Back in the glory days of “Saturday Night Live,” before the show became an interchangeable trudge of Alec Baldwin’s mean-spirited Donald Trump impersonations, those productions used to be awfully funny – filled with sharp wit and good-natured swipes at offenders of all political persuasions and pomposities. (Memo to SNL and… CONTINUE
The ‘Pouncing Conservatives’ Epidemic
It’s a little known fact that one of the greatest B-horror films ever conceived (though oddly only the third or fourth best primate-themed movie starring Roddy McDowall) is a 1990 flick called Shakma. Shakma, known internationally as Panic in the Tower, is about an insane laboratory baboon that hunts down… CONTINUE
More Media Swarming on Covington Catholic
Lots of folks wound up with egg on their faces after jumping to conclusions over last weekend’s infamous confrontation at the Lincoln Memorial. The narrative stemming from a selectively-edited viral video of the incident, which initially painted the picture of a group of students from Covington Catholic High School harassing… CONTINUE
Never Let a Convenient Political Narrative Go to Waste
If you spent any time on the Internet over the weekend, you probably already know about a confrontation that took place last Friday, at the Lincoln Memorial, between an elderly drum-playing Native American protester and a large group of mostly white Catholic students donning red “Make America Great Again” hats…. CONTINUE
Warning: Jim Acosta Is Hazardous to Honest Journalism
It’s a fundamental, common sense rule of journalism: Hard news reporters don’t cover their friends. It’s just too difficult to be loyal to the truth when the truth makes a friend look like a jerk, or a crook. The same rule holds for commentators. Can they really give thoughtful, unfiltered opinions… CONTINUE
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