There are a number of factors behind America's growing embrace of torture, but among them, largely overlooked, is a brilliant campaign of cross-promotion between right-wing ideologues and right-wing entertainment.
Not surprising considering how most right-wing talkers are radio careerists who are only conservative as a career move (as personality-driven FM radio declined, the AM right-wing entertainment complex ascended, and the old FM guys jumped aboard).
This was in the late 1980s, when British standup had got itself a reputation as more or less the entertainment wing of the disgruntled left.
Dad passed an audition for ENSA, the entertainment wing of the forces, but his superiors wouldn't let him go because of his army duties.
As the entertainment wing of the White Panther Party led by its manager, John Sinclair, the MC5 also developed a reputation for radical politics.
"Another Life," originally published in 2000, stands as an idiosyncratic history of book publishing's shift from small, founder-driven houses into a junior wing of the entertainment industry.
As a component of the establishment's entertainment wing shaping our perceptions and feelings, the RSC continues to airbrush us out of the picture, ready to be re-inserted into the frame only when villains are required.
Rick Wilson, a prominent Republican consultant who has become a vocal Trump opponent, argued that much of the New York tycoon's outrage towards Washington was stoked by what he called "the entertainment wing of the Republican party".
AMONG the features of the new 6,000-square-foot 6,000-square-foot 6,000-square-footevin Scherer's home in Plano, Tex., are two bars, a theater, a video game room, a shuffleboard table and a golf simulator that projects images of top courses onto a big screen.
Some investors continue to urge the company to take even more drastic steps, including spinning off Sony's entire entertainment wing, something Sony CEO Kaz Hirai refuses to do.
