Posted on 12/25/2015 5:49:23 AM PST by Kaslin
ABC News devoted a fluffy two-hour special to the year in review, studying the news and pop culture.
They had a "Dishonor Roll" segment where they mocked the adultery of Josh Duggar and the scandal of the adultery website Ashley Madison when its client list leaked. They scorned the dentist that shot Cecil the Lion, white activist Rachel Dolezal pretending to be black, "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Kim Richards getting arrested for shoplifting, and pop singer Ariana Grande caught on video licking donuts. But nowhere in this summary were the grisly tapes exposing Planned Parenthood for its effort to profit from selling the organs of babies it killed in its abortion clinics.
We give our choices here because they make a lot more sense. In a look back at the cultural winners and losers of the year, a big loser has to be Planned Parenthood, no matter how energetically the left in this country tries to paper over this organization's ghoulish profiteering. Conversely, a big winner has to be the Center for Medical Progress, which released the 10 shocking videotapes that very effectively exposed the Gosnellian acquiescence at the highest levels of the abortion conglomerate.
Winner: CBS's "The Good Wife," which dared to allow a pro-life point of view to get primetime exposure, including an episode that aired a fictional version of the CMP videos and liberals that wanted them censored.
Loser: ABC's "Scandal," for outrageously having their heroine get an abortion to the strains of "Silent Night" and then smile about it at the episode's end to the strains of "Ave Maria." There are no limits to Disney's bigotry against Christians.
Loser: Caitlyn Jenner. Despite the fact that ABC and the rest of the left can only discuss the new and disfigured Bruce Jenner in one mode -- dizzy squeals of adoration -- in reality even the transgender activists are uncomfortable with this gilded one-percenter dressing in the gaudiest gowns and pretending to be oppressed.
It's been left on the cutting-room floor that Jenner was involved in a car wreck that killed 69-year-old Kimberly Howe. Ditto the wrongful-death suit filed by Howe's family. Jenner's team shot back that the dead woman's stepchildren are "financially independent and successful" and "cannot allege that they are financially dependent upon their stepmother for the necessities of life." But the media tell us "she" is the epitome of class.
Winner: Russell Wilson. This star NFL quarterback isn't just a role model for volunteering every Tuesday at Seattle Children's Hospital. While on a flight with Alaska Airlines, Wilson spotted a soldier making his way toward the coach section of the plane. He immediately upgraded the homebound warrior to a first-class seat. The soldier tweeted the news, and Wilson tweeted back "Thanks for serving our great country by serving with the army!"
Loser: Brittney Griner. The media mostly ignored the mess that this WNBA star made of her very brief "marriage" to fellow WNBA player Glory Johnson, ending in a vicious brawl. Johnson's lawyer later gave records to Sports Illustrated claiming Johnson suffered from head trauma, a concussion and spinal trauma after being hit "on the back of her head by a hard carrying case."
Winner: "American Sniper," the engrossing film on the life of Chris Kyle, including the trauma of war and struggles on the home front. Despite being released on Christmas Day 2014, it qualifies as the top-grossing film of last year, although almost all of its $350 million box-office bonanza came in 2015. The American public has a lot more gratitude for the sacrifices our troops make for freedom than the Hollywood left could ever muster.
Dang right!
Didn’t see the show. Seems odd to me if they didn’t mention the Supreme Court decision on homosexual marriage. From the media point of view, it was a great positive decision,,so that their lives are now complete and they can die happy now that homosexual marriage happens everywhere in America.
And a hell of a lot better movie than star wars.
Winner of the Year: Kim Davis, the courageous Kentucky clerk who stood up to the gay-media diktatorship and fought for traditional marriage.
Remember some liberals at the time said, it was racist to see American Sniper instead of Selma, the movie about the effort for voting rights for southern blacks. The two movies were in theaters at the same time. American Sniper was a huge hit movie to omthe puzzlement of liberals and media types.
And Selma didn’t do well at the box office, which also caused angst among the liberals.
One of the three worst decisions in the history of the Supreme Court. The other two being: Dredd Scott, and Roe. v. Wade.
There is a common thread between the three court cases and a common thread with other parts of history, namely slavery and the holocaust.
All of these things are caused by governments pretending things to be true that aren't true and they remain problems for as long as governments keep pretending.
The U.S. pretended that blacks aren't people and this leads to slavery.
The Germans pretended that Jews aren't people and this lead to the holocaust.
Many countries continue to pretend that pre-born people aren't people (easily proven with a DNA test).
And now we pretend that homosexuality is normal and will cause endless problems.
Good points.
We are even moving past homosexuality into the whole transsexual thing now too, in terms of normalizing it. Such as with the recent case of the school in Illinois being compelled to let a male student go in the girls locker room because he claims to be female.
I don’t get this whole trans business. But I also don’t get the liberal view of things. Liberals claim you are anti science if you don’t accept their global warming theories. But with sexuality, we have to ignore the biological facts of penis and vagina, and factual chromosomal differences between the sexes, to say that a man is really a woman. We have to ignore many aspects of biological science to accept the transsexual agenda.
Loser of the year: Obama for allowing the JV thugs to spread further over the world. Winner of the year: Donald Trump for getting his message out in straight talk, no doubting where he stands, putting his eye on the prize.
The MSM turned the Ariana Grande debacle into licking donuts. WHAT SHE SAID WAS THE REAL ISSUE.
“I hate Americans I hate America.”
I believe her. Licking donuts is nothing compared to her hatred for the USA and everything we stand for.
2015 Winners: Islamism and Secular Despotism
2015 Losers: Christianity and Freedom
2016: God help us.
It isn't about science, it's about coalition politics.
Black civil-rights leaders in DC went to bat for the gays who had quietly supported them.
The gays also got support from Protestant clerical conspirators and women "clergy", from NAMBLA, and from trannies.
Now it's turn-about, and the trannies and peds are getting the love. At least the old civil-rights crowd show signs of getting tired of this.
I won't watch crap telling me I'm a racist on teevee, much less pay to see it in a theater.
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Are you still killing your unborn? -- GOD |
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Didn't you people learn ANYTHING from the smoke of SODOM?
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Just WHY should HE?
The argument has been made that Dred Scott was actually a brilliant move against slavery, in that by not counting slaves as full people, it prevented the slave holding states from becoming wildly over-represented in Congress and firming up their ability to maintain the institution levislatively.
“Loser: Caitlyn Jenner”
Getting paid for crap reality show. New found fame. Praise from the idiot brigade. Not going to jail I guess. For his sick purposes Bruce appears to be a winner.
Now that they ARE full people; and we subsidize having more and more of them; guess what's going to happen...
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