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Why Doesn’t Middle America Trust Hollywood Liberals? Two Words: Roman Polanski
I used to think that when conservatives denounced the so-called “Hollywood liberal elite” as being essentially amoral and out of touch with real Americans, they were being a bit harsh. And when Sarah...
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Joy Behar Is Everywhere – On The Daily Show And “On” SNL
Joy Behar started her new cable news show on Tuesday, giving her two hours each day on the small screen. She’s on The View every morning, and on HLN at 9pmET. But yesterday Behar didn’t stop there. She...
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UPDATE: No Pro-Polanski Facebook Vigilante Is Blocking Anti-Polanski Facebook...
File this under “People Who Think They Are Helping Roman Polanski Really Aren’t”: At least one pro-Polanski online activist has blocked at least one Facebook user critical of Polanski from posting...
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Politico Lambasted for Inventing Obama/Polanski Link
Politico is taking heat from all over the blogosphere for a story they posted Wednesday that conflated support for convicted rapist Roman Polanski with political donations to President Obama. The...
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Mediaite Presents: Halloween Costumes Ripped From The Headlines
So it’s Halloween, and you don’t have a costume. You were going to be Kanye West, but the friend you were counting on to be your Taylor Swift got swine flu at the last minute. Then, it was going to be...
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Dear Olbermann And Co., The President Is Not Your Mommy
President Obama delivered his first Oval Office speech last night, and it went over like an oil-infused pelican. Everyone from MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, to our own Frances Martel,...
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The Ten Worst Media Disasters of 2010
The Mr. Media Training Blog is pleased to announce the 10 worst media disasters of 2010! This year’s winners include a politician threatening to kill a reporter, a movie star threatening to kill his...
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New Proposed Law Would Restrict Public Abortion Funding to Victims of...
People of every political persuasion were rightly outraged when, in 2009, Whoopi Goldberg presented the odd defense of Roman Polanski that his crime “wasn’t rape-rape.” A new law, introduced by a GOP...
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GOP Blinks on ‘Forcible Rape’ But Bill Still Cuts Deeply at Abortion Rights
As gathering outrage over the “forcible rape” language in a proposed anti-abortion law crested with a piece of devastating satire on Wednesday night’s The Daily Show, Politico reports that the phrase...
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NY Post Columnist Claims Bill Cosby Largely Vilified for ‘Being Conservative’
A columnist for the New York Post has written a piece this morning suggesting that it is the conservative personal beliefs of Bill Cosby largely responsible for the outward criticism of the comedy...
View ArticleRoman Polanski’s Sexual Assault Victim To Appear In Court On His Behalf
The victim of Roman Polanski‘s 1977 sexual assault case will appeal directly to a judge to end the 40-year-old case against the fugitive director, according to his attorney, Harland Braun . Samantha...
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TBT: Harvey Weinstein Once Wrote an Op-Ed Defending Child Rapist Roman Polanski
In this week’s Mediaite Throwback Thursday: Alleged serial sexual harasser Harvey Weinstein once wrote an op-ed defending fellow film industry titan and child rapist Roman Polanski The 2009 piece by...
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Twitter Has Questions About Motion Picture Academy Expelling Weinstein: What...
The Twitterverse yielded a variety of reactions today after Harvey Weinstein was kicked out of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as he faces a growing number of sexual harassment claims....
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The Independent Gets Caught Deleting Harvey Weinstein Op-Ed in Which He...
As anyone with a pulse continues to distance themselves from disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, British website The Independent has found themselves in the middle of a true Internet pickle. You...
View ArticleQuentin Tarantino Expresses Remorse For Uma Thurman Crash: ‘The Biggest...
i post this clip to memorialize it’s full exposure in the nyt by Maureen Dowd. the circumstances of this event were negligent to the point of criminality. i do not believe though with malicious...
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Quentin Tarantino Apologizes for ‘Ignorant and Insensitive’ Defense of Roman...
Quentin Tarantino is expressing remorse over his comments from several years ago in which he defended fellow film director Roman Polanski for sexually assaulting a young woman. In the last few days,...
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AP Publishes Reporter’s Notes About Roman Polanski Arrest Instead of News Copy
This morning the Associated Press joined Talking Points Memo and Gawker as practitioners of the ‘open notebook’ method of reporting — well, inadvertently. One reporter’s notes about the developing news...
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Pro-Polanski WaPo Columnist Fails To Disclose Marriage To Polish Diplomat...
In an online column yesterday on the Washington Post‘s opinion blog, Anne Applebaum voiced her disagreement with the “outrageous arrest of Roman Polanski,” who was taken into custody in Saturday night...
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Dear Hollywood, If You Want to Help Roman Polanski Then Please Shut Up
Dear Hollywood, Since Roman Polanski was arrested Saturday night in Switzerland for fleeing the U.S. after pleading guilty in 1977 to unlawful sexual intercourse (a plea deal for a rape accusation),...
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