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On last night’s episode of The Nightly Show, Larry Wilmore weighed in on Ben Carson‘s new outreach strategy with a rap ad directed towards African-American voters. All things considered, Wilmore thinks Carson’s got a loooooong way to go before he can be the Tupac Shakur of politics. Deciding that he “had to hear this,” Wilmore…
“I knew this was going to happen, who is that?” Trump asked. SNL’s cold open may have featured Larry David appearing once again as Bernie Sanders, but it did not include any glimpse of host Donald Trump. We had to wait until the monologue to see The Donald make his case to the nation as…
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If you pulled over one hundred people on the street, and asked them to state a religious belief they hold, I’m not sure you would get any answer more plausible than “the pyramids were built for the storage of grain.” Would you now? Yet we mock Ben Carson for this, but we do not make…
Ben Carson suggested creating transgender bathrooms in an interview Thursday with Fusion’s Jorge Ramos. Questioned about Houston voters’ rejection of a law banning LGBT discrimination this week, Carson said: “How about we have a transgender bathroom?” “It is not fair for them to make everybody else uncomfortable,” Carson said of transgender people. “It’s one of…
The hip-hop radio ads coming out of Ben Carson’s presidential campaign this week, to much laughter and derision, represent what Republican outreach to African Americans often looks like these days. But there was a time when Republicans took diversifying their base much more seriously. In the early 1970s, even President Richard Nixon’s administration, with its…
At some point, even Desert Storm got it’s own set of trading cards. (Image: UnknownNet Photography/Flickr) Maybe you remember collecting X-Men cards during your childhood, or maybe your parents had a collection of baseball cards that they were convinced would one day put you through college. Trading cards for athletes and superheroes seem to have been around forever. But the…
Lauren Schuker Blum, the wife of producer Jason Blum, will co-write “Crash Override” with Rebecca Angelo Amy Pascal is set to produce a movie about Gamergate that screenwriters Rebecca Angelo and Lauren Schuker Blum will adapt from game designer Zoe Quinn’s memoir “Crash Override: How to Save the Internet From Itself,” an individual familiar with…
EXCLUSIVE: Amy Pascal’s Pascal Pictures has won a bidding battle for Crash Override: How To Save The Internet From Itself, a memoir by game designer Zoe Quinn that sold to Touchstone/Simon & Schuster and will be published September, 2016. The property was bid on by several studios and TV outlets, and several actresses are circling, with…
Adam Weiss has a commendable track record. His first hedge fund, Scout Capital closed its doors in 2014 returning more than $6.5 billion to investors after beating the S&P 500 consistently by an average of 12% per annum for fifteen years. But it didn’t take Mr. Weiss long to return to the money management business. In…