Tag Archives: CBS

Prophesying the coming of Trump, “the high priest of fraud,” in 1958

By Mark | January 12, 2019

Over the past few days, a reader of this site – a fellow calling himself iRobert – has shared the same link in the comments section several times. It’s a link to an episode of a television program from 1958 starring Robert Culp called Trackdown. Saying that the episode in question, titled “The End of […]

Posted in Politics, Pop Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1958, border wall, Columbo, con man, con men, Death Lends a Hand, Fred Trump, Hoby Gilman, iRobert, Lawrence Dobkin, Old Man Trump, racism, Robert Culp, Talpa, Texas, Texas Ranger, Trackdown, Woody Guthrie | 11 Comments

NBC, ABC and CBS capitulate to Trump, offering him airtime to lie to the American people about the non-existent “crisis” on our southern border

By Mark | January 7, 2019

Early this afternoon, Donald Trump tweeted out that he would be addressing the nation at 9:00 on Tuesday evening to discuss the “national security crisis on our southern border.” The three networks, who, back in November of 2014, refused to televise a speech on immigration by President Barack Obama, saying that it was too political, […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged ABC, border security, border wall, Brian Stelter, bullying, Dan Pfeiffer, Donald Trump, fake news, illegal immigration, Judd Legum, Kirstjen Nielsen, national emergency, NBC, racism, stupid ideas, terrorism | 99 Comments

Christopher Guest’s Death Wish

By Mark | January 14, 2014

This evening, while researching something completely unrelated, I discovered an interesting little fact about filmmaker Christopher Guest that I wanted to share. A decade before starring in This Is Spinal Tap, and setting in motion a chain of events that would make him the mockumentary auteur he is today, he starred opposite Charles Bronson in […]

Posted in Art and Culture | Also tagged 1974, acting, actors playing cops, Baron Haden-Guest, barons, Bill Murray, casting, Charles Bronson, Christopher Guest, Columbo, Death Wish, England, House of Lords, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jean Pauline Hindes, mockumentary, National Lampoon, National Lampoon Radio Hour, peerage, police, revenge porn, Spinal Tap, The Hot Rock, United Nations | 8 Comments

Gay abortion football

By Mark | February 1, 2010

CBS, the network airing the Super Bowl this weekend, recently announced that they would not be airing an ad for a Toronto company catering to straight-identifying men who might be in the market for their first homosexual experience during the Sunday broadcast. The network said that it wasn’t anything personal, but that they weren’t accepting […]