Comedian Jerry Seinfeld appeared on ESPNU and ESPN Radio’s “The Herd with Colin Cowherd” on Thursday and spoke on how other comedians have told him to not do comedy at college campuses because they are so politically correct now. According
The poor, dear luvvies of the chin-stroking left have got themselves in a terrible lather on the matter of prudishness. No, we’re not talking about the issue of mothers breastfeeding children in public places, rather something a little more prosaic. Should
Liz Kendall – the Blairite Labour leadership candidate – has uttered a Lefty blasphemy: she would support under-performing white working class school kids. Her speech on the weekend focused on education and she hit plenty of heart-warming PC platitudes and empty buzzwords.
Kirsten Powers’ new book The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech surveys the political landscape of the past couple years and finds something new to worry about. A self-described liberal, Powers writes that the “illiberal left” is trying to dominate the discussion on campus, online and in the media through intimidation. In our discussion, Powers suggests there is an authoritarian impulse at play, one that has been gaining steam in the broader culture.
In a new list of approved activities for scouts the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) make clear that water gun fights are not allowed because “pointing a firearm” at someone–even a “simulated” firearm–is not “kind.”
Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld reacted to the cancellation of a screening of “American Sniper” at the University of Maryland by suggesting all films should be banned for the sake of political correctness on Friday’s broadcast of “The Five.”
Prominent historian and TV presenter Dr David Starkey says that too many minority groups play the victim card. “I find it very, very sad that there is now this perpetual procession of people – group after group – wanting to
HBO host Bill Maher shot back at the “PC police” in a segment on Friday’s “Real Time” he entitled “Explaining Jokes to Idiots.” Maher was responding a controversy over a joke he made on the previous show’s “Internet Overtime” segment where
This week we heard the tragic story of a retired businessman who killed himself and his wife having told friends he was deeply worried about the fact that his rural neighbourhood had been surrounded, at the local council’s behest, by
Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld argued that some on the left were sincerely adopting ridiculous parodies of political correctness on Thursday’s broadcast of “The Five.” Gutfeld reacted to a report in McClatchy that some women believe referring to Hillary Clinton
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has helpfully revealed with an FOI request that South Yorkshire is the child rape capital of Britain. South Yorkshire’s local police authority saw a 577 per cent rise in reported child sexual exploitation cases between
One of my favourite National Trust properties is Overbeck’s in Salcombe – the former seaside home of an eccentric inventor with a wondrous subtropical garden. The last time I visited, the nice lady at the entrance asked – as they
Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld said that he isn’t offended by new “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah’s controversial tweets, but doubts that Noah would still have a job if he was a conservative on Wednesday’s broadcast of “The Five.”
The new breed of enforced intellectual conformity is so tedious and shrill. Fascists don’t even bother to put on snappy uniforms any more.
HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher criticized overdone political correctness, particularly Dolce & Gabbana’s boycotters and Media Matters, along with members of academia in his closing monologue on Friday. Maher began by talking about the boycott of Dolce & Gabbana,
NBC Sportscaster Bob Costas defended his previous comments on gun control and criticized political correctness on Friday’s “Real Time” on HBO. Costas defended mixing politics and sports, sarcastically saying “there’s no mixing politics and sports, and sports has never had
Comedian Jay Leno said that “college kids now are so politically correct” when asked about what changes he has seen at colleges during his time performing on campuses on Friday’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers.” “College kids now are so
The BBC Trust is worried about the relatively small number of BAME listeners who tune in to BBC’s over-35s station Radio 2. (BAME, by the way, is the latest PC term for people who aren’t white. It stands for Black
Bill Maher criticized “politically correct a**holes” during an interview with Sean Penn on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time.” Maher discussed the outcry over a joke Penn made at the Oscars where he remarked “who gave this son of a
Suppose you were a shareholder in a leading international fast food chain – McDonalds, say – and the company’s new director of products announced that in the nutritional interests of the customers he’d now decided that, for their own good,
The children’s book series ‘Peter and Jane’ is back, but with the addition of all the things any modern family needs: life jackets, seats belts and gender equality. The updates come despite the books still being set in the 1960s
Governor Bobby Jindal (R-LA) said that during a recent meeting with President Obama “We got to hear the president tell us that even if the Supreme Court rules against him [on] Obamacare, he’s not interested in revisiting the issue” on Tuesday’s
Sweden’s Ornothologial Society has renamed a number of bird species amidst fears that their old names could be considered racist. Amongst others, four bird species with the word “neger” in their name will have it changed to “svart”, the Swedish
Dr. Ben Carson, author of “You Have a Brain,” argued that “the only thing that our leaders are willing to stand up for is political correctness” on Friday’s “Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel. “I think everybody can remember
Remember the poptart gun? The Nerf gun? The Lego gun? The pointed finger gun? In another time, these typical boy toys would have gotten as little notice as the old fashioned cap gun but in a world where the list of childhood offenses also includes possession of a novelty pen or a Hello Kitty bubble gun, it comes as little surprise that a Lord of the Rings “magic ring” got nine-year-old Aiden Steward suspended from his elementary school in Kermit, Texas.
When the mayor of Paris threatened to sue Fox News for “slandering” her city by reporting on Muslim-dominated “no-go zones,” liberal media outlets forgot their own years of reporting on those zones to bash their hated right-leaning cable news adversary. Among the longtime observers who pushed back against no-go zone denialism is author Mark Steyn, who has mentioned these hostile, unassimilated communities in his columns and books for years.
In his contribution to the famous 1949 collection of essays by ex-Communists titled The God That Failed, Arthur Koestler carefully illustrates how set language binds thought to ideology at the expense of evidence. Koestler, author of the unparalleled novel of Stalin’s show trials, Darkness at Noon, describes a conversation he had early in his Communist career with “Edgar,” his Party contact, in which they discuss the front page of a Communist newspaper.
In a new piece on political correctness, Jonathan Chait does something that few progressive writers dare to do: admit critics have a point about the far left’s apparent desire to censor speech. Yet he fails to note that the problem is far older and more pervasive than it seems.
Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld and The Hill columnist Juan Williams argued that charges of Islamophobia are designed “to shut you up” on Tuesday’s broadcast of “The Five.” Gutfeld began by criticizing HBO’s Bill Maher for mocking a Navy recruitment
Carol M. Swain, professor of Political Science and Law at Vanderbilt University, declared that campus political correctness “has reached the level that we can no longer have any serious conversations on the most important issues of our day. And our
Rockingham County, NC Sheriff Sam Page (R) said that “political correctness” has caused “a lot of problems,” including on the issue of illegal immigration, on Tuesday’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on the Fox News Channel. Page addressed the controversy
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper argued that the term “Islamists” is offensive on Monday’s “NewsNation” on MSNBC. Speaking on anti-terror raids in Turkey, he said that “if you find a plot where there’s some violence planned,
HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher criticized protesters against his commencement speech, and defended Rush Limbaugh in a monologue denouncing anti-free speech leftists on Friday. “Now that it’s been a month since I gave the commencement address at Berkeley, someone
Professionals have slammed teachers who have been reporting children as young as five for being racist, saying that making children frightened to ask questions is unhealthy. The comments come after parent Hayley White was summoned to her seven-year-old son’s primary
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair argued that while “there is no justification” for the attacks on Charlie Hebdo, it isn’t “very sensible to insult someone” in an interview CNN’s Jake Tapper released on Thursday. In reaction to Pope Francis’
A leading publisher of schoolbooks has banned its authors from mentioning pigs, sausages, and anything pork related in their books, lest the words offend Muslims and Jews. The ban was criticised as “utter nonsense” by a Muslim Member of Parliament,
It is common for White House spokespeople to spin the facts–to find the interpretation that best flatters the president. It is rare, but not unheard of, for White House spokespeople to lie about facts that are not yet fully known to the public. It is extraordinary for White House spokespeople to lie about facts that everyone already knows. Yet that is exactly what Josh Earnest did on Tuesday, when trying to explain why the Obama administration strains to avoid mentioning radical Islam.
NBC News Terrorism Analyst Michael Sheehan said that the US needs to “get rid of this political correctness” and acknowledge that “Islamic jihadi extremism” is the clear threat to the US on Monday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC. “The strategic threat
Catholic League President Bill Donohue argued that there should be “respect” for “the right of Muslims…Catholics, and Jews to have their icons and their religious symbols treated with respect” on Saturday’s “Justice with Judge Jeanine” on the Fox News Channel.
HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher mocked political correctness and Sony’s pulling of “The Interview” on Friday. “If there was a theme to the news in the time we were off, it would be ‘no joking, no joking.’ There are
