“Be gay do socialism & deplatform the bigots.” Carlos Maza tweeted to his followers on Saturday in what appears to be a strong statement that the Vox reporter, who played a significant role in YouTube’s decision to demonetize conservative comedian/commentator Steven Crowder’s channel, has not finished his crusade to deplatform voices that would dissent from…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield President Donald Trump, via a series of tweets, under the mist of a brewing weekend and dying news cycle, has announced a new bipartisan health care plan to “Make America Great Again.” Trump started the night picking up where he left off, spouting disdain for the principled…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Katie Frates Kellyanne Conway, President Donald Trump’s special adviser, used to do stand-up comedy. Someone unearthed a Nov. 26, 1998 video of Conway, 31 at the time, cracking jokes and uploaded it to C-SPAN Sunday. They didn’t give it a very nice title, either: “Kellyanne Terrible Kellyanne Fitzpatrick/Conway attempts comedy…
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart ruthlessly mocked wearers of Google Glass who whined about being the sufferers of “hate crimes” for wearing their recording technology. Calling them “iDouches,” correspondent Jason Jones heaps scathing insults in their direction for calling themselves explorers. One of the participants in the panel of iDouches was Sarah Slocum, who…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Publius It has been a fantastic week for public relations nightmares. First, Pepsi tried (and failed) to use social activism to sell a second-rate cola. Then, United Airlines violently removed a passenger from an aircraft to accommodate a non-paying United employee. Next, Sean Spicer did what he did best:…
A video was released by a blog that shows the evolving terminology of the Affordable Care act for Democrats. This is a great mashup of clips showing how as Obama’s approval ratings have tanked, so too have Democrats willingness to call it… “Obamacare”.
