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On Thursday morning’s “Fox & Friends,” hosts Steve Doocy, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Brian Kilmeade demonstrated a fairly impressive feat for a five-minute segment, denying that racism is a widespread problem in the U.S. then swiftly arguing that it isn’t their fault they didn’t know Dylann Storm Roof, the Charleston shooter, was a white supremacist. Hasselbeck…
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly is fed up with people discussing racism in the wake of the Charleston church shooting.On Wednesday night’s broadcast of The O’Reilly Factor, he denied that there was “an epidemic of racism” in the U.S. and suggested that liberal “race baiters” were making it up.The self-proclaimed white supremacist who admitted to killing nine African-Americans in…
Joe Morton gets into character as Papa Pope from “Scandal” to address the ongoing Confederate flag controversy. ** Watch the latest episode of The Nightly Show on CC.com and the CC app: http://on.cc.com/16QmWt3 ** Watch The Nightly Show Mon. – Thurs. 11:30/10:30c on Comedy Central. ▶ The Nightly Show – Pape Pope vs. The Confederate…
This article originally appeared on AlterNet. What will we do without Jon Stewart? I hear that a lot. Of course I hope his writers will be able to make more magic with his successor, Trevor Noah. And no matter what happens on “The Daily Show,” we will still have John Oliver and Larry Wilmore, and…
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Brian Williams’ welcome to MSNBC might be frigid because staffers there haven’t forgotten a scathing report he arrogantly aired on his short-lived “Rock Center” about “corrosive” cable news blowhards at MSNBC, Fox News and CNN. The two-part September 2012 report was so unpopular at MSNBC that, at a network holiday party shortly after, some over-served…
Don Lemon can’t help but attract controversy. The CNN Tonight host waded into the debate about President Obama‘s recent use of the n-word on Marc Maron‘s WTF podcast by holding up a sign with the racial epithet written in large capital letters and then asking the audience whether the word offended them. Lemon also tried…
10. Man talks about how he used to want to be an astronaut 9. Woman fakes story of attempted sexual assault by a cop to benefit herself 8. Man tells woman her entire personality is a reaction to him 7. Abusive asshole displays psychological burden over the rape of his wife, who is wholly unrepresented…
Greetings, folks. I know I promised you an extra-long “Postal Apocalypse” after last week’s absence, but I caught a mutant technovirus (head-cold) during my wasteland wanderings (plane travel). So here’s a regularly sized mailbag for your enjoyment — load me up with questions and I’ll owe you next week. Equal Rites Matt: Dear Mr. Postman,…
Bravo Jon for keeping it real. @Kwam_E ▶ Jon Stewart on Charleston South Carolina Shooting. Daily Show 6/18/2015 – YouTube.