Brendan O’Neill explains what’s going on with the British royals. No, it’s not about racism.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
Sharyl Atkisson
She’s suing the Justice Department for spying on her, and specifically our old pal Rod Rosenstein. If she wins, this will lend further credence to the claim that they spied on the Trump campaign, but it may take a while to play out in court.
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Related: The Obama administration’s guerilla war against the Trump administration.
It would be nice to finally see some accountability for all of this abuse of power, corruption and lawlessness.
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I don’t understand why the Barr Justice Department continues to stonewall on the Flynn case. Someone should ask Barr.
Iran’s Options
They are all bad.
Good.
[Afternoon update]
The assassination of Soleimani was Trump’s farewell letter to the Middle East.
That Dumb Quillette Article About Mars
The Babylon Bee
Attacks on it are attacks on free expression.
Yes, they are. If there’s anything the Left can’t stand more than not being able to control others’ speech, it’s being mocked. Why is why we should do it at every opportunity.
Ricky Gervais
I don’t watch awards ceremonies, but apparently he handed woke Hollywood its ass last night.
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More from Steve Kruiser, with video.
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Boo, hoo. Lorraine Ali is all butthurt.
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More from Kyle Smith. And Emily Jashinski.
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Hollywood proved Gervais’s point.
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Related, I think: What happened to Howard Stern? If you want to skip the long history, jump to the end, which relates his recent interview with Hillary.
[Tuesday-morning update]
To hell with these gilded charlatans.
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The “liberal” reviews are in for Gervais’s performance, and their tears are delicious.
Waiting For Durham
A Twitter thread for the impatient, which explains why it’s taken so long for the reports and indictments, even though we’ve know what happened for a couple years now.
Climate Event Attribution
Three rules for judging its validity.
The Mueller Team
…perpetuated the FBI’s misconduct.
This is my shocked face.
Cats
I’ve never seen the musical, and I’m not inclined to, but nowhere near as much as I’m not inclined to see the movie, which is getting terrible reviews.
[Friday-afternoon update]
“I watched Cats, and I have some questions.”
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Follow the whole thread.
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Here’s the unroll for that thread. RTWT.
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Universal notifies theaters that the movie will be “updated” for special effects. For a film already in release.
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This is one of the longest-running Broadway musicals. Can anyone tell me if there is a single memorable song in it other than “Memor<del>y</del>ies”? It seems to me that it’s like Les Miserable; apparently tunes aren’t important in musicals any more.
[Wednesday-afternoon update]
OK, here’s another Twitter review.
And here’s a review of the software update.
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