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These days, news anchormen serve as little more than hosts of reality TV shows masquerading as news programs. Their programming mantra – “if it bleeds, it leads” – used to reflect reporting on an increasingly violent society. Now it reflects reporting on anything that outrages, scares, or titillates – just to generate ratings. Which, of… Read more.
The leading Republican presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, spent most of last week hurling schoolyard insults at each other, all in a vainglorious attempt to defend the honor of their wives, respectively. This latest farce, in a series that has characterized the race for the Republican nomination, stemmed from an anti-Trump ad featuring… Read more.
Frankly, that name now conjures up such racial and religious bigotry, to say nothing of neo-Nazi thuggery, it should make you want to spit too. But more about that later…. Since launching his campaign last summer, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been spewing anti-Mexican and anti-Muslim rhetoric in a manner that seems pathological. Commentators… Read more.
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is a black-swan phenomenon. Nothing demonstrates this quite like so many commentators having egg on their faces for mistakenly predicting its demise. The only reason I don’t is that I have never underestimated the ignorance or gullibility of large segments of the American people. Such commentaries as “On Syria (and almost… Read more.
Listening to Republicans swoon over his leadership, you could be forgiven for thinking they wish Putin were president of the United States. Granted, this swooning probably reflects their partisan/racial hatred of Obama more than their love of Putin. But there’s no denying a totalitarian ideation that makes far too many Republicans swoon over cocksure leaders who… Read more.
Exactly! His letter makes no sense. I am on record hailing Russell Simmons for his political activism in such commentaries as “Black Political Leadership in America Is Dead! Thank God for Hip-Hop Mogul Russell Simmons,” April 26, 2005. Notably, his activism includes chairing The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, whose “sole mission is to fight bigotry… Read more.
As the media hyped so cravingly, it was all about Donald Trump. Which is why nothing any of the other ten candidates said during this debate will have much, if any, lasting impact. I feel obliged to note, however, that U.S. presidential debates have always been more spectacle than substance. For example, the first televised… Read more.
I pledged some time ago to eschew commenting on the WWE-style battle royale masquerading as a fight for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. But reports on Donald Trump’s latest rant against President Obama hit a nerve, which is saying a lot given his record of racist taunts about Obama’s birth certificate and college transcript. Before… Read more.
NBC has cut ties with business mogul Donald Trump, whose show The Apprentice has aired on the network since 2004, over Trump’s recent derogatory statements about immigrants. According to a statement, the network is ‘ending its business relationship’ with Trump, noting the annual Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants and The Apprentice will no longer… Read more.
Making celebrities of idiots who say or do things that have no socially redeeming value has become a defining feature of social media. Far worse, though, is the way mainstream media now cover these idiots as if their ignorant rantings and contrived antics are truly newsworthy. This was brought into distressing relief over the past… Read more.
