Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee is leading a crusade against talk radio. His latest volley is a call for advertisers and consumers to join him in a boycott.
When talk radio hosts use harshly divisive language, “The advertisers should shut them down,” [Chafee] said [Thursday] morning.
Chafee said the solution to the vitriolic rhetoric – which some have linked to the shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords [last] weekend – is for people to stop paying for it, including not buying books from people who use such language(…)
Chafee made national news earlier this week when he announced that he would not go on talk radio and would ban state employees from doing so.
The ban came because talk radio is essentially “ratings-driven, for-profit programming” that was not [an] appropriate use of state employees’ time, Chafee said.
Talk radio is merely a stand in for Chafee’s true bane, his constituents who listen to it.
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There are many who bemoan Hollywood’s tendency to cannibalize itself with endless sequels, prequels, and reboots. I am not one of them.
Film is a child of theater. Part of the pleasure in attending a new production of a play you have seen before is considering the take of a fresh group of artists on the same old material. We wouldn’t fault a theater troupe for yet another production of Romeo & Juliet. So why fault filmmakers for remaking an old film? Quality is certainly affected by source material, but not determined by it.
What annoys me isn’t the preponderance of rehashed properties in Hollywood, but the poor execution of so many of them. For every Batman Begins, it seems there are a dozen Superman Returns.
It’s only been four years since Spider-Man 3 hit theaters, and less than 10 years since the original. Yet we’re already about to see a reboot. Unfortunately, the more we learn of the forthcoming Spider-Man film, the less likely it seems to become that rare derivative which will transcend its predecessor.
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Chris Matthews is just sure that if he yells loud enough, his fantasies will come true.
While ridiculing others for lack of historical, geographical or scientific knowledge, Chris reveals himself to be nearly illiterate on all 3 counts.
He has:
- Wondered why “frogmen” like “in Captain Nemo” didn’t plug the BP oil spill at twice the depth that would crush a nuclear submarine,
- Insisted that Redcoats were tried in an American civil court for the Boston Massacre when Massachusetts was still a British colony and of course John Adams was practicing in a BRITISH court,
- That the 14th Amendment provision for birth citizenship was “how it’s always been.”
- And this week, in the wake of the Tuscon shootings, he baldly stated that no country in the world has had as many assassinations of its “top leaders” than the United States– including countries in Africa!
Jane Fonda has a lot of nerve, no shame and, evidently, a mutated irony gene.
Or perhaps old age is finally catching up to the faded beauty, and her memory is failing…
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My wife and I have been fruitful and we have multiplied, including a pair of now 7-year old twins. And, as a result, I get a steady dose of kids’ shows, particularly the Disney Channel. And one reoccurring segment on Disney is a promo for a group called Friends for Change. This is charity group formed by Disney in 2009 as a “green” initiative to promote environmental activism among the channel’s viewers. The promos consist of various groupings of the channel’s stars (The Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus, etc…I know them all!) telling their viewing audience what they can do to be pint-sized Captain Planets: plant a tree, take shorter showers, ban incandescent bulbs from your house (or, if you have already done so, harass friends and neighbors to do the same), and research ways to make you own, natural household cleaners. What fun for the whole family!
What is noticeably absent from the Friends for Change promos is any acknowledgment that the foundation for the whole movement they support (i.e. man-made climate change) is falling apart. While many of the claims of the eco-alarmists are being discredited and their so-called solutions are shown to be nothing more than politically motivated snake oil, the Green Left is moving full-steam ahead and targeting the less intellectually discerning: the young. The hope is that if they indoctrinate the next generation, it will carry over into adulthood and there will be less need for pesky little things like facts. If Disney has its way, the battle will be won without and need for ammunition.
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