I try to avoid listening to Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and the rest of the people who make a living by dishing up hot plates of outrage to primed listeners. I have myself been given the job of drudging … er, I mean dredging … up scandals and political intrigues in order to […]
Continue reading →White House Press Secretary Jay Carney has denied a report that the White House sometimes knows in advance the questions reporters will ask during press meetings. The report/accusation was made by Phoenix reporter Catherine Anaya: Phoenix news anchor Catherine Anaya reported Wednesday night on KPHO-TV5 that in an “off the record” meeting, Carney had told […]
Continue reading →In 2013, Cheerio’s ran an ad for their cereal featuring a biracial family. When the commercial was posted to YouTube, it got flamed almost immediately by an assortment of gollums and trolls—who apparently have nothing at all to do but post inflammatory comments on websites. We have a few of those on this site actually. […]
Continue reading →Wow. I hardly know what to say about this one. An advocacy group called “A is For” has collected a band of Hollywood comedians and musicians for an event they are calling “A Night of a Thousand Vaginas.” Money raised by the event will go to fund abortions in Texas, since stricter Texas laws have […]
Continue reading →Hollywood will be releasing a series of epic Bible films coming up in the next few years, beginning with Darren Aronofsky’s Noah. Other scheduled films are Son of God, Mary Mother of Christ (from the makers of The Passion of the Christ), Ridley Scott’s Exodus, and a few others in the works. Some of us […]
Continue reading →According to an article published in PR Watch, Google is giving “substantial” grants to some high-profile right-wing political groups. Corporations are not required to post details concerning their grants and subsidies, but Google decided in 2010 to start voluntarily posting a selection from their grant budget. The figures are interesting, to say the least. Some […]
Continue reading →Recently, Team Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services had a YouTube contest (they’re so hip and media-savvy) to promote Obamacare to young people. They recently crowned a winner: a video entitled Forget About the Price Tag. There is no tongue in cheek here. This video, which you can watch here if you have the […]
Continue reading →Daniel Defense sells guns. They had this crazy idea that Super Bowl viewers might be members of the demographic that buys guns. So they looked up the Super Bowl’s stated guidelines for advertisements, and they made a commercial they thought fit the guidelines. Nope. The Super Bowl rejected the ad, and pretty unequivocally. The ad, […]
Continue reading →Apparently, many would-be celebrities fake it ’til they make it with shows of a virtual presence that is in actuality, well, virtual. The newest craze on Twitter is boosting your online voice with thousands of robot accounts that follow your Twitter and retweet your tweets. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, aspiring […]
Continue reading →I don’t know why celebrities even talk about politics. In fact, I don’t know why they elect to speak about anything without a script or a teleprompter. So you’re famous… That doesn’t mean your opinion on anything at all matters. “But… but… I played a political strategist in that one TV series pilot, so…” The […]
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