Entries from LAist tagged with 'sexist'
December 11, 2007
I watched Saving Grace last night because there was nothing else on and I was sorry I did it. Holly Hunter I love you but there should be a better show than this for you - it's morphed into Touched By An Angel with touches of profanity. It looks like there's a lot of stuff tonight (below) but it's actually pretty sparse. I'll have some DVD reviews up soon since that's what I'm really watching,......
Continue Reading "TV Junkie: Tuesday"October 23, 2007
Gearing up for another War on Christmas, combative conservative columnist David Horowitz and the College Republicans are calling out to their hate squad and killing Halloween (not to mention a week of breast cancer awareness month) with what they've dubbed "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week." Ann Coulter, recently listed as charging a $25,000 speaker fee by the Premiere Speakers Bureau (and now "call for fee") will speak in the name of Islamo-Fascism Awareness tomorrow night at USC.......
Continue Reading "Ann Coulter to Speak at USC forJuly 7, 2007
Dear Mr. Bay, I have been waiting for a kick-ass Transformers movie to come out since I was a little kid. I love the Autobots. At one point, I even had plans to marry Optimus Prime, except that he died during one of the Transformers episodes before I had the chance to tell him of my love. When I turned five, I had a Transformers birthday cake. Sometimes I would pretend that my Malibu......
Continue Reading "Dear Mr. Bay, What Planet are You From?"May 15, 2007
The infamous leader of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, the PTL, the National Liberty Journal, Liberty University, and the Moral Majority was found dead this morning in his office at Liberty Univeristy in Virginia. The controversial televangelist used his influence to push his agenda of conservative intolerance onto the Republican party who accepted it and enable it even today. That sort of influence hasn't always sat well with all Republicans. John McCain in 2000......
Continue Reading "Jerry Falwell, 73, Meets His Maker"April 21, 2007
The tiny radio station in San Bernardino who prides itself on being "an important part of the Inland Empire by offering local news on the hour, seven days a week, produced by local veteran newscasters who live and work in the Inland Empire" are sure getting a lot of attention because of a syndicated talk show host in New York City. AP is reporting that KCAA will be in court with CBS on Tuesday......
Continue Reading "KCAA Sued For Airing Imus Reruns "April 11, 2007
Don Imus is an old man. Maybe back in the day he was funny, but he hasn't been funny for as long as I've been aware of him. But he does live in America, and here we have the freedom of speech. Now that Right doesn't mean that people cant call you out on what you say, but it should mean that you shouldn't have to get fired or jailed or killed for saying......
Continue Reading "One (Black) Man's Opinion re: Don Imus's Comments"March 4, 2007
Spring appears to have, er, sprung, at least temporarily, in most of the Ist-i-verse, so naturally, we're all feeling pretty good. (Yes, we know that spring doesn't officially start till later this month. Just let us enjoy our weather!) And that makes us that much more eager to share all of the nifty things we're up to... Over at Sampaist, spring has more than sprung: it's sweltering! But, as everyone knows, museums are an......
Continue Reading "Around the Globe with the Ists"November 12, 2006
By now much hay has been made over "Borat", both as a box office smash and as a mockumentary in which the innocent bystanders who participated in it were duped and cheated. When Borat opened over a week ago Fox booked it in about 800 theaters nationwide, that's less than one-fourth the number of theaters that "Santa Clause 3" opened in and still Sacha Baron Cohen crushed Tim Allen (Yes! There is a God!).......
Continue Reading "No Backlash for Borat - High Five!"September 28, 2006
Jefe : A what? El Guapo : A *plethora*. Jefe : Oh yes, You have a plethora. Tony Plana of Three Amigos “Jefe” fame will be gracing the small screen this evening as the father of the lovely America Ferrera in “Ugly Betty.” ABC’s new addition to the oh-so-coveted Thursday, 8:00pm time slot is an American re-telling of the insanely popular Colombian telenovela, “Betty La Fea.” “Ugly Betty” was born of a Salma Hayek/Touchstone......
Continue Reading "Would You Say I Have A Plethora Of New TV Shows?"September 12, 2006
Hard to believe that the son of a Nazi police chief has a hard time apologizing for being culturally insensitive, but, you know, That's Our Gov'n'ah! Last week it was revealed that the Governator had been caught on tape stereotyping African-Americans, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans in March when he was corrected about the heritage of assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia, who he originally called Cuban. He was corrected, and told that she was Puerto Rican. Either......
Continue Reading "How To Apologize As Poorly as you Govern"April 21, 2006
2nd down? The Daily News reports that the NFL may bring not one but two football teams to LA. Both would play at the to-be-updated Coliseum. money money: The LA Times does their review of Mayor Villaraigosa's budget (ours is here). don't you be my neighbor: A 71-year-old Lawndale man makes racial slurs, sexist comments and aggravates animals according to his neighbors. Recently they awoke to condiment vandalism: their cars were covered with profanities......
Continue Reading "AM news: football, budget, neighbors, guns"September 30, 2005
Former US Secretary of Education William Bennett is in the media hot seat right now. The conservative talk show host made the following statement during a Wednesday broadcast of Morning in America: "[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down." (listen to the clip) Yesterday White House spokesman Scott McClellan made an official statement on the matter. McClellan said that the President "believes the comments were......
Continue Reading "Bennett's Loose Lips"