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Opportunities to congratulate CNN for getting things right don’t often present themselves, so they shouldn’t pass unremarked. On Saturday, Michael Smerconish did yeoman’s work dismantling the myth of one social justice martyr while exposing the ignorance of another.

Of course Twitter’s been aggravated with Star Wars actress Gina Carano for her anti-leftist viewpoints, but her wrongthink has become so annoying for people that Hollywood outlets are now demanding that Disney remove her from The Mandalorian.

Mike Freeman's toxic new book on sports and social justice fanaticism starts out with plenty of Kaepernick worship and Trump hatred in the preface and introduction. Considering the source, it's no wonder because Freeman has was recently named the Sports, Race and Inequality Editor at USA Today.

Streaming platform HBO Max took some serious social media heat at the beginning of this week, as footage from its latest documentary featuring a very young child being “accepted” at what appeared to be an LGBTQ-centric religious ceremony, made its way online.

John Cleese, renowned British comedian and actor, offended plenty of woke people when he announced his support for J. K. Rowling in September. (She had been attacked for her opinions on transgenderism.) Now that the past has caught up with him, Nearly Headless Nick isn’t letting it haunt him at all.

The thought of President Trump being allowed to leave office peacefully and not being bound, jailed or tortured for his policies while in office filled Debra Messing with rage over the weekend, enough to get her to make insane and dangerous pleas, like a call to “burn the constitution.” 

After a week in which a celeb ranted, “Bury Trump in a Nazi graveyard and put a swastika on his grave,” and other actors wanted a new Hollywood blacklist of Trump “enablers,” one leading man was brave enough to say that celebrities should “step away” and not weigh in on politics.

Once again, we’re back to discussing everyone’s least favorite TV topic: racial justice. This time, Amazon Prime offers its take on the subject through Steve McQueen's (12 Years a Slave) anthology series Small Axe. Although the first episode in the anthology, Mangrove, is based on a real event in 1970 in London, it didn’t take long for people to pretend it relates to police conduct today.

Apparently, you don’t want to go on record complaining about the lockdowns in the state of Michigan if you want to keep your reputation. After social media backlash, the wife of a Detroit NFL player had to apologize for a viral video she made which criticized the state's overbearing China plague lockdown orders.

Probably nobody these days listens to Gilbert and Sullivan’s music, but the few who might may possibly remember the song, “As Some Day It May Happen.” In the song, the Lord High Executioner draws up a list of people that he plans to execute in case he should have to carry out his official duties. Apparently, some Hollywood residents approve of Americans who imitate the song.

Anybody who looks at leftist celebrity tweets can deduce that their writers are hypersensitive, impulsive, and therefore ready to blurt out invectives at the slightest provocation. They’re also not exactly civil libertarians.

Fight Club actor Ed Norton just dropped his searing take on the criminality of Trump this week, concocting a crazy conspiracy on how Trump is refusing to concede all in order to avoid jail time. 

The Deadspin blog is a veritable "Democratspin" again with three currently appearing attacks on Republicans, over the election investigation, campus sexual assaults and COVID-19. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, presidential attorney Rudy Giuliani and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem all took broadside hits from "Democratspin" partisan hacks. The so-called "sports" blog is a full-fledged anti-…

In the fourth season of Netflix’s The Crown, released November 13, the audience gets a couple of storylines they’ve been waiting for. This season heralded the entrance of Lady Diana Spencer (Elizabeth Debicki, The Night Manager) and her tumultuous beginning as Princess of Wales. For those more interested in the political intrigue than the romantic, season four also brings us Margaret Thatcher…