Do you like your movies interesting, informative and highly entertaining as well? Then Harvey Weinstein, and his brother Bob, are for you. My politics may not often coincide with those of Harvey Weinstein, but virtually every movie he and his brother have been involved in that we have seen over the past 15 – 20 years has been worthwhile – the...
Bernard Goldberg, the brilliant, former CBS correspondent (though I wouldn\’t bet on him getting any gigs on the network these days) has written an excellent column, in which he shows how media bias pervades even the seemingly innocuous act of identifying panel members on a political forum – before any politics is discussed. Here is how he starts: ChuckTodd, who hosts Meet the...
There is a scene at the beginning of my favorite Billy Crystal movie, “Forget Paris”, in which Crystal, as an NBA referee, makes a highly controversial call at the end of the game, which gives a win to the visiting team. As the crowd screams for his head, a burly security guard comes to his aid…and tells him “I don\’t want to protect you, but I have...
It wouldn\’t have been the worst meltdown I ever saw. The worst I ever saw was, and would have remained, the Milwaukee Bucks (with Kareen Abdul-Jabbar at center) leading the New York Knicks 86-68 midway through the fourth quarter, and losing 87-86 as the Knicks ran off the last 19 points of the game. But it would have been close. Tonight the Brooklyn Nets were...
President Obama is fond of telling us that “I halved the deficit”. Here, pulled from Tyler Durden\’s zerohedg.com blog, is a chart showing how spending has moved since 2007 – with the years 2009 to 2014 owned by Mr. Obama: Source: US Treasury There\’s the spending. Does that chart give you any reason to believe President Obama cut...
Here is the beginning of Arnold Ahlert\’s excellent, insightful, factual….and virtually ignored by most mainstream media…reality check on the “ending” of the war in Afghanistan: OnChristmas Day at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, followed by a White Housepressrelease on Dec. 28, President Obama announcedthe end of the war in Afghanistan. “We\’ve been in...
Here is the full statement about Senator and about-to-be-replaced Majority Leader Harry Reid, who sustained what is being described as a terrible accident in his home: “OnThursday, Senator Reid received treatment at University MedicalCenter in Las Vegas for injuries sustained in an accident he sufferedwhile exercising at home in Henderson. “Apiece of equipment...
Rep. Stephen “Steve” Scalise (R-LA), the house majority whip, stands accused of speaking, in 2002, at a conference of EURO, a david duke hate group. No accusations that Mr. Scalise ever spoke before a similar group, either before or since this one time, have surfaced to date (and I assume his political opponents are looking high and low for them). This has caused at...
In case you wondered how the cable news networks made out in 2014…. ….wonder no more. Here is the average viewership for Fox News Channel (FNC), CNN, MSNBC and Headline News (HLN), shown by entire day and prime time, both in total and for the key 25 – 54 demographic: Total Day FNC: Total: 1,052,000 — 25-54\’S: ...
What horrible news. Former three-time Governor of New York Mario Cuomo has died today at the age of 82. The cause was heart failure. Mr. Cuomo, who died just hours after his son, Andrew, was sworn in for his second term as Governor, leaves four other children, including CNN anchor Chris, radiologist Margaret, Maria, Madeline…and Matilda, his wife of over 50...
Terrible news from the world of entertainment. Luise Rainer, the great German-born actress who became the first actor or actress to win more than one Oscar – and did it in consecutive years, for The Great Ziegfeld in 1936 and The Good Earth in 1937 – died in London on Tuesday, of pneumonia. Ms. Rainer was just two weeks shy of her 105th birthday. Great...
Not only is this the quote of the day, but – and I know it is January 1st – for sheer humor value this may well be the quote of the year. It comes to us from the New York Times\’s Paul Krugman – an unconditionally leftward columnist, who has certainly amused me in the past. But this one sets a new standard. Here is how Mr. Krugman characterized himself in an...
This one is for anybody who reads the New York Times and thinks he/she is getting an honest, complete, roundup of the news. Here are two reasons you are wrong – just in the past 24 hours: – 1) Yesterday the Times ran a front page story claiming that Republican House Minority Whip, Steve Scalise, “had appeared before a group called the European-American Unity and Rights...
In 2001 David Bernard, France\’s Ambassadoor to the United Kingdom, created a firestorm by referring to Israel as “that shitty little country”. Well, what goes around (and I do mean “goes”) apparently comes around…one way or another. Excerpted from an article in israelnationalnews.com: Twoyoung members of France\’s far right National Front have been...
I\’m sorry to start the new year with ugly news, but things are as they are. laura Johnson has been reappointed by New York Mayor bill deblasio. If you read this blog, you know that johnson is the New York criminal court judge who released the following two “men” without bail in December: -devon coley: a career criminal with two pending trials who had...
