Sitcoms That Knew When It Was Time To Quit (And The Ones That Didn’t) |

Newhart Stuck The Landing; Cracked.com   

 "The absolute mountaintop of sitcom finales was that of Newhart, the second hit sitcom starring TV Legend Bob Newhart, who, sadly, may only be known to millennials and zoomers as Buddy’s adopted father in Elf.

Bob’s first starring role in a sitcom was in The Bob Newhart Show, which ran for six seasons in the 1970’s. Bob played, well, Bob, a Chicago psychologist married to the sarcastic Emily, played by Suzanne Pleshette. Just four years after the finale of The Bob Newhart Show, Bob Newhart debuted a new sitcom on CBS called Newhart, starring Bob Newhart as Bob Newhart (actually his character was named Dick Loudon, but I wasn’t quite tired of typing Bob Newhart. Newhart Newhart Newhart Newhart Newhart).

Bob Newhart’s new series Newhart ran for eight seasons, with Newhart playing a rural Vermont innkeeper running the 200 year old Stratford Inn with his wife Joanna, played by Mary Frann. 

"The show enjoyed a little more recognition than its predecessor, including 25 Emmy nominations, and its first six seasons finished in the Nielsen top 25. Starting in its sixth season, however, its popularity started to dwindle, and Newhart saw its largest dropoff in ratings between seasons six and seven.

"While the network was happy to keep Newhart running despite its decline, Bob had other ideas. He felt that the show had run its course and that it was time for him to move onto other projects. So, it was decided that season eight would be Newhart’s last. After 23 episodes of middling ratings, Season Eight, Episode 24 of Newhart titled “The Last Newhart” aired on May 21, 1990 and made television history.

" 'In the episode, all the inhabitants of the small unnamed Vermont town with the exception of Dick and Joanna sell their land to a Japanese businessman who intends to turn it into a gigantic golf course. 

"Cut to five years later, the now-rich former denizens return for a reunion, and as chaos begins to erupt, Dick is struck by an errant golf ball and passes out, only for Bob Newhart to awaken in bed next to his first TV wife Suzanne Pleshette. He describes the events of Newhart as if they were all a dream, and his wife tells him “no more Japanese food before bed” as she turns off the light and they go back to sleep.

"Brilliant."

The Trump Sentencing: Curtain to Fall on Merchan’s Hamlet on the Hudson

Jonathan Turley

"At 9:30 a.m. on Jan. 10, 2025, the curtain will fall on the longest performance of “Hamlet” in history. Acting Justice Juan Merchan will finally decide whether “to be or not to be” the judge to sentence Trump to jail. (Spoiler alert: He appears set to avoid a jail sentence and likely reversal.)"

Broc Smith

"Since Trump’s conviction in May 2024, Merchan has contemplated his sentencing options. This was to be the orange-jump-suit moment many longed for over years of unrequited lawfare. They will likely be disappointed. As some of us noted after the verdict, this type of case would often result in an unconditional discharge or a sentence without jail time. That prediction became more likely after Trump was reelected in November. Limits on Trump’s freedom or liberty would likely result in a fast reversal, and Merchan knew it.

"While various pundits predicted that Trump “will go to jail” after the trial, more realistic lawfare warriors had other ideas. The next best thing was to suspend proceedings and leave Trump in a type of legal suspended animation. Merchan would hold a leash on the president as a criminal defendant awaiting punishment.

"But the whole point of a trophy-kill case is the trophy itself. Merchan will not disappoint. While indicating that he is inclined to a sentence without jail or probation, he will finalize the conviction of Trump just 10 days before his inauguration. In so doing, he will formally label the president-elect a convicted felon.

"It will be punishment by soundbite. Trump will become the first convicted felon to be sworn into office, a historical footnote that will be repeated mantra-like in the media.

"Merchan seems at points to be writing the actual talking points for the talking heads. In his order, he states grandly that the jurors found that this “was the premediated and continuous deception by the leader of the free world.” He then adds that he could not vacate the conviction because it would … constitute a disproportionate result and cause immeasurable damage to the citizenry’s confidence in the Rule of Law.”

"Of course, this did not work out as many hoped. That apparently includes President Biden. Last week, the Washington Post reported that Biden was irate over the Justice Department’s failure to prosecute Trump more quickly to secure a conviction before the election. He also reportedly regretted his appointment of Attorney General Merrick Garland as insufficiently aggressive in pursuing Trump. It appears Garland was not sufficiently Bragg-like for Biden’s lawfare tastes." . . .

"When the sentence is imposed on Jan. 10, it is likely to feel comically downsized given the effort. After years and millions spent in the various Trump cases, Trump will likely receive an unconditional discharge and sent along his way . . . to the White House." JT

Sunny Hostin Makes Disgusting, Offensive Comparison to January 6th, Then Gets Launched Into Orbit

Bonchie  

And here I thought defeating Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were good things for humanity. It's likewise just as nonsensical to compare January 6th to hundreds of years of slavery in America. 

  "With another January 6th upon us, it was just a matter of time before someone delivered the worst take of the day, and no one will be shocked to learn that it came out of Sunny Hostin's mouth. One of the co-hosts of "The View," ostensibly a journalist program under the ABC News brand, Hostin has repeatedly beclowned herself on national television over the years. It's gotten to the point where I could write multiple articles a week on her idiotic ramblings. I value mine and your sanity too much for that, though. 

"So what did Hostin say? While discussing January 6th, she called it "one of the worst moments in American history," which is an opinion, I suppose. Had she stopped there, there wouldn't really be much else to say. She didn't stop there, though. Instead, she claimed that the riot at the Capitol was comparable to the Holocaust, World War II, and Slavery. Now, some of you may point out that the Holocaust was not committed by Americans, but that's because you're expecting way too much out of Hostin." . . .  More...

JUST IN: Biden DOJ to Bring Charges in 200 More January 6 Cases at the Last Minute to Throw a Wrench in Trump’s Pardon Plans

Are Democrats including Pelosi, Schiff, Swalwell, and pretty much all those on the impeachment panel not sick and ashamed of this mentally impaired man, even though he is a valuable tool in Democrat hands? TD

 Cristina Laila  "Four years later…

. . ."The Biden DOJ on Monday revealed it is likely going to charge 200 more Trump supporters related to the January 6, 2021 Capitol protest.

"More than 1,500 January 6ers – many nonviolent, first time offenders – have been charged by Merrick Garland’s DOJ in the last four years.

"Biden’s DOJ hunted down MAGA grandmothers and other non-violent offenders and threw them in the DC gulag.

"Merrick Garland’s prosecutors may unseal indictments at the last minute to derail Trump’s plans to pardon January 6 defendants.

"Revolver News recently floated a scenario in which the Biden DOJ unseals an indictment on the January 6 pipe bomber shortly before Trump’s inauguration to throw a wrench in Trump’s possible blanket pardon of J6ers.

"The FBI last Thursday evening released *new* footage of the January 6 pipe bomber after Rep. Loudermilk released a report revealing the bureau engaged in a massive coverup operation."   Full Article...

No thanks, Joe; just keep your medal!

 

Biden Snaps at Reporters Over Question About Trump’s Threat to Democracy

President Joe Biden let the mask slip, showing us his true colors when he snapped at reporters about his age, bragging about meeting world leaders in one of the meanest and smug tones you’ll ever hear

Mary Katharine Ham May Just Change How We Think About Hillary Clinton Getting a Medal   "On Saturday, as Sarah covered, President Joe Biden handed off the Presidential Medal of Freedom to a whole host of people, including some particularly undeserving ones like George Soros and Hillary Clinton. While in a way, these recipients cheapen the significance of the award, there's another way of looking at it when it comes to Clinton, as Fox News' Mary Katharine Ham pointed out.

"Ham offered her thoughts during "Fox News Sunday" of how "I think it's good that Hillary Clinton got this award," which she acknowledged would be surprising to others, adding that "because not a lot of novelists and fiction writers get the award," to laughter from Jacqui Heinrich. "And yet the Hillary Clinton campaign financed and created one of the greatest works of fiction in living memory in the Steele Dossier," Ham continued. 

"She also went on to remind everyone just how much of a role it had during the 2016 election. "Despite it being total fiction, it enthralled the press, the Intel community, and federal law enforcement for years. And so I applaud her for that work of fiction and am excited about the work she does in the future on her totally fictional presidency," Ham said. 

"Even Marie Harf, a liberal panelist, indicated that she "loved" how Ham "brought the 2025 energy." . . .  More here

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Look at their children and tell me which you would want to raise your child: the Trumps or the Bidens? The Tunnel Dweller

Here Is the Only Video on January 6 You Need to Watch to Understand Who Was Responsible for the Violence that Day

 The Gateway Pundit 

"This also plays into the accusations that this was a setup complete with government agents who infiltrated the Trump crowd.The government turned on the people that day – and the government lied about it for four years now. What a dark day in American history.

"For the last 4 years, Democrats, their media, and the Biden administration have lied thousands of times about who was responsible for the violence on January 6, 2021.

"We now know that three things had to happen in order for the violence to take place.

"1.) Nancy Pelosi and Mayor Muriel Bowser had to block the National Guard from protecting the US Capitol. Pelosi did this be banning the President Trump’s request for the National Guard troops at the Capitol that day. And, then on January 6, Nancy Pelosi stalled in calling in the National Guard until late in the afternoon.

"2.) Capitol Police were ready, and eager to fire munitions on innocent Americans peacefully protesting.

"3.) Undercover government operatives and cutouts with the FBI, DOJ, DHS, BATFE, Capitol Police, etc. were operating inside the crowd. Ex: Ray Epps

"To this day Americans have no idea that the federal agents provoking the riot were uniformed police and government agents. And, the US Capitol Police and DC Metro Police fired unrelenting munitions on the J6 protesters without warning. These actions sparked a riot an hour later.

This video below by Investigate J6 is devastating. It shows police firing on the Trump crowd without warning. This confirms previous reports by The Gateway Pundit and interviews with J6 attendees who reported on the vicious and unprecedented brutality by the police on January 6.

"InvestigateJ6: released video last year that exposes how innocent Trump supporters were set up that day by their government.The legacy media has yet to play this video for their audiences.    InvestigateJ6   More here. 

ABC The View's Hostin: ‘You Don’t Move on’ from January 6 — It Was Like WWII, Holocaust, Slavery  Has "Sunny" commented on the Antifa riots and what they have done to American cities?

Merrick Garland closes his reign of terror with a big J6 lie   . . ."Given the actual facts (a protest that got out of hand, not an insurrection; Capitol Police opening sealed doors; helpless people carried inexorably into Congress by the crowd; seeming operatives getting a pass; etc.), the question everyone ought to be asking is how Garland and the DOJ are justifying these official vindictive acts, which are as large in scope as great as any seen after the American Revolution or the Civil War.

"The answer is by using the Big Lie. That’s what Merrick Garland did today, right before Congress certified Trump’s election:

On this day, four years ago, police officers were brutally assaulted while bravely defending the United States Capitol. They were punched, tackled, tased, and attacked with chemical agents that burned their eyes and skin. Today, I am thinking of the officers who still bear the scars of that day as well as the loved ones of the five officers who lost their lives in the line of duty as a result of what happened to them on January 6, 2021. (Emphasis mine.)

"In fact, not a single Capitol Police officer died as a direct result of events on January 6. You only have to look at how carefully Garland phrased that emphasized sentence to understand how dishonest it is to say that they “lost their lives in the line of duty as a result of what happened to them on January 6, 2021.” . . .

Left's Narrative Crumbles After Voter Record Shows Cybertruck Bomber Wasn't MAGA

 Samantha Chang

https://twitter.com/i/status/1875709361986625981

"While the left has tried to frame 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger as a MAGA fanatic, new evidence reveals he was neither a Republican nor a conservative.

"Rather, Livelsberger was a registered “No Labels” voter, Fox News reported.

"According to its website, the “No Labels” group claims to be a centrist, nonpartisan organization.

“ 'We may be Democrats, Republicans, or independents, but we won’t mindlessly follow anyone,” the group wrote.

More here...

Barron Trump Destroys Liberal Journalist Who Tried to Ambush His Mother Melania

Hidden Stories    

Good thing Barron was raised in a Trump household. Wonder how this young man feels when watching the present POTUS giving vengeful speeches calling for someone to want to assinate his

 The 14th BEST President in History?   Victor Davis Hanson presents a critical examination of Joe Biden's presidency, questioning the narrative that positions him favorably in comparison to past leaders. Citing a recent survey placing Biden as the 14th best president, Hanson delves deep into the delusions surrounding Biden's perceived successes amid notable failures in critical areas such as the economy, border management, and foreign policy. With a candid assessment of Biden's mindset and the implications of how history may judge his tenure, this discussion challenges the prevalent narratives and asks the tough questions about what future generations may think of this administration. #JoeBiden #VictorDavisHanson #PresidentialHistory #PoliticalAnalysis #BidenCritique #History #USPolitics #Economy #ForeignPolicy

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces resignation after facing major political pressure

USA Today   "Trudeau under pressure to resign amid Trump reelection   Calls for Trudeau to step aside have grown since December amid a series of polls showing his Liberal Party being trounced in the next election due to voter anger over high prices and a housing crisis, Reuters reported.

"Trudeau has also faced a series of mounting crises, including the abrupt resignation of Canada's finance minister Chrystia Freeland and Trump's threat of imposing crippling tariffs when he takes office.

"The Canadian Broadcasting Corp said more than 50 Liberal members of parliament from Ontario − the most populous of the 10 provinces and the party's main stronghold − held a call Dec. 21 and agreed Trudeau had to step down.

"Trudeau has attempted damage control, even jetting out to West Palm Beach, Florida in late-November for a meeting with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate days after the president-elect vowed to enact a 25% tariff on all products coming into the U.S. from Canada and Mexico.

"Trudeau has often been at odds with Trump, who has mocked Trudeau as "governor" of Canada while repeatedly joking t-hat the nation should become the 51st U.S. state.". . .

THE LAST REFUGE posted in anticipation of Trudeau's resignation:  The bombshell report comes as an embattled Trudeau has faced increasing calls for his resignation as a Donald Trump presidency – and the threat of 25% tariffs on all products north of the border – looms large.

The prime minister was struck with a devastating blow after his then-finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, quit last month over a deepening divide between the two over the future of Canada’s economy. (read more)

"Justin from Canada has been an unstable boy-child with a speech impediment and an emotionally unstable disposition for a long time.  He personifies the leftist hero for modern feminists."

How do you like them apples?    Pierre Poilievre eats an apple while GRILLING a journalist | October 14, 2023 See trudeau's possible replacement doing what he does best.

Inanimate Object Commits Heinous Crime

 

Inanimate Object Commits Heinous Crime   "After the New Orleans massacre, press headlines and news alerts followed the tired formula of treating the truck as the killer." . . .

Well, we all know about SUVs being serial killers. TD

How low can Joe go?

 

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How low can Joe go? Now he's forking out big civilian honors to Liz Cheney and her ilk  Britt Hume commented: This is repulsive. That investigation was done by a committee all of whose members were chosen by Nancy Pelosi, and was produced like a TV show. There was no cross examination of witnesses. The media fell for it, but it was utterly one-sided. A show trial.

"So enjoy your medal, Miss Cheney. I don't think that this is the last that you will hear about that corrupt committee that you were a part of." . . ."Yes, go to Biden now, accept his medal, you can’t refuse, you got nothing to lose and have to hang around with those who hated your family. How sad is that."

Liz Cheney Was an Electoral Fiasco for Kamala Harris | The Nation  ..." Unfortunately, while many Democratic tacticians were enthusiastic about Cheney’s jumping on board as a Harris backer, Republican voters couldn’t have cared less. The Cheney strategy was an abject failure that added few if any votes to the Democratic total, alienated voters who have no taste for the former GOP representative’s neocon extremism, and stole precious time from an agonizingly short campaign schedule." ...

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