“Veep” star Julia Louis-Dreyfus will host a panel with female Democratic governors from across the country at the Democratic National Convention next week in Chicago. The 63-year-old Hollywood actress — who played fictional character Vice President Selina Meyer on the popular HBO political satire — will be joined by the Democratic Governors Association, the actress confirmed to CNN. The panel will take place on Wednesday August 21 where the “Seinfeld” actress and vocal Democratic supporter will moderate the event with eight Democratic women governors. The list includes such governors as Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, and Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, among others. Dreyfus told The Hollywood Reporter that “throughout their time in office, Democratic women governors have made history, changed the conversation surrounding women in executive roles, and gotten big things done for the good people of their states.” DGA Women Governors Fund chair Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey told THR, “Julia Louis-Dreyfus brings the same passion and intensity that drives her successful career on-screen to her projects off of it, including her decades of work as an advocate and activist fighting to protect abortion rights, voting rights and democracy and fighting to combat climate change.” Julia Louis-Dreyfus to Host Panel With Democratic Women Governors During DNC (Exclusive) https://t.co/7sNO4oHIhL — The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) August 13, 2024 “Veep” showrunner Dave Mandel recently reacted to the increased viewership of the HBO political series after clips went viral following President Joe Biden’s announcement that he was out of the race and his endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for president. Speaking to THR, Mandel — who took over as showrunner in Season 5 of “Veep” — said he was thrilled to see the clips of the Emmy-winning series circulating. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI “Today, there may be more people checking out ‘Veep,’ and I can’t think of anything better,” Mandel said. “I hope they are enjoying. The crazier politics gets, the more Veep holds up!” The show — which wrapped up after seven seasons in 2019 — has seen renewed interest with viewership increased by 353% on July 24 compared to the previous day, as previously reported. It happened 24 hours after Biden said he would no longer seek reelection. In the show, which ran from 2012 until 2019, the president resigns, leaving Meyer to ascend the office herself and later launch her own campaign. Related: ‘Veep’ Viewership Increases 350% After Harris Enters Presidential Race

Legendary comedian Carol Burnett talked about some of the comedy that is available these days and admitted so much of it is “boring” and simply “not funny.” Speaking on the “Variety’s Awards Circuit” podcast, the 91-year-old actress said that the shows she was part of like “The Carol Burnett Show” and others on the air at the time were “funny and character driven, they’re not scatological or blue,” Fox News reported. “I’m not a prude, but sometimes I think some of the stuff today … it’s been kind of easy to get a laugh by being a little blue,” Burnett said. “I don’t mind if it’s within the character, but if they do it just to say a bad word, I think it’s boring, and it’s not funny.” “Funny is ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show.’ Funny is Mary [Tyler Moore], Bob Newhart, ‘All in the Family’ – and they hold up today,’” she added. Burnett — who found monster success with her variety show on CBS from 1967 to 1978, followed by nine episodes in the fall of 1991 — previously talked about how she misses the old comedy sketch entertainment shows and would love to see them make a comeback, Fox News noted. “I’d like to see variety come back,” Burnett told the outlet. “But [the networks] could never do what we did because I think the cost would be extravagant now.” Carol Burnett Weighs in on Today’s Comedyhttps://t.co/QIfAqzUHm5 — PJ Media (@PJMedia_com) August 13, 2024 “We had a 28-piece orchestra, 12 dancers,” she added. “We had 60 to 75 costumes a week. Bob Mackie designed for our guest stars. All of that you couldn’t do today. It would be too much. We did kind of a Broadway mini-musical comedy review every week. And that couldn’t be done today.” “But there could be a hybrid of some way to do a variety show because there are people who could certainly do variety,” Burnett continued. “But I don’t think a network would take a chance. I just wish they would.” WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI The Hollywood star also reflected on her career and admitted that CBS executives initially discouraged her from doing the show how she wanted. She said a vice president at the network told her that variety was “a man’s game” reserved for the likes of then-stars like Jackie Gleason and Dean Martin. “And [they] had a sitcom they wanted me to do, to which I said, ‘I don’t want to be the same person every week. I want variety, I want music, I want different characters to do,'” Burnett said. “They had to put us on the air because I had a 10-year contract … I just said, ‘This is what I know, and this is what I want to do.’ I wasn’t deterred at all. I just simply said, ‘I want to have fun.’ And I pushed for that. They had to put it on the air.” Related: Legendary Comedian Carol Burnett Says Her Show Could Never Happen Today, Misses Classic Comedy Sketch Entertainment

Hunter Biden sought assistance from the United States government in 2016 to help Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company where he served on the board, expand its business into Italy while his father served as vice president in the Obama administration. Accusations that Hunter Biden, now a convicted felon, leveraged his father’s position in the White House to help him secure lucrative business deals overseas have followed the cocaine addict for many years. The New York Times reported on Tuesday that the Biden-Harris State Department released records to the newspaper late last month about Hunter Biden’s request after hiding the information from the public for years. The State Department refused to release the actual text of the letter. The Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, was filed by the newspaper in June 2021. The newspaper filed a lawsuit eight months later after the State Department refused to release records. After another year and a half, the department tried to close the case by releasing a large trove of documents — though none that had anything to do with Hunter Biden’s contacts with the U.S. government. The Times questioned the legitimacy of the department’s search given that it had failed to produce records that were discovered on Hunter Biden’s laptop. The department continued to drag its feet until they finally released the documents on July 26, only five days after Biden announced that he was dropping out of the presidential race amid abysmal polling numbers that showed him getting crushed by former President Donald Trump. The records show that Hunter Biden wrote at least one letter to the U.S. ambassador to Italy, John R. Phillips, asking if he could arrange a meeting between Burisma and the president of Tuscany, a region inside Italy. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI Hunter Biden is set to face trial next month in another criminal case about evading paying taxes on millions of dollars that he made from Burisma and other foreign entities. The newspaper said that federal prosecutors recently indicated that they could file additional charges against the president’s son under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA, since he was lobbying the U.S. government without being registered. The Times said that the discovery was made in emails that the State Department released after a separate request for public records related to Hunter Biden’s contacts with officials at the U.S. Embassy in Romania about helping a real estate developer. In a July 2016 email, Hunter Biden business partner Eric Schwerin wrote to Enrico Rossi, the then-president of the Tuscany regional government: “Burisma is hoping that some of its executives can get a meeting with the president to discuss their geothermal business in Tuscany.” Hunter Biden’s letter was attached to the email, but the State Department redacted the entire letter. A U.S. official in the Commerce Department said that the U.S. Ambassador to Italy already responded to one email from Hunter Biden and they thought he was “shopping for more support than he got here.” While the Burisma project never got started in Tuscany, the newspaper conceded that it was unknown whether the U.S. Embassy ever “went to bat for Burisma.”

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Tuesday's Final Word

Like everyone else, I’m repulsed by the images of burly men in female sports compromising the safety and integrity of women athletes. However, we must avoid the trap set by some insidious elements on the “right” who want to focus the entire fight solely on saving female sports. That focus is just one logistical absurdity in a broader campaign of gender confusion and social contagion that we must eliminate from our society — a contagion that is more pervasive among women than men. As a kid, I never could have imagined that a well-known Bruce would one day go on camera and call himself “Caitlyn” with a straight face. But even more unimaginable is that in the ’90s, I never would have thought that if such a time arrived, the only opposition from the right would focus on the logistical and fairness arguments about women’s and girls’ sports. Now, we see Bruce appearing on ostensibly right-leaning media as an advocate of female sports while simultaneously grooming a generation of youngsters to think it’s normal to cosplay as a female, as long as it’s not in sports. A society cannot survive an entire generation of females who don’t even know what it means to be a woman. Let’s be clear: When a well-known, 6'3" man steals the essence of womanhood by dressing up and cosplaying as a female, it poses a far more pervasive problem for civilization than merely diluting elite professional women’s sports. It harms all women and contributes to the confusion in our society, where femininity is increasingly becoming a lost trait among a generation of girls. Allowing men in female sports is so indefensible, especially due to the safety issues, that I can foresee a time soon when the demonic forces will relent on the matter. However, this alone won’t solve the problem of gender ideology, which affects women more than men — the opposite dynamic of the sports travesty. People like Jenner want to call us “fringe” for not believing in trans ideology while making the entire civilization fight over protecting female sports, but the data we have demonstrates this is a much broader social contagion rooted more in the attack on femininity than attention-seeking men entering women’s sports. Take a look at this earth-shattering survey from Gallup published earlier this spring: A few inconvenient observations are in order. First, transgenderism has emerged unmistakably in recent generations, with other sexual identities exploding from a tiny baseline, especially among Gen Z. Anyone who believes that God created a genetic glitch around 2000-2005 is beyond credulous. The reality is that social contagion, normalized by the very behavior Jenner seeks to showcase to a conservative audience, drives these trends. It doesn’t take a genius to realize that without social media, such numbers would not exist. Second, the social contagion appears exponentially more pronounced among females. Currently, 28.5% of all Gen Z females identify with a sexual cosplay that won’t lead to procreation, nearly three times the rate of males. It’s clear that self-identified “bisexuals” drive much of this trend, indicating that a generation of girls is being raised to be more confused about their femininity than boys are about their masculinity. Additionally, contrary to the sports-centric narrative of transgenderism, the prevalence of self-identified transgender individuals among Gen Z women is more than double that of males. Throughout history, far more men than women engaged in gay relationships, but now that dynamic has completely flipped. Among the small cohort of the “silent generation” with same-sex attraction, gays outnumbered lesbians three to one. Jump to Gen Z, and 2.8% of men identify as gay while 5.4% of women identify as lesbian. Again, young women are much more frequently confused into thinking they are men than the other way around. This confusion is the legacy of feminism and its war on femininity. Third, sexual confusion was much more pronounced among men in earlier generations, but today, it’s far more prevalent among women. This shift is not mysterious. Before the rise of feminist gender-bending, sexual confusion primarily affected men. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand why men have a higher prevalence of certain sexual behaviors. Also, note that after the initial jump after World War II, the prevalence of self-described “gay men” has remained relatively flat. The confusion clearly lies on the female side, a result of years of inculcating women with masculine energy and convincing them they are essentially men with only a few superficial physical differences. Feminism has fostered an entire generation of self-identified bisexuals, with the most extreme elements even rejecting the few obvious gender differences and calling themselves transgender. The battle we face extends far beyond keeping men out of female sports. We must confront the entire phenomenon of gender-bending, whether it involves pronouns, drag shows, extreme co-ed culture, or other disruptions of societal norms. However, the GOP noticeably removed all of this from its platform, focusing the entire transgender issue solely on female sports. It is truly demonic, unfair, and unsafe for men to ruin years of training for female athletes. But a society can survive without female — or even male — sports. What a society cannot survive is an entire generation of females who don’t even know what it means to be a woman. The vivid, grotesque images of men beating women in combat sports should motivate us to banish men from stealing womanhood entirely. To get there, we must make womanhood and femininity great again among women, reclaiming those godly ordained virtues from the clutches of feminists.