Adam Carolla knew we needed “Mr. Birchum” both sooner and later. The cranky wood shop teacher, created by Carolla to break into LA radio in the 1990s, captured his real-world carpentry chops and no-nonsense style. Today, the character’s bluster is the perfect antidote to our woke, “this is MY truth” society. “Mr. Birchum,” the new Daily Wire+ animated series, leans into that cultural shift. Hard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jcSBYQVEHY The show finds Carolla’s character running afoul of a...
This week it was announced that ABC News President Kim Godwin would be stepping down from her position later this summer and retiring completely from broadcasting. The reaction felt by many inside the network was, “Finally.” Godwin has had a tumultuous three years or so at the helm, and speculation has long been that she needed to go, but there has been a hesitancy at the network to make the move.
The Daily Show Host Jon Stewart Monday skewered far-right media pundits over what he described as a hypocritical condemnation of victimhood culture in which they paint themselves as the biggest victims. Stewart lashed out at Fox News hosts such as Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham for their repeated and public rants against "woke cancel culture" he argued had nothing on them. "This is their identity now," Stewart said. "They say what they want if you get upset about it, you don't believe in...
Courts in England are reportedly looking to end the requirement for wigs amid claims they discriminate against people with "Afro-Caribbean hair".
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From the death of Osama bin Laden (as announced by Dwayne Johnson) to the rise of Donald Trump, from #TheDress to the Oscars slap, it’s impossible to imagine the last twenty or so years of global cultural history without Twitter, the microblogging platform that no one has ever referred to as “X.” And over the past two decades, no subsection of the app’s vast user base has produced more enduring memes, more culture-shifting social-justice hashtags, and more pure comedy than the cohort known as...
The New York Times Denounces Cancel Culture After Fueling Cancel Culture For Years Authored by Jonathan Turley, For those of us who have criticized the cancel culture in higher education for years, the attacks and shunning have been unrelenting. The media has played a role in that culture and none more prominently than the New York Times. Recently, however, the mob came for liberal professors and media who have remained silent for years as conservatives and others were targeted on...
Persisting in his support for an unpopular war, the Democrat in the White House has helped spark a rebellion close to home. Young people — least inclined to deference, most inclined to moral outrage — are leading public opposition to the ongoing slaughter in Gaza. The campus upheaval is a clash between accepting and resisting, More
Loading Today on the show: Jen Psaki, former White House press secretary, MSNBC host, and the author of Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World (Simon & Schuster, 2024), offers advice on effective communication in Washington, and beyond. The city's cultural institutions rely on funding from the city budget, and they are dealing with budget cuts. Adrian Benepe, president of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and Regina Bain, executive director of the Louis Armstrong House...
Are you a pop culture fiend who’s ever watched Jeopardy! and thought, “Hmm I bet I could do that, but I don’t know enough about old coins or rock formations or what former presidents ate for breakfast”? Now might be your time to shine. Prime Video announced a new twist on the classic game show today (via Variety): Pop Culture Jeopardy!, which is exactly what it sounds like. Contestants who may not know George Washington’s birthday or Andrew Jackson’s star sign, but definitely know Kerry...
It's been over a year since Bud Light made the disastrous decision to partner with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. If you asked me then whether a boycott of Bud Light would work, even if for a little while, I would have said, "Absolutely not." But something strange happened. Bud Light, which Anheuser-Busch owns, is, to this day, still struggling to make up for that horrible mistake. Bud Light sales are still falling.