Author: Michael

The White House removed The Independent’s Andrew Feinberg from President Donald Trump’s traveling press pool on Thursday, two days after Trump berated the reporter during a tense Oval Office exchange. Feinberg was scheduled to cover Trump’s trip to Sioux City, Iowa, but was informed Wednesday that he would no longer serve as the designated print pool reporter, according to Semafor’s Max Tani. The White House Correspondents’ Association condemned the decision as retaliation amid a separate legal fight over the administration’s restrictions on press access. “The White House Correspondents’ Association strongly objects to the decision to restrict a journalist’s coverage simply…

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Whenever the jacob’s ladder of social media discourse loops around to discuss classic comedies — think “Blazing Saddles” on “National Lampoon’s Animal House” — there’s always an agonized strain of hand-wringing insisting that movies like that couldn’t be made now. The reasons invariably run the ideological gamut, some ascribing their absence to risk-averse studio execs and others blaming cancel culture run amuck. But the truth is that the bar is simply much, much higher today for genuine transgression than it was 10 or 20 or 50 years ago. Take, for example, the work of Sacha Baron Cohen, whose latest film,…

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