Whoopi turns 'election denier' in unhinged 'View' whoop-de-do



Amber Ruffin is the perfect political comic for our age. That’s not a compliment.

The former late-night host (does anyone remember her Peacock show?) is now the new voice of the resistance alongside Colbert and co.

Lucas wasn’t shoe-horning progressive platitudes into his movie or lecturing audiences on Jedi privilege. He cared about the franchise first and foremost.

Ruffin gained attention after she was hired and later fired from being the comic host of last month’s White House Correspondents’ Association D.C. gala. The not-so-august body realized Ruffin’s hard-left shtick wouldn’t mesh with its laughable attempt to play the “we don’t choose sides, y’all” card.

Ruffin has never been THAT funny.

Now, she’s riding that cancellation wave to accidentally remind us the WHCA got it right the second time. She’s too unhinged even for late-night TV (but not “The View”).

First, she promoted the “very fine people” hoax to smite President Donald Trump, as if everyone with a functioning brain didn’t know it’s been repeatedly debunked, even by the liberal Snopes.

Now, she’s warning us on, where else, “The View” that President Trump will keep “disappearing” people who cross him. She also suggested Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will start abducting autistic children.

Even “The View” producers must have blinked hard on that twofer. Here’s betting the show’s legal team brewed a few extra pots of joe that day ...

'Sith' happens

“Star Wars” fans once hated franchise creator George Lucas so much they made a movie about it. The 2010 documentary “The People vs. George Lucas” let fans take Lucas to the nerd woodshed. They roasted the filmmaker for replacing the original film trilogy with an “updated” version that messed with core parts of the saga.

Google “Han shot first” to get the gist of the debate. The trio of underwhelming prequels Lucas delivered added fuel to the fire.

Now? Well, after a decade of Disney-produced “Star Wars” content, some, if not all, is forgiven. The 20th anniversary rerelease of “Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith” (written and directed by Lucas) made a shocking $25 million last weekend. That’s more than many new films earn in their opening frames.

Why? “Sith” was better than we remember, for starters. Plus, “woke” wasn’t even a thing back in 2005. Lucas wasn’t shoe-horning progressive platitudes into his movie or lecturing audiences on Jedi privilege. He cared about the franchise first and foremost. That’s all. Now, that’s more than enough.

Maybe, the one sequel we need is “The People vs. George Lucas 2: The Apology” ...

Off-key

Neil Young can’t stop embarrassing himself.

It’s bad enough that the former free speech warrior tried to get Joe Rogan canceled for sharing the “wrong” pandemic views on his Spotify platform. It got worse when Young ripped his music off the platform in protest and, later, quietly put it back in.

Now, Young is barking at Elon Musk’s EV company Tesla via song, and both the lyrics and the message couldn’t be more muddled.

“Come on Ford, come on GM / Come on Chrysler, let’s roll again ... China’s way ahead, they’re making clean cars,” Young sang at a recent concert. Guess he hasn’t heard about China’s affinity for not-so-clean coal plants.

Need more lyrics?

“If you’re a Democrat, taste your freedom / Get whatever you want, taste your freedom.”

Oh, and the song calls Telsa owners “fascists.”

We’ve lost David Crosby, sadly, but can’t the surviving members of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young stage an intervention?

Whoopi's whoopsie

Another day, another unhinged conspiracy on “The View.”

This time, Whoopi Goldberg got the ball rolling by suggesting President Donald Trump fixed the 2024 presidential election. Quick! Get Robert Mueller on line one! The walls are closing in!

I want to remind people that [Trump] took credit for Biden’s economy — BOOMING economy, claiming investors knew he was going to win. I think he should stop saying that because you’re going to make somebody investigate how investigators would know you were going to win. I'm just putting that out there. You know.

Hey, she’s just asking questions. And since it’s “The View,” the questions remain nuclear-grade dumb.

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Neil Young attacks Elon Musk in new song, says Tesla owners are fascists, praises China



Musician Neil Young debuted a new song in which he attacks Elon Musk, claims that Tesla buyers are fascists, and praises China.

Young recently performed at the Light Up the Bluesbenefit concert at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles alongside Stephen Stills, Billy Idol, Cat Power, Rufus Wainwright, and Linda Perry. The annual charity concert raises funds for Autism Speaks.

'If you’re a fascist, get a Tesla.'

Young ranted about Musk, Tesla vehicles, and China in his latest song.

"If you’re a fascist, get a Tesla / It’s electric, it doesn’t matter / If you’re a Democrat, taste your freedom / Get whatever you want, taste your freedom," Young is heard singing in video clips posted online.

The singer-songwriter behind classic songs such as "Rockin’ in the Free World" and "Heart of Gold" urged American carmakers to challenge Tesla, which dominates the electric vehicle market. Young also praised China for being "way ahead" of the United States in making "clean cars."

“Come on, Ford, come on, GM / Come on, Chrysler, let’s roll again," Young sang. “Build something special, that people need / Build us a safe way for us to live / Build us something that won’t kill our kids / Build us something that runs real clean / Come on, America, let’s get in the race / China’s way ahead, they’re making clean cars.”

The politically charged song is titled "Let’s Roll Again," according to the Daily Beast.

Liberals have been unhinged ever since Musk publicly supported Donald Trump in the 2024 election, and when the Tesla CEO was appointed as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency.

Tesla vehicles have been vandalized across the country, and Tesla dealerships have been violently attacked by militant leftists furious at Musk for his role in the DOGE cutting wasteful and fraudulent federal government spending.

This isn't the first time that Young weaponized his music to make a political message.

In 2020, Young sued Trump for using "Rockin’ in the Free World" during his first re-election campaign. However, Young dropped the lawsuit.

As Blaze News reported in January 2022, Young demanded that Joe Rogan be terminated or censored by Spotify for "spreading fake information about vaccines." The ultimatum completely backfired, and Spotify retained Rogan and removed Young's music instead.

Last month, Young — who has Canadian and U.S. citizenship — claimed that he could be barred from returning to the United States by the Trump administration.

“When I go to play music in Europe, if I talk about Donald J. Trump, I may be one of those returning to America who is barred or put in jail to sleep on a cement floor with an aluminum blanket,” Young said, according to Variety. “That is happening all the time now. Countries have new advice for those returning to America. You can read about it at the Canada Desk. If I come back from Europe and am barred, can’t play my USA tour, all of the folks who bought tickets will not be able to come to a concert by me.”

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Iconic 'You wouldn't steal a car' ad allegedly contained pirated content: 'Just precious'



Americans keen to watch a movie on DVD have in years past frequently been confronted with a compulsory anti-piracy ad equating the unlawful digital acquisition of a film to grand theft auto. Moviegoers occasionally had to sit through the same jarring ad in theaters. In an ironic twist, the iconic font flashed repeatedly at would-be pirates in dark rooms across the country may itself have been pirated.

The ad, which has been parodied numerous times including by "The IT Crowd" TV series, was created by the Motion Picture Association of America in conjunction with Britain's Federation Against Copyright Theft and the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore. It debuted in theaters around the world and on home entertainment in July 2004.

At the outset, it shows a teenage girl downloading a pirated film on a desktop computer. The ad then runs through a sequence of dramatized crimes broken up by white text on black background telling prospective digital pirates that they would not similarly engage in other forms of theft: "You wouldn't steal a car"; "You wouldn't seal a handbag"; "You wouldn't steal a television"; "You wouldn't steal a movie."

Finally the ad states, "Downloading films is stealing — is against the law. Piracy. It's a crime."

The corresponding print campaign, which used the same font, insinuated a link between "DVD piracy and serious crime," highlighting cases where pirated DVDs were found in the possession of unsavory characters including an illegal alien and drug traffickers.

Bluesky user Rib noted last week that the font used throughout the ad "was a pirated clone (XBAND Rough) of a real font (FF Confidential)."

'The campaign has always had the wrong tone.'

Rib explained that by using the font editing software FontForge on a PDF from the ad campaign's website, he was able to confirm "they are indeed using the illegal clone version of the font, rather than the licensed one!"

Sky News subsequently conducted its own investigation. After replicating the process, the network drew the same conclusion: The piracy ad's font was pirated.

The British news site noted, however, that there was no evidence to suggest the campaign's designers were aware that the font was pirated, adding that copies of the pirated font were widely circulated in the early 2000s.

Dutch type designer and software developer Just van Rossum told Sky News, "I had known about the 'illegal clone' of my font before, but I didn't know that that was the one used in the campaign."

Van Rossum confirmed to Melissa Lewis, a reporter at the Center for Investigative Reporting, that XBAND Rough "is indeed an 'illegal clone' of FF Confidential."

"The campaign has always had the wrong tone, which (to me) explains the level of fun that has been had at its expense," said van Rossum. "The irony of it having used a pirated font is just precious."

Neither America's Motion Picture Association nor the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore responded to Sky News' requests for comments. The Federation Against Copyright Theft declined to comment, indicating the campaign predated anyone now working at the organization.

Van Rossum told TorrentFreak that he has no intention of taking action, as he is no longer the font's official distributor. The licensing is reportedly now handled by the American digital typesetting company Monotype.

This is not the first time an anti-piracy ad came off sounding like hypocrisy.

The Foundation for the Protection of the Rights of the Entertainment Industry of the Netherlands asked Dutch musician Melchior Rietveldt to compose music for another anti-piracy video in 2006.

Wired reported that the following year, Rietveldt discovered that his music was being used on a globally distributed "Harry Potter" DVD without his permission. His music had actually been used on at least 70 different commercial DVDs.

Years later, an Amsterdam court fined Rietvedlt's music royalty collections agency, ordering the outfit to pay the musician the money owed him.

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Pretend newsman Clooney's message to America: Trust journalists!



Give George Clooney a little credit.

The star played a doctor on NBC’s “ER” for five seasons, but he never dragged a stranger into surgery to remove his gallbladder.

David’s 'My Dinner with Adolf' op-ed in the New York Times earlier this week got a lot of attention, in part because it’s the first time David created something profoundly unfunny.

“I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV.”

Too bad he doesn’t take a similar approach to his newest gig. He’s starring as journalist Edward R. Murrow in “Good Night, and Good Luck,” the Broadway adaptation of his 2005 film. Now, everywhere, Clooney is weighing in on the state of journalism as if he spent decades under the tutelage of Woodward and/or Bernstein.

He didn’t. And it shows. Every time he hails the glory of the fourth estate, he ignores how it covered up President Joe Biden’s obvious dementia-like condition. Even worse for Clooney? He did, too. He saw the diminished Biden up close and personal at a DNC fundraiser last June but didn’t write his "Get Out, Joe” New York Times op-ed until weeks later.

The least Clooney can do now is act a little embarrassed ...

Netflix to cinemas: Drop dead

Ted Sarandos has vision. To a point.

The Netflix CEO lords over the mightiest streaming platform —the one that inspired “Netflix and chill” — and has scared movie studios silly.

Why? Netflix churns out film-quality “content” that allows consumers to stay home rather than go to the cineplex.

That’s a dying model anyway, Sarandos argues.

“Folks grew up thinking, ‘I want to make movies on a gigantic screen and have strangers watch them [and to have them] play in the theater for two months and people cry and sold-out shows. ... It’s an outdated concept.”

In the same speech, Sarandos explained why theaters will go the way of the eight-track tape.

“If you’re fortunate to live ... in Manhattan, and you can walk to a multiplex and see a movie, that’s fantastic. Most of the country cannot.”

Shhh! Nobody tell him they invented these box-like contraptions that take people from point A to point B on just a few drops of fossil fuel ...

Jar Jar's comeback

We’re sorry, George! (Lucas, not Clooney.)

The “Star Wars” maestro caught endless heat for his prequel films: “The Phantom Menace,” “Attack of the Clones,” and “Revenge of the Sith.” The trio couldn’t replicate the magic of his original saga.

And to be blunt, Padme, Anakin, and Jar Jar Binks never joined the pop culture canon like Han, Chewie, and friends.

Now, “Revenge of the Sith” is getting a re-release for its 20th anniversary, and the film could make a pretty penny. Initial calls say it’ll make $25-plus million, a remarkable sum for a title that’s been available on home video for years.

That’s also more than brand-new films like “Until Dawn” and “The Accountant 2” will earn in their debut frames.

Movie studios might want to give their film libraries a long look moving forward. It might be more profitable than greenlighting yet another remake or reboot ...

Marvel's 'Fantastic' fanatics

Speaking of reboots, the actors behind the upcoming “Fantastic Four” update have a message for Rachel Zegler. Hold our beer.

First, Vanessa Kirby and Joseph Quinn (Invisible Girl and the Human Torch, respectively) trashed the comic book source material as antiquated, much like Zegler did with Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”

Now, co-star Pedro Pascal is declaring war on beloved author J.K. Rowling. Her crime, in the actor’s eyes? She cheered on the U.K.’s Supreme Court for deciding that men are men and women are women. Oh, and she doesn’t think trans women should compete against biological women.

The horror, the horror.

Pascal called for a boycott of the new “Harry Potter” Max series and all things Rowling.

Is this any way to promote a movie? “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” hits theaters July 25. We’ll see if the Zegler effect hampers its box-office tally ...

Maher's fuhrer furor

That’s what friends aren’t for.

Larry David took his pal Bill Maher to the woodshed for daring to break bread with President Donald Trump earlier this month. David’s “My Dinner with Adolf” op-ed in the New York Times earlier this week got a lot of attention, in part because it’s the first time David created something profoundly unfunny.

Well, Maher is firing back at his “friend,” although it appears their bond may be fading fast.

“But you know, to use the Hitler thing, first of all, I just think it’s kind of insulting to six million dead Jews. You know, like, that should kind of be in its own place in history.”

Read it again with the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” theme music playing. Loud.

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Chicken-chucking, screaming teens just might save Hollywood



Upon its release earlier this month, “A Minecraft Movie” exploded onto the scene in more ways than one. On a positive note, the film has drawn large audiences to once-empty cinemas and is on track to earn more than $1 billion globally — a welcome vital sign for the American film industry after its decline during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Unfortunately, “Minecraft” has also sparked literal explosions of chaos in theaters. Fans, overcome with excitement at scenes like a baby zombie riding a chicken or the introduction of Jack Black’s character, Steve, have reportedly screamed, hurled popcorn and toilet paper, and even tossed live chickens at the screen — leaving staff with colossal messes to clean up afterward.

For most Zoomers, passionate moments of shared interest and fun are virtually nonexistent.

According to my high school students who watched the movie and could explain this bizarre behavior, these outbursts came from people who actually liked the movie. Reading through the mediocre movie reviews, I assumed that fans were disappointed and consequently engaged in shameless hooliganism. Quite the opposite. They were expressing their excitement at the movie’s many references and Easter eggs to the beloved video game.

Reckless or simply fun?

Of course, causing a public ruckus raises concerns about today’s youths who react so strongly to an otherwise silly movie. Such outbursts suggest that the younger Zoomers have pent-up rage, lacking healthy outlets for their aggression. The recent TV series “Adolescence,” which controversially portrayed radicalized youth engaging in violent acts, may have struck closer to the truth than we’d like to admit.

Then again, there might be a good reason to see these rampant outbursts as a salutary development. Not only are young people going to movie theaters and thereby reviving a moribund entertainment industry, but they are also charging a previously stagnant environment with some much-needed energy. This isn’t the glassy-eyed, TikTok-scrolling crowd we’ve come to expect. These lively crowds of young people are sharing an intense moment with a piece of entertainment they all love — not Beatlemania, but “Minecraft mania.”

Dwindling social outlets

Older generations, which have their own experience with various social crazes that brought them and their peers together in effusive exuberance, may not understand just how special this is for young people today.

Previous generations enjoyed countless concerts, movies, video games, and even books that routinely brought together fan communities that frequently became rowdy and occasionally chaotic — and hardly any of it, even for Millennials, was coordinated through online social media.

As a Millennial myself who’s about to turn 40, I remember the insanity at the cinema when the original “Star Wars” trilogy was re-released in anticipation of the prequels. People gasped and cried when they saw a remastered Han Solo or Luke Skywalker. I can also recall driving by bookstores — before Amazon put most of them out of business — observing the long lines of “Harry Potter” devotees decked in their Hogwarts uniforms, eagerly anticipating the next book in the series. More recently, similar fan frenzies were seen with the latest Taylor Swift concert or “Avengers” movies.

At the time, I pitied these nerds who, for all appearances, lost their minds over something seemingly insubstantial. Now, I envy them and yearn for a return to this kind of enthusiasm.

These days, pop culture has become hyper-individualized and mediated through online streaming and social media platforms. Algorithms, not authenticity, inform everyone’s taste. Nothing about it is natural or real. For most Zoomers, passionate moments of shared interest and fun are virtually nonexistent.

Zoomers don’t realize that physically gathering with fellow fans is normal and that such events add up to more than the sum of their parts. They represent rare moments of authentic public celebration. Yes, they usually center around some shallow piece of pop-culture fluff, but they generate a collective spirit that only happens when fans are allowed to “nerd out” and let go with one another for a little while.

Welcome ‘Minecraft mania’

The “Minecraft” chicken jockey mania continues this tradition. One of my students told me that watching “Minecraft” in the theater was the most fun he’s ever had at the cinema. He conceded that the movie is mostly Hollywood slop, but the audience’s reactions made it worth the annoyingly high price of admission.

He and his peers should understand the value of sharing experiences with friends and fellow fans. Active participation beats passive consumption on the couch every time.

Let the next cultural craze bring the same energy and excitement — minus the chicken feathers.

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Cash for clunkers? Desperate Diesel begs for 'Furious' funding



Brother, can you spare $300 million?

Vin Diesel wants to make an 11th “Fast & Furious” movie, but the Universal suits think he’s high on his NOS supply.

'This is very, you know, it’s very white, this movie.'

The blockbuster franchise is running on fumes, creatively and financially. Did you see the ninth installment where they drove into space? Plus, “Fast X” made just $146 million stateside. It performed dramatically better overseas. These films don’t come cheap, and “Fast X” proved to be one of the most expensive films ever made.

That film ended with a cliffhanger, and Diesel went to social media to beg for closure.

“Universal… Please tell the best fans in the world, when the next movie is coming out. Please.” Diesel posted on Instagram.

You shouldn’t treat family this way …

The dork side

Disney is having trouble making “Star Wars” movies. Yes, the Mouse House scooped the saga up from George Lucas in 2012 for a cool $4 billion, but the studio hasn’t released a “Star Wars” film since 2019’s “The Rise of Skywalker.”

If you’ve seen that film, you can stop rolling your eyes.

Now, we have firm news about a new installment coming our way. The project is called “Star Wars: Starfighter,” and it features Ryan Gosling and director Shawn Levy (“Deadpool & Wolverine").

Imagine having all the resources at Disney’s disposal, and that's the title you settle on? The Force remains weak with this studio …

60 candles (and still kvetching)

She. Just. Won’t. Stop.

Molly Ringwald spent the 1980s capturing teen angst, courtesy of great John Hughes films like “Pretty in Pink,” “Sixteen Candles,” and “The Breakfast Club.”

She turned on those films in recent years, blasting them as unwoke and problematic.

The horror, the horror.

She did it again recently when “The Breakfast Club” cast reunited for an emotional moment at the C2E2 pop culture convention in Chicago.

Her castmates reminisced about the movie and their talented director. Ringwald played the woke card again during the appearance, when they were asked about a possible sequel or remake.

I believe in making movies that are inspired by other movies but build on it and represent what’s going on today. This is very, you know, it’s very white, this movie. You don’t see a lot of different ethnicities. We don’t talk about gender. None of that. And I feel like that really doesn’t represent our world today.

Sure, “The Breakfast Club” endures, but imagine a 2025 version where the characters spend detention debating inclusion and gender roles …

Kimmel's scream therapy

So that’s why “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” gave up on comedy.

The show’s far-left host opened up about life under Trump 2.0, revealing a mind that can’t process why voters rejected a party pushing a dementia-addled candidate.

The Rolling Stone chat pulled back the Oz-like curtain behind his ABC talk show and its true purpose.

Laughter didn’t even make the final cut. Says the not-so-funnyman:

A year ago, I would’ve said I’m hoping to show people who aren’t paying attention to the news what’s actually going on and hoping to change things that way. Obviously, that didn’t have enough impact before the election, so now I see myself more as a place to scream.

To be fair, screaming is better than crying, although Kimmel did cry post-Election Day …

Clooney's civic doody

“The Simpsons” remains a meme-lover's dream. One favorite? “Stop, he’s already dead,” a phrase uttered to ask someone to stop what they’re doing. The job is already done.

Cue George Clooney.

He’s still doing a victory lap for putting down President Joe Biden’s 2024 presidential campaign. The actor’s oh-so-public letter in the New York Times last year suggested what we all knew at that point. Biden was too mentally compromised to continue his campaign.

“Well, I don’t know if it was brave. … It was a civic duty,” the actor told “journalist” Jake Tapper, who personally helped cover up Biden’s brain fog before co-authoring a tell-all book on the subject.

The truth-to-power Clooney went on.

“When I saw people on my side of the street not telling the truth, I thought that was time,” he said.

Except he didn’t.

Clooney saw Biden’s decline up close at a June fundraiser. He waited until after the June 27 presidential debate and Biden’s crashing poll numbers to crank out that infamous op-ed.

Some civic duty.

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