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Film & TV Emmys 2017: So Many Jewish Nominees
(JTA) — On Thursday, the Television Academy announced the nominees for the coveted Primetime Emmy Awards. Here are the acting candidates with Jewish ancestry. The awards for TV excellence will be presented Sept. 8 on CBS. Lead actress, drama series Evan Rachel Wood is being considered for her portrayal of Dolores Abernathy, an android character in the sci-fi…
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Fast Forward Is The NRA’s New Ad Anti-Semitic?
A prominent activist has called the NRA’s new ad “an open call to violence to protect white supremacy,” and the organizers of the Women’s March have demanded that the NRA apologize for it. But is it anti-Semitic? In the ad, NRA spokeswomen Dana Loesch details how “They use their media to assassinate real news,” “they”…
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Fast Forward Mark Cuban Watches ‘Law & Order’ And Is Really Into E-Mail
Mark Cuban has a multi-billion dollar business empire that includes the Dallas Mavericks basketball team. And he manages the whole enterprise from his smartphone – shooting off e-mails from his iPhone and Android mobiles. “If I’m laying in bed watching a game, if it’s halftime of a Mav’s game, that’s when I’ll do my emails,”…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Starts Own Show On Facebook Live
After decades of attacking the mainstream media for its corporate ownership, Bernie Sanders has found a way to speak without a filter to the public, launching his own talk show that’s now airing on Facebook Live. “It gives me an opportunity to speak directly to many millions of people about the work that we’re doing…
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Culture Why Does An Ad For An Amazon Show Make So Many People Mad?
Since the election of Donald Trump, a funny thing has started to happen — otherwise innocuous pieces of pop culture have become political battlegrounds. I mean funny both as curious and as downright hilarious. In the former camp, we have boycott movements growing around things like sneakers (New Balance) and cereal (Kellogg’s) – the newly extreme…
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Culture Why William F. Buckley’s ‘Firing Line’ Provides The Antidote To Today’s Political Debate
We are currently dealing with two pernicious and complementary problems in our country: politicians ranging from imbecilic to evil (often both) and a degraded, debased, public discourse. Both problems feed on one another, and it is difficult to say which came first (i.e. Trump speaks and thinks like an imbecile, thus every time we want…
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Fast Forward Is Trump Aide Boris Epshteyn The Most Hated Man On Cable?
Boris Ephsteyn, President Donald Trump’s cable avatar, has gained a reputation as a crass presence off the screen, with bookers at multiple networks fuming about nasty attitude and bigoted remarks from the Russian-Jewish communications flack. “He calls women girls, and he has no decorum about how he speaks to people,” MSNBC’s Joy Ann Reid told…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Stephen Miller Takes ‘Robotic’ Star Turn As Face Of Trump White House
Stephen Miller, the White House national policy director, turned in appearances on all the Sunday shows this weekend, coming off as robotic in defending President Trump in teleprompter-ready fashion. Hitting NBC’s “Meet the Press,” CBS’s “Face the Nation,” “Fox News Sunday,” and ABC’s “This Week,” Miller’s wooden delivery drew ridicule from the internet, especially since…
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