{"id":767,"date":"2011-06-02T02:12:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T06:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/faithmediaandculture\/?p=767"},"modified":"2011-06-02T02:12:12","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T06:12:12","slug":"they-dont-call-it-the-left-coast-for-nothing-headlines-starring-glenn-beck-rihanna-jennifer-hudson-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2011\/06\/they-dont-call-it-the-left-coast-for-nothing-headlines-starring-glenn-beck-rihanna-jennifer-hudson-and-more.html","title":{"rendered":"They don&#8217;t call it the left coast for nothing + headlines starring Glenn Beck, Rihanna, Jennifer Hudson and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are today&#8217;s dispatches from the FM&amp;C Hot List:<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>The don&#8217;t call it The Left Coast for nothing. <\/strong>Ben Shapiro, author of <em>Primetime Propaganda<\/em>, is unleashing audio evidence of Hollywood&#8217;s blatant anti-conservative bias on YouTube. Here&#8217;s Susan Harris, the creator of <em>Soap <\/em>and <em>The Golden Girls <\/em>lamenting the &#8220;medieval minds&#8221; of people who don&#8217;t hold her liberal views.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Primetime Propaganda: Susan Harris Thinks Conservatives are Stupid\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LuYvfN_eqzw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A compilation of Simon&#8217;s YouTube posts can be seen at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/tv-executives-admit-taped-interviews-193116\"> Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>Simon &amp; Schuster &amp; Beck.<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/media\/column-post\/glenn-beck-launches-new-book-publishing-imprint-simon-schuster-27845\">From The Wrap<\/a>: <em>Glenn Beck and Simon &amp; Schuster announced Wednesday that they have  expanded their publishing partnership, which began in 2003 with his No. 1  best-selling book &#8220;The Real America.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Beck&#8217;s Mercury Radio Arts production company will spin-off Mercury Ink,  a new division that will publish books hand-picked by the conservative  Fox News Channel host. They will be co-published by S&amp;S.<br \/>\n<\/em><strong> <\/strong><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>Rihanna&#8217;s video vengeance draws fire. <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/music_blog\/2011\/06\/rihannas-man-down-lands-the-gun-slinging-singer-in-hot-water.html\">From The LA Times<\/a><strong>: <\/strong><em>Rihanna has found herself in the center of controversy again over one of her music videos.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Before  premiering the video to her latest single, the reggae-tinged revenge  ode \u201cMan Down,\u201d on BET&#8217;s 106 &amp; Park <\/em><em>on Tuesday, the singer took to  Twitter to say it would have a &#8220;very strong underlying message 4 girls  like me.&#8221; It\u2019s that message &#8212; which shows her killing a man who&#8217;s assaulted  her &#8212; that has drawn the ire of a collective of advocacy groups that  work, in part, to combat violent imagery in media. <\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Parents  Television Council, along with Industry Ears and the Enough Is Enough  Campaign, joined together to \u201ccondemn\u201d the video and urge Viacom, BET&#8217;s  parent company, to pull it off the air. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>4. <strong>Jennifer Hudson to become a nun. <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/jennifer-hudson-cast-as-a-193953\">From Hollywood Reporter<\/a>: <em>Jennifer Hudson is headed for the nunnery \u2014 in 20th Century Fox\u2019s The Three Stooges, from the Farrelly brothers.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>She\u2019ll play one of the nuns in the orphanage where the Stooges spend time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>5. <strong>Schiller may go to NBC.<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/ousted-npr-chief-may-land-193913\">From Hollywood Reporter<\/a>: <em>Former National Public Radio president and CEO Vivian Schiller is close to finalizing a deal to join NBC News where she\u2019ll head up digital projects, sources at the network confirm&#8230;Schiller resigned as CEO of the NPR last March, five months after a flare up over her decision to dismiss NPR analyst Juan Williams in part for remarks he made about Muslims on Fox News\u2019 The O\u2019Reilly Factor.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>After firing Williams, who was also a Fox News contributor at the  time, Schiller gave a disastrous extemporaneous interview in which she  asserted that Williams\u2019 comments about getting \u201cnervous\u201d when he sees  people in \u201cMuslim garb\u201d on airplanes should have been kept between him  and \u201chis psychiatrist.\u201d Schiller apologized and Williams subsequently  landed a full-time job at Fox News.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>6. <strong>More marriages go the distance than we&#8217;re led to believe. <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anncoulter.com\/cgi-local\/article.cgi?article=425\">From AnnCoulter.com<\/a>: <em>Contradicting the endless New York Times articles celebrating &#8220;the new  American family,&#8221; &#8220;blended families&#8221; and &#8220;quasi marriages,&#8221; a recent  census report says that only 12 percent of Americans will be married as  many as two times in their entire lives. Only 3 percent will be married  three or more times. <\/em><br \/>\n<em> (The &#8220;one of every two marriages will end in divorce&#8221; canard  comes from comparing the number of marriages in a given year to the  number of divorces that same year &#8212; but the divorces could be from any  of the millions of marriages consummated in the prior several decades.  Serial divorcers also bring the &#8220;average&#8221; divorce rate way up.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>7. <strong>Fetus profile removed by Facebook? <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/did-facebook-remove-fetus-marriah-greenes-profile\/\">From The Blaze<\/a>: <em>Over the past few days, a number of media outlets have covered the  existence of unborn baby Marriah Greene\u2019s Facebook profile. Greene\u2019s  parents, Matt and Ellie, wanted to find a creative way to announce their  pregnancy to the world. So, they took to Facebook, created a profile  for their unborn baby\u2026As of 7:30 p.m. Eastern time <\/em>(last night), <em>little Marriah\u2019s <a title=\"Opens in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100001936532274&amp;sk=info\" target=\"_blank\">profile was no longer active<\/a> on Facebook. The Blaze reached out to Ellie and asked if the social  network has removed the profile. Her response was brief: \u201cI think so.\u201d&#8230;<\/em><a title=\"Opens in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/policy.php\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook has a strict policy<\/a> that requires all profile creators to be at least 13 years of age&#8230;Could it be that Facebook counted Marriah among those individuals who  are below the age requirement and, as a result, removed her account?<br \/>\n<strong>IMHO:<\/strong> If so, that would seem to suggest a the fetus is a person whose rights can be violated.<\/p>\n<p>8.<strong> List of conservative movie critics <a href=\"http:\/\/whatwouldtotowatch.com\/2011\/06\/01\/your-guide-to-conservative-film-critics\/\">here<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>9. <strong>Surprise! Geezer and whippersnappers don&#8217;t watch the same TV shows.<\/strong><strong> <\/strong>Here&#8217;s the data as compiled by Hollywood Reporter and Brad Adgate of Horizon Media.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oldest-skewing broadcast network shows:<\/strong> <em>1. CBS&#8217; Blue Bloods &#8211; Median Age: 60.6, 2. CBS&#8217; Chaos* &#8211; Median Age: 59.8,\u00a0 3. CBS&#8217; CSI: NY &#8211; Median Age: 59.5, <\/em><em>4.    CBS&#8217; The Good Wife &#8211; Median Age: 59, 5. NBC&#8217;s Harry\u2019s Law &#8211; Median   Age:  58.7, 6. CBS&#8217; NCIS &#8211; Median Age: 58.3 (TIE), 6. ABC&#8217;s Dancing with   the  Stars** &#8211; Median Age: 58.3 (TIE), 8. CBS&#8217; The Mentalist &#8211; Median   Age:  58.2,\u00a0 9. NBC&#8217;s Who Do You Think You Are? &#8211; Median Age: 58, 10.   CBS&#8217;  NCIS: Los Angeles &#8211; Median Age: 57.6, 11. ABC&#8217;s Body of Proof &#8211;   Median  Age: 57.5 (TIE),11. CBS&#8217;s The Defenders* &#8211; Median Age: 57.5   (TIE), 13.  ABC&#8217;s Dancing With the Stars: Results &#8211; Median Age: 57.4   (TIE), 14.  NBC&#8217;s Outlaw* &#8211; Median Age: 57.2,\u00a0 15. CBS&#8217; Medium* &#8211; Median   Age: 57  (TIE), 15. ABC&#8217;s Dancing with the Stars*** &#8211; Median Age: 57   (TI<\/em>E)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Youngest-skewing broadcast network shows: <\/strong><em>1.   CW&#8217;s Gossip Girl &#8211; Median Age: 29.3, 2. Fox&#8217;s Cleveland Show &#8211; Median   Age: 30.8, 3. Fox&#8217;s Family Guy &#8211; Median Age: 30.9, 4. Fox&#8217;s Bob&#8217;s   Burgers &#8211; Median Age: 31.5 (TIE), 4. Fox&#8217;s American Dad &#8211; Median Age:   31.5 (TIE), 6. CW&#8217;s Hellcats* &#8211; Median Age: 31.7, 7. CW&#8217;s 90210 &#8211; Median   Age: 31.8, 8. CW&#8217;s One Tree Hill &#8211; Median Age: 32, 9. Fox&#8217;s The   Simpsons &#8211; Median Age: 32.4,<\/em><em> 10. CW&#8217;s Shedding for the Wedding &#8211;   Median Age: 33.3, 11. CW&#8217;s Vampire Diaries &#8211; Median Age: 33.6 (TIE),   11. CW&#8217;s Life Unexpected &#8211; Median Age: 33.6 (TIE),13. CW&#8217;s America&#8217;s   Next Top Model &#8211; Median Age: 34.5 \/35.7, 14. NBC&#8217;s The Office &#8211; Median   Age: 35.9, 15. NBC&#8217;s Parks and Recreation &#8211; Median Age: 37<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Note: Estimates include live plus same day viewing. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Note: Estimates include live plus same day viewing. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>10.<strong> Quote of the Day:<\/strong> <em>There has always been a different standard for the Jews. We\u2019re like  \u201chonorary Aryans,\u201d as Hitler said of the Japanese. That means that we\u2019re  human beings only when it suits the world to treat us as human beings.  There\u2019s a pretty good book on the subject \u2014 the Torah. &#8211; <\/em>Pulitzer Prize-winning Jewish playwright <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/29\/magazine\/david-mamet-talks-about-his-shift-to-the-right.html?_r=1&amp;ref=davidmamet\">David Mamet in an interview with the New York Times<\/a>. <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>No blog tomorrow. 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