What To Watch This Week on TV: 'Gracepoint' Intrigues; McDermott Stalks Stalkers

What To Watch This Week on TV: 'Gracepoint' Intrigues; McDermott Stalks Stalkers

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Check out our weekly guide to make sure you’re catching the big premieres, crucial episodes and the stuff you won’t admit you watch when no one’s looking.

— Potty-mouthed funnylady Sarah Silverman returns to SNL (she was part of the cast from 1993-1994) this weekend. This time, she’s got hosting duties with musical guests Maroon 5 at 11:30 p.m. Eastern on NBC.

Stalkers, bad judges, grisly murders, and more on TV this week, AFTER THE JUMP …

 

— After two twisted turns on American Horror Story, Dylan McDermott continues to dabble in the darkness on CBS’ new procedural, Stalker, premiering Wednesday at 10 p.m. Eastern on CBS. As its title implies, expect this show to have its fair share of creepy moments, particularly in the first episode’s first few minutes.

 

— Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice star Kate Walsh returns Thursday at 9 p.m. Eastern on NBC in Bad Judge. Executive producers Will Ferrel and Adam McKay are behind the series, which follows Walsh’s titular naughty Rebecca Wright. She’s like younger Judge Judy, if young Judge Judy drank tequila and played drums in a band. 

 

— If you’re a fan of serialized mysteries centered around murders in small towns (True Detective, The Killing), set your DVR for Gracepoint Thursday at 9 p.m. Eastern on Fox. The series is an import from across the pond, but it’s kept it’s English star, Doctor Who’s David Tennant. The cast also boasts Anna Gunn (Breaking Bad).

 

— Mad Men’s Ben Feldman (the one with one less nipple) and Cristin Milioti (How I Met Your Mother’s mother) take us through their elaborate courtship on A To Z, Thursday at 9:30 p.m. Eastern on NBC.

What are you watching this week?


Bobby Hankinson

www.towleroad.com/2014/09/what-to-watch-this-week-on-tv-gracepoint.html

Poll Shows Just How Much Republicans Hate Eric Holder

Poll Shows Just How Much Republicans Hate Eric Holder
When Eric Holder leaves his post as attorney general, his legacy will include incurring the animosity of most of the GOP, according to a YouGov poll released Monday. As YouGov’s William Jordan notes, Republicans are more likely to dislike Holder than Democrats or independents are to have any opinion of him, positive or negative.

Sixty-four percent of Republicans have an unfavorable view of Holder. By contrast, just 60 percent of Democrats and 56 percent of independents were able to rate him either way.

Holder was a frequent target of GOP criticism, and in 2012 House Republicans voted to hold him in contempt of Congress over Operation Fast and Furious. Progressive groups like the ACLU have lauded some of Holder’s civil rights achievements and his frank dialogue on racism, while also expressing disappointment over his civil liberties record and pursuit of government whistleblowers.

Democrats in the poll who did have an opinion of Holder, however, were largely positive, with 44 percent viewing him favorably and just 16 percent unfavorably. African-Americans were also especially supportive, with 57 percent rating him favorably, and 6 percent unfavorably.

In total, 26 percent of Americans rate Holder positively, and 37 percent negatively, making him moderately more popular than former Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki and former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at the time of their resignations.

The YouGov poll was conducted Sept. 26-28 among 1,000 U.S. adults using a sample selected from YouGov’s opt-in online panel to match the demographics and other characteristics of the adult U.S. population. Factors considered include age, race, gender, education, employment, income, marital status, number of children, voter registration, time and location of internet access, interest in politics, religion and church attendance.

www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/29/eric-holder-poll_n_5902376.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay+Voices

Barney Frank Criticizes HRC President Chad Griffin's Apology to the Trans Community for ENDA 2007

Barney Frank Criticizes HRC President Chad Griffin's Apology to the Trans Community for ENDA 2007

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In an interview with The GA Voice, Barney Frank sounds off on Human Rights Campaign president Chad Griffin’s recent apology to the transgender community for HRC’s endorsement of a stripped down version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act back in 2007 that did not provide gender identity protections alongside sexual orientation.

That bill, introduced by Frank, passed the House 235-184 but was never voted on in the Senate. 

Said Frank:

Chad Griffin’s one of those people whose political judgment seems to be off. The fact is that HRC and I and everybody else were for an inclusive bill in 2007. The issue was we did not have the votes for an inclusive bill. It wasn’t a failure of will. Then the question was, was something better than nothing? Was it better to pass a bill that was protective of lesbian, gay and bisexual people or pass nothing? We tried very hard.

JohnsonPeople have this mistaken view of the civil rights movement and say, ‘Well the black people never compromised, they got the whole thing.’ That is just silly nonsense. The first civil rights bill that was passed in ’57 was fairly moderate but it had some good things, and then one passed in ’60, and then one passed in ’64. People are now saying, ‘Well we don’t want ENDA to be just about employment, we want it cover housing, etc.” Well that national federal civil rights bill that Lyndon Johnson signed in 1964 that we’re all celebrating today didn’t include housing! Housing didn’t come until a separate bill was passed after Martin Luther King was murdered in 1968. The notion that you can win your entire victory at once is historically and politically flawed.

The transgender community had this mistaken view that if Nancy Pelosi waved a magic wand, transgender would be included. And we were insisting to them that, look we don’t have the votes, help us lobby. Instead of trying to put pressure on the people who were against them, they thought they could just insist that we do it. We said, ‘We’re trying, but we need your help.’

Frank goes on in the interview to discuss how the topic of trans rights has come a long way in the seven years since then, as well as reveal what he misses most about being a congressman – the friendships and the ability to influence policy. 

Check out the full interview HERE


Kyler Geoffroy

www.towleroad.com/2014/09/barney-frank-criticizes-hrc-president-chad-griffins-apology-to-the-trans-community-for-enda-2007.html

WATCH: These Ore. High-Schoolers Want a Trans-Inclusive Homecoming

WATCH: These Ore. High-Schoolers Want a Trans-Inclusive Homecoming

‘Guess what? It’s 2014 and the world is constantly changing and improving,’ say student leaders at an Ashland, Ore., high school as they open the doors for transgender homecoming royalty at their school.

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Mitch Kellaway

www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2014/09/29/watch-these-ore-high-schoolers-want-trans-inclusive-homecoming

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