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In the mid-season finale of The Walking Dead, Negan stopped Rosita's bullet with Lucille, his barb wire wrapped bat. Though we don’t know how under powered the round loaded by Eugene might have been, it was at least powerful enough to cycle the slide on Rosita's Beretta. Here's a video that explores the reality of a scene from season 7, episode 8, wherein Rosita attempts to kill bad guy Negan by shooting at him with a handloaded 9mm. Could this really happen? Could a baseball bat stop a 9mm round? He takes the shot and the bullet goes clean through...

There’s no mystery why Hollywood’s Obama’s biggest LoveFest when he’s only another actor just like them Our friend Dr. Orly Taitz is asking folk to Tweet to Meryl Streep their disdain for “the most offensive and stupid speech” at Sunday’s Golden Globes. But how to get a Twitter message through to someone whose head is already filled with a thousand and one chirps and tweets, not a single one of them reality reliant?

Lena Dunham’s post-election meltdown is showing no signs of letting up in the new year. The woke celebrity continues to express her anguish at the election of “terrifying” “predator” Donald Trump by doing gross, bizarre things and documenting them on social media. Over the weekend, for example, Dunham posted a photo of herself wearing a dog collar on her Instagram account, which currently has almost 3 million followers. In the accompanying caption, Dunham acknowledged that the black studded collar, which features the phrase “I [heart] L D,” was meant for a dog. But that didn’t stop her from wearing it....

One thing that has been frustrating those in the media now that Donald Trump is about to be President of the United States has been his reluctance to hold conventional press conferences. Trump has not held a full news conferences since late July and canceled a proposed one in mid-December where he said he would use to address his business interests. He has since announced that he will hold a presser next week. In the absence of regular press conferences and interaction with the media, Trump has taken to Twitter as his main mode of public communication, generally taking to...

Just as I suspected would happen, President-Elect Donald Trump took to twitter to brag about his Apprentice ratings. “Wow, the ratings are in,” he tweeted, “and Arnold Schwarzenegger got “swamped” (or destroyed) by comparison to the ratings machine DJT. So much for…being a movie star-and that was season 1 compared to season 14. Now compare him to my season 1. But who cares, he supported Kasich & Hillary” Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump Wow, the ratings are in and Arnold Schwarzenegger got "swamped" (or destroyed) by comparison to the ratings machine, DJT. So much for.... 7:34 AM - 6 Jan...

I love a good real estate analogy, so naturally I had to admire the way Erick Erickson, the conservative blogger, recently described the last-minute flurry of actions emanating from the Obama White House. “Obama and John Kerry,” Erickson tweeted, “are like tenants who trash a place as they are being evicted.” Except, in this case, the analogy is a few degrees off. The president isn’t really trashing anything. It’s more like he’s hurriedly adding the bold, modernist touches his landlord always resisted — repainting walls, recessing lights, tearing up carpets and restaining floors — in hopes that the guy who’s...

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow joked Wednesday that if President-elect Donald Trump were to appear on her show, her first question would be whether he planned to send her “to a camp.” Maddow — host of “The Rachel Maddow Show,” MSNBC's highest-rated program — was a guest on Bravo's “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen." “If you booked Donald Trump on your show, what would your first question be?” Cohen asked Maddow, reading a viewer question. After a pause, Maddow deadpanned: “Are you going to send me or anybody that I know to a camp?” An amused Cohen quickly changed the...

Now that Megyn Kelly has announced she’ll be leaving Fox News for NBC, let’s review some examples of her new network’s legacy of publishing fake news. From contrived exposes to malicious editing and mischaracterized comments, NBC has earned a reputation for journalistic bias and baloney that might be hard for even Kelly to overcome. Here are just five examples. #1 – Brian Williams Invents Outrageous War Story “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams disgraces himself and NBC when he’s caught telling a whopper about his death-defying exploits in Iraq: “By the time he arrived at the Letterman show in 2013,...

Comedian D.L. Hughley's recent tweet about Debbie Reynolds' and daughter Carrie Fisher's deaths caused an uproar on social media, including demands that he take down his comments. Now Hughley is saying the politically-correct atmosphere that serves to intimidate free speech on social media is one of the reasons Donald Trump will be our next President. "I think that that probably is why he got elected," Hughley told TMZ. "I think people are tired of being told what to think and say." (TWEET-AT-LINK) Feliz Sanchez, chairman and co-founder of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, says that when it comes...

A memorable contestant in the first season of "The Apprentice," Manigault is expected to join President-elect Donald Trump's White House staff, according to two people familiar with the decision. Her job is expected to focus on public engagement. Manigault was one of Trump's most prominent African-American supporters during the campaign and has been working with his transition team. Her effusive praise of Trump has at times drawn criticism....

Journalist-turned-political gadfly Charles Jaco pulls no punches when it comes to criticizing President-elect Donald Trump. But he will pull a Twitter post every now and then. About 9 a.m. Monday, in response to a Salon magazine article that wondered if Trump could become a "JFK-like president," the former KTVI (Channel 2) reporter wrote: (TWEET-AT-LINK) "Does this mean we can look forward to a November drive through Dallas?" (For the young and/or uninformed, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated Nov. 22, 1963, while riding in a motorcade through downtown Dallas.)[continued]

Rosie O’Donnell made an ominous threat against Donald Trump when she sent out a tweet writing that he’s “MENTALLY UNSTABLE” and urged Americans to “STOP HIM” before it’s too late. “LESS THAN 3 WEEKS TO STOP HIM AMERICA,” Rosie O’Donnell tweeted. O’Donnell added a CNN report to the message having to do with a biographer being “booted off” Trump’s golf course because the president-elect was unhappy with something he wrote about him. (TWEET-AT-LINK)

The Washington State Attorney General's Office last week filed a most unusual consumer protection lawsuit — charging a Seattle man with running a scheme for nearly a decade where he set up a fake talent agency for adult entertainers in order to trick women into posing nude and having sex with him. Michael-Jon Matthew Hickey is accused of creating a fictitious business and using deceptive ads with bogus employment offers to find his victims. The lawsuit alleges Hickey offered and advertised commercial services solely for his "own personal gain" and to "satisfy his sexual desires" with no intention of following...

From the Monday broadcast of FOX News Channel's Kelly File with host Megyn Kelly: MEGYN KELLY, KELLY FILE: Since announcing his candidacy in June of 2015, Donald Trump morphed into a national phenomenon, captivating the country, dominating news cycles day in and day out and creating a white hot debate about our national media like nothing we have seen in a long, long time. Tonight we have a candid conversation with some of best known reporters and media critics in the country. Here to reflect on the media's highs, its lows and what lies ahead. Beginning tonight with MediaBuzz host...

It seems all of CNN’s bashing of Donald Trump and sucking up to Hillary Clinton in 2016 did nothing to score a higher ratings win for the network. Not only did CNN come in behind rival Fox News Channel in the ratings lineup, it was knocked out of even third place by the very non-news network, HGTV. Home & Garden Television was the third most-watched cable network in 2016, right behind ESPN and first place winner Fox News,

Debbie Reynolds Mother Of Carrie Fisher Dead 1 Day After Her Daughter Dies! (Tommy's take on the death of Carrie's Mom, Debbie Reynolds)

"I didn't come to play," the Chinese internet giant's new head of entertainment said in a memo. Alibaba Group's top entertainment executive is cementing his reputation as a bold leader at the Chinese e-commerce giant. Yu Yongfu was named CEO of Alibaba's newly consolidated media and entertainment subsidiary in October. This week, the 40-year-old executive pledged to invest $7.2 billion (RMB50 billion) in media and entertainment over the next three years, adding that he "didn't come to play." Content will be a focus of investment, he also said. The statements were made in an internal memo reviewed by Reuters. An...

Few performers seem willing to step up and entertain the country when the new president is sworn in on Jan. 20. With the news last week that opera singer Andrea Bocelli had bowed to pressure and dropped out of the Inauguration Day concert, and with a member of the Rockettes leading a social-media rebellion against performing for the president, Kid Rock is currently the biggest name scheduled to appear. And liberals are giddy. Because they still don’t get it. Robert Reich, Bill Clinton’s labor secretary who has transformed himself into the Michael Moore of Facebook, is promoting something called the...

It’s time for another TMS video history lesson, this time about Carrie Fisher’s unsung skills as one of Hollywood’s most notable script doctors! The video above details Fisher’s career history working as a punch-up writer on some of the greatest films of the 90s—as well as a few unsalvageable stinkers. Read the transcript for our video below. ** Carrie Fisher is still best known for her role as Princess Leia, in spite of the fact that her legacy in Hollywood—both on-screen and behind the scenes—stretches way beyond her Star Wars debut decades ago. Fisher deserves to be remembered, but not...

West Wing Character Toby Ziegler Having observed debates about the Second Amendment for 50 years, it is surprising to find something new. Tosten Burks, writing at good.is, uses a quote from a fictional character as an authoritative source on the Second Amendment. From good.is: The Constitution’s most controversial amendment reads: “A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” The NRA has spent much of the past 40 years broadening the interpretation to expand the gun market. The original intent, however, is...