2016 Election

Busted! Via Mediaite: Republican presidential Donald Trump‘s newest ad purports to show thousands of illegal immigrants streaming across the Mexican border. But evidence has emerged proving the event in the ad actually took place an entire ocean away. Fact-checking website Politifact wasted no time in examining the first television ad from their 2015 Lie of the Year winner. They found …

During the 2012 election, Donald Trump several times tweeted out praise for his “good friend” who was then raising money for Mitt Romney. But today this happened: Donald Trump on Monday taunted New York Jets owner Woody Johnson, a supporter of rival Jeb Bush, after his NFL team’s season-ending loss the previous day. The tweet from Trump, a vocal backer …

In a meeting with the editorial board of a New Hampshire newspaper, Hillary Clinton yesterday promised to investigate whether the federal government has covered up visits by alien civilizations. We’re pretty sure she was joking. The Conway Daily Sun writes: During the meeting, the former first lady, former senator from New York and secretary of state answered serious questions about …

At a Massachusetts rally on Saturday, Bernie Sanders was confronted by a front-row pro-Trump heckler who was waving a sign that read “Obama is as Cristain as Bruce Jenner is a woman.” Yes, the sign said “Cristain.” Watch how Sanders handled him below.

Rick Santorum today issued a campaign ad which brutally mocks Ted Cruz for reading Green Eggs & Ham during his failed Senate filibuster. Via Politico: Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is taking the gloves off against Ted Cruz in a new video touting his achievements in the Senate and hitting the Texas senator for his apparent penchant for reading children’s …

Jezebel reports: Donald Trump, the ochre villain in a Veggie Tales cartoon, appeared on your television Monday morning to express his continuing concern about Bill Clinton’s penis. He called the former president “seedy” and “one of the great woman abusers of all time,” adding that Hillary Clinton is his “enabler.” Trump also took time to again accuse Hillary Clinton of …

Donald Trump launched his first television ad this morning. Via The Hill: “The politicians can pretend it’s something else, but Donald Trump calls it radical Islamic terrorism,” a narrator says over images of the San Bernardino, Calif., shooters. “That’s why he’s calling for a temporary shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until we can figure out what’s going on.” …

Typical. And the crowd goes wild. CNN reports: Donald Trump on Saturday said the policies of President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “created ISIS,” the furthest the GOP front-runner has gone in tying the Obama administration’s policies to the rise of the terror group. Trump offered no evidence for his claim here at the Mississippi Coast …

After ignoring the Trump terrorism video for more than a day, Breitbart has finally responded exactly as we’d expect them to. They write: Let’s think about what that says about the former Secretary of State of the United States. Did she plant the idea in the minds of the brutal terrorist group? Or maybe these are the lovely “rebels against …

Here’s a fascinating look at Donald Trump’s speech patterns and his “huckster’s knack” for selling himself. Over 300,000 views in just two days. Watch below.

CNN reports: An al Qaeda affiliate has apparently released a new recruitment video, telling Muslims in America that the country has a long history of racism and discrimination and will turn on its Muslim community. The video purportedly by Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab uses historic civil rights era footage of firebrand Malcolm X and audio of 2016 presidential candidate Donald …

Canadian immigrant Ted Cruz last night appeared on Fox News to celebrate the final year of Obama’s presidency and Hillary Clinton’s coming “permanent retirement.” Right. Cruz then launched into a lame joke about a Marine repeatedly asking for Obama at the gates of the White House. Watch below.

Several skywriting planes are laying down anti-Trump messages over the Rose Bowl Parade today in Pasadena, California. Among the messages: “Trump Is A Fascist Dictator” and “Trump Loves To Hate Anybody.” Also: “Iowans Dump Trump” and “America Is Great, Trump Is Disgusting.” The messages appear to be from the people behind the website AnybodyButTrump.us. A very short clip is below.

Via the Washington Post: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) told volunteers Thursday he believes the Republican presidential contest will be decided in the next 90 days, but warned them to get ready for a nasty ride. “I want to tell everyone to get ready, strap on the full armor of God, get ready for the attacks that are coming,” a hoarse-sounding …

Via Talking Points Memo: Two top aides to Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson resigned from the campaign and predicted a wave of departures to come Thursday, casting the troubled campaign into uncertainty with just a month until the Iowa caucuses. Campaign manager Barry Bennett and communications director Doug Watts resigned over conflict with Armstrong Williams, a Carson adviser the campaign …

Waving a bible at an Iowa rally, last night Donald Trump thought he’d remind voters that Ted Cruz is Cuban. Trump: “In all fairness, to the best of my knowledge, not too many evangelicals come out of Cuba, OK? Just remember that, OK? Just remember. When you’re casting your ballot, remember.” Watch below.

Via Business Insider: During a Wednesday campaign speech, real-estate mogul Donald Trump launched into a one-minute complaint about environmentalists and hairspray. Trump first mocked US President Barack Obama for prioritizing climate-change policies despite flying around the planet in “an old Boeing 747, with the old engines and spewing stuff.” “So he’s got a problem with the carbon footprint!” Trump exclaimed. …

Daily Beast columnist Michael Tomasky today posits that the Trump juggernaut can in part be credited to closeted blogger Matt Drudge and his 700 million monthly site hits. Tomasky writes: What they’ve been getting for the last six months is a steady stream of pro-Trump agitprop. Drudge’s own weird, quasi-libertarian, crypto-racialist-populist political views have found their perfect echo in Trump’s …

After more than 500,000 signed a petition calling for Donald Trump to be banned from entering the UK, Parliament is now bound to debate such a move. Today the Cameron administration issued a statement which hints at supporting Trump’s banning. Via the Guardian: The government has responded to a petition calling for Donald Trump to be banned from coming to …

Cue up the poutrage machine, Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes has endorsed Hillary Clinton. Fellowes, a Tory member of the House Of Lords, admits that most might expect him to side with the Republicans, but says, “Hillary Clinton seems a more convincing world politician.” He adds: “She has a grasp of the political language, while some of the others seem …