What I'm intending on doing is to watch the Republican National Convention starting tonight at 7 pm EST and fact-check the speakers. I'm not sure how long I'll be able to keep this up, for two main reasons - 1) I'm not sure how long I can listen to the BS before a migraine comes along and 2) I'm not sure how quickly I'll be able to keep up and take note of the BS that's being spewed forth by the speakers. Just from thinking about, I am feeling a headache come along already!
After its first week, I gave The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore a B+ grade. While I didn't think the show appeared to be perfect by any stretch of the imagination, I also liked the Daily Show meets Politically Incorrect vibe I got from it, and thought, with the proper adjustments, the show would indeed provide a great fill-in for The Colbert Report . In the show's succeeding weeks, however, I've been less impressed by it and think that if it doesn't make certain adjustments, it could be in jeopardy of losing many long-time viewers of the show's time slot. One major issue I think the show's had to this point is a lack of direction. It's been unable to decide whether it wants to be a comedy show with serious conversation sprinkled in or a serious show with comedy sprinkled in. It's almost as if the show's writers want to give The Nightly Show a Real Time with Bill Maher feel. The problem with that idea or format is the fact Real Time is an hour lon...
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