The mass-marketing of profanity just won't stop. Now's it topping the best-selling book list – in children's picture books. You might have heard by now that there's a 'subversive' little bedtime book for adults. It should not be read to children. It's called 'Go the F— to Sleep.' Anyone who's ever been up at 2 in the morning with a baby or toddler knows exactly the feeling that is being exploited here. 'Total genius,' says the blurb on the front cover. Genius it is not. Anybody could have written this book in 90 minutes, tops. It's just having the 'bright... continue reading
More than any other Republican presidential prospect, Sarah Palin draws white-hot journalistic loathing. She's too red-state, too gun-toting, too religious, and too unwilling to abort a disabled 'fetus.' Even so, filmmaker Steve Bannon remains deeply optimistic his forthcoming Palin documentary 'The Undefeated' will sway the media to see Palin in a different light. Bannon, a former Goldman Sachs banker turned filmmaker, told National Review's Kathryn Lopez that once he and his producing partner delved into Palin's life story, 'we decided that not just the American people but even the mainstream media were both fair and decent - that when presented... continue reading
Traditional organizations like the Boy Scouts of America have long been under siege by atheists and pro-gay lobbyists who insist they shouldn't have the freedom of association to maintain their God-fearing identity. But you think that's maddening? How about the ultimate cultural flip-flop of a gay softball league going to federal court to insist that bisexual or heterosexual players can't play ball with them? In Seattle, Reagan-appointed U.S. District Judge John Coughenour ruled that a group called the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance has a First Amendment right to limit the number of bisexual or heterosexual players. "It would... continue reading
When the folks at CBS shooed Katie Couric out the door, one could almost hear the harrumph with which Scott Pelley was reinstalling the Old Regime of Ed Murrow. Unlike Couric, Pelley wasn't debuting with celebrity interviews and updates on Tom Cruise's baby. CBS is going back to biased Dan Rather basics, treating Couric's tenure as little more than a palate cleanser. With Couric off the news grid in pursuit of cloning Oprah Winfrey's success in feel-your-pain afternoon chat, who will be the public face of soft and marshmallowy News Lite? Coincidentally, NBC's Meredith Vieira retired from NBC's 'Today' and... continue reading
It's so ironic that in the very midst of the Anthony Weiner Twitter scandal, television's most shameless channel, MTV, is working overtime to make any notion of sexual restraint obsolete. This year's MTV Movie Awards aerobically established a new low. Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis are starring in the upcoming summer comedy "Friends with Benefits," yet another movie exploring the "dream life" of casual and very cold sex. As they introduced the award for Best Male Performance, Timberlake and Kunis grabbed each other's private parts on national TV. Reflect for just a moment on what Weiner did, and the medium... continue reading
Last July, ABC and NBC highlighted a temper tantrum from Rep. Anthony Weiner, alleging on the House floor that the Republicans were denying health care to the heroes of 9/11. To Diane Sawyer, Weiner spoke for all of America: "Every now and then, someone seems to express the nation's frustration with the endless wrangling and delay in Congress." Remember Weiner when liberal journalists roll their eyes at the stupidity of conservatives. Weiner's social-media sex scandal was underplayed by the national media precisely because they thought their ultraliberal star was far too smart to commit these stupid sex pranks with women... continue reading
Born blocks from the NBC soundstage in 1984 to parents in the entertainment industry, Ben Shapiro is a natural choice to write a book about Hollywood. For his new book "Primetime Propaganda," Shapiro has studied decades of television content and interviewed a bevy of powerful Hollywood producers to document the degree to which they have created a political and cultural revolution of permissive leftism. The project gets off to a harsh start. In his introduction, Shapiro attacks "traditional" TV critics on the cultural right for being "worse than useless," suggesting some unnamed conservatives are insisting TV should not be watched... continue reading
One part of the liberal media's Obama re-election effort is well under way: trying to destroy the reputation of Fox News and its president, Roger Ailes. Two long new magazine "exposes" have attempted to demonize Ailes and his allegedly brain-dead minions as the antithesis of good journalism. The funnier one came from Rolling Stone magazine, which ran the title "How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory." How little does this rag understand good journalism? It took only a few lines before staff writer/fantasist Tim Dickinson fell on his face. After painting a picture of employees loyally cheering the... continue reading
One part of the liberal media's Obama re-election effort is well under way: trying to destroy the reputation of Fox News and its president, Roger Ailes. Two long new magazine "exposes" have attempted to demonize Ailes and his allegedly brain-dead minions as the antithesis of good journalism. The funnier one came from Rolling Stone magazine, which ran the title "How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory." How little does this rag understand good journalism? It took only a few lines before staff writer/fantasist Tim Dickinson fell on his face. After painting a picture of employees loyally cheering the... continue reading
There simply aren't enough people questioning why pop princess Rihanna has repeatedly put out a string of please-hurt-me songs over the last two years, since she left the violent embrace of pop star Chris Brown. In 2009, the pop star Rihanna told ABC anchor Diane Sawyer she finally broke it off with her violent pop-star boyfriend Chris Brown. For the children, of course. "When I realized that my selfish decision for love could result into some young girl getting killed, I could not be easy with that part. I couldn't be responsible." She added "I just didn't realize how much... continue reading