Tina Dupuy (pronounced tee-na doo-pwee, it's not French, it's Cajun) is an award-winning writer, investigative journalist and stand up comic living in Los Angeles.

She is also the editor of Mediabistro's FishbowlLA.

For more info visit her site: www.tinadupuy.com

Blog Entries by Tina Dupuy

Doom Sells, But Who's Buying?

3 Comments | Posted November 16, 2009 | 03:42 PM (EST)


In the wake of the epic doomsday disaster film 2012 reaping in a cataclysmic $225 million globally opening weekend, it's pretty clear doom is a boom.

Doomsday prophesy is an art, that's why the purveyors make the big bucks.

But don't worry, doomsday prophets are notorious for dying of old...

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Legalized: Oral Sex, Sodomy and Immoral Prosecutions

7 Comments | Posted August 21, 2009 | 04:06 PM (EST)


In 1988 James Moseley went through a bitter divorce in his home state of Georgia. His estranged wife, Bette Roberts had accused him of rape in an attempt to secure custody of their two children. At the trial, the jury found the wife's claim not to be credible, her...

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War of the Worlds Was also Fiction That Scared People

2 Comments | Posted August 14, 2009 | 12:31 PM (EST)


One bright spring morning I was in traffic attempting a left turn at a light without a turn signal. The car in back got stuck waiting behind me. It's perfectly legal to do what I was doing. I had my blinker on, this is how we do it in a...

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The Birther Movement: Beyond Unreasonable Doubt

60 Comments | Posted July 31, 2009 | 01:22 PM (EST)


The first encounter I had with what is now commonly known as a "birther" was right after the 2008 election. It was with one of my family members:

"Obama wasn't even born in this country," she-who-will-remain-nameless proclaimed.

"No, you've got it mixed up. McCain wasn't born in this country," I...

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Firefighting in the 1800's: A Corrupt, Bloated, Private For-Profit Industry

13 Comments | Posted July 30, 2009 | 01:12 PM (EST)


The loudest voice, piercing through the debate over health care is unquestionably sure "privatization is always better." Because Republicans (who are in the government) will readily tell you - the government never does anything right. Which explains why the most popular people in their Grand Old Party no longer hold...

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Attention Media: Sarah Palin Hates You, You Betcha!

19 Comments | Posted July 6, 2009 | 07:01 PM (EST)


Sarah Palin hates the media and all the smarty people in it. All the people who have been keeping track of her record and her "message" with evidence and actualities -- she hates them. She hates them all so much her revenge was on the Friday of a three-day holiday...

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I Think I Owe Lynndie England an Apology

50 Comments | Posted April 29, 2009 | 01:52 PM (EST)


When the photos of Private Lynndie England of the 372nd Military Police Company at Abu Ghraib in Baghdad, abusing and humiliating prisoners came to light in 2003, I gleefully and instantly used her name as a punchline. As a writer and a comedian, I did my part in securing her...

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Hey, Tax Day Tea Parties -- Your 'Grassroots Movement' Can't Have Corporate Media Sponsorship

Posted April 13, 2009 | 03:55 PM (EST)


The 'silent majority' has to shut up. No seriously, they do. In order to be a silent majority they have to first - wait for it - be silent about something. And the current group that claims this title while planning and touting a "FNC Tax Day Tea Parties"...

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Hm. Both Pro-Lifers and Pro-Choicers Hate the Octomom

Posted April 2, 2009 | 03:24 PM (EST)


Nadya Suleman is our local, single, unemployed, plastic surgery-enhanced welfare mother of 14, many of them "special-needs" children. Her story is straight out of Brothers Grimm, and by now the world knows that all of her children, including her octuplets, born in January, were conceived through in-vitro fertilization.

"Does she...

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Finally, The 12 Toughest Decisions by George W. Bush

Posted March 18, 2009 | 01:36 PM (EST)


Former President George W. Bush was in Calgary this week, in his first foreign visit as a former head of state. There, he announced the subject of the book he will be writing. It's about the 12 toughest decisions he made in office.

Title suggestions? "I Was The...

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Limbaugh: Viagra for Grand Old and Aging Party

Posted February 5, 2009 | 01:12 PM (EST)


In June of 2006, nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh on his way back from the Dominican Republic, was caught with a prescription bottle (not in his name) filled with the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra. By fall, 2006 Details Magazine pronounced that 'Limbaugh' was the new slang for the...

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Welcome to George W. Bush Camp

Posted January 5, 2009 | 12:51 PM (EST)


Let's look into the future. Not the one with all the projected bread lines. Let's look into the non-economic hysteria future -- say five years from now. Maybe we're in a second Obama term. Either way, we've had some time to reflect on Bush years. He's quietly tucked away in...

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The Obama Administration vs. Political Comedy

Posted November 18, 2008 | 01:14 PM (EST)


Is political comedy in trouble? Will there be no funny in the future with an Obama administration? Is Barack Obama bad for comedy?

Disregard all the non-comedians' fears that Saturday Night Live will go the way of Circuit City. Ignore all the yammers about how Barack Obama is...

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Insane in the Middle Name

Posted October 9, 2008 | 05:50 PM (EST)


The left-wing has to stop being upset about the right-wing using Barack Obama's full name. Last Monday, there was a Lee County sheriff in Florida introducing Sarah Palin at rally. The event itself was a like pep rally for a losing lineup, chanting about team spirit as the gym crumbles...

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Sarah Palin: A Farce To Be Reckoned With

Posted October 6, 2008 | 02:59 PM (EST)


In the post-debate, post-partisan, postpartum, postmortem by those that think about stuff, those vilified media types, it was a pretty clear consensus of what happened on that stage in St. Louis last week: Sarah Palin did well because we all know she's not too bright. It's like she won a...

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Scary Stupid: Palin In The Great History of America

Posted October 2, 2008 | 04:19 PM (EST)


There has been a slow trickle of online clips from Katie Couric's interview with Sarah Palin. Like water torture they've come out night after night. Drip. Drip. Drip. Each progressively more ridiculous than the last. It's like CBS didn't want to release the entire interview all at once because...

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McCain is Giving the Economy the 'Terri Schiavo Treatment'

Posted September 25, 2008 | 02:34 PM (EST)


"History has shown that in times of real trial, elected officials rise to the occasion." President George Bush's address to the nation September 24, 2008.
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John McCain suspended his campaign until an agreement can be reached in Congress about the proposed bailout of...

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Denouncing Extremists While Touting 'Mavericks'

Posted September 15, 2008 | 01:44 PM (EST)


When I endure a really, really bad movie, I like to watch the director's commentary on the DVD. I do. It's my way of looking for an explanation of why total crap is made, marketed and landing in my DVD player. Call it morbid curiosity. In extreme cases, I look...

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The GOP Defends Palin Like They Defended The Decision to Invade Iraq (Shudder)

Posted September 3, 2008 | 11:55 PM (EST)


The Grand Old Party has been fervently defending Senator John McCain's choice for Vice President, first-term Alaska governor Sarah Palin. The spokespeople have been synchronized. And the tactic is instead of answering questions -- ask them. And when you ask them -- throw in an 'implication bomb.'

Example inquiry:...

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The Young Voter Myth

Posted February 19, 2008 | 01:00 PM (EST)


Maybe it's another Clinton running for president or maybe its American Gladiators being back on television or maybe it was the late night monologue jokes during the writer's strike -- but I'm suffering from some déjà vu. It's all sounding vaguely familiar -- I've seen this -- heard it before....

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