Laura Ingraham Show 11/10/16 | There"s quite a bit that a President Trump
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Along with fellow conservative palsSean Hannity and Ann Coulter, Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham was an avid and vocal supporter of Donald Trump from the early days of his campaign. Now that loyalty may pay off for theauthor and radio talk show host.
Ingraham is under serious consideration to become Trump"s White House press secretary.
As reported by The Hill, Trump has appreciated Ingraham"s fiece loyalty. Not only did the founder of Lifezette campaign for The Donald, she helped him prep for debates, offered strategic advice along the way, and defended him against any and all critics.
"Shockingly," the news that Ingraham is reportedly on the inside track for the press secretary job hasn"t sat all that well with many liberals, as evidenced by Twitter.
Asource told The Hill that Ingraham is in contact with Trump"s inner circle and is interested in the job. Still, how much fun would Ann Coulter have been?
ALSHON JEFFERY JAW NUMBING GRAB! 200 YARD GAME | MADDEN 17 DRAFT CHAMPIONS
The Titans take on the Bears in week 12. The Bears will be without Alshon Jeffery for that game because he has been suspended for 4 games after testing positive for PEDs per Adam Schefter:
Bears WR Alshon Jeffery suspended four games for violating its PED policy.
Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) November 14, 2016
I had Jeffery in my cash game lineups on Draft Kings yesterday. His score sure didnt look like it was on PEDs yesterday. I should have gone down to Rishard Matthews and then spent up for Ezekiel Elliott, but hey, I still cashed thanks to junk time from Antonio Brown....but you dont care about my fantasy team.
Even with all of that being said, facing the Bears without Alshon Jeffery is easier than facing the Bears with Alshon Jeffery.
Bernie Mac EXCLUSIVE "Kids Are Bad As Hell" Kings of Comedy Tour Fox
Based on the late comedians real life, The Bernie Mac Show was a hilarious sitcom about a childless couple who take in their nieces and nephew to raise as their own. Trying to figure it out with three children is hilarious enough, but throw in Bernies unconventional parenting skill,s and his wife Wandas high-powered working schedule and you get some pretty great stuff.
Bernie Mac passed away in 2008 and its been 15 years since the show first aired, so what do the actors who playedNessa, Jordan, and Bryana aka Baby Girl look like now?
Camille Winbushplayed Vanessa aka Nessa on the series which began when she was just 11 years old. After The Bernie Mac Show wrapped, Winbush went on to guest star on Greys Anatomy and become a series regular on The Secret Life of the American Teenager. Her latest project Everything But A Manscreened at the American Black Film Festival this past summer.
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Jeremy Suarezplayed Bernies nerdy nephewJordan. A soft-spoken boy with a ton of allergies, Bernie found it difficult to mold Jordan into the athletic manly man that he wanted him to become. Only five months younger than Winbush, the now 26-year-old actor went on to voice characters onKing of the Hilland in Brother Bear 2. His latest film, The Fix debuted last year.
Dee Dee Daviswas only five when she began starring as the super adorableBryana aka Baby Girl on The Bernie Mac Show. After the series ended Davis stepped away from acting but she is still very active on social media.
Flip to see how gorgeous these three actors look 15 years after The Bernie Mac Show first aired.
Ghost in the Shell Official Trailer 1 (2017) - Scarlett Johansson Movie
When science fiction is no longer looking forward, does it lose all meaning? That was my first thought after viewing the first full trailer for Ghost in the Shell.
Ive always thought of sci-fi as territory for inquiring minds, for those who long for a glimpse of the next step in human perhaps even machine evolution. Which is why its deeply unsettling, to say the least, that Rupert Sanders upcoming remake of Mamoru Oshiis seminal anime seems to be relying on tried and test Hollywood tropes to sell itself to us.
Most readers will already be aware of the controversies surrounding the new version. Johanssons casting as the Major (Major Motoko Kusanagi in the original anime and preceding mangas) has drawn criticism from Asian-American actors who wondered why it was necessary to cast a non-Asian actor in such a quintessentially Japanese role. A counter-argument goes that Kusanagi has blue-violet eyes that feature no epicanthic fold, so it is perfectly acceptable for her to be played by Johansson a point that rather ignores the fact that most females in anime have a similar appearance.
Ghost in the Shell: trailer for Scarlett Johansson anime adaptation
Whats notable from the trailer is that Sanders and his team have also surrounded Johansson with a mostly white supporting cast. The intention may be to avoid drawing attention to the American actors ethnicity, but it only serves to create a bizarre whitewashed vision of the land of the rising sun. I was reminded of David Finchers remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, featuring a mostly English cast but somehow still set in Sweden. That movie just about worked because Fincher perfectly captured the icy Nordic noir of the novels.
The same trick does not appear to be working for Ghost in the Shell, where every glimpse of cyborg geisha girls in the trailer just makes us wonder why everyone in this Japanese anti-cybercrime division (with the exception of Takeshi Kitanos Chief Daisuke Aramaki) seems to be white.
And yet Sanders appears to have committed an even more devious crime with the remake. The original Ghost in the Shell was a complex treatise on the nature of sentience, imagining a future in which humans have become so much like machines that we may have more in common with them than each other. In its scope and intellectual ambition, the film dwarfs more recent offerings such as Ex-Machina (on the big screen) and Westworld and Humans (on TV) precisely because it is prepared to leave the comfortable boundaries of human experience behind and imagine a world where consciousness is shifting into multifarious forms, and societys interconnectedness is sweeping away concepts such as human individuality and ushering in something new and unknown.
The original film doesnt just examine the next stage of evolution the one we can easily get our heads around it looks beyond the curve of the horizon to the stage beyond that, to the unsettling, darkling reality of our own fusion with technology. Meanwhile, the Hollywood remake appears to be looking in the opposite direction.
We can only hope that the final movie offers more ambition, because the trailer seems to be trying to convince us that Ghost in the Shell is (conveniently) a lot like a fair few other Hollywood movies that we might have seen and liked. From Paul Verhoevens RoboCop the screenwriters have swiped the idea that the Major had another, perhaps more human, existence before she was stolen to be transformed into a hot but terrifying superpowered cybercop. This sense of a mysterious past waiting to be discovered is present in scores of hit Hollywood movies, from the Jason Bourne series to The Matrix, which of course was also partially inspired by Ghost in the Shell. The network has come full circle.
The trailer is visually splendid as an ex-commercials director, Sanders has a fabulous eye for striking imagery. But the original Ghost in the Shell wasnt about who the Major once was; it was about who she is going to become. So theres a sense that the film-makers have not just whitewashed Oshiis film, but Hollywoodised it too. Im not sure which is the greater crime.
John Oliver closed the final Last Week Tonight of 2016 by stating the obvious: "[It"s] been an uncommonly s****y year" from the Syrian refugee crisis to the draining election cycle. He capped off the episode by blowing up a giant "2016" sign, as celebrities like "Weird Al" Yankovic, Jeffrey Tambor and Larry Wilmore flipped the bird to the depressing past 12 months.
"f**k 2016," grumbled Larry David in trademark style, p****d off over mayonnaise on his sandwich. "Go punch yourself in the d**k," offered Megan Mullally. Between the celebrity spots, ordinary Americans vented about tragedies both massive (the Flint water crisis) and small (being denied a selfie with Bruce Willis).
Oliver spent most of the episode processing the presidential election of Donald Trump. "Instead of showing our daughters that they could some day be president, America proved that no grandpa is too racist to become leader of the free world," he cracked, admitting he"s suffered "wave after wave of nausea all week."
The host vented his fears of a Trump presidency and cautioned against blind optimism. "Optimism is nice if you can swing it, but you"ve got to be careful because it can feed into the normalization of Donald Trump," he said. "And he"s not normal. He"s abnormal. He"s a human "What is wrong with this picture?" He sticks out like a sore thumb, and, frankly, he even looks like a sore thumb.
"Maybe you"ve tried to make yourself feel better, fantasizing that he might Google "How much does the president get paid?" get depressed and then resign," he continued. "But that is when you remember Mike f*****g Pence, who might be even worse because he looks like he"s from the 1950s, but he thinks like he"s from the 1960s."
Mostly, though, Oliver focused on where we go from here. He encouraged viewers to vote, buy newspaper subscriptions and donate to "organizations that need help under a Trump administration," includingPlanned Parenthood, Center for Reproductive Rights, Natural Resources Defense Council, International Refugee Assistance Project, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Trevor Project and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
"Keep reminding yourself, "This is not normal," he said. "Because a Klan-backed, misogynist Internet troll is going to be delivering the next State of the Union address, and that is not normal. It"s f****d up."
Several factors may have contributed to Donald Trump winning the presidency. Watch here.
Philadelphia Eagles vs Atlanta Falcons Highlights & Recap
PHILADELPHIA -- Atlanta Falcons rookie strong safety Keanu Neal said he did nothing wrong on a controversial fourth-quarter hit against Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Jordan Matthews -- a play that did not draw a penalty for helmet-to-helmet contact in the Eagles" 24-15 victory.
"I"m not trying to hit the guy in the head,"" Neal said. "That"s not me. Never in the game of football will I ever try to do that. I"m not a dirty player like that. But I went for the strike zone. I lowered my shoulder. And I felt like I hit him in the sternum. I don"t think I had any head-to-head contact."
Matthews, naturally, disagreed.
"Yes, I definitely think it was a penalty,"" Matthews said. "My helmet was bent. I had to get a new face mask. I had to change out my face mask and my visor. I don"t know what they saw, but at the end of the day, we got the win. So I will take a b****y lip if we get a win.""
The Atlanta Falcons entered Sunday"s game boasting the league"s top offense, but Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Leodis McKelvin felt there was a weakness to exploit.
The real reason theFalcons falteredSundayagainst the Eagles was the way they got pushed around on both sides of the ball.
The Eagles shook off a non-call early in the fourth quarter, rallying on both sides of the ball to take the lead and end their two-game losing streak.
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Video replay appeared to show Neal leading with his helmet. Matthews remained on the ground for a moment grabbing at his face mask after taking the hit across the middle. The unsuccessful third-down play led to the Eagles attempting 55-yard field goal, which Caleb Sturgis missed. A penalty, of course, would have kept the Eagles" drive alive.
Falcons coach Dan Quinn didn"t want to dig too deep into the play but stood behind his player.
"Yeah, I don"t have any thoughts on it other than just the way he"s taught in the strike zone is we"re going to try and hit someone as hard as humanly possible,"" Quinn said. "And if there"s a hit to the head, then we didn"t lower our strike zone low enough. But I"ll go back and look, but I didn"t get a chance to see. ... But I can tell you [Neal] is clearly becoming a very physical safety, in the box, out.
"By no means is he taught to go up high or do anything that"s out of whack. The leverage tackling that we do, we want to absolutely throw fast b***s in that strike zone. And if that target is on point, I"ll applaud that hit as loud as I can.""
Eagles coach Doug Pederson was asked if he got an explanation on the no-call.
"No,"" Pederson said.
Neal could be subject to a fine this week. But he maintained his innocence.
"Never do I attempt to hit someone in the head,"" Neal said. "That"s just not the type of player I am. I"m not there to play like that. [Coach Quinn] always talks about the strike zone. You guys know I"m a physical player, but I"m not trying to hit the dude in the head. They didn"t call a flag. ... I don"t think I hit him in the head, but I didn"t attempt to hit him in the head.""
Russell Wilson Finds Fred Jackson for the Score! | Seahawks vs. Packers | NFL
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Everyone has said the right things. When Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo returns from his back injury, the starting quarterback job is his. There is no quarterback controversy.
Except once again Sunday, Dak Prescott proved there is.
Prescott threw three touchdown passes in another strong performance without wide receiver Dez Bryant, leading the Cowboys to a 30-16 win over the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field.
The Cowboys head into their bye 5-1 and winners of five straight. Prescott has been at the helm for all six games, going his first 176 NFL passes without throwing an interception. He threw his first career pick and lost his second fumble against Green Bay, but it did little to quell the enthusiasm about his budding stardom.
Shea Serrano of The Ringer is ready for Prescott"s Hall of Fame induction ceremony:
The rookie fourth-round pick completed 18 of his 27 passes for 247 yards. He has completed at least two-thirds of his passes in each of the Cowboys" five wins. Their offensive struggles from Week 1"s loss to the New York Giants have been nowhere to be found in recent weeks.
Taking equal credit is Ezekiel Elliott, who recorded his fourth straight 100-yard rushing game. The former Ohio State standout racked up 157 yards on his 28 carries, marking his third consecutive contest in which he"s averaged more than five yards per attempt.
ESPN"s Kirk Herbstreit is impressed with Dallas" two stud rookies:
This is the third straight game Dallas has won without Bryant, who was inactive despite making progress with his knee injury. Cole Beasley hauled in two Prescott touchdown passes, and Terrance Williams finished with 75 yards on four catches.
Josh Eberley of Hoop magazine noted the fantasy implications of Beasley"s big day:
On the other sideline, the Packers continue to search for answers amid the surprising regression of their offense. Aaron Rodgers failed to throw for 300 yards for the 14th straight game (including playoffs) Sunday, finishing with 294. His performance was mired in visible frustrationand a whole lot of uncharacteristic mistakes.
Rodgers threw an interception, lost a fumble at the Cowboys" 1-yard line and was again left to d**k-and-dunk his way around the field. He did not complete a pass longer than 25 yards.
Aside from a nearly perfect game against the Detroit Lions in Week 3, Rodgers and the Green Bay passing game have been a frustrating mess for almost a full calendar year. The Detroit game is the only time Rodgers has thrown for more than two touchdowns in his last 15 games.
Most thought Jordy Nelson"s absence because of a torn ACL played a large part in the Packers" struggles down the stretch in 2015. With Nelson back in the fold, it"s clear now that something is amiss schematically.
Rodgers" struggles were perhaps the top discussion topic during the game:
Continuing the Packers" commitment to the complete befuddling of fantasy owners, Ty Montgomery emerged from nowhere as their top receiver. Montgomery, who didn"t have a single catch through Green Bay"s first four games, led all players with 10 receptions and 98 yards.
Bill Jones of CBS 11 noted this was a homecoming for Montgomery:
Nelson added five receptions for 68 yards, and Randall Cobb hauled in seven passes for 53 yards and Green Bay"s lone touchdown. The Packers lost Davante Adams in the second half to a potential concussion. Adams left the game and did not return after an evaluation.
Eddie Lacy briefly breathed life into the running game with an early 25-yard scamper, but Dallas held him in check the rest of the way. He finished with 65 yards on 17 carries, marking the ninth straight game in which Lacy"s had fewer than 20 touches.
On the other hand, we did get this, via the NFL"s official Twitter account:
The Packers won"t have much time to fix their sputtering offense, as the Chicago Bears are headed to Lambeau for Thursday Night Football. At 3-2, Green Bay is two games behind the undefeated Minnesota Vikings for first place in the NFC North and is part of a massive contingent vying for a wild-card spot.
The Cowboys are one game clear of second-place Washington in the NFC East heading into their bye. They"ll return with a Sunday night home game against the Philadelphia Eagles on Oct. 30, which will either be the first matchup between Prescott and No. 2 overall pick Carson Wentz or one of the highest-pressure starts of Romo"s career.
Either way, the world will be watching.
Ed Werder of ESPN relayed Cowboys owner Jerry Jones" thoughts on the quarterback situation:
