News organizations tend to be reticent about reporting on wrongdoings within their own walls. But yesterday Colbert discussed the explosive allegations against Leslie Moonves, CEO of CBS, the network that produces and broadcasts his show. In addition, he brings up the Kimberly Guilfoyle-Donald Trump Jr. genital photo issue.
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I have deleted my Facebook account that I never used and so was not aware that the company has been running ads apologizing for some of the things that have been revealed recently about its practices. John Oliver exposes the disingenuous nature of the ‘apologies’ and runs a more truthful ad.
In a segment on his latest show Who Is America?, Sacha Baron Cohen, in his adopted persona as an Israeli anti-terrorism expert, interviews failed Alabama senate candidate Roy Moore and demonstrates a new device supposedly invented by the Israeli army that can detect pedophiles, something that Moore has been accused of being. The interview does not go well.
(Dan Coverly’s Speed Bump)
Stephen Colbert comments on the traumatized reaction of a conservative who attended the St. Louis rally at which democratic socialist congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke and found herself disturbingly attracted to the progressive message that she heard.
As Colbert says, god is a socialist.
I have not been following this story closely but Samantha Bee gives some background on what it is all about.
… and yet they get elected to office, as a segment on Sacha Baron Cohen’s new show demonstrates.
I came across this moving and yet funny eulogy given by comedian Billy Crystal at the funeral of Muhammad Ali that I thought worth sharing. I hadn’t known that they were so close for so long.