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‘Death of Stalin’ Director Slams Trump as ‘Quite Menacing,’ ‘Chilling’
March 7th, 2018 6:45 PM
Ever since Donald Trump was elected President during November of 2016, people in the entertainment industries across America have bashed the Republican official in no uncertain terms. However, on Wednesday, March 7, Armando Iannucci -- a Scottish-born satirist and director of the new film The Death of Stalin -- went farther than most entertainers in the U.S. have been willing to go regarding the…
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Meacham Invokes KKK, George Wallace While Discussing 'Trumpism'
March 6th, 2018 4:48 AM
As historian and MSNBC contributor Jon Meacham appeared as a guest on Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, he repeatedly made references to racist public figures or groups from history like George Wallace and the KKK as he discussed modern-day political battles and President Donald Trump. At one point, he lectured about American history: "But the forces the President embodies -- and the…
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Oliver Rants: NRA TV Is Like a 'Deranged Letter From a Serial Killer'
March 5th, 2018 12:44 PM
Left-wing comedian John Oliver on Sunday became completely unglued, using his HBO show to hint at the “sexual tension” between Ivanka Trump and her father. He also sneered that NRA TV is like a “deranged letter from a serial killer.”
Unbearable HBO Show: Republicans Tell People 'What to Do'
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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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Slate: HBO's 'Fahrenheit 451' Depicts Right-Wing Dystopia
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February 28th, 2018 4:01 PM
The writers at Slate believe that the movie version of Fahrenheit 451 portrays a book-burning, right-wing dystopia. If only they could smell the irony.
Obnoxious Lefty HBO Show Bemoans 'Today's Reality' is 'Fascism'
Culture
February 26th, 2018 12:40 AM
HBO's new drama Here and Now has basically become a parody of the left. It's full of trendy social justice themes, buzzwords, and Chicken Little-style angst that the sky is most certainly falling. The show could use the exact same storylines, even the same script, and come up with a hilarious satire about self-important liberals in the Pacific Northwest.
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Show: Muslim Worried About Hate Crime Because 'We Live in America'
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February 18th, 2018 11:37 PM
HBO's Here and Now continues to try to set the gold standard for being the most obnoxiously woke show on television. In its premiere last week, we met the main family, the Bayer-Boatwrights, who are made up of an academic, some kind of a counselor (we will see more in this week's episode), and their children adopted from around the world in a show of how "progressive and evolved they are."
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New HBO Drama Is Insufferably 'Progressive and Evolved'
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February 12th, 2018 2:02 AM
Have you been looking to close out your weekend with a program that is insufferable and self-satisfied beyond measure? Then, boy, does HBO have the show for you! Here and Now premiered February 11 with its pilot episode "Eleven, Eleven," which introduced us to the painfully enlightened Bayer-Boatwright family. If you wonder how much of a cliche the show is, it opens with a dude in a man bun…
NYT Gushes, HBO Podcast By Libs, for Libs Is ‘Refuge’ in Trump Era
February 9th, 2018 10:59 AM
According to one of the most liberal newspapers in the country, one of the most popular liberal podcasts on the internet will be getting more attention this year, thanks to help from one of the most liberal channels on television. The New York Times wrote February 8 that HBO will be broadcasting a special series of “Pod Save America” to air later this year, surrounding the 2018 midterms.
Buzzfeed Editor Slams Fox News: ‘Crazier' Than Facebook's Fake News
January 30th, 2018 11:49 AM
Journalists and CEOs from the leaders in the liberal media gathered last night at New York University for a panel discussion on the evolving media landscape, entitled: Media, Fake News, and the New Generation of Informed Citizens. Maggie Haberman from the New York Times, Ben Smith from Buzzfeed, Andy Lack of NBC News, and Richard Plepler of HBO were the major panelists, along with Axios CEO Jim…
Comedian Asserts Abortion is 'Killing a Baby' on 'Crashing'
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January 29th, 2018 12:08 AM
In a surprising turn of events, Sunday’s episode of HBO’s Crashing presented a pro-life message, despite the main character becoming an atheist in the second season premiere. In the episode titled “Bill Burr,” Pete Holmes hangs out with comedian Bill Burr, who goes on a hilarious and accurate tirade pointing out the silliness of insisting that abortion isn’t killing a baby. Bill explains, “They'…
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Maher Jokes About Melania Killing Trump, Likens ICE to 'Gestapo'
January 27th, 2018 10:03 PM
On Friday's Real Time show on HBO, host Bill Maher made a number of incendiary attacks on President Donald Trump and other right-leaning figures and entities as he called EPA head Scott Pruitt an "eco-terrorist," likened the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to the "Gestapo," and cracked that First Lady Melania Trump visited the Holocaust Museum to "cheer up" after news broke that her…
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Wilmore Likens GOP to 13 Kids Abused by 'Creepy White' Trump, Pence
January 20th, 2018 9:41 PM
Appearing as a guest on Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, liberal comedian and failed Comedy Central host Larry Wilmore made several snide comments about conservatives as he not only cracked that former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was "murdered by a pillow," but he poked fun at the 13 children who were infamously held prisoner and abused by their parents as he likened them to…