championship in college football, Dustin Johnson won the Master’s and Patrick Mahomes inked an astronomical $500 million contract after winning the Super Bowl. Each of these major stories have one thing in common: Newsweek ranked these and other significant…

Millions of people still without jobs or locked in their homes can rest assure that the Bidens will have a fantastic New Year’s Eve. A recent announcement revealed that president-elect Joe Biden and his wife will join ABC’s New Year’s Eve special to give his last 2020 interview.

You thought journalism was hurting? Not at all. Consider: a pandemic is raging, businesses are being starved by lockdowns, and a whole lot of people don’t believe the results of the presidential election. But back on Nov. 24, USA Today had the resources to devote 2,300 words to gay actors complaining about straight actors getting too many queer roles.

If The Washington Post were capable of recognizing irony on any level, it might think twice running an interview with the head of America’s busiest abortion mill in the “Lifestyle” section. But that’s where Post Magazine contributor KK Otesen’s soft-ball session appears. 

Christmas may be over, but the hatred for Christianity still lives on in television. HBO’s anti-religious series His Dark Materials brings on (hopefully) 2020’s final salute to atheism with a stand against the “deceit, intolerance, and prejudice” of God in the name of “understanding, truth, and acceptance.” Only a show like this could think atheists exclusively hold those virtues.

Movie stars -- is there anything they don’t know? More to the point, is there anything their media sycophants won’t quote them on? Take, for example, the recent New York Times interview with George Clooney, where we learn of the movie star's thoughts on Trump and COVID.

Three qualities significantly increase one’s likelihood of making Deadspin’s “Idiot of the Year” list: you’re a Republican, you stand up for freedom over COVID shutdowns and you take a stand against the Black Lives Matter Marxists. Deadspin staff members boast of working tirelessly to select the members of the list who are the dumbest fish to swim through 2020’s sea of stupidity.