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Good news.
Taken from Churchill, I believe.
Ah, yes. Troubling questions. That means they’re just about done painting their target.
I swear if I hear one more of these people use the words “troubling” or “problematic,” I’ll scream.
An excellent bit of history as cautionary tale.
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“Concerning.”
Ah, Air America: the Hindenburg of radio networks. Reminiscent of Steve Colbert’s “The Colbert Report”, except they meant that drivel and as a consequence (unlike Colbert) it was funny.
They fired Mike Malloy for sounding like all of them do on Twitter now. If anything, Malloy was restraining himself.
What a sad and tragic tale, Gary. This is all news to me, and it is a travesty the way his efforts have been trashed. I put the Clarence Thomas movie on my Netflix list for when it becomes available. I hope Michael Pack finds his way out of this muck to great success.
We saw the Clarence Thomas movie here in Tucson. It was well done.
The Hollywood mentality can be seen in two recent movies. “Trumbo” and “Truth.”
Both fiction disguised as truth,
“A number of right wing bloggers claimed the sky was grey. They asserted that it would rain, despite authoritative predictions by better-informed experts. McVey, whose degree was in film, not meteorology, offered a baseless opinion backing his unqualified friends. Later, after the rain let up, he was forcefully refuted…”
He’s managed to keep a great career going in the face of endless opposition. My hat’s off to Michael.
How about a movie adaptation of Dr. Michael Kennedy’s “A Brief History of Disease, Science and Medicine”? It sure seems like the topic is topical. We’ll get Selleck to play you.
It would have to be a mini-series, too long for one movie
On a slightly different but related note, my brother recently watched Frontline’s ‘documentary’ on Covid 19, I forget the exact title.
He said there was zero mention of hydroxychloroquine.
Clive Owen
See? We’ve got the movie deal ready to go!
10 episode series on HBO!
Here was my Day One response:
“Air America Radio, a tiny new initiative in liberal AM talk radio, went on the air. Its flagship show is “The O’Franken Factor”, Al Franken’s attempted razzing of both O’Reilly and Limbaugh. For some time, the left has griped that they have no outlets; it’s like the right and movies. I was interested in being around for the first moments of a new radio network’s life. In Los Angeles, AAR is replacing the programming of a Spanish-language station at 1280, so I listened to a pair of DJs talking out the final minutes of their format. I heard the words “Air America Radio, en ingles, hasta mediadia”. At noon, there was dead air. A commercial started in the middle and then cut off. Two Beatles tunes played. Then there were three public service spots. Finally, they joined the Franken program, in progress. What a disaster”.
~adds lesbian sex scene to increase viewership~
It is rather telling that AAR seemed not to realize that by latching on to O’Reilly that way, it was from its inception a necessarily parasitical entity, only able to thrive while it felt it had something to mock. While Colbert and Stewart likewise engaged in sarcastic mockery through their venues, they at least were not fixed on discrete personalities, and they were independently funny in their own right (to a point – it’s notable that Stewart has in recent years somewhat lamented his role in the coarsening of public debate).
There are ample lessons for would-be conservative culture creators there too, I should note. You cannot be forever against things and expect to get anywhere, nor can you survive only through scolding and mockery – you have to show people the alternative without turning into a polemicist.
It must have been awful witnessing how that meeting blew apart over the angry demands of victim scolds, but again I would guess that the lesson there is to keep telling the truth without trying to look like you’re engaged in political balancing or apportionment.
Audience sees who they cast for these scenes – viewership plummets.
Nonsense; overweight feminist comedians are the new porn!
Snuff porn is illegal.
fake news
And it was all downhill from there.
I think you’re right on both counts. Franken had been a TV comedian for something like 25 years at that point, but radio is different. What Rush Limbaugh does is damned hard to do. The others, like Stephanie Miller (daughter of Goldwater’s VP candidate, BTW) were somewhat more polished radio performers. It was always indicative that the Left so effortlessly dominates FM talk with NPR, but never got the hang of drivetime or any form of working class AM radio.
10 episode series on HBO!
“Our senses are rightly captivated
By perfect works Our Master has created!”
–Moliere’s Tartuffe.
The Memoir would make a better movie but I was always going to write one that included some scandalous stories from the old days. The problem was I would have to outlive some people. They seem determined to outlive me so I guess that is off. One good friend called me recently. He is probably ten years older than I am (82) and was fishing in New Zealand when the WuHan flu hit. He flew home but got a bad cold after getting home. He is over it but getting the antibody test next week as he thinks it was the WuFlu. The guy is 92 and has had half his joints replaced because he still spends hours a day in his home gym. When I was a resident, 50 years ago, he was staff and used to run the 18 floors of stairs at County to work out.