Yesterday, Donald Trump misunderstood the comments by one of his aides and suggested they research blasting UV light in the body or injecting disinfectants into the lungs to kill Coronavirus. Needless to say people were, well, shocked. We are also afraid that some people might take his idea literally like that one couple who drank fish cleaner.
Several people took to social media to let others know not to do that. One of the best memes came from Nia Vardalos. The actress wanted people to know that while her movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding recommended Windex for everything, it is not for killing the COVID-19. You can use it for bee stings, as I did in pinch, but you need to keep it external.
Donald Trump had one his bizarre rants at a rally tonight. He went off on the movie Parasite because it won Best Picture at the Oscars this year. He does not understand why a movie from South Korea won the award. Did he see it? Nope. He just doesn’t like it because the country is not giving in to his stupid trade war.
Well, when NEON, who produces the film, heard that he bashed their Oscar-winning film, they had the perfect response for him. They wrote, “Understandable, he can’t read.” Unless someone reads that tweet to him, he will never know about it. However, we will. Because we do read.
Now, let’s talk about him saying it should’ve been Gone with the Wind. I thought he hated the wind because it blows whatever is left of his hair revealing how bald and how white his skin is.
Oh, and even though Sunset Boulevard was nominated for 11 Oscars, it did not win Best Picture. However, just like he will always be impeached and a Razzie winner, Parasite will always be the Oscar’s Best Picture of 2019.
The most excitement in the White House briefing room in months. Reporters attempt to capture a baby mouse that fell on @PeterAlexander lap moments ago pic.twitter.com/6zWRZfTAaq
I guess there really are rats in the White House because today a baby mouse fell from the ceiling and landed on NBC’s Peter Alexander lap. Since Rachel Maddow was not there for him to give the exclusive to, he ran in to press room to see who would be a good alternate.
Since nothing has happened there in months, Shannon Pettypiece and the press got so excited they chased after him like he was Bob Mueller finally making an appearance there with some new information. All of them hoping to get the scoop and not having to scoop up after him.
Since he is a White House employee born in this administration, he was out of there before anyone knew his name. However, the pool got his name and it is Liddle’ Fuzzball. No word if he is the whistleblower, but he obviously knows something.
Let’s get serious for a moment. You know things are really going down at the WH over the impeachment proceedings because the rats are literally jumping ship.
To see Liddle’ (with a dash and not an apostrophe) Fuzzball’s face, then click here!
Conan O’Brien has traveled all over the World for his TBS specials Conan Without Borders. Tonight at 10p, he travels 6,000 miles northeast to Greenland. A country that Donald Trump says he wants to buy from Denmark. However, Denmark told him no deal.
Conan flew to the gorgeous island covered mostly in ice to see if they would be willing to be sold to the United States via him as our country’s spokesman. Are the natives willing to sell to the US?
Conan sets his sights on the Nuuk, the capital of Greenland where a third of the country (around 18,000 people) lives. He is being shown the city by Vivi and she does not like the idea of becoming American. She is not alone. After touring the Nuuk Golfklub (Trump will love that), he talks to some of the residents there. None of them like the idea. Although, one guy is happy about the publicity they are getting.
The thing about Conan Without Borders is he shows a side of the locations we do not normally see. For example, Phoebe takes him home with her and serves him a true Greenlandic meal. It includes lamb, seal fat, shark skin, dried seal skin and dried fish. Sounds yummy, no? No. He talks to her family about the sale and the high school student tells him they are learning about it in school. What does her class think of the idea? What do you think? They think it is a big joke.
Now that he is familiar with their foods, it is time for him to be interviewed by KNR, Greenland’s biggest and only television station. Since he is such a big star, they ask him to do the weather. The host decides to read it in Greenlandic. He massacres their language as he reads from the teleprompter. We all would because the words are really long with a lot of vowels.
Now that he is a star, he walks the streets of downtown that has only 2 traffic lights. There, the tall white man with red hair is followed by the sole paparazzo and high school students. Both ask him questions and he gets their opinion of the possible purchase.
Now it is time to convince the premiere and the 24-year-old prime minister to sell their land to him. Will he be able to convince them to become Americans? You have to see.
Whether he won them over or not, he did buy himself a lakefront property. He travels to his piece of the rock and you see the magnitude of their icebergs. Icebergs that are melting faster than expected because of warmer temperatures. The more that keeps happening, the less likely we will living on dry land. In other words, we will be underwater.
Greenland is a country we have heard of, but have rarely seen. It is a magnificent country full of beauty. Granted they are wearing winter coats in August, but it is just gorgeous to look at. You will be in awe of how picturesque it is.
It is not only about the scenery, but it is also about the people who call Greenland home. In tonight’s special we learn about them and what their lives are like up there. What do they do for a living? What do they eat? What do they watch on television? Their history during the wars. We also learn how expensive their iPhones. Yes, they have them, Apple is everywhere. This show is a look at a place we rarely see. Conan Without Borders should be shown in schools because you will never get a realer look at a location than you will with him. Well, you can go to Greenland and get a better idea, but it is really cold there.
When it comes to Greenland selling, I hope they do not do it. They seem like are a nice group of people in a stunning country and they should stay that way. Don’t let America’s bad influence ruin what you are now. Believe me, you will remain happier that way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAnJJHrq0Ws The Loudest Voice is the story of Roger Ailes (Russell Crowe), but it could just as easily be Donald Trump’s story too. If you swap out Fox News Channel for his real estate business. Now that we got that out of the way, here is more about the series that debuts on Showtime tonight at 10p.
The series starts off with Ailes getting fired from CNBC and eventually getting hired by Rupert Murdoch to run his new news channel. Ailes needs to build up his network and get it ready to launch. He does not want it to be like CNN or the just-launched MSNBC. The latter was supposed to be groundbreaking because it was incorporating the internet into its broadcast.
When they went left, he went right. He was going to do what he wants with the channel no matter what anyone else says. He was going to scream, yell and fire anyone he wants. Even when the network wasn’t ready to launch, he was going to launch it anyway. And that is where the first episode ends.
Then they skip ahead five years to 9/11 for episode two. Ailes fed into everyone’s fear. He wanted to make sure everyone knew this was a terrorist attack, whether it was or wasn’t. He was going to do all he could to scare his viewers. He knew that would make them watch. He was even going to try to influence President Bush to say what he wanted. When the anthrax scare hit close to FNC, he was going to make it a bigger deal than it really was. More of the fear mongering we know his network for being. When 9/11 was not dominating as much, he like, everyone else moves on.
For episode three, Barack Hussein Obama is running for president. Ailes is doing everything he can to make the future president seems like a Muslim terrorist. As in using his middle name as possible. He is asked to calm it down, but he is not going to do. Eventually, Washington tries to step in, but he is not going to listen. Not even to his boss. Eventually, he loses when Obama wins. But for how long?
Since we only got three episodes to review, we don’t know how much further they go into the sexual harassment aspect of his life. We see glimpses of it but not a whole lot of it to know how big a part of it. I am sure as the series goes on, we will know much much more.
As someone, who worked in network news, I was expecting another Newsroom. This is not a show about news. It is a show about a newsman. Therefore, I had to separate myself from expecting accuracy in news, which is not even close to reality. That I can forgive because it is not the story they are telling. However, I cannot forgive them for what they did to two of my former co-workers from my Miami day. Louis Aguirre was the first anchor to talk on Fox News, yet you do not hear him mention his name. In the second episode, we see Shepard Smith, but they cast some ugly guy (no offense) to play him. I mean Shep has been there before day one and he is still there today. I think we all know what he looks like. They should have just used him because he has not aged a day since 1996.
Now that I have vented about that, Crowe is phenomenal as Ailes. He is unrecognizable as the “fake news”man. He should win the Emmy next year. Although, I wish he would have channeled some of his past anger when he portrayed Ailes in some scenes. Not all network news bosses are screamers, but the ones that are, leave a mark on you that never goes away. Thankfully, I was not subject to their abuse, but I witnessed it a few times in the newsroom and I will never forget it. It is that shocking and terrifying.
When it comes to Trump and Ailes, there so many similarities in their playbooks that they could be the same person. Playing on people’s fear and focusing only on that. It is for that reason I highly suggest watching. There is a method to their madness. A madness I hope that died with Ailes and will die with Trump.
In short, this is not the story of Fox News, it is the story of the man behind it. A very scary man who thought his sh!t didn’t stink. We all know it does. Worse than anything else, you have ever smelled before. Something the series does not.
