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Hours after LeBron James seamlessly shoved his foot in his mouth – stating that Brittney Griner should question wanting to go back to the United States – the Lakers’ attention whore attempted to remove the foot and walk back his comments. It didn’t go well.

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Even after botching a Si Se Puede (“Yes We Can”) attempt in April 2021 at a California farmerworkers event and nearly tying her tongue in a knot on Monday after trying to pronounce bodega (boh-day-gaw), she chose to spice things up during a speech delivered before a predominantly Latino crowd by equating the “uniqueness” of the people of San Antonio to breakfast tacos.

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OutKick founder Clay Travis envisioned a reality where Trump was still in charge. And if you asked Clay to bet on whether Griner would have been retrieved under Trump’s stalwart leadership, he’d tell you that’s easy money.

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Regardless of your religious beliefs, players should not have to participate in a self-serving social justice campaign. Pride Month has become more about the public figures pretending to support the rainbow flag than the LGBT community.

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Cruise is apolitical and driven, eager to make populist movies with talented colleagues. Cruise delivers without the lectures, social media hate or other trappings some actors embrace…The summer is off to shockingly pro-American start.

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Rubio called out the league’s pregame actions just prior to Wednesday’s Celtics – Heat Eastern Conference Finals game. Before tipoff, Miami’s public address announcer urged fans to call their Senators in support of “commonsense gun laws.” In response, Rubio fired off a tweet: “The NBA doesn’t like to talk about the billions they make from a China that enslaves Uyghur Muslims and harvests their organs. But they have no problem politicizing a horrific tragedy in America.”

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“A man bun? That’s not a thing,” said Barkley on TNT. “That’s called you’re too cheap to get a haircut, you can’t make it up something. Get a haircut, Aaron.” Just don’t expect the Packers QB to actually take Barkley’s advice — he generally doesn’t work well with cancel culture.

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There’s no proof that Josh Donaldson’s comment echoed a racial undertone. However, a white athlete in question must now prove to those who cover sports that they are not racist. Racist is the default. The demand for racism in sports so strongly outstrips the supply that pundits often have to manufacture examples. And that’s a line too far for Stephen A. Smith.

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David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, announced he’ll be meeting with Rowling to explore new Potter-themed stories. His decision, assuming it stands, marks a dramatic turn of events. Corporations have been oh so eager to do the woke community’s bidding in recent years, from “woke trainings” to incessant social media messaging for progressive causes.

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For most of its history, college sports has operated under the principles of communism. A relative handful of people — coaches, administrators, NCAA bureaucrats, and state university athletic departments — became very wealthy, while the vast majority of the valuable labor producing the value — the players — worked for well below market rates.

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NY Yankees pitching star Nestor Cortes has gone dark on Twitter after select users targeted the lefty for using racially insensitive language. And in typical cancel culture fashion, the tweets proved to be entirely irrelevant. The incriminating tweets were rap lyrics first posted by Cortes 10 years ago, when the pitcher was only 17 years of age.

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Rapper A$AP Rocky was arrested in 2019 in Sweden and President Trump demanded his release. Trump took action to release a Black rapper from prison but Joe Biden tweets nice things about minorities — he’ll leave the Black WNBA star in Russia, though.

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Symone Sanders wasn’t the answer for MSNBC, it turns out. Sanders, a former spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris, debuted her MSNBC weekend program to just 361,000 total viewers on Saturday.

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I suppose there’s an argument to be made that someone other than Joy Behar is the dumbest person on television. But that argument would be weak. Though all of the View ladies are rather infuriated that the Supreme Court voted in a first draft to overturn Roe v. Wade, no one is taking it harder than Behar.

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AppleTV+ made former ESPN host Katie Nolan a member of its Friday Night Baseball booth this season and baseball fans aren’t enjoying her commentary. However, Nolan says the issue is not that she isn’t a skilled baseball analyst but rather that baseball fans are simply sexist…She is one of the most privileged personalities in sports media, yet she is declaring herself the victim yet again.

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Trevor Noah took shots at both Democrats and Republicans during a roast at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. And while ridiculing both political parties diverges from his commentary on the Daily Show, Noah couldn’t erase the fact that he isn’t, well, funny.

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The Discovery media company acquired CNN’s parent company WarnerMedia in a spin-off merger with AT&T in April. One of the primary goals for this merger is to re-establish CNN as a credible news agency. Yet a new Discovery project casts doubt on that objective. This week, the Discovery streaming service announced a new series called Generation Drag which follows five teens on their journey onto the drag queen stage.

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Joy Reid will finish April with her lowest-rated month on MSNBC yet. Despite the heavy news cycle, ReidIn — or whatever she calls her show –– declined 31 percent from last April…If you are going to be racist on tv, the rule is you ought to be a ratings draw. Reid is only the former, a racist. Anyone with a few months of television experience could replace Reid and embarrass the network less. That’s how low the bar is.

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Colbert epitomizes the state of late-night television: not funny, low-rated, uncreative and partisan. Colbert and his ilk ruined satire.

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Race Theory with Bomani Jones ended its first season on Sunday by losing almost all of the viewers his lead-in, John Oliver, handed him. Eighty percent of them, to be exact. And if it weren’t for Oliver, Jones would draw a CNN+ number. The one week Oliver was off, Jones failed to crack even 45,000 viewers. Race Theory is the lowest-rated show in modern HBO history. 

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LeBron is one of the most unlikeable public figures in the news today. He has declared American police officers racist criminals while silencing those who want to speak out against Chinese human rights violations. LeBron also isn’t too bright.

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Make America Rock Again. That was the message former President Donald Trump preached during a virtual appearance at a Kid Rock concert in Nashville last week. Moments before Rock took the stage, Trump appeared on a video screen to address the audience, providing concert goers with a rare opportunity to see two American bad asses for the price of one.

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If you have weighed in on Will Smith slapping Chris Rock over the past week, I sincerely hope you are not white. If so, you have stepped out of line. That is according to Tiffany Cross at MSNBC. Cross argues that white people don’t understand.

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MSNBC won’t ask Psaki to tell the truth or hold herself accountable. It’s an ideal fit. Best of all, MSNBC will allow Psaki to continue deceiving Americans about gas prices.