Mikey Likes It!: SUPERMAN AND LOIS

Wednesday, June 08, 2022

SUPERMAN AND LOIS

First off, YOUTUBE TV users go to THE CW for this week's SUPERMAN AND LOIS. My daughter and I sat down to watch the latest episode this evening -- it aired last night -- and couldn't. It's not there.

Rebecca watches DYNASTY and she's had a problem with those episodes showing up in her queue on YOUTUBE TV. I remembered that she said she streamed via THE CW when that happened so that's what we did (because I knew last night was supposed to be a new episode).

It was a very good episode.

Let's start with Kyle because he's probably my third favorite character on the show.

1) and 2) (tie) Clark and Lois

3) Kyle

4) John

5) Lana

6) Jonathan

7) Natalie

8)Tal-Rho

9) Jordan

10) Chrissy

11) Sam

12) Tag

Tag may be back on, by the way. He was mentioned this episode. I like everyone but Lucy Lane. It has nothing to do with her being Channing Tatum's ex. It has nothing to do with Jenna's acting. She nails the part. It's just I hate Lucy and I really hated her this episode.

Back to Kyle. So Sarah shows her mom Lana the video Kyle took on his phone while she was performing (last episode). At first, Lana's thrilled. She wishes she could have been there but understands when Sarah says her dad put the whole thing together as a surprise. Lana loves Sarah's singing and the song -- that Sara wrote. Then she notices it's the bar where the woman Kyle slept with works. Sarah assures her mom that the woman wasn't there but Lana doesn't care at this point.

Sarah went to talk to her father and found him in a grocery store parking lot -- he and the fire fighters he works with were stocking up on supplies. She explained what happened and said she was sorry but he told her this wasn't her fault and he'd go speak to Lana and make everything right.

Meanwhile, Jordan's speaking to Lana. He wants her to know he can protect Sarah. She stands by her decision that the Kents cannot have anything to do with her family. She says she's protecting Sarah and brings up how Tag kidnapped her that time to get back at Jordan.

Jordan's upset but agrees.

Then Kyle shows up and notes Lana's got her worried leg twitch. She says she's hurting everyone and feeels like she's making the wrong choices. He tells her she is a good person and a great mother. He gts her to agree to go to dinner with him and Sarah and their other daughter. After she agrees, he notices that she still has a photo of them in her office. Remember, Kyle's been under the impression that Lana was dating. (She wasn't. She was dealing with the news that Clark is Superman.)

So they had their dinner and it went smoothly.

Jordan got taken to the Fortress of Solitude by Clark who wanted to sharpen his son's flying skills. Jordan was doubtful but pulled it off. He was thrilled.

They went home thrilled to encounter Jonathan who learned they'd been off to the Fortress without telling him and told them, glumly, not to worry, he'd done all the farm chores.

John found out about Natalie's power suit and was upset and demanded that it be destroyed. She told him she builds things, she doesn't destroy. So he tried to destroy it only to learn that he couldn't. This made him face up to the reality that Natalie was growing up and more accomplished than his fear of her safety was allowing him to see.

Chrissy and Lois are talking. The lie for Clark being gone while he was at Bizarro World is that he was working on a report. Chrissy knows about the cover because she's been asked about it. So Clark is working for them? Lois lies that he's working on a report and he thinks Chrissy will love it.

They're interrupted by Sam who needs Lois. He explains Lucy Lane (his daughter, Lois's sister) has been found. He wants Lois to go with him. Chrissy insists upon going as well. Sam makes her wait in the car. Lois tells her that if they're not back in an hour to notify the Defense Dept.

They talk to Lucy. Sam even handcuffs himself to Lucy. Lucy is a spoiled brat who never grew up and we have to listen to all of her complaints about Lois. Lucy is worthless. Despite them telling her that Ally is killing people and that she's dangerous. Lucy won't believe them.

Ally shows up and wants Superman there. Lucy uses her father's beacon to bring him there because she's a stupid idiot and a character who needs to die.

Ally's harming Sam in front of her and she does it anyway. Ally continues harming Sam and Superman arrives and she starts draining his power. Meanwhile, Chrissy saw Superman fly by and she realizes there's trouble so she summons the DoD. John's Artificial Intelligence tells him DoD has been summoned by Sam. He asks to where. He and Natalie suit up. They see Ally draining Superman. Sam says he'll take care of Ally and for Natalie rescue Superman.

Ally attacks John. Then she's gone. Natalie meanwhile is over Superman who's not breathing and she sees -- with her computer programming -- that his heart is not beating.

She tries to revive him and eventually does.

They're at the DoD hospital and Lucy acts so sorry but I didn't give a damn and neither did my daughter. We both hope she dies. Sam forgives her. We don't. John tells Lois that Superman doesn't have his powers. They were able to take a blood sample. He's normal.

She and John tells the boys and Natalie points out that they need Superman more than ever.

Here's C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot"

Wednesday, June 7, 2022. Make a plan and watch the universe laugh as your plan is quickly destroyed.

So in a few hours I'll be having surgery -- again -- on my eyes -- again. I had different plans for what I'd do here. But then I see nonsense.

Let's start first with what I was going to do.

Last week, Sabby Sabs took on David Sirota in a weak ass and embarrassing manner. I wrongly too the blame. I'm so very good at taking the blame. If only, I lamented in a snapshot, I'd gone over what happened back in the '00s . . .

Back in the 'oos, Tina Richards, mother of Iraq War veteran Cloy Richards, confronted US House Rep David Obey about his weak ass efforts to end the Iraq War. This was public, very public. A lot of news coverage.

David Siorta, a humorless sort that Al Franken used to tease/mock on his AIR AMERICA RADIO program, was out of sorts and deterimed to attack Tina and what she stood for. He wrote a piece of garbage that went a lot of places.

I saw it at INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE and I called it out. Not only because David was wrong to attack Tina but also because David lied. Yes, it is lying to write a column attacking Tina for her confrontation with Obey if you don't reveal in the column that you worked for Obey.

Disclosure is very important. David would learn the hard way a fews years later when he tried to syndicate a column. Again, he forgot to disclose in the column his connection with David Obey. This time, I noted it here, I went to where it hurt: his wallet. I called friends at outlets that carried that garbage column and explained the lack of disclosure. That hurt David because it hurt the syndicate and the two parted.

He was furious about that in an e-mail but unlike the one years earlier, at least he didn't say he was going to sue me.

Was he ever going to sue?

My honest opinion was that he thought he could frighten me or he got off bullying women or both.

You can sue someone for anything. But had he done so, he would have been launching a frivolous lawsuit and the courts don't look kindly on those.

David came up with the story for that bad NETFLIX TV movie DON'T LOOK UP. It was pure garbage. That might not have been his fault, he didn't write the screenplay. But he did get nominated in the screenplay category for an Academy Award.

I thought about how undeserving that whole film was and I thought about what he did to Tina and I thought about his bullying e-mails to me over the years. David needed to stay in his lane. But he'd veered off into mine. Which is why print outs of those e-mails made the party circuit in the lead up to the voting. I used every thing I had to derail his chances of winning.

Now other than that, I think I've been kind to him.

I've noted him over the years if he got something right -- even though it meant I'd hear about it in e-mails from community members who felt he should be banished forever.

I've got more important things to do and, had he not tried to 'branch out' into my industry, I would have left him alone.

Now we did discuss it here -- many times -- even included it in the 2007 year in review.

The plan was to publish those outrageous e-mails and have an easy snapshot that I could work on ahead of this morning so that I wouldn't have to work hard this morning when I had more important issues on my mind (surgery).

What changed it?

HARD LENS MEDIA, SABBY SABS and countless others.

There's a public stoning of Ryan Grim taking place.

I don't like Ryan Grim. I'm on record here stating that. I think he's a bad journalist and point to his Tara Reade coverage as a good example of that -- he failed her, he failed that story, he failed to connect dots, when Alyssa Milano was yammering about how she knew the truth about Tara she was referring -- as we noted in real time -- to what Time's Up was spreading. Ryan could have had that story, he was even tipped off about it by a friend of mine. He ignored it. The truth about Time's Up didn't emerge until the New York governor had his scandal.

I think he's a lousy reporter.

He's a better TV host. I love that they all want to talk about what Ryan said as they rush to defend Jimmy Dore but none of them want to discuss Jimmy Dore (and others) bringing on a convicted pedophile as an expert on Ukraine and not inform their audiences that Scott Ritter was arrested three times for this, was convicted of it, was sent to prison for it, and after he got out was forced to register as a sex offender.

This is not a minor issue.

Rachel Maddow landed on my bad side when she brought on an Iraq War veteran that she glorified and praised -- even after she found out that he beat his wife. I still have all the UNFILTERED message boards. She was informed of that on the board during the show. Not only did she not change tactics but she invited him back for the Friday show.

I don't tolerate that.

I don't tolerate hosts who lie to cover up the crimes of their guests.

I would love to see Sabby Sabs explain how that was appropriate, how him bringing the pedophile on was appropriate.

Ryan Grim made a stupid statement where he thought Jimmy was misunderstanding what David Sirota Tweeted.

Let me stay with Ryan for a moment.

I'd rather watch his program because he's not bringing on convicted child molesters. He, Kim and Bri have that standard at least. His show at THE HILL also covered some important topics that the other ones weren't covering. They seem awful brave now but the reality is that Ryan and his co-hosts led on a number of issues a few months ago.

Krystal Ball is left-lite. She will never be a radical. She will always cave to the Democratic Party in the end. But RISING will address serious issues. And we will highlight them as a result and as a result of the fact that they're not bringing on convicted pedophiles.

I think all the programs would do better to stop telling people who to vote for and to instead just cover issues.

So David Sirota and Jimmy Dore are in conflict -- again. And Ryan Grim's trashed.

Ryan's really not that important. I certainly don't think he or this non-issue deserved 13 minutes from HARD LENS MEDIA, and from Sabby Sabs, and from . . .

Do you not see what everyone else sees?

You keep claiming you're creating an independent media.

You're not and I'm not going to play along.

I was kind in the '00s even though I warned as far back as 2005 that all that was happening was they were cutting off Cokie Roberts' head only to have a million new ones sprout.

David Weigel we're now supposed to gather around. That's the ass who was part of JOURNOLIST, please remember.

Oh, that's right, most YOUTUBER hosts are too stupid to remember.

It's not that I didn't talk about David Sirota in real time, turns out I did, it's that idiots don't want to do the work required.

People need to learn to research.

Reading will be your friend. It will take you to other notions and concepts, it will expand your knowledge base.

I am so sick of the non-readers who weigh in on events and think they've made some great discovery. As Stevie Nicks sings, "Who in the world do you think that you are fooling? Well I've already done everything that you are doing."

I am so sick of this refusal to be aware of and acknowledge those who came before. You haven't read Gore Vidal, you haven't read Michael Parenti, you haven't read Cedric Robinson, Nancy Fraser, Judith N. Shklar, Asad Haider, Manning Marable . . . And what about the writers publishing in political journals currently? I've been very intrigued by the recent work of Tanika Raychaudhuri, for example.

You have no knowledge and yet you pontificate on and on. You've never done the required reading and you want to talk about historical topics when you just aren't up for them.

You bring on a John Nichols but ignore a John Stauber and then you wonder why the country is so screwed up on the left? Because you're bringing on whores, lying whores.

I'm really tired of your stupidity.

You're not going to create anything by being stupid.

You need to inform yourselves.

You are not doing the work required yet you think you're in a position to lead.

Ryan Grim is not the problem. But you certainly circle-jerked him, didn't you?

Do you really think you look like independent media as you all rush to devote lengthy segments calling him out and defending Jimmy Dore?

Is Jimmy so damn weak that he needs all of you defending him to begin with? (I don't think so.)

Why can't you focus on real issues?

Iraq's not on your radar at all. You're not doing a daily piece on Ukraine in which you track the over $50 billion the US government has already committed to giving it.

What do you think you are accomplishing?

Because I'm not seeing it. You've got platforms and you use them for something so trivial.

The ongoing wars do not exist on most of your programs but you, these days, weekly make time to defend Jimmy Dore on air at length.

Betty's "Sabby Sabs, leave the plantation already" went up last night and her "Black YOUTUBERS please stop promoting Jimmy Dore" went up weeks ago. She is exactly right.

Jimmy's show isn't welcoming to people of color. Outside of one professional athlete, I can't think of an African-American he's had on his show. So why do Sabby Sabs and REVOLUTIONARY BLACKOUT have to do so much work for him. Is he their boss?

It's pathetic.

And this circle jerk is not building independent media. Nor is it building trust.

So I guess we can expect a year or two more out of you YOUTUBERS pretending to care and then you'll sell out like the ones before you did.

Who didn't sell out?

Glen Ford, Bruce Dixon, Margaret Kimberley and John Stauber are four who didn't.

Now Glen and Bruce have passed.

Margaret and John? If you're truly wanting to build independence and get people to think for themselves, they should be on your programs weekly but the reality is that only REVOLUTIONARY BLACKOUT brings Margaret on. No one brings John Stauber on.

You're whining about what happened to David Weigel (I don't care if that last name is spelled correctly or not). David not only lied to his interview subjects, he lied to his readers. That's why he was fired from THE WASHINGTON POST pre-Jeff Bezos.

But you who can't cover Iraq are now going to waste time on defending DW?

That's who you prefer to stand with -- not Margaret, not John.

A lot of us have worked for years on issues of representation. We wrongly hoped that the internet would provide a different world. That didn't happen. Instead a number of White men -- with the help of CJR -- policed who was included and who wasn't. We're now past bloggers and into YOUTUBERS and enough complaining and protesting has resulted in a tiny bit of difference. A small sliver. So I am with Betty on this, REVOLUTIONARY BLACKOUT and Sabby Sabs, if you don't have enough self-respect to stop whoring for White man Jimmy Dore, have the respect for your audience.

It's disgusting to watch you ignore real issues and rush to constantly praise Jimmy Dore. He's not doing s**t for you and he never has. He might if you stopped acting like his servants. Instead you want to kneel before him.

It's disgusting to watch.

He may be a big politics ally but he is not an ally to any community of color and let's stop pretending he is. He's perfectly fine with doing his all White show for his all White audience.

Considering how many years -- decades -- the MSM has shut out voices of color, if you've got a platform in 2022, it is your responsibility to diversify your guests and your topics.

Jimmy Dore's made no effort to do that.

Yet every week -- as SPAR AND BRAWL has taken to noting -- it's another drama from Jimmy Dore.

I really do think that, for example, Black America has more important issues to address than who hurt Jimmy's feelings this week.

And when you're all filing the same segment, stop pretending that you're creating independent media.

You're doing exactly what David Brock did. And that led us nowhere -- at least not anywhere worth going.

David Sirota's politics are a problem. He's fakery is a problem.

Whether he got Jimmy Dore's joke or Jimmy got his or knock-knock who's there are not issues and they don't require lengthy segments.

When are US troops going to leave Iraq?

And when are YOUTUBES going to find the time to be concerned about that?

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