Chelsea Handler Rips White Female Trump Voters for ‘Self-Mutilation’

Culture
December 15th, 2016 2:21 PM
Comedian Chelsea Handler, an advocate for “women supporting women,” is at it again – criticizing the great culprits behind Donald Trump’s victory. (White women, of course.) In an essay penned for Arianna Huffington’s new health site, Thrive Global, Handler attacked those who take their rights for granted and bow to their male overlords. “Specifically,” she posited, “the 53% of all white female…

The Mad Search for Pro-Trump Columnists

December 15th, 2016 2:08 PM
WASHINGTON — Over the weekend some pathetic wretch — obviously a casualty of the Nov. 8 election — writing under the pen name Paul Farhi filed a column in the Washington Post lamenting that after an extensive search of the newspapers of this great country, he could hardly find any pro-Trump columnists. 

#FakeNews: Media Hyperventilates Over Another Made-Up Hate Crime

December 15th, 2016 12:00 PM
While the media are obsessed with debunking “fake news,” they might take a look at the plank in their own eye. On Tuesday, Politifact, the self-appointed purveyor of debunking “fake news,” has named the “phenomenon” of fake news their “Lie of the Year” and bashed Donald Trump for spreading these so-called false stories: “Fake news found a willing enabler in [President-elect Donald Trump], who at…

CNN.com: Electoral College Is 'Democracy's Ugliest Anachronism'

December 15th, 2016 11:39 AM
A Thursday op-ed on CNN.com outlined a proposal to "not only...end a Trump administration, but also to eradicate democracy's ugliest anachronism -- the Electoral College." Scott Piro hoped against hope that a group of Trump electors would switch their vote to Hillary Clinton, in order to gain "the bipartisan support needed to legislate it [the Electoral College] out of existence." Piro contended…
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Distraught Celebs Call for Electors to Unite Against Trump

Culture
December 15th, 2016 11:12 AM
The election may be over, but unfortunately the time for celebrity PSA videos is not! In the latest campaign, distraught celebs are pleading for Electoral College members to “vote their conscience;” that is, pick anyone but Trump.

WashPost Cartoonist Hits Media Covering Both Sides in Climate Debate

Business
December 15th, 2016 10:36 AM
Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles says the media isn’t biased enough on climate change. According to Yale Climate Connections, Toles complained at a Dec. 12, book signing that coverage of climate change was “abysmal” and spent too much time on “both sides” of the debate.
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Actress Mourns Obama Leaving: 'Greatest President' of 'Our Lifetime!'

December 15th, 2016 9:52 AM
Hollywood has certainly not been shy about their love for President Obama or their hatred for Donald Trump. But since the election, the Obama fawning and Trump loathing seems to have gotten worse. Wednesday night’s The Late Show on CBS was a prime example of this, when comedic actress Megan Mullally had a meltdown over Obama leaving office.

Slate's Bouie Decries Trump’s Cabinet of ‘Ungovernment’

December 14th, 2016 9:48 PM
Slate’s Chief Political Correspondent, Jamelle Bouie, published a bitter diatribe against President-Elect Donald Trump on Wednesday, where he claimed, “Trump rode white populism to the White House,” while bashing his cabinet selections. “To run the government, he has picked men and women who disdain the missions of their assigned agencies, oppose public goods, or conflate their own interests with…

Joan Walsh: Obama Was ‘Moderate,’ But Still Faced a ‘Whitelash’

December 14th, 2016 8:47 PM
Like most observers, The Nation’s Walsh expected that the voters who backed Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 would turn out for Hillary Clinton, whose presidency would safeguard Obama’s “political, social, and racial legacy.” Of course, countless expectations were dashed on November 8, when, as Walsh puts it, an “unexpected surge of white voters…took their country back from a black man [and] refused…

Politico Axes Ioffe for Vulgar Tweet Suggesting Incest in Trump Family

December 14th, 2016 8:43 PM
Late Wednesday afternoon, Politico fired, “effective immediately,” foreign policy contributor Julia Ioffe for a vulgar tweet suggesting that President-elect Donald Trump may be committing incest with daughter Ivanka. It came in light of reports the Trump daughter would occupy the First Lady’s office in her father’s White House. The decision came just prior to her official departure for The…

Media Hypocrisy: Slate Editor in NYT Calls for Overturning Election

December 14th, 2016 8:04 PM
Again showing the hypocrisy of its trumped-up contempt for Donald Trump’s pre-emptive, hypothetical questioning of the election results back when it looked like Hillary Clinton would roll, the New York Times again fosters the fight to keep Trump out of the White House and undemocratically install his Democratic opponent instead. Dahlia Lithwick, a senior editor for Slate, coauthored a cri de…

Jorge Ramos se opone a la deportación de indocumentados criminales

Latino
December 14th, 2016 5:36 PM
Esta entrevista podría ser la más consecuente a salir de los escombros de la Univision post-electoral. Durante el transcurso de varios minutos, vemos una dirección editorial definitiva, y vemos admisiones que hasta hace apenas un mes eran inimaginables.
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WATCH: The Sore Loser Media Tries to Abolish the Electoral College

December 14th, 2016 4:57 PM
On Good Morning America December 2, anchor George Stephanopoulos argued with Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway over the media’s reaction to the election. When Conway brought up the fact that media was suddenly against the electoral college after their candidate lost, Stephanopoulos shot back, “No one is questioning the victory.” But is that really true? Since November 8, many journalists have openly…
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CNN's Bash Fawns Over 'Trail-Blazing' Mikulski's 'Words of Wisdom'

December 14th, 2016 3:42 PM
CNN's Dana Bash paid tribute to retiring Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski on Wednesday's New Day, touting that "it's the end of the Obama and the Mikulski eras; and the trail-blazing senator walked out the door — dropping important pearls of wisdom." Bash played up how the longtime Maryland politician is "retiring disappointed. Her old Senate colleague [Hillary Clinton] failed to become the…