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Steven Crowder takes on a viral video from the Newsroom being passed around by leftists everywhere, a video that shows Jeff Daniels going on a rant about why America is NOT the greatest country in the world. Crowder does a fantastic job rebutting much of this nonsense.

It’s a longer watch, yes. But I felt it incredibly necessary. For those of you who can’t be bothered, I’ve included a transcript below. VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOhDFCcmgvY TRANSCRIPT So this video’s gone viral. It’s Jeff Daniels rant in the Newsroom in which he makes the case that America is not the greatest country in the world. Every progressive and their dog has sent it to you, using it declare the death of American pride and excellence. It’s worth a watch. But is it at all true? Let’s watch. WILL McAVOY: I’ve voted for candidates of both major parties. Firstly this is...

The world is ending! That was the message of last night's episode of The Newsroom. In yet another laughable example of The Gore Effect, as Buffalo, New York was digging out of a record seven foot snowfall, Will McAvoy was interviewing a government official, Richard Westbrook, Deputy Assistant Administrator of the EPA, who proclaimed that not only is the world doomed due to global warming but there is absolutely nothing we can do about it. Since this is the final season of The Newsroom it appears that the creator, Aaron Sorkin not only wants to end the show with a...

Jane Fonda says conservative icons like Sarah Palin and Bill O'Reilly would benefit from watching Aaron Sorkin's show "The Newsroom," on which she plays a CEO of the company that owns the cable network. "Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, the tea partiers, Sarah Palin are the people that I wish would listen to it and really hear the logic of what is being said, you know, because it's the tension between a news division, a news bureau, that's trying to get good ratings as opposed to telling the truth, or telling what's an important story, and it's an important...

The first season of The Newsroom, HBO's drama about a cable news broadcast that decides to take on the Tea Party, came to a merciful end last week. The show began as a masochistic hourly ritual of pompous harangues, left-wing agitprop, clichéd love triangles, and error-riddled "news" presentations. It got even worse from there. Much of the finale was spent in a hospital ward after news anchor and KeithOlbermann mimic WillMcEvoy, played by JeffDaniels, overdosed on antidepressants. At one point, Will jokes that his nurse is trying to euthanize him. After nine episodes, I think many of us were wishing...