John Lithgow to Play Roger Ailes in Fox News Movie

So is this a movie about a sexual pervert or an attack on FOX? I suspect the latter. If they were truly interested in making a film about a deranged sexual predator this is your guy. He singlehandedly created the #MeToo movement.

 Assuming their goal was to create a factual salacious tale who would have been the better choice Ailes or Weinstein? Compare the sexual exploits between the two. If Ailes is a sexual pervert... then Weinstein should be on death row.

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John Lithgow and Roger Ailes

Annapurna's Fox News movie has found its Roger Ailes.

John Lithgow will play the late disgraced media mogul in the upcoming feature that centers on the women who took on the famed toxic male culture of the news network. He joins Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie, who will play Megyn Kelly, Gretchen Carlson and an associate producer, respectively.

Annapurna is financing and producing the project, which was written by The Big Short scribe Charles Randolph and will be directed by Jay Roach. Theron will produce the feature along with Beth Kono and AJ Dix via their Denver & Delilah banner. Roach, Randolph and Margaret Riley are also producing.

Ailes ran Fox News and helped launch the careers of Kelly, Carlson and Sean Hannity with his powerful channel. He also was a prominent figure in Republican circles who helped elect presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. Ailes was forced to resign in 2016 when a host of accusations of sexual misconduct surfaced, with Carlson's and Kelly's the most high-profile, and which contributed to his exit from the network. He died in 2017.

The still-untitled project is described as an ensemble pic, with other likely characters to include former anchor Greta Van Susteren, media mogul Rupert Murdoch and fired host Bill O'Reilly. 

Lithgow, who is repped by UTA and Hansen Jacobson, recently received praise for his stint as Winston Churchill on Netflix's The Crown. He is set to co-star in Paramount's adaptation of Stephen King's best-seller Pet Sematary.

John Lithgow to Play Roger Ailes in Fox News Movie

Man charged in Mollie Tibbetts death in Iowa is an illegal Mexican authorities say

Funny, Mollie Tibbetts name was plastered all over the news for the past month. I watched every day as expert after expert hypothesized on what might have happened to her (remember the pig farmer) and who may have killed her. Then suddenly her body is found and her father identifies her. There is no explanation regarding her murder... all goes quiet... not a peep for the last few days.

Went on Google news today and found Mollie's tragic and completely avoidable death buried towards the bottom of the page. Why? The story had no guts left in it once they learned an illegal killed her. 

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MONTEZUMA, Iowa (AP) — The disappearance of a well-liked college student from America’s heartland had touched many people since she vanished one month ago while out for a run. But the stunning news that a Mexican man living in the U.S. illegally has allegedly confessed to kidnapping and murdering her thrust the case into the middle of the contentious immigration debate and midterm elections.

Illegal Mexican Cristhian Rivera, 24, has been charged with first-degree murder

President Donald Trump seized on the man’s arrest in the death of Mollie Tibbetts on Tuesday to call the nation’s immigration laws “a disgrace” that will only be fixed by electing more Republicans. Iowa’s Republican governor, facing a tough re-election challenge in November, blasted an immigration system that “allowed a predator like this to live in our community.” And Iowa’s two GOP U.S. senators called the death a tragedy that “could have been prevented.”

Cristhian Bahena Rivera, 24, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the death of the 20-year-old Tibbetts, whose July 18 disappearance set off a massive search involving state and federal authorities.

Rivera led investigators early Tuesday to a body believed to be Tibbetts in a cornfield about 12 miles (19 kilometers) southeast of Brooklyn, Iowa, where Tibbetts was last seen going for a routine evening run, Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation special agent Rick Rahn said.

“I can’t speak about the motive. I can just tell you that it seemed that he followed her, seemed to be drawn to her on that particular day, for whatever reason he chose to abduct her,” Rahn told reporters at a news conference outside the sheriff’s office in Montezuma, where Rivera was being jailed on $1 million cash-only bond.

Man charged in Mollie Tibbetts death in Iowa is an illegal Mexican authorities say

Protests Erupt After Chicago Police Claim Teen Committed Suicide Following Chase

Steve Rosenthal, 15, committed suicide, according to police. His family questions their narrative. (GoFundMe)

This is Steve Rosenthal? I expected that name attached to a young Jewish kid. Guess I'm wrong.

We'll have to see how this washes out. It's a big deal because cops were involved. In the meantime, until this incident, the routine Chicago slaughter runs full steam ahead... but only this one gets all the attention.  

1,944 have been shot in Chicago so far this year?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/data/ct-shooting-victims-map-charts-htmlstory.html

How many did the cops shoot?
I suspect very few.

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The death of 15-year-old Steven Rosenthal has led many to protest and question Chicago authorities who allege the teen committed suicide following a police chase.

According to the Chicago Tribune, the teen died Friday evening (Aug. 17) in Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood. The Cook County medical examiner has ruled Steven’s death a suicide, from a gunshot wound to the head. While detailing the event, law enforcement said the teen ran after cops questioned him about a weapon he had. A short while later, Steven died.

Yet members of the community chanting “no justice, no peace,” (I'm starting to smell Al) as they marched don’t believe the cop’s version of events. The family attorney Andrew Stroth also questions the validity of the claim.

“Steven was on the stairwell of his grandmother’s house on the West Side of Chicago when police officers stormed up the stairwell chasing,” Stroth, said at a news conference prior to Sunday’s march. “Within moments, these officers, without cause or provocation, shot and killed 15-year old Steven. Based on several eyewitness accounts, these officers ended the hopes and the dreams of a talented young man with a bright future.”

Steven’s aunt and legal guardian gave a tearful public plea to Mayor Rahm Emanuel begging for the release of body cam footage to corroborate the police’s claim.

“My 15-year old nephew Steven was shot and killed by the Chicago Police Department,” Terinica (My Grammarly said I misspelled Veronica) Thomas-Level, 28, said. “I need the attention of Mayor Emanuel. I need to see evidence. Body cams. They need to release the video. My nephew would never commit suicide ever. … If he (Emanuel) even had the smallest compassion for our family, he’d get those videotapes released.”

As of Sunday, police spokesman Michael Carroll said the case is currently under investigation and a decision hasn’t been made about releasing any footage of the encounter.

Protests Erupt After Chicago Police Claim Teen Committed Suicide Following Chase

Al's back... and still true to form!

R-E-S-P-I-C-T

Video 421

What a stupid POS!

BTW... It seems likely Manafort and Cohen are going to jail for tax evasion.

That's Al's specialty. Why isn't he behind bars?

Al's back... and still true to form!

Senate rejects Trump, asserts the press is 'not the enemy of the people'

They're not...if you're a Democrat.

Muslim loving president who tried to destroy America almost doubling the national debt in one of the most scandal-ridden presidencies of all time and is named Person of the Year... and wins the Nobel Peace Prize like 45 minutes into office.

On the other hand...

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The Senate on Thursday approved a resolution asserting that the press is "not the enemy of the people," as President Trump has claimed, and condemning Trump's ongoing attacks against reporters.

The Senate quickly considered the resolution from Sens. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and passed it unanimously in a voice vote.

The resolution doesn't specifically mention Trump, but a statement from Schatz's office said the resolution was offered in the wake of Trump's effort to "attack journalists and news organizations."

The resolution noted the importance of freedom of the press from the founding of the United States, as well as efforts by "tyrannical and authoritarian governments" to "undermine, censor, suppress, and control the press to advance their undemocratic goals."

"The Senate ... affirms that the press is not the enemy of the people," it read. It said the Senate "reaffirms the vital and indispensable role the free press serves to inform the electorate, uncover the truth, act as a check on the inherent power of the government, further national discourse and debate, and otherwise advance our most basic and cherished democratic norms and freedoms."

It concluded by saying the Senate "condemns attacks on the institution of the free press and views efforts to systematically undermine the credibility of the press as a whole as an attack on our democratic institutions."

Senate rejects Trump, asserts the press is 'not the enemy of the people'