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Years ago, I worked with someone who had gone to school with Lachlan Murdoch and considered him a legitimate person. I wonder what he thinks of him now.

Twenty-five years later, filial bootlicking has turned Lachlan into a monster, as is clear from his recent speech in Australia, reported by the Washington Post.

This amoral opportunist ensures that he is vaccinated against COVID while reiterating Fox “News” party line assailing all measures to protect the public health.

The billionaire’s son naturally took some swipes at the “elites.”
Does Lachlan Murdoch have an original thought in his head?

Another question: why is treasonous incitement by a “news” network that uses our air waves for free considered OK?

and one for the road: Why has Rupert Murdoch’s citizenship not been revoked?

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It’s as unadulterated as the Catskills that surround it.

Chris Hayes went through the list last night: Mark Foley, Dennis Hastert, possibly Matt Gaetz.

And let’s not forget Jim Jordan, who enabled sexual abuse of his wrestling team.

And let’s not forget Josh Hawley, who when the cameras aren’t on could care less.

And, of course Trump.

The Guardian has conducted an investigation into John Casablancas’ thoroughly gross “Look of the Year” contests, which Trump used as a way to get close to as many teenage aspiring-models as he could. And the nakeder, the better. “Every time we changed, it was like Trump would find a reason to come backstage,” one recalls.

who are constantly assailing the achievements of accomplished people.

To wit: Sarah “Dingaling” Palin upchucking defamatory insults at Judge Brown Jackson.

For the new New York Sun, I preview Lincoln Center’s revival of Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth.

and very, very tacky. He’s just got a bottomless appetite for power and the a priori credential for rise in the GOP: an utter lack of morality or ethics.Cf. Mick Mulvaney.

DeSantis doesn’t have an original thought in his mind. His Trump Mini Me-cum-Napoleon gesticulations are as campy as they come. A few weeks ago he was making gratuitous swipes at France’s alleged unwillingness to defend itself militarily that sounded like recycled GOP tropes from 2003. Has Dum-Dum DeSantis read anything about World War II?

Similarly, his anti-gay hate bills are all predicated on a complete ignorance of human sexuality. Sexuality is not “groomed.” DeSantis either doesn’t know, or, more likely, couldn’t give a crap.

I’m always amazed when the media expresses surprise that an Ivy League graduate is dim. Why don’t they read William Dereseiwicz’s “Excellent Sheep” and get hip to the fact that it’s perfectly possible to score Ivy League degrees while doing a minimum of actual thinking.

There are few people less qualified to be part of any genuine news outlet’s programming than criminal liar Mick Mulvaney. He lied to Congress. He is without ethics or morality. He committed one defiant assault on the Constitution after another.

There are also few people who so vividly demonstrate that falling upward has become the American success story: Mulvaney screws up or degrades every job he takes.

CBS’s current leadership should be forced to resign for disgracing the network.

And the brass’s limp self-justification that Mulvaney’s hiring will allow “access,” indicts the blind alley that is “access journalism.” What it really is is co-option.

Now he’s braying that he only had sex with Stormy as a favor to her, because she needed him so badly. (In a manner of speaking.)

Sunday night was really a staggering moment demonstrating once again, how far this country has fallen–and our entertainment industry with it.

Why were all the stars going over to comfort Will Smith, whereas Chris Rock was simply left to nurse his bruises as suavely as he could? Yes, Smith was out of control and dangerous, but Rock had just been walloped. As Jim Carrey–one of the very few A-list stars to call out the debacle for what it was–later remarked, it was indeed sickening that Smith then received a standing ovation.

Atrocious behavior rewarded.
Violent aggressors treated as victims.
Familial abuse enacted on an industry-wide scale.

Two nights ago may have been the nadir, but the entire proceedings are so dated and so corrupt, and the dresses so awful . . Is this really how Hollywood wants to present itself to the world?