Hillary Clinton: I Screamed Into a Pillow Over the Shock of Losing

Excellent.

In other news:

Gay coffee shop owner demands Christians, who had been dropping anti-gay pamphlets near his shop, but not in it, leave his store. Also says that he'll "F*** some guy in the a**" in front of them and make them watch.

Serve the coffee, bigot.

The ratings for late-night clowns keep falling, with alleged Consciences of the Nation now crowing about having ratings pretty much the same as Sean Hannity's. And yet I don't see Politico and other "news" outlets dutifully running Hannity's clips as "news."

Robert Tracinzsky says that they might not be losing viewers because they've gotten too political, but rather, might have gotten too political because they've lost so many viewers.

I've speculated about this myself in the past -- if you're losing customers, one possibly play is to narrowcast just to a small subset of customers and make them as fanatically loyal as possible. If you can't deliver entertainment to the masses, try selling religion to a cult.

It's a smaller market, but prior cult leaders have proven that you can bleed a lot of cash and sexual favors out of cultists.

The NFL shows continued loss of viewers throughout almost every single demographic in week 4.

Again, as their ratings fall, they might find that it makes more sense to get out of the sports entertainment business and more into a hybrid sports/political religion business.

If you missed it, Mike Rowe's words about what you can find comfort in in the aftermath of depraved evil are worth reading.

Gloria Allred is very disappointed to see her daughter whoring herself out for Hollywood favors.

And, Matthew Continetti has a good piece on the media's end of all pretense.

They, too, have given up on attempting to deliver news to the general public, and now content themselves to publish deranged, conspiracy-filled cult newsletters.

Open thread. Have a great three day (maybe) weekend!

posted by Ace at 07:11 PM

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