By Last Week Tonight
“U.S. tax law allows television preachers to get away with almost anything. We know this from personal experience.”
Posted on August 24, 2015
Show Me A Hero: A Q&A With David Simon
By Marcelo Rochabrun/ProPublica
David Simon’s new HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero, which premiered last Sunday, is the harrowing tale of a hopeless battle. Based on a nonfiction book of the same title – written by former New York Times reporter Lisa Belkin – the show dramatizes the real fight that took place 25 years ago in Yonkers, New York, after a federal judge ordered public housing projects to be built in the wealthier (and whiter) parts of the city.
In an interview with ProPublica, David Simon discussed the legacy of the Yonkers crisis and what desegregation is all about. The transcript has been edited for clarity and length.
Posted on August 22, 2015
Survey Says: Steve Harvey Is A Terrible Father
By Steve Rhodes
“On Sunday, a group of male Chicago comedians attended the season premiere taping of The Steve Harvey Show in Chicago,” Kate Dries reports for Jezebel.
“These ten men were part of an audience of roughly 2,000 at the Ford Oriental Theatre downtown, who were all there for What Men Really Think – The Event! What Men Really Think, according to accounts, is that it is acceptable for thousands of them to catcall and harass 150 women onstage.
“Advertised as an event intended ‘for gentlemen of all backgrounds and ages,’ the taping appears to be a more elaborate version of a segment that was part of an episode that aired in July during It’s Raining Men Week, also entitled ‘What Men Really Think.’ That segment had featured a regular-sized studio audience of women, with men onstage who’d been quizzed on questions like ‘Which is more important, a pretty face or a great body?’ (Answer: A pretty face!)”
Click through for the rapey rest and read the rest of the horrible story.
Posted on August 21, 2015
The Trews’ Final Episode: On Cyclical, Scripted Journalism
Dan Willis Is Just Sayin’
Straight Outta Chicago
Late night Christian talk, on the Tri-State Christian Network.
1. “Contemporoary Gospel bass vocalist Elder Harvey Pinkney appears on the Christian Late night talk show I’m Just Sayin’ with host Pastor Dan Willis & Co-host Jason Grant. Harvey discusses his call from The Lord to write and produce prophetic music in these last days.”
Posted on August 11, 2015
Untouchable: Illinois Mobster Cop In Grip Of Chicago Outfit
By Steve Rhodes
I was interviewed on-camera for this, though I don’t know if I made the final cut. Turns out I’m all over this thing!
“Mobster Cop” premieres Thursday, August 6, at 9/8c. In an Illinois town in the grip of the Chicago mob, Police Chief Michael Corbitt is surrounded by temptation. A string of extortion scams, violent crimes and a deadly extramarital affair prompts investigators to suspect that Corbitt has been lured in.
This video preview is being finicky, so here’s a link to it if it doesn’t work for you.
Posted on August 6, 2015