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Model ‘Offends’ Twitter by Not Being Offended
This weekend, Chrissy Teigen embroiled herself in social media controversy when she refused to be “offended” at being offered “oriental dressing” during her in-flight meal. But when her followers erupted in anger over her calm, the 30-year-old model probably wished she could return to her salad days – the glorious time before Twitter existed.
September 15th, 2016 9:36 AM
Amanda Marcotte: For the Right, Hillary’s Health Is the New Birtherism
Hillary Clinton was recently diagnosed with pneumonia. Barack Obama was not born in Kenya or anywhere else other than Honolulu, Hawaii. So what do Hillary fact and Obama fiction have in common? Marcotte has a sexism- and racism-related explanation. “The feigned concerns over Clinton’s health strongly resemble the feigned concerns that Obama was faking his natural born citizenship,” she wrote in a…
September 15th, 2016 9:23 AM
Cynical NYT Hits Trump's 'Minuscule' Maternity Leave Plan from Left
No points for “compassion” for a Republican from the New York Times, even when the party’s presidential candidate makes a big move in a liberal direction, as Donald Trump did with his proposed child care mandate. Wednesday’s front-page story emphasized the cynical political aspect of the move, while indicating the subsidies were feeble. A related story from Italy treated as bizarre the idea that…
September 15th, 2016 8:57 AM
Donny Deutsch Takes the Low Road, Insinuates that Trump Has ED
With the news cycle focused so heavily on the candidates’ current health and medical records this week, both candidates opened themselves up Wednesday by releasing new health information from their doctors. And by all accounts, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are health for being 70. But on Bloomberg’s With All Due Respect, co-host Donny Deutsch took swings at his favorite punching bag. “I’…
September 15th, 2016 2:21 AM
South Park: Election is Choice Between ‘Giant Douche, Turd Sandwich'
The much-anticipated premiere of South Park’s 20th season did not disappoint, featuring just the right level of timely, raunchy, bipartisan satire for which the show is known. In the episode “Member Berries,” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone take on the National Anthem, female comics, and the presidential election in a way only South Park can.
September 15th, 2016 12:36 AM
Nets Slam Trump with Powell E-Mails, Omit Bill Clinton’s 'Bimbos' Line
Just as they did Wednesday morning, the liberal “Big Three” networks steered clear of any of the more deeply personal attack against the Clintons in former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s e-mails, while continuing to rail against Donald Trump that evening. Despite hyping Powell calling Trump a "national disgrace," ABC, CBS, and NBC all ignored how Powell accused former President Bill Clinton of…
September 15th, 2016 12:13 AM
Sporting News to North Carolina: ‘NCAA Pullout Means You Change'
Listen up you bigoted, insensitive, and intolerant Bible-thumping right-wing nut jobs in North Carolina. The Sporting News is gonna learn you something about inclusion and respecting people different than you.
September 14th, 2016 10:44 PM
Matthews: It ‘Makes Me Happy’ and ‘Mirthful’ Colin Powell Hates Cheney
When it comes to MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews, one constant throughout the last decade plus with him has always been an obsessive dislike of former Vice President Dick Cheney and his family with Wednesday offering the latest installment as he admitted to his guests that it “makes me happy” and even “mirthful” that Colin Powell’s leaked e-mails showed a similar sentiment.
September 14th, 2016 9:25 PM
Oliver Stone Claims DNC Hack Was ‘Inside Job,’ Not Russian Operation
During Thursday's edition of the Cable News Network's weeknight Amanpour program, liberal host Christiane Amanpour asked guest Oliver Stone what the well-known film director, screenwriter and producer thought regarding the inclusion of Russia into this year's presidential election.
Stone -- who has generated controversial movies ranging from Midnight Express to the upcoming Snowden “biopic” of…
September 14th, 2016 6:16 PM
Mulan vs. the Diversity-Mongers
Let's get down to business. The casting kerfuffle over Disney's live-action remake of the 1998 animated hit "Mulan" brings honor to none. It's a politically correct tempest in a Chinese teapot. More than 90,000 angry activists have now signed a petition "to tell Disney that we demand to see them cast an Asian Mulan."
September 14th, 2016 5:11 PM
Academic Giants and Dwarfs
The University of Chicago's president, Dr. Robert J. Zimmer, wrote a Wall Street Journal article, titled "Free Speech Is the Basis of a True Education." In it, he wrote: "Free speech is at risk at the very institution where it should be assured: the university. Invited speakers are disinvited because a segment of a university community deems them offensive, while other orators are shouted down…
September 14th, 2016 5:08 PM
MRC's Brent Bozell Slams Media's ‘Arrogant, Haughty Attitude’ on 2016
MRC President Brent Bozell slammed the “arrogant, haughty attitude” of the press in 2016, deriding the biased presidential coverage in favor of Hillary Clinton. Talking to Neil Cavuto on Fox News, Bozell compared, “Their attitude about global warming, the attitude about gay rights, which is to say ‘you can only have one position’ and [journalists are] taking it to the presidential campaign.”
September 14th, 2016 5:05 PM
Williams: Obama Is 'A Communicator..Unlike Anything We Have Ever Seen'
In the hours following President Barack Obama’s campaign stop for Hillary Clinton on Tuesday afternoon in Philadelphia, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews was beyond giddy at the “magical” stump speech but he was later joined by Brian Williams, who declared on The 11th Hour that Obama will go down as “a communicator who can deliver” enthusiasm “unlike anything we have ever seen.”
September 14th, 2016 4:54 PM
Vox's Sports Blog: NCAA Leaving NC 'Meaningless' Until It Expels BYU
Cyd Zeigler hit the NCAA from the left in a Tuesday post on Outsports for not going far enough in their move to take NCAA playoff games in several sports out of North Carolina over its "anti-LGBT 'HB2' law." Zeigler contended that "if the NCAA is serious, it is only a matter of time before BYU [Brigham Young University] gets kicked out of the association...[a]nd every other school with an anti-…
September 14th, 2016 4:40 PM