An ‘Apprentice’ cast member is suing Trump for defamation. Is being a pathological liar an affirmative defense?

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‘The Bachelor’: All aboard the Vomit Comet

The Bachelor
January 16, 2016

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CNN appears to be preparing to open a can of whoop-ass on the Trump administration.

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‘Baskets,’ ‘Six,’ ‘Frontier’ and everything else that is not the inauguration that will be on TV this week.

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Donald Trump has invited a game show host to work on Housing and Urban Development, just in case you were wondering where we were right now.

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Donald Trump is showered in “pee pee” jokes on ‘Saturday Night Live’

Saturday Night Live
“Felicity Jones & Sturgill Simpson”
January 14, 2017

Felicity Jones is something of an unknown quantity. Sure, she was great in Rouge One, and I assume she was good in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and The Theory of Everything, but frankly, I wouldn’t know. And that’s my point: even though she’s been in plenty of movies, Jones is a fairly new face for most Americans and thus we went into her Saturday Night Live episode without knowing what to expect. And to be honest, she had a rocky start — her monologue genuinely worried me that we were going to be dealing with another January Jones. But the writers protected her by not giving her sketches that she was expected to carry on her own (even the monologue was deftly taken out of her hands halfway through), and she was lucky to land on an episode with fairly strong material. I’m not exactly anxious to see her return (WHERE HAVE YOU GONE, ADAM DRIVER?), but I’m not mad about her first time as host, either.
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Watch this 1950s TV Western that predicted a fraudster named “Trump” who wanted to “build a wall.” No, really.

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‘The Bachelor’: Booby trap

The Bachelor
January 9, 2016

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Trump, CNN, “fake news,” the First Amendment, and oh my God, America, what have we done? WHAT HAVE WE DONE?

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Look away from the Trump peetroversy for a second, because you need to see Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson in the ‘Urban Myths’ trailer.

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