Lela Uncensored

Let's talk about Meghan McCain After Jedidah Bila was allegedly shown the door after an out of line questioning of former secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Meghan McCain was hired as the one constant conservative voice on ABC's The View. Conservative co hosts on the view have long served as Joy Behar's nemesis and punch bag. One can't forget how many times Elizabeth Hasselbeck was publicly humiliated or Jedidah silenced by the liberal comedian. Meghan McCain is not just another former Fox News employee with hardcore conservative views, she's the daughter of senator John McCain, the United States' war hero who was detained and tortured for five in year in Hanoi Hilton, and who has been diagnosed late last year with an agressive form of brain cancer. Meghan did not vote for Trump, not because the man is a pig but because he insulted her father. Meghan 1 - Ted Cruz 0 But even though she refused to vote for Trump, she turned into a Trump ...

Parliamentary elections are supposedly just around the corner. We still don't know who's running against whom and who struck an alliance with whom. Rumors have it that we should expect some shocking alliances but really, is anything going to shock us? We've learned to expect anything and everything. There is no more unexpected! Any twist is to be anticipated for any twist can be explained "by looking at the bigger picture", by "remembering our martyrs" or by "trusting the leaders decision making and smarts". Our political parties electoral platforms are known and they all have the same spin when confronted with a specific question: we've been trying our best, "they" don't want us to succeed, we're fighting corruption with all he have, the people's well-being  remains our main objective, the independence of the land is out of compromise, we owe our martyr the utmost loyalty. I am registered to vote in Beir...

Hours before Trump's first State of the Union, let's remember how we got here! In her concession speech, popular vote winner secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton apologized. She said sorry. And her apology broke my heart. As a woman who once contemplated a career in politics, I experimented firsthand the deeply rooted yet widely denied sexism and bigotry in politics. Former colleagues and former fellow activists are definitely rolling their eyes now, shocked by my misrepresentation of the truth. Nothing is going to convince them of their sexism and bigotry. Why, you would ask. Because what is internationally defined as sexism and bigotry is how they understand respect. Anyhow, feminism isn’t why I wanted Hillary to win. I know she’s not a widely loved figure, she’s definitely not the most charismatic candidate in the world, but she is a politician. And presidential elections aren’t about how much the candidate can physically “impress” a bunch of fat rich old white m...

Meet Ivana Marie Trump, the now infamous Ivanka, Donald Trump’s only child, except for, and yet somehow including her four siblings. Meet the heir presumptive of daddy’s empire and legacy, the poster girl of political nepotism and the reigning queen of conservative feminism. First things first: how did we even come to care about Ivanka, the socialite who didn’t star in a sex tape, whose father was best known for being a game show host and bankruptcy addict? Well, said game show host, who also happens to be a sexist, racist, misogynistic, philandering pathological liar became president of the United States of America thanks to gerrymandering’s older sibling, the Electoral College.  Trump, the president mind you, has no policies. As he defends himself when asked about his failure to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, he’s sitting in the Oval Office, pen in hand, waiting for Congress to send him a bill to sign. All the president knows is that he has the biggest,...

A social media influencer was refused free accommodation in return of positively reviewing some hotel. Instead of sucking it up, she took to YouTube to attack the hotel owner, accusing him of nothing less than exposing her – even though he never disclosed her name – and shaming every person who doesn’t support her chosen lifestyle. An entitled child throwing a hissy fit shouldn’t be news worthy – unless said child is the President of the United States – but this story sheds the light on the industry of influencers. The hotel owner dubbed the whole controversy bloggergate . Personally I would have called it influencer gate . The distinction isn’t without a difference for it isn’t simply a question of semantics. A line should be drawn between bloggers and self-proclaimed influencers who don’t seem to have a real grasp of their irrelevance. Being a social media influencer is predominantly about flaunting designers’ items, reviewing accessories and cafés, sharing meanin...

Review of The Post  This chronicle of the Washington Post breakthrough on the American national scene and the publication of the infamous Pentagon Papers by both the New York Times and the Washington Post during Nixon’s first term could have also been told under the Post’s current slogan Democracy Dies in Darkness . The movie tackles five main themes The contents of the Pentagon Papers The classified documents show that the American decision making process when it came to the war was flawed and that numerous US administration knew for a fact that the Vietnam war can’t be won, meaning administrations kept sending young American to an absurd and unnecessary death. [The US administrations] violated the Geneva Convention, they lied to Congress, they lied to the public. They knew we couldn’t win and still sent boys to die. Seventy percent of those boys [died] just to avoid [the US] being humiliated . The mission of the press The publication of the Pap...