Names making news

 One month after its launch, Truth Social, the Twitter-esque platform created by Donald Trump, and managed by former Congressman Devin Nunes, is still in trouble, and its creator isn't even bothering to contribute even one "Truth" (their version of tweets).

We could say that, given the former president's advanced age, he may have forgotten he had access himself. Then again, he just can't let go of his obsessive need to have his messages being posted, second-hand, on Twitter.

Self defeating, don't you think?

Meanwhile, Trump has rescinded his endorsement of Alabama Misrepresentive Shmoe Brooks, who wants to move up to the Senate. All because Shmoe's advisors have convinced him to drop the 2020 election as a talking point.

"WAAAAHHHH! We need to keep talking about 2020!! WAAAAHHH!"

Please call your service, Mr. Brooks. Your career is over.

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Why do GOPers have a problem with making history?

When it's not them making history, that is.

Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson, President Biden's pick for the Supreme Court, is being given some unnecessary heat from Missouri Senator Hee Hawley. who is trying to sell the idea that Brown-Jackson is soft on certain crimes. And this geek had the nerve to do a photo op before the hearings?

The opposition on the red side of the room is coming from the usual suspects so far, specifically Hawley and Raphael "Ted" Cruz, whose flimsy arguments are so bad, you can't even make toilet paper out of them.

Brown-Jackson will be confirmed. The heat is because the Democrats, it is said, put some emotional stress on Brett Kavanaugh a couple of years back.

This, in effect, is what Trump wrought in Washington. Politics in the form of schoolyard feuds. It would help if in the mid-terms, the immature GOPers, including Hawley, are sent packing.

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Maury Povich, like Jerry Springer before him, has informed NBC-Universal that he will end his talk show at the end of the season, his 31st.

Maury launched in 1992, after Povich left A Current Affair. Seems to me the daytime talk landscape is changing, ever so slowly, back to an old school variety show format, this just as Ellen DeGeneres is ending her show as well, but for different reasons.

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Masked Singer host Nick Cannon will have some free time after the season.

Cannon's self-titled daytime chat fest has been cancelled after 1 season due to low ratings.

Locally, Nick Cannon had the misfortune of airing opposite The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and couldn't capture the youth demo that follows Singer.

Sinclair Broadcasting, which owns WRGB & WCWN, now has three hours of programming to fill in the fall. 2 hours on CW15 with the departures of Maury and Cannon, and 1 on CBS6 (Ellen).

Prediction:

CBS6 will follow its competitors and add an extra hour of news. CW15 will find something to fill the slot, as this is two straight seasons where they've had duds at 4 pm (ET) (Daily Mail was yanked after 1 season). We suggest poaching some off-network repeats filling late night slots on CBS6 on the weekends (i.e. SWAT, SEAL Team).