CMI on TV

It seems abundantly clear now that the CBS series ‘Zoo’ has, among other annoying goals, at least one chief aim: to thoroughly and completely denigrate hunters.

The show, which follows a team of scientists as they try to find out why animals are launching coordinated, deadly attacks on humans, has in the last 3 weeks glorified the murder of a hunter, boasted about disrupting a hunter’s opportunity to shoot a black rhino, and called hunters murderers. Last night's episode "Pack Mentality" was no different.

So it should come as no surprise that when Abraham (Nonso Anozie) and Mitch (Billy Burke) visit a Mississippi hunting store for trap gear to capture one of the wolves that attacked and destroyed the Mississippi State Penitentiary, things got...

ABC Family's “Becoming Us” backtracked last night to revisit a theme they laid the foundation for weeks ago: Ben and his emotional despair over his man-turned-woman father "Carly" refusing to allow Ben to call him “dad.” You see, "Carly" is so obsessed with becoming female, that he will not permit any mention or reference to him as a man in any capacity. Even by his own son.

This point was driven home over a month ago, during one of those touching father-and-son catch sessions, where a boy and his dad have those traditional heart-to-heart discussions over the topics that dominate the life of every boy and man. Things like, “Why can’t I call you dad? Why do you suddenly want to remove your twig and berries?” And that rite of passage subject that every boy and father have discussed for centuries: “What dress are you going to wear tonight?”

Last night, in the episode "The Letter," Ben reopened the topic by confronting his...

The ESPYs brought back the discredited Ferguson "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" narrative. In the awards show's opening montage, the St. Louis Rams players' protest gesture was shown while the narrator said, "sports inspires in so many ways, whether it's through ... simply a gesture." Ironically, the next line was "Sports has the power to connect us" - hard to think of a worse example of people connecting than Ferguson. Watch:

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There is no more powerful force than something that inspires you... And sports inspires in so many ways... Whether it's through a game... A performance... A play... Or simply a gesture. Sports has the power to connect us. To make us believe in the impossible, be the impossible.

Bruce “Caitlyn” Jenner has spoken, and I’m more confused now than ever before. And that’s saying something. In an introductory speech, video tribute, and acceptance speech that spanned nearly 30 minutes of air-time, the story of "Caitlyn’s" transformation was told.

But it was told in an entirely different way than what I expected. It was depressing. Take Abby Wambach’s opening monologue. She began by sounding the call to rally around an issue “not enough of us stand up for.” Okay, here’s the part where she’s going to tell us to rally around the cause of general LGBT acceptance, right?

-So, let's talk about a way we can make our country better. Let's talk about an issue that not enough of us stand up for. At some point in their lives, 20% of transgender people are homeless. They get bullied, assaulted and murdered at dramatically higher rates than the general...