Helen H. Moore's Blog, page 1037
July 31, 2015
“Daily Show” classics: Jon Stewart sends John Oliver off to a “Harry Potter” book release dressed as a Phillip Roth character
Before becoming the serial "truth-bomber" of Sunday night, Oliver served as "TDS's" Senior Literary Correspondent
Mitt Romney walks right into Ted Cruz’s trap: Why his new attack only helps the Texas huckster
Following Cruz's inflammatory anti-Obama broadside, Mitt told him to tone it down. Cruz couldn't be happier
You’re watching Pentagon propaganda: “American Idol,” “Ice Road Truckers” and the truth about your favorite shows
A series of FOIA requests reveals just how wide-ranging the Defense Department's influence in Hollywood really is
Fred Rogers, quiet radical: The misunderstood legacy of “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood”
Author Michael Long on the iconic television host's unique brand of pacifism and his gradual embrace of LGBT rights
America’s white masculinity complex and the myth of the “senseless” mass shooting
The media pegs men like John Russell Houser as "killers without a cause." The truth is more unnerving
5 black women have been found dead in jail in the last month
Weeks after Sandra Bland made headlines, 44-year-old Raynetta Turner was discovered in a Mt. Vernon jail cell
July 30, 2015
From James Bond to Edward Snowden: How the dangerous fantasies of spy fiction shaped our “Mission: Impossible” world
If the Cold War innocence of 007 has turned dark, the effects are the same: Espionage is cooler than democracy
“The Daily Show” takes down laughably ignorant anti-gay pastor who thinks he’s “discriminated” by anti-discrimination law
The "influx" of LGBT people in a small Arkansas town has made it much less "family-oriented," one pastor says
GOP’s epic trainwreck: Jeb Bush flails and Donald Trump ascends as the party goes further off the rails
As Jeb! drops into third place, Trump gains strength from the disdain of the media and Republican elites
Berning down the house: Sanders throws massive house party for 100,000 supporters
Supporters "Feel the Bern" at live-streamed house parties in all 50 states
