I have to say, last night was beautiful. The Republican Party outspent the Democratic Party on ads. Super PAC funding heavily favored the Republican Party. I can't tell you how many more anti-Obama (and other Democrats) than anti-Romney (and other Republicans) mailers and commercials I received and saw through the past several weeks. Republican leaders tried suppressing the vote through making voter IDs mandatory and also condensing the early-vote time, particularly in Democratic strongholds. As a Politifact.com study pointed out, Republican leaders lied far more than Democratic ones. Mitt Romney, along with other Republican leaders and business CEOs, tried intimidating voters in saying their jobs were on the line if Obama won a second term. Even having to contend with all this, the people rose to the occasion - re-elected Barack Obama as President, helped Democrats gain seats in both the Senate and the House - and collectively raised our middle fingers to Citizens United. Thank you. Hopefully, these results will help prompt that outrageous law to be overturned, as well as voter-suppression and intimidation tactics.
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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