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It's extremely timely, given the left's hatred of President Trump, to make the whole Harvey Weinstein-Hollywood sexual abuse thing about men in powerful positions taking advantage of poor, innocent women who were just trying to make it in the business. But when we're talking about Weinstein just being the tip of the iceberg, let's not buy into that floating mass just being composed of testosterone.

One year ago today, late night host Jimmy Kimmel gleefully bashed Republican presidential nominee Donald trump after the release of the Access Hollywood tape and lewd, b-roll comments captured within. Quite the precarious position given Kimmel's resume. Jimmy Kimmel was formerly co-host (1999-2003) of the Comedy Central program "The Man Show" which was essentially non-stop locker room talk... with props.

Despite what all the female actresses are now publicly denouncing, egregious activities that everyone's known about have been occurring as long as there's been a Hollywood. The "casting couch" has been an institution that far too many women were willing to grace in order to obtain that brass ring of stardom, but now that Harvey Weinstein has finally been outed and the tip of the iceberg has been exposed, "Me, too!" has been embraced and we'll see how far this goes until the marks become inconvenient, i.e. female AND gay execs who grope and worse. Had Harvey had just limited...

Imagine if President Trump decided to utilize technology and used virtual reality to put himself into a disaster-ravaged part of the United States? We all know the media would be going off for a few days of 24-hour news cycle attacks on his insensitivity in the wake of the human suffering of fellow Americans. Any adult knows that would be in bad taste. Then again, we're not always talking about good taste when we're talking about millennials, especially elitist millennials who believe the world is their playground.

The sad truth is that these ignorant, multi-millionaire players will never address the real reason behind "police brutality" in the black community because it will hit too close to home.

Long ago we warned anyone who would listen what would happen if liberals were allowed to liken whatever their cause was to the Civil Rights movement. Whether we're talking gays or illegal immigrants of Muslims, there is NO comparison to their situations today with what blacks in the United States endured from slavery through the end of segregation. But in many cases, liberals act exactly like the racist Democrat segregationists of the not-too-recent past....

Our position regarding women in sports journalism roles are known: we don't believe women, most of whom have never set foot on a field with cleats and pads, should be reporting on professional sports. When you watch CNBC, Bloomberg, or Fox Business for the closing numbers on Wall Street, you'll normally see them interviewing people who've actually been CEOs or traders. You don't see women with plunging necklines, hair bleached Fox News blonde, and hooker-length heels they quickly remove once the segment is over if leg shots were involved. Aside from the show hosts (which is another topic altogether), we...

Liberal Democrats have indoctrinated America's children for decades. They thought they would create an army of loyal little lemmings that would obey the calls to duty when summoned. Even after meeting with the campus president, the now-culturally-appropriated Black Lives Matter chapter of the College of William & Mary issued some of their grievances on September 27th.

Let's not blow off how many of these celebrities have made millions of dollars in productions in which they're depicted as shooting off dozens of rounds and killing many who had it coming. What's most hypocritical is that those using Las Vegas as a rallying cry for gun control are some of the most protected people in the country, and those paid to protect celebrities who consider themselves more important that "ordinary people" are most probably armed with... wait for it... a gun.

San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz ("Popular Democratic Party") has made the media rounds from CNN, MSNBC, and even the Washington Post to publicly bash the relief efforts of FEMA. Cruz has shown she lacks the humility to manage her city as arrogance is not a leadership quality desired when her people need her most; people who will have power soon enough and will see how she conducted herself while they were in the dark.

So much for that much-vaunted "integrity of the game".... Do you think a few people in and around Las Vegas could be pissed that an Oakland Raiders team that should have had their way with the Washington Redskins lost convincingly? Could this be why Tom Brady, Ben Roethlisberger and Aaron Rodgers suddenly announced their "unity" very publicly as to assure their black linemen they were down with the struggle and didn't want to be Carred and feathered?

Ten minutes from now, if you still want to send your kid to an institution of higher learning in the United States, it could be tantamount to child abuse. Even after a few short months at college, that child will be unrecognizable and you'll really begin to have second thoughts what you're wasting good money on. Even a few short months may be too late.

While the media collectively called President Trump's comments in Huntsville, Alabama insensitive to those suffering chronic traumatic encephalopathy (only because they saw the Will Smith movie and that's the extent of their football knowledge), real fans knew exactly what the president was referring to. Anyone who's participated in any sport knows you play like you practice. Pop Warner-on-up knows there's no way to properly practice tackling without pads, that is unless you're playing rugby. Practicing with pads only one day before an NFL game... seriously?

As National Football League owners are walking on the eggshells left by kneeling players versus the fans, one would think, going forward that words, would be carefully chosen as not to further imperil team and league bottom lines. Cleveland Cavaliers' owner Dan Gilbert might have been hoping his star player's Twitter feud with the President of the United States would die down before the start of the National Basketball Association season. It didn't turn out that way.

One would assume the media has all of the resources available as the general public. When Los Angeles' KTLA decided to do a story on a controversial police shooting in the Huntington Beach community, care would be taken to assure all angles of the incident were presented to the people. It looks like we expect too much of the media with an agenda. It was the one minute and thirty-six second video they didn't show that makes a stark difference in the perceptions the media shared with the public and the reactions they got to air.

Friday night in Huntsville, Alabama, President Trump veered off from the political into sports and condemned the owners and athletes in the National Football League who either kneel or sit during the pre-game playing of our national anthem. While denouncing the president, let's be honest here: going to the White House for most of these black players only became a big deal when they could be pictured with the half-black president. Protesting such an honor only became taboo because of President Obama's skin color, and as President Trump is hated by most in the media and police shootings have become...

In our hyper sensitive, micro-aggressive world, the slightest inference that someone may be racist is magnified into the latest national crisis. Whether it be the president not immediately denouncing a few dozen Nazis meeting in a small town in Virginia or a bunch of college girls reciting rap lyrics in New Hampshire. But if it's a Democrat politician who goes off on a racist rant, who just happens to be a minority himself, you'll only hear enough so the media can say it was covered. This is called bias-by-omission. This is what happened recently in Texas.

So what did President Trump say during that now-infamous minute that made the media either giddy or aghast and was Kelly really upset or shielding a hearty laugh because the president really went and said "Rocket man"...?

Robert DeNiro spoke on Tuesday to the United Nations about the destructive aftermath of Hurricane Irma on the island of Barbuda. Pardon the cynicism, but if it weren't for a personal and substantial financial investment at risk, would Robert De Niro really be speaking at the United Nations on behalf of a group of people whose name he awkwardly pronounces?

One of the many reasons Hillary Clinton gave for why she lost the presidential election was the climate of misogyny. Hillary also defines misogyny as also pointing out the differences between men and her, seeing how she's the only one to get as far as she did, Hillary vs. the boys is our only frame of reference. So fine, let's go there as there are many reason why she lost and most of those reasons were of her own doing.