A common theme in today’s reports on yesterday’s primaries is that Bernie Sanders crushed Hillary Clinton in Michigan. Media outlets love extreme verbs like “crushed” — even to describe comedy. Barely a week goes by without a headline like “John Oliver obliterates this” or “Samantha Bee destroys that.” But once again, some perspective needs to […]
Several people have e-mailed to ask what I think of Louis CK’s open letter to people who support Donald Trump, in which he tells them to knock it off because Trump is Hitler — then goes on to urge you to vote for a conservative, because after 8 years of Obama, it’s only fair to […]
I can’t remember ever agreeing with Lindsey Graham on anything, and there’s no doubt that he’s part of the GOP establishment that is being torn asunder by Donald Trump, but still, his remarks on CBS tonight about what’s happening to his party and what to expect when Trump faces Hillary Clinton are nothing short of […]
Jeffrey Toobin, whose “The Nine” was a definitive work on the modern Supreme Court, feels that enough time has passed since the death of Antonin Scalia to write about how much harm he did to our country… Antonin Scalia, who died this month, after nearly three decades on the Supreme Court, devoted his professional life […]
I have never seen a political candidate so publicly disgusted by, yet so totally dependent on, the national media as Donald Trump. At his rallies, he tells his crowd that the media lie about him constantly, and they shouldn’t trust any reporters. It’s no wonder that his sheep believe him so much that reporters have […]
From the people who brought you “The Producers”…