And fine the team and GM for recalling him. It’s clear to a guy like Sestito why he’s being brought up for a game like this. He knows exactly what they expect of him. And the GM’s of the NHL know guys like Sestito are a dime a dozen, so they call them up knowing they have a high likelihood of doing something and…

I keep saying, let him fuck up the trade deals that allow for coffee and bananas to be imported inexpensively. People will be in the streets that day. Americans are a special kind of stubborn, but there are lines we won’t have crossed. Don’t tell us we can’t have our fruit and coffee and gossip.

I don’t even particularly like or follow Lena but even I feel compelled to defend her from that obvious bullshit.

He really is a shit. And the softballs and tacit agreement, jesus I wanted to scream and vomit simultaneously. One of the first things I noticed was when Milo attacked Lena Dunham and Bill didn’t defend her on the merits, he was just like, oh don’t go after other HBO employees because it might make shit awkward for…

Reality TV president.

My guess is that it’s just part of Trump’s apprentice prestige bullshit, like how he made the two “supreme court finalists” travel to DC for the announcement without telling them if he would be picked. He’s just having people come to DC for meetings because it’s like a fucking elimination reality show for him. I…

And Chris Christie is supposedly heading down to DC tomorrow for a meeting with Trump. Trump is just like, “look, we’re about to lose Flynn. We need to maintain our scumbag level though. Is there a job we can put Christie in?”

Not just starting. He’s had major clout for years. Miramax has been a powerhouse for at least the last 25 years. And the run of successful miramax films he was executive producer for starting in the early 90's is unmatched, with the Quentin Tarantino movies, and then Scream, Good Will Hunting, all Kevin Smith films,…

Why is this holding up the funeral though? Other famous people have died where the autopsy was inconclusive and the toxicology would take weeks to come back but the body was still released within a few days of the initial examination so a prompt burial could be conducted. Have they not released his body? Has he…

Yeah, I was just thinking that. Apparently he’s cultivated a decent connection to the Obamas. He was the one who arranged Michelle’s surprise appearance (by satellite) to announce the academy award for best picture a few years ago, and he directly arranged for a lot of private screenings of pre-release films at the…

NBC is actively trying to become Fox News:

CNN has the capacity to be good, except that they do make some bafflingly bad decisions. I think that’s why Jon Stewart hated them so much, even more than Fox News. He even made the case to one of their anchors who was a guest of his, I forget which anchor, probably Anderson Cooper, but Jon was making the point that…

I feel like so much talent has been cast off from NBC and MSNBC over the past several years that an investor could start a network with all of them and have an instant loyal audience. If such an event were to happen, I would love to see Maddow and Joy jump ship to rejoin their old colleagues.

I don’t watch them at the exclusion of print media, I was just saying that I’m avoiding NBC networks when I do watch TV news. I try to get most of my news from multiple sources. I also recently found out that my Amazon prime membership came with Washington Post digital access which has been awesome not having to…

Yeah. At the end of the day, almost every media company, whether TV or print, is owned by a white guy worth at least 8 figures. It seems like we’re picking which news source we want out of a really shitty bunch all of which are racing each other to the bottom.

I just wonder how long they’ll keep them around for given the network’s changes and their goal of veering rightward. Maybe they assume all the old white jerks switch to Fox News at 8pm for the three hour O’reilly, Tucker, Hannity block and so they’ll leave Hayes, Maddow, and Lawrence alone.

I’ll check it out. We spent an inordinate amount of time reporting about Rob Ford, so maybe it evens out.

I didn’t mean I watch them at the exclusion of other sources of information. TV isn’t really a good source of news. TV news seems to mostly be about “covering the news” which means following along as a news story is broken by print media and getting reactions from correspondents and guests. Most of the actual news is…

I pretty much watch CNN in the mornings because I think Chris Cuomo has been pretty good this past year and I refuse to watch Morning Joe and I won’t watch any of the broadcast network morning shows because, no, just no. Jake Tapper is I think becoming one of the more reliable news anchors out there. And Anderson…

And goddammit get Chris Matthews off the air. He’s been useless for years. He talks over anyone who has a decent point to make but just lets windbags like her talk at will. I’m done with NBC and their properties. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I’ve switched to CNN for cable news and CBS for broadcast news. …