THE DAILY NEWSLETTER - TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 2021

Media Winners & Losers

MEDIA WINNER:
Shannon Bream

Fox News anchor Shannon Bream's new faith-based book debuted last week from Fox News Books, and went straight to #1 in the category on the Amazon bestseller list. Also #3 and and #4 on the list, in other formats. And tops the Most Wished For list, too.

The Women of the Bible Speak covers stories of strong female figures throughout the Bible, and argues that, contrary to popular misconception, Christianity and Biblical accounts "never viewed women as second-class citizens or bit players."

Bream's is the second title from Fox News Books to reach the top of Amazon bestseller categories. The first was Pete Hegseth's Modern Warriors, the publishing arm's inaugural title.

Bream's The Women of the Bible Speak released a week ago, and sold over 50,000 copies pre-release. 

"We've all lived through a really difficult year, suffering all kinds of different losses," Bream told The Wrap. "I pray this book will deliver a strong dose of encouragement and hope!"

MEDIA LOSER:
Paul Pierce

ESPN fired Paul Pierce this week after the former NBA player-turned-analyst posted a risque video of himself with two women who appeared to be strippers. 

Pierce went viral over the weekend after he posted an Instagram Live video featuring two scantily-clad women while smoking what seemed to be marijuana. He didn’t seem particularly worried about any ramification from the videos, judging by the tweets he posted on Monday.

"I can’t lose even when I lose I’m winning 🤔🤔😳😃😃😃" he tweeted, for example.

Pierce joined ESPN in 2017 after his career with the Boston Celtics, and he was a regular on shows like The Jump and NBA Countdown. ESPN has declined to comment on Pierce’s video, but multiple news sources have reported that the organization decided to end its relationship with him.

If this is of any concern to Pierce, he’s still not showing it, for he posted another Instagram video telling people “bigger and better things on the way. Don’t worry about it.”

The A-Block

So…this happened.

The View ended up going in a really weird direction on Tuesday as they talked about the rising sale of corsets, and whether that has anything to with the Netflix drama, Bridgerton. Next thing you know, taking off bras and where to buy vibrators came up next.

The conversation started going off the rails when Whoopi Goldberg said “I don’t know why you would do that to yourself,” and Sara Haines piped up to say “Joy [Behar] can’t even keep a bra on through the show.”

Meghan McCain tried to keep the conversation grounded by telling her colleagues she’ll watch Bridgerton if they watch Yellowstone, lauding it as “a fantastic western” and hoping that the stars will come on The View someday. In the end, though, McCain also let the conversation take a turn for the weird as she groaned that her colleagues were comparing their sex lives to Bridgerton.

“That was not the topic that was pitched this morning,” she said while her co-panelists laughed. “That was not what I agreed to talk about on air. Meghan does not want any more topics like this.”

The panel continued to succumb to helpless giggling on up to the awkward finale.



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Must See Clip

Seizing the Crown

The Mrs. Sri Lanka World 2021 beauty pageant ended in major drama on Sunday night when the winner was stripped of her crown.

Literally.

Moments after contestant Pushpika De Silva won the competition, 2020 winner Caroline Jurie grabbed a microphone and cited a pageant rule that competitors must be “married and not divorced.”

“I am taking my first steps and saying that the crown goes to the first runner-up,” said Jurie as she proceeded to seize the crown from De Silva’s head.

It was some scene.

Links We Like

If It’s Not Jim Crow, What Is It?
- Jamelle Bouie, New York Times
The Story Cannot Always Be the Reaction of the Republican Party
- Charles C.W. Cooke, National Review
Conservatives Must Unite and Apply Counter-Pressure
- Erick-Woods Erickson, Substack
Republicans Don't Believe in Democracy (Duh!), Study Says
- Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root
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