NBC: Hey That Lincoln Movie Reminds Us of How Great Obama Is
In yet another facile example of the Old Media equating President Obama’s presidency to the greatness of Abraham Lincoln’s, NBC News correspondent Kevin Tibbles used the occasion of the opening of the new Lincoln movie helmed by Director Steven Spielberg to do just that. On Saturday’s NBC Nightly News, Tibbles reported on the opening of [...]
DeVotchKa: Rock Band Stage Show Features Romney Beheading
At the Boulder Theater in Colorado, the Denver-based rock band DeVotchKa performed a stage show that featured the ritual beheading of Mitt Romney in a pseudo Mayan beheading scene. The DeVotchKa stage show featured the beheading of Mitt Romney The October 26 performance of the Day of The Dead-like experience kicked off the concert with [...]
Did Steven Spielberg Say the GOP is Just Like the Slave Holding South?
As he unveiled his epic new movie based on Abraham Lincoln’s civil war era presidency, Steven Spielberg said he doesn’t want his film to become a “political football” in today’s presidential election. But as he talked about it further, it seemed as if he went on to say that today’s Republican party is somehow just [...]
The Desolate Wasteland of Post-Apocalyptic Television
Many TV critics and commentators like to say that you can judge the way this nation is feeling about itself and its times by looking at the sort of shows that are playing on television. They say that our mood and our outlook about our present and our future can be understood through the collective [...]
Conan O’Brien Mocks Serious Question to Obama
Apparently, Late-night comedian Conan O’Brien thinks asking the President of the United States a serious question is something to ridicule. Or maybe it wasn’t the question, but just the fact that it was a well-known conservative that posed the rather inoffensive query. As President Obama has allowed but one puffball interview after another, avoiding all [...]
Hollywood Honors The Hackish “Game Change” Over The Superior “Hatfield’s & McCoy’s”
Hollywood just couldn’t help itself in this election year, voting for HBO’s “Game Change” (about Sarah Palin’s selection as John McCain’s vice presidential nominee) over and over again. Were it a normal year that might not be shocking, but in this year’s Emmy Awards the voters managed to snub Kevin Costner’s “Hatfield’s & McCoy’s” as [...]
Actress Kyra Segdwick On Hollywood’s Mistake: Ignoring Midwest
Actress Kyra Sedgwick might be tempting fate in Hollywood with a recent interview on the Tavis Smiley show on PBS where she scolded her industry for ignoring the great middle of the country. Sedgwick was on the show discussing her recently concluded series The Closer on TNT and noted that the show was a great [...]
Forget Bond, Here’s Your Fall Blockbuster – The Hope And The Change
The Hope and the Change chronicles the surprising personal journeys of 40 Democrats and Independents from across America who supported Barack Obama in 2008. They’re not so hopeful anymore. The Daily Beast did a full summary of the how the film was made and what the producers are trying to accomplish. The Hope and the [...]
“Top Gun” Director Tony Scott Commits Suicide
Legendary Hollywood producer and director Tony Scott committed suicide today by jumping off a bridge in San Pedro, California. Police found his car parked on the bridge, and a suicide note was found at his office. Scott directed such films as “Top Gun,” “Beverly Hills Cop II,” “Enemy of the State,” and “The Taking of [...]
Hollywood Legend Clint Eastwood Endorses Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney picked up a big endorsement Friday night. SUN VALLEY, Idaho (AP) — Clint Eastwood just made Mitt Romney’s day. The “Dirty Harry” star and Oscar-winning director of “Unforgiven” and “Million Dollar Baby” endorsed the Republican presidential candidate Friday night during a Sun Valley fundraiser. “I think the country needs a boost,” Eastwood told [...]
Showtime Promoting Polyamory In New Reality Series
If there’s no such thing as right and wrong, why not… Here is how Showtime describes the series: The new SHOWTIME docu-series, POLYAMORY: MARRIED AND DATING, exploring alternative relationship structures, premieres on Thursday, July 12th at 11 PM ET/PT. Polyamory or “poly” as it is often referred to, is practiced by couples who believe that [...]
Ice-T: Guns the ‘Last Form of Defense Against Tyranny’
I’ve always wondered how the African American community could possibly support strict gun control considering its past history with government authorities both in our past and modern times. Well, at least one prominent African American, rapper and actor Ice-T, is speaking out in favor of American’s Second Amendment rights. In a visit to sell his [...]
Awkward – NBC Pairing Fired Ann Curry With Her Replacement Savannah Guthrie
In the wake of the mass shooting in Aurora, NBC has announced that Ann Curry, who NBC kicked off Today last month, and her replacement Savannah Guthrie will co-host the weekend edition of Today from Aurora, Colorado this Saturday and Sunday. Talk about awkward… I’ll go ahead and ask it, “Where in the world is [...]
I want my MTv!
Now here’s a kerfuffle about which I know basically nothing and won’t be spending time to learn anything but shall comment anyway. “What else is new,” you say, “just like every single item on every right wing blog.” Ha! Well I’ve been around since the days MTv played music videos all day every day. I’ve [...]
HBO’s ‘Newsroom’ Being Programmed by Soros-Funded Think Progress?
Left-wingers are hailing HBO’s new series The Newsroom happily proclaiming it as The West Wing for the 2010s. Like The West Wing, this new show is penned by liberal activist and TV producer Aaron Sorkin. But, wait. Who is writing it? According to Sorkin’s writing team, it seems as though the George Soros-funded, extremist website [...]
Driving Herr Baron
A lot of folks these days are offering up opinion and analysis on this year’s presidential campaign. Romney should do this. Romney needs to respond to that. Feh! It’s way to early for fretting over campaign minutia. The only people watching are the fanatics. It’s like worrying what play the Cowboys are going to run [...]
Big Bang Theory Fan Wins A Trip Into Space At Comic-Con
Not at Comic-Con in San Diego this week? Well you missed what might well be the greatest door prize ever awarded. One lucky fan of Warner Bros. Television’s The Big Bang Theory won a trip into space aboard XCOR Aerospace’s Lynx RLV (Reusable Launch Vehicle) at the show’s panel session Friday evening. “The fifth season [...]
A Rough Day For The Miss Florida USA Hopefuls
We’ve had our eyes on the Miss Florida USA pageant due to Connor Boss, who we pointed out earlier this week. Ms. Boss is legally blind and smoking hot, see… Anyway it was a real hot today and Miss Tampa, Ashley Day, passed out in the 90+ degree heat during rehearsals for the Miss Florida [...]
Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, And More Go Dark For Millions
DIRECTV customers receive 17 separate Viacom owned cable channels, including BET, VH1, TV Land, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, and MTV. As of today Viacom has forced DIRECTV to stop airing all of those channels over a dispurte on licensing fees. Viacom suspended DIRECTV’s right to air the channels to try to make their 20 million customers [...]
Hollywood Disconnect, Valuing ‘Equality’ More Than ‘Liberty’
We are soon to be regaled by yet another movie from Hollyweird that likely misunderstands the difference between liberty (or freedom) and equality. This we might infer from the recently released advance plot synopsis for the upcoming movie Elysium from Director Neil Blomkamp, director of the surprise 2009 Sci Fi hit District 9. Blomkamp’s new [...]
New Film: Jesus Christ Not Divine, Born of Roman Rapist
So much for Hollywood’s days of the sweeping Biblical epic, I suppose, but a film director and author of a controversial book on Jesus Christ has announced he’s found the financial backing to produce a film on the Christian Messiah that will contend that Jesus was just a good politician, one born after his mother [...]
Half-Wit Hollywood Hottie: Hey Obama, Fire This Cop That Pulled Me Over
One-time Disney cutie Amanda Bynes was pulled over for drunk driving in Hollyweird this week. What was her reaction to this personal low? She thinks Obama should fire the cop that pulled her over. No… seriously. As soon as she was arrested, like every mind-numbed Obamaite she took to Twitter to demand that her messiah [...]
RIP Ray: Sci Fi Giant Ray Bradbury Slams Obama’s Era of Big Government
[Ed note: Ray Bradbury passed on last night. He was 91. In celebration of his life and work, I'll repost this article that I wrote in August of 2010.] The L.A. Times has a heartwarming story of literary giant Ray Bradbury who at 90 is not afraid to tell everyone exactly what he thinks. A [...]
You Need to Watch This Sneak Preview of ‘Bunheads,’ a New TV Show
-By Warner Todd Huston At the risk of having to turn in my “man card,” I am going to diverge from politics for a moment with this post. A new show is giving a sneak preview of its first episode online. I am almost afraid to say I thoroughly enjoyed this pilot episode of the [...]
Rock-N-Roller Confronted With Capitalism
Jack White recently of the band The White Stripes has realized something important, capitalism works. At least it works when properly approached and with the release of several special vinyl albums he is trying to do it right, much to the consternation of some of his cheapskate fans. As it happens, Mr. White is part [...]
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