the great R. Crumb

Category: cancel culture

  • Woke just got canceled in prime time

    Routing of the culture police to follow! The biggest news story of the day: Bari Weiss is hiring on to run CBS News.  Reason magazine, libertarian in its politics, summed it up: “Bari Weiss Has Won the War on Wokeness in Media.” It’s that big. Ms. Weiss co-founded an on-line publication called “The Free Press”…

  • Who’s sorry now?

    Was that an apology, Jimmy? Jimmy Kimmel apologized, sort of. It’s the kind of apology cynical politicians  issue after an open microphone catches them saying the quiet part out loud. Sorry if anyone was offended. Sure as heckfire wasn’t Brenda Lee. “It was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man.”…

  • New breed of speech police are braying

    Watch what you post! A case could be made that canceling Jimmy Kimmel was a network TV business decision. By taunting conservatives night after night, “Jimmy Kimmel was canceling himself,” columnist Kimberley Strassel observes, “until [Trump’s FCC chairman] crashed into the scene.” Thus emboldened, newly triggered Republicans are forming ad hoc ministries of truth. Like…

  • No one is laughing, Jimmy Kimmel

    Charlie Kirk’s Great Sorting Out. Aside from part-time jobs at the porcelain factory in Sun Prairie and an iron foundry in Oshkosh, Blaska made his living (such as it was) on the back of the First Amendment.  So it was disheartening to hear this morning my old friend Mizz Vicki barking over the AM airwaves…

  • Disagreement is not evil

    in a working democracy. My fellow Republicans lose the argument when they call our political adversaries schoolyard names like “Demon-rats.” Progressives might be more credible if they would dial back the hyperbole. Donald Trump is not Hitler — not even close. Nor does the President represent the “end of democracy,” Gov. Pritzker. Like the idiots…

  • Are we at a Turning Point, USA?

    Would it help to tamp down the rage? America’s political Left is frantically attempting to disown the killer of Charlie Kirk, if they’re not actually celebrating and trash talking. Fellow Madison blogger Gregory Humphrey has allowed the current President to drive him cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. Greg reposts a meme contending that “The right-winger who…