Tag Archives: assholery

Gothamist reports: Mahsa Mehrdad and Masih Rahmati, an Iranian couple residing in NYC, were riding the subway through Manhattan on Saturday night when a man threatened to kill them and told them to “go back to your own country.” In a video of the incident, the man can be heard declaring that “Donald Trump is in the house,” before telling …

Media Matters has the transcript of Bill O’Reilly’s racist assholery on Fox & Friends this morning: BILL O’REILLY: I didn’t hear a word [Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)] said. I was looking at the James Brown wig. If we have a picture of James, it’s the same wig. STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): It’s the same one. BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): And he’s not …

Talking Points Memo reports: President Donald Trump tweeted Saturday for the first time about the Republicans’ failure to bring their health care bill up for a vote in the House, telling Americans not to worry but that Obamacare would “explode.” The tweet echoes what Trump has said about the Affordable Care Act in the past, often remarking in the process …

Florida, because of course. CNN reports: At least 10 homes in Nassau County, Florida, were destroyed in a wildfire caused by a man who was burning books Wednesday. Only a few minor injuries to emergency personnel have been reported in what’s being called the Garfield Road Fire, according to the Florida Forest Service. But it has burned an estimated 350 …

TMZ Sports reports: Sarah Palin ain’t impressed with Colin Kaepernick’s $50,000 donation to Meals on Wheels, labeling the move as a cheap “political stunt.” The former Alaska governor just put her seal of approval on an anti-Kaep article posted on her website, SarahPalin.com titled, “SERIOUSLY? Colin Kaepernick Just Pulled ANOTHER Political Stunt.” The article, written by Mary Kate Knorr, essentially …

From the Washington Examiner: Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee applauded President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, for holding his own against an intense grilling by Senate Democrats during his confirmation Tuesday. “Breaking News! Jimmy Dean Sausage Co will be renamed GORSUCH SAUSAGE because he’s grinding up some Democrat Senators into PURE PORK SAUSAGE!” Huckabee tweeted Tuesday as …

CNN reports: Last year, after ending one of his many spirited on-air arguments with liberal contributor Juan Williams, Hannity pulled out a gun and pointed it directly at Williams, according to three sources with knowledge of the incident. He even turned on the laser sight, causing a red dot to bob around on Williams’ body. (Hannity was just showing off, …

The Washington Post reports: At a news conference Thursday, Mick Mulvaney, President Trump’s budget chief, defended proposed cuts to the Meals on Wheels program, which provides food aid to needy senior citizens, by saying the program is one of many that is “just not showing any results.” Meals on Wheels is a nonprofit group that receives funding from the federal …

Politico reports: President Donald Trump on Monday warned that Republicans “are putting themselves in a very bad position” by repealing and replacing Obamacare, even as he endorsed the GOP plan to do just that. Trump blasted Obamacare on Monday morning, telling so-called “victims” of former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act that “a lot of people in the Senate and …

IMPORTANT CORRECTION: Advocate executive editor Neal Broverman tells me that contrary to the below report, Chadwick Moore is not a “contributing editor” at the magazine. Moore last wrote an apparently freelance piece the Advocate back in June 2016 and has not written for them since. Unicorn Booty reports: Chadwick Moore, one of two contributing editors of The Advocate, sparked an …

“Jefferson Airplane band’s now 77 year-old lead singer Grace Slick has announced that the money she receives from the use of her song in a Chick-fil-A ad (bought by an ad agency) will go to fund LGBTQ causes. What I want Grace and others to know is that Almighty God created and defined marriage in His Word. Any sexual relationship …

Fox Business reports: Milo Yiannopoulos, the provocative conservative journalist who is often portrayed as a champion of the far-right, is facing possible dismissal from his employer Breitbart News over comments he once made about underage sex, the Fox Business Network has learned. His possible dismissal from Breitbart could come by the end of the day, according to people at the …

Nashville’s NBC affiliate reports: A proposed bill in the Tennessee General Assembly seeks to classify children born through artificial insemination as illegitimate children. Representative Terry Lynn Weaver (R-Lancaster) proposed HB 1406, which is intended to repeal the current statute regarding children born through artificial insemination. TCA 68-3-306 provides for the child to be considered the legitimate child of a husband …

Escaped crazy person Jill Stein took to Twitter today to denounce Democrats for not stopping the confirmation of billionaire soon-to-be Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. As hundreds of Twitter users were very quick to tell her, all 48 Senate Democrats voted against DeVos. At this writing, Stein has not responded except to retweet this Green Party message: “Don’t wait around for the …

Upstate Michigan’s ABC affiliate reports: Dan Adamini was upset when he saw the recent protests at U.C. Berkeley. “This was not a protest. This was a riot,” said Adamini. We had buildings being vandalized, we had people being beaten and assaulted.” A tweet, posted by Adamini Thursday morning, said, ‘Violent protesters who shut down free speech? Time for another Kent …

Mr. Spicer, do you agree that feminism gives you cancer? Do you agree that ex-gay torture works? The New York Daily News reports: Breitbart goes to Washington. Milo Yiannopoulos, a writer for the far right Breitbart News website, claims he’s attending a White House press briefing on Friday. “I’m a senior editor at America’s most influential news outlet. How the …

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports: A Riverwest man filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday against Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr., several unnamed deputies and Milwaukee County after he says he was detained, interviewed and escorted out of Mitchell International Airport by a half-dozen deputies after a brief run-in with the sheriff on a plane. Dan Black, 24, alleges …

ABC News reports: President Trump offered up a prayer to Arnold Schwarzenegger as he addressed the audience at this morning’s National Prayer Breakfast. “They hired a big movie star, Arnold Schwarzenegger to take my place, and we know how that turned out,” Trump said at the top of his remarks. He continued, “The ratings went right down the tubes. It’s …

The New York Post reports: The pastor of a largely immigrant Catholic church in Queens has a suggestion for his anti-Trump parishioners: Go take a flying leap off the nearest building. “Show your hate for Trump. Do it for social justice. #JumpAgainstTrump,” read a meme posted by the Rev. Philip Pizzo just hours after he celebrated Sunday Mass. The message …

USA Today reports: A night after firing his acting attorney general for refusing to defend his new immigration order, President Trump mocked his Democratic congressional critics Tuesday and demanded that the Senate confirm his pick to lead the Department of Justice, Jeff Sessions. The tweets came a morning after Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Q. Yates after she said …