Media: Stop the insanity

 Where is Susan Powter when we really need her to scream, "Stop the insanity!" 

 

In the nineties,  infomercials were filmed in studios and not on the front lawn of the White House .  And in that decade, vengeful fools were found on TV as a lead character in shows like WHO'S THE DUMMY, they weren't sitting at a desk in the Oval Office.

 

Retribution and revenge.  Donald Chump is driven by it.  He governs from it.  

 

We marvel over those claiming to be Christian -- especially evangelicals -- who maintain they've read THE BIBLE but have no clue who, per THE BIBLE, is responsible for delivering retribution.  Guess what?  It's not Donald Chump.  

 

Chump's not a religious man nor is he an intelligent person.  The Chinese philosopher Confucius -- as viewers of REVENGE surely remember -- said, "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."  Repeat that saying to Chump and you'll most likely get a blank stare reflecting  utter incomprehension.

 

The mind can't grasp the need for a second grave and, heaven knows, the body can't dig one -- not as obese and out of shape he is and do we need to touch on his age?

 

Stop the insanity indeed.  

But while Susan's not coming back, SUITS is. 

Or at least some equivalent of a bowl of soggy cereal emerged with the name SUITS LA.

 

 

We actually liked the original show:

 

 
While focused on Harvey and Mike's relationship, Suits shines. Torres, Rafferty and Meghan Markle (as paralegal Rachel) glow as well and keep the show chugging along. But it hits a pot hole nearly every time Rick Hoffman shows up as Louis.

Hoffman's not a bad actor. He's not even giving a bad performance. He's playing a total dick and he's completely believable. But he's written meaningless. After Glenn Close's tour de force as Patty Hewes (on Damages), any show featuring a malevolent attorney was always going to have to work a lot harder but the writers at Suits don't really seem to be trying. So Louis' blackmailing Mike with fake results of a drug test (and Mike getting the better of Louis) never seems that threatening or suspenseful.

 

 

 Seven years later, we still liked the series:

 

 

 Critical awards and audiences.  Shows that value women can win both.

It's a lesson SUITS should be learning right now.  The seventh season saw multiple cast losses -- the soft eyes of Meghan Markle (who left the show to marry someone -- you might have heard about that wedding over the summer), the soft ass of Patrick J. Adams and, most of all, the loss of the amazing Gina Torres.  Some may argue Adams' Mike was more important as the young sidekick to Gabriel Macht's Harvey.  But it was Torres' Jessica who clashed with Harvey and had a deeper friendship.

Those are some serious losses.  The new addition this season?  Katherine Heigl as Samantha Wheeler.  She and Macht already have strong chemistry.  She's also playing a character unlike anyone SUITS has offered so far.  Most of all, she's delivering a riveting performance.

 

 

For nine seasons the show zipped along with a great cast and tons of twists and turns.

 

By contrast, SUITS LA is murky, slow and not worth watching. 

 

SUITS LA has a sad cast -- sad seeming at least.  Where is the joy?  Obviously far beyond the range of Stephen J. Annell.   The only thing that might be more tired than the performances?  The writing.

 

 

This show is so bad you can't even say that it's to SUITS what GOLDEN PALACE was to THE GOLDEN GIRLS.  You can't say that it's to SUITS what AFTERMASH was to M*A*S*H.  That's because both GOLDEN PALACE and AFTERMASH were more watchable than SUITS LA is.

 

 

What were they thinking when they served up this slop?

 

It's a question you can also ask of Zac and Gavin, the hosts of THE VANGUARD who give Socialists a bad name with their fact-free commentary and contradictory assertions that, on a good week, sometimes manage not to completely reveal the depth of their hypocrisy.

 

It's good that they have such deep hypocrisy since everything else about them is shallow.

 

November 5th, Convicted Felon Donald Chump was re-elected president.  And how have you used your time since then?

If you're Zac and Cody of THE VANGUARD, you've pulled on your cock in public and that's about it.

THE VANGUARD is sort of like two Taylor Lorenzes instead of one.  Two vapid and uneducated gossip queens instead of just one.  

There have been 129 posted segments of THE VANGUARD since November 8th (three days after the election).  And surely the two Socialists have been all over Donald Chump, right?

Wrong.  

 

53 segments found the boyz sucking up to Kyle Kulinski, Krystal Ball, Glenn Greenwald and others in their circle jerk instead of addressing anything remotely resembling a real issue or need.

 

You know what's worse than that?

 

76.

 

That's the number of segments Silly & Billy have done attacking THE YOUNG TURKS.

 

Now hosts Cenk and Ana were Socialists once upon a time -- back when Silly and Billy praised TYT.  Back then, the DSA Bible JACOBIN even let Ana host their podcast.  And, of course, back then Cenk and Kyle Kulinski decided the best way to get Socialists elected into Congress was to form Justice Democrats as a cover for Justice Socialists.  And of course, they were backed by the notorious Trumper Peter Thiel.  This really does matter and it goes to The Politics of Destruction and how political extremists can easily flip from left to right.  But VANGUARD boyz never impart any important lessons like that.  No, they just provide gossip. 

 

So the 76 segments THE VANGUARD did gas bagging over TYT served no real purpose other than gossip.

 

Most of the recent segments about TYT was gossip revolving around or deriving from Francesca Fiorentini.  For months, she's been THE VANGUARD top topic due to making statements such as  stating she was afraid of Cenk.  And other gossip.

 

Gossip.

Not news.

 

Nothing political either -- not even if you cite the old adage: The personal is political.  Just gossip.

During this 76 segment period, Francesca finally got fired by TYT.  That wasn't surprising, but being kind, we posted her video talking about that at THE COMMON ILLS.  

One video.

One video was sufficient.

 

Why are Zac and Cody obsessed with TYT?  More to the point, as alleged adults, why aren't they concerned with anything else?

 

Is this a Socialist Circle Jerk where they work overtime to clear Kyle by constantly indicting Cenk?

If not, the only thing they're 'accomplishing' is making TYT look better because while Zac and Cody focus endlessly on attacking TYT, TYT can rightly assert that, from time to time, they talk about actual issues.  They don't do it well.  They never did.  They were just as offensive when they were supposedly on our side as they are now.  They're not deep thinkers and they aren't entertainers. 

Maybe Zac and Gavin's similarity to Cenk and Ana explains the boyz TYT obsession?

 

For those late to the party, Francesca had a public debate with Cenk that did not go well in the last five months.  Also during this time period, she publicly spoke out against Ana and, again, she stated she was scared of Cenk.  

She got fired.  It's not the end of the world nor was it surprising that TYT dropped her.

What was surprising was that she got dropped instead of having the courage and dignity to walk away. 

 

 

Ben Jealous and Benny Carollo had both already left TYT and for good reason.  They were also public about the whys of the departures.  THE VANGUARD covered the departures repeatedly over and over.

 

So shouldn't someone put on their thinking cap and leave behind their sympathetic nods to ask  Francesca why wasn't TYT's  transphobia and racism enough to make you walk?  

 

She stayed for years.   She only left when she was fired.

 

How pathetic is that?

 

And Zac and Cody, how pathetic are they?  

 

 

People are being deported from this country, Chump is purging our education systems and museums of Black history and women's history and LGBTQ+ history.  He is talking like a madman of seizing the land of foreign countries.  He is refusing to follow court orders.  He's carrying out a ton of crazy and illegal activities.

And where is THE VANGUARD?

 

 

Serving up another year's worth of segments telling viewers Cenk and Ana are bad bosses!'

 

At this late date, how is that even news?

 

 

 And when it comes to Francesca's firing?  If you were working the counter at Burger King and you did a video on your boss and you insulted them and you said you were scared of them and you mocked them, exactly how long do you think you'd have that job?

 

Silly and Billy -- Cenk's name for the two boyz -- can't stop making fools out of themselves.  

Unlike the two toddlers, we don't have to redeem ourselves with regards to TYT.  Our souls are intact because we never mistook TYT for an informative program or one worth watching or one worth praising.

 

But Zac and Cody did.  Is that why they're overcompensating with this obsession over the TYT work place?

It was cute in the last months watching them talk to Mehdi Hasan about Mehdi's Jill Stein interview.  We praised Medhi for that interview.  

 

 

But wasn't it strange watching the boyz grovel over Mehdi?  Didn't it bother anyone that only months before, Zac and Gavin were pimping Jill Stein.  Just like Kyle had.  Yeah, they came on board in a luke warm manner for Kamala but only after they pimped everyone else.  They were for Cornel West.  And then they were for Marianne Williamson.  And then they were for Jill Stein.  In less than 18 months, that's what they served up.  

That's how shallow Zac and Cody are.  There is no thought deeper with those two than one of them burping and the other, after sniffing the air, asking, "Did you have Mexican?"  

Food and gossip, that's all they can really handle as they veer from one half-thought to the next trying to recall the words to their bittersweet nursery rhyme.

 

Grasp that Richard Nixon had an enemies' list while Donald Chump works from an enemies roll -- an enemies' ledger -- yet we've got THE VANGUARD serving up the 'hot goss' like their E! buzz mavens.

 

 Stop the insanity.