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Top 10 Conservative Idiots #40: Zika Virus Apocalypse Edition
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Top 10 Conservative Idiots #40: Zika Virus Apocalypse Edition
Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! Come with me, and you’ll see in a world of pure imagination. Take a look and you’ll see into your imagination… Sing it with me! We are back ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, LGBT and gender non conformers! And in our regularly scheduled time slot! No computer fuck ups, no breaks, just some Top 10 goodness. Come on let’s give it up for Gene Wilder who sadly passed while we were putting together this week’s edition. I want to see some applause people! Come on, who didn’t love at least one of his movies – and he made some truly amazing ones. You have Blazing Saddles and the Producers. That would be enough for any actor or actress to have movies of that caliber on their resume, but then you add such amazing flicks as Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, Bonnie & Clyde, Hanky Panky, The Woman In Red, See No Evil Hear No Evil, Young Frankenstein, Silver Streak, I could go on and on. I mean the guy even had his own show that ran for two seasons – “Something Wilder”. So how do we best remember the man who fueled so many childhoods with Willy Wonka, and adulthoods with Blazing Saddles and the Producers? How about this clip from one of my favorite flicks – Blazing Saddles?
First off – John Oliver is on a break while he goes on tour with Funny Or Die’s Oddball Fest, but first – Stephen Colbert tests the validity of the Hillary Clinton e-mail “scandal”:
So where do we begin this week? Well we begin with a trigger warning – the top slot is going to go to a registered democrat and daughter of West Virginia senator. But as we’ve shown before in our discussion of Deborah Wasserman-Shultz, nobody is immune from this list if they do something incredibly stupid or evil. With that in mind the top two slots are going to go to Heather Bresch (1,2), who is redefining what it means to be a robber baron in modern society. Meanwhile returning champion Donald Trump is going to take up the next three slots (3, 4, 5). In the third slot we’re going to talk about Donald J. Trump and a certain Ann Coulter, and how their relationship might be well, in shambles. Don’t trust a snake oil salesman too quickly there, Ann! In the fourth slot we’re going to talk about Donald Trump’s relationship with “the blacks” while he said some jaw-dropping things about NBA star Dwayne Wade’s late cousin and got in a Twitter fight with Avengers star Don Cheadle. Meanwhile in the fifth slot we’re going to talk about something rare that Donald Trump almost never does – apologize for hurling insults. Or did he? Taking the number 6 slot we are going to talk about another Trump incited feud, this time involving 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick (6). At number 7, now that the 2016 Olympics is in the books (spoiler alert: America won twice as many gold medals as the next country, only we didn’t get to see it), we’re going to tell you about the Mainstream Media (7) and their coverage of the Zika Virus. If you watch the MSM, you would see that it is coming to kill every last single one of us! Ahhhhhhhhh!!!! At number 8 we’re going to talk about Maine Gov. Paul Le Page, who got caught leaving a profanity-laden voice mail, and we’re going to take him up on his challenge to prove he’s a racist. Taking the number 9 slot (NEIN!!!) Alex Jones returns and he’s got a whopper this week surrounding Hillary’s jabs at him during her speeches. Finally this week we have to talk about this story. So apparently Lindsay Lohan (10) is traveling to Russia, and her list of demands are certifiably insane. One of them? She wants to have a sit down with Donald Trump’s BFF and shirtless dressage pioneer Vladimir Putin. Good luck with that! Enjoy! And as always don’t forget the key!
[font size="8"]Heather Bresch[/font]
You know since I started the Top 10, one of our favorite punching bags here has been pharma-douche Martin Shkreli. And while Martin Shkreli might be getting his ass handed to him by forensic accounting investigators and the FBI, a newer, more scarier pharma-douche has emerged. Sorry Shkreli, playtime is over. But compared to Heather Bresch, your ill-advised pharmaceutical price hiking seems relatively tame by comparison! Here’s the news as it originally broke:
For most parents, back-to-school season means searching for this year’s trendy first-day outfit, stocking up on 3-ring binders, and making sure that summer homework is finished. When it comes to parents of kids with severe allergies, however, there’s an extra task on that list: Re-stocking their EpiPen prescription before their children enter a world where a lethal peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich could be lurking a cafeteria table away.
“Make sure your child always has an EpiPen(R) Auto-Injector within reach,” reads item number 2 on the “Back To School Homework for parents” webpage hosted by the EpiPen brand owner, pharmaceutical company Mylan.
Last year, about 3.6 million prescriptions were written for EpiPens, which expire each year and need to be replaced.
But Mylan has priced this life-saving medication, which can keep airways open during severe allergic reactions, far out of reach for many families. Over the past nine years, since Mylan bought the rights to the EpiPen, the price for the easy-to-use injectors has quintupled — increasing about 450 percent, from around $50 for one injector to $600 for a pack of two.
https://thinkprogress.org/life-saving-allergy-treatment-is-becoming-too-expensive-for-families-to-afford-4fe5dd9aab39#.9pauegkpj
“Make sure your child always has an EpiPen(R) Auto-Injector within reach,” reads item number 2 on the “Back To School Homework for parents” webpage hosted by the EpiPen brand owner, pharmaceutical company Mylan.
Last year, about 3.6 million prescriptions were written for EpiPens, which expire each year and need to be replaced.
But Mylan has priced this life-saving medication, which can keep airways open during severe allergic reactions, far out of reach for many families. Over the past nine years, since Mylan bought the rights to the EpiPen, the price for the easy-to-use injectors has quintupled — increasing about 450 percent, from around $50 for one injector to $600 for a pack of two.
https://thinkprogress.org/life-saving-allergy-treatment-is-becoming-too-expensive-for-families-to-afford-4fe5dd9aab39#.9pauegkpj
Holy fucking shit! Think about that number there for a minute. 450%!!! The only other time you would achieve a percentage that high is when you use cheat codes in Grand Theft Auto to get 450% armor, or maybe when Thor fights Iron Man in the first Avengers flick:
But there’s more:
Epinephrine-dispensing EpiPens have become a necessity for families with children suffering from severe allergies. However, as the price of EpiPen surges, the potentially life-saving medicine is being given a skip by users who have to make a choice between being broke or risking an attack.
In cases of severe allergic reactions, the synthetic adrenaline in EpiPens is used to counter effects like wheezing, uneven breathing, increased or decreased heart rate, swelling and other reactions. While a two-pack of EpiPens cost pharmacies about $100 in 2009, the prices have risen by more than 480 percent to its current price of more than $600, CBS News reported.
http://www.ibtimes.com/epipen-price-surge-causing-families-risk-severe-allergic-reactions-2402965
In cases of severe allergic reactions, the synthetic adrenaline in EpiPens is used to counter effects like wheezing, uneven breathing, increased or decreased heart rate, swelling and other reactions. While a two-pack of EpiPens cost pharmacies about $100 in 2009, the prices have risen by more than 480 percent to its current price of more than $600, CBS News reported.
http://www.ibtimes.com/epipen-price-surge-causing-families-risk-severe-allergic-reactions-2402965
This is a jaw-dropping, stunning level of evil here. The medication is so fucking expensive that poor families who have kids with severe allergies have to make a choice – buy Epipen at $600 a piece, or risk severe allergic reactions.
But here’s where things get batshit insane. So you know here at the Top 10 we’ve been railing on CEOs and outrageous pay increases since the beginning. Well if this doesn’t make you want to vomit all over your monitor / phone / tablet, you sir / madam are a much stronger person than I am.
Mylan Pharmaceuticals CEO Heather Bresch is desperately trying to control the public relations disaster created by her company’s decision to jack up the price of the life-saving EpiPen drug by 450 percent over the past 12 years.
CNBC interviewer Brian Sullivan also pointed out that the American Medical Association has said that EpiPens are the same product that they were in 2009, and thus nothing justifies such massive price hikes.
When asked how she could justify increasing her own compensation — which has risen from $2.5 million in 2007 to $18.9 million in 2015 — even as parents have to pay significantly more for their children’s life-saving drugs, Bresch again completely dodged the question.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/watch-mylan-ceo-heather-bresch-goes-down-in-flames-defending-16m-pay-raise-and-epipen-price-hike/
CNBC interviewer Brian Sullivan also pointed out that the American Medical Association has said that EpiPens are the same product that they were in 2009, and thus nothing justifies such massive price hikes.
When asked how she could justify increasing her own compensation — which has risen from $2.5 million in 2007 to $18.9 million in 2015 — even as parents have to pay significantly more for their children’s life-saving drugs, Bresch again completely dodged the question.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/watch-mylan-ceo-heather-bresch-goes-down-in-flames-defending-16m-pay-raise-and-epipen-price-hike/
And here’s my favorite part of this whole thing – Ms. Bresch herself is saying that “no one is more frustrated than I am” when it comes to the 450% price increase of Epipen. Cue the world’s tiniest violin:
Mylan CEO Heather Bresch struggled Thursday to justify the repeated big price hikes of the company's lifesaving EpiPen devices as criticism continued that Mylan is gouging consumers with a retail cost of more than $600.
"No one's more frustrated than me," Bresch told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Thursday when she was pressed on the question of why Mylan needed to have such a high price for EpiPens, and why she just didn't cut their price.
"Everybody should be frustrated," said Bresch, who in recent days has come under fire from U.S. Senators, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and patients who are outraged by EpiPen's 400 percent price increases in recent years.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/25/mylan-expands-epipen-cost-cutting-programs-after-charges-of-price-gouging.html
"No one's more frustrated than me," Bresch told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Thursday when she was pressed on the question of why Mylan needed to have such a high price for EpiPens, and why she just didn't cut their price.
"Everybody should be frustrated," said Bresch, who in recent days has come under fire from U.S. Senators, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and patients who are outraged by EpiPen's 400 percent price increases in recent years.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/25/mylan-expands-epipen-cost-cutting-programs-after-charges-of-price-gouging.html
Everyone should be frustrated? No shit!!! $600 for a drug that used to cost $57???? And you get a $16 million fucking pay day out of this? How are we not supposed to be frustrated with this? This is exactly the same thing Martin Shkreli did and he bragged about all the cash and bling that he got out of it like he was in a Rick Ross video (see: Idiots #7 ) !
And then I love this part – this was the actual response from the CEO herself: “Mylan CEO on her salary increasing as EpiPen prices rose: "I understand...that facts are inconvenient to headlines" “. Shut up!!!
[font size="8"]Heather Bresch[/font]
So if you’re an investor in Mylan Pharmaceuticals – you’re pretty much fucked. It’s almost as if Heather Bresch has been mirroring Martin Shkreli and doing the same thing he’s doing, only way more evil. Here’s what happened:
Mylan Pharmaceuticals — the company that makes the EpiPen rescue device — has watched its stock value plummet over the last five days as panicky investors jump ship.
According to U.S. Uncut, outrage over Mylan’s decision to jack up the price of the EpiPen has spooked shareholders, whose departures have reduced the value of Mylan stock by 12.4 percent. On August 19, Mylan stocks went from $49.20 per share to $43.11 on August 24, a net loss of nearly $3 billion for the company.
The EpiPen is a popular rescue device for food allergy sufferers who run the risk of anaphylaxis — a potentially lethal reaction to allergen exposure. The device rapidly delivers a dose of epinephrine to the system, which for severe allergy sufferers can mean the difference between life and death.
The device was conceived and developed for the U.S. Department of Defense by researcher Sheldon Kaplan. The studies and testing were all underwritten by U.S. taxpayer revenues. The device was originally created as an antidote to nerve gas, but it was released to the public as a rapid remedy to anaphylactic shock.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/epipen-makers-stock-value-plunges-nearly-3-billion-as-investors-panic/
According to U.S. Uncut, outrage over Mylan’s decision to jack up the price of the EpiPen has spooked shareholders, whose departures have reduced the value of Mylan stock by 12.4 percent. On August 19, Mylan stocks went from $49.20 per share to $43.11 on August 24, a net loss of nearly $3 billion for the company.
The EpiPen is a popular rescue device for food allergy sufferers who run the risk of anaphylaxis — a potentially lethal reaction to allergen exposure. The device rapidly delivers a dose of epinephrine to the system, which for severe allergy sufferers can mean the difference between life and death.
The device was conceived and developed for the U.S. Department of Defense by researcher Sheldon Kaplan. The studies and testing were all underwritten by U.S. taxpayer revenues. The device was originally created as an antidote to nerve gas, but it was released to the public as a rapid remedy to anaphylactic shock.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/epipen-makers-stock-value-plunges-nearly-3-billion-as-investors-panic/
You know in doing research on this topic, we have to go back to 2012, when doctors were warned about a curious rise in food allergies – such as peanuts and honey – among kids that were developing at an alarming rate. 4 years ago, that drug was owned by Pfizer. Let’s delve into some history of the drug here, shall we?
After a 7-year-old girl died in January in a similar case in Virginia, the state passed a law that allows any child who needs an emergency shot to get one. Beginning this month, every school district in Virginia is required to keep epinephrine injectors on hand for use in an emergency. Illinois, Georgia and Maryland have passed similar laws, and school nurses are pushing for one in Ohio. A lobbying effort backed by Mylan, which markets the most commonly used injector, the EpiPen, made by Pfizer, led to the introduction last year of a federal bill that would encourage states to pass such laws.
Mylan has also lobbied state legislatures around the country directly and is passing out free EpiPens this fall to any qualifying school that wants them.
“When a child is having an anaphylactic reaction, the only thing that can save her life is epinephrine,” said Maria L. Acebal, the chief executive of the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network. “911 doesn’t get there fast enough.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/08/business/mylan-invests-in-epipen-as-child-allergies-increase.html?pagewanted=all
Mylan has also lobbied state legislatures around the country directly and is passing out free EpiPens this fall to any qualifying school that wants them.
“When a child is having an anaphylactic reaction, the only thing that can save her life is epinephrine,” said Maria L. Acebal, the chief executive of the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network. “911 doesn’t get there fast enough.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/08/business/mylan-invests-in-epipen-as-child-allergies-increase.html?pagewanted=all
That sounds innocent enough right? I mean when Mylan bought the drug from Pfizer, it seemed like a no brainer that it should be handed out to elementary school kids free of charge right? Well, it’s not as innocent as it sounds:
EpiPens are mandatory for public schools in at least 11 states after Congress passed a law recommending their use — but the drug’s manufacturer pays no U.S. taxes at all after relocating overseas.
Mylan spent $4 million lobbying Congress to pass the 2013 School Access to Emergency Epinephrine Act, which offers incentives to schools to stock the potentially life-saving auto-injectors.
About a year and a half later, Mylan completed a corporate inversion to change its legal residence to the Netherlands, a tax haven, while keeping its headquarters and most of its employees in the Pittsburgh area.
The move allowed Mylan to cut its U.S. effective tax rate from 9.4 percent in 2013, the year Congress helped protect its market dominance, to negative 4.7 percent in 2015, according the group Americans For Tax Fairness.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/mylan-pushed-for-law-to-make-epipens-mandatory-in-us-schools-then-fled-overseas-to-avoid-taxes/
Mylan spent $4 million lobbying Congress to pass the 2013 School Access to Emergency Epinephrine Act, which offers incentives to schools to stock the potentially life-saving auto-injectors.
About a year and a half later, Mylan completed a corporate inversion to change its legal residence to the Netherlands, a tax haven, while keeping its headquarters and most of its employees in the Pittsburgh area.
The move allowed Mylan to cut its U.S. effective tax rate from 9.4 percent in 2013, the year Congress helped protect its market dominance, to negative 4.7 percent in 2015, according the group Americans For Tax Fairness.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/mylan-pushed-for-law-to-make-epipens-mandatory-in-us-schools-then-fled-overseas-to-avoid-taxes/
Well, I hate to tell you my friends, it gets weirder. Yes, there is rampant cronyism and nepotism involved. Yes, Mylan’s CEO is the daughter of West Virginia DEMOCRATIC senator Joe Manchin. But that part isn’t what is important. What’s important is that Heather Bresch should not be put in charge of anything! I wouldn’t trust this woman to run a kids’ lemonade stand!
Mylan CEO Heather Bresch would never have been hired at the company had it not been for her father, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, NBC News reported.
Bresch herself admitted as much in a 2012 interview published in WV Living magazine. “I don’t deny that I got my first job at Mylan because of my dad,” she said at the time, adding, “I couldn’t have told you what Mylan did. I vaguely knew it had something to do with science.”
The magazine reported that Manchin mentioned to the company’s co-founder, Mike Puskar, that she was looking for a job. The senator then urged her to apply at the company for a data entry position 20 years ago.
“You should absolutely take it. Give it a year,” she recalled him saying.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/epipens-bresch-i-got-my-first-job-at-mylan-because-of-my-dad-didnt-know-what-they-did/
Bresch herself admitted as much in a 2012 interview published in WV Living magazine. “I don’t deny that I got my first job at Mylan because of my dad,” she said at the time, adding, “I couldn’t have told you what Mylan did. I vaguely knew it had something to do with science.”
The magazine reported that Manchin mentioned to the company’s co-founder, Mike Puskar, that she was looking for a job. The senator then urged her to apply at the company for a data entry position 20 years ago.
“You should absolutely take it. Give it a year,” she recalled him saying.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/epipens-bresch-i-got-my-first-job-at-mylan-because-of-my-dad-didnt-know-what-they-did/
Shut up. Just shut up. Stop talking. Knowing what I’ve read about this thing – if Mrs. Bresch would run a lemonade stand, she would be selling a 25 cent glass of lemonade for $65. Now let’s check out the chain o’ command that shows how Mylan got the drug shall we?
In 2014, Mylan purchased the generics business of Abbott Laboratories, which allowed the Pennsylvania company to shift its corporate headquarters to the Netherlands, cutting its tax bill. That tax “inversion” drew the ire of President Obama, who criticized Mylan and other companies as unpatriotic. Mylan executive chairman Robert Coury, 55, fired back in an op-ed in USA Today, saying it was the equivalent of calling Americans who buy foreign products unpatriotic. With head-scratching logic, he pointed out that many antibiotics are no longer made in the US. “Should Americans stop taking these lifesaving medicines because they aren’t ‘Made in the USA?’ ” he wrote.
Last year, Israeli generic maker Teva offered to buy Mylan for $40.1 billion. Mylan didn’t just say “no,” but “hell no,” and Coury blasted Teva’s management and culture in a public letter to Teva’s chairman. “We do not wish to make Teva’s problems Mylan’s problems, or to inflict them on Mylan’s shareholders and other stakeholders,” he wrote.
http://qz.com/765333/exorbitant-prices-are-just-one-reason-to-loathe-the-company-that-makes-the-epipen/
Last year, Israeli generic maker Teva offered to buy Mylan for $40.1 billion. Mylan didn’t just say “no,” but “hell no,” and Coury blasted Teva’s management and culture in a public letter to Teva’s chairman. “We do not wish to make Teva’s problems Mylan’s problems, or to inflict them on Mylan’s shareholders and other stakeholders,” he wrote.
http://qz.com/765333/exorbitant-prices-are-just-one-reason-to-loathe-the-company-that-makes-the-epipen/
And then what does Sen. Manchin have to say about his daughter being a CEO robber baron? Well… PR response is PR response:
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) has come into the spotlight this week after revelations that his daughter’s company has decided to drastically increase the price of life-saving EpiPen drugs.
On Thursday, Manchin issued a public statement addressing the controversy that ensued when it was revealed that drug manufacturer Mylan Pharmaceuticals has raised the price of EpiPens by 450 percent over the past 12 years.
“I am aware of the questions that my colleagues and many parents are asking and frankly I share their concerns about the skyrocketing prices of prescription drugs,” he began. “Today I heard Mylan’s initial response, and I am sure Mylan will have a more comprehensive and formal response to those questions.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/sen-manchin-finally-responds-to-his-daughters-company-jacking-up-epipen-prices/
On Thursday, Manchin issued a public statement addressing the controversy that ensued when it was revealed that drug manufacturer Mylan Pharmaceuticals has raised the price of EpiPens by 450 percent over the past 12 years.
“I am aware of the questions that my colleagues and many parents are asking and frankly I share their concerns about the skyrocketing prices of prescription drugs,” he began. “Today I heard Mylan’s initial response, and I am sure Mylan will have a more comprehensive and formal response to those questions.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/sen-manchin-finally-responds-to-his-daughters-company-jacking-up-epipen-prices/
And of course they lowered the price. But not as much as you’d think:
The maker of EpiPens announced Thursday that it is reducing the price of the device following an uproar in Washington over the cost of the treatment for serious allergic reactions.
Mylan, the company that makes EpiPens, said it will provide a savings card worth up to $300 for people who had been paying the full out-of-pocket cost, effectively reducing the cost by 50 percent.
The company is also doubling the eligibility for its patient assistance program, which eliminates out-of-pocket costs for uninsured and underinsured people.
"We have been a long-term, committed partner to the allergy community and are taking immediate action to help ensure that everyone who needs an EpiPen® Auto-Injector gets one,” CEO Heather Bresch said in a statement.
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/293273-epipen-maker-lowers-price-in-response-to-uproar
Mylan, the company that makes EpiPens, said it will provide a savings card worth up to $300 for people who had been paying the full out-of-pocket cost, effectively reducing the cost by 50 percent.
The company is also doubling the eligibility for its patient assistance program, which eliminates out-of-pocket costs for uninsured and underinsured people.
"We have been a long-term, committed partner to the allergy community and are taking immediate action to help ensure that everyone who needs an EpiPen® Auto-Injector gets one,” CEO Heather Bresch said in a statement.
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/293273-epipen-maker-lowers-price-in-response-to-uproar
[font size="8"]Trump V. Coulter: Yawn Of Justice[/font]
So last week you know we had a lot of fun with the Donald Trump fake Tweet generator. Which lets you say just about anything and formats it as a Donald Trump tweet:
Damn right. So we have to talk about the Donald Trump and Ann Coulter situation. So Ann Coulter put out her latest piece of shit book called “In Trump We Trust”. I particularly like that it has the tagline “E Pluribus Awesome”. Can we show that?
So what did Trumpenfuror do to Ann Coulter? Why if you guessed he can’t be trusted, you are correct good sir / madam! You get points! So of course here’s the first review:
By my scientific count, there are only two newspaper columnists in the known universe who have not already declared Donald Trump’s presidential campaign dead and buried. One is me. Having mocked Trump for getting in a Twitter war with a Mexican narcotrafficker way back at the beginning of the campaign, only to see him shoot to the top of GOP polls, I long ago certified this campaign as too bat-guano-crazy to predict.
The other dissenter is the lethally blonde Ann Coulter, whose new book “In Trump We Trust” will be published Tuesday and, if history is any indication, will next be spotted on the New York Times best-seller list.
Coulter, an early and enthusiastic backer of Trump (he essentially adapted her book “Adios, America” as his campaign platform on immigration), has been warning that the polls were undercounting his supporters ever since he started out near the bottom of a 17-candidate Republican field.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article97277152.html#storylink=cpy
The other dissenter is the lethally blonde Ann Coulter, whose new book “In Trump We Trust” will be published Tuesday and, if history is any indication, will next be spotted on the New York Times best-seller list.
Coulter, an early and enthusiastic backer of Trump (he essentially adapted her book “Adios, America” as his campaign platform on immigration), has been warning that the polls were undercounting his supporters ever since he started out near the bottom of a 17-candidate Republican field.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article97277152.html#storylink=cpy
And then wow – I never thought I would find myself agreeing with bloated gasbag Rush Limbaugh but you know what they say – a broken clock is right twice a day:
Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh fell into a fit of laughter Thursday while telling his listeners about how Donald Trump had somehow managed to convince his loyal followers to support amnesty just before Ann Coulter‘s book came out.
RushTalk radio host Rush Limbaugh fell into a fit of laughter Thursday while telling his listeners about how Donald Trump had somehow managed to convince his loyal followers to support amnesty just before Ann Coulter‘s book came out.
“Could you imagine what it’s like to be Jeb Bush today? Who knew–” he began, before laughing.
“First they tried Marco Rubio. They tried the Gang of Eight. They tried Jeb Bush… they tried everybody they could think of to try to convince the Republican base to support some form of amnesty for illegal immigrants…” he tried again, before breaking into uncontrollable laughter.
“Who knew,” Limbaugh finally managed to say between chuckles, “that it would be Donald Trump to come out and convert the GOP base to supporting amnesty the same week Ann Coulter’s book comes out!”
http://www.mediaite.com/online/rush-limbaugh-literally-cant-stop-laughing-at-the-plight-of-ann-coulter/
RushTalk radio host Rush Limbaugh fell into a fit of laughter Thursday while telling his listeners about how Donald Trump had somehow managed to convince his loyal followers to support amnesty just before Ann Coulter‘s book came out.
“Could you imagine what it’s like to be Jeb Bush today? Who knew–” he began, before laughing.
“First they tried Marco Rubio. They tried the Gang of Eight. They tried Jeb Bush… they tried everybody they could think of to try to convince the Republican base to support some form of amnesty for illegal immigrants…” he tried again, before breaking into uncontrollable laughter.
“Who knew,” Limbaugh finally managed to say between chuckles, “that it would be Donald Trump to come out and convert the GOP base to supporting amnesty the same week Ann Coulter’s book comes out!”
http://www.mediaite.com/online/rush-limbaugh-literally-cant-stop-laughing-at-the-plight-of-ann-coulter/
So can I take that as a “we were right all along” when it comes to immigration, Rush? Well this thing gets weirder and weirder. So here’s what Donald Trump did when Ann Coulter’s book came out:
Donald Trump has just betrayed Ann Coulter. Which is a dangerous thing to do.
This week, Coulter released her new book, In Trump We Trust. As the title suggests, it’s a defense of Trump. But more than that, it’s a defense of Trumpism. Most Trump surrogates contort themselves to defend whatever The Donald says, no matter its ideological content. They’re like communist party functionaries. They get word from the ideologists on high, and regurgitate it as best they can.
Coulter is different. She’s an ideologist herself. She realized the potency of the immigration issue among conservatives before Trump did. On June 1 of last year, she released Adios America, which devotes six chapters to the subject of immigrants and rape. Two weeks later, Trump—having received an advanced copy—famously picked up the thread in his announcement speech.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/how-trump-betrayed-ann-coulter-on-immigration/497618/
This week, Coulter released her new book, In Trump We Trust. As the title suggests, it’s a defense of Trump. But more than that, it’s a defense of Trumpism. Most Trump surrogates contort themselves to defend whatever The Donald says, no matter its ideological content. They’re like communist party functionaries. They get word from the ideologists on high, and regurgitate it as best they can.
Coulter is different. She’s an ideologist herself. She realized the potency of the immigration issue among conservatives before Trump did. On June 1 of last year, she released Adios America, which devotes six chapters to the subject of immigrants and rape. Two weeks later, Trump—having received an advanced copy—famously picked up the thread in his announcement speech.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/how-trump-betrayed-ann-coulter-on-immigration/497618/
Which as you can guess, this has left hardcore xenophobe Ann Coulter betrayed and angry. Don’t trust a snake oil salesman that quickly, Ann:
WASHINGTON—Ann Coulter has just begun the promotional tour for her new book, In Trump We Trust, which contains this statement: “There’s nothing Trump can do that won’t be forgiven. Except change his immigration policies.”
The book came out Tuesday. By Wednesday, Coulter did not seem like a woman who trusted Donald Trump.
Trump, it had become clear, is thinking about changing his immigration policies.
The Republican presidential nominee has modified, abandoned or reversed a dizzying array of campaign pledges, but this particular shift would be a doozy to surpass them all. Trump, who won the Republican primary in significant part because of a promise to deport all 11 million of America’s illegal immigrants, is now musing publicly about allowing most of those people to stay.
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/08/25/ann-coulter-fumes-as-donald-trump-floats-massive-immigration-flip-flop.html
The book came out Tuesday. By Wednesday, Coulter did not seem like a woman who trusted Donald Trump.
Trump, it had become clear, is thinking about changing his immigration policies.
The Republican presidential nominee has modified, abandoned or reversed a dizzying array of campaign pledges, but this particular shift would be a doozy to surpass them all. Trump, who won the Republican primary in significant part because of a promise to deport all 11 million of America’s illegal immigrants, is now musing publicly about allowing most of those people to stay.
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/08/25/ann-coulter-fumes-as-donald-trump-floats-massive-immigration-flip-flop.html
[font size="8"]Donald Trump[/font]
That’s real. That happened. Donald Trump is so desperate to court the African American vote – where he is currently hovering at about, um…………… 2%:
The need for better outreach by the Republican Party and its nominee to African-Americans has been underscored as Trumpmade this point in recent days to the overwhelmingly white crowds that show up to his rallies.
"The GOP is the party of Lincoln, and I want our party to be the home of the African-American vote once again. I want an inclusive country, and I want an inclusive party," Trump said in Virginia.
The challenge Trump has in reaching out is also apparent in his poll numbers. African-Americans represent a reliable voting bloc for Democrats, but Trump's poll numbers with black voters are low — even for a Republican nominee.
Exit polls from 2012 showed Mitt Romney winning just 6% of African-Americans, while President Obama won 93% of the black vote. An ABC News/Washington Post poll this month showed Trump with just 2% of support among black voters.
http://www.npr.org/2016/08/21/490821643/trumps-appeal-to-black-voters-may-repeat-past-mistakes-of-gop-outreach
"The GOP is the party of Lincoln, and I want our party to be the home of the African-American vote once again. I want an inclusive country, and I want an inclusive party," Trump said in Virginia.
The challenge Trump has in reaching out is also apparent in his poll numbers. African-Americans represent a reliable voting bloc for Democrats, but Trump's poll numbers with black voters are low — even for a Republican nominee.
Exit polls from 2012 showed Mitt Romney winning just 6% of African-Americans, while President Obama won 93% of the black vote. An ABC News/Washington Post poll this month showed Trump with just 2% of support among black voters.
http://www.npr.org/2016/08/21/490821643/trumps-appeal-to-black-voters-may-repeat-past-mistakes-of-gop-outreach
So 2%!!! That might be the lowest approval rating in the history of, well, approval ratings! But I love this – in an apparent attempt to channel his inner Kanye West, or maybe Charlie Sheen, Trumpenfuror is looking forward to the 2020 election and saying that he will be the greatest of all time:
Donald Trump promised Friday night that if elected president, he will win 95 percent of the African-American vote in his reelection bid.
Renewing his effort to reach out to black voters at a rally Friday evening, Trump suggested that Democratic politicians that overwhelmingly govern in America’s inner cities have failed African-Americans. Trump told the Dimondale, Michigan, crowd that “we can never fix our problems by relying on the same politicians who created our problems in the first place. A new future requires brand-new leadership.”
“You're living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs. Fifty-eight percent of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?” Speaking before another largely-white audience in a town whose population is 93 percent white, Trump said, “And at the end of four years, I guarantee you that I will get over 95 percent of the African-American vote. I promise you. Because I will produce.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/donald-trump-african-american-vote-227218
Renewing his effort to reach out to black voters at a rally Friday evening, Trump suggested that Democratic politicians that overwhelmingly govern in America’s inner cities have failed African-Americans. Trump told the Dimondale, Michigan, crowd that “we can never fix our problems by relying on the same politicians who created our problems in the first place. A new future requires brand-new leadership.”
“You're living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs. Fifty-eight percent of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?” Speaking before another largely-white audience in a town whose population is 93 percent white, Trump said, “And at the end of four years, I guarantee you that I will get over 95 percent of the African-American vote. I promise you. Because I will produce.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/donald-trump-african-american-vote-227218
https://cdn1.lockerdome.com/uploads/d070b3efa6ab9b92293a0216ac0fc792dd428cadefee07089d4b95bec92181eb_large
Well he won’t win any votes with the African American community when he resorts to pulling stupid shit like this. Can we throw that Tweet up there?
:medium
And yes that’s an actual Trump Tweet. See if we were to make a fake one it would look something like this:
So here’s what happened and it’s a really shitty story, and I have great respect for Dwayne Wade, he’s one of the best in the game right now, and it sucks that this happened. Just another day in gun country:
Donald Trump sought to use the shooting death of basketball player Dwyane Wade's cousin as a political statement on Saturday, a move that drew scorn from some on social media.
On Friday, Nykea Aldridge, 32, was shot and killed while she pushed her baby in a stroller near an elementary school on Chicago's South Side. The baby was not harmed in the shooting.
Trump, after a year of waging a presidential campaign marked by divisive and racially coded rhetoric, has recently sought to appeal to African American voters. The effort, note many political observers, is also an attempt to boost his poll numbers with moderate whites, who in surveys view past rhetoric by Trump to be racist.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-updates-1472317889-htmlstory.html
On Friday, Nykea Aldridge, 32, was shot and killed while she pushed her baby in a stroller near an elementary school on Chicago's South Side. The baby was not harmed in the shooting.
Trump, after a year of waging a presidential campaign marked by divisive and racially coded rhetoric, has recently sought to appeal to African American voters. The effort, note many political observers, is also an attempt to boost his poll numbers with moderate whites, who in surveys view past rhetoric by Trump to be racist.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-updates-1472317889-htmlstory.html
But my favorite part of this is that Don Cheadle – who is awesome in the Avengers movies as Col. James Rhodes, aka War Machine / Iron Patriot. He unloaded at Donald Trump over this:
"Dwayne Wade's cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago," Trump tweeted Saturday morning, misspelling the basketball player's first name. "Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!" . . . .
Actor Don Cheadle and other Trump critics Saturday pounced on the tweet, saying he was seizing on Aldridge's death and Chicago's gun violence for political gain. In a series of tweets — often employing pretty salty language — Cheadle blasted Trump as using the shooting to throw "red meat to his alt-right troglodytes."
"People of Drumpf's ilk are contributors to the conditions that lead to the 'Chicagos' of this country," Cheadle said in one tweet, referring to the surname of Trump's German ancestors.
The election, Cheadle added in another tweet, "is like a Shakespearean farce except it could end in a mushroom cloud."
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/08/27/don-cheadle-unleashes-twitter-storm-donald-trump/89477440/
Actor Don Cheadle and other Trump critics Saturday pounced on the tweet, saying he was seizing on Aldridge's death and Chicago's gun violence for political gain. In a series of tweets — often employing pretty salty language — Cheadle blasted Trump as using the shooting to throw "red meat to his alt-right troglodytes."
"People of Drumpf's ilk are contributors to the conditions that lead to the 'Chicagos' of this country," Cheadle said in one tweet, referring to the surname of Trump's German ancestors.
The election, Cheadle added in another tweet, "is like a Shakespearean farce except it could end in a mushroom cloud."
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/08/27/don-cheadle-unleashes-twitter-storm-donald-trump/89477440/
And in case you were wondering about Donald Trump’s minority outreach program and how that’s working, look no further than my hometown of Anaheim, California, where a group of 100 people (yes, you read that number correctly) calling themselves “Latinos For Trump”. Can we show that photo of the rally?
I particularly like that one guy in the bottom row with the sunglasses and he has his thumbs up. Kind of like he's saying "Hey you know who has two thumbs and is going to vote against his best interests in November? This guy!"
About 100 supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump rallied at Anaheim City Hall on Sunday afternoon, arguing that his support among the Latino community is stronger than has been widely reported.
The rally, organized by Latinos for Trump, was part of an initiative termed Operation Taco Bowl – an apparent reference to a Cinco de Mayo photo of Trump eating a taco bowl with a caption that read, “I love Hispanics.”
Those attending were about half Latino, with most from outside of Orange County. Trump supporters took turns standing beside two mannequin caricatures of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and telling the crowd why they support Trump.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/trump-727278-support-latinos.html
The rally, organized by Latinos for Trump, was part of an initiative termed Operation Taco Bowl – an apparent reference to a Cinco de Mayo photo of Trump eating a taco bowl with a caption that read, “I love Hispanics.”
Those attending were about half Latino, with most from outside of Orange County. Trump supporters took turns standing beside two mannequin caricatures of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and telling the crowd why they support Trump.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/trump-727278-support-latinos.html
That’s real. That happened. Can we show the flyer?
He couldn't even spell my hometown's fucking name correctly!!!
And by the way – I love this – MSNBC has compiled a list of things that are more popular among the African American community than Donald Trump:
[font size="8"]Donald Trump[/font]
Apologies. That thing you do when butt dial 911 while you’re out buying weed from your local dealer. “I’m sorry officer, my phone accidentally dialed 911 by mistake while I was buying weed. I’ll be sure to put a pass code on it so it doesn’t happen again!” Well, Donald Trump doesn’t know the meaning of what an apology is, apparently.
So that happened.
The GOP nominee says Friday's interview of Burns was a "coordinated gang attack." In a statement on Sunday, Trump calls it "one of the most appalling things I have ever seen on television."
On Monday's show, Brzezinski made no mention of the controversy.
Friday's segment was contentious, to say the least. The website Mediaite described the segment this way: "Brzezinski Browbeats Black Pro-Trump Pastor: Is It Racist, Yes or No?"
Related: Trump will address black voters
Burns made the TV news rounds last week supporting Trump's candidacy. In his "Morning Joe" appearance on Friday, Brzezinski asked Burns, when Trump "made the comments he made about the judge saying he was a Mexican, was that racist, or not?"
http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/28/media/donald-trump-morning-joe-mika-brzezinski/
On Monday's show, Brzezinski made no mention of the controversy.
Friday's segment was contentious, to say the least. The website Mediaite described the segment this way: "Brzezinski Browbeats Black Pro-Trump Pastor: Is It Racist, Yes or No?"
Related: Trump will address black voters
Burns made the TV news rounds last week supporting Trump's candidacy. In his "Morning Joe" appearance on Friday, Brzezinski asked Burns, when Trump "made the comments he made about the judge saying he was a Mexican, was that racist, or not?"
http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/28/media/donald-trump-morning-joe-mika-brzezinski/
Or did Donald Trump apologize?
‘Sorry’ really does seem to be the hardest word – especially if you’re Donald Trump.
With the blustery reality show host dominating the Republican presidential polls in spite of – or perhaps, because of – a variety of offensive statements aimed at women and minorities, many have demanded that Trump apologize. The real estate mogul this week even drew the ire of Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes, who said Trump should say he’s sorry for his latest attacks on anchor Megyn Kelly, who grilled Trump on past anti-woman comments at the first GOP debate of the 2016 contest.
Ailes is hardly alone. There have also been calls for Trump to apologize to Sen. John McCain and families of POWs after he questioned the Arizona lawmaker’s Vietnam war record. Then there’s his suggestion that Mexican immigrants are “rapists” and “killers,” and his rant against Kelly in which he implied she had only grilled him because she was menstruating.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/has-donald-trump-ever-apologized
With the blustery reality show host dominating the Republican presidential polls in spite of – or perhaps, because of – a variety of offensive statements aimed at women and minorities, many have demanded that Trump apologize. The real estate mogul this week even drew the ire of Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes, who said Trump should say he’s sorry for his latest attacks on anchor Megyn Kelly, who grilled Trump on past anti-woman comments at the first GOP debate of the 2016 contest.
Ailes is hardly alone. There have also been calls for Trump to apologize to Sen. John McCain and families of POWs after he questioned the Arizona lawmaker’s Vietnam war record. Then there’s his suggestion that Mexican immigrants are “rapists” and “killers,” and his rant against Kelly in which he implied she had only grilled him because she was menstruating.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/has-donald-trump-ever-apologized
Donald Trump showing remorse for something? Puh-lease!!!!!!!!!! I can sense his nose getting longer and longer every single time he speaks.
But getting back to Donald Trump and apologies. If you’ve been following this train wreck of a campaign as much as I have, you should know by now that Donald Trump is the most thin-skinnned person on the planet. I mean how could our possible future president Donald J. Trump not lie about anything?
Donald Trump on Thursday appeared to stash away the bravado he has displayed at his rallies, apologizing for what appears to be the first time for his controversial words on the campaign trail and saying "I will never lie to you."
"Sometimes, in the heat of debate, and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don’t choose the right words or you say the wrong thing. I have done that, and believe it or not I regret it," Trump said.
"I do regret it particularly where it may have caused personal pain.” It was a remarkable departure for the candidate who almost never expresses regret out on the campaign trail, unless in jest.
Trump was not specific about the remarks he says he regretted, but he has made numerous controversial comments and offered falsehoods over the course of his campaign, from calling Mexican immigrants rapists, to insulting a federal judge for his Mexican heritage.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-apologizes-words-campaign-trail-lie/story?id=41496030
"Sometimes, in the heat of debate, and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don’t choose the right words or you say the wrong thing. I have done that, and believe it or not I regret it," Trump said.
"I do regret it particularly where it may have caused personal pain.” It was a remarkable departure for the candidate who almost never expresses regret out on the campaign trail, unless in jest.
Trump was not specific about the remarks he says he regretted, but he has made numerous controversial comments and offered falsehoods over the course of his campaign, from calling Mexican immigrants rapists, to insulting a federal judge for his Mexican heritage.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-apologizes-words-campaign-trail-lie/story?id=41496030
In fact Donald Trump and Ryan Lochte’s forced PR apologies should teach us one thing – don’t listen to PR people and speak from your heart. Oh wait, don’t do that! At least have some input to your PR advisor:
What do Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Olympic gold medallist Ryan Lochte and comedy writer Kurt Metzger have in common?
They wouldn’t know how to say they’re sorry to save their lives, as illustrated this week by their very public non-apologies for equally public bad behavior.
Let’s start with the man who has so much to apologize for, the master of misspeak, Donald J Trump.
At a campaign event Thursday in North Carolina, the brusque businessman made headlines for what may have been the first expression of regret in his political career.
“Sometimes, in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don’t choose the right words or you say the wrong thing,” Trump declared as he read from prepared remarks.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/20/public-apologies-donald-trump-ryan-lochte-kurt-metzger
They wouldn’t know how to say they’re sorry to save their lives, as illustrated this week by their very public non-apologies for equally public bad behavior.
Let’s start with the man who has so much to apologize for, the master of misspeak, Donald J Trump.
At a campaign event Thursday in North Carolina, the brusque businessman made headlines for what may have been the first expression of regret in his political career.
“Sometimes, in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don’t choose the right words or you say the wrong thing,” Trump declared as he read from prepared remarks.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/20/public-apologies-donald-trump-ryan-lochte-kurt-metzger
[font size="8"]Trump V. Kaepernick[/font]
I had a much different entry planned for this one. We were going to talk about the preacher who bought raffle tickets to win an AK47 with the intent of destroying it, but forgot to do a background check - we'll save that one for next week. But we have to talk about the Trump V. Kaepernick controversy that started this week. This is too good to leave off for next week. So here’s how it started during a 49ers practice game:
Which of course did not sit well with 49ers fans, who reacted of course, by lighting $300 jerseys with his name on fire. Like you do:
But that didn’t stop the incident from getting the ire of a certain Donald J. Trump:
Donald Trump sharply criticized San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick on Monday for refusing to stand for the national anthem, telling a radio host it's a "terrible thing."
"Maybe he should find a country that works better for him. Let him try. It won’t happen," said the Republican presidential nominee, who spoke to conservative show host Dori Monson on KIRO radio in Seattle ahead of his Tuesday trip to the region for a fundraiser and rally.
Kaepernick, who has been highly critical of both Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, has drawn national scrutiny for his decision to sit during the national anthem before games as a form of protest against what he sees as injustices across the country, including police treatment of civilians.
"I mean, ultimately it’s to bring awareness and make people realize what’s really going on in this country. There are a lot of things that are going on that are unjust, people aren’t being held accountable for, and that’s something that needs to change," he said Sunday, according to the San Jose Mercury News.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/08/29/trump-slams-colin-kaepernick-maybe-he-should-find-a-country-that-works-better-for-him/
"Maybe he should find a country that works better for him. Let him try. It won’t happen," said the Republican presidential nominee, who spoke to conservative show host Dori Monson on KIRO radio in Seattle ahead of his Tuesday trip to the region for a fundraiser and rally.
Kaepernick, who has been highly critical of both Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, has drawn national scrutiny for his decision to sit during the national anthem before games as a form of protest against what he sees as injustices across the country, including police treatment of civilians.
"I mean, ultimately it’s to bring awareness and make people realize what’s really going on in this country. There are a lot of things that are going on that are unjust, people aren’t being held accountable for, and that’s something that needs to change," he said Sunday, according to the San Jose Mercury News.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/08/29/trump-slams-colin-kaepernick-maybe-he-should-find-a-country-that-works-better-for-him/
Wait wait hold up. Back up!!! Beep! Beep! Beep! So let’s extrapolate this for a minute. Colin Kaepernick, in an act of protest, sits down during the national anthem at a 49ers PRACTICE game. Donald Trump is running on a platform of “making America great again” by trashing Mexico, while wearing hats that are, um, made in China!!! The hypocrisy reeks here folks!
Like Justin Bieber, Donald Trump wears his own merch. And the candidate’s “Make America Great Again” hats — which play into the ongoing dad-cap trend — have become instantly recognizable, inspiring their share of fashion parodies. However, whether or not the American hat-manufacturing industry is included in Trump’s plan for greatness is unclear. The Associated Press submitted Trump’s chapeau to a microscopic analysis and found that the caps are assembled in Los Angeles, but not from the specific, American-made fabric the manufacturer claims. (That doesn’t necessarily mean the fabric used is not American-made — the AP story does mention “how difficult and murky it can be to verify something is actually ‘Made in USA.’” However, multiple sources within the manufacturer did tell the wire service that the fabric and bills were both foreign-made.)
http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/07/donald-trump-hats-might-not-be-made-in-the-usa.html
http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/07/donald-trump-hats-might-not-be-made-in-the-usa.html
But getting back to the Kaepernick situation – this whole scrutiny from Donald Trump has drawn the ire of just about everybody. Even NASCAR driver Tony Stewart weighed in on the deal:
Tony Stewart did his racing legacy no favors yesterday when he picked up his smartphone and Tweeted his way into the Colin Kaepernick National Anthem controversy. The 45-year-old three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion took umbrage with The San Francisco 49ers quarterback sitting down during the National Anthem in a game over the weekend. Kaepernick was protesting police treatment of African-Americans nationwide; Stewart called him an idiot.
"I'm sorry but @Kaepernick7 needs to learn the fact about police before running his dumbass mouth!" Stewart tweeted. "He has no clue what they go thru! #idiot".
The twitterverse backlash was immediate and strident, and went straight for Stewart's jugular: focusing on the 2014 incident at a sprint car race in Canadaigua, NY, in which a fellow sprint car racer Kevin Ward was killed by Stewart's race car. No charges were brought against the Indiana native, though a civil lawsuit brought by the Ward family is ongoing.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/tony-stewarts-twitter-tirade-against-160125062.html
"I'm sorry but @Kaepernick7 needs to learn the fact about police before running his dumbass mouth!" Stewart tweeted. "He has no clue what they go thru! #idiot".
The twitterverse backlash was immediate and strident, and went straight for Stewart's jugular: focusing on the 2014 incident at a sprint car race in Canadaigua, NY, in which a fellow sprint car racer Kevin Ward was killed by Stewart's race car. No charges were brought against the Indiana native, though a civil lawsuit brought by the Ward family is ongoing.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/tony-stewarts-twitter-tirade-against-160125062.html
And I love Kareem Abdul Jabar - mainly because I'm a Lakers fan and grew up with the Dream Team - but also for this:
One sign of the maturation of American society is the willingness of those in the public eye, especially athletes, to openly take a political stand, even if it could harm their careers. The modern era of athletes speaking out began in 1966 with Muhammad Ali refusing to be drafted to fight other people of color. In 1967, I joined with football great Jim Brown, basketball legend Bill Russell, Muhammad Ali and other prominent athletes for what was dubbed “The Cleveland Summit.” Together we tried to find ways to help Ali fight for his right of political expression. I don’t know how much we were able to accomplish on a practical level, but seeing black athletes in support of Ali inspired others to speak out. The following year at the 1968 Olympics, African Americans Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists during the medal ceremony as a protest to the treatment of people of color in the United States. In 2014, NBA players LeBron James, Kyrie Irving, Jarrett Jack, Alan Anderson, Deron Williams and Kevin Garnett and NFL players from the Rams and Browns wore “I Can’t Breathe” shirts during warm-ups for a game to protest police killings of unarmed blacks...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/08/30/insulting-colin-kaepernick-says-more-about-our-patriotism-than-his/?postshare=2111472561231470&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.b6851edee066
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/08/30/insulting-colin-kaepernick-says-more-about-our-patriotism-than-his/?postshare=2111472561231470&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.b6851edee066
[font size="8"]Zika Virus Apocalypse[/font]
So with the 2016 Olympics in the books you would think we’d move onto the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeonchang or the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, you would think that’s the last we would hear about the scary things coming out of Brazil. Well not if you’ve been paying attention to the mainstream media and their coverage of the Zika virus. If you listened to the media in the last week with their never ending coverage of the Zika virus, you would think we’re all going to die tonight.
Oh wait, that was from the Evil Dead remake.
But here’s what you might think if you watched media coverage of the Zika virus. Here’s the definition straight from the CDC:
Zika is spread mostly by the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito (Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus). These mosquitoes are aggressive daytime biters. They can also bite at night.
Zika can be passed from a pregnant woman to her fetus. Infection during pregnancy can cause certain birth defects.
There is no vaccine or medicine for Zika.
The Florida Department of Health has identified an area in one neighborhood of Miami where Zika is being spread by mosquitoes. Learn more.
https://www.cdc.gov/zika/about/index.html
Zika can be passed from a pregnant woman to her fetus. Infection during pregnancy can cause certain birth defects.
There is no vaccine or medicine for Zika.
The Florida Department of Health has identified an area in one neighborhood of Miami where Zika is being spread by mosquitoes. Learn more.
https://www.cdc.gov/zika/about/index.html
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! Well of course Mike Huckabee would joke about it to intimidate Hillary Clinton:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mike-huckabee-zika-virus_us_57abc8f3e4b0ba7ed23f15c9?section=&
Zika virus is no laughing matter ― unless, apparently, you’re Mike Huckabee warming up the crowd at a Donald Trump rally.
The former Arkansas governor and failed Republican presidential candidate mocked concerns over the devastating virus so he could take a potshot at Trump’s Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, during a Wednesday evening rally for Trump in Sunrise, Florida.
“I’m a lot more afraid of a Hillary Clinton presidency than I am of getting a mosquito bite in South Florida,” Huckabee said.
Huckabee’s dismissive attitude toward the virus is not shared by women who are pregnant or may become pregnant. One day earlier, a Texas infant died in the state’s first Zika-related death.
Zika virus is no laughing matter ― unless, apparently, you’re Mike Huckabee warming up the crowd at a Donald Trump rally.
The former Arkansas governor and failed Republican presidential candidate mocked concerns over the devastating virus so he could take a potshot at Trump’s Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, during a Wednesday evening rally for Trump in Sunrise, Florida.
“I’m a lot more afraid of a Hillary Clinton presidency than I am of getting a mosquito bite in South Florida,” Huckabee said.
Huckabee’s dismissive attitude toward the virus is not shared by women who are pregnant or may become pregnant. One day earlier, a Texas infant died in the state’s first Zika-related death.
And here’s how the media took it. Holy shit.
A threat to everyone!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
It will ruin the games!!!
Dude, why are they calling the Olympics unhealthy? Did they not see that one article about the pallets of condoms being trucked into Olympic village? There was probably a lot of boning going on!
Apparently not as big as you’d think.
And my personal favorite:
[font size="8"]Paul LePage[/font]
So I’ll admit that I stole the “People Who Somehow Got Elected” bit from John Oliver. But I love the John Oliver show and I don’t hide it. So here’s the original segment in question:
That was epic. Well, Paul LePage was torn a new asshole this week when he might have unintentionally said something racist. Did I say unintentionally? My bad! Oh yeah he’s a fucking batshit crazy racist bigot all right!
Maine Gov. Paul LePage left an expletive-laced voicemail for a state lawmaker that goaded him to "prove that I'm a racist" after a series of controversial comments once again put the governor in the news.
LePage left the message for Democratic State Rep. Drew Gattine on Thursday, according to the Portland Press Herald, which also posted audio of the voicemail. The uncensored audio message contains several explicit phrases.
CNN requests for comment to Gattine and LePage's office Friday morning were not immediately returned.
The bombastic Republican governor is known for his loose style, which sometimes draws criticism. He is a strong supporter of Donald Trump, and Trump's campaign recently hired his daughter to work on the race in Maine.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/26/politics/paul-lepage-explicit-voicemail-duel-lawmaker/index.html
LePage left the message for Democratic State Rep. Drew Gattine on Thursday, according to the Portland Press Herald, which also posted audio of the voicemail. The uncensored audio message contains several explicit phrases.
CNN requests for comment to Gattine and LePage's office Friday morning were not immediately returned.
The bombastic Republican governor is known for his loose style, which sometimes draws criticism. He is a strong supporter of Donald Trump, and Trump's campaign recently hired his daughter to work on the race in Maine.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/26/politics/paul-lepage-explicit-voicemail-duel-lawmaker/index.html
So cue the forced apology that was written by a well paid public relations advisor (Paul LePage’s would have to be well paid!) in 3… 2… 1…
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage is apologizing to "the people of Maine" for leaving a vulgar voicemail for a Democratic legislator and says he was using a metaphor when he said he wished he could challenge the lawmaker to a duel and point his gun "right between his eyes."
LePage said in a written statement Friday that he takes it "very seriously" when someone calls him a racist and that it made him "enormously angry" when he heard from a reporter that Rep. Drew Gattine, D-Westbrook, had called him one.
LePage says being called a racist is "the absolute worst, most vile thing you can call a person." So he says he referred to Gattine as a vulgar name involving oral sex because it was the "worst word" he could think of.
The governor then held a news conference Friday in Augusta where he again defended himself for leaving the vulgar voicemail on Gattine's phone.
Read more: http://www.sunjournal.com/news/maine/2016/08/26/gov-paul-lepage-apologizes-obscene-language-voicemail/1983074
LePage said in a written statement Friday that he takes it "very seriously" when someone calls him a racist and that it made him "enormously angry" when he heard from a reporter that Rep. Drew Gattine, D-Westbrook, had called him one.
LePage says being called a racist is "the absolute worst, most vile thing you can call a person." So he says he referred to Gattine as a vulgar name involving oral sex because it was the "worst word" he could think of.
The governor then held a news conference Friday in Augusta where he again defended himself for leaving the vulgar voicemail on Gattine's phone.
Read more: http://www.sunjournal.com/news/maine/2016/08/26/gov-paul-lepage-apologizes-obscene-language-voicemail/1983074
And in case you were wondering there is tape of this. Can we roll that please?
NORTH BERWICK — Maine Gov. Paul LePage is in hot water once again for comments about drug dealers arrested in the state, saying photos he's collected show more than 90 percent of them are black or Hispanic.
The comment came after one man in the audience accused the governor of creating a "toxic" environment for racists in the state.
The governor took a lot of questions from residents at Wednesday night's town hall, but maybe the one that struck a chord the most with the governor was one from a resident who questioned his political correctness on recent racial comments.
"The fact of the matter is sir I am not a racist and I don't promote it," LePage said.
Read more: http://www.sunjournal.com/news/maine/2016/08/25/gov-paul-lepage-says-most-drug-dealers-are-black-or-hispanic/1982219
The comment came after one man in the audience accused the governor of creating a "toxic" environment for racists in the state.
The governor took a lot of questions from residents at Wednesday night's town hall, but maybe the one that struck a chord the most with the governor was one from a resident who questioned his political correctness on recent racial comments.
"The fact of the matter is sir I am not a racist and I don't promote it," LePage said.
Read more: http://www.sunjournal.com/news/maine/2016/08/25/gov-paul-lepage-says-most-drug-dealers-are-black-or-hispanic/1982219
So my question to the Top 10 audience – why are these assholes, liars, racists and morons not held to the same standards they hold our democratic leadership to? The hypocrisy once again reeks! Oh, and in case you were wondering how possible future president Donald J. Trump is involved, I give you:
Donald Trump trusts his own children to help run his business empire, so maybe it shouldn’t be surprising that he decided to hire Maine Governor Paul LePage’s daughter to help his campaign win the Pine Tree State.
The Maine Republican Party announced that Lauren LePage will serve as the Trump campaign’s coalitions director. This is not her first job in politics. The third-year University of Maine law student also headed up a political non-profit and worked for her father. The campaign also announced a deputy state director, meaning the campaign now has three staffers in the state. Lauren isn’t the only LePage to get an interesting job this summer. The first lady is working as a waitress in Boothbay Harbor.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2016/08/24/trump-hires-lepage-daughter-maine/bq1YKxWsNDae0lFuREQkLN/story.html
The Maine Republican Party announced that Lauren LePage will serve as the Trump campaign’s coalitions director. This is not her first job in politics. The third-year University of Maine law student also headed up a political non-profit and worked for her father. The campaign also announced a deputy state director, meaning the campaign now has three staffers in the state. Lauren isn’t the only LePage to get an interesting job this summer. The first lady is working as a waitress in Boothbay Harbor.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2016/08/24/trump-hires-lepage-daughter-maine/bq1YKxWsNDae0lFuREQkLN/story.html
Although some good news - and this is late breaking:
Maine Governor Paul LePage says he’s considering resigning following a rash of incendiary and odd outbursts, including calling a state legislator a “socialist” and a “cocksucker” in a voicemail message.
“I’m looking at all options,” the twice-elected Republican governor said while appearing on WVOM, a radio station in Bangor. “I think some things I’ve been asked to do are beyond my ability. I’m not going to say that I’m not going to finish it. I’m not saying that I am going to finish it.”
He later said, “If I’ve lost my ability to help Maine people, maybe it’s time to move on.”
LePage canceled a town hall Tuesday in Westbrook, the hometown of that state legislator, Drew Gattine, and is meeting with Republican legislators Tuesday night, fueling speculation that a resignation could come soon.
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/lepage-considering-resigning-494592
You can't call someone a cocksucker and expect to get away with it. That's a pretty strong word.
[font size="8"]Alex Jones[/font]
Well we here at the Top 10 hate to admit it, but it’s finally time that Alex Jones, well, may have lost his shit. And that’s saying a lot. I mean remember this is the man who said that Obama was going to start killing every SCOTUS justice when Antonin Scalia died (see Idiots #16 )! Or how about the time he said Beyonce's new album was part of a CIA conspiracy to get people to rebel against police to install martial law (see Idiots #25 )? Or how about when he calls nearly every single mass shooting a "false flag attack" (see Idiots #4 and Idiots #31). Or when he thought Michelle Obama was a transgendered woman and her daughters weren't hers (see Idiots #28)? I could do this all day. Well now there’s a thing called the Alt-Right movement and at the forefront of this movement are whackadoodle conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones and “men’s rights activists (MRA)s” like Milo Yiannopoulis. Well, that didn’t stop Hillary Clinton from calling these nutjobs out. Can we roll tape on that?
And here’s what drew Mrs. Clinton’s attention:
Yeah that stunt with the pickle was staged!!! It was a liberal media conspiracy to keep Donald Trump from getting elected!
President Obama used “tiny helicopters and airplanes” to guide a super-tornado toward a small Oklahoma town in order to distract from yet another alleged “gun grab,” I thought we’d reached Peak Jones. I thought we’d finally witnessed the most ludicrous conspiracy theory since the one about shape-shifting lizard people from outer space infiltrating every level of our government.
But somehow Jones managed to top it, while also completely embarrassing himself. Finally.
For several years now, Jones has led the effort to diagnose Hillary Clinton’s physical health, theorizing that the Democratic nominee is suffering from a not insignificant brain injury, which, by the way, she’s failed to disclose and ought to immediately. Naturally, the real-life springboard for the theory emerged from a December 2012 story about Hillary suffering a concussion when she collapsed from apparent dehydration.
http://www.salon.com/2016/08/29/pickle-jar-truthers-alex-jones-latest-hillary-health-conspiracy-is-extra-twisted/
But somehow Jones managed to top it, while also completely embarrassing himself. Finally.
For several years now, Jones has led the effort to diagnose Hillary Clinton’s physical health, theorizing that the Democratic nominee is suffering from a not insignificant brain injury, which, by the way, she’s failed to disclose and ought to immediately. Naturally, the real-life springboard for the theory emerged from a December 2012 story about Hillary suffering a concussion when she collapsed from apparent dehydration.
http://www.salon.com/2016/08/29/pickle-jar-truthers-alex-jones-latest-hillary-health-conspiracy-is-extra-twisted/
And then there’s this:
Conservative conspiracy-monger Alex Jones said Hillary Clinton “looks like a dying woman” on his radio program Sunday, going on to describe Clinton as looking like “a three year old with a lobotomy,” as Media Matters previously reported.
“They’re saying Trump’s got mental problems, they’re saying he’s got health problems,” Jones said. “They’re saying his wife’s a prostitute, an illegal alien, all this crap. The point is, Hillary looks like a dying woman.”
“She looks like she’s in bad shape,” he continued. “She’s got holes in her tongue, she looks like she’s got, I’m sorry, Down syndrome whenever she’s out there with the balloons falling, like she’s a three-year old with a lobotomy.”
http://www.salon.com/2016/08/08/conspiracy-nut-alex-jones-hillary-clinton-looks-like-she-has-down-syndrome-and-a-lobotomy/
“They’re saying Trump’s got mental problems, they’re saying he’s got health problems,” Jones said. “They’re saying his wife’s a prostitute, an illegal alien, all this crap. The point is, Hillary looks like a dying woman.”
“She looks like she’s in bad shape,” he continued. “She’s got holes in her tongue, she looks like she’s got, I’m sorry, Down syndrome whenever she’s out there with the balloons falling, like she’s a three-year old with a lobotomy.”
http://www.salon.com/2016/08/08/conspiracy-nut-alex-jones-hillary-clinton-looks-like-she-has-down-syndrome-and-a-lobotomy/
You know I’m done beyond trying to comprehend the “logic” or lack thereof coming from Mr. Jones. He’s just too batshit crazy for words. Well you saw the video of how Hillary responded. Now here’s how Alex Jones responded. Can we roll tape on that?
And:
Even my second favorite late night host – Jimmy Kimmel – poked some fun at Alex Jones:
Which caused Alex Jones to of course lose his collective shit:
Late night host Jimmy Kimmel apparently hit a nerve. On his ABC show Thursday night, Kimmel mocked conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for being a pickle jar truther.
“Jimmy Kimmel makes fun of me, how my head’s in the cloud, in cloud cuckooland,” Jones said on his InfoWars show Saturday.
Kimmel had jokingly asked former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to open a jar of pickles to prove she was physically fit enough to be president. In response, Alex Jones dedicated more than 7 minutes of his show on Tuesday to “proving” that the jar was already openned. Kimmel fired back on his own show, mocking the alleged “pickle can-spiracy.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/alex-jones-bounces-around-in-a-spasm-of-rage-after-jimmy-kimmel-mocks-his-clinton-pickle-trutherism/
“Jimmy Kimmel makes fun of me, how my head’s in the cloud, in cloud cuckooland,” Jones said on his InfoWars show Saturday.
Kimmel had jokingly asked former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to open a jar of pickles to prove she was physically fit enough to be president. In response, Alex Jones dedicated more than 7 minutes of his show on Tuesday to “proving” that the jar was already openned. Kimmel fired back on his own show, mocking the alleged “pickle can-spiracy.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/alex-jones-bounces-around-in-a-spasm-of-rage-after-jimmy-kimmel-mocks-his-clinton-pickle-trutherism/
Oh and the direct result of this? Infowars’ site got hacked:
Thousands of user accounts at the conservative site InfoWars have been hacked.
According to Motherboard, the Alex Jones-founded site gives paying subscribers access to extra stories, media and information. The accounts for those paid subscribers were hacked and the email addresses, usernames and their passwords are being offered on the digital underground.
An administrator at Databases.Land gave a copy of over 50,000 unique records to prove the hack was real and Vigilante.PW also lists a data dump of the InfoWars information.
https://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/alex-jones-infowars-site-hacked-50000-plus-users-info-now-available-in-digital-underground/
According to Motherboard, the Alex Jones-founded site gives paying subscribers access to extra stories, media and information. The accounts for those paid subscribers were hacked and the email addresses, usernames and their passwords are being offered on the digital underground.
An administrator at Databases.Land gave a copy of over 50,000 unique records to prove the hack was real and Vigilante.PW also lists a data dump of the InfoWars information.
https://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/alex-jones-infowars-site-hacked-50000-plus-users-info-now-available-in-digital-underground/
[font size="8"]Ms. Lohan Goes To Russia[/font]
So I love it when celebrities like Lindsay Lohan channel their inner diva. I love that shit. That’s the only reason why I watch entertainment news! I don’t give a fuck what restaurant Kim Kardashian and Kanye West went to last night. No!!! I want to see singers demanding only one type of drink served, incense burning 24/7, white rose pedals on the bed sheets that smell like only one kind of perfume! I want to see white rose pedals blowing out the air conditioner vents. How about a private Rolls Royce with a personal chauffeur for your dog! Or how about solid gold toothpaste dispensers? I want to see a personal toilet flusher! Have Kenny Loggins blaring through the loudspeakers 24/7! And only the easy listening Kenny Loggins. No Danger Zone. Sorry, Archer. Give me that kind of shit and I’m suddenly very interested! If you’re going to go full diva, go full diva! Like Cher actually demanded that each tour stop include a separate wig room:
She has sold over 200 million albums worldwide and has an Emmy, a Grammy and an Academy Award – so we can forgive Cher for a little diva behaviour. A woman of many hairstyles, it seems only reasonable for her to request a separate wig room to house the multitude of hair pieces she planned to don during her Living Proof: The Farewell Tour from 2002 to 2005. She must have been feeling emotional about her last planned tour as she also made a special request for aloe vera tissues – but only if they were presented in cube-shaped boxes.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/11231787/The-most-outrageous-celebrity-diva-demands.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/11231787/The-most-outrageous-celebrity-diva-demands.html
Or Sarah Palin demanded bendy straws! Bendy straws!!!!
When Pink Floyd sang, in Money, "I'm in the hi-fidelity first class travelling set, and I think I need a Learjet," they were thinking of themselves and their fellow rock stars. They were certainly not thinking of future ex-governors of Alaska. Yet Sarah Palin's leaked demands (including three deluxe hotel rooms, a private aircraft that "must be a Lear 60 or larger", and a "bendable" straw) have made her not only the envy of our former expense-claiming MPs, for whom a simple moat is now an unattainable dream, but also the peer of many rock stars.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/sarah-palin/7594844/Sarah-Palins-flexible-straw-demand-makes-her-a-classic-diva.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/sarah-palin/7594844/Sarah-Palins-flexible-straw-demand-makes-her-a-classic-diva.html
I hear Sarah Palin also demands Big Gulps:
But that leads us into Lindsay Lohan this week. I fucking love this story. So as you may or may not be aware, Lindsay is dating a guy named Egor Tarabasov, who, happens to be, I don’t know, a 22 year old Russian billionaire heir. Who proposed to her like not even 7 months after they started dating. Does he not pay attention to the news? Does he not know the trainwreck that is Ms. Lohan?
They've been dating for seven short months and the world has heard little, if anything, about Lindsay Lohan's romance with Egor Tarabasov, until now.
But no-one was more surprised about last week's engagement than Lindsay herself, it seems, as friends claim 'she didn't see it coming'.
Source close to the star told The New York Post newspaper's Page Six column the 29-year-old actress was taken by surprise when the Russian businessman popped the question last weekend.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3541742/Lindsay-Lohan-shocked-Russian-heir-Egor-Tarabasov-s-proposal-dating-seven-months.html
But no-one was more surprised about last week's engagement than Lindsay herself, it seems, as friends claim 'she didn't see it coming'.
Source close to the star told The New York Post newspaper's Page Six column the 29-year-old actress was taken by surprise when the Russian businessman popped the question last weekend.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3541742/Lindsay-Lohan-shocked-Russian-heir-Egor-Tarabasov-s-proposal-dating-seven-months.html
Dude, there’s still time! Get out now while you can!!! So he asks her to come to Russia. Sounds innocent enough right?
Lindsay Lohan has reportedly been approached by a popular Russian talk show about dropping in for a chat. The only problem, according to the Hollywood Reporter, is that the network has deemed Lohan's alleged list of demands "unreasonable." The show, Let Them Talk, is hosted by popular Russian TV personality Andrey Malakhov.
A copy of Lohan's alleged contract proposal published by Life.ru and obtained by THR reportedly demands a "one-off $860,000 fee" for Lohan's appearance. Additionally, the contract purportedly sent to Channel One requests "full and effective security" for her Moscow visit, a "fully paid suite" at the local Ritz Carlton, and a moratorium on follow-up interviews with several people. Egor Tarabasov, Lohan's former partner, is reportedly listed as someone with whom the network is barred from carrying out "any form of interview" within a year of taping Lohan's appearance.
http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2016/08/lindsay-lohan-demands-860000-putin-meeting-russian-talk-show-appearance
A copy of Lohan's alleged contract proposal published by Life.ru and obtained by THR reportedly demands a "one-off $860,000 fee" for Lohan's appearance. Additionally, the contract purportedly sent to Channel One requests "full and effective security" for her Moscow visit, a "fully paid suite" at the local Ritz Carlton, and a moratorium on follow-up interviews with several people. Egor Tarabasov, Lohan's former partner, is reportedly listed as someone with whom the network is barred from carrying out "any form of interview" within a year of taping Lohan's appearance.
http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2016/08/lindsay-lohan-demands-860000-putin-meeting-russian-talk-show-appearance
Man I wish I got paid $860,000 to go to Russia. But why demand a stay at the Ritz Carlton? If you’re going to demand that kind of money why stay where the peasants stay? Well there’s this:
Lindsay Lohan is trying to be a tougher negotiator against Russia than either Clinton or Trump could ever be ... because she's demanding a queen's ransom for an interview on Ruski TV.
We've learned Lindsay was offered to appear on the most popular talk show in Russia -- "Pust govoryat." The show airs on Channel 1, a state-owned station.
The host wants to interview her about her relationship and breakup with ex-fiance Egor Tarabasov. Our Russian spies got us a copy of Channel 1's letter to Lindsay, in which they say, "Please send the list of demands."
http://www.tmz.com/2016/08/21/lindsay-lohan-russian-tv-interview-vladimir-putin/
We've learned Lindsay was offered to appear on the most popular talk show in Russia -- "Pust govoryat." The show airs on Channel 1, a state-owned station.
The host wants to interview her about her relationship and breakup with ex-fiance Egor Tarabasov. Our Russian spies got us a copy of Channel 1's letter to Lindsay, in which they say, "Please send the list of demands."
http://www.tmz.com/2016/08/21/lindsay-lohan-russian-tv-interview-vladimir-putin/
You want to know what those demands are?
Lindsay sent her demands alright ...
-- a private jet
-- security
-- 1 year Russian visa with extension
-- 500,000 British pounds
-- hair, makeup and manicurist onboard jet
-- Ritz-Carlton penthouse suite
-- a private jet
-- security
-- 1 year Russian visa with extension
-- 500,000 British pounds
-- hair, makeup and manicurist onboard jet
-- Ritz-Carlton penthouse suite
A private jet and half a million British pounds, people! Who is she, Dr. Evil?
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[font size="8"]Primus Covers “Pure Imagination”:[/font]
You’re welcome.
See you next week!
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