British Netflix Drama Calls Immigration Policy 'Crass Xenophobia'
Culture
March 15th, 2018 7:00 AM
I love a British mystery as much as, if not more than, the next guy, but I could barely make it through Collateral on Netflix. It was like they had a social justice checklist and created a storyline around it, then added in some extra characters to check the boxes they'd missed.
NBC Drama: HS Students 'Sexually Repressed' w/ 'Intolerant Parents'
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March 14th, 2018 7:19 PM
If you could take every liberal, Hollywood writer’s agenda and cram it all into one show, that show would be Rise, the new NBC drama about an English teacher who takes over his school’s theater program and decides to shake things up. Based on a true story, the teacher chooses the musical “Spring Awakening” for the students to perform, a controversial play that includes abortion, homosexuality,…
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Teen Radicalized by Islam Goes on Fatal Stabbing Spree; Nets Silent
March 14th, 2018 11:09 AM
News broke March 13 that a Florida teen had been arrested, after stabbing to death his friend and attempting to kill his friend’s mother and another peer at a sleepover. The suspect confessed afterwards that he had recently converted to Islam and his beliefs had motivated him to murder. While the horrific violent act was covered by local news in Jupiter, Florida, and nationally March 14 by Fox…
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MSNBC: Hillary ‘Has a Much Deeper Relationship With Faith’ Than Trump
March 13th, 2018 11:05 AM
An angry Katy Tur on Monday hailed Hillary Clinton as far more religious than Donald Trump. During a discussion on evangelical voters with CBN’s David Brody, the MSNBC host reacted to the idea that some Christians prized Trump’s pro-life stance over other issues: “But when you’re talking about people of faith, Hillary Clinton has a much deeper relationship with faith than Donald Trump does.”
CBS Comedy ‘Living Biblically’ Admits Unborn Child a ‘Person'
Culture
March 12th, 2018 11:57 PM
Despite getting off to a rough start and having a flawed concept to begin with, CBS’s new comedy Living Biblically did something very few shows from Hollywood would dare to do - they admitted to the humanity of living, unborn children. Main character Chip (Jay R. Ferguson) speaks to his baby through his pregnant wife’s belly and rightfully calls him or her a “person.”
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Pence Encourages Behar Apologize to Christians; Accepts Personal One
March 12th, 2018 10:37 PM
In a sit-down interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity on Monday, Vice President Mike Pence was asked about the bitter bigoted comments from ABC’s Joy Behar attacking all Christians made on The View. The Vice President accepted an over-the-phone private apology but encouraged her to make a public apology on her show to all Christians.
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CNN's Blackwell: Bannon 'Extremism' More Newsworthy Than Farrakhan
March 11th, 2018 5:09 PM
On New Day Sunday, CNN viewers finally saw the recent controversy over Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan's ties to Democrats at least mentioned by someone other than Jake Tapper during a discussion of former Donald Trump advisor Steve Bannon's speech to a right-wing political group in France. But -- in spite of the incendiary and blatantly racist nature of some of Farrakhan's comments, some…
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Sneak Peek: Liam Neeson Narrates New CNN Series ‘Pope’
Culture
March 9th, 2018 4:33 PM
A new CNN series on the papacy boasts star power and controversy in an attempt to retell the history of the Catholic Church. On Sunday, CNN will debut a six-part series on the papacy: Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History. The docuseries stars actor Liam Neeson as narrator.
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Media Ignore Farrakhan Ties to House Democrats, Calls for Resignations
March 9th, 2018 11:36 AM
On Thursday evening, the broadcast network evening news casts all ignored the current controversy over Democratic ties to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan sparked by his most recent spate of racist and anti-Semitic comments, as the Republican Jewish Coalition has called on seven congressional Democrats to resign, including DNC deputy chair Keith Ellison. In fact, with the exception of CNN's…
MRC's Bozell: Behar Apology a ‘First Step,’ But Must Be Done Publicly
March 8th, 2018 5:17 PM
RESTON, VA -- Media Research Center (MRC) President Brent Bozell released the following statement on Thursday in the wake of the news that View co-host Joy Behar had privately apologized to Vice President Mike Pence for her hateful, anti-Christian remarks from February 13. Bozell described the act as a “good first step,” but called for a public apology. He confirmed that the MRC’s campaign to…
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FNC Highlights Farrakhan Ties to House Democrats, Resignation Calls
March 8th, 2018 1:32 PM
On Thursday morning, uniquely among the day's morning shows, FNC's Fox and Friends gave attention to the Republican Jewish Coalition calling for the resignations of seven congressional Democrats who have ties with National of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, in light of a recent speech in which he attacked "Satanic" Jews and whites.
Religious Leaders Join MRC Campaign Against Anti-Christian ‘The View’
March 6th, 2018 6:03 PM
RESTON, Va. — On Tuesday, religious leaders joined a growing wave of conservative leaders led by Media Research Center President and Founder Brent Bozell against The View’s Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin in light of the ABC show’s anti-Christian bigotry. Since The View’s vile remarks on February 13 against Vice President Mike Pence and Christians as “dangerous” and “mentally ill,” MRC supporters have…
Unbearable HBO Show: Republicans Tell People 'What to Do'
Culture
March 4th, 2018 11:54 PM
Sunday night means spending another hour with the most unbearable show on television- HBO's Here and Now, a show about a Portland (of course) academic, his wife (who runs an empathy training initiative for high schoolers), and their kids, one biological, the others adopted from countries that they believed had been wronged by America in some way. No, really. In the March 4 episode "Hide and Seek…
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CBS’s ‘Living Biblically’ a Failure of Biblical Proportions
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February 27th, 2018 1:46 AM
CBS’s newest sitcom Living Biblically follows a man attempting to live by the Bible to the letter in 2018. The series is mostly inspired by the 2007 book The Year of Living Biblically written by agnostic Esquire editor A.J. Jacobs following his year living in accordance with the Bible. After ten years, the show finally made it to air produced by The Big Bang Theory star Johnny Galecki and…