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Besides entertaining us with a hyperbolic mess of a Beck/Palin/Obama-turned-Avatar parody, the latest episode of South Park remains incredibly clever. The show’s set up was a trap to get their center-Left fans [...]
Click here for the previous installments of Chris Yogerst’s “Generation South Park” series.
After the latest episode of South Park we know plenty of the show’s fans on the Left are saying “SEE, SOUTH PARK ISN’T CONSERVATIVE!!”
[Editor’s Note: Chris is right. The night this new episode ran I spammed a comment that was submitted making this [...]
A couple months ago I was in a graduate cinema studies course when a fellow student called me out as a sexist. My only crime was being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock’s films, which she (and other misguided feminists) feel are full of misogynistic male heroes. After telling me she was offended by Jimmy Stewart’s [...]
Editor’s Note: Click here for Part 1 of Chris Yogerst’s “Generation South Park” series.
“America’s Generation Y (born between 1980 and 1995) is the first to have grown up with the Internet, which leaves it the most liberty-loving generation since the era of Andrew Jackson.”
These are the words of Jim Burkee, associate professor at Concordia University [...]
Is pop culture nothing more than a safe haven for the left? It is certainly easy to believe that, however, it isn’t true.
“Democrats piss me off,” are the words uttered by South Park’s most anti-politically correct character, Eric Cartman. This can be seen as an overview for what drives the social and political commentary of the [...]
A month ago it would have been hard to predict that Roman Polanski would be such a big player in the news right now. As Polanski loses his first attempt to be released from Swiss authorities the controversy over his arrest continues to stir. While the infamous petition grows, criticism for Hollywood continues to mount.
However, [...]
Does arresting Roman Polanski mean that he is not a great filmmaker? Does it mean we don’t feel for his traumatic childhood in which he survived the Holocaust? Can is possibly mean we don’t feel for the loss of his late wife at the evil hands of the Manson family?
No, it only means he never [...]
How many Oscar nominations does one need in order to avoid facing justice for having raped a child? Are four nominations and one victory enough? Can artistic achievement absolve one of punishment for a horrible crime? And does the taint of such a dastardly act diminish the value of some of modern cinema’s greatest films?
With [...]
Monday night’s Red Eye discussed John Edwards’ continuing, disgraceful treatment of his family. Andrew Young, a former aide to Edwards, has proposed to write a book making some serious allegations regarding the senator’s extramarital affair with Rielle Hunter (which isn’t her real name), including Edwards’ pledge to someday marry Miss Hunter in a rooftop wedding complete [...]
