A Bullshit Rule
On Thursday night, when Jon Stewart did a desk piece bashing Fox News from Stephen Colbert's "Late Show" desk, he uttered the phrase, "I see your bullshit." CBS bleeped the last word, but any viewer could see what he was saying. Colbert, who was perched under the...
As I Tweeted
All the cheering by Hillary Clinton fans about Roger Ailes' departure from Fox will stop the minute he joins Donald Trump's campaign.
As I Tweeted
If Meredith McIver is a real person (not one of Trump's media-calling alter egos -- let's see her birth certificate!), I bet her next paycheck will include a nice big bonus. The "party of law & order" wants Hillary Clinton executed for treason, but never mind a...
We’ve Seen That Before
Wow, it didn't take long for media outlets to discover that portions of Melania Trump's speech tonight were plagiarized from Michele Obama's speech at the 2008 Democrat convention. That's probably not what her husband intended when he made his WWE-like...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
Dan Rather says if he had the opportunity to sit down with Donald Trump and Mike Pence (as Lesley Stahl did last night on "60 Minutes"), one of the questions he would ask is, "Do you believe in evolution?" It is long past time that we inject science into the national...
Political Hypocrites
If Donald Trump picks Newt Gingrich as his running mate later this week, I bet it won't be even a full day before Hillary Clinton's campaign releases a commercial showing all the times Gingrich said Trump would make a horrible president. You can also expect over the...
A Very Bad Week
After this week, maybe we should lower the flag to three feet off the ground. When we get our shit together we can raise it to half-mast.— Lewis Black (@TheLewisBlack) July 8, 2016 I spent much of my radio week discussing the shooting of civilians and cops in...
Lying Is A Prerequisite
I can't help but laugh when I hear Republicans screaming that Hillary Clinton lied about this or that regarding her emails. First of all, with Donald Trump as your candidate, you can't take the high road about anyone's lying -- the man is putting up pants-on-fire...