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CBS All Access launches animated 'Tooning Out the News' series (WTH?)
The Hill ^ | 03 11 2020 | Rebecca Klar

Posted on 03/11/2020 12:00:52 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

CBS All Access, the network’s streaming service, is launching a weekly animated series featuring real-world guests that will discuss — and mock — the news of the day, the network announced Wednesday.

“Tooning Out the News" plans to release daily five- to seven-minute segments followed by a weekly full episode available every Friday. It launches Monday in the U.S. and Canada.

Confirmed guests include Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Texas), Donna Shalala (D-Fla.) and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), as well as Dan Abrams, Alan Dershowitz, Thomas Friedman and Nicholas Kristof.

The fictional animated news show is hosted by an anchor named James Smartwood. He is joined by what the show describes as a team of “attractive misunderstood geniuses."

“After a successful negotiation between my forthright representation and a frankly insulting CBS business affairs department, I’m pleased to report that I am now the lead anchor and chief senior managing director of news and miscellaneous serious stuff at America’s #1 source for news and ‘Star Trek’: CBS All Access,” Smartwood said in a release from the network. “Now that I’m on the air, I have a stark warning to every power player in Washington: I will suck up to you for access — that’s a promise."

SNIP

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: billkristol; cbs; media; msm
* Bill Kristol *

Tooning Out The News - Big News (Bill Kristol) - Preview - 3/9/20 (3 mins)

1 posted on 03/11/2020 12:00:52 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

All “Ds” and Never-Trumpers (with the possible exception of Dershowitz)?

Sounds like another anti-conservative propaganda show masquerading as comedy, in the style of The Daily Show or Colbert.


2 posted on 03/11/2020 12:05:30 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Anybody remember Adult Swims Lil’ Bush - a delightful and satirical take on the politics of the day?

Yeah - remember Lil Obama?


3 posted on 03/11/2020 12:08:05 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: yesthatjallen

Looks like a you g Bruce Campbell from Evil Dead.....only no as funny...or cleaver.


4 posted on 03/11/2020 12:10:30 PM PDT by Bommer (I am a MAGA-Deplorian! It is the way! It is the only way!)
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To: yesthatjallen
Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Texas), Donna Shalala (D-Fla.) and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), as well as Dan Abrams, Alan Dershowitz, Thomas Friedman and Nicholas Kristof.

The animated series is executive produced by Stephen Colbert and Christ Licht, of CBS’s “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” and R.J. Fried and Tim Luecke from Showtime’s “Our Cartoon President.”

HA!

No bias there, no sir!

The prog propaganda just gets weirder and weirder.

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5 posted on 03/11/2020 12:14:58 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: yesthatjallen

Joseph Goebbels would be proud.


6 posted on 03/11/2020 12:15:56 PM PDT by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Dershowitz is an old time liberal, a rare breed, he certainly isn’t a conservative or even a fan of Trump.

He defended Trump because it was the right thing to do and because the impeachment was a scam.


7 posted on 03/11/2020 12:16:15 PM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
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To: Skywise

Lil Bush was actually funny though

And I think they had a show called “that’s my bush” as well

Certainly poking fun at the president, which is fine by me

But nobody created sketch comedy regard Obama though, none of those shows existed

I think they made a Trump one as well on comedy central. Saw it once and it was just awful. They just don’t get Trump’s personality, they make it what they want him to be and that was why it was pathetic.


8 posted on 03/11/2020 12:18:40 PM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
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To: Skywise
Anybody remember Adult Swims Lil’ Bush - a delightful and satirical take on the politics of the day?

I remember a short-run series on Comedy Central titled "That's My Bush!"

It was neither delightful nor satrical. It was wall-to-wall Bush-bashing, which would have been OK if it had even a little humor.

9 posted on 03/11/2020 12:19:32 PM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: yesthatjallen

Enemedia grows...


10 posted on 03/11/2020 12:23:10 PM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: yesthatjallen

“and mock — the news of the day”

So, mostly making fun of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh?


11 posted on 03/11/2020 12:32:25 PM PDT by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Look to see more of them, its their aim to do whatever they can to prevent a Trump re-election.

Just about all adult comedy is aimed for democrats against Trump and conservatives.


12 posted on 03/11/2020 12:36:09 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Leep
“and mock — the news of the day”

So, mostly making fun of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh?

Rules for Radicals #5: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon."

CBS is using the Alinsky playbook.

13 posted on 03/11/2020 12:41:49 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen
will discuss — and mock — the news of the day

Just mocking the clowns on CBS This Morning could fill the show.

14 posted on 03/11/2020 12:46:24 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: yesthatjallen

Barbara Lee (D-Texas), Donna Shalala (D-Fla.) and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.)

There’s three to draw to.


15 posted on 03/11/2020 12:47:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

It’s CBS All Access. Almost nobody pays for it.


16 posted on 03/11/2020 12:50:51 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: yesthatjallen

“Rules for Radicals #5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”

Especially if you control / own most of the news media and you have the FBI, DOJ? and the AG?, in your corner.


17 posted on 03/11/2020 12:53:55 PM PDT by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Oh, and Judges.


18 posted on 03/11/2020 12:54:33 PM PDT by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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