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LIVE VIDEO: Republican National Convention Day Two

The second day of the Republican National Convention will be gaveled to disorder at 530PM. Today’s theme is “Make America Work Again” and the headlining speakers are Tiffany Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Dr. Stabby, Newt Gingrich, Paul Ryan, Chris Christie, Mitch McConnell, and Mike Pence. The nominating role call will begin shortly with all the usual pomp and circumstance, but …

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How Laid-Off Gay Journalist Jarrett Hill Realized That Melania Had Plagiarized The First Lady [VIDEO]

Adding extra deliciousness to an already entertaining plagiarism scandal is that journalist Jarrett Hill, who first picked up on it, belongs to two of the GOP’s most-reviled minorities. Via the New York Times: Mr. Hill, a television journalist who was recently laid off, said in an interview that one of Ms. Trump’s lines — the words “strength of your dreams” …

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TONIGHT: #NeverTrump Delegates Vow More Chaos During Nomination Vote For Donald Trump

Whee! Via Politico: Weakened and demoralized anti-Donald Trump activists, joined by a band of furious conservative delegates, are preparing to make a final stand here Tuesday, and it threatens to plunge the national convention into turmoil just hours before Republicans formally nominate Trump. Though party rules purport to require delegates to vote for candidates based on their performance in state …

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QUARANTINE: Norovirus Breakout At GOP Hotel

The Los Angeles Times reports: At least a dozen California GOP staff members at the Republican National Convention have been quarantined in their hotel rooms after becoming ill with what appears to be a highly contagious norovirus, also known as the cruise-ship virus, according to officials from both the California GOP and local health agencies. “It looks like norovirus,” said …

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AGAIN: Queen Slams Trump For Using Their Music

Last month Queen’s Brian May denounced Donald Trump for using We Are The Champions as his walk-on music, saying that that “permission to use the track was neither sought nor given.” May went to say that the band was “taking steps” to ensure that Trump was stopped. But pesky things like intellectual property laws are for the little people and …

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Log Cabin Republicans: Losers! Morons! Sad!

No, the homocons at Log Cabin haven’t suddenly become self-aware, that’s what they are calling the GOP platform committee in a full-page ad published today in the Cleveland edition of USA Today. Via press release: Log Cabin Republicans has placed a full-page ad in USA Today calling out the GOP Platform Committee for drafting the most anti-LGBT platform in the …

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CHRISTMAS IN JULY: Stephen Colbert Opens Show With Whirlwind Musical Send-Up Of The RNC [VIDEO]

Last night Stephen Colbert opened his show with a dazzling musical “tribute” to the Republican National Convention. Watch below as he lands zinger after zinger and twirls with chorus boys. Referring to the Quicken Loans Arena, he sings, “It’s the Q but let’s be clear, Q doesn’t stand for queer, it doesn’t really matter, there aren’t many of them here.”

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CHACHI FLAP: GOP Convention Speaker Scott Baio Has No Regrets For Calling Hillary The C-Word [VIDEO]

Talking Points Memo reports: Eighties actor Scott Baio is not apologizing for a tweet he sent out last week that featured a meme referring to Hillary Clinton as a c–t. After Baio spoke at the Republican National Convention Monday night, CNN host Dana Bash asked him if he regretted the tweet. Baio showed no signs of walking it back. “It’s …

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Antonio Sabato: Of Course Obama Is A Muslim, He Doesn’t Even Have A Christian Name [VIDEO]

Via Politico: Actor Antonio Sabàto Jr. “absolutely” believes President Barack Obama is a Muslim, he said Monday after addressing the Republican National Convention, accusing Obama of being “on the other side.” “First of all, I don’t believe that the guy is a Christian,” Sabàto said. “I don’t believe he follows the God that I love and the Jesus that I …

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Trump: I Recommend Ohio For The Convention

Another whopper from Donald Trump. Via Politifact: On the opening night of the Republican convention, Donald Trump told Fox News host Bill O’Reilly he was grateful it was held in Cleveland. “I wanted it to be here, and we had lots of choices,” Trump said. “I wanted it to be in Ohio. I recommended Ohio. And people fought very hard …

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Trump Campaign Denies Plagiarism: Melania Is Being Attacked Because She Threatens Hillary [VIDEO]

Politico reports: Tuesday morning on CNN’s “New Day,” Manafort categorically denied that Melania Trump’s speech had been lifted in any way from remarks by Obama or anyone else. “I thought Melania Trump hit it out of the park when she talked about her love of family, the feeling of an immigrant that comes to this country and succeeds,” Manafort said. …

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Today’s New York Daily News

From their story: Melania Trump’s first major stump speech for her husband and White House hopeful Donald Trump was supposed to be uplifting, but instead appeared to have lifted lines from First Lady Michelle Obama. A portion of Melania’s address to the Republican National Convention, praising values and hard work, on Monday was eerily similar to the speech delivered by …

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OOPSIE: Melania Trump Plagiarized Part Of Last Night’s Speech From Michelle Obama’s 2008 Speech [VIDEO]

CNN reports: At least one passage in Melania Trump’s speech Monday night at the Republican National Convention plagiarized Michelle Obama’s speech to the Democratic National Convention in 2008. Side-by-side comparisons of the transcripts show the text in Trump’s address following, nearly to the word, the first lady’s own from the first night of the Democratic convention in Denver nearly eight …

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LIVE VIDEO: GOP Convention Headlining Speakers

The first night of the 2016 Republican National Convention is about to kick off with headlining speakers Melania Trump, Scott Baio, Antonio Sabato, Sen. Joni Ernst, and Duck Dynasty’s Willie Robertson. We likely won’t see the fireworks we enjoyed earlier today, but at least Donald Trump’s introduction to Melania’s speech should prove hilarious. The official GOP live-stream is embedded below.

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Ranting Preacher SCREAMS For God To Defeat Hillary Clinton In GOP Convention Benediction [VIDEO]

Brian Tashman recaps at Right Wing Watch: South Carolina pastor Mark Burns, a controversial Donald Trump campaign surrogate, delivered the benediction at today’s meeting of the Republican National Convention, where he used what is often an opportunity for nonpartisan prayer to call on Republicans to unite against “Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party.” “Father God, in the name of Jesus, …

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Dan Savage: Log Cabin Republicans Spent Months Tonguing Donald Trump’s Ass And Still Got Nothing

Dan Savage ripped into the Log Cabin Republicans today in a piece for Seattle’s Stranger: The Log Cabin Republicans have been working to “transform the GOP from the inside” for forty years and not only hasn’t it gotten better, it’s gotten worse. The 2016 Republican Platform, adopted today without a peep of protest from Log Cabin Republicans, is worse on …

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Chaos On GOP Convention Floor As #NeverTrump Delegates Fail To Force Vote On Rule Change [VIDEO]

Those of you who were watching my live-stream post seemed to rather enjoy this. ABC News recaps the bedlam: The floor of the Republican National Convention erupted into chaos Monday amid an attempt by the Never Trump forces to change the rules of the event, but the efforts were defeated, thwarting the movement to stop the real estate mogul’s path …

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Mary Fallin: The GOP Platform Isn’t Anti-Gay Because There Was A Gay Person On The Committee [VIDEO]

I tweeted in disbelief when she said this early this morning. The HRC recaps the clip below: Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin told CNN this morning that the GOP platform isn’t anti-LGBTQ… because there were “gay people on the committee” that drafted it. That would be one — Rachel Hoff, who emotionally, and unsuccessfully, begged her fellow party members to soften …

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Political Genius Antonio Sabato: Donald Trump Is So Awesome We Shouldn’t Even Have An Election [VIDEO]

Also: “I have Jesus on my side.” Mediaite recaps: Soap opera star and primetime Republican National Convention speaker Antonio Sabato Jr. said during an interview Monday that Donald Trump is so awesome, we shouldn’t even bother to hold an election. The former General Hospital star outlined to MSNBC’s Craig Melvin the reasons why he supports Trump. “That’s the only choice, …

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THINK AGAIN: And Here You Thought Chachi Was The Bottom Of The GOP Convention Speakers Barrel

From the Daily Beast: A multi-level marketer who peddles pseudoscience—and whose product is endorsed by America’s leading conspiracy theorist—is scheduled to speak in a primetime slot Wednesday at the Republican National Convention. Michelle Van Etten was presented by the RNC in a Sunday evening press release as a “small business owner” who “employs over 100,000 people.” That’s roughly 1.5 times …

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