Raw Story: Media
- ‘The money is what’s important’: Ex-GOP official explains the real scandal in the Stormy Daniels story
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 01:33 PMFormer ethics attorney to President George W. Bush Richard Painter said that the salacious details about President Donald Trump’s affair with adult performer Stormy Daniels aren’t the important issue, but rather the money that was paid to keep her silent.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- ‘This is real people’s lives’: The View erupts in tears during interview with deported Michigan man and his family
Thursday - 01/18/2018 - 12:44 PMOn Thursday, ABC’s “The View” welcomed José Garcia — the Michigan man deported to Mexico this week — and his family. Co-host Sunny Hostin asked the family how they felt in the months leading up to the day José was repatriated to Mexico — a place he hasn’t li...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - GOP senator: Congressional dysfunction is ‘why the aliens won’t talk to us’
Wednesday - 01/17/2018 - 03:03 PMLouisiana Sen. John Kennedy said on Wednesday that Congressional dysfunction is so bad at this point that it’s keeping extra-terrestrials from contacting us. “We’ve got to stop looking like the Jerry Springer show up here,” Sen.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- White House staffers scream at CNN’s Jim Acosta after Trump points at him and says ‘out’
Tuesday - 01/16/2018 - 02:19 PMSpeaking with CNN host Wolf Blitzer, White House correspondent Jim Acosta said President Donald Trump wanted no part in answering questions before he held a photo op with Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev and White House staffers shouted him down after Trump singled him out.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- ‘Stop politicizing MLK Day’: Fox News runs article blasting racism protests as too ‘political’ for King Day
Monday - 01/15/2018 - 12:18 PMA Fox News op-ed published this week argued that Martin Luther King Jr. Day is the wrong time for NFL players to protest systemic racism by taking a knee during the national anthem.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Trump voters tell CNN ‘sh*thole’ remarks went too far: ‘It shows a lack of morals’
Sunday - 01/14/2018 - 08:07 PMSome of President Donald Trump’s supporters feel that his comments about Haiti and nations in Africa crossed a line. CNN’s Gary Tuchman traveled to Anniston, AL in rural Calhoun County to ask voters how they feel about Trump’s remarks, which conservative commentators have revealed ...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WATCH: UK lawmaker calls ‘dangerous racist’ Trump an ‘asteroid of awfulness’
Sunday - 01/14/2018 - 07:20 PMA British minister of Parliament, Emily Thornberry (L) said that President Donald Trump is a racist, a danger to the world and has shown himself to be “an asteroid of awfulness.” She was appearing on “The Andrew Marr Show,” when she said, “He is an asteroid of awfulness...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘I won’t be the next George Tiller’: Writer Eichenwald rips Fox host over ‘slanderous’ report leading to death threats
Sunday - 01/14/2018 - 02:41 PMIn a series of tweets on Sunday afternoon, author and MSNBC contributor Kurt Eichenwald tore into Fox News personality Jesse Watters for running a “slanderous” report on him that is leading to death threats against the journalist and his family.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Trump’s only ‘genius’ is his making himself the center of attention: ‘He didn’t hit the brains lottery’
Saturday - 01/13/2018 - 08:52 PMPresident Donald Trump is a lifelong one-trick pony who is glaringly out-of-his depth, say former colleagues and supporters in a Washington Post column published Saturday night by Marc Fisher. Trump freely and openly calls himself a “genius,” as he did last week in his now-notorious R...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Adult actress Jessica Drake is being silenced by Trump nondisclosure agreement: report
Saturday - 01/13/2018 - 06:54 PMJessica Drake — one of the more than 20 women who accuse President Donald Trump of sexually harassing, groping, forcibly kissing or inappropriately touching them — is being prevented from speaking out by a nondisclosure agreement, said The Daily Beast on Saturday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Trump is livid that John Kelly called him ‘uninformed’ and talked about him like a child: report
Thursday - 01/18/2018 - 01:38 PMThe Washington Post said on Thursday that President Donald Trump is furious with White House chief of staff John Kelly over comments that Kelly made to Hispanic lawmakers at an immigration policy meeting.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Here are the Trump team’s ancestors who would be deported under White House immigration crackdown
Thursday - 01/18/2018 - 10:51 AMOn Thursday, Politico‘s Jennifer Mendelsohn wrote that many of President Donald Trump’s staunchest anti-immigrant allies are descended from immigrants who would not have been eligible to remain in the U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Calling Trump a racist ‘is the new McCarthyism’ — according to ‘the worst editorial you’ll read in 2018’
Tuesday - 01/16/2018 - 03:30 PMA Pittsburg newspaper owned by right-wing billionaire James Cox Kennedy is being blasted for “the worst editorial you’ll read in 2018” after attempting to silence critics of President Donald Trump’s racism.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Watch: Ashleigh Banfield slams Aziz Ansari accuser
Tuesday - 01/16/2018 - 06:13 AMWatch: Ashleigh Banfield Slams Aziz Ansari Accuser As the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements continue to sweep Hollywood, resistance to the wave of accusations threatening to end the careers of actors, producers and executives is predictably on the rise.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Arizona’s Flake doubles down: Trump’s using anti-media tactics the Soviets rejected as too extreme
Sunday - 01/14/2018 - 10:26 PMSen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) said on Sunday that President Donald Trump’s attacks on the media are directly comparable to the anti-media tactics of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and were even disavowed by former Russian dictator Nikita Khruschev.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- ‘You have a problem’: CNN historian says Trump can only blame himself for ‘explosive’ racism debate
Sunday - 01/14/2018 - 08:52 PMPresidential historian and CNN political analyst Julian Zelizer said on Sunday that President Donald Trump’s long series of racially charged statements have left him on the back foot with critics and shows just how degraded his White House’s messaging has become.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- ‘This isn’t Africa’: Racist texts about ‘commoner’ Meghan Markle spark uproar in Britain’s Tea Party
Sunday - 01/14/2018 - 05:38 PMA woman romantically linked to the far-right UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Henry Bolton was suspended from the party after offensive text messages she wrote about Prince Harry’s fiancee, American actor Meghan Markle, were published on the Mail on Sunday....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - SNL legend Bill Murray as Steve Bannon is the cherry on the cake of this week’s amazing opening sketch
Sunday - 01/14/2018 - 12:01 AM“Saturday Night Live” legend Bill Murray returned to the show this week to play ousted White House chief strategist Steve Bannon but there was so much to love in this week’s opener, including alum comedian Fred Armisen of “Portlandia” as Fire and Fury author Michael Wol...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Male models and former staff accuse legendary photographers Mario Testino and Bruce Weber of sex harassment
Saturday - 01/13/2018 - 08:15 PMVeteran photographer Mario Testino — a global icon in celebrity and fashion photography — was accused of sexual harassment by 13 people Saturday. Fashion photographer Bruce Weber — already sued …...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Horrifying video shows brutal attack on black woman by Pittsburgh pizzeria manager
Saturday - 01/13/2018 - 07:15 PMOn Friday night, a Pittsburgh woman was brutally attacked by a restaurant manager for refusing to leave the premises of Milano Pizza. Video posted on Facebook showed Jade Martin and a man identified as the Milano’s manager locked in disagreement.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Nicolle Wallace: Trump shows ‘childlike’ loyalty to ‘anybody who calls him smart and handsome’
Thursday - 01/18/2018 - 06:33 PMOn Thursday, MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace questioned whether John Kelly stays in the White House to protect President Donald Trump from himself. Pointing to remarks by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Wallace said, “Maybe he’s trying to protect the president from himself and what Lindsey Gra...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘Someone’s trying to hide something’: Ex-Watergate prosecutor explains why White House is trying to muzzle Bannon
Wednesday - 01/17/2018 - 04:03 PMFormer Watergate prosecutor and MSNBC commentator Nick Ackerman told Ali Velshi on Wednesday that the White House would not be behaving the way it currently is unless it was hiding something.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- The View rips Trump’s clueless DHS Secretary: ‘Does she know that people in China are Asian?’
Wednesday - 01/17/2018 - 12:15 PMOn Wednesday, “The View” panel laughed at Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen’s halting, flat-footed performance before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. When Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) questioned Nielsen about her remarks defending President Donald Trump ...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump makes watching the news embarrassing with kids
Tuesday - 01/16/2018 - 06:25 AMTrump Makes Watching the News Embarrassing With Kids Senator Lindsey Graham has struck out at President Donald Trump over his alleged remarks describing several nations as “shithole countries.” Graham, the senior senator for South Carolina, told ABC news it had become embarrassing that parents now h...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘His head exploded’: Michael Wolff laughs over Trump’s attempt to stop ‘Fire and Fury’ publication
Sunday - 01/14/2018 - 11:31 PMAuthor Michael Wolff laughed to The Guardian about President Donald Trump’s last-ditch effort to stop the publication of his book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, saying that Trump “shoots himself in the foot at every opportunity.” “On the eve of publication, Wolf...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Former FBI investigator: ‘I think Kushner is criminally exposed’ on Russia and money laundering
Sunday - 01/14/2018 - 06:43 PMFrank Figliuzzi — former Assistant Director for Counterintelligence at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) — said on Sunday that he thinks President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner potentially faces criminal charges completely separate from those having to do with Rus...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WATCH: MSNBC pundit admits he went to bed too early to see himself parodied on ‘SNL’
Sunday - 01/14/2018 - 05:25 PMPrinceton University chairman of African American studies Eddie Glaude was put on the spot Sunday when MSNBC anchor Yasmin Vossoughian asked him how he felt seeing himself portrayed in “Saturday Night Live’s” opening sketch this week.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Police investigating viral video of New York cop car doing doughnuts in parking lot
Saturday - 01/13/2018 - 11:12 PMAn officer from the Yonkers Police Department (YPD) is expected to face disciplinary action after a video that depicted him using a squad car to do doughnuts in an empty parking lot went viral.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Van Jones lambastes Trump’s latest self-made crisis: This is ‘Kabuki theater at the circus’
Saturday - 01/13/2018 - 09:50 PMCNN political analyst Van Jones went off on Saturday at President Donald Trump’s political quandary over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Act. Ryan Williams — former spokesman for 2012 Republican presidential candidate Gov.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- ‘YOU DID THIS’: Actress Jamie Lee Curtis blames Trump’s ‘unstable idiocy’ for Hawaii missile scare
Saturday - 01/13/2018 - 05:01 PMActress Jamie Lee Curtis placed blame for the missile attack false alarm that terrified Hawaii on Saturday squarely at the feet of President Donald Trump. Mediaite.com said that the “Halloween” and “A Fish Called Wanda” star blistered Trump for letting relations between the U...
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