Monday Stuff

John Iadarola of The Damage Report discusses the fact that the firing of Stephen Colbert by CBS has apparently blown up in the metaphorical face of “The Tiffany Network”...looks like, according to Nielsen data, two-thirds of Colbert’s audience has evaporated...wow, you mean Byron Allen’s “Comics Unleashed” isn’t a ratings dynamo? Color me (not) shocked...oh, and it looks like they’re trying to revert a Bari Weiss firing involving Draggan Mihailovich, without success apparently, while also trying to keep another producer from resigning...and as noted previously, Nick Bilton is another one of “Bari’s kids” who is in WAAY TOO DEEP here...



...and as a bit of a follow-up, Yasmin Khan of Rebel HQ informs us that it looks like CBS is going to get hit with a fine b/c Stephen Colbert played a song on his final show that he wasn’t supposed to (the “Linus and Lucy” theme) – good job!...looks like the money the network will have to pay for illegal use of the music will go to World Central Kitchen, which I think is a nice touch (as Khan says, it wouldn’t be surprising if Colbert and Lee Mendelson, who owns the copyright for the music, were in on this)...some of this is probably also covered in the “Damage Report” clip I know...

...and Jesse Dollemore gives us Pee Wee German leaning into still more of his unending torrent of utterly racist garbage...yes, I know there’s not much in the way of new stuff here, but I don’t think that means that the architect of the human rights abuses from this cabal of guttural lowlifes should get a pass either...oh, and Will Cain of Fix Noise is indeed a “dipsh*t” as Jesse points out, just sitting there letting Miller’s poison flow uninterrupted...as you listen to Miller’s verbal diarrhea (and I apologize for inflicting this on you), I would ask that you keep in mind that folks in red states (the largest audience for this crap) take in MUCH MORE from the federal government than folks in blue states do, so let’s dispense with this fiction that poor whites are better at service jobs and contributing to our economy than folks emigrating to this country and living in blue states...take a look at who is overwhelmingly employed at hospitals, assisted living and memory care facilities, etc...it’s not Billy Joe Jim Bob or Betty Jean Dupree or their neighbors in the trailer park, but people holding multiple jobs who’ve emigrated from the countries Miller despises...and by the way, pre-colonial Africa was a vast continent of diverse civilizations, characterized by powerful empires, advanced trade networks, and rich cultural traditions; far from isolated, these societies flourished through innovation, complex governance, and bustling trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean commerce centuries before formal European colonization began...more of Miller's garbage is here, and Cain's "Team America" reference is unintentionally hilarious (NSFW/H)...



...and this clip from the New York Times lets us know about Georgia residents who have had their property seized to extend power lines...the official story is that this is happening for both business and residential users, but unofficially, this is happening to build more damn data centers which are going to consume more and more damn energy...personally, I don’t believe that statistic that using eminent domain to seize the land outright is used only 1 percent of the time, as that spokeswoman for a utility tells us...at least one resident was able to negotiate a better deal so that he could possibly move, but anyone else who owns any property at all could be looking at the same fate as these folks, especially if you live in a red state...



...and happy belated 100th (!) birthday to the incomparable Melvin Kaminsky...



...and here is another summer selection.