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CNN was unhappy when this meme of Trump pummeling “CNN Logo Head” went viral:
In the interest of fairness, during his West Virginia speech Trump pummeled “Fox News Logo Head”:
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Sure, because Clapper is intimately acquainted with “untruthful statements.”
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Fox is apparently hiring Viagra spokeswomen for its panel shows:
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New White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci has been busy rewriting the lyrics to Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”:
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
They will all be fired by me.
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I’m just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
I’m not trying to suck my own cock
They’ll all be fired by me.
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramucci, Scaramucci, will you do the fucking tango?
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters
They’ll all be fired by me.
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TV Update
Netflix subscribers might want to check out either of the following shows:
Detectorists
Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook play small-town Brits who take up metal detecting as a hobby. The comedy is a bit Laurel and Hardy, a bit Doc Martin, and a bit The Andy Griffith Show. The tone is slow-burn charming, but several episodes from the first season had me laughing out loud. Normally, sitcoms do not inspire me to laugh out loud.
Ozark
Jason Bateman and Laura Linney play parents forced to relocate their family to the Missouri boonies when they fall into disfavor, to put it mildly, with a Mexican drug cartel. It’s not Breaking Bad, but it’s entertaining and a refreshing change of locale from the usual haunts of dramas like this, i.e., New York or L.A.
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I’m trying to picture what a new American civil war might look like. Should the red states and blue states declare open hostilities, I’m thinking it will bear little resemblance to our conflict in the 1860s.
We are much too fat and lazy to do battle in the fields of Virginia. No, I’m thinking this war will have to be fought from the comfort of easy chairs in our living rooms. It will likely be some sort of video-game war.
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People look back at the hair and fashion of the 1970s and they can’t stop laughing.
But you can’t tell me that in 40 years, maybe less, they’ll be able to stop laughing at hair like this:
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Bad news, worse news for Saturday Night Live fans.
The bad news is that we won’t get any more Melissa McCarthy spoofs of dearly departed Sean Spicer.
The worse news is that we’ll still get Alec Baldwin’s tired Trump impersonation.
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Critics love the term “peak TV.” I think they might be misspelling it.
“Peek TV” means you spend four or five minutes taking a peek at the latest piece of crap, then change the channel.
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Awkward Conversations with Mom and Dad:
“Hi mom and dad. Guess what? I’m starring in a movie!”
(pause)
“No … I play the meat.”
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“Out-of-Context” Week
The problem with Internet video software is that it encourages one’s inner 12-year-old. It’s much too easy to create short, childish, out-of-context videos that make your TV targets look bad.
We did it anyway.
Local news anchors Chris and Liz were sent to the lake, where Liz shared Too Much Information:
Far be it from us to imply that Chris and Liz’s bare-bottomed escapades were anything other than, uh, innocent.
Meanwhile, conservative firebrand Tomi Lahren revealed on Fox News what her enemies would like to do:
I suppose you could call the above videos “fake news.”
Fortunately, the world is full of real news, such as this gem courtesy of The A.V. Club.
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Every day we learn that more and more people attended that controversial meeting between Donald Trump, Jr. and a Russian lawyer.
At this rate, in a month we will discover that the meeting was actually a televised congressional hearing open to the public and media.
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The Interview
Seems obvious that if we wind up in a nuclear war with North Korea, Hollywood will be to blame. There is precedent for this kind of thing.
The Great Dictator
Back in 1940, Charlie Chaplin released a satire about Adolf Hitler called The Great Dictator, and a few years later we were engaged in a world war with the mustachioed madman. In 2014, Seth Rogen and James Franco released a comedy about Kim Jong-un called The Interview, and then …
Nutzoid dictators don’t take kindly to Hollywood spoofs.
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Quote of the Week:
There are new hamsters in the Big Brother house, so we should have no shortage of memorable quotes this summer.
Cody and his gal-pal
Cody: “I’ve done everything stupid that I possibly can.”
Cody’s Girlfriend: “That’s true.”
Also per tradition, the houseguests this year are quite camera-shy:
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Maybe the new Shakespeare series on TNT will be one of the greatest shows in television history. But when I see ads in which the Bard of Avon is portrayed by yet another male-model type, well ….
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“Talking” Heads Who Just Can’t Seem To
On Wednesday, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell showed why he’s one of America’s preeminent news anchors, giving viewers a master class on how to read a teleprompter:
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Someone needs to send talking head Marie Harf to a speech therapist. Either that, or certain words and phrases need to be off-limits to the mush-mouthed miss.
Seems like every time I catch Harf on TV, she is discussing something like the “administration’s structure” or its “strategy,” which comes out of her mouth as the “adminishtration’s shtructure” and “shtrategy.”
Luckily for Harf, the most common word on cable news these days is “Russia.”
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Amazon is now censoring something it calls “spite speech.” In other words, if Amazon’s crew of amateur editors doesn’t like something you write in a product review, they spite you by banning it.
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The most recent episode of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks was off the rails. The last time I was this confused/mesmerized by on-screen weirdness I was 10 years old and watching Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey in the Roxy Theater in Bird Island, Minnesota. (That’s not a complaint.)
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Good for C-SPAN, which finally got to broadcast something people wanted to watch. Well … at least for an inning or two.
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Sign of the Apocalypse No. 1
Sign of the Apocalypse No. 2
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If they are planning another reboot of The Addams Family, it will be a sad world indeed if they fail to cast Laura Prepon as Morticia.
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Smug Dicks and Creepy Pricks
There was something very satisfying about watching Bill Maher, who regularly lectures Americans about how “stupid” they are, eat shit on his show Friday after getting busted for using the n-word.
There was also something pathetic about watching the comedian try to pass off his mea culpa as a “teachable moment” for all of us, rather than what it really was: a lame attempt to preserve his bona fides with fellow liberals – not to mention his show on HBO.
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Jared Kushner: Who the hell is this rich punk? Apparently he’s been charged by his father-in-law with saving the world, yet I am still waiting to hear him utter a single word.
They say Robert Mueller is investigating Kushner’s role in possible collusion with Russia. I don’t believe that. I believe Mueller is investigating whether or not the kid’s vocal cords have been removed.
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Trump doesn’t seem to understand – or worse, doesn’t care – that “the swamp” isn’t just composed of Democrats, the media, and Obama holdovers. It’s also composed of creepy conservative pricks like this guy:
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Homophobia Week!
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I was as surprised as anyone when the White House introduced new Press Secretary Gary Blackman at Tuesday’s daily press briefing:
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Apparently the Lifetime logo in movie ads is meant to be the equivalent of the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, or a symbol of quality, like whatever it is that Disney uses. But I’m afraid the logo is backfiring for some of us.
I was a bit intrigued by The House Sitter — until I noticed the dreaded Lifetime logo, at which point I thought: “ugh.”
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